Eleventh District community banks outperform peers despite weaker credit quality
Eleventh District community banks will likely continue to outperform their nationwide peers in terms of profitability, given their larger share of noninterest-bearing deposits.
December 27, 2024
Agricultural Survey
Bankers responding to the fourth-quarter agricultural survey reported persistent weak conditions across most regions of the Eleventh District.
December 23, 2024
Research Department Working Papers
Do Human Capital Adjustments Protect Youths from Structural Change?
This paper studies the effects of exposure to structural labor demand shocks during youth and adolescence on human capital accumulation and later-life earnings.
November 09, 2024
Agricultural Survey
Bankers responding to the third-quarter agricultural survey reported weaker conditions across most regions of the Eleventh District.
September 23, 2024
Old oil fields reimagined as lithium sources
The Smackover Formation, extending broadly from East Texas to Florida, is ground zero in the effort to produce lithium from oilfield brines.
September 20, 2024
Funding to address broadband gaps in the Eleventh District
This article examines Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act funding distribution in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico.
May 20, 2024
Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico laying groundwork for greater internet connectivity
While the digital divide is wide in poor and more isolated areas of Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, concerted efforts are taking shape across the region to close it.
August 23, 2023
Shreveport works to plug 'brain drain'
President Lorie Logan's 360° Listening Tour is taking her to communities all around the Eleventh Federal Reserve District during her first year at the Dallas Fed. The tour is helping deepen her understanding of the region’s people and economy by adding color and perspective that go beyond official statistics.
July 28, 2023
Young adults are disconnected from work and school due to long-term labor force trends
The sharp rise during the pandemic in young people who are neither in school nor working—often referred to as “opportunity youth”—is the exacerbation of a problem that has gradually worsened in the past two decades.
April 06, 2023
Greater Hispanic outreach can improve take-up of earned income tax credit
Despite the Earned Income Tax Credit’s many benefits, a large percentage of qualified workers do not claim it.
March 21, 2022