Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving Mother-in-Law Approval of Family Planning in India

By S. Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and Rocío Valdebenito

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Mothers-in-law, especially those in South Asia, can exert significant influence over women, often even more so than women's husbands or other household members. Using data from rural India, we first show that mothers-in-law are more likely than husbands t...

Investigating the Introduction of Fintech Advancement Aimed to Reduce Limited Attention Regarding Inactive Savings Accounts: Data, Survey, and Field Experiment

By Maya Haran Rosen and Orly Sade

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We use proprietary data, survey data, and a field experiment to study the effect of campaigns to raise awareness about lost and forgotten retirement savings accounts. The campaigns were a centralized database to help individuals find inactive accounts and...

Explaining Heterogeneity in Use of Non-wage Benefits: The Role of Worker and Firm Characteristics in Disability Accommodations

By Naoki Aizawa, Corina Mommaerts, and Stephanie Rennane

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Non-wage benefits are an important component of employment arrangements, but are not available to or used by all workers. Do differences in firm, worker, or match-specific characteristics drive benefit take-up? We provide new evidence on heterogeneity in ...

On the Dynamics of Human Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation

By Nathan Nunn

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

I provide a theoretically informed discussion of the dynamics of human behavior, focusing on the importance of culture (socially learned information) and tradition (transmission of culture across generations). Decision-making that relies on tradition can ...

Using Technology to Tackle Discrimination in Lending: The Role of Fintechs in the Paycheck Protection Program

By Rachel M.B. Atkins, Lisa Cook, and Robert Seamans

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We assess the role of fintech firms in loans made through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a US government policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic that provided loans to small businesses. We argue that fintech firms' reliance on technology rather t...

Parental Deportation, Safe-Zone Schools, and the Socio-Emotional and Behavioral Health of Children Left Behind

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, José R. Bucheli, and Ana P. Martinez-Donate

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Over four million US-born children living in households with at least one unauthorized immigrant parent are the unintended victims of intensified immigration enforcement. In an effort to address these disadvantages, many schools and school districts throu...

Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major

By Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We investigate the wage return to studying economics by leveraging a policy that prevented students with low introductory grades from declaring a major. Students who barely met the grade point average threshold to major in economics earned $22,000 (46 per...

JOE Network

[Page]

CTREE Conference 2022

[Page]

June 1 - 3, 2022, Chicago, IL

Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics

By David Card

American Economic Review, June 2022

I briefly review the emergence of "design-based" research methods in labor economics in the 1980s and early 1990s. These methods were seen as a partial solution to the problems of credible inference identified by Ashenfelter (1974), Leamer (1978), Hendry ...

Report of Independent Auditor

American Economic Review, June 2022

Front Matter

American Economic Review, June 2022

The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry

By Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin

American Economic Review, June 2022

We study the welfare effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers (peer hosts and hotels) who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model...

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature

By Rachael Meager

American Economic Review, June 2022

Expanding credit access in developing contexts could help some households while harming others. Microcredit studies show different effects at different quantiles of household profit, including some negative effects; yet these findings also differ across s...

Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share

By Fatih Guvenen, Raymond J. Mataloni Jr., Dylan G. Rassier, and Kim J. Ruhl

American Economic Review, June 2022

We show how offshore profit shifting by US multinational enterprises affects several key measures of the US economy. Profits shifted out of the United States grew rapidly from the mid-1990s to 2010 and have since waned. From 1982–2016, on average, 38 pe...

Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China

By Clement Imbert, Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang, and Yanos Zylberberg

American Economic Review, June 2022

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration induced by agricultural income shocks fo...

Concentration Thresholds for Horizontal Mergers

By Volker Nocke and Michael D. Whinston

American Economic Review, June 2022

Concentration-based thresholds for horizontal mergers, such as those in the US Horizontal Merger Guidelines, play a central role in merger analysis but their basis remains unclear. We show that there is both a theoretical and an empirical basis for focusi...

Screening Inattentive Buyers

By Jeffrey Mensch

American Economic Review, June 2022

Information plays a crucial role in mechanism design problems. A potential complication is that buyers may be inattentive, and so their information may endogenously and flexibly depend on the offered mechanism. I show that it is without loss of generality...

Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador

By Maria Micaela Sviatschi

American Economic Review, June 2022

This paper shows how deportation policies can backfire by disseminating not only ideas between countries but also criminal networks, spreading gangs, in this case, across El Salvador, and spurring migration back to the United States. In 1996, the US Illeg...

Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem

By Philip J. Reny

American Economic Review, June 2022

Stable matchings in school choice needn't be Pareto efficient and can leave thousands of students worse off than necessary. Call a matching μ priority-neutral if no matching can make any student whose priority is violated by μ better off without violati...