Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption

By Robert S. Pindyck

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

How does the sustainable level of consumption depend on productivity growth and the size and growth rate of the population? What is the effect of uncertainty over these growth rates? I address these questions using a model in which productivity and popu...

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The economics of autocratic legalism

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September 14, 2023

How do modern autocracies immiserate their populace to satisfy the elite?

The Dynamics of Property Rights in Modern Autocracies

By Dan Cao and Roger Lagunoff

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2023

We study a dynamic model of property appropriation in autocracies. To maintain the appearance of the rule of law, an autocrat reassigns property only when the reassignment is acceptable to all affected citizens. Nevertheless, the autocrat can appropriate ...

A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

By M. V. Lee Badgett, Christopher S. Carpenter, Maxine J. Lee, and Dario Sansone

Journal of Economic Literature

This article reviews the growing literature on the economics of sexual orientation and gender identity, a field that did not exist thirty years ago. We summarize, evaluate, and synthesize the literature on LGBTQ+ people’s economic lives and livelihoods ...

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American Economic Review, October 2023

Intrinsic Information Preferences and Skewness

By Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Yeşim Orhun, and Collin Raymond

American Economic Review, October 2023

We examine whether people have an intrinsic preference for negatively skewed or positively skewed information structures and how these preferences relate to intrinsic preferences for informativeness. The results from lab experiments show a strong intrinsi...

The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D

By Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Timothy Layton, Boris Vabson, and Adelina Yanyue Wang

American Economic Review, October 2023

We show in two natural experiments that default rules in Medicare Part D have large, persistent effects on enrollment and drug utilization of low-income beneficiaries. The implications of this phenomenon for welfare and optimal policy depend on the sensit...

Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement

By David Delacrétaz, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Teytelboym

American Economic Review, October 2023

Current refugee resettlement processes account for neither the preferences of refugees nor the priorities of hosting communities. We introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional knapsack constraints that captures the (possibly multidimensi...

Profits, Scale Economies, and the Gains from Trade and Industrial Policy

By Ahmad Lashkaripour and Volodymyr Lugovskyy

American Economic Review, October 2023

This paper examines the efficacy of second-best trade restrictions at correcting sectoral misallocation due to scale economies or profit-generating markups. To this end, we characterize optimal trade and industrial policies in an important class of quanti...