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Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search

By Michèle Belot, Philipp Kircher, and Paul Muller

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time. It relies on eliciting preferences for receiving high stakes lottery tickets at di...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20220118

Small Group Breakfast Meeting for URM Scholars

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AEASP: Participants

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The Economics of Social Media

By Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Ro'ee Levy, and Lena Song

Journal of Economic Literature

We provide a guide to the burgeoning literature on the economics of social media. We first define social media platforms and highlight their unique features. We then synthesize the main lessons from the empirical economics literature and organize them aro...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241743

Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

By Simon Franklin, Clément Imbert, Girum Abebe, and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla

American Economic Review, May 2024

This paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities in...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20220471

Public works in the city

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May 16, 2024

Do government employment programs boost the welfare of the urban poor in developing countries?

www.aeaweb.org/research/public-works-spatial-ethiopia

Call for Papers: Chicago Annual Business Research Conference (CABRC) 2024

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May 22, 2024

Submissions are due by July 26, 2024.

www.aeaweb.org/news/call-for-papers-cabrc-2024-may-22-2024

One Man, One Vote

By Romans Pancs and Tridib Sharma

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

In the United States, electoral districts must be equipopulous. This requirement is known as the one man, one vote doctrine. We propose welfare-based justifications for this requirement under the economic view, according to which voters care about the p...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20230115

Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?

By Raphael Calel, Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, and Matthieu Glachant

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies, and use it to provide systematic evidence of the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism—the world's largest carbon offset program. Using newly construc...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230052