Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving Mother-in-Law Approval of Family Planning in India

By S. Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and Rocío Valdebenito

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Mothers-in-law, especially those in South Asia, can exert significant influence over women, often even more so than women's husbands or other household members. Using data from rural India, we first show that mothers-in-law are more likely than husbands t...

Continuous Gender Identity and Economics

By Anne Ardila Brenøe, Lea Heursen, Eva Ranehill, and Roberto A. Weber

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Economic research on gender largely focuses on biological sex, the binary classification as either a "man" or "woman." We investigate the value of incorporating a measure of continuous gender identity (CGI) into economics by exploring whether it explains ...

Integration Costs and Missing Women in Firms around the World

By Conrad Miller, Jennifer Peck, and Mehmet Seflek

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of integration are largely fixed, firms will integrate only if their expected number of female employees under integration exceeds some thresh...

Hacking Gender Stereotypes: Girls' Participation in Coding Clubs

By Michela Carlana and Margherita Fort

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Who are the girls who decide to sign up for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and coding clubs? In this paper, we rely on a large set of survey data from students to analyze how female students who apply to coding clubs dif...

Gender Economics and the Meaning of Discrimination

By Shelly Lundberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Advances in economics hold much promise for an improved understanding of complex issues concerning gender and gender inequalities. A more realistic economics of choice based on behavioral economics, evidence of social influences on economic outcomes, and ...

Who Are the More Dismal Economists? Gender and Language in Academic Economics Research

By Lea-Rachel Kosnik

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Research in disciplines outside of economics has found that male-authored articles often exhibit a positivity bias in writing style and are more likely to portray their results as "novel" and "progressive" than female-authored articles. Such positively ma...

Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT

By Daniel Halim, Elizabeth T. Powers, and Rebecca Thornton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We use an RCT at an elite public university to evaluate whether undergraduate students in introductory economics courses could be nudged to pursue economics further. Two treatment arms provided information and framed the economics major as either having w...

Parental Investments in Early Childhood and the Gender Gap in Math and Literacy

By Amanda Chuan, John A. List, Anya Samek, and Shreemayi Samujjwala

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Parental investments shape children's educational specializations. Using a longitudinal study, we find that parents invest more in daughters than sons at ages three through five. We find that early parental investment can explain persistently higher Engli...

Modern Hyper- and High Inflations

By Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay, and Carlos A. Végh

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2002

Since 1947, hyperinflations in market economies have been rare. More common have been longer inflationary processes at rates above 100 percent per annum. This paper examines the main characteristics of such very high inflation episodes. We find that (i) a...

How Early Adolescent Skills and Preferences Shape Economics Education Choices

By Lenka Fiala, John Eric Humphries, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, Uditi Karna, John A. List, and Gregory F. Veramendi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Leveraging data from Sweden and Chicago, we study the educational pipeline for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and economics majors to better understand the determinants of the gender gap and when these determinants arise. We pres...

Online Tutoring by College Volunteers: Experimental Evidence from a Pilot Program

By Matthew A. Kraft, John A. List, Jeffrey A. Livingston, and Sally Sadoff

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

In-person tutoring programs can have large impacts on K-12 student achievement, but high program costs and limited local supply of tutors have hampered scale-up. Online tutoring provided by volunteers can potentially reach more students in need. We implem...

The Effect of Teaching Economics with Classroom Experiments: Estimates from a Within-Subject Experiment

By Sacha Gelfer, Jeffrey A. Livingston, and Sutanuka Roy

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Classroom experiments are a popular tool among economics instructors. A rich experimental literature studies their impact on student learning with between-subject designs that randomize classroom experiment use across course sections. Such designs are dif...

Ranking and Selection from Pairwise Comparisons: Empirical Bayes Methods for Citation Analysis

By Jiaying Gu and Roger Koenker

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

In this paper, Stigler's (1994) model of citation flows among journals adapted to the pairwise comparison model of Bradley and Terry (1952) is employed to do ranking and selection of journal influence based on nonparametric empirical Bayes methods. Compar...

Statistical Uncertainty in the Ranking of Journals and Universities

By Magne Mogstad, Joseph Romano, Azeem Shaikh, and Daniel Wilhelm

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Economists are obsessed with rankings of institutions, journals, or scholars according to the value of some feature of interest. These rankings are invariably computed using estimates rather than the true values of such features. As a result, there may be...

Inference for Losers

By Isaiah Andrews, Dillon Bowen, Toru Kitagawa, and Adam McCloskey

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Researchers frequently report league tables ranking units (neighborhoods or firms, for instance) based on estimated coefficients. Since the rankings are formed based on estimates, however, the coefficients reported in league tables suffer from selection b...

Minutes of the Annual Meeting via Zoom, January 7, 2022

By Peter L. Rousseau

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the Secretary

By Peter L. Rousseau

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the Treasurer

By Peter L. Rousseau

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

American Economic Association 2021–2022 Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics

By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Equality, Efficiency, and Market Fundamentals: The Dynamics of International Medical-Care Reform

By David M. Cutler

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2002

Public opinion surveys uniformly show low support for medical-care systems in developed countries. The longstanding conflict between equal access to care and efficient service provision partly explains this dissatisfaction. But the trade-off is particular...