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Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA

By Jiwon Choi, Ilyana Kuziemko, Ebonya Washington, and Gavin Wright

American Economic Review, June 2024

Why have white, less-educated voters left the Democratic Party? We highlight the role of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In event-study analysis, we demonstrate that counties whose 1990 employment depended on industries vulnerable to...

The political consequences of NAFTA

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June 27, 2024

Jiwon Choi and Gavin Wright discuss the economic and political fallout of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity

By Meera Mahadevan

American Economic Review

Politicians may target public goods to benefit their constituents, at the expense of others. I study corruption in the context of Indian electricity and estimate the welfare consequences. Using new administrative billing data and close-election regress...

Rising Top, Falling Bottom: Industries and Rising Wage Inequality

By John Haltiwanger, Henry R. Hyatt, and James R. Spletzer

American Economic Review

Most of the rise in overall earnings inequality from 1996 to 2018 is accounted for by rising between-industry dispersion. The contribution of industries is right-skewed with the top ten percent of 4-digit NAICS industries dominating. The top ten percent...

Monitoring in Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Public Transit

By Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane, and David Schönholzer

American Economic Review

Small firms struggle to grow beyond a few employees. We introduce monitoring devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomize which minibus owners have access to the data using a novel mobile app. We find that treated vehicle owners modify the te...

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Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists

By Anton Korinek

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize research. I analyze how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can assist economists by describing dozens of use cases in six areas: ideation and feedback, writing, backgro...

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Geographic centralization of health care

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Do obstetric unit closures lead to worse health outcomes for mothers and newborns?