Auditability in School Choice

By Aram Grigoryan and Markus Möller

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

In centralized public school admissions, participants may not fully observe other participants' preference rankings and priorities. In this paper, we evaluate prominent assignment rules in terms of their auditability properties. We show that Serial Dictat...

Diversity Balance in Centralized Public School Admissions

By Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Aram Grigoryan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Parental choice over public schools has become a major educational reform throughout the United States and the world. Most district policies are implemented via admission priorities. Diversity in admissions is a common policy goal. However, it necessitate...

Research Design with Weighted Lotteries in School Choice

By Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Inkoo Back

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Centralized admissions are an integral part of parental school choice programs. Most districts use a version of the deferred acceptance algorithm to assign applicants to schools. Centralized admissions produce data with quasi-experimental variation in stu...

Residential versus Online? Experimental Evidence on Diversifying the STEM Pipeline

By Sarah R. Cohodes, Helen Ho, Elizabeth Huffaker, and Silvia C. Robles

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Prior research has shown that most educational interventions boost student outcomes to a greater extent when delivered in person as opposed to online. However, we know little about whether this is true for enrichment programs targeted to highly motivated ...

Reparative Ripple Effects? Exploring the Impacts of Sibling Exposure to School-Based Restorative Justice

By Anjali Adukia, Benjamin Feigenberg, and Fatemeh Momeni

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study leverages the rollout of restorative practices (RP) within Chicago Public Schools to investigate whether younger siblings in elementary school who are not directly exposed to RP are affected by their older siblings' RP exposure in high school. ...

On the Demographic Composition of Colleges and Universities in Market Equilibrium

By Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, and Holger Sieg

American Economic Review, May 2002

Getting Students to Show Up: Generational Differences in the Effect of Teachers on Black and White Student Absences

By Nhu Nguyen, Ben Ost, and Javaeria A. Qureshi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We provide the first evidence on the effect of teacher generation on student absences. Using administrative matched student-teacher data, we find that Millennial teachers are more effective at reducing absences compared to teachers from earlier generation...

Differences in Teachers' Assessments of Students by English Learner Status

By Maria Zhu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates potential disparities in how teachers perceive academic achievement between English Learner (EL) students and their non-EL counterparts. Using data on elementary and middle school students in North Carolina, I compare teachers' aca...

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

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

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepres...

Student Debt Relief and Racial Wealth Gaps

By Gerald E. Daniels Jr., Jeffrey Galloway, and Venoo Kakar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration released a plan to cancel federal student loans for 43 million borrowers on August 24, 2022. While the Supreme Court struck down the Biden-Harris student debt relief plan on June 30, 2023, the White House is now planning to...

Immigration Policies, Backlash, and School Bullying

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Esther Arenas-Arroyo

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Bullying against Hispanic students is on the rise. We examine how immigration policies perceived as granting a racial advantage, as might be the case with sanctuary policies, impact bullying. Using administrative school data, we find that sanctuary polici...

DOJ Intervention and the Checkpoint Shift: Profiling Hispanic Motorists under the Section 287(g) Program

By Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Alberto Ortega, and Prentiss A. Dantzler

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This research examines whether the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation into the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, a 287(g) program participant, influenced the policing behavior of other 287(g)-participating agencies in North Carolina. The study ...

Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy on Job Flows across Income, Race, Gender, and Age

By Ester Faia, Ekaterina Shabalina, and David Wiczer

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the heterogenous impact of monetary policy, through high-frequency identified shocks, across demographic and income groups. Our evidence shows significant heterogeneity in the monetary transmission across income groups, while significant differen...

Monopsony Amplifies Distortions from Progressive Taxes

By David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, Simon Mongey, and Negin Mousavi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Progressive income taxes distort hiring and wages when firms have labor market power. We characterize this novel monopsony cost of progressivity in a simple monopsony economy and derive efficiency wedges that depend on progressivity. A simple quantificati...

Heterogeneous Responses to Job Mobility Shocks in a HANK Model with a Frictional Labor Market

By Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, Yusuf Mercan, and Kurt See

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model with a frictional labor market featuring on-the-job-search to study how job switching affects consumption decisions for individuals with different wealth levels. We find that an increased job switching rate...

The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Caseworkers on Job Search Effort

By Amelie Schiprowski, Julia Schmidtke, Johannes Schmieder, and Simon Trenkle

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We combine a high-frequency survey on job search effort with administrative data on caseworker interactions from the German unemployment insurance system to estimate how the dynamics of search effort respond to caseworker meetings and vacancy referrals. M...

Asymmetric Information in Community Banking and Its Relationship to Credit-Market Discrimination

By Christopher Henderson

American Economic Review, May 2002

Risk Scores for Long-Term Unemployment and the Assignment to Job Search Counseling

By Sebastian Ernst, Andreas I. Mueller, and Johannes Spinnewijn

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper analyses how risk profiling is used to assign unemployed job seekers to job search counseling in Flanders, Belgium. We compare algorithmic selection to self-selection and selection by job search counselors. We discuss practical challenges for t...

Employment Effects of Job Search Assistance for the Long-Term Unemployed

By Lionel Cottier, Yves Flückiger, Pierre Kempeneers, and Rafael Lalive

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We analyze the effects of a job search assistance (JSA) program for the long-term unemployed. JSA increases employment in the first year after assignment by about 4 percentage points. However, averaged over five years, JSA decreases employment, albeit ins...

Creating the "American Way" of Business: Evidence from WWII in the United States

By Michela Giorcelli

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

World War II was arguably one of history's largest shocks to the US economic and production system. In this paper, I argue that "managerial technology" played a key role in shaping US WWII production and its capacity to defeat some of the most advanced ec...