Heterogeneous Responses to Job Mobility Shocks in a HANK Model with a Frictional Labor Market

By Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, Yusuf Mercan, and Kurt See

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model with a frictional labor market featuring on-the-job-search to study how job switching affects consumption decisions for individuals with different wealth levels. We find that an increased job switching rate...

A Model of Harmful Yet Engaging Content on Social Media

By George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, and Mateusz Stalinski

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Why do social media users spend so much time consuming content that seemingly harms them? We build a simple model to argue that advertising-driven platforms can find it profitable to display content that harms users when it is complementary to their time ...

Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty

By Paul Bose, Lorenzo Lupo, Mahyar Habibi, Dirk Hovy, and Carlo Schwarz

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates disparities among objective poverty measures, individuals' subjective perceptions, and poverty-related social media discourse in US counties. We find that while poverty and perceived poverty are positively correlated, poverty-relat...

Is the World Running Out of Fresh Water?

By Tamma Carleton, Levi Crews, and Ishan Nath

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The quantity of water within Earth and its atmosphere is fixed over time, but water available for human consumption evolves dynamically. We use globally comprehensive geospatial data to establish stylized facts about recent changes in global water resourc...

Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water

By David A. Keiser, Bhashkar Mazumder, David Molitor, Joseph S. Shapiro, and Brant J. Walker

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the targeting of subsidized loans provided through the Safe Drinking Water Act with the ta...

The Changing Nature of Pollution, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States

By Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis, and Reed Walker

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper uses tax records linked to administrative Census data and high-resolution measures of air pollution exposure (PM2.5) to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap since 1984. We decompose changes in the racial exposure gap in...

Family Structure and Childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Aletheia Donald, Sara Lowes, and Julia Vaillant

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Extended family members can help women with childcare. Using data from 32 sub-Saharan African countries, we find that the prevalence of nuclear families relative to extended families is increasing over time. The overall share of nuclear families is 56 per...

Long-Term Effects of Preschool Subsidies and Cash Transfers on Child Development: Evidence from Uganda

By Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville, and Lore Vandewalle

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, three-to-five-year-old children in Uganda were randomly offered a subsidy to attend full-day preschool for one year. A second treatment group received cash transfers that were at least as large as the cos...

The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children's Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

By David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, and Amina Mendez Acosta

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Center-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. The impacts of these programs on women's labor market outcomes are consistently positive, but what are the impacts on children's developmental outcomes? We systemat...

Residential versus Online? Experimental Evidence on Diversifying the STEM Pipeline

By Sarah R. Cohodes, Helen Ho, Elizabeth Huffaker, and Silvia C. Robles

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Prior research has shown that most educational interventions boost student outcomes to a greater extent when delivered in person as opposed to online. However, we know little about whether this is true for enrichment programs targeted to highly motivated ...

Reparative Ripple Effects? Exploring the Impacts of Sibling Exposure to School-Based Restorative Justice

By Anjali Adukia, Benjamin Feigenberg, and Fatemeh Momeni

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study leverages the rollout of restorative practices (RP) within Chicago Public Schools to investigate whether younger siblings in elementary school who are not directly exposed to RP are affected by their older siblings' RP exposure in high school. ...

Getting Students to Show Up: Generational Differences in the Effect of Teachers on Black and White Student Absences

By Nhu Nguyen, Ben Ost, and Javaeria A. Qureshi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We provide the first evidence on the effect of teacher generation on student absences. Using administrative matched student-teacher data, we find that Millennial teachers are more effective at reducing absences compared to teachers from earlier generation...

Differences in Teachers' Assessments of Students by English Learner Status

By Maria Zhu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates potential disparities in how teachers perceive academic achievement between English Learner (EL) students and their non-EL counterparts. Using data on elementary and middle school students in North Carolina, I compare teachers' aca...

Vertical Spillovers in Global Value Chains

By Swapnika Rachapalli

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper uses input-output relationships across highly disaggregated products to establish two empirical regularities with bilateral trade data. First, countries are likely to have revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in a product if they also have RCA ...

Aggregation Bias in the Measurement of US Global Value Chains

By Aaron Flaaen, Fariha Kamal, Eunhee Lee, and Kei-Mu Yi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper employs US census microdata to construct establishment-level measures of global value chains (GVCs) and then assesses aggregation bias—the bias occurring when an entire industry is essentially treated as a single establishment. Our establishm...

Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study

By Michela Carlana and Lucia Corno

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents' perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We find that thinking about parental recommendation affects students' beliefs ...

The Gender Wage Gap: Skills, Sorting, and Returns

By John Eric Humphries, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, and Gregory F. Veramendi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

There is a large gender wage gap among college graduates. This gender gap could be partially driven by differences in college major and prior skills. We use Swedish register data to study how much of the gender gap can be explained by differences in major...

Navigating Policy Specificity in Academia: The Evolution of Sexual Harassment Policies around #MeToo

By Marina Gertsberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

I study how universities changed the specificity of their sexual harassment policies around #MeToo. I observe a trend toward increasing policy specificity after #MeToo, particularly in private universities, those with publicized harassment cases, or unive...

Racial Inequality and Publication in Economics

By Marlène Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines racial disparities in economic publishing using bibliometric data from over 200 economic journals. We find notable differences in authorship between White and non-White authors, with Black, Hispanic, and Asian economists significantly ...

Teaching-Track Economists in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

By Fabio Arico, Alvin Birdi, Avi J. Cohen, Caroline Elliott, Tisha Emerson, Gail Hoyt, Cloda Jenkins, Ashley Lait, Jennifer Murdock, and Christian Spielmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

For Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we illuminate the landscape for a relatively new and evolving role: full-time, teaching-track economists who work in the same departments as research-track economists, but with a greater emphasis on t...