Report: Committee on Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession (CSQIEP)

By Lee Badgett and Kitt Carpenter

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)

By John Haltiwanger

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report: Committee on Government Relations (CGR)

By Kenneth Troske

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the Task Force on Best Practices for Professional Conduct in Economics

By Amanda Bayer

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the AEA Task Force on Outreach to High School and College Students

By Sam Allgood

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States

By Rebecca M. Blank

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2002

This paper reviews the economic literature on welfare reform over the 1990s. A brief summary of the policy changes is followed by a discussion of the methodological techniques that analyze the effects of these changes on outcomes. The paper then criticall...

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market

By John Cawley

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the AEA Ombudsperson

By Leto Copeley

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the American Economic Review

By Lawrence Katz

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the Journal of Economic Literature

By Valerie Ramey

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report by the AEA Data Editor

By Lars Vilhuber

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Front Matter

American Economic Review, June 2022

Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics

By David Card

American Economic Review, June 2022

I briefly review the emergence of "design-based" research methods in labor economics in the 1980s and early 1990s. These methods were seen as a partial solution to the problems of credible inference identified by Ashenfelter (1974), Leamer (1978), Hendry ...

Identity and Schooling: Some Lessons for the Economics of Education

By George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2002

This review culls noneconomic literature on education--by sociologists, anthropologists, and practitioners to present a new economic theory of students and schools. This theory elaborates two themes that have eluded economic analysis. First is the student...

The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry

By Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin

American Economic Review, June 2022

We study the welfare effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers (peer hosts and hotels) who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model...

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature

By Rachael Meager

American Economic Review, June 2022

Expanding credit access in developing contexts could help some households while harming others. Microcredit studies show different effects at different quantiles of household profit, including some negative effects; yet these findings also differ across s...

Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share

By Fatih Guvenen, Raymond J. Mataloni Jr., Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl

American Economic Review, June 2022

We show how offshore profit shifting by US multinational enterprises affects several key measures of the US economy. Profits shifted out of the United States grew rapidly from the mid-1990s to 2010 and have since waned. From 1982–2016, on average, 38 pe...

Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China

By Clement Imbert, Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang, and Yanos Zylberberg

American Economic Review, June 2022

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration induced by agricultural income shocks fo...

Concentration Thresholds for Horizontal Mergers

By Volker Nocke and Michael D. Whinston

American Economic Review, June 2022

Concentration-based thresholds for horizontal mergers, such as those in the US Horizontal Merger Guidelines, play a central role in merger analysis but their basis remains unclear. We show that there is both a theoretical and an empirical basis for focusi...

Screening Inattentive Buyers

By Jeffrey Mensch

American Economic Review, June 2022

Information plays a crucial role in mechanism design problems. A potential complication is that buyers may be inattentive, and so their information may endogenously and flexibly depend on the offered mechanism. I show that it is without loss of generality...