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The American Economic Association is a non-profit, non-partisan, scholarly association dedicated to the discussion and publication of economics research.
Joined January 2011
Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Monopsony in Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Public Policy by Brianna L. Alderman and Roger D. Blair" by Marshall Steinbaum.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Taxing the Wealth of the Poor: Evidence from the Danish Old-Age Support Asset Test" by Niels Johannesen, Johan Sæverud, and Emmanuel Saez.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We document strong behavioral responses to an asset test for an old-age support program in Denmark using comprehensive administrative data. We show that the density distribu...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment" by Essi Eerola, Tuomas Kosonen, Kaisa Kotakorpi, and Teemu Lyytikäinen.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We study rental income tax compliance using novel third-party information and a large-scale randomized field experiment. The third-party information combines register data on...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare" by Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny.
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(Forthcoming Article) - Firms often exploit weaknesses in government contracts to boost revenues, yet little is known about how they allocate these funds. We study how hospitals allocated $3 billion...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Segregative Effects of Charter Schools" by Angela Crema.
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(Forthcoming Article) - I study the effects of charters on student racial segregation, identifying a novel mechanism: the assignment of white and nonwhite students to regular classrooms within their...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Fostering Cooperation: The Conflict-Reducing Effects of Inter-Village Competition for Government Transfers" by Teevrat Garg, Caterina Gennaioli, Stefania Lovo, and Gregor Singer.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the effect of inter-group competition on within-group violent conflict in Indonesia. Using a triple-differences design, we find that higher competition for national...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency" by A. Brooks Bowden, Viviana Rodriguez, and Zach Weingarten.
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(Forthcoming Article) - Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’...
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Americans understand supply and demand when it comes to cars and crops, but struggle to apply the same logic to housing markets. We spoke with @CSElmendorf of @ucdavis about what this might mean for economic messaging on housing policy. #ResearchHighlight
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Christopher Elmendorf discusses the views of the US public on the housing market.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing: A Reassessment" by Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and Ákos Valentinyi.
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(Forthcoming Article) - The movement of labor out of the agricultural sector is a central feature of the development process. A long-held belief is that successful development requires that much of...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System" by Angélica Meinhofer, Adrian Rubli, and Jamein P. Cunningham.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the direct and spillover effects of cannabis legalization on longstanding racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. We find that legalization reduces...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States" by Cory Smith.
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(Forthcoming Article) - I study the long-run economic effects of land concentration on the American frontier. Using quasi-random variation in initial land allocations from a checkerboard formula, I...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity" by Jaden Yang Chen.
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(Forthcoming Article) - This paper investigates a sequential social learning problem in which individuals face ambiguity about others’ signal structures and have max-min expected utility preferences,...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants" by Maya Mikdash and Suhyeon Oh.
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(Forthcoming Article) - Little is known about the role of race in the defense of low income defendants by court-appointed attorneys. Exploiting the quasi-random assignment of court-appointed attorn...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences" by Sebastian O. Schneider and Matthias Sutter.
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(Forthcoming Article) - Using new methods, we measure the intensities of higher-order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an incentivized experiment with 658 adolescents. Aligned with...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Decentralizing Development: The Economic Impacts of Government Splits" by Ricardo Dahis and Christiane Szerman.
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(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the economic impacts of the creation of smaller government units through splitting. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp increases in the number of government units...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in Supply Chains" by Felipe Brugués.
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(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies the efficiency of self-enforced relational agreements, a common solution to contracting frictions, when sellers have market power and contracts cannot be...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Management and Misallocation in Mexico" by Nicholas Bloom, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López, and John Van Reenen.
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(Forthcoming Article) - Is management a reason for lower productivity in developing countries? Implementing the first comprehensive management survey in Mexico, we find large management gaps with the...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines And the Exodus of Women from Farming" by Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, and Kjell G. Salvanes.
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(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies how gender-biased technological change in agriculture affected women’s work in 20th-century Norway. In the 1950s, dairy farms began widely adopting milking...
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households" by Shilpa Aggarwal, Jenny C. Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot.
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(Forthcoming Article) - Little is known about the evolution and persistence of the effects of one-time cash transfers, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment...
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