After a prolonged decline, U.S. inflation-adjusted interest rates have increased somewhat since the pandemic—possibly ...

The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data ...

What is driving the long-term increase in prime-age men’s labor force nonparticipation? Comparing the experiences of four generations of prime-age men shows ...

The fraction of men working in the United States has declined consistently since the 1950s. This has contributed to slower ...

Differences in prices for consumer goods and services across states have been increasing since the early 2010s. Those ...

Internal migration has been cited as a key channel by which societies will adapt to climate change. We show in this paper that this process has already been happening in the United States. Over the ...

The Community Development Innovation Review (formerly known as the Community Development Investment Review) was in production ...

We use a novel large-scale survey of firms, implemented in Denmark in 2021 and linked to administrative data, to study why firms lay off workers instead of cutting wages. Our questions on layoffs, ...

The SF Fed maintains three advisory councils: the Economic Advisory Council, Community Advisory Council, and Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. The members of these councils represent ...

At UC Berkeley’s Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics’ Spring 2025 Policy Advisory Board meeting, President Mary C. Daly will sit down with Alex Mehran, Sr. for a fireside chat on the state ...