The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions

By Samuel Bazzi and Matthew Gudgeon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2021

We use a policy experiment in Indonesia to show how local political boundaries affect ethnic tension. Redrawing district borders along group lines reduces conflict. However, the gains in stability are undone or even reversed when new boundaries increase e...

Hunter College and African School of Economics Program to Expand Representation in Economics

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February 09, 2021

Can policing be reformed?

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A series of experiments in India changed officer behavior with relatively modest interventions.

Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel

By Naomi Gershoni and Corinne Low

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2021

Israel's 1994 adoption of free in vitro fertilization (IVF) provides a natural experiment for how fertility time horizons impact women's marriage timing and other outcomes. We find a substantial increase in average age at first marriage following the poli...

How IVF changed Israel’s marriage market

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February 05, 2021

Extending their “biological clocks” led young Jewish-Israeli women to delay tying the knot and invest in themselves.

Past CSWEP Chairs

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Business incomes at the top

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The rich have changed the way they report their income. That has important consequences for how economists measure inequality.

Tech: economists wanted

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March 08, 2019

An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.

International Conference on Establishment Statistics Student Contest

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February 18, 2021

The conference will be held June 14-17, 2021.

Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics and Politics

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February 19, 2021

Learn how to propose an element for this new editorial project.

Upcoming Funding Opportunities from the Russell Sage Foundation

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February 12, 2021

View available funding opportunities.

Rising regulations, ebbing emissions

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November 30, 2018

What’s behind the decline in US manufacturing pollution?

Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

By Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv

American Economic Review, February 2021

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire undergraduate university student population, a representative sample of the US population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external ...

Call for Applications: CSUS Library Research Fellowship Program

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February 24, 2021

The application deadline is April 2, 2021.

William T. Grant Foundation 2021 Scholars Program

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February 24, 2021

The online application opens on April 1, 2021 and the deadline to submit an application is July 7, 2021.

Front Matter

American Economic Review, March 2021

The Efficiency of Race-Neutral Alternatives to Race-Based Affirmative Action: Evidence from Chicago's Exam Schools

By Glenn Ellison and Parag A. Pathak

American Economic Review, March 2021

Several K-12 and university systems have adopted race-neutral affirmative action in place of race-based alternatives. This paper explores whether these plans are effective substitutes for racial quotas in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which now employs ...

Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research

By Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, and Lia Sheer

American Economic Review, March 2021

Using data on 800,000 corporate publications and patent citations to these publications between 1980 and 2015, we study how corporate investment in research is linked to its use in the firm's inventions, and to spillovers to rivals. We find that private r...

The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland

By Andreas Beerli, Jan Ruffner, Michael Siegenthaler, and Giovanni Peri

American Economic Review, March 2021

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Altho...

Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing

By François Gerard and Joana Naritomi

American Economic Review, March 2021

We study the spending profile of workers who experience both a positive transitory income shock (lump-sum severance pay) and a negative permanent income shock (layoff ). Using de-identified expenditure and employment data from Brazil, we show that workers...