Innovative Ideas and Gender (In)equality

By Marlène Koffi

American Economic Review, July 2025

This paper analyzes recognition of women's innovative ideas compared to men's using bibliometric data in economics, mathematics, and sociology. I establish similarities between papers to construct relevant counterfactual citations. On average, all-female ...

Undergraduate Gender Diversity and the Direction of Scientific Research

By Francesca Truffa and Ashley Wong

American Economic Review, July 2025

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations under-represented in science? Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities transitioned to coeducation. Using a generalized difference-in-differences design, we find that coeducation led to...

A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions

By Selim Gulesci, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and Peyton Young

American Economic Review, July 2025

We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilitate the first "step," it may also become a new norm. We derive intuitive conditi...

The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German (Hyper) Inflation

By Markus Brunnermeier, Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner, and Tom Zimmermann

American Economic Review, July 2025

This paper studies how a large increase in the price level is transmitted to the real economy through firm balance sheets. Using newly digitized macro- and micro-level data from the German inflation of 1919–1923, we show that inflation led to a large re...

The End of Privilege: A Reexamination of the Net Foreign Asset Position of the United States

By Andrew Atkeson, Jonathan Heathcote, and Fabrizio Perri

American Economic Review, July 2025

The US net foreign asset position declined sharply after 2007, reaching negative 60 percent of GDP by the third quarter of 2023. This deterioration primarily reflects a US-specific rise in corporate asset values that inflated the value of US equity liabil...

Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado

By Ryan Cooper, Joseph J. Doyle, and Andrés Hojman

American Economic Review, July 2025

Children spend years in foster care, and bureaucratic hurdles can unnecessarily prolong their stays. The Mi Abogado program was introduced in Chile to enhance legal aid for foster children and accelerate family reunification. In a novel approach, the Chil...

Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

By Muhammad Yasir Khan

American Economic Review, July 2025

This paper studies, through a randomized field experiment involving community health workers in Pakistan, if public sector organizations can improve worker performance by investing in their mission motivation. The findings reveal that training aimed at st...

The Long-Run Effects of Government Spending

By Juan Antolin-Diaz and Paolo Surico

American Economic Review, July 2025

Military spending has large and persistent effects on output because it shifts the composition of public spending toward R&D. This boosts innovation and private investment in the medium term and increases productivity and GDP at longer horizons. Public R&...

Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By Felix Chopra, Christopher Roth, and Johannes Wohlfart

American Economic Review, July 2025

We conduct a field experiment with US households to study how expectations about long-run home price growth shape spending decisions. We exogenously vary survey respondents' expectations by providing different expert forecasts. Homeowners' spending, measu...

A Learning Model of Financial Instability

By Noah Williams

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

I develop an adaptive learning model where periods of stability lead to periods of instability, similar to Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis. In tranquil times, investors increase their subjective risk-return assessments. They buy more stocks...

The Organization of Innovation: Incomplete Contracts and the Outsourcing Decision

By Thomas Jungbauer, Sean Nicholson, June Pan, Michael Waldman, and Lucy Xiaolu Wang

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conduct- ing R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit ...

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The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder

By Berkeren Büyükeren, Alexey Makarin, and Heyu Xiong

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Online dating apps have transformed the dating market, yet their broader effects remain unclear. We study Tinder’s impact on college students using its initial marketing focus on Greek organizations for identification. We show that the full-scale lau...

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