The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid

By Marika Cabral, Colleen Carey, and Sarah Miller

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Mental Health Consequences of Correctional Sentencing

By Manudeep Bhuller, Laura Khoury, and Katrine V. Løken

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Understanding whether and in what situations correctional sentencing improves or exacerbates defendants’ mental health conditions is important for the design of criminal justice policies. We combine detailed Norwegian data on visits to health-care pr...

From Blue to Steel-Collar Jobs: The Decline in Employment Gaps?

By Benjamin Lerch

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Battista Severgnini on the intergenerational transmission of income

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How are grandchildren impacted when a grandparent is laid off?

Christina Maass on measuring crime

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Can news reports help shed light on the true level of crime?

Haewon Oh on limiting antidepressants

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Why does South Korea have the highest suicide rate among OECD countries? The country's drug policies may play a part.

Michele Dathan on the corporate bond boom

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Why did corporate bond issuance surge during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Rainer Kotschy on population aging and economic growth

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Will smaller working-age populations slow economic growth?

Summer Economics Fellows Program

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Information on the Summer Economics Fellows Program

AEJ Best Paper Nominations

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CSWEP Programs

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How can CSWEP help you? Resources, opportunities, events and professional development materials designed to promote the careers of women economists.

Age limits for judges

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Do mandatory retirement policies for judges improve the performance of US courts?

Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics

By Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, and Anthony Heyes

American Economic Review, November 2020

The credibility revolution in economics has promoted causal identification using randomized control trials (RCT), difference-in-differences (DID), instrumental variables (IV) and regression discontinuity design (RDD). Applying multiple approaches to over ...

Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics: Comment

By Sebastian Kranz and Peter Pütz

American Economic Review, September 2022

Brodeur, Cook, and Heyes (2020) study hypothesis tests from economic articles and find evidence for p-hacking and publication bias, in particular for instrumental variable and difference-in-difference studies. When adjusting for rounding errors (introduci...

Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics: Reply

By Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, and Anthony Heyes

American Economic Review, September 2022

In Brodeur, Cook, and Heyes (2020) we present evidence that instrumental variable (and to a lesser extent difference-in-difference) articles are more p-hacked than randomized controlled trial and regression discontinuity design articles. We also find no e...

Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity

By Joshua T. Dean

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Noisy workplaces common in low- and middle-income countries can impair workers’ cognitive functions. However, whether this lowers earnings depends on the importance of these functions for productivity and whether workers understand these effects. I ...

Preferences, Access, and the STEM Gender Gap in Centralized High School Assignment

By Diana Ngo and Andrew Dustan

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

The gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) widens during high school, due both to differences in student choices and institutional barriers to accessing STEM education. Using rich data from Mexico City’s centralized as...

The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap Between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities

By Russell Weinstein

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Using mobility report card data (Chetty et al., 2020a), I show the income gap between alumni of elite and less selective universities widened for cohorts graduating during the Great Recession. This is evident for mean and median incomes, and access to ...

Medical Expenses and Saving in Retirement: The Case of U.S. and Sweden

By Makoto Nakajima and Irina A. Telyukova

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Many U.S. households have significant wealth late in life, contrary to the predictions of a simple life-cycle model. By comparison, retirees in Sweden decumulate wealth more quickly while facing smaller out-of-pocket medical expense risks late in life. ...

Optimal Bank Reserve Remuneration and Capital Control Policy

By Chun-Che Chi, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, and Martín Uribe

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

A central prediction of open economy models with a pecuniary externality due to a collateral constraint is that the unregulated economy overborrows relative to what occurs under optimal policy. A maintained assumption in this literature is that househol...