We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in the United States—Black and White men without a college education. Our main finding is that laypeople (nonexpert co...

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Improving vaccine messaging

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April 08, 2024

Sarah Eichmeyer discusses ways to increase vaccine take-up rates.

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Alphabetical list of US graduate programs in economics

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A Random Dictator Is All You Need

By Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, Inbal Talgam-Cohen, and Konstantin Zabarnyi

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study information aggregation with a decision maker aggregating binary recommendations from symmetric agents. Each agent’s recommendation depends on her private information about a hidden state. While the decision maker knows the prior distributio...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20230255

Wealth Tax Mobility and Tax Coordination

By David R. Agrawal, Dirk Foremny, and Clara Martínez-Toledano

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at mitigating tax competition. We exploit the reintroduction of the Spanish wealth tax, after which all regions except Madrid levied positive tax...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220615

State Dependent Government Spending Multipliers: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

By Yoon Joo Jo and Sarah Zubairy

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

In a New Keynesian model with downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR), we show that government spending is more effective in stimulating output in a low-inflation recession relative to a high-inflation recession. The government spending multiplier is large ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20220156

Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation

By Clemence Tricaud

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper provides new evidence on why municipalities are often reluctant to integrate. Exploiting a French reform that made intermunicipal cooperation mandatory, I find that municipalities forced to integrate experienced a large increase in constructi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230344

Staggered Difference-in-Differences in Gravity Settings: Revisiting the Effects of Trade Agreements

By Arne J. Nagengast and Yoto V. Yotov

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered differencein- differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimate...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230089

Spatial Integration and Agricultural Productivity: Quantifying the Impact of New Roads

By Tasso Adamopoulos

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

I study the effects of Ethiopia's 1996–2014 road expansion program on agricultural productivity and structural change. I combine a quantitative spatial framework of structural change with a novel district-level panel data set on agricultural productio...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20200149