AEA Sessions from the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting

January 07 — 09

Enjoy our library of recorded videos from the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting.

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Sessions found: 147

Sovereign Default

Chair:
Giorgia Piacentino
The Origins of Serial Sovereign Default —
Sasha Indarte
and Chenzi Xu
The Greek Retrofit and Borrowing Costs in the European Periphery —
Patrick Bolton
, Xuewen Fu
, Mito Gulati
, and Ugo Panizza
The Seniority Structure of Sovereign Debt —
Matthias Schlegl
, Christoph Trebesch
, and Mark L. J. Wright
Partial Default —
Cristina Arellano
, Xavier Mateos-Planas
, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

Student Loans

Chair:
Sandra E. Black
Student Aid Design, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior: Grants or Loans? —
Juanna S. Joensen
and Elena Mattana
Short-Run Effects of Student Loan Offers on Educational Attainment, Credit, and Earnings —
Benjamin M. Marx
and Lesley J. Turner
The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness —
Sylvain Catherine
and Constantine Yannelis
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being —
Sandra E. Black
, Jeffrey T. Denning
, Lisa J. Dettling
, Sarena Goodman
, and Lesley J. Turner

Technological Change

Chair:
Leila Agha
Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Linkage, and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain —
Sangyoon Park
, Zhaoneng Yuan
, and Hongsong Zhang
How Can Innovation Screening Be Improved? A Machine Learning Analysis with Economic Consequences for Firm Performance —
Xiang Zheng
Shared Culture and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams —
Tristan James Fitzgerald
and Xiaoding Liu
Robots, AI and Immigration - A race for talent or of displaced workers —
Yvonne Giesing
, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva
, and Britta Rude
The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Independent Inventors: An Experiment at the US Patent and Trademark Office —
Charles A.W. deGrazia
, Nicholas A. Pairolero
, Peter-Anthony Pappas
, Mike H.M. Teodorescu
, and Andrew A. Toole

The Behavioral Economics of Risky Choice: New Perspectives

Chair:
Charles Sprenger
Evidence of Rank-Independence in Risky Choice —
B. Douglas Bernheim
, Rebecca Royer
, and Charles Sprenger
Pespectives on Simplicity in Risky Choice —
Drew Fudenberg
and Indira Puri
Tests of Rank-dependent Probability Weighting in Risky Choice —
Samuel Hirshman
and George Wu
Random Choice: Taste Shocks, Mistakes, or a Genuine Desire to Randomize? —
Marina Agranov
and Pietro Ortoleva

The Digital Markets Act: European and U.S. Perspectives on Platform Regulation

Moderator:
Marshall Van Alstyne
Panelists:
Pierre Regibeau
,
Luis Cabral
,
Diane Coyle
,
Fiona Scott Morton
, and
Bertin Martens

The Division of Power within Families in Developing Countries

Chair:
Seema Jayachandran
The Empowerment Effects of Women's Employment: Experimental Evidence —
Madeline McKelway
Increasing Women’s Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare —
Kate Ambler
, Kelly M. Jones
, and Michael O'Sullivan
Why Do Mothers and Fathers Spend Differently on Children’s Education and Health? —
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
and Seema Jayachandran
The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families  —
Rossella Calvi
, Jacob Penglase
, and Denni Tommasi

The Economics of Culture

Chair:
Luigi Zingales
Distrust and Political Turnover —
Nathan Nunn
, Nancy Qian
, and Jaya Wen
Institutions Shape Culture: The Civic Imprint of Democracy —
Daron Acemoglu
, Nicolás Ajzenman
, Cevat Giray Aksoy
, Carlos Molina
, and Martin Fiszbein
Importing Values —
Marco Manacorda
, Jacopo Ponticelli
, and Andrea Tesei
Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy —
Giacomo Magistretti
and Marco Tabellini

The Health and Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 Induced Policies

Chair:
Jonathan Kolstad
The Impact of COVID-19 School Closures and Policies on Student Achievement —
Douglas N. Harris
, Paul T. von Hippel
, Megan Kuhfeld
, Douglas B. Downey
, and Nicholas Mattei
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Instructional Modality, and Student Achievement in Michigan —
Katharine O. Strunk
, Scott Imberman
, Bryant Hopkins
, and Tara Kilbride
Medical Practice Shutdowns and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic —
Rebecca McKibbin
and Xuechao (Jane) Qian
Covid-19 Vaccine Demand, Eligibility, and Health Outcomes: Evidence From Discrete Choice Experiments and Regression Discontinuities —
Coady Wing
, Seth Freedman
, Sumedha Gupta
, Patrick Carlin
, and Kosali Simon

The History and Resources of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)

Moderator:
Gary Hoover
Panelists:
Kalena Cortes
,
Isaiah Andrews
,
Jose Manuel Fernandez
,
James H. Peoples Jr.
,
Vicki Bogan
,
Amanda Bayer
, and
Ebonya Washington

The Impact of Payroll Tax Subsidies: Theory and Evidence

Chair:
Richard Blundell
Labor Demand Response to Labor Supply Incentives: Evidence from the German Mini-Job Reform —
Gabriela Galassi
The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France —
Antonie Bozio
, Thomas Breda
, and Malka Guillot
Payroll Tax Reductions for Minimum Wage Workers: Relative Labor Cost or Cash Windfall Effects? —
Sophie Cottet
Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes —
Aniko Biro
, Reka Branyiczki
, Attila Lindner
, Lili Mark
, and Daniel Prinz

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Vulnerable Populations

Chair:
Brandyn Churchill
How Racial Animus Forms and Spreads: Evidence from the Coronavirus Pandemic —
Runjing Lu
and Sophie Yanying Sheng
More Than Shelter: The Effects of Rental Eviction Moratoria on Household Well-Being —
Nitzan Tzur-Ilan
, Stuart Gabriel
, and Xudong An
The Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nursing Home Resident Well-being —
Michael Levere
, Patricia Rowan
, and Andrea Wysocki
Inequality in Individual and School Level Effects of Primary School Closures Due to COVID-19 – Evidence from the Netherlands —
Carla Haelermans
, Madelon Jacobs
, Lynn van Vugt
, Bas Aarts
, Henry Abbink
, Chayenne Smeets
, Rolf van der Velden
, and Sanne van Wetten

The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Financing on Inequality and the Labor Market

Chair:
Bruce D. Meyer
UI Financing as a Uniform Payroll Tax —
Sebastian Graves
, Jonathon Hazell
, and Christina Patterson
Poor Performance as a Predictable Outcome: Financing the Administration of Unemployment Insurance —
Marta Lachowska
, Alexandre Mas
, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Benefit Low-Income Workers? —
Mark Duggan
, Audrey Guo
, and Andrew Johnston
Simulating Comprehensive Unemployment Insurance Reform —
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
, Peter Ganong
, Jonathon Gruber
, and Pascal Noel

The New Econometrics of League Tables

Chair:
Isaiah Andrews
Ranking and Selection from Pairwise Comparisons:  Empirical Bayes Methods for Citation Analysis —
Jiaying Gu
and Roger Koenker
Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities —
Magne Mogstad
, Joseph Romano
, Azeem M. Shaikh
, and Daniel Wilhelm
Inference on Ranked Treatments —
Isaiah Andrews
, Dillon Bowen
, Toru Kitagawa
, and Adam McCloskey

The Path to Greener Financial Systems

Chair:
Robert Engle
Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk —
Patrick Bolton
and Marcin Kacperczyk
Greening (Runnable) Brown Assets with a Liquidity Backstop —
Eric Jondeau
, Benoit Mojon
, and Cyril Monnet
Welfare Implications of Heat Waves —
Harrison Hong
, Neng Wang
, Jiangmin Xu
, and Jinqiang Yang

The U.S. Economy in the 1920s

Chair:
Joshua K. Hausman
Lockdowns and Mobility in the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza —
Francois Velde
Boomtowns: Local Shocks and Inequality in 1920s California —
Sarah Quincy
Marriage Market Outcomes and Immigration Shocks: Evidence from the 1920s Border Closure —
Katherine Eriksson
, Addison Lake
, and Gregory Niemesh
Transportation Revolution: The Car in the 1920s —
Joshua K. Hausman
, Shari Eli
, and Paul W. Rhode

The Widespread Effects of Gender in Economic Life: Education, Health, and Entrepreneurship

Chair:
Seema Jayachandran
Gendered Teacher Feedback, Students' Math Performance and Enrollment Outcomes: A Text Mining Approach —
Marion Monnet
and Pauline Charousset
The Gender Gap in Small Business Performance: Evidence from a Food Ordering Platform —
Xinyao Qiu
and Carol Lu
Mis(sed) Diagnosis: Physician Decision Making and ADHD —
Kelli Marquardt
Cash Transfers, Liquidity Constraints, and Women’s Psychosocial Wellbeing: Evidence from an Ultra-Poor Setting —
Eeshani Kandpal
, Pascale Schnitzer
, and Modeste Daye

Topics in Corporate Finance

Chair:
Yang Fan
What Is CEO Overconfidence? Evidence from Executive Assessments —
Anastasia Zakolyukina
, Steven N. Kaplan
, and Morten Sørensen
When Do Optimistic CEOs Enhance Firm Value? —
Sanjay Deshmukh
, Anand Goel
, and Keith Howe
Heterogeneous CSR Approaches, Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance —
Bram van der Kroft
, Dennis Bams
, and Karen Maas
Gender Quotas and Support for Women in Board Elections —
Marina Gertsberg
, Johanna Mollerstrom
, and Michaela Pagel

Topics in Financial Stability

Chair:
Karlyn Mitchell
The Financial (In)Stability Real Interest Rate, R** —
Ozge Akinci
, Gianluca Benigno
, Marco Del Negro
, and Albert Queralto
The Natural Rate of Interest through a Hall of Mirrors —
Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul
and Fabian Winkler
Debt as Safe Asset —
Markus Konrad Brunnermeier
, Sebastian A. Merkel
, and Yuliy Sannikov
Let the Worst One Fail: A Credible Solution to the Too-Big-to-Fail Conundrum —
Thomas Philippon
and Olivier Wang

Trade Policy and Global Value Chains

Chair:
Kristy Buzard
Trade Protection along Supply Chains —
Chad Bown
, Paola Conconi
, Aksel Erbahar
, and Lorenzo Trimarchi
The Cost of Dissolving the WTO: The Role of Global Value Chains —
Beshkar Mostafa
and Lashkaripour Ahmad
Firm Input Choice under Trade Policy Uncertainty —
Kyle Handley
, Nuno Limao
, Rodney Ludema
, and Zhi Yu
Optimal Trade Policy with General Non-Separability —
Matthew Grant

U.S. Inflation: Outlook and Policy Response

Moderator:
Joshua K. Hausman
Panelists:
Gita Gopinath
,
Jason Furman
,
Joseph E. Gagnon
, and
Jon Steinsson