The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries

[Symposium: Assimilation of Refugees]

By Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann, and Ian Preston

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2020

We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a ...

What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?

[Symposium: Does the US Really Gain From Trade?]

By Dani Rodrik

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2018

Economists have a tendency to associate "free trade agreements" all too closely with "free trade." They may be unaware of some of the new (and often problematic) beyond-the-border features of current trade agreements. As trade agreements have evolved ...

Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the Recruitment of Village Promoters in Uganda

By Erika Deserranno

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2019

I study the role of financial incentives as signals of job characteristics when these are unknown to potential applicants. To this end, I create experimental variation in expected earnings and use that to estimate the effect of financial incentives on c...

Risk Preference: A View from Psychology

[Symposium: Risk in Economics and Psychology]

By Rui Mata, Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp, and Ralph Hertwig

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2018

Psychology offers conceptual and analytic tools that can advance the discussion on the nature of risk preference and its measurement in the behavioral sciences. We discuss the revealed and stated preference measurement traditions, which have coexisted...

The Role of Annuitized Wealth in Post-retirement Behavior

By John Laitner, Dan Silverman, and Dmitriy Stolyarov

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2018

This paper develops a tractable model of post-retirement behavior with health status uncertainty and state-verification difficulties. The model distinguishes between annuitized and non-annuitized wealth and features means-tested Medicaid assistance with n...

Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

By Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli, and Joanna Maselko

American Economic Review, March 2020

We evaluate the medium-term impacts of treating maternal depression on women's mental health, financial empowerment, and parenting decisions. We leverage variation induced by a cluster-randomized controlled trial that provided psychotherapy to 903 prenata...

When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men

[Symposium: The Problems of Men]

By Courtney C. Coile and Mark G. Duggan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2019

The economic progress of US men has stagnated in recent decades. The labor force participation rate of men ages 25-54 peaked in the mid-1960s and has declined since then (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics), while men's real median earnings hav...

After the flood

[Research Highlight]

April 22, 2020

Does economic activity move away from flood-prone areas after catastrophe strikes?

Do medical bankruptcy laws affect health insurance rates?

[Research Highlight]

February 09, 2016

Some people are using bankruptcy laws as a crude form of health insurance

"An ambassador of the economics profession"

[Research Highlight]

March 31, 2020

Gregory Mankiw reflects on three decades as a textbook author.

Does School Desegregation Promote Diverse Interactions? An Equilibrium Model of Segregation within Schools

By Angelo Mele

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2020

This paper studies racial segregation in schools using data on student friendships from Add Health. I estimate an equilibrium model of friendship formation, with preferences allowing both homophily and heterophily in direct and indirect ties. I find that ...

What Happens after an Abortion Denial? A Review of Results from the Turnaway Study

By Sarah Miller, Laura R. Wherry, and Diana Greene Foster

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

We provide a brief overview of the Turnaway Study, the first study to collect longitudinal data on individual women who received versus were denied a wanted abortion in the United States. The study team collected data on nearly 1,000 women seeking an abor...

Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology, Women's Education, and Earnings Approaching Retirement

By Jason M. Lindo, Mayra Pineda-Torres, David Pritchard, and Hedieh Tajali

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

What do historical changes in legal access to reproductive health care technology tell us about the long-run effects of such changes? We investigate this question using data from the Health and Retirement Study and an identification strategy leveraging va...

Community-Based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone's Ebola Outbreak

By Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi, and Maarten Voors

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Postmortems on the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa suggest that effective community engagement helped slow transmission by encouraging people to come forward and be tested. We evaluate the impact of Community Care Centers: a new crisis response model...

The Economics of Viral Outbreaks

By Imran Rasul

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

The frequency and complexity of viral outbreaks is increasing over time. The economic costs of outbreaks are severe; this is not only because of increased morbidity and mortality but also because viral outbreaks—representing aggregate health shocks—ca...

Administration above Administrators: The Changing Technology of Health Care Management

By Abe Dunn, Joshua D. Gottlieb, and Adam Hale Shapiro

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

This paper measures the costs and types of administrative inputs in health care. We use data on labor and nonlabor inputs by industry and categorize them as administrative or not. We find that nonlabor inputs are a critical part of administrative spending...

Provider Discretion and Variation in Resource Allocation: The Case of Triage Decisions

By David C. Chan and Jonathan Gruber

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

One of the most challenging environments in health care is the emergency department (ED) A key decision-maker in that context is triage nurses, who assess patient illness severity and influence wait times for medical attention. We gather novel data on the...

Economics after Neoliberalism: Introducing the EfIP Project

By Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

The tools of contemporary economics are critical to developing a policy framework for "inclusive prosperity," which requires that we consider the whole distribution of outcomes and human prosperity broadly, including health, climate change, political righ...

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care? Evidence from Online Job Postings

By Avi Goldfarb, Bledi Taska, and Florenta Teodoridis

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

This paper documents a puzzle. Despite the numerous popular press discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care, there has been relatively little adoption. Using data from Burning Glass Technologies on millions of online job postings, we find...

Figuring out what works

[Research Highlight]

June 04, 2020

Healthy people follow health trends. That behavior can actually cloud research.