American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics

By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2002

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics

By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2000

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics

By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 1999

Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market

By Sara B. Heller and Judd B. Kessler

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper provides evidence that information frictions limit the labor market trajectories of youth in the U.S. We provide credible skill signals—recommendation letters based on supervisor feedback—to a random subset of 43,409 participants in New ...

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States

By Tomás E. Monarrez

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

School segregation is determined both by residential sorting and local policies, such as the drawing of attendance boundaries and school siting. This paper develops an approach to understanding the relative importance of these factors by calculating the d...

Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations

By Kyle Rozema and Max Schanzenbach

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

Reformers are calling for greater oversight of police behavior, in part through enhanced use of civilian complaints. However, others counter that greater oversight could chill effective policing. We assess police officer response to administrative determi...

Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan

By Torben Fischer, Markus Frölich, and Andreas Landmann

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

We present robust evidence on adverse selection in hospitalization insurance for low-income individuals that received first-time access to insurance. A large randomized control trial from Pakistan allows us to separate adverse selection from moral hazard,...

Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market

By Mariana Carrera and Sofia Villas-Boas

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

Through a labeling intervention at a national retailer, we test three hypotheses for consumer aversion to generic over-the-counter drugs: lack of information on the comparability of generic and brand drugs, inattention to their price differences, and unce...

Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

By William J. Collins and Ariell Zimran

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets during their life- times relative to natives is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. We examine linked census records for five cohorts spanning 1850–1940, when immigration to the United Stat...

From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment

By Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

We study whether social media can amplify antiminority sentiment with a focus on Donald Trump's political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter's early adopters at the South by Southwest festival in 2007, we find that higher Twitt...

Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct?

By Aurélie Ouss and Megan Stevenson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can create burdens for defendants with little empirical evidence on its efficacy. We exploit a prosecutor-driven reform ...

When Do Politicians Appeal Broadly? The Economic Consequences of Electoral Rules in Brazil

By Moya Chin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

Electoral rules determine how voters' preferences are aggregated and translated into political representation. Using a regression discontinuity design, I contrast single- and two-round elections in Brazil. In two-round elections, the eventual winner must ...

Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills

By Román Andrés Zárate

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

This paper studies the impact of adolescent peers who are central in their social network on the formation of social skills and academic performance of fellow students. I conduct a novel large-scale field experiment at selective public boarding schools in...

When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women's College Major Choices

By Avery Calkins, Ariel J. Binder, Dana Shaat, and Brenden Timpe

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

We leverage variation in the adoption of coeducation by US women's colleges to study how exposure to a mixed-gender collegiate environment affects women's human capital investments. Our event-study analyses of newly collected historical data find a 3.0–...

What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid

By Michael Geruso, Timothy J. Layton, and Jacob Wallace

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2023

Exploiting the random assignment of Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care plans, we find substantial plan-specific spending effects despite plans having identical cost sharing. Enrollment in the lowest-spending plan reduces spending by at least 25 percen...

Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes

By Xiang Hui, Maryam Saeedi, Giancarlo Spagnolo, and Steven Tadelis

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2023

Certification of sellers by trusted third parties helps alleviate information asymmetries in markets, yet little is known about the impact of a certification's threshold on market outcomes. Exploiting a policy change on eBay, we study how a more selective...

Market design and third-party certificates

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June 26, 2023

How do certification thresholds impact quality and prices in markets?

Retraction of "Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital"

By Adrien Matray and Charles Boissel

American Economic Review, July 2023

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American Economic Review, July 2023