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Safe spaces for young girls in Africa helped them take control of their lives.

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

By Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

American Economic Review, December 2001

We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. In places where Europe...

Breaking the silence

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February 18, 2020

Do victims of sexual assault have an incentive to file a report earlier than libelers?

Call for papers: Future of Housing Finance: Diverse Challenges, Innovative Solutions

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February 20, 2020

The deadline for papers is May 15, 2020

Opioids, improving teaching, and waste in health care

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January 16, 2020

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

One tax to rule them all

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February 07, 2020

Uniform markups may be simple, but are states leaving tax revenue on the table?

Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

By Pascaline Dupas, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson, and Diego Ubfal

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2018

We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17, 10, and 3 percent of treatment individuals made five or more deposits, respectively. Average monthly deposits in treatment accou...

Call for Papers for 6th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability”

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February 25, 2020

The submission deadline is April 26th, 2020.

Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas

By Rodney J. Andrews and Kevin M. Stange

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2019

We assess the importance of price regulation and price discrimination to low-income students' access to opportunities in public higher education. In 2003, Texas shifted tuition-setting authority away from the state legislature to public universities thems...

Navigating reality

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How do maps shape economic decisions with the information they convey?

Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015

By Thomas Piketty, Li Yang, and Gabriel Zucman

American Economic Review, July 2019

We combine national accounts, surveys, and new tax data to study the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth in China from 1978 to 2015. The national wealth-income ratio increased from 350 percent in 1978 to 700 percent in 2015, while the share...

Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

By Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Edoardo Teso

American Economic Review, February 2018

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Americans are more optimistic than...

Keep it in the ground

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February 26, 2020

How much does restricting the supply of federal coal reduce carbon emissions?

A puzzling development

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India has grown a lot in the past three decades, but it’s been uneven. Can that continue?

Legal Origins and Female HIV

By Siwan Anderson

American Economic Review, June 2018

More than one-half of all people living with HIV are women, and 80 percent of all HIV-positive women in the world live in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper demonstrates that the legal origins of these formerly colonized countries significantly determine cu...

Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design

By Alvin E. Roth

American Economic Review, July 2018

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must accomplish to enable different kinds of markets. Marketplaces can have varying degrees ...

Asset Bubbles and Global Imbalances

By Daisuke Ikeda and Toan Phan

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2019

We analyze the relationships between bubbles, capital flows, and economic activities in a rational bubble model with two large open economies. We establish a reinforcing relationship between global imbalances and bubbles. Capital flows from South to North...

Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis

By Paul Beaudry, Dana Galizia, and Franck Portier

American Economic Review, January 2020

Are business cycles mainly a response to persistent exogenous shocks, or do they instead reflect a strong endogenous mechanism which produces recurrent boom-bust phenomena? In this paper we present evidence in favor of the second interpretation and we hig...

Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class

By Jeffrey R. Campbell and Zvi Hercowitz

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2019

Existing evidence from US middle class households shows that their MPCs out of tax rebates greatly exceed the PIH's prediction and are weakly related to their liquid assets. The standard precautionary-saving model predicts the first fact but counterfactua...