Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories

By Anne Sophie Lassen and Ria Ivandić

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of economics, especially among permanent faculty. As parenthood is an important driver of gender inequality in the labor market, we study the impact of children on the academic careers of economists. We f...

The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

By S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, and Sophie Ochmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Youth unemployment and gender gaps in labor market outcomes are key policy challenges across developing countries. Young job seekers may struggle to find jobs because of their biased beliefs and unrealistic aspirations about the labor market. We study whe...

Transgender Transitioning and Responsiveness to Policy: Evidence from the Netherlands

By Elisa de Weerd, John Cawley, and Hans van Kippersluis

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study examines a 2014 policy change in the Netherlands that simplified the process to legally transition gender. Administrative data for 2006–2022 indicate that there was a 725 percent increase in transitions after the policy change, suggesting tha...

The Impact of Hormonal Contraception on Teen Suicide

By Kelly Ragan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

I use direct data on hormonal contraceptive sales across markets proximate to the pill's introduction in Sweden to study how the diffusion of hormonal contraception is associated with changes in suicide among teenage girls. I do not find evidence of a lar...

Does Reducing Early School Tracking Affect Health Behaviors?

By Serena Canaan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines how delaying the age of school tracking affects long-term health behaviors and access to preventive care. I exploit a reform of the French middle school system, which delayed the placement of students into vocational and academic educa...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Fertility in Spain

By Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the effect of the first wave of COVID-19 and the accompanying containment measures on fertility in Spain. We use earlier years to predict births in the absence of the pandemic and then compare our prediction to actual births. We document a large ...

Analytic Approaches to Measuring the Black-White Wealth Gap

By Jermaine Toney, Fenaba R. Addo, and Darrick Hamilton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Does the measurement of the racial wealth gap shift depending on the model, method, and dataset used? We contrast the traditional mean Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with the distributional Recentered Influence Function (RIF) methods. The untransformed, log...

What Explains Black Employment Dynamics?

By Karl David Boulware and Kenneth N. Kuttner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates the proximate causes of excessively cyclical employment growth and persistently high unemployment among Black workers, relative to White workers. Using data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and Job-to-Job Flows, we find that...

Shocking Offers: Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets

By Belinda Archibong and Peter Blair Henry

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document (i) gender differences in salary offers for jobs and (ii) the response of (i) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female offer lower starting sala...

Racial Disparities in the US Mortgage Market

By Agustin Hurtado and Jung Sakong

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study racial disparities in the US mortgage market. Using new data from Hurtado and Sakong (2024), we present three findings. First, we document access disparities between minority and otherwise-identical White borrowers even within the same bank and w...

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

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

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepres...

Student Debt Relief and Racial Wealth Gaps

By Gerald E. Daniels Jr., Jeffrey Galloway, and Venoo Kakar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration released a plan to cancel federal student loans for 43 million borrowers on August 24, 2022. While the Supreme Court struck down the Biden-Harris student debt relief plan on June 30, 2023, the White House is now planning to...

DOJ Intervention and the Checkpoint Shift: Profiling Hispanic Motorists under the Section 287(g) Program

By Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Alberto Ortega, and Prentiss A. Dantzler

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This research examines whether the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation into the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, a 287(g) program participant, influenced the policing behavior of other 287(g)-participating agencies in North Carolina. The study ...

Research Design with Weighted Lotteries in School Choice

By Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Inkoo Back

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Centralized admissions are an integral part of parental school choice programs. Most districts use a version of the deferred acceptance algorithm to assign applicants to schools. Centralized admissions produce data with quasi-experimental variation in stu...

The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge

By Michael Greenstone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Rather than facing an isolated climate change challenge, this paper argues that the world must confront the Global Energy Challenge (GEC) that requires all countries to make trade-offs between three often competing and interrelated goals: inexpensive a...

Sea Level Rise and Urban Inequality

By Allan Hsiao

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Sea level rise threatens coastal cities around the world. Will it exacerbate inequality in these already unequal places? The rich may adapt by moving to higher ground, bidding up prices and pushing the poor elsewhere. I study the distributional consequenc...

Media Slant and Public Policy Views

By Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante, Elliot Motte, and Eleonora Patacchini

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study how exposure to partisan news channels (Fox News and MSNBC) affects individual views on four policy issues: climate change, gun rights, abortion, and immigration. First, using GPT to annotate news transcripts, we document large differences in the...

Who Uses Childcare Centers? Evidence from Burkina Faso

By Kehinde F. Ajayi, Aziz Dao, Estelle Koussoubé, and P. Rita Nikiema

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

What determines childcare center use for low-income urban households? And how does subsidizing provision change access to childcare services? We study these questions using data from a randomized evaluation that subsidized childcare center use for women p...

Export-Platform FDI: Cannibalization or Complementarity?

By Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, Teresa C. Fort, and Felix Tintelnot

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We develop a model of export-platform foreign direct investment in which final goods are produced only with labor and there are no fixed costs of exporting. We derive a simple condition that determines whether an MNE's plants are substitutes or complement...

Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?

By Ariel J. Binder, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

No: it is at least as large at bottom percentiles of the earnings distribution. Conditional quantile regressions reveal that while the gap at top percentiles is largest among the most educated, the gap at bottom percentiles is largest among the least educ...