The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885–1905

By Wei You

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2021

Small firms dominated the American economy in the nineteenth century, and they still dominate in many developing economies today. This paper tests whether geographic market segmentation due to underdeveloped intracity transportation technology precludes t...

The recovery of Southern wealth after the Civil War

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November 02, 2021

Leah Boustan discusses how White slaveholding families in the US South rebuilt their fortunes after emancipation.

Webinar on the Job Market for New Economics Ph.D.s (2021)

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Watch Part one of the 2021 Webinar on the Job Market for New Economics Ph.D.s

Webinar on the Job Market for New Economics Ph.D.s (2021)

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Watch Part two of the 2021 Webinar on the Job Market for New Economics Ph.D.s

Kaye Professorship in Economics

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Household job search

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November 12, 2021

What causes the marital wage premium?

Household Search and the Marital Wage Premium

By Laura Pilossoph and Shu Lin Wee

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2021

We develop a model where selection into marriage and household search generate a marital wage premium. Beyond selection, married individuals earn higher wages for two reasons. First, income pooling within a joint household raises risk-averse individuals' ...

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Teaching Economics

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Page under construction… populated with some great resources and there are many more to come!!!

World Bank List of Low-Income Economies

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Low-income economies are defined based on GNI per capita, calculated by the World Bank using the World Bank Atlas method.

Previous Data Availability Policy (2005 - July 10, 2019)

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Previous Data Availability Policy (July 2019 - September 2020)

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Remittance rules

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How has the internet changed local sales tax rates?

The Long-Run Impacts of Special Education

By Briana Ballis and Katelyn Heath

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2021

Over 13 percent of US students participate in special education (SE) programs annually, at a cost of $40 billion. However, due to selection issues the effect of SE placements remains unclear. This paper uses administrative data from Texas to examine the l...

The efficiency of outsourcing

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November 09, 2021

Does the government save by hiring private contractors for publicly funded projects?

Cost and Efficiency in Government Outsourcing: Evidence from the Dredging Industry

By Aaron Barkley

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2021

This paper investigates the how government outsourcing affects efficiency and expenditures by considering how outsourcing decisions are determined along two dimensions: (i) cost differences between private firms and government suppliers of public goods an...

Against their financial interests

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How much do poor people actually support redistribution?

Associate or Full Professor, Antitrust

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Associate or Full Professor, Labor Economics

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Divergences in life expectancy across US states

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November 18, 2021

Christopher Foote and Ellen Meara discuss rising geographic disparities in US mortality.