Re-examining the Effects of Trading with China on Local Labor Markets: A...
The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a cross-regional reduced-form specification but differing from the existing literature,...
View ArticlePer Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO2 Emissions -- by Justin...
This paper investigates the role of income-driven differences in consumption patterns in explaining and projecting energy demand and CO2 emissions. We develop and estimate a general-equilibrium model...
View ArticleCharity Begins at Home (and at School): Effects of Religion-Based...
Religions often preach preferential treatment of fellow believers. This paper examines whether one's religious status (secular or religious) leads one to discriminate against people with a different...
View ArticleFrictions in a Competitive, Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis -- by...
This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of a taxi market. The model is estimated using data from New York City yellow cabs. Two salient features by which most taxi markets deviate from...
View ArticleDo Parents Know Best? The Short and Long-Run Effects of Attending The Schools...
Recent studies document that, in many cases, sought after schools do not improve student test scores. Three explanations are that (i) existing studies identify local average treatment effects that do...
View ArticleEvaluating the Economic Cost of Coastal Flooding -- by Klaus Desmet, Robert...
Sea-level rise and ensuing permanent coastal inundation will cause spatial shifts in population and economic activity over the next 200 years. Using a highly spatially disaggregated, dynamic model of...
View ArticleThe Welfare State besides Globalization Forces -- by Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka
In this paper we review of literature and offer historical, empirical and analytical explanation for the interactions between the welfare state and globalization driving forces. Globalization - a...
View ArticleDoes Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is surpassing human performance in a growing number of domains. However, there is limited evidence of its economic effects. Using data from a digital platform, we study a...
View ArticleCertification, Reputation and Entry: An Empirical Analysis -- by Xiang Hui,...
Markets with asymmetric information will often employ third-party certification labels to distinguish between higher and lower quality transactions, yet little is known about the effects of...
View ArticleMultinational Profit Shifting and Measures throughout Economic Accounts -- by...
Profit shifting to low-tax countries imposes challenges for the treatment of multinational enterprises in economic accounts. Using adjustments for profit shifting calculated in Guvenen et al. (2017)...
View ArticleSupplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight...
Low birth weight infants born to mothers with low educational attainment have a double hurdle to overcome in the production of human capital. We examine whether income transfers in the form of...
View ArticleQuadratic Games -- by Nicolas S. Lambert, Giorgio Martini, Michael Ostrovsky
We study general quadratic games with multidimensional actions, stochastic payoff interactions, and rich information structures. We first consider games with arbitrary finite information structures. In...
View ArticleDynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement -- by Glenn Ellison,...
This paper examines the dynamics of the gender gap in high math achievement over the high school years using data from the American Mathematics Competition. A clear gender gap is already present by 9th...
View ArticleIs There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from...
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that fewer wives are taller than...
View ArticleKeep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks...
SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. To investigate their effectiveness, we conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages....
View ArticleThe Human Side of Austerity: Health Spending and Outcomes During the Greek...
The Greek crisis was the most severe in postwar Europe; its budget cuts were the deepest. Among the components of the budget, health spending was hit particularly hard, declining by more than one third...
View ArticleEducator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools -- by...
In low-income countries, educators often encourage weak primary students to drop out before reaching the end of primary school in order to avoid the negative attention they receive when their students...
View ArticleCan Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption? -- by Lori...
In order to induce farmers to adopt a productive new agricultural technology, we apply simple and complex contagion diffusion models on rich social network data from 200 villages in Malawi to identify...
View ArticleThe Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination...
We study how reported sexism in the population affects American women. Fixed-effects and TSLS estimates show that higher prevailing sexism where she was born (background sexism) and where she currently...
View ArticleFairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior -- by...
We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a large U.S. retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own wages on separations,...
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