The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Health Care Services

By Benjamin Harrell, Luca Fumarco, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman, and Kyla Denwood

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic increased the rate of mental health disorders, as well as demand for mental health services. It remains unclear, however, the extent to which it impacted access to mental health care. Using data from an audit field experiment, which ...

(Incorrect) Perceived Returns and Strategic Behavior among Talented Low-Income College Graduates

By Jorge M. Agüero, Francisco Galarza, and Gustavo Yamada

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Job applicants use resumes to send signals to potential employers. Applicants are free to select the items that go in their resumes and are expected to include signals they perceive will help them achieve their goals and avoid those that they anticipate c...

Males Should Mail? Gender Discrimination in Access to Childcare

By Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter, and Simon Wiederhold

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

This study investigates discrimination against women when searching and applying for childcare in a nationwide field experiment. We send emails from fictitious parents to 9,313 childcare centers in Germany inquiring about access to childcare. We randomize...

Do Financial Incentives Encourage Women to Apply for a Tech Job? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

By Jan Feld, Edwin Ip, Andreas Leibbrandt, and Joseph Vecci

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We conduct a natural field experiment to test whether offering financial incentives encourages more female job seekers to complete their applications for a tech job. All eligible applicants for the job were invited to perform an online skill assessment. W...

Perceptions of Gender Diversity in Occupations

By Jeffrey Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Olga Shurchkov, Olga Stoddard, and Alva Taylor

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We design a survey experiment to investigate the effect of intervention with diversity on preferences for diverse outcomes. First, subjects report their perceptions of the archetypical occupations boss, professor, nurse, and clerk, rating boss/professor a...

Policies for Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet in the United States

By Cassandra Cole, Michael Droste, Christopher Knittel, Shanjun Li, and James H. Stock

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Decarbonization of light-duty vehicles (LDVs) in the United States is an important policy priority. We investigate the roles of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act in accelerating the transition of LDVs to electric v...

Pass-through of Electric Vehicle Subsidies: A Global Analysis

By Panle Jia Barwick, Hyuk-soo Kwon, Binglin Wang, and Nahim Bin Zahur

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We investigate the pass-through of electric vehicle (EV) subsidies in 13 countries that account for 95 percent of global EV sales from 2013 to 2020. Our results indicate high pass-through rates of 70-80 percent on average. Pass-through is highest for glob...

Has Consumer Acceptance of Electric Vehicles Been Increasing? Evidence from Microdata on Every New Vehicle Sale in the United States

By Kenneth T. Gillingham, Arthur A. van Benthem, Stephanie Weber, Mohamed Ali Saafi, and Xin He

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Electric vehicle (EV) sales have been rapidly growing around the world, spurred by technology advances and policy actions. This study leverages rich data on all individual new light-duty vehicles sold in the United States from 2014 to 2020. We examine how...

The Impact of Distance in Retail Markets

By Danny Edgel, Jean-François Houde, Peter Newberry, and Katja Seim

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We examine the demand-side implications of Amazon's distribution and logistics investments. Our results indicate that online demand—transactions at Amazon and its competitors—does not respond to the consumer's proximity to Amazon's upstream fulfillmen...

The Role of Housing Platforms in Facilitating Trading between Firms

By Xuequan Elsie Peng and Maisy Wong

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We study the 2013 merger of three multiple listings services (MLSes) in Florida, the primary platforms where properties are transacted. We use MLS listings data from 2009 to 2019 to trace out the effects of the merger on the likelihood that listings by br...

Self-Preferencing at Amazon: Evidence from Search Rankings

By Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, and Alexander MacKay

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We study whether Amazon engages in self-preferencing on its marketplace by favoring its own brands (e.g., Amazon Basics) in search. To address this question, we collect new micro-level consumer search data using a custom browser extension installed by a p...

Matching and Network Effects in Ride-Hailing

By Juan Camilo Castillo and Shreya Mathur

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

A recent empirical literature models search and matching frictions by means of a reduced-form matching function. An alternative approach is to simulate the matching process directly. In this paper, we follow the latter approach to model matching in ride-h...

Do Tax Increases Tame Inflation?

By James Cloyne, Joseba Martinez, Haroon Mumtaz, and Paolo Surico

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

The answer is "yes" for personal income taxes but "no" for corporate income taxes. Using narrative-identified US federal tax changes post-World War II and disaggregated sectoral data on consumer and producer prices, we show that higher average personal in...

Do Government Spending Multipliers Depend on the Sign of the Shock?

By Nadav Ben Zeev, Valerie A. Ramey, and Sarah Zubairy

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We analyze whether government spending multipliers differ by the sign of the shock. Using aggregate historical US data, we apply Ben Zeev's (2020) nonlinear diagnostic tests and find evidence of nonlinearities in the impulse response functions of both gov...

Fiscal Stimulus and the Systematic Response of Monetary Policy

By Christian K. Wolf

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Economic theory suggests that the effects of fiscal stimulus can vary substantially with the systematic response of monetary policy. Empirical estimates of the causal effects of fiscal shocks implicitly embed a particular monetary reaction: they provide t...

The Importance of Fed Chair Speeches as a Monetary Policy Tool

By Eric T. Swanson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

I estimate the effects of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements, post-FOMC press conferences, and speeches and Congressional testimony by the Fed chair on stock prices, Treasury yields, and interest rate futures from 1988 to 2019. I show that...

Measuring the Share of Imports in Final Consumption

By Emmanuel Dhyne, Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Magne Mogstad, and Felix Tintelnot

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We use Belgian data on domestic firm-to-firm transactions and ask how the measurement of the share of imports in final consumption is affected when one uses data recorded at higher levels of aggregation. We find that aggregating detailed firm-to-firm tran...

Sprouting Cities: How Rural America Industrialized

By Fabian Eckert, John Juneau, and Michael Peters

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to industrial hu...

New Measurement of Export Participation in US Manufacturing

By Christoph E. Boehm, Aaron Flaaen, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We measure export participation rates in the US manufacturing sector using a new administrative dataset and compare them to participation rates constructed from the commonly used census of manufacturers (CM). At both the establishment and firm levels, exp...

Labor Supply Shocks and Capital Accumulation: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of the Refugee Crisis in Europe

By Lorenzo Caliendo, Luca David Opromolla, Fernando Parro, and Alessandro Sforza

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

European countries experienced a large increase in labor supply due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine. We study its dynamic effects in a spatial model with forward-looking households of different skills, trade, ...