Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions

By Damien de Walque and Christine Valente

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

Many countries use CCTs targeted to parents to promote schooling. Attendance conditions may work through two channels: incentivization and information. If children have private information, (i) providing attendance information to parents may increase atte...

The Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

By Joshua A. Blonz

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

In many settings, misaligned incentives and inadequate monitoring lead employees to take self-interested actions. This paper identifies and quantifies the costs of this principal-agent problem in the context of an energy efficiency appliance replacement p...

Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity

By Manuel Bagues and Christopher Roth

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions in early adulthood on preferences, beliefs, and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts to different locations throughout Spa...

ACE—Analytic Climate Economy

By Christian P. Traeger

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

I study optimal carbon taxation in an analytic quantitative integrated assessment model (IAM) that links IAM components, parametric assumptions, and calibration approaches directly to their policy impacts. I show how temperature's tax impact differs from ...

Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation

By Ethan Kaplan, Fernando Saltiel, and Sergio Urzúa

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

This paper assesses the long-term consequences of voting for democracy. We study Chile's 1988 plebiscite, which ended 15 years of dictatorship and reestablished democracy. Taking advantage of individual-level voting data, we implement an age-based regress...

College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana

By Christa Deneault

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

I estimate the impact of a Louisiana state policy that mandated Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) applications as a high school graduation requirement. I find significant increases in FAFSA completion rates (19 percentage points), and my es...

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Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

[Symposium: International Dimensions of Climate Change Policy]

By Rachel Glennerster and Seema Jayachandran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2023

Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if...

Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary

[Symposium: International Dimensions of Climate Change Policy]

By Kimberly A. Clausing and Catherine Wolfram

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2023

Jurisdictions adopt climate policies that vary in terms of both ambition and policy approach, with some pricing carbon and others subsidizing clean production. We distinguish two types of policy spillovers from these diverse approaches. First, when countr...

Global Transportation Decarbonization

[Symposium: International Dimensions of Climate Change Policy]

By David Rapson ⓡ Erich Muehlegger

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2023

Replacing fossil fuels in the name of decarbonization is necessary but will be particularly difficult due to their as-yet unrivaled bundle of attributes: abundance, ubiquity, energy density, transportability and cost. There is a growing commitment to elec...

Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications

By Kurt Lavetti

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2023

The model of compensating wage differentials is among the cornerstone models of equilibrium wage determination in labor economics. However, empirical estimates of compensating differentials have faced persistent credibility challenges. This article summ...

What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?

By Gregory N. Price and Angelino C. G. Viceisza

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2023

Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2023