Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns

[Symposium: Privacy Protection and Government Data]

By Claire McKay Bowen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The data privacy community generally agrees that government data should be more widely accessible, especially being of the people (data collected about them), by the people (collected and supported using taxpayer dollars), and for the people (providing pu...

When Privacy Protection Goes Wrong: How and Why the 2020 Census Confidentiality Program Failed

[Symposium: Privacy Protection and Government Data]

By Steven Ruggles

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The US Census Bureau implemented a new disclosure control strategy for the 2020 Census that adds deliberate error to every population statistic for every geographic unit smaller than a state, including metropolitan areas, cities, and counties. This arti...

Is Equality Stable?

By Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray

American Economic Review, May 2002

Gabriel Zucman: Winner of the 2023 Clark Medal

By Emmanuel Saez

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

The 2023 John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association was awarded to Gabriel Zucman, associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley for his fundamental contributions to the study of inequality and taxation. Throu...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2024

Front Matter

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Inheritances and Wealth Inequality, 1989-1998

By Edward N. Wolff

American Economic Review, May 2002

President's Foreword

By Janet Currie

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Editors' Introduction

By William R. Johnson and Tina Lippert

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge

By Michael Greenstone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Rather than facing an isolated climate change challenge, this paper argues that the world must confront the Global Energy Challenge (GEC) that requires all countries to make trade-offs between three often competing and interrelated goals: inexpensive a...

Is the World Running Out of Fresh Water?

By Tamma Carleton, Levi Crews, and Ishan Nath

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The quantity of water within Earth and its atmosphere is fixed over time, but water available for human consumption evolves dynamically. We use globally comprehensive geospatial data to establish stylized facts about recent changes in global water resourc...

Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water

By David A. Keiser, Bhashkar Mazumder, David Molitor, Joseph S. Shapiro, and Brant J. Walker

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the targeting of subsidized loans provided through the Safe Drinking Water Act with the ta...

The Changing Nature of Pollution, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States

By Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis, and Reed Walker

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper uses tax records linked to administrative Census data and high-resolution measures of air pollution exposure (PM2.5) to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap since 1984. We decompose changes in the racial exposure gap in...

Sea Level Rise and Urban Inequality

By Allan Hsiao

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Sea level rise threatens coastal cities around the world. Will it exacerbate inequality in these already unequal places? The rich may adapt by moving to higher ground, bidding up prices and pushing the poor elsewhere. I study the distributional consequenc...

Measuring the Market for Legal Firearms

By Luis Armona and Adam M. Rosenberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Massachusetts Firearms Records Bureau recently published administrative data covering the universe of legal firearm transactions in the state. We use these data to validate state-level background checks as a proxy for firearm transactions and show tha...

Employment and Earnings of Men at High Risk of Gun Violence

By Max Kapustin, Monica P. Bhatt, Sara B. Heller, Marianne Bertrand, and Christopher Blattman

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Since Becker (1968), economists have modeled crime as resulting from higher returns to criminal activity than legal work. Yet contemporary employment data for people engaged in crime is scarce. We surveyed men at extreme risk of gun violence in Chicago ab...

Will Wealth Weaken Weather Wars?

By Marshall Burke, Joel Ferguson, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study estimates the moderating impact of economic development on climate-conflict linkages during 1989–2019 in Africa, the world region that in recent decades has experienced the most armed conflict. We build a spatially disaggregated dataset that ...

Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality

By Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

American Economic Review, May 2002

Social Media as an Identity Barometer: Evidence From the Russia-Ukraine War

By Serhii Abramenko, Vasily Korovkin, and Alexey Makarin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study investigates how social media data can be used to study shifts in identity, focusing on Ukraine during the Russia-Ukraine war. We analyze VK users' reported language proficiency and the language of tweets and note a significant shift from Russi...

Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities

By C. Austin Davis, Paula López-Peña, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, and Jaya Y. Wen

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for the displaced Rohingya peopl...