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Congratulations to Emi Nakamura of
@berkeleyecon
, winner of the 2019 John Bates Clark Medal!
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2020 AEA Election results: Congratulations to President-elect Christina Romer, VPs Kerwin Kofi Charles and
@ShellyJLundberg
, and members
@Econ_Sandy
and Emi Nakamura!
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Congratulations to Parag Pathak, winner of the 2018 John Bates Clark Medal!
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments" by Valentin Bolotnyy, Matthew Basilico, and Paul Barreira.
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When Colombia offered bonuses to soldiers who killed rebels, the incentives backfired and led to an upsurge in the murder of innocent civilians, say researchers at
@MITEcon
,
@Uniandes
,
@HarrisPolicy
,
@columbia_econ
, and
@URosario
.
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major" by Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta.
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Econ PhDs are struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression at rates more than twice that of the general population, says
@vbolotnyy
of
@Stanford
. We spoke with him about why that is and what can be done about it.
#ResearchHighlight
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Statistical Non-significance in Empirical Economics" by Alberto Abadie.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-To-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes" by Qi Ge and Stephen Wu.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Populist Leaders and the Economy" by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries" by Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, and Santiago Pérez.
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We spoke with John Bates Clark Medalist Melissa Dell about the through line to her research, the insights she’s gained from first-hand experience, and what advice she has for young economists. Check out the interview here
#ResearchHighlight
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Political corruption isn’t just bad governance. It may also erode ethical standards in the rest of society,
says
@Nicolas_Ajz
of
@FGV
. In today’s
#ChartOfTheWeek
, he looked at the impact of local malfeasance on cheating rates in schools.
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Italians who watched a lot of entertainment TV as children were less civic-minded as adults and more vulnerable to populist rhetoric. Coming soon to AER.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment" by Ro'ee Levy.
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The children of immigrants climb the income ladder faster than kids with US-born parents, especially among the poorest families. This is as true today as it was a century ago, say Ran Abramitzky,
@leah_boustan
,
@elisajacome
, and
@seperez84
#ChartOfTheWeek
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When politicians had hiring discretion in Brazil, public sector jobs often went to the least capable but most politically connected applicants, say researchers at
@ChicagoBooth
,
@URosario
, and
@KelloggSchool
.
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Synthetic Difference in Differences" by Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Susan Athey, David A. Hirshberg, Guido W. Imbens, and Stefan Wager.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" by Clément de Chaisemartin and Xavier D'Haultfœuille.
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Economic models miss a lot about how racial discrimination affects our world. Sociology can help economists broaden their perspective, says
@MarioLuisSmall
in today's
#ResearchHighlight
.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners after the Civil War" by Philipp Ager, Leah Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson.
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When news about local corruption broke in Italy, shoppers became more likely to steal from supermarkets, demonstrating the contagious effect of bad behavior, say researchers at
@unitorvergata
and
@UNSW
.
#Chart
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes" by Andrew Goodman-Bacon.
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Inequality is worse than economists previously thought, according to
@annette_als
, Niels Johannesen, and
@gabriel_zucman
. Their work in today's
#ChartOfTheWeek
shows how much standard measurements are off when tax evasion is taken into account.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the U.S." by Tomás E. Monarrez.
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Switzerland saw a large surge in skilled foreign workers after opening its border to the EU. But contrary to standard models, it boosted the wages of highly educated natives, say researchers at
@ETH_en
and
@ucdavis
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Market Power and Innovation in the Intangible Economy" by Maarten De Ridder.
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Twenty years ago, economists rarely shared their data or code. Now, research transparency transparency is becoming a professional norm, says
@tedmiguel
in today's
#ChartOfTheWeek
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The consequences of losing a job vary widely across Europe, say researchers at
@NHHnor
,
@uc3m
,
@BancoDeEspana
,
@EconUniMannheim
,
@vatt_tutkimus
, and
@ubcVSE
. Their findings may help uncover what makes some labor markets work better than others.
#Chart
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Best of Both Worlds: Combining RCTs with Structural Modeling" by Petra E. Todd and Kenneth I. Wolpin.
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects" by Alberto Abadie.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence" by Litterio Mirenda, Sauro Mocetti, and Lucia Rizzica.
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Homes in London neighborhoods hit by cholera 160 years ago still sell at a discount today. The reasons might offer insights into why cities have lasting pockets of poverty, according to a paper coming soon to AER
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists" by Anton Korinek.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-Income Students" by Susan Dynarski, C. J. Libassi, Katherine Michelmore, and Stephanie Owen.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health" by Chloe N. East, Sarah Miller, Marianne Page, and Laura R. Wherry.
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Anti-scientific rhetoric from political leaders in Brazil had a significant impact on how closely citizens followed COVID-19 guidelines, say researchers at
@mcgillu
,
@Cambridge_Uni
, and
@EconFGVSP
.
#ResearchHighlight
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature" by Rachael Meager.
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Only around a third of economics majors are women. One way to encourage more women to enter the field would be to provide female role models, say
@EconCath
and
@danilaserra_eco
in today's
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Enemies of the People" by Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vézina.
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The skills that a workforce picks up on the job may be nearly as important for economic development as the skills acquired in the classroom, say economists at
@GWUEconomics
,
@BostonCollege
, and
@WorldBank
.
#Chart
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Relaxed copyright protections during WWII spurred more scientific innovation and boosted academic careers in the US, say
@BarbaraBiasi
and
@PMoserEcon
in today's
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Remote instruction over the pandemic led to worse than expected growth in reading and math scores, especially in high-poverty school districts, say researchers at
@caldercenter
,
@hgse
,
@NWEA
, and
@dartmouth
.
#Chart
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Forthcoming in the AER: "On Binscatter" by Matias D. Cattaneo, Richard K. Crump, Max H. Farrell, and Yingjie Feng.
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Low-income children in Florida whose families received health insurance coverage from a Medicaid expansion in 1990 were significantly less likely to go to prison as an adult, say researchers at
@UHouston
,
@UTKnoxville
, and
@TAMU
.
#Chart
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Enforcing Wealth Taxes in the Developing World: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia" by Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Javier Ávila-Mahecha.
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal" by Ivan Boldyrev.
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Female academics were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 disruptions, experiencing larger declines in research time compared to men, say
@olgashurchkov
,
@JennaEStearns
, and
@TDeryugina
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices" by Natalie Bau.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia" by Alessandra Fenizia and Raffaele Saggio.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How" by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Isaac Sorkin, and Henry Swift.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools" by Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, and Paolo Pinotti.
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We've got a new complimentary teaching tool for educators: economic concepts in real world examples. Check it out here.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Location, Location, Location" by David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi.
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Congratulations to AER editor Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee of
@MIT
and Michael Kremer of
@Harvard
on winning the
@NobelPrize
in Economic Sciences! Read more here:
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When a new political party takes power, replacements to top government positions and beyond often follow. But such turnover can have detrimental effects on the quality of public services, say Mitra Akhtari, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco.
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Methods Matter: P-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics" by Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook, and Anthony Heyes.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Pre-test with Caution: Event-Study Estimates after Testing for Parallel Trends" by Jonathan Roth.
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A few journals play an outsized role in the careers of young economists, even after controlling for quality. The pressure to publish in the top five may be hurting the profession, say
@heckmanequation
and Sidharth Moktan of
@hceconomics
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Congratulations to Dave Donaldson, winner of the 2017 John Bates Clark Medal!
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio" by Samuel Norris, Matthew Pecenco, and Jeffrey Weaver.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "What Caused the U.S. Pandemic-Era Inflation?" by Ben Bernanke and Olivier Blanchard.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Labor Market Power" by David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon Mongey.
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Giving cash to poor families helped alleviate stunting in Indonesian children. We spoke with
@rema_nadeem
of
@Kennedy_School
about her research on conditional cash transfers and why it’s been hard to determine their long-run impact.
#ResearchHighlight
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Effects of a Large-Scale Mental Health Reform: Evidence from Brazil" by Mateus Dias and Luiz Felipe Fontes.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Nurture of Nature and the Nature of Nurture: How Genes and Investments Interact in the Formation of Skills" by Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, and Michael Rosholm.
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The Executive Committee of the AEA issued the following statement to members today:
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Social Protection in the Developing World" by Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Diana Sverdlin Lisker.
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Working alongside a friend leads to significant declines in productivity, even if worker wages are cut as a result of poor performance, according to Sangyoon Park of
@HKUFBE
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Political Economy of Populism" by Sergei Guriev and Elias Papaioannou.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption" by Nicolás Ajzenman.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States?" by Thomas Blanchet, Lucas Chancel, and Amory Gethin.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion" by Sarah Miller, Laura R. Wherry, and Diana Greene Foster.
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There’s not a lot evidence that prestigious colleges produce better educated graduates, but they can still boost earnings, says Sheetal Sekhri of
@UVAEcon
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice" by Peter Bergman, Raj Chetty, Stefanie DeLuca, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence F. Katz, and Christopher Palmer.
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Religion and Growth" by Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, and Ludger Woessmann.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions" by Christopher Huckfeldt.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "When Choices Are Mistakes" by Kirby Nielsen and John Rehbeck.
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US universities lead the world in research, but their ascendancy started earlier than many people believe. We spoke with
@m_urquiola
about which schools propelled them to the top and what policymakers can learn from that history.
#ResearchHighlight
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Being promoted to a top job increases the probability of divorce for women, but not for men. The effects seem to be driven by how career advancement relates to traditional gender norms, say
@OlleFolke
and
@johannarickne
in today's
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit" by Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley, and Aysegül Sahin.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Media and Mental Health" by Luca Braghieri, Ro'ee Levy, and Alexey Makarin.
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Forthcoming in the JEL: "Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics" by Guido W. Imbens.
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Toxic rhetoric on social media can have real-world consequences, say researchers at
@NUSBizSchool
and
@Unibocconi
. They found that higher Twitter use helped to amplify an increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes after the 2016 presidential primaries.
#Chart
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Economists have documented a substantial long-run rise in US income inequality. But a large portion of it may be a shift in how the richest individuals report their earnings, say researchers at
@columbia_econ
and
@ChicagoBooth
.
#ResearchHighlight
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Recession-induced cuts to school spending had lasting ill-effects on test scores and college enrollment, especially in states where schools rely more heavily on state aid, say
@KiraboJackson
,
@cjlwig
, and Heyu Xiong
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Enrico Moretti of
@berkeleyecon
says inventors are more productive when surrounded by other top talent in their field. We spoke with him about agglomeration economies and why they'll remain important in a post-pandemic world of more remote work.
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Congratulations to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson of
@Stanford
on winning the
@NobelPrize
in Economic Sciences! Read more here:
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The newest journal of the American Economic Association, American Economic Review: Insights, invites submissions.
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Congratulations to AEA President-elect David Card and all the new officers!
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Forthcoming in the AER: "How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities" by Jonas Hjort, Diana Moreira, Gautam Rao, and Juan Francisco Santini.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Causal Interpretation of Two-Stage Least Squares with Multiple Instrumental Variables" by Magne Mogstad, Alexander Torgovitsky, and Christopher R. Walters.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error" by Zachary Ward.
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Biological factors, such as childbearing and breastfeeding, can’t explain earnings inequality between men and women after the birth of a child, say researchers at
@princetonecon
,
@LSEEcon
, and
@uni_copenhagen
#ChartOfTheWeek
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA" by Jiwon Choi, Ilyana Kuziemko, Ebonya Washington, and Gavin Wright.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations" by Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem, and Edoardo Teso.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover and the Quality of Public Services" by Mitra Akhtari, Diana Moreira, and Laura Trucco.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia" by M. Chatib Basri, Mayara Felix, Rema Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken.
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