Herd Design

By Itai Arieli, Ronen Gradwohl, and Rann Smorodinsky

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

The classic herding model examines the asymptotic behavior of agents who observe their predecessors' actions as well as a private signal from an exogenous information structure. In this paper, we introduce a self-interested sender into the model and study...

Mistakes in Future Consumption, High MPCs Now

By Chen Lian

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

In a canonical intertemporal consumption model, future consumption mistakes (in response to saving changes) lead to higher current marginal propensities to consume (MPCs). These mistakes increase the value of changing current consumption relative to chang...

Dishonesty and Public Employment

By Guillermo Cruces, Martín A. Rossi, and Ernesto Schargrodsky

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

We exploit a natural experiment to study the causal link between dishonest behavior and public employment. When military conscription was mandatory in Argentina, eligibility was determined by both a lottery and a medical examination. To avoid conscription...

Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India

By A. Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, and Gabriel Tourek

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

Despite the growing prominence of online job portals, firms remain reluctant to hire outside traditional recruitment networks. We find that experimentally providing firms with a combination of advertising and the ability to verify applicant identity incre...

Front Matter

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion

By Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

We develop a Ricardian model of trade where countries innovate ideas that diffuse globally. Our key result provides necessary and sufficient conditions for innovation and diffusion to generate max-stable Fréchet productivity, linking generalized extreme ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over Ten Years: Experimental Evidence

By Christopher Blattman, Sebastian Chaskel, Julian C. Jamison, and Margaret Sheridan

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

Several small, short-term, or nonexperimental studies show that cognitive behavioral–informed interventions reduce antisocial behaviors over one to two years, but persistence research is rare. We followed 999 high-risk men in Liberia ten years after ran...

Call for Proposals: Hong Kong Institute of Monetary and Financial Research - Open-bid Applied Research Programme

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November 30, 2023

Deadline for submissions is January 19, 2024.

Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality

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November 30, 2023

The conference will be held on September 3-5, 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Economics

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How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-To-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes

By Qi Ge and Stephen Wu

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We test for labor market discrimination based on an understudied characteristic: name fluency. Analysis of recent economics PhD job candidates indicates that name difficulty is negatively related to the probability of landing an academic or tenure trac...

Achieving Air Pollution Control Targets with Technology-Aided Monitoring: Better Enforcement or Localized Efforts?

By Lin Yang, Yatang Lin, Jin Wang, and Fangyuan Peng

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Weak enforcement of environmental regulations remains a global issue due to inadequate monitoring and misaligned incentives. This paper examines the effects of automated monitoring on achieving air pollution control targets amidst China’s war on poll...

CSMGEP: Francisca Antman, ex officio

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CSWEP Board: Francisca Antman

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Procedures Upon Receipt of Complaints Regarding Conduct of AEA Members

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How to file a formal complaint for a violation of the AEA Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation and/or the AEA Code of Professional Conduct

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CSMGEP Profile: Francisca Antman

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Call for Papers: Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy

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December 01, 2023

The conference will be held at the University of Oklahoma on June 10-11, 2024.

Call for Papers: CSWEP at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI)

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December 01, 2023

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2024.

Idiosyncratic Income Risk and Aggregate Fluctuations

By Davide Debortoli and Jordi Galí

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We study the role of idiosyncratic income risk for aggregate fluctuations within a simple heterogeneous households framework. We show that the presence of idiosyncratic income shocks affects the economy's response to an aggregate shock even in the absen...