Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA's Control Randomized Experiment

By Paul Gertler

American Economic Review, May 2004

Robustness to Parametric Assumptions in Missing Data Models

By Bryan S. Graham and Keisuke Hirano

American Economic Review, May 2011

We consider estimation of population averages when data are missing at random. If some cells contain few observations, there can be substantial gains from imposing parametric restrictions on the cell means, but there is also a danger of misspecification. ...

Bailouts and the Optimal Taxation of Bonus Pay

By Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak

American Economic Review, May 2013

This paper argues that the possibility of bailouts to financial intermediaries distorts the supply price of capital and creates an argument for taxing financial bonuses separately from other sources of income. We develop a model of financial contracting w...

Network Effects, Congestion Externalities, and Air Traffic Delays: Or Why Not All Delays Are Evil

By Christopher Mayer and Todd Sinai

American Economic Review, September 2003

We examine two factors that explain air traffic congestion: network benefits due to hubbing and congestion externalities. While both factors impact congestion, we find that the hubbing effect dominates empirically. Hub carriers incur most of the additiona...

Housing Assignment with Restrictions: Theory and Evidence from Stanford University's Campus

By Tim Landvoigt, Monika Piazzesi, and Martin Schneider

American Economic Review, May 2014

This paper studies housing markets where a subset of houses in a restricted area is available exclusively to a subset of "eligible" buyers. An empirical part shows that houses on Stanford campus (available only to faculty) trade at substantial discounts t...

Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

By Marjorie B. McElroy

American Economic Review, May 2013

Optimal Policy Intervention and the Social Value of Public Information

By Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler

American Economic Review, June 2011

Svensson (2006) argues that Morris and Shin (2002) is, contrary to what is claimed, pro-transparency. This paper reexamines the issue but with an important modification to the original Morris and Shin framework. Recognizing that central banks impact the e...

Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry

By Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein

American Economic Review, May 2014

Competition to become one of several dominant mobile platforms is intense. Platforms compete for developers, who create applications which make the platform valuable for users. Why doesn't one form of platform governance emerge as superior? This essay wil...

Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence

By Tiloka de Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

Rapid population growth in developing countries in the middle of the 20th century led to fears of a population explosion and motivated the inception of what effectively became a global population-control program. The initiative, propelled in its beginni...

Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program: Reply

By Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber

American Economic Review, December 2016

We explore the in- and out-of-sample robustness of tests for choice inconsistencies based on parameter restrictions in parametric models, focusing on tests proposed by Ketcham, Kuminoff, and Powers (2016). We argue that their nonparametric alternatives ar...

Flight Home, Flight Abroad, and International Credit Cycles

By Mariassunta Giannetti and Luc Laeven

American Economic Review, May 2012

This paper shows that banks exhibit a weaker (stronger) home bias in the extension of new loans when funding conditions in their home country improve (deteriorate). We refer to these changes in home bias as flight abroad and flight home effects, respectiv...

Ex Post (In) Efficient Negotiation and Breakdown of Trade

By Rajkamal Iyer and Antoinette Schoar

American Economic Review, May 2015

This paper examines frictions in contract renegotiation and its implications for allocative efficiency of contracts. Using a novel audit study methodology, we find that contracting parties in general are reluctant to engage in hold up. However, many effic...

Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements

By Craig L. Garthwaite

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2014

This paper studies the economic effects of endorsements. In the publishing sector, endorsements are found to be a business stealing form of advertising that raises title level sales without expanding the market size. If anything, the endorsements decre...

A Road Map for Efficiently Taxing Heterogeneous Agents

By Marios Karabarbounis

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2016

This paper characterizes optimal labor income taxes that depend on age, household assets, and filing status (one or two earners) within a life-cycle model with heterogeneous, two-member households. The key innovation is a labor supply elasticity that vari...

Integration and Independent Innovation on a Network

By Joseph Farrell

American Economic Review, May 2003

How Economists Allocate Time to Teaching and Research

By Sam Allgood and William B. Walstad

American Economic Review, May 2013

This study investigates three questions: (i) are there differences in teaching and research behavior between economists and other professors; (ii) do economists in the top 100 research departments allocate time differently than faculty in other discipline...

When Do More Patents Reduce R&D?

By Robert M. Hunt

American Economic Review, May 2006

Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance

By Michael Chernew, David Cutler, and Patricia Seliger Keenan

American Economic Review, May 2005

Financial Networks

By Douglas M. Gale and Shachar Kariv

American Economic Review, May 2007

Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

By Michael Callen, Mohammad Isaqzadeh, James D. Long, and Charles Sprenger

American Economic Review, January 2014

We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in Afghanistan combining: (i) a two-part experimental procedure identifying risk preferences, violations of Expected Utility, and specific preferences for certainty; (ii) co...