Employment Effects of Job Search Assistance for the Long-Term Unemployed

By Lionel Cottier, Yves Flückiger, Pierre Kempeneers, and Rafael Lalive

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We analyze the effects of a job search assistance (JSA) program for the long-term unemployed. JSA increases employment in the first year after assignment by about 4 percentage points. However, averaged over five years, JSA decreases employment, albeit ins...

Heterogeneity in Corporate Tax Incidence by Worker Characteristics

By Patrick J. Kennedy, Christine L. Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jacob Mortenson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study how corporate tax incidence on worker earnings varies across worker characteristics: gender, age, and employment tenure. To do so, we examine effects of the corporate tax cuts introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), using data from federa...

A Simple Model of Corporate Tax Incidence

By Dustin Swonder and Damián Vergara

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We analyze the incidence of a linear corporate tax using a simple and portable competitive general equilibrium model in which capital owners choose to invest either in domestic production or a foreign investment opportunity and workers make extensive marg...

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

By Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Owen Zidar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper estimates state corporate tax incidence using new data and methods for estimating the effects on profits. Extending Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016), we develop two identification approaches that use the effects on incumbent firm labor demand a...

What Drives US Import Price Inflation?

By Mary Amiti, Oleg Itskhoki, and David E. Weinstein

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Inflation has risen sharply in many countries since the COVID-19 outbreak, and economists have debated the underlying causes. In this paper, we examine the drivers of the global import price inflation, which peaked at approximately 11 percent a year. We f...

Supply Disruptions and Fiscal Stimulus: Transmission through Global Value Chains

By François de Soyres, Alexandre Gaillard, Ana Maria Santacreu, and Dylan Moore

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the impact of demand and supply factors on bottlenecks and inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial policy interventions, from lockdowns to fiscal stimuli, triggered shifts in consumer spending and supply chain disruptions. The reopening o...

Import Constraints

By Diego Comin, Robert C. Johnson, and Callum Jones

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

During the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, international shipping and logistics capacity was strained, limiting the quantity of imports. We investigate the impact of an import constraint on inflation, following an increase in domestic demand. Whether...

Race, Police Violence, and Financial Decision-Making

By Vicki L. Bogan, Lisa A. Kramer, Chi Liao, and Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We find an economically and statistically significant effect of race-based police violence on home ownership and retirement savings. Using restricted-use Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we show that Black individuals exposed to the fatality of a Blac...

Setting the Record Straight on Racial Wealth Inequality

By Fenaba R. Addo, William A. Darity Jr., and Samuel L. Myers Jr.

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The racial wealth gap in the United States is the object of much misrepresentation and misunderstanding. Our paper is intended to provide a corrective. We will address how the mainstream economic view of the drivers of racial disparities in wealth is a hu...

Gender and Racial Behavior in Consumer Payment Methods under Economic Uncertainty

By Raffi E. Garcia and Jyothsna G. Harithsa

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper analyzes the effects of high economic uncertainty on racial and gender behavior in payment methods. Using US consumer transaction-level data, we find that consumers alter their payment behavior patterns in periods of high economic uncertainty b...

Racial Wealth Inequality and Access to Care with High-Deductible Health Insurance

By Naomi Zewde

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper evaluates racial inequalities in health-care affordability between high-deductible and conventional insurance. Using the 2011–2017 National Health Interview Survey, the study finds that Blacks in high-deductible plans are not disproportionate...

The Impact of Family Tax Benefits on Children's Health and Educational Outcomes

By Michael Baker, Kourtney Koebel, and Mark Stabile

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We leverage recent income support reforms for families with children in Canada to investigate the impact of child benefits on child health and educational outcomes. Using administrative school data from British Columbia linked to parents' tax files, we fi...

Tribal Casinos and Identifying Who Moves to Opportunity

By Emilia Simeonova, Randall Akee, and Maggie R. Jones

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

In this analysis, we examine what types of households migrate to American Indian reservation lands after the start of casino operations using longitudinal household data for 1989–2017. We find heterogeneous effects on migration by households of differen...

Who Is Financially Constrained in Their Choice of Contraceptive Method? Lessons from M-CARES

By Martha J. Bailey, Lea Bart, Alexa Prettyman, Vanessa Wanner Lang, and Vanessa Dalton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study (M-CARES) is a randomized control trial that examines how financial constraints affect the choice of contraceptives among uninsured individuals. Although all M-CARES participants are highly...

What's in a Name? Can Name-Blind Evaluation Reduce Bias in AP Course Recommendation?

By Dania V. Francis, Angela C. M. de Oliveira, and Carey Dimmitt

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using a variation of a correspondence audit study, we show that even after controlling for how prepared a candidate seems, White males are more likely to be recommended for AP Calculus. In this setting, name-blind review does not improve the likelihood of...

American Indian Wealth in the Early Twentieth Century

By Donn. L. Feir, Maggie E. C. Jones, and Angela Redish

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use data from the Bureau of Indian Affairs annual reports between 1912 and 1927 to examine the wealth of Indigenous nations in the contiguous United States during the early twentieth century. Our estimates reveal considerable heterogeneity in wealth ho...

Examining the Long-Run Impacts of Racial Terror with Data on Historical Lynchings of Mexicans in Texas

By Francisca M. Antman and Brian Duncan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We merge the longitudinally linked historical US Census records with data on lynchings of Hispanics in Texas to investigate the impacts of historical lynchings of ethnic Mexicans in Texas on US-born Mexican Americans. Using variation in lynching incidents...

Reassessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

By David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data, we demonstrate several facts that are not consistent with the "spatial mismatch" hypothesis that residential segregation and uneven distribution of jobs limit Black workers' opportunities. We show that ...

Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

By Francisca M. Antman, Kirk B. Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce A. Weinberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using the EconLit dissertation database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics from names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite stagnation in the share o...

Moving in Academia: Who Moves and What Happens After?

By Melany Gualavisi, Marieke Kleemans, and Rebecca Thornton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study labor mobility among academic economists in the United States. Analyzing CV data from over 6,000 economists at Research 1 institutions, we document that female assistant and associate professors are 8 percentage points less likely to move with pr...