Identity during a Crisis: COVID-19 and Ethnic Divisions in the United States

By Jakina Debnam Guzman, Marie Christelle Mabeu, and Roland Pongou

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

During a crisis, does ethnic composition influence policy efficiency? How do the effects of ethnic divisions differ from those of ethnic diversity? Using the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, we show that ethnic divisions, rather than diversity, significantl...

Laissez-Faire, Social Networks, and Race in a Pandemic

By Roland Pongou, Guy Tchuente, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We study the effects of race, network centrality, and policies that tolerate some level of virus spread (laissez-faire) on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in the United States. Our analysis uses unique data on nursing home networks and calibration-based ...

Who Are the More Dismal Economists? Gender and Language in Academic Economics Research

By Lea-Rachel Kosnik

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Research in disciplines outside of economics has found that male-authored articles often exhibit a positivity bias in writing style and are more likely to portray their results as "novel" and "progressive" than female-authored articles. Such positively ma...

Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT

By Daniel Halim, Elizabeth T. Powers, and Rebecca Thornton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We use an RCT at an elite public university to evaluate whether undergraduate students in introductory economics courses could be nudged to pursue economics further. Two treatment arms provided information and framed the economics major as either having w...

Gender Disparities in Career Advancement across the Transition to Parenthood: Evidence from the Marine Corps

By Olivia J. Healy and Jennifer A. Heissel

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We isolate the effect of childbirth on mothers' and fathers' job-relevant physical performance using data from the US Marines. We estimate event study models around the first birth. We assign "placebo births" to non-parents using LASSO-selected predictors...

Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving Mother-in-Law Approval of Family Planning in India

By S. Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and Rocío Valdebenito

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Mothers-in-law, especially those in South Asia, can exert significant influence over women, often even more so than women's husbands or other household members. Using data from rural India, we first show that mothers-in-law are more likely than husbands t...

Investigating the Introduction of Fintech Advancement Aimed to Reduce Limited Attention Regarding Inactive Savings Accounts: Data, Survey, and Field Experiment

By Maya Haran Rosen and Orly Sade

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We use proprietary data, survey data, and a field experiment to study the effect of campaigns to raise awareness about lost and forgotten retirement savings accounts. The campaigns were a centralized database to help individuals find inactive accounts and...

Explaining Heterogeneity in Use of Non-wage Benefits: The Role of Worker and Firm Characteristics in Disability Accommodations

By Naoki Aizawa, Corina Mommaerts, and Stephanie Rennane

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Non-wage benefits are an important component of employment arrangements, but are not available to or used by all workers. Do differences in firm, worker, or match-specific characteristics drive benefit take-up? We provide new evidence on heterogeneity in ...

On the Dynamics of Human Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation

By Nathan Nunn

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

I provide a theoretically informed discussion of the dynamics of human behavior, focusing on the importance of culture (socially learned information) and tradition (transmission of culture across generations). Decision-making that relies on tradition can ...

Using Technology to Tackle Discrimination in Lending: The Role of Fintechs in the Paycheck Protection Program

By Rachel M.B. Atkins, Lisa Cook, and Robert Seamans

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We assess the role of fintech firms in loans made through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a US government policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic that provided loans to small businesses. We argue that fintech firms' reliance on technology rather t...

Parental Deportation, Safe-Zone Schools, and the Socio-Emotional and Behavioral Health of Children Left Behind

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, José R. Bucheli, and Ana P. Martinez-Donate

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Over four million US-born children living in households with at least one unauthorized immigrant parent are the unintended victims of intensified immigration enforcement. In an effort to address these disadvantages, many schools and school districts throu...

Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major

By Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We investigate the wage return to studying economics by leveraging a policy that prevented students with low introductory grades from declaring a major. Students who barely met the grade point average threshold to major in economics earned $22,000 (46 per...

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Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics

By David Card

American Economic Review, June 2022

I briefly review the emergence of "design-based" research methods in labor economics in the 1980s and early 1990s. These methods were seen as a partial solution to the problems of credible inference identified by Ashenfelter (1974), Leamer (1978), Hendry ...

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The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry

By Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin

American Economic Review, June 2022

We study the welfare effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers (peer hosts and hotels) who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model...

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature

By Rachael Meager

American Economic Review, June 2022

Expanding credit access in developing contexts could help some households while harming others. Microcredit studies show different effects at different quantiles of household profit, including some negative effects; yet these findings also differ across s...