Racial Disparities in the US Mortgage Market

By Agustin Hurtado and Jung Sakong

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study racial disparities in the US mortgage market. Using new data from Hurtado and Sakong (2024), we present three findings. First, we document access disparities between minority and otherwise-identical White borrowers even within the same bank and w...

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

By Francisca M. Antman, Kirk B. Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce A. Weinberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepres...

Student Debt Relief and Racial Wealth Gaps

By Gerald E. Daniels Jr., Jeffrey Galloway, and Venoo Kakar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration released a plan to cancel federal student loans for 43 million borrowers on August 24, 2022. While the Supreme Court struck down the Biden-Harris student debt relief plan on June 30, 2023, the White House is now planning to...

DOJ Intervention and the Checkpoint Shift: Profiling Hispanic Motorists under the Section 287(g) Program

By Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Alberto Ortega, and Prentiss A. Dantzler

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This research examines whether the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation into the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, a 287(g) program participant, influenced the policing behavior of other 287(g)-participating agencies in North Carolina. The study ...

Research Design with Weighted Lotteries in School Choice

By Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Inkoo Back

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Centralized admissions are an integral part of parental school choice programs. Most districts use a version of the deferred acceptance algorithm to assign applicants to schools. Centralized admissions produce data with quasi-experimental variation in stu...

The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge

By Michael Greenstone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Rather than facing an isolated climate change challenge, this paper argues that the world must confront the Global Energy Challenge (GEC) that requires all countries to make trade-offs between three often competing and interrelated goals: inexpensive a...

Universal Academic Questionnaire (UAQ)

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The AEA's annual survey of academic departments, faculty positions, and salaries.

Sea Level Rise and Urban Inequality

By Allan Hsiao

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Sea level rise threatens coastal cities around the world. Will it exacerbate inequality in these already unequal places? The rich may adapt by moving to higher ground, bidding up prices and pushing the poor elsewhere. I study the distributional consequenc...

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Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

By Fiona Scott Morton

Journal of Economic Literature

It is somewhat intimidating to be invited to write a review of a book that covers 1,000 years of human technological progress. However, I came away from the experience convinced that an analysis of such a broad scope of human history helpfully illustrates...

Media Slant and Public Policy Views

By Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante, Elliot Motte, and Eleonora Patacchini

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study how exposure to partisan news channels (Fox News and MSNBC) affects individual views on four policy issues: climate change, gun rights, abortion, and immigration. First, using GPT to annotate news transcripts, we document large differences in the...

Who Uses Childcare Centers? Evidence from Burkina Faso

By Kehinde F. Ajayi, Aziz Dao, Estelle Koussoubé, and P. Rita Nikiema

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

What determines childcare center use for low-income urban households? And how does subsidizing provision change access to childcare services? We study these questions using data from a randomized evaluation that subsidized childcare center use for women p...

Export-Platform FDI: Cannibalization or Complementarity?

By Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, Teresa C. Fort, and Felix Tintelnot

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We develop a model of export-platform foreign direct investment in which final goods are produced only with labor and there are no fixed costs of exporting. We derive a simple condition that determines whether an MNE's plants are substitutes or complement...

Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?

By Ariel J. Binder, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

No: it is at least as large at bottom percentiles of the earnings distribution. Conditional quantile regressions reveal that while the gap at top percentiles is largest among the most educated, the gap at bottom percentiles is largest among the least educ...

Impact versus Inclusion in the Economics Profession: Insights from the Papers and Proceedings

By Cynthia Bansak, Wendy Dunn, Ellen Meade, and Martha Starr

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We examine trends in author representation, research topics, and impact of citations to articles in the American Economic Review and what was formerly its Papers and Proceedings (P&P). Over what we refer to as the P&P expansion ...

Marriage Penalties and Bonuses by Race and Ethnicity: An Application of Race and Ethnicity Imputation

By Rachel Costello, Portia DeFilippes, Robin Fisher, Ben Klemens, and Emily Y. Lin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Office of Tax Analysis of the Treasury Department imputes race and ethnicity information to its tax model. We apply the imputed information to the calculation of marriage penalties and bonuses for married couples and find differences in the penalty an...