Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors' Effects on Educational Attainment

By Christine Mulhern

American Economic Review, November 2023

Counselors are a common school resource for students navigating complicated and consequential education choices. I estimate counselors' causal effects using quasi-random assignment policies in Massachusetts. Counselors vary substantially in their effectiv...

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Did ending the gold standard help countries escape from the Great Depression?

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American Economic Review, February 2024

Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan

By Faisal Bari ⓡ Kashif Malik ⓡ Muhammad Meki ⓡ Simon Quinn

American Economic Review, February 2024

We run a field experiment offering graduated microcredit clients the opportunity to finance a business asset worth four times their usual borrowing limit. We implement this using a hire-purchase contract; our control group is offered a zero interest loan ...

Gender Differences in Medical Evaluations: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Doctors

By Marika Cabral and Marcus Dillender

American Economic Review, February 2024

Little is known about what drives gender disparities in health care and related social insurance benefits. Using data and variation from the Texas workers' compensation program, we study the impact of gender match between doctors and patients on medical e...

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

American Economic Review, February 2024

This paper studies the interplay between genetics and family investments in the process of skill formation. We model and estimate the joint evolution of skills and parental investments throughout early childhood. We document three genetic mechanisms: the ...

Old Age Risks, Consumption, and Insurance

By Richard Blundell, Margherita Borella, Jeanne Commault, and Mariacristina De Nardi

American Economic Review, February 2024

In the United States, after age 65, households face income and health risks, and a large fraction of these risks are transitory. While consumption significantly responds to transitory income shocks, out-of-pocket medical expenses do not. In contrast, both...

Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence

By Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang, and Ali Yurukoglu

American Economic Review, February 2024

Existing theories of media competition imply that advertisers will pay a lower price in equilibrium to reach consumers who multi-home across competing outlets. We generalize and extend this theoretical result and test it using data from television and soc...