Knowledge about Federal Employment Nondiscrimination Protections on the Basis of Sexual Orientation

By Billur Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, and Dario Sansone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Using a US nationally representative online sample, we measure the level of knowledge on employment nondiscrimination laws. Although Americans are well informed about sex, race, and disability being protected characteristics, only about 71 percent think t...

Heterogeneity in Attitude Responses: Evidence from Bostock v. Clayton County

By Cameron Deal

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Traditional models of policy formation emphasize how political attitudes and actions affect policy outcomes. However, the converse may occur—policies are often a signal to constituents about the priorities and positions of both political actors and the ...

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2005

Hormone Therapy, Suicidal Risk, and Transgender Youth in the United States

By Travis Campbell, Samuel Mann, Duc Hien Nguyen, and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

This study uses the 2015 US Transgender Survey to test how initiation of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) affects the risk of attempting suicide among transgender individuals. We constructed a retrospective panel and employed a stacked event study design...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers' Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work

By Yuting Chen, Patricia Cortes, Gizem Kosar, Jessica Pan, and Basit Zafar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We study how COVID-19 affected the prevalence, expectations, and attitudes toward remote work using specially designed surveys. The incidence of remote work remains higher than prepandemic levels, and both men and women expect this to persist postpandemic...

Selection Bias in Voluntary Random Testing: Evidence from a COVID-19 Antibody Study

By Deniz Dutz, Michael Greenstone, Ali Hortaçsu, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Danae Roumis, Azeem M. Shaikh, Alexander Torgovitsky, and Winnie van Dijk

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We use data from a serological study that experimentally varied financial incentives for participation to detect and characterize selection bias. Participants are from neighborhoods with substantially lower COVID-19 risks. Existing methods to account for ...

Gendered Disparities during the COVID-19 Crisis in Sierra Leone

By Madison Levine, Niccolò F. Meriggi, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Vasudha Ramakrishna, Maarten Voors, and Uday Wadehra

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

The COVID-19 outbreak had severe adverse impacts on the health and wealth of households in lower-income countries (LICs), and has affected even more severely female-headed households in LICs. Using high-frequency phone surveys in Sierra Leone, we show tha...

The Health of Democracies during the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment

By Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Concerns have been raised about the "demise of democracy," possibly accelerated by pandemic-related restrictions. Using a survey experiment involving 8,206 respondents from 5 Western democracies, we find that subjects randomly exposed to information regar...

Labor Supply Shocks and Capital Accumulation: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of the Refugee Crisis in Europe

By Lorenzo Caliendo, Luca David Opromolla, Fernando Parro, and Alessandro Sforza

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

European countries experienced a large increase in labor supply due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine. We study its dynamic effects in a spatial model with forward-looking households of different skills, trade, ...

Distributional Impacts of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement

By Brian K. Kovak and Peter M. Morrow

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We examine the effects of the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on employment and earnings inequality among low-, medium-, and high-income Canadian workers initially employed in manufacturing. Although the FTA tariff cuts drove large changes in tr...

Labor Mobility and Unemployment over the Business Cycle

By Andrea Foschi, Christopher L. House, Christian Proebsting, and Linda L. Tesar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We estimate the responsiveness of net labor migration to regional differences in unemployment rates across the United States since the mid-1970s. Our baseline estimate suggests an elasticity of roughly -0.3. For typical labor force participation ratios, a...

Time Savings When Working from Home

By Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home are 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per w...

Unlocked Potential: Work-from-Home Job Postings in 20 OECD Countries

By Pawel Adrjan, Gabriele Ciminelli, Alexandre Judes, Michael Koelle, Cyrille Schwellnus, and Tara Sinclair

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Starting from over 1.2 billion job postings, we construct and make publicly available a novel dataset on postings advertising work from home (WFH) in 20 countries and 55 occupational categories from January 2019 to September 2022. We document three styliz...

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2005

How Work from Home Changes Housing Demand: Evidence from Online Search

By Elisa Guglielminetti, Michele Loberto, Giordano Zevi, and Roberta Zizza

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We quantify the impact of work from home (WFH) on housing demand by leveraging a unique dataset of online housing sales advertisements in Italy and considering intensity in the adoption of WFH. By exploiting both the time series and the geographical varia...

Measuring Work from Home in the Cross Section

By Augustus Kmetz, John Mondragon, and Johannes F. Wieland

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We compare survey-based measures of work from home (WFH) in the cross section. While the surveys differ in how comprehensively they measure WFH, they are highly correlated in the cross section of US states, suggesting that they will yield similar causal e...

A Disaggregated View of Household Production Trends

By Benjamin Bridgman

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

The shift of working time from the household to the market, or marketization, was one of the most important changes in the US economy. This paper estimates US household production (HP) by product and examines the marketization of these products. I find th...

A Model of Demand for Health and Caregiving Incorporating Marriage Markets

By Shoshana Grossbard and Lorena Hakak

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

According to the Grossman model, the demand for health-related goods or services varies with the costs of their substitutes produced in the household. This paper contributes to the literature on the demand for health-related products and home care by also...

Is All Caregiving Created Equal? A Comparison of Caregiving to Children and Adults

By Corina Mommaerts and Yulya Truskinovsky

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

In this paper, we compare patterns of family care provided to children and to adults, and discuss what these patterns suggest about how individuals make decisions over, and ultimately value, such care. We show that patterns of informal adult care do not r...

The Girly Economics of Care Work: Implications for Economic Statistics

By Misty L. Heggeness

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Unpaid care is work. Yet, the field of economics struggles to acknowledge and measure its value. In modern home economics, the household is unitary and harmonious, time in the home is leisure, and power dynamics are unimportant. Even with the development ...