Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2022

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2022

Committee Spotlight: Q&A with the CSQIEP Co-Chairs M. V. Lee Badgett and Christopher Carpenter

[News]

May 17, 2022

The CSQIEP Co-Chairs M. V. Lee Badgett and Christopher Carpenter answer some questions about the committee's mission and activities.

Call for Nominations for the 2022 New Deal Book Award

[News]

June 02, 2022

The deadline for submissions is November 14, 2022.

China’s Grand Canal

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Does disruption of major trade routes fuel social unrest?

2022 NBER NSF Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics (SBIES)

[News]

June 06, 2022

The seminar will be held online August 12-13, 2022.

The agricultural roots of economic growth

[Research Highlight]

June 10, 2022

Did agricultural diversity in mid-nineteenth-century America lead to today’s higher standards of living?

Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from the United States

By Martin Fiszbein

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2022

This paper examines the role of agricultural diversity in the process of development. Using data from US counties and exploiting climate-induced variation in agricultural production patterns, I show that mid-nineteenth-century agricultural diversity had p...

Call for Papers: 2022 NoBeC Conference

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June 14, 2022

The deadline for submitting abstracts is July 15, 2022.

JOE Network for Job Seekers

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Lockdowns and depression

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Did restrictions on mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic lead to a decline in mental health?

Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey

By Onur Altindag, Bilge Erten, and Pinar Keskin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health consequences of an extended period of tight mobility restrictions on senior adults. Adopting a regression discontinuity design, we find that t...

Juneteenth op-ed highlights the CSMGEP's Summer Training and Mentoring Programs

[News]

June 17, 2022

The Washington Post and Bloomberg published an op-ed piece highlighting the AEA's summer mentoring and minority training programs.

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Call for Oversight Editor for the CSWEP News

[News]

April 21, 2022

CSWEP invites volunteers to apply for the Newsletter Oversight Editor position on the CSWEP Board.

Just what the doctor ordered?

[Research Highlight]

June 22, 2022

Bradley Shapiro discusses the costs and benefits of directly advertising prescription drugs to consumers.

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880

By William J. Collins and Marianne H. Wanamaker

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We document the intergenerational mobility of Black and White American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and combining them with modern data to cover the middle and late twen...

Breastfeeding and Child Development

By Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos Vera-Hernández

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's developm...

Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market

By Marc Goñi

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

Using novel data on peerage marriages in Britain, I find that low search costs and marriage-market segregation can generate sorting. Peers courted in the London Season, a matching technology introducing aristocratic bachelors to debutantes. When Queen Vic...