Reviews of the 2005 Economic Report of the President

By Joseph Farrell, Jonathan Gruber, Robert E. Hall, Gordon H. Hanson, and Joel Slemrod

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2005

Colleges and Upward Economic Mobility: The Distinctive Contribution of HBCUs

By James V. Koch and Omari H. Swinton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Relying on a panel of more than 600 four-year colleges (including 49 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)), we show that HBCUs as a group outperform other major classes of institutions (for example, flagship state universities) in generati...

Racial Gaps in Federal Flood Buyout Compensations

By Kay Jowers, Lala Ma, and Christopher D. Timmins

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

In a managed retreat, or "buyout," program, homeowners are offered their property's fair-market value to relocate from a flood-prone area. Using a nationwide sample of federal buyout acquisitions and the universe of US housing transactions over the last t...

The Incarceration Penalty and Black-White Economic Inequality: The Case of Baltimore

By Lauren Russell, Jorge N. Zumaeta, Aaron Colston, and William A. Darity Jr.

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

This paper investigates income and wealth gaps by household incarceration history within and across racial groups using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. We study this in the context of 2017 Baltimore. We find that households exposed to incarceration have...

Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline?

By Melissa Gentry, Jonathan Meer, and Danila Serra

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We evaluate the impact of an intervention aimed at informing high school counselors about the field of economics, with the aim of attracting a more diverse student population into the major. Our study involves 234 Texas high schools that send a large numb...

Fully Promoted: The Distribution and Determinants of Full Professorship in the Economics Profession

By Marieke Kleemans and Rebecca Thornton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

In this paper, we document the distribution and determinants of full professorship in the economics profession. Using department-level data from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, we show that while the share of female full ...

On the Gender Diversity of Research Teams in Economics Seminars

By Marcus Biermann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Seminars are an important channel through which researchers receive feedback on their work and disseminate it. This paper presents descriptive evidence on the representation of female, male, and mixed teams in economics seminars. I use a balanced panel of...

Effects of Parental Disability on Children's Schooling: The Surprising Role of Parental Education

By Katie Bollman and Leah K. Lakdawala

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We show that negative effects of parental disability on schooling investments are larger for economically advantaged families. Among children with a veteran father, private school attendance declines with the severity of a father's service-related disabil...

Learning Curve: Progress in the Replication Crisis

By Noam Angrist, Claire Cullen, Micheal Ainomugisha, Sai Pramod Bathena, Peter Bergman, Colin Crossley, Thato Letsomo, Moitshepi Matsheng, Rene Marlon Panti, Shwetlena Sabarwal, and Tim Sullivan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We present detailed monitoring data across a five-country randomized trial of phone-based targeted tutoring—one of the largest multicountry replication efforts in education to date. We study an approach shown to work in Botswana and replicated in India,...

Exacerbated Inequalities: The Learning Loss from COVID-19 in Italy

By Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, and Carolina Lopez

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Using administrative data on the universe of eighth graders, we study learning losses in Italy between 2021 and 2019 to estimate the effect of schools' closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We find an average learning loss of 0.14 SD in math and 0.05 SD ...

Behavioral Nudges Reduced Dropout Risk among Vulnerable Students during the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

By Guilherme Lichand, Julien Christen, and Eppie van Egeraat

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

In a companion paper (Lichand, Christen and Van Egeraat, 2022), we documented that learning losses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic were magnified by the fact that most schools neglected students' socio-emotional skills during remote learning. Taki...

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2005

Emotional and Behavioral Impacts of Telementoring and Homeschooling Support on Children

By Hashibul Hassan, Asad Islam, Abu Siddique, and Liang Choon Wang

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We examine the emotional and behavioral impacts of a randomized telementoring intervention on Bangladeshi primary school-aged children during COVID-19 school closures. We measured the prevalence of emotional, conduct, hyperactivity/inattention, and peer-r...

Emoticons as Performance Feedback for College Students: A Large-Classroom Field Experiment

By Darshak Patel and Justin Roush

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We use a field experiment in a large college classroom to study the use of written representations of emotion ("emoticons") as a form of feedback on exams. We find that treatment improved student attendance, quiz scores, homework scores, and test scores. ...

Competition, Motivation, and Student Engagement

By Amanda J. Felkey, Eva Dziadula, and Eric Chiang

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We consider the gamification aspect of a technology that delivers small daily tasks to students to analyze how competition motivates engagement. We randomly assigned 400 students into teams of up to 10, who compete by committing to the daily task and then...

Messages That Foster a Sense of Belonging Improve Learning and Satisfaction: An Experiment in an Online Environment

By Sara Avila Forcada

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

The literature in pedagogy has shown that having a sense of belonging affects learning. This paper shows the result of a communication experiment in an online environment. For six consecutive terms, the instructor taught Introduction to Statistics. The in...

Anxiety, Test-Taking Aid, and Test Scores: Evidence from Economics Classes

By Colin Cannonier and Monica Galloway Burke

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Using data collected over five years for an introductory economics course, this study investigates the relationship between anxiety, test-taking aid, and test performance. The results show that test aid is associated with a 0.21 standard deviation increas...

Matching Pell Grants: Implications for College Debt and Parental Transfers

By Patricia Beeson, Daniele Coen-Pirani, Jessica LaVoice, and Marla Ripoll

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We study the causal effect of the net price of college on student debt, schooling investment, and parental transfers by exploiting a natural experiment. A large public US university introduced a program to match Pell Grants in academic year 2019–2020. W...

The Effects of Higher Student Loan Limits on Access to High-Earnings Graduate Programs

By Jeffrey T. Denning and Lesley J. Turner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Graduate student debt is the predominant form of financial aid for postbaccalaureate students and represents almost half of outstanding student debt, yet little is known about the effect of publicly funded graduate loans on student outcomes. To fill this ...

The Insurance Implications of Government Student Loan Repayment Schemes

By Martin Gervais, Qian Liu, and Lance Lochner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We use new administrative data that link detailed information on Canadian student loan recipients with their repayment and income histories from the Canada Student Loans Program, income tax filings, and postsecondary schooling records to measure the exten...