A few interesting studies have popped up over the past few days.

Here is a clever paper on how public scrutiny affects how companies use tax havens. Using a high profile campaign in the UK, the authors find evidence that is consistent with targeted firms reducing tax avoidance strategies.

A pair of interesting NBER working papers popped up this week.

This paper examines the percentage of women that are top earners in the US. Summary: things are looking better, but they are still pretty bad.

This other paper examines how lending by lending by the Small Business Association (SBA) is associated with lower county income growth. That’s not a typos. The SBA is associated with lower levels of income growth.

Nolan McCarty’s post on what can be learned from the Goldman Sachs tapes is excellent.

Insider baseball on the pros and cons of research registration. I’m a fan of registration, but Josh Tucker makes some excellent points.