Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2021

Full Time Lecturer

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Beyond institutional enforcement

[Research Highlight]

December 10, 2021

Do institutions encourage prosocial behavior outside of their intended scope?

Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences, and Beliefs

By Florian Engl, Arno Riedl, and Roberto Weber

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2021

Most institutions are limited in scope. We study experimentally how enforcement institutions affect behavior, preferences, and beliefs beyond their direct influence over the behaviors they control. Groups play two identical public good games, with coopera...

Clinical Assistant Professor

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Reimagining public safety research

[Research Highlight]

November 19, 2021

Yale sociologist Monica Bell talks about why economists must change the way they study police.

Work and childcare during the pandemic

[Research Highlight]

August 27, 2021

Stefania Albanesi discusses the effects of the COVID-19 recession on the US labor market.

A big push out of poverty

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A program in India shows that helping the ultra poor can have long-lasting effects.

Teenage Driving, Mortality, and Risky Behaviors

By Jason Huh and Julian Reif

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2021

We investigate the effect of teenage driving on mortality and risky behaviors in the United States using a regression discontinuity design. We estimate that total mortality rises by 5.84 deaths per 100,000 (15 percent) at the minimum legal driving age cut...

License to die

[Research Highlight]

December 01, 2021

What impact does driving have on teenage mortality and risky behavior?

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor (Renewable)

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Horizontal growth

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How do innovative companies diversify their product portfolios?

Information for ASSA 2022 Participants

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The long-run benefits of public preschool

[Research Highlight]

December 15, 2021

Martha Bailey discusses the impact of Head Start on educational attainment and economic self-sufficiency in adulthood.

Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency

By Martha J. Bailey, Shuqiao Sun, and Brenden Timpe

American Economic Review, December 2021

This paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale, restricted administrative data. Using the county roll-out of Head Start between 1965 and 1980 and age-eligibility cutoffs for school entry, we find that Head Start generated large ...

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in Economics

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Front Matter

American Economic Review, January 2022

College Tuition and Income Inequality

By Zhifeng Cai and Jonathan Heathcote

American Economic Review, January 2022

This paper evaluates the role of rising income inequality in explaining observed growth in college tuition. We develop a competitive model of the college market, in which college quality depends on instructional expenditure and the average ability of admi...

Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride

By Luigi Butera, Robert Metcalfe, William Morrison, and Dmitry Taubinsky

American Economic Review, January 2022

Public recognition is frequently used to motivate desirable behavior, yet its welfare effects—such as costs of shame or gains from pride—are rarely measured. We develop a portable empirical methodology for measuring and monetizing social image utility...