Elite education and affirmative action

[Research Highlight]

December 03, 2020

Do selective high schools help students with disadvantaged backgrounds get into better colleges?

Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences

By Lisa Barrow, Lauren Sartain, and Marisa de la Torre

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2020

We investigate whether elite Chicago public high schools differentially benefit high-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Chicago's place-based affirmative action policy allocates seats based on achievement and neighborhood socioe...

ASSA 2021 Job Market Interviews

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Lifting the resource curse

[News]

December 04, 2020

Better information helped stop political violence over natural gas in Mozambique.

Economist

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Economists and Senior Economists

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CSMGEP Profiles: Nada Eissa

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Gendered laws

[Research Highlight]

December 02, 2020

Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.

Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce

By Marie Hyland, Simeon Djankov, and Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2020

This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly constructed Women, Business...

The Coase Theorem at Sixty

By Steven G. Medema

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

The Coase theorem is one of the most influential and controversial ideas to emerge from post-World War II economics. This article examines the theorem's origins, diffusion, and the wide variety of uses to which it has been put by economists and others ove...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data

By Martha J. Bailey, Connor Cole, Morgan Henderson, and Catherine Massey

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations in their assumptions. We use two high-quality, hand-linked data sets and one ...

Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics

By Guido W. Imbens

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

In this essay I discuss potential outcome and graphical approaches to causality, and their relevance for empirical work in economics. I review some of the work on directed acyclic graphs, including the recent The Book of Why (Pearl and Mackenzie ...

The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices

By Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2020

Designing marketplaces in complex settings requires both novel economic theory and real-world engineering, often drawing upon ideas from fields such as computer science and operations research. In Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Com...

CSMGEP: Ivan Vidangos

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Economic Fellow

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