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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality

By D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, and Daniel I. Rees

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900⁠–⁠1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against foodborne and waterborne diseases. In addition to studying intervent...

Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine

By Vellore Arthi, Brian Beach, and W. Walker Hanlon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We examine the health effects of the Lancashire Cotton Famine, a sharp downturn in Britain's cotton textile manufacturing regions that was induced by the US Civil War. Migration was an important response to this downturn, but as we document, migration als...

The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill

By Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom, and Björn Öckert

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

This paper uses administrative data from Sweden to document trends in the labor market returns to skills. Between 1992 and 2013, the economic return to noncognitive skill⁠—a psychologist-assessed measure of teamwork and leadership skill⁠—roughly d...

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment

By David M. Cutler and Grant Miller

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We address points raised by Anderson, Charles, and Rees (2022), which comments on our prior work. After correcting unambiguous data mistakes, our revised estimates suggest that municipal water disinfection (filtration) explains 38 percent of the total mor...

LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training

By Laurel Wheeler, Robert Garlick, Eric Johnson, Patrick Shaw, and Marissa Gargano

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Online professional networking platforms are widely used and may help workers to search for and obtain jobs. We run the first randomized evaluation of training work seekers to join and use one of the largest platforms, LinkedIn. Training increases the end...

Political Fragmentation and Government Stability: Evidence from Local Governments in Spain

By Felipe Carozzi, Davide Cipullo, and Luca Repetto

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that each additional party with representation in the local parliament increases the probability that the incumbent government is...

Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts

By Adam Leive

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

To lower health care costs, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) offer tax incentives encouraging people to trade off current consumption against future consumption. This paper tests whether consumers use HSAs as self-insurance over the life cycle. Using admini...

Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care

By Max Gross and E. Jason Baron

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Six percent of children in the United States enter foster care by age 18. We estimate the effects of foster care on children's outcomes by exploiting the quasi-random assignment of child welfare investigators in Michigan. We find that foster care improved...

Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market

By Conrad Miller, Jennifer Peck, and Mehmet Seflek

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

In settings where social norms promote gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. These integration costs may hinder women's employment. We develop a methodology to test for the presence of fixed integration costs and estim...

Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline

By Christopher Severen and Arthur A. van Benthem

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Formative experiences shape behavior for decades. We document a striking feature about those who came of driving age during the oil crises of the 1970s⁠—they drive less in the year 2000. The effect is not specific to these cohorts; price variation ove...

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply

By D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, and Daniel I. Rees

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

This rejoinder is written in response to the comment by Cutler and Miller (hereafter CM) on our paper, "Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality" (Anderson, Charles, and Rees 2022). In their comment, CM ackno...

Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data

By Lester Lusher, Geoffrey C. Schnorr, and Rebecca L.C. Taylor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We provide causal evidence of an ex ante moral hazard effect of unemployment insurance (UI) by matching plausibly exogenous changes in UI benefit duration across state-weeks during the Great Recession to high-frequency productivity measures from individua...

Who Set Your Wage?

By David Card

American Economic Review, April 2022

I discuss the recent literature that has led to new interest in the idea of monopsonistic wage setting. Building on advances in search theory and in models of differentiated products, researchers have used a number of different strategies to identify the ...

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American Economic Review, April 2022

Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions

By Christopher Huckfeldt

American Economic Review, April 2022

This paper documents that the earnings cost of job loss is concentrated among workers who find reemployment in lower-skill occupations, and that the cost and incidence of such occupation displacement is higher for workers who lose their job during a reces...