Reference Points for Retirement Behavior: Evidence from German Pension Discontinuities

By Arthur Seibold

American Economic Review, April 2021

This paper studies the large concentration of retirement behavior around statutory retirement ages, a puzzling stylized fact. To investigate this fact, I estimate bunching responses to 644 pension benefit discontinuities, using administrative data on the ...

Myopia and Anchoring

By George-Marios Angeletos and Zhen Huo

American Economic Review, April 2021

We develop an equivalence between the equilibrium effects of incomplete information and those of two behavioral distortions: myopia, or extra discounting of the future; and anchoring of current behavior to past behavior, as in models with habit persistenc...

Risk-Based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications

By Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim, and Johannes Spinnewijn

American Economic Review, April 2021

This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on a unique feature of the unemployment policy in Sweden, where workers can opt for supplemental UI coverage above a minimum manda...

Connecting buyers and sellers in the countryside

[Research Highlight]

April 02, 2021

E-commerce development in rural China may not be as promising as many expected.

Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China

By Victor Couture, Benjamin Faber, Yizhen Gu, and Lizhi Liu

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2021

This paper estimates the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, we find little ev...

Free movement and labor markets

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A policy reform in Switzerland helped estimate the effect of foreign workers on native employment and wages.

The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa

By Sara Lowes and Eduardo Montero

American Economic Review, April 2021

Between 1921 and 1956, French colonial governments organized medical campaigns to treat and prevent sleeping sickness. Villagers were forcibly examined and injected with medications with severe, sometimes fatal, side effects. We digitized 30 years of arch...

The risk of research

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How do companies weigh the tradeoffs with R&D investment?

Why the United States has the best research universities

[Research Highlight]

April 12, 2021

Miguel Urquiola discusses the history of higher education in America and why it surpassed Europe.

CTREE 2021 Exhibitors Demonstration

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Calling in election fraud

[Research Highlight]

April 09, 2021

Did cell phone technology in Afghanistan help reduce ballot stuffing at the polls?

Cell Phone Access and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan

By Robert M. Gonzalez

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2021

This paper examines the impact of cell phone access on election fraud. I combine cell phone coverage maps with the location of polling centers during the 2009 Afghan presidential election to pinpoint which centers were exposed to coverage. Results from a ...

Progressive Taxation and Long-Run Growth

By Li Wenli and Pierre-Daniel Sarte

American Economic Review, December 2004

The long shadow of colonial medicine

[Research Highlight]

April 02, 2021

To what extent did French health campaigns from 70 years ago feed modern day mistrust in Central Africa?

Information for Attending the Remo Events

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How to use the Remo website to attend the CTREE Events taking place at June 3, 2021 at 2:45 pm ET, and again on June 4, 2021 at 10:30am ET

How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree

By Martin Watzinger, Thomas A. Fackler, Markus Nagler, and Monika Schnitzer

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2020

Is compulsory licensing an effective antitrust remedy to increase innovation? To answer this question, we analyze the 1956 consent decree that settled an antitrust lawsuit against Bell, a vertically integrated monopolist charged with foreclosing the telec...

Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline

By Fernando Luco

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2019

How does online price disclosure affect competition when both consumers and firms can use the disclosed information? This paper addresses this question exploiting the sequential implementation of an online price-disclosure policy in the Chilean retail gas...

Rebecca Blank, Distinguished Fellow 2021

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Robert Townsend, Distinguished Fellow 2021

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Anne Case, Distinguished Fellow 2021

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