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The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets

By Juan Pablo Atal, José Ignacio Cuesta, Felipe González, and Cristóbal Otero

American Economic Review, March 2024

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaini...

Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe

By Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keunbok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, and Outi Sirniö

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We use linked parent-child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly ...

The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

By Francesco Amodio, Giorgio Chiovelli, and Sebastian Hohmann

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We study the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. Using subnational georeferenced data from 15 countries from 1996 to 2017, we compare individuals from ethnicities linked to parties at the margin of electing a representativ...

Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic

By Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asad Islam, and Firoz Ahmed

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

This paper evaluates a randomized, over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2,402 women across 357 villages in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of two hours of mental support plus...

Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups

By Sam Asher, Paul Novosad, and Charlie Rafkin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We study intergenerational mobility in India. We propose a new measure of upward mobility: the expected education rank of a child born to parents in the bottom half of the education distribution. This measure works well under data constraints common in de...

The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being

By Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, Shari Eli, and Adriana Lleras-Muney

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We use newly collected data for 16,000 women who applied for Mothers' Pensions, America's first welfare program, to investigate the effect of means-tested cash transfers on lifetime family structure and maternal well-being. In the short term, cash transfe...

Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Placing Single Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes

By Elior Cohen

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

This study measures the impact of rapidly placing single adults experiencing homelessness in housing programs on future homelessness, crime, and health. Using a caseworker placement tendencies design and a novel dataset constructed by linking administrati...

Predistribution versus Redistribution: Evidence from France and the United States

By Antoine Bozio, Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, Malka Guillot, and Thomas Piketty

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We construct series of posttax income for France over the 1900–2018 period and compare them with US series. We quantify the extent of redistribution—the reduction from pretax to posttax inequality—and estimate the contribution of redistribution in e...

Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture

By Manzoor H. Dar, Alain de Janvry, Kyle Emerick, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Eleanor Wiseman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

Information frictions limit the adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries. Efforts to improve learning involve spreading information from government agents to farmers. We show that when compared to this government approach, informi...

Multigenerational Transmission of Wealth: Florence, 1403–1480

By Marianna Belloc, Francesco Drago, Mattia Fochesato, and Roberto Galbiati

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

By using hand-collected data on households' wealth assessments, we study multigenerational mobility in Florence during the late Middle Ages. We find that Florentine society was more mobile than one would expect but also that multigenerational mobility was...