Government Transfers and Votes for State Intervention

By Giuseppe Albanese, Guido de Blasio, and Lorenzo Incoronato

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2024

Government transfers might have long-lasting consequences on electoral outcomes. We study a regional policy implemented in Italy over the second half of the twentieth century and leverage variation in transfers to show that parties promoting more state in...

Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China

By Shengmao Cao, Lisa Xuejie Yi, and Chuan Yu

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2024

We study the equilibrium effects of introducing competitive bidding in drug procurement. In 2019, China introduced a competitive bidding program where drug companies bid for a prespecified procurement quantity in nine provinces. Using a difference-in-diff...

The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality

By Sherajum Monira Farin, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, and Michael F. Pesko

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2024

Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential health care service. In this study, we consider whether abortion legalization over 1969–1973 improved women's health as measured by maternal mortality. Our event study results indicate that lega...

CSMGEP: Programs

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CSMGEP programs include the Mentoring Program, the Summer Training Program, and the Summer Economics Fellows Program

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Schedule and Pricing

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Signaling for Interviews in the Economics Job Market

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Committee on the Job Market

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Search Costs and Context Effects

By Heiko Karle, Florian Kerzenmacher, Heiner Schumacher, and Frank Verboven

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Empirical search cost estimates are often large and increasing in the size of the transaction. We conduct an online search experiment in which we manipulate the price scale while keeping the physical search effort per price quote constant. Additionally,...

Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition

By Eugenie Dugoua and Todd D. Gerarden

American Economic Review: Insights

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on “clean” electricity technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term impacts of a price increase mi...

Call for Proposals: The Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research - Monetary Research Programmes

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May 06, 2021

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2024.

Singles, Couples, and Their Labor Supply: Long-Run Trends and Short-Run Fluctuations

By Jonna Olsson

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Women’s increased involvement in the economy has been an important change in labor markets during the past century. I show that a macroeconomic model taking into account gender and household composition in an otherwise parsimonious off-the-shelf sett...

Lectures on Recent Developments in Economics

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August 01, 2024

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Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família

By Katy Bergstrom, William Dodds, and Juan Rios

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We develop a framework to bound the welfare impacts of arbitrarily large reforms to notches using two sufficient statistics: the change in the number of households locating below the new notch and the change in the number of households locating below ...

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?

[Symposium: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]

By Kevin Corinth and Naomi Feldman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

We evaluate the Opportunity Zones provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, focusing on its targeting and effects on investment and resident outcomes. The policy allowed substantial discretion for state governors to designate Opportunity Zones that were n...

Seeking the "Missing Women" of Economics with the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge

[Symposium: Expanding the Appeal of Economics]

By Tatyana Avilova and Claudia Goldin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Economics is among the most popular undergraduate majors, especially in top colleges and universities. However, even at the best research universities and liberal arts colleges men outnumber women by two to one, and overall there are about 2.5 males to ...

Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

[Symposium: Expanding the Appeal of Economics]

By Sergio Barrera, Susan Sajadi, Marionette Holmes, and Sarah Jacobson

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Economics faces stubborn underrepresentation of minoritized identity groups. Economics instructors also largely use antiquated instructional methods. We leverage the literature from the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educati...

Lessons for Expanding the Share of Disadvantaged Students in Economics from the AEA Summer Program at Michigan State University

[Symposium: Expanding the Appeal of Economics]

By Lisa D. Cook and Christine Moser

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Since 1974, the American Economic Association Summer Training Program has provided training and mentoring to students from disadvantaged backgrounds in economics. The aim of the program is to encourage and prepare these students to apply to PhD programs...