The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular, and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications: Comment

By Etienne Gagnon, David López-Salido, and Jason Sockin

American Economic Review, October 2017

Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Hong (2015) argue that the CPI underestimates the deceleration in consumer prices during economic downturns because the index fails to account for the reallocation of consumer spending from high-price to low-price stores. We sh...

The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications: Reply

By Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Gee Hee Hong

American Economic Review, January 2019

We address how using different censoring thresholds and imputation procedures affects the baseline results of Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Hong (2015). Higher censoring thresholds introduce measurement error and outliers that generate wide variability in r...

CSWEP Webinar Series: Fireside Chats with Journal Editors

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Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

By Eric Giannella, Tatiana Homonoff, Gwen Rino, and Jason Somerville

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Many government program applications result in procedural denials due to administrative burdens associated with applying. We identify the intake interview as a key barrier to take-up of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and study the effect o...

Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin

By Betsey Stevenson

Journal of Economic Literature

Does Unemployment Risk Affect Business Cycle Dynamics?

By Sebastian Graves

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

In this paper, I show that the decline in consumption during unemployment depends on both liquid and illiquid wealth; that unemployment predicts illiquid asset withdrawal, primarily when households have few liquid assets; and that increased idiosyncrat...

Debt collection

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How prevalent is wage garnishment in the United States?

Unintended Consequences of Welfare Cuts on Children and Adolescents

By Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, and Lars Højsgaard Andersen

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on average ove...

The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma

By David Just

Journal of Economic Literature

Call for Papers

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Call for papers for the CSQIEP Research Award, the upcoming Annual Meeting, and other opportunities

Smart Thermostats, Automation, and Time-Varying Prices

By Joshua Blonz, Karen Palmer, Casey J. Wichman, and Derek C. Wietelman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Can automation complement economic incentives? We explore this question by randomly encouraging households to activate a feature on their existing smart thermostat that automates responsiveness to time-of-use electricity pricing. The feature reduces ai...

On the Equilibrium Properties of Spatial Models

By Treb Allen, Costas Arkolakis, and Xiangliang Li

American Economic Review: Insights

We consider a broad class of spatial models where there are many types of interactions across a large number of locations. We provide a new theorem that offers an iterative algorithm for calculating an equilibrium and sufficient and “globally necessar...

SongYi Paik on agricultural minimum wages

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How do minimum wages affect agricultural labor markets?

Alan Green on the failures of neoliberalism

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Why has the neoliberal order broken down?

Russell Sage Foundation Opportunities

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March 22, 2024

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Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism

By Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal, and Ryan Monarch

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We examine the impacts of the 2018–2019 U.S. import tariff increases on U.S. exports through the lens of supply chain linkages. Using 2016 confidential firmtrade linked data, we identify exporters importing products that eventually faced tariff incre...

The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games

By Kevin Kuruc, Melissa LoPalo, and Sean O'Connor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

The climate-economy literature has documented adverse effects of extreme temperatures on wellbeing through mechanisms such as mortality, productivity, and conflict. Impacts due simply to discomfort are less well understood. This paper investigates indiv...

EDUCATE Workshop

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Expanding Diversity in Undergraduate Classes with Advancements in (the) Teaching (of) Economics (EDUCATE) Workshop

The Impact of Criminal Financial Sanctions: A Multi-State Analysis of Survey and Administrative Data

By Keith Finlay, Matthew Gross, Carl Lieberman, Elizabeth Luh, and Michael Mueller-Smith

American Economic Review: Insights

We estimate the impact of financial sanctions in the U.S. criminal justice system leveraging nine natural experiments in a regression discontinuity design framework across a diverse range of enforcement levels ($17–$6,000) and institutional environmen...

Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement

By Melvin Stephens Jr. and Desmond Toohey

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Prior research finds food expenditure decreases at retirement, which suggests households are inadequately saving. In contrast, other evidence shows that direct measures of food intake are unaffected by exiting the labor force. Using a wide array of dat...