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Professional Motivations in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Officers

By Aaron Chalfin and Felipe Goncalves

American Economic Review

We study how public sector workers balance their professional motivations with private economic concerns, focusing on police arrests. Arrests made near the end of an officer's shift typically require overtime work, and officers respond by reducing arre...

Leaning Against the Global Financial Cycle

By Andrea Ferrero, Maurizio Michael Habib, Livio Stracca, and Fabrizio Venditti

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We investigate the impact of institutional quality on shielding emerging economies from the Global Financial Cycle. Our findings indicate that countries with a higher rule of law, characterized by superior contract enforcement and more robust protectio...

Additionality and Asymmetric Information in Environmental Markets: Evidence from Conservation Auctions

By Karl M. Aspelund and Anna Russo

American Economic Review

Mechanisms that aim to reduce environmental degradation at low cost can be undermined when participants’ conservation actions are not marginal to the incentive — or “additional” — as the lowest-cost participants may not be the highest social v...

Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs: What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?

By Derek Wu and Bruce D. Meyer

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper studies the impacts of administrative burdens across multiple welfare programs and application stages via an increasingly widespread phenomenon: the automation of caseworker assistance. Leveraging a natural experiment phased in across Indiana...

Long-Distance Trade and Long-Term Persistence

By Sebastian Ellingsen

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Do changes in the location of trading opportunities cause changes in the location of economic activity? I explore this question using a lifting of restrictions on trade across the Spanish Empire in the 18th century. I combine a difference-in-differences a...

Population and Welfare: Measuring Growth when Life is Worth Living

By Mohamad Adhami, Mark Bils, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Economic growth is typically measured in per capita terms. A long tradition in philosophy, however, suggests that social welfare may depend on the number of people as well. To illustrate how much this matters quantitatively, we decompose welfare growth...

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls

By Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Xiaoyue Shan

American Economic Review: Insights

We evaluate the effects of teaching negotiation skills to adolescent girls in economically vulnerable communities in Lusaka, Zambia ten years later. Treated participants complete 0.23 more years of education. Consistent with greater relational empowerme...

The Aggregate Costs of Uninsurable Business Risk

By Corina Boar, Denis Gorea, and Virgiliu Midrigan

American Economic Review

We use firm-level data to document that private businesses experience large fluctuations in their profit shares. These are due to large, fat-tailed and transitory changes in output that are not fully accompanied by changes in their inputs. We interpret ...

The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors: Comment

By Michael Wiebe

American Economic Review

Moretti (2021) reports a positive elasticity between technology cluster size and patenting, and uses an event study and instrumental variables regressions to justify a causal interpretation. The event study does not use the variation generated by inventor...

Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India

By Lucie Gadenne, Tushar K. Nandi, and Roland Rathelot

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper considers how tax policy affects supply chains in a developing economy. Using administrative panel data on firms and transactions between them, we document substantial segmentation of supply chains between firms paying Value-Added Taxes (VAT) a...

Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series

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East–West preindustrial wage divergence

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April 21, 2026

The effects of land ownership on wages in Japan, 1600–1870

How Equality Created Poverty in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1870

By Yuzuru Kumon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Despite well-developed economic institutions, premodern Japan, 1600–1868, had among the lowest real wages according to available estimates, around half those in preindustrial England. However, many Japanese peasants owned land, unlike their mostly landl...

Call for nominations for CSWEP’s Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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April 23, 2026

Nominations are due by September 20, 2026.

Call for nominations for CSWEP’s Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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April 23, 2026

Nominations are due by September 20, 2026.

Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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