Matching Patterns among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in Latin America

By Ercio A. Muñoz and Dario Sansone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using microdata from the censuses of eight countries in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay), this paper describes matching patterns by age, ethnicity, and education among same-sex and different-sex coup...

Semiparametric Reduced-Form Estimation of Tuition Subsidies

By Hidehiko Ichimura and Christopher Taber

American Economic Review, May 2002

Navigating Policy Specificity in Academia: The Evolution of Sexual Harassment Policies around #MeToo

By Marina Gertsberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

I study how universities changed the specificity of their sexual harassment policies around #MeToo. I observe a trend toward increasing policy specificity after #MeToo, particularly in private universities, those with publicized harassment cases, or unive...

Impact versus Inclusion in the Economics Profession: Insights from the Papers and Proceedings

By Cynthia Bansak, Wendy Dunn, Ellen Meade, and Martha Starr

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We examine trends in author representation, research topics, and impact of citations to articles in the American Economic Review and what was formerly its Papers and Proceedings (P&P). Over what we refer to as the P&P expansion ...

Racial Inequality and Publication in Economics

By Marlène Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines racial disparities in economic publishing using bibliometric data from over 200 economic journals. We find notable differences in authorship between White and non-White authors, with Black, Hispanic, and Asian economists significantly ...

Teaching-Track Economists in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

By Fabio Arico, Alvin Birdi, Avi J. Cohen, Caroline Elliott, Tisha Emerson, Gail Hoyt, Cloda Jenkins, Ashley Lait, Jennifer Murdock, and Christian Spielmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

For Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we illuminate the landscape for a relatively new and evolving role: full-time, teaching-track economists who work in the same departments as research-track economists, but with a greater emphasis on t...

Teaching-Track Faculty at US National Universities

By Tisha L. N. Emerson and Gail M. Hoyt

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper (alongside the other papers in this session) reports the findings from a mixed-methods study of teaching-track faculty in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Our approach combines a qualitative analysis of interviews with a quant...

Teaching-Track Economists: A Canadian Perspective

By Jennifer Murdock and Avi J. Cohen

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We find that over two-thirds of economics departments in large Canadian universities have full-time teaching-track faculty positions that parallel traditional research-track positions but with a heavier teaching focus. Teaching-track economists approach o...

Teaching-Track Economists in the United Kingdom

By Fabio Arico, Alvin Birdi, Caroline Elliott, Cloda Jenkins, Ashley Lait, and Christian Spielmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

In this companion paper to Arico et al (2024), we use a mixed-methods approach to characterize teaching-track faculty positions in the United Kingdom. We find these roles are more prevalent in the United Kingdom compared to the United States or Canada, an...

The Linear Algebra of Economic Geography Models

By Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, and Stephen J. Redding

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We provide sufficient statistics for nominal and real wage exposure to productivity shocks in a constant elasticity economic geography model. These exposure measures summarize the first-order general equilibrium elasticity of nominal and real wages in eac...

The Traveling Trucker Problem

By Treb Allen, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo Cleves, and Carlos Eduardo Hernandez

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper documents three new stylized facts showing that truckers in Colombia frequently choose to make complex chains of shipments in a single trip before returning home. It then provides a new model of optimal trucker trip-chaining with a general geog...

Affordability of Owner-Occupied Housing across US Cities

By Rebecca Diamond and William Diamond

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper compares the affordability of owner-occupied housing across US cities. We apply a new method for imputing the rental value of owner-occupied housing developed in Diamond and Diamond (2024) that accounts for unobserved house quality. On average,...

Financial Aid, Borrowing Constraints, and College Attendance: Evidence from Structural Estimates

By Michael P. Keane

American Economic Review, May 2002

Heterogeneity in Corporate Tax Incidence by Worker Characteristics

By Patrick J. Kennedy, Christine L. Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jacob Mortenson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study how corporate tax incidence on worker earnings varies across worker characteristics: gender, age, and employment tenure. To do so, we examine effects of the corporate tax cuts introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), using data from federa...

A Simple Model of Corporate Tax Incidence

By Dustin Swonder and Damián Vergara

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We analyze the incidence of a linear corporate tax using a simple and portable competitive general equilibrium model in which capital owners choose to invest either in domestic production or a foreign investment opportunity and workers make extensive marg...

Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Market Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Further Results

By Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Owen Zidar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper estimates state corporate tax incidence using new data and methods for estimating the effects on profits. Extending Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016), we develop two identification approaches that use the effects on incumbent firm labor demand a...

Transgender Transitioning and Responsiveness to Policy: Evidence from the Netherlands

By Elisa de Weerd, John Cawley, and Hans van Kippersluis

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study examines a 2014 policy change in the Netherlands that simplified the process to legally transition gender. Administrative data for 2006–2022 indicate that there was a 725 percent increase in transitions after the policy change, suggesting tha...

The Impact of Hormonal Contraception on Teen Suicide

By Kelly Ragan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

I use direct data on hormonal contraceptive sales across markets proximate to the pill's introduction in Sweden to study how the diffusion of hormonal contraception is associated with changes in suicide among teenage girls. I do not find evidence of a lar...

Does Reducing Early School Tracking Affect Health Behaviors?

By Serena Canaan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines how delaying the age of school tracking affects long-term health behaviors and access to preventive care. I exploit a reform of the French middle school system, which delayed the placement of students into vocational and academic educa...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Fertility in Spain

By Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the effect of the first wave of COVID-19 and the accompanying containment measures on fertility in Spain. We use earlier years to predict births in the absence of the pandemic and then compare our prediction to actual births. We document a large ...