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Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings

By Jiee Zhong

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper provides new causal evidence on the effects of grade retention on educational attainment, behavioral outcomes, and labor market performance by analyzing Texas’s reading test-based retention policy. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity des...

The Economics of Discriminatory Job Reservations

By James P. Choy

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

A society reserves certain jobs for members of a politically dominant social group to maximize the wages of workers in that group. Through an appropriate choice of reserved jobs, the dominant group chooses both the size of the set of reserved jobs and ...

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November 19, 2025

Did relaxed credit standards drive the housing boom that led to the Great Recession?

Do Credit Conditions Move House Prices?

By Daniel L. Greenwald and Adam Guren

American Economic Review, October 2025

Did credit drive the 2000s housing cycle? The existing literature's findings range from credit having no effect to credit explaining most of the cycle. We show that these disparate results hinge on the extent to which landlords absorb credit-driven demand...

The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment: The 2014 Employment Miracle?

By Marcus Hagedorn, Iourii Manovskii, and Kurt Mitman

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2025

We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the variation induced by Congress's failure in December 2013 to reauthorize the unprecedented benefit extensions introduced during the Great Rec...

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Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India

By S Anukriti, Bilge Erten, and Priya Mukherjee

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We study the impact of women's political representation on the wellbeing of their female constituents, specifically in the domain of health. Increasing women's political representation leads to greater public provision of reproductive healthcare servic...

Sequential Sampling by Individuals and Groups: An Experimental Study

By Pëllumb Reshidi, Alessandro Lizzeri, Leeat Yariv, Jimmy Chan, and Wing Suen

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2025

Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such dynamic information-collection processes, as in sequential hypothesis testin...

Web Search Personalization during the US 2020 Election

By Ulrich Matter and Roland Hodler

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2025

We study the impact of web search personalization on ideological segregation in search results. We deploy 150 synthetic internet users with randomized partisan browsing preferences across 25 US cities. These users are active during the US 2020 election an...

Dynamics of Consumer Responses to Medical Price Changes

By Norihiro Komura and Shun-Ichiro Bessho

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2025

How individuals respond to coinsurance rates is fundamental for insurance market design, but most existing estimates speak only to short-run responses. We exploit a unique policy experiment that increased the coinsurance rate some elderly individuals face...