Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India

By Pascaline Dupas and Radhika Jain

American Economic Review

We document large gender disparities within a government program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care. We show that care is not free in practice and higher costs are associated with larger disparities. Lowering care costs incr...

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Streaming Music, Streaming Capital by Eric Drott

By Marie Connolly

Journal of Economic Literature

Policy interventions in conflict areas

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Do cash transfer programs foster peace or fuel violence in unstable regions?

In-Kind Transfers as Insurance

By Lucie Gadenne, Samuel Norris, Monica Singhal, and Sandip Sukhtankar

American Economic Review

Households in developing countries often face variation in the prices of consumption goods. We develop a model demonstrating that in-kind transfers will provide insurance benefits against price risk if the covariance between the marginal utility of inco...

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Immigration Policies, Backlash, and School Bullying

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Bullying against Hispanic students is on the rise. We examine how immigration policies perceived as granting a racial advantage, as might be the case with sanctuary policies, impact bullying. Using administrative school data, we find that sanctuary polici...

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Arbitraging Covered Interest-Rate Parity Deviations and Bank Lending

By Lorena Keller

American Economic Review

I propose and test a new channel through which covered interestrate parity (CIP) deviations can affect bank lending in emerging economies. I argue that when CIP deviations exist, banks attempt to arbitrage them. To do so, banks must borrow in a particu...

Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems With General Across-Income Heterogeneity

By Antoine Ferey, Benjamin B. Lockwood, and Dmitry Taubinsky

American Economic Review

This paper provides empirically implementable sufficient statistics formulas for optimal nonlinear tax systems in the presence of across-income heterogeneity in preferences, inheritances, income-shifting capabilities, and other sources. We characterize ...

Arguing about Tastes: Modeling How Context and Experience Change Economic Preferences by David M. Kreps

By Anujit Chakraborty

Journal of Economic Literature

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