Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention

By Jia Wu, Junsen Zhang, and Chunchao Wang

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

We estimate the effects of an educational peer intervention in which previously high- and low-achieving students are randomly paired as deskmates in elementary schools in China. Our treatment boosts the mathematics scores of the low-achieving students. Mo...

The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Adult Criminality: Evidence from the 1960s through 1990s

By John Anders, Andrew C. Barr, and Alexander A. Smith

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

We compare the effects of early childhood education on adult criminal behavior across time periods, using administrative crime data that provide significant precision advantages over existing work. We find that improvements in early childhood education le...

SOEs and Soft Incentive Constraints in State Bank Lending

By Yiming Cao, Raymond Fisman, Hui Lin, and Yongxiang Wang

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

We study how Chinese state bank managers' lending incentives impact lending to state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We show lending quantity increases and quality decreases at month's end, indicating monthly lending targets that decrease lending standards. Inc...

Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi

By Pascaline Dupas, Basimenye Nhlema, Zachary Wagner, Aaron Wolf, and Emily Wroe

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

Data from an 18-month randomized trial show large and sustained impacts on water purification and child health of a program providing monthly coupons for free water treatment solution to households with young children. The program is more effective and mu...

The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion

By Sarah Miller, Laura R. Wherry, and Diana Greene Foster

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

This paper evaluates the financial and economic consequences of being denied an abortion. We link credit report data to the Turnaway Study, which collected high-quality, longitudinal data on women receiving or being denied a wanted abortion in the United ...

What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care

By Jacob Wallace

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

Leveraging the random assignment of over 50,000 Medicaid enrollees in New York, I present causal evidence that narrower networks are a blunt instrument for reducing health care spending. While narrower networks constrain spending, they do so by generating...

Call for Papers: Research Prize in Historical Finance Honoring the Memory of Professor Georges Gallais-Hamonno

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January 31, 2023

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2023.

CSWEP Board: Lori Beaman

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2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Winner

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2022 Elaine Bennett Research Prize Presentation:

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CSWEP 2023 Elaine Bennett Research Prize Speech

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CSWEP 2023 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Speech

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CSWEP 2023 Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony

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Maritta Paloviita on medium-term inflation expectations

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How responsive are consumers' medium-term inflation views to changes in short-term inflation expectations?

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2023

Landings, Soft and Hard: The Federal Reserve, 1965–2022

[Symposium: Monetary Policy]

By Alan S. Blinder

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2023

"Soft landings," that is, cases in which the central bank tightens monetary policy to fight inflation but does not cause a recession (which would be a "hard landing"), are thought to be difficult to achieve and extremely rare. According to the conventiona...

Monetary Policy and Inequality

[Symposium: Monetary Policy]

By Alisdair McKay and Christian K. Wolf

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2023

We ask three questions about the connection between monetary policy and inequality. First, does monetary policy affect inequality? While different households respond to changes in monetary policy for different reasons, we argue that the overall consumpt...

Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox

[Symposium: Hispanic Americans]

By José Fernandez, Mónica García-Pérez, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2023

In 2019, Hispanics in the US had a life expectancy advantage of 3.0 years and 7.1 years over non-Hispanic Whites and non-Hispanic Blacks, respectively, despite having real-household income values 26 percentage points lower than Non-Hispanic White househ...

Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations

[Symposium: Hispanic Americans]

By Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, and Stephen J. Trejo

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2023

This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues that arise in the US data sources commonly used to study...

US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

[Symposium: Hispanic Americans]

By Gordon Hanson, Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2023

The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the majo...