The historical rise in female labor force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers' working hours is amplified throug...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20160195

Trade or technology?

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Explaining the decline of US manufacturing

www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/manufacturing-unemployment-us-value-added

News or Noise? The Missing Link

By Ryan Chahrour and Kyle Jurado

American Economic Review, July 2018

The literature on belief-driven business cycles treats news and noise as distinct representations of agents' beliefs. We prove they are empirically the same. Our result lets us isolate the importance of purely belief-driven fluctuations. Using three promi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20170792

Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings

By Brad Hershbein and Lisa B. Kahn

American Economic Review, July 2018

We show that skill requirements in job vacancy postings differentially increased in MSAs that were hit hard by the Great Recession, relative to less hard-hit areas. These increases persist through at least the end of 2015 and are correlated with increases...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161570

Putting a price on prejudice

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June 08, 2018

Workplace discrimination is expensive. At what point does it become too costly for the discriminator?

www.aeaweb.org/research/price-of-prejudice-workplace-hiring-discrimination-denmark

The Price of Prejudice

By Morten Størling Hedegaard and Jean-Robert Tyran

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

We present a new type of field experiment to investigate ethnic prejudice in the workplace. Our design allows us to study how potential discriminators respond to changes in the cost of discrimination. We find that ethnic discrimination is common but highl...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20150241

Bias at the polls

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May 02, 2018

Increased diversity of polling station administrators can influence bias on election day.

www.aeaweb.org/research/india-diversity-voting-election-officer-bias

Embracing capitalism, concentrating wealth

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How did income inequality change in China and Russia when they shifted to market-oriented economies?

www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/china-russia-capitalism-transition-income-inequality

Winning votes, one conversation at a time

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June 26, 2018

The AEA interviews Vincent Pons about whether canvassing efforts can swing an election.

www.aeaweb.org/research/voter-bias-five-minute-discussion-change-minds-france

If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?

By Diego Comin and Martí Mestieri

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2018

We study the cross-country evolution of technology diffusion over the last two centuries. We document that adoption lags between poor and rich countries have converged, while the intensity of use of adopted technologies of poor countries relative to rich ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20150175