JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2010

Switching Costs and Competition in Retirement Investment

By Fernando Luco

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2019

How do different switching costs affect choices and competition in a private pension system? I answer this question in a setting in which variation in employment status allows me to identify two switching costs that jointly affect enrollees' decisions: th...

Endogenous Technology Adoption and R&D as Sources of Business Cycle Persistence

By Diego Anzoategui, Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Joseba Martinez

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2019

We examine the hypothesis that the slowdown in productivity following the Great Recession was in significant part an endogenous response to the contraction in demand that induced the downturn. We motivate, develop, and estimate a model with an endogenous ...

Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

By Vincent Pons

American Economic Review, June 2018

This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in Francois Hollande's campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments random...

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions

By Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

American Economic Review, February 2018

We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health ...

Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes versus Bonuses on Disposable Bag Use

By Tatiana A. Homonoff

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

This paper examines a simple element of financial incentive design—whether the incentive takes the form of a fee for bad behavior or a reward for good behavior—to determine if the framing of the incentive influences the policy's effectiveness. I inves...

Student Debt and Labor Market Outcomes

By Gerald Eric Daniels Jr. and Andria Smythe

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019

We study the impact of student debt on various labor market outcomes, namely, income, hourly wages, and hours worked. Using the NLSY97 and a difference-in-difference approach, we find statistically significant differences in labor market outcomes for indi...

Elite Colleges and Upward Mobility to Top Jobs and Top Incomes

By Seth D. Zimmerman

American Economic Review, January 2019

This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in the economy. I combine administrative data on income and leadership teams at publicly traded firms with a regression discontinuity desi...

Modeling Automation

By Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018

Modeling automation as factor-augmenting technological change has unappealing implications. Instead, modeling it as the process of machines replacing tasks previously performed by labor is both descriptively realistic and leads to distinct and plausible p...

Investment tax cuts and jobs

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How much does a tax deduction on capital purchases stimulate employment?

The Effects of Micro-entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile

By Claudia Martínez A., Esteban Puentes, and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2018

We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned participation in a large scale, p...

A Model of Trading in the Art Market

By Stefano Lovo and Christophe Spaenjers

American Economic Review, March 2018

We present an infinite-horizon model of endogenous trading in the art auction market. Agents make purchase and sale decisions based on the relative magnitude of their private use value in each period. Our model generates endogenous cross-sectional and tim...

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review

By Esther Duflo

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018

Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

By Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco J. Pino

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019

We examine intra-household gender-differentiated effects of property rights securitisation following West Bengal's tenancy registration program, using two independently gathered datasets. In both samples, higher program implementation increased male child...

Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY's ASAP

By Michael J. Weiss, Alyssa Ratledge, Colleen Sommo, and Himani Gupta

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

Nationwide, graduation rates at community colleges are discouragingly low. This randomized experiment provides evidence that graduation rates can be increased dramatically. The City University of New York's (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (...

Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design

By Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, Frank A. Wolak, and Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins

American Economic Review, November 2019

We study potential equilibria in California's cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gases (GHGs) based on information available before the market started. We find large ex ante uncertainty in business-as-usual emissions and in the abatement that might resul...

Reconsidering the Consequences of Worker Displacements: Firm versus Worker Perspective

By Aaron Flaaen, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Isaac Sorkin

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

Prior literature has established that displaced workers suffer persistent earnings losses by following workers in administrative data after mass layoffs. This literature assumes that these are involuntary separations owing to economic distress. This paper...

The Sound of Silence: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

By Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2018

This essay reviews Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, which triggered a huge controversy that virally spread on the internet and in various journals. We will evaluate MacLean's...

Does Managed Care Widen Infant Health Disparities? Evidence from Texas Medicaid

By Ilyana Kuziemko, Katherine Meckel, and Maya Rossin-Slater

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2018

Medicaid programs increasingly finance competing, capitated managed care plans rather than administering fee-for-service (FFS) programs. We study how the transition from FFS to managed care affects high- and low-cost infants (blacks and Hispanics, respect...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019