The Logic of Insurgent Electoral Violence

By Luke N. Condra, James D. Long, Andrew C. Shaver, and Austin L. Wright

American Economic Review, November 2018

Competitive elections are essential to establishing the political legitimacy of democratizing regimes. We argue that insurgents undermine the state's mandate through electoral violence. We study insurgent violence during elections using newly declassified...

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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2018

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American Economic Review, April 2018

Make and Buy: Outsourcing, Vertical Integration, and Cost Reduction

By Simon Loertscher and Michael H. Riordan

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2019

Globalization reshaped supply chains and the boundaries of firms in favor of outsourcing. Now, even vertically integrated firms procure substantially from external suppliers. To study procurement and the structure of firms in this reshaped economy, we ana...

From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin

By Paola Conconi, Manuel García-Santana, Laura Puccio, and Roberto Venturini

American Economic Review, August 2018

Recent decades have witnessed a surge of trade in intermediate goods and a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs). FTAs use rules of origin (RoO) to distinguish goods originating from member countries from those originating from third countries. We...

Learning from Others' Outcomes

By Alexander Wolitzky

American Economic Review, October 2018

I develop a simple model of social learning in which players observe others' outcomes but not their actions. A continuum of players arrives continuously over time, and each player chooses once-and-for-all between a safe action (which succeeds with known p...

Near-Feasible Stable Matchings with Couples

By Thành Nguyen and Rakesh Vohra

American Economic Review, November 2018

The National Resident Matching program seeks a stable matching of medical students to teaching hospitals. With couples, stable matchings need not exist. Nevertheless, for any student preferences, we show that each instance of a matching problem has a "nea...

Mind the Gap: A Review of The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Sir Michael Marmot

By Adriana Lleras-Muney

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2018

The Health Gap documents the large and persistent health gaps that exist across and within relatively rich countries today. Marmot argues that in developed countries, poor health does not cause low incomes; rather, low socioeconomic status leads ...

Beyond Truth-Telling: Preference Estimation with Centralized School Choice and College Admissions

By Gabrielle Fack, Julien Grenet, and Yinghua He

American Economic Review, April 2019

We propose novel approaches to estimating student preferences with data from matching mechanisms, especially the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance. Even if the mechanism is strategy-proof, assuming that students truthfully rank schools in applications may ...

The Long-Run Impacts of Financial Aid: Evidence from California's Cal Grant

By Eric Bettinger, Oded Gurantz, Laura Kawano, Bruce Sacerdote, and Michael Stevens

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

We examine the long-term impacts of California's state-based financial aid by tracking educational and labor force outcomes for up to 14 years after high school graduation. We identify program impacts by exploiting variation in eligibility rules using GPA...

Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019

Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and US Immigration

By Parag Mahajan and Dean Yang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2020

Do negative shocks in origin countries encourage or inhibit international migration? What roles do networks play in modifying out-migration responses? The answers to these questions are not theoretically obvious, and past empirical findings are equivocal....

Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

By Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann

American Economic Review, September 2019

It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to ar...

Diffusion Games

By Evan Sadler

American Economic Review, January 2020

Behaviors and information often spread via person-to-person diffusion. This paper highlights how diffusion processes can facilitate coordination. I study contagion in a discrete network with Bayesian players. In addition to characterizing the extent and r...

Participating or Not? Characteristics of Female Entrepreneurs Participating in and Completing an Entrepreneurial Training Program

By Leonardo Iacovone, Gabriela Calderón, and Cristina MacGregor

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018

Who are the female entrepreneurs who end up starting and completing entrepreneurial training programs? In this paper, relying on a large set of baseline characteristics collected before the entrepreneurs are selected into an entrepreneurial training progr...

Internet Rising, Prices Falling: Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

By Austan D. Goolsbee and Peter J. Klenow

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018

The rise of ecommerce and the contrasts between online and traditional retail pricing behavior have raised questions about potential bias in CPI inflation. Using new data on online transactions, this paper shows that aggregate matched-model inflation onli...

Dynamics of Child Mortality Inequality

By Tom S. Vogl

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2018

Half a century of economic research asks how economic inequality evolves during aggregate economic progress. I extend this literature to quantify inequality in the incidence of child death across mothers and study its evolution during aggregate mortality ...

Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes

By David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, and Melanie Wasserman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children ...

The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons

By Hunt Allcott and Judd B. Kessler

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2019

"Nudge"-style interventions are often deemed successful if they generate large behavior change at low cost, but they are rarely subjected to full social welfare evaluations. We combine a field experiment with a simple theoretical framework to evaluate the...

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2020