Learning the language

[Research Highlight]

September 01, 2023

Blake Heller discusses the impact of adult English language training programs on immigrant earnings and civic engagement.

Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training

By Blake H. Heller and Kirsten Slungaard Mumma

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

The ability to speak and understand a host country's primary language is strongly associated with measures of immigrant integration. We estimate the causal effects of English language training for adult immigrants on participants' civic and economic outco...

Call for Papers: Sydney Annual Business Research Conference (SABRC) 2024

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September 05, 2023

The submission deadline is January 19, 2024.

Committee on Honors and Awards

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ASSA 2024 Housing Information

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How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia, by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay

By Steven N. Durlauf

Journal of Economic Literature

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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Teaching Assistant Professor

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The Optimal Quantity of CBDC in a Bank-Based Economy

By Lorenzo Burlon, Manuel A. Muñoz, and Frank Smets

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We provide evidence that the effects of digital euro news on bank valuations and lending depend on the bank’s reliance on deposit funding and the design features aimed at calibrating the quantity of central bank digital currency (CBDC). Then, we devel...

A Simple Explanation of Countercyclical Uncertainty

By Joshua Bernstein, Michael Plante, Alexander W. Richter, and Nathaniel A. Throckmorton

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper documents that labor search and matching frictions generate countercyclical uncertainty because the inherent nonlinearity in the flow of new matches makes employment uncertainty increasing in the number of people searching for work. Quantitat...

Teaching ideas

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Links to lesson plan ideas for connecting with students.

Undergrad research opportunities

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View opportunities geared toward undergraduates.

Call for nominations for CSWEP’s Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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May 16, 2023

Nominations are due by September 22, 2023.

Call for nominations for CSWEP’s Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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May 16, 2023

Nominations are due by September 22, 2023.

Climate policies around the world

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How do climate change mitigation approaches vary across countries?

Identity in Court Decision-Making

By Ulrika Ahrsjö, Susan Niknami, and Mårten Palme

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We explore the role of identity along multiple dimensions in highstakes decision-making. Our data contain information about demographic and socioeconomic indicators for defendants and randomly assigned jurors in a Swedish court. Our results show that d...

Optimal Sin Taxation and Market Power

By Martin O'Connell and Kate Smith

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We study how market power impacts the efficiency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, with an empirical application to sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. We estimate an equilibrium model of the UK drinks market, which we embed in a tax design...