Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality

By Naomi Hausman, Tamar Ramot-Nyska, and Noam Zussman

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

This paper provides evidence on the external benefits of homeownership among low-income populations. A natural experiment in Israel generated large changes in neighborhood homeownership rates while holding fixed the residents and housing stock, two primar...

Do Environmental Regulations Affect the Decision to Export?

By Jevan Cherniwchan and Nouri Najjar

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

This paper investigates how a common form of environmental regulation—air quality standards—affects exporters. We develop a simple theoretical model to show how the design of these standards causes (i) some firms to stop exporting and (ii) a reduction...

The Electric Gini: Income Redistribution through Energy Prices

By Arik Levinson and Emilson Silva

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

In theory, regulators concerned about inequality will deviate from efficient two-part tariffs, charging lower-than-efficient fixed monthly fees and higher-than-efficient per-kilowatt-hour prices. To quantify that relationship, we develop a measure of the ...

How Do Beliefs about the Gender Wage Gap Affect the Demand for Public Policy?

By Sonja Settele

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

I conduct a survey experiment to study the relationship between people's beliefs about the size of the gender wage gap and their demand for policies aimed at mitigating it. Beliefs causally affect support for equal pay legislation and affirmative action p...

The Valuation of Local School Quality under School Choice

By Angela Zheng

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

School choice programs break the link between residential location and school attendance, and should weaken the capitalization of school quality into house prices. For the first time, I quantify the effect of one such program—charter school expansionsâ€...

Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle

By Ekaterina Jardim, Mark C. Long, Robert Plotnick, Emma van Inwegen, Jacob Vigdor, and Hilary Wething

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as $11 in 2015 and as much as $13 in 2016. We use Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact. Relative to outlying regions of the state identified by the synthetic ...

The Effect of Charter School Openings on Traditional Public Schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina

By Kirsten Slungaard Mumma

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

The rapid expansion of charter schools has fueled concerns about their impact on traditional public schools. I estimate the effect of charter openings on traditional public schools in Massachusetts and North Carolina by comparing schools near actual chart...

Comparing 911 responses

[Research Highlight]

April 25, 2022

CarlyWill Sloan discusses race and police use of force in two American cities.

Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls

By Mark Hoekstra and CarlyWill Sloan

American Economic Review, March 2022

This paper examines race and police use of force using data on 1.6 million 911 calls in two cities, neither of which allows for discretion in officer dispatch. Results indicate White officers increase force much more than minority officers when dispatched...

Committee Spotlight: Q&A with the CSMGEP Co-Chairs Gary Hoover and Ebonya Washington

[News]

March 29, 2022

The CSMGEP Co-Chairs Gary Hoover and Ebonya Washington answer some questions about the committee's mission and activities.

Sadie T. M. Alexander (dec.), Distinguished Fellow 2022

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Front Matter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy

[Symposium: Economics of Slavery]

By Gavin Wright

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists, the proposition fails under rigorous historical scrutiny. The slave Sout...

Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children

[Symposium: Childhood Interventions]

By Anna Aizer, Hilary Hoynes, and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Economic research on the safety net has evolved over time, moving away from a focus on the negative incentive effects of means-tested assistance on employment, earnings, marriage, and fertility to include the potential positive benefits of such programs...

Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries

[Symposium: Childhood Interventions]

By Miriam Wüst

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Given mounting evidence on the negative impact of early-life shocks for the wellbeing of people over the life course, a growing economics literature studies whether early-life policies have symmetric positive effects. This paper zooms in on research on ...

Inequality in Early Care Experienced by US Children

[Symposium: Childhood Interventions]

By Sarah Flood, Joel McMurry, Aaron Sojourner, and Matthew Wiswall

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Using multiple datasets on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age six, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher ...

Economics of Foster Care

[Symposium: Childhood Interventions]

By Anthony Bald, Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Max Gross, and Brian A. Jacob

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. This paper des...

Joan Robinson on Karl Marx: "His Sense of Reality Is Far Stronger"

By Carolina Alves

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

This paper revisits why Joan Robinson turned to Karl Marx in 1942 and which insights from Marxian economics she sought to incorporate into her later works, while commenting on how her encounter with Marx was received by some her of contemporaries. By th...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Should We Insure Workers or Jobs during Recessions?

[Symposium: Macro Policy in the Pandemic]

By Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais, and Alice Lapeyre

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

What is the most efficient way to respond to recessions in the labor market? To this question, policymakers on the two sides of the pond gave diametrically opposed answers during the COVID-19 crisis. In the United States, the focus was on insuring worke...