Work from Home before and after the COVID-19 Outbreak

By Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, and Karel Mertens

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2023

Based on novel survey data, we document a persistent rise in work from home (WFH) over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using theory and direct survey evidence, we argue that three-quarters of this increase reflects the adoption of new work arrangemen...

Shifting to work from home

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November 14, 2023

How did work-from-home arrangements in the United States evolve during and after the pandemic?

Future of Family and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) Summer Data Workshop

[News]

November 20, 2023

The workshop will be held on June 14, 2024.

Trickle down corruption

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Revelations of political malfeasance in Mexico led to a deterioration in ethical norms among students.

A Guide to the Job Market for New Economics Ph.D.s

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Watch A Guide to the Job Market for New Economics Ph.D.s (2023)

Liberal Arts College Job Market Webinar (November 2023)

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Watch Courtney Coile (Wellesley) and Stephen Wu (Hamilton) discuss the liberal arts college job market.

AEA Member Announcements: Annual Meeting Registration and Other Announcements

[News]

November 22, 2023

View the member announcement from November 27, 2023.

Scandals and moral breakdown

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Does exposure to news about local corruption increase dishonest behavior among citizens?

Front Matter

American Economic Review, December 2023

Identifying the Benefits from Homeownership: A Swedish Experiment

By Paolo Sodini, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Roine Vestman, and Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal

American Economic Review, December 2023

Homeownership is widely stimulated by policy, yet its economic effects are poorly understood. We exploit quasi-random variation in homeownership generated by privatization decisions of municipally owned buildings and use granular data on demographics, inc...

Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error

By Zachary Ward

American Economic Review, December 2023

A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150 years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and therefore do not account for the limited opportunities available for nonwhite...

Populist Leaders and the Economy

By Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch

American Economic Review, December 2023

Populism at the country level is at an all-time high, with more than 25 percent of nations currently governed by populists. How do economies perform under populist leaders? We build a new long-run cross-country database to study the macroeconomic history ...

Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being

By Sandra E. Black, Jeffrey T. Denning, Lisa J. Dettling, Sarena Goodman, and Lesley J. Turner

American Economic Review, December 2023

Growing reliance on student loans and repayment difficulties have raised concerns of a student debt crisis in the United States, but little is known about the effects of student borrowing on human capital and long-run financial well-being. We use variatio...

Happy Times: Measuring Happiness Using Response Times

By Shuo Liu and Nick Netzer

American Economic Review, December 2023

Surveys measuring happiness or preferences generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered response models, which are used to analyze such data, suffer from an identification problem. Their conclusions depend on distributional assumptions about a latent variable....

The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment

By Manasi Deshpande and Rebecca Dizon-Ross

American Economic Review, December 2023

How does the expectation that a child will receive government benefits in adulthood affect parental investments in the child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the likelihood that ...

Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Market Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Reply

By Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Owen Zidar

American Economic Review, December 2023

In Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016), we estimate the incidence of state corporate taxes. Malgouyres, Mayer, and Mazet-Sonilhac (2023) highlight two errors, ignoring effects on firm composition and characterizing capital costs inconsistently. This reply co...