Lift and Shift: The Effect of Fundraising Interventions in Charity Space and Time

By Kimberley Scharf, Sarah Smith, and Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2022

Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing. Using data rich in both the charity space and time dimensions, we find that major fundraising appeals lift donations to the appeal charity and that this increase is no...

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Call for Papers: Gender-Sensitive Economic Recovery and Resilience in Asia Conference

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December 07, 2021

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Letter from Director of the AEA Summer Training Program

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October 19, 2022

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American Economic Review, November 2022

Vulnerability and Clientelism

By Gustavo J. Bobonis, Paul J. Gertler, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, and Simeon Nichter

American Economic Review, November 2022

This study argues that economic vulnerability causes citizens to participate in clientelism, a phenomenon with various pernicious consequences. To examine how reduced vulnerability affects citizens' participation in clientelism, we employ two exogenous sh...

Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

By Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin, and Neil Rankin

American Economic Review, November 2022

We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving workseekers assessment results that they can credibly share with firms increases workseekers...

Human Capital Depreciation and Returns to Experience

By Michael Dinerstein, Rigissa Megalokonomou, and Constantine Yannelis

American Economic Review, November 2022

Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in nonemployment. We overcome these challenges...

The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population

By Charles I. Jones

American Economic Review, November 2022

In many models, economic growth is driven by people discovering new ideas. These models typically assume either a constant or growing population. However, in high income countries today, fertility is already below its replacement rate: women are having fe...

Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey

By Ceren Baysan

American Economic Review, November 2022

I evaluate randomly varied neighborhood exposure to information campaigns regarding either executive performance, or increases in executive power, prior to a Turkish referendum on weakening checks and balances on the executive. The campaigns increased vot...

Evaluating Deliberative Competence: A Simple Method with an Application to Financial Choice

By Sandro Ambuehl, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Annamaria Lusardi

American Economic Review, November 2022

We examine methods for evaluating interventions designed to improve decision-making quality when people misunderstand the consequences of their choices. In an experiment involving financial education, conventional outcome metrics (financial literacy and d...

Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin

By Christoph Albert and Joan Monras

American Economic Review, November 2022

We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so, the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable natives. We rationalize this empirical evidence by introducing a quan...