Working Paper
The Welfare Impacts of Urban Renewal and Forced Relocation: Evidence from Chicago’s HOPE VI Demolitions
WP 26-49 – This paper studies one of the largest spatial redevelopment efforts in the United States: HOPE VI public housing demolitions.
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Working Paper
A Unified Framework for Transparent Quasi-Experimental Research
WP 26-47 – This paper develops a framework that allows researchers to describe a wide class of quasi-experimental treatment effect estimates using direct analogs of the features that make a randomized controlled trial transparent.
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The Costs of Access: Freeway Disamenities Across U.S. Cities
WP 26-46 – We construct city-level measures of freeway disamenities and examine their association with metropolitan growth.
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The Bronx Is Burning: Urban Disinvestment Effects of Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plans
WP 25-16/R – We study the unintended effects of Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) plans developed by 26 states in the 1960s to address insurance redlining in urban neighborhoods.
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Third District Beige Book
Qualitative assessment of economic conditions in the Third District released prior to each FOMC meeting
Updated: 14 Oct ’26
Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey
A monthly survey of manufacturers in the Third Federal Reserve District
Updated: 15 Oct ’26
Nonmanufacturing Business Outlook Survey
Monthly survey of nonmanufacturing firms in the Third Federal Reserve District
Updated: 20 Oct ’26
State Coincident Indexes
Monthly index of general economic conditions for each of the 50 states
Updated: 23 Oct ’26
Price and Inflation Expectations Survey
Quarterly survey of price and inflation expectations among manufacturing and nonmanufacturing firms in the Third District
Updated: 26 Aug ’26
COVID-19 Business Outlook Survey
Special survey (now monthly, previously weekly) of firms in the Third District
Updated: 23 Dec ’20