Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students

By Claire Duquennois

American Economic Review, March 2022

Disadvantaged students perform differentially worse when randomly given a financially salient mathematics exam. For students with socioeconomic indicators below the national median, a 10 percentage point increase in the share of monetary themed questions ...

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Immigrants as job-creators

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Are companies started by non-native founders more innovative?

Deduction Dilemmas: The Taiwan Assignment Mechanism

By Umut Dur, Parag A. Pathak, Fei Song, and Tayfun Sönmez

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2022

This paper analyzes the Taiwan mechanism used nationwide for high school assignment starting in 2014. In the Taiwan mechanism, points are deducted from an applicant's score, with larger penalties for lower-ranked choices. Deduction makes the mechanism a h...

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March 11, 2022

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine

By Vellore Arthi, Brian Beach, and W. Walker Hanlon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We examine the health effects of the Lancashire Cotton Famine, a sharp downturn in Britain's cotton textile manufacturing regions that was induced by the US Civil War. Migration was an important response to this downturn, but as we document, migration als...

The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill

By Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom, and Björn Öckert

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

This paper uses administrative data from Sweden to document trends in the labor market returns to skills. Between 1992 and 2013, the economic return to noncognitive skill⁠—a psychologist-assessed measure of teamwork and leadership skill⁠—roughly d...

LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training

By Laurel Wheeler, Robert Garlick, Eric Johnson, Patrick Shaw, and Marissa Gargano

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Online professional networking platforms are widely used and may help workers to search for and obtain jobs. We run the first randomized evaluation of training work seekers to join and use one of the largest platforms, LinkedIn. Training increases the end...

Political Fragmentation and Government Stability: Evidence from Local Governments in Spain

By Felipe Carozzi, Davide Cipullo, and Luca Repetto

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that each additional party with representation in the local parliament increases the probability that the incumbent government is...