Unionization and wage inequality

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The impact of unionization on the salaries of faculty at Canadian universities.

Privatizing Medicaid

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A natural experiment in Louisiana shows private plans can cut drug costs without reducing observed quality.

CSMGEP Resources

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Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession

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The Long-Term Earnings' Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

By Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette, and Eliana Viviano

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Using a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset for Italy, we construct an exogenous firm-level measure of exposure to the credit shock during the Global Financial Crisis, based on pre-crisis firm-bank relationships. We track outcom...

Climate change and migration

[Research Highlight]

July 13, 2026

Extreme temperatures in El Salvador destroy farm jobs and push workers abroad.

The Unequal Economic Consequences of Carbon Pricing

By Diego R. Känzig

American Economic Review

This paper studies the economic impacts of carbon pricing. Exploiting institutional features of the European carbon market and high-frequency data, I identify carbon policy shocks and trace their dynamic effects. A restrictive carbon policy shock raise...

Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau

By Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag, and Bryan A. Stuart

American Economic Review

How do majority groups respond to narrowing inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this by examining the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency created after the US Civil War to aid former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. U...

Durables and the Marginal Propensity to Spend

By Nathan Zorzi and Martin Beraja

American Economic Review

Durables represent a large share of households’ marginal propensity to spend (MPX). We develop a quantitative model of spending that takes durables into account and matches a rich set of empirical regularities simultaneously. Scaling the response of ...

Union Bargaining Power and the Amenity-Wage Tradeoff

By Lorenzo Lagos

American Economic Review

This paper studies how collective bargaining affects wages and amenities. By merging collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) to linked employer-employee data in Brazil, I combine rich contracted amenities with wage information. I implement a difference...

Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5 Million Neighborhoods

By Sam Asher ⓡ Kritarth Jha ⓡ Paul Novosad ⓡ Anjali Adukia ⓡ Brandon Tan

American Economic Review

We study residential segregation and access to public services across 1.5 million urban and rural neighborhoods in India. Muslim and Scheduled Caste segregation in India is high by global standards, and only slightly lower than Black-White segregation i...

CSWEP Mentoring and Networks

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Successfully Navigating Your PhD:

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AEASP: FAQs for Students

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CSMGEP: Programs

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The Mentoring Program, the Summer Training Program, and the Summer Economics Fellows Program

Predictably Unpredictable Inspections

By Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, and Maggie Shi

American Economic Review

Inspections are a common tool for acquiring information and incentivizing compliance. Though typically unannounced, they often follow a predictable schedule. We study how this predictability shapes firm effort and patient outcomes in U.S. nursing homes...

EconTrack: The AEA's Job Market Information Board

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The long shadow of infant illness

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Danish data reveal how viruses brought home by older siblings influence lifetime income.

The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes: Evidence and Theory

By Xiwen Bai, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Yiliang Li, and Francesco Zanetti

American Economic Review

We study the causal effects of global supply chain disruptions by constructing a new index of real-time port congestion using Automatic Identification System data from container ships and a spatial clustering algorithm. We develop a model with search f...

The Inflation Attention Threshold and Inflation Surges

By Oliver Pfäuti

American Economic Review

The recent inflation surge brought inflation back on people’s minds. I quantify when and how much attention to inflation changes and derive the macroeconomic implications of these attention changes. I estimate an attention threshold at an inflation r...