Racial Wealth Inequality and Access to Care with High-Deductible Health Insurance

By Naomi Zewde

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper evaluates racial inequalities in health-care affordability between high-deductible and conventional insurance. Using the 2011–2017 National Health Interview Survey, the study finds that Blacks in high-deductible plans are not disproportionate...

Analytic Approaches to Measuring the Black-White Wealth Gap

By Jermaine Toney, Fenaba R. Addo, and Darrick Hamilton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Does the measurement of the racial wealth gap shift depending on the model, method, and dataset used? We contrast the traditional mean Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with the distributional Recentered Influence Function (RIF) methods. The untransformed, log...

What Explains Black Employment Dynamics?

By Karl David Boulware and Kenneth N. Kuttner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates the proximate causes of excessively cyclical employment growth and persistently high unemployment among Black workers, relative to White workers. Using data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and Job-to-Job Flows, we find that...

Shocking Offers: Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets

By Belinda Archibong and Peter Blair Henry

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document (i) gender differences in salary offers for jobs and (ii) the response of (i) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female offer lower starting sala...

Racial Disparities in the US Mortgage Market

By Agustin Hurtado and Jung Sakong

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study racial disparities in the US mortgage market. Using new data from Hurtado and Sakong (2024), we present three findings. First, we document access disparities between minority and otherwise-identical White borrowers even within the same bank and w...

What's in a Name? Can Name-Blind Evaluation Reduce Bias in AP Course Recommendation?

By Dania V. Francis, Angela C. M. de Oliveira, and Carey Dimmitt

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using a variation of a correspondence audit study, we show that even after controlling for how prepared a candidate seems, White males are more likely to be recommended for AP Calculus. In this setting, name-blind review does not improve the likelihood of...

American Indian Wealth in the Early Twentieth Century

By Donn. L. Feir, Maggie E. C. Jones, and Angela Redish

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use data from the Bureau of Indian Affairs annual reports between 1912 and 1927 to examine the wealth of Indigenous nations in the contiguous United States during the early twentieth century. Our estimates reveal considerable heterogeneity in wealth ho...

Examining the Long-Run Impacts of Racial Terror with Data on Historical Lynchings of Mexicans in Texas

By Francisca M. Antman and Brian Duncan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We merge the longitudinally linked historical US Census records with data on lynchings of Hispanics in Texas to investigate the impacts of historical lynchings of ethnic Mexicans in Texas on US-born Mexican Americans. Using variation in lynching incidents...

Reassessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

By David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data, we demonstrate several facts that are not consistent with the "spatial mismatch" hypothesis that residential segregation and uneven distribution of jobs limit Black workers' opportunities. We show that ...

Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

By Francisca M. Antman, Kirk B. Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce A. Weinberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using the EconLit dissertation database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics from names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite stagnation in the share o...

The Behavioral and Distributional Implications of Aid for College

By Susan Dynarski

American Economic Review, May 2002

Moving in Academia: Who Moves and What Happens After?

By Melany Gualavisi, Marieke Kleemans, and Rebecca Thornton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study labor mobility among academic economists in the United States. Analyzing CV data from over 6,000 economists at Research 1 institutions, we document that female assistant and associate professors are 8 percentage points less likely to move with pr...

Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories

By Anne Sophie Lassen and Ria Ivandić

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of economics, especially among permanent faculty. As parenthood is an important driver of gender inequality in the labor market, we study the impact of children on the academic careers of economists. We f...

The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

By S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, and Sophie Ochmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Youth unemployment and gender gaps in labor market outcomes are key policy challenges across developing countries. Young job seekers may struggle to find jobs because of their biased beliefs and unrealistic aspirations about the labor market. We study whe...

Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?

By Ariel J. Binder, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

No: it is at least as large at bottom percentiles of the earnings distribution. Conditional quantile regressions reveal that while the gap at top percentiles is largest among the most educated, the gap at bottom percentiles is largest among the least educ...

Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study

By Michela Carlana and Lucia Corno

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents' perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We find that thinking about parental recommendation affects students' beliefs ...

The Gender Wage Gap: Skills, Sorting, and Returns

By John Eric Humphries, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, and Gregory F. Veramendi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

There is a large gender wage gap among college graduates. This gender gap could be partially driven by differences in college major and prior skills. We use Swedish register data to study how much of the gender gap can be explained by differences in major...

Marriage Equality and the Transnational Flow of Skilled Labor: The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization in the United States on the Inflow of Skilled Labor

By Koroles Awad and Jill J. McCluskey

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines the impact on skilled labor migration to the United States of same-sex marriage legalization in European countries and US federal recognition of foreign same-sex marriages. Analyzing US Department of Homeland Security data, we find tha...

LGBTQ+ Homeownership in the United States

By Ana H. Kent and Sophia C. Scott

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

LGBTQ+ adults had a lower homeownership rate (53 percent) than non-LGBTQ+ adults (72.5 percent). Looking at LGBTQ+ subgroups by sexual orientation and gender identity revealed important nuances. Transgender people and bisexual people had the lowest homeow...

Family Matters: Exposure to Gender-Affirming or Gender-Denying Practices Following Gender Identity Milestones

By Travis Campbell, Samuel Mann, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Nathaniel M. Tran

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study examines the relationship between gender identity milestones, family support, and exposure to gender-affirming or gender-denying practices. Leveraging a retrospective panel from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, we compare changes in exposure to ...