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Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China

By Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu, and Alberto Salvo

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2019

We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output at two manufacturing sites in China. Ambient fine-particle (PM2.5) pollution is severe but significantly variable, largely due to exogenous atmospheric ventilation. We obtain an insignif...

Domestic Policies and Sovereign Default

By Emilio Espino, Julian Kozlowski, Fernando M. Martin, and Juan M. Sánchez

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

A model with two essential elements, sovereign default and distortionary fiscal and monetary policies, explains the interaction between sovereign debt, default risk and inflation in emerging countries. We derive conditions under which monetary policy is...

Effective Health Aid: Evidence from Gavi’s Vaccine Program

By Gauri Kartini Shastry and Daniel L. Tortorice

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has provided over US$16 billion in funding for vaccination expansion in low- and middle-income countries since its founding in 1999. We exploit differential timing in Gavi support across countries and vaccines to estimate the ...

Large Shocks Travel Fast

By Alberto Cavallo, Francesco Lippi, and Ken Miyahara

American Economic Review: Insights

We document a sizeable increase in the frequency of price adjustments following the large energy shocks of 2022. We use a tractable New Keynesian model, calibrated to the pre-shock data, to interpret such a pattern. The calibration highlights the state...

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Dynamic Spending Responses to Wealth Shocks: Evidence from Quasi-lotteries on the Stock Market

By Asger Lau Andersen, Niels Johannesen, and Adam Sheridan

American Economic Review: Insights

How much and over what horizon do households adjust their consumption in response to stock market wealth shocks? We address these questions using granular data on spending and stock portfolios from a large bank and exploiting lottery-like variation in g...

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The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level by John H. Cochrane

By Ricardo Nunes

Journal of Economic Literature

Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.–Mexico Divide by James Gerber

By Madeline Zavodny

Journal of Economic Literature

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Scoring Strategic Agents

By Ian Ball

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

I introduce a model of predictive scoring. A receiver wants to predict a sender’s quality. An intermediary observes multiple features of the sender and aggregates them into a score. Based on the score, the receiver makes a decision. The sender prefer...