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The Effects of Import Competition on Unionization

By John S. Ahlquist and Mitch Downey

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2023

We study direct and indirect effects of Chinese import competition on union membership in the United States, 1990–2014. Import competition in manufacturing induced a modest decline in unionization within manufacturing industries. The magnitude is small ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20200709

Global trade and unionization

[Research Highlight]

December 01, 2023

What role did the surge in China imports have on already declining union rates?

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Customer Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Sales Managers in International Markets

By Bérengère Patault and Clémence Lenoir

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Expanding their customer base is crucial for firms to grow. This paper leverages sales managers’ job-to-job transitions to better understand how buyer-seller relationships form. Combining unique French firm-to-firm trade data with matched employer-em...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220572

Experience-Based Discrimination

By Louis-Pierre Lepage

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

I study discrimination arising from individual experiences of employers with worker groups. I present a model in which employers are uncertain about the productivity of one of two groups and learn through hiring. Positive experiences lead to positive bi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220466

Schoolgirls, Not Brides: Education as a Shield against Child Marriage

By Hélène Giacobino, Elise Huillery, Bastien Michel, and Mathilde Sage

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We study the impact of a scholarship-based intervention aimed to reduce child marriage by fostering secondary education among adolescent girls in Niger. Using a large-scale randomized controlled trial, we find that after three years of implementation, ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220443

The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease

By Sheetal Sekhri and Gauri Kartini Shastry

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

The rising rate of chronic disease is a leading driver of the global disease burden. Yet its determinants are not fully understood. We examine the unanticipated contribution of the Green Revolution to the rise in chronic, diet-related diseases by exploi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220621

Non-Representativeness in Population Health Research: Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Study

By Deniz Dutz, Michael Greenstone, Ali Hortaçsu, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Azeem M. Shaikh, Alexander Torgovitsky, and Winnie van Dijk

American Economic Review: Insights

We analyze representativeness in a COVID-19 serological study with randomized participation incentives. We find large participation gaps by race and income when incentives are lower. High incentives increase participation rates for all groups, but increas...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20230195

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What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe's Social Mobility and Education in Britain

By Kjell G. Salvanes

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

The main finding of Bukodi and Goldthorpe (2019), using social status based on occupation groupings, is that there have not been improvements nor any decline in relative intergenerational mobility in Britain since World War II in terms of social class. No...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20211622

The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction

By Camille Gardner and Peter Blair Henry

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

In 2015, the World Bank claimed that rich-country private capital could: (i) close the infrastructure services gap in poor countries, (ii) achieve the sustainable development goals, and (iii) make money by moving from "billions to trillions" of investme...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221530

Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market

By Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the Un...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221549

Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash

By Oz Shy

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

Research on holding and use of cash involves many aspects, such as reasons for holding and hoarding cash, transactional demand for cash, cash management, type of spending paid with cash, type of consumer who pays cash, merchant acceptance, how consumers g...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221632

Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

By Eric Verhoogen

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20221633

A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke

By Lucrezia Reichlin

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

This essay reviews 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben Bernanke, a fascinating account of the evolution of the Fed since the 1950s, and a stalwart defense of the status quo: of the Fed's r...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20231722