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Heterogeneous Responses to Job Mobility Shocks in a HANK Model with a Frictional Labor Market

By Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, Yusuf Mercan, and Kurt See

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model with a frictional labor market featuring on-the-job-search to study how job switching affects consumption decisions for individuals with different wealth levels. We find that an increased job switching rate...

Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water

By David A. Keiser, Bhashkar Mazumder, David Molitor, Joseph S. Shapiro, and Brant J. Walker

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the targeting of subsidized loans provided through the Safe Drinking Water Act with the ta...

Long-Term Effects of Preschool Subsidies and Cash Transfers on Child Development: Evidence from Uganda

By Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville, and Lore Vandewalle

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, three-to-five-year-old children in Uganda were randomly offered a subsidy to attend full-day preschool for one year. A second treatment group received cash transfers that were at least as large as the cos...

The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children's Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

By David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, and Amina Mendez Acosta

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Center-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. The impacts of these programs on women's labor market outcomes are consistently positive, but what are the impacts on children's developmental outcomes? We systemat...

Residential versus Online? Experimental Evidence on Diversifying the STEM Pipeline

By Sarah R. Cohodes, Helen Ho, Elizabeth Huffaker, and Silvia C. Robles

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Prior research has shown that most educational interventions boost student outcomes to a greater extent when delivered in person as opposed to online. However, we know little about whether this is true for enrichment programs targeted to highly motivated ...