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Academic Undermatching of High-Achieving Minority Students: Evidence from Race-Neutral and Holistic Admissions Policies

By Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes, and Jane Arnold Lincove

American Economic Review, May 2015

College is a pathway to social mobility in the United States. Yet too often high-achieving students from low-income and minorities families fail to apply to selective postsecondary institutions. Our study examines the extent to which academic undermatchin...

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Household Asset Allocation, Offspring Education, and the Sandwich Generation

By Vicki L. Bogan

American Economic Review, May 2015

This paper finds households with children and elderly dependents, the "Sandwich Generation," significantly reduce both college savings and stockholding. Having any elderly dependents decreases the probability of both stockholding and college savings by tw...

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An A for Effort

By Omari H. Swinton

American Economic Review, May 2015

This paper uses a unique and rich administrative data set to analyze the impact of the introduction of a new grading policy on graduations rates at Benedict College, a Historically Black College in Columbia, South Carolina. According to the new grading po...

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Trust and Reciprocity between Spouses in India

By Carolina Castilla

American Economic Review, May 2015

I present results from the first trust game conducted among married couples. The experiment consisted of a one-shot trust game where spouses were taken into separate rooms, not allowed to communicate, given a significant endowment, and both strategies and...

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Can Alcohol Prohibition Reduce Violence against Women?

By Dara Lee Luca, Emily Owens, and Gunjan Sharma

American Economic Review, May 2015

Violence against women is a critical problem across the world. In this paper, we exploit state and temporal variation in alcohol control in India to examine the impact of prohibition on alcohol consumption and violent crimes against women. We first use de...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151120

The Labor Supply Effects of Delayed First Birth

By Jane Leber Herr

American Economic Review, May 2015

In this paper I compare the relationship between first-birth timing and post-birth labor supply for high school and college graduate mothers. Given that pre-birth wages are increasing in fertility delay, the rising opportunity cost of time would suggest t...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151119

Child Gender and Parental Inputs: No More Son Preference in Korea?

By Eleanor Jawon Choi and Jisoo Hwang

American Economic Review, May 2015

Sex ratio at birth remains highly skewed in Asian countries due to son preference. In South Korea, however, it has declined to the natural ratio. In this paper, we investigate whether son preference has disappeared in Korea by analyzing parents' time and ...

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Demand Shocks and Open Economy Puzzles

By Yan Bai and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

American Economic Review, May 2015

We pose good markets frictions on top of an otherwise standard two-country international real business cycle (IRBC) model. Shopping for goods takes effort, which prevents perfect matching between customers and producers. An increase in search effort impli...

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty Indices Based on Nowcast and Forecast Error Distributions

By Barbara Rossi and Tatevik Sekhposyan

American Economic Review, May 2015

We propose new indices to measure macroeconomic uncertainty. The indices measure how unexpected a realization of a representative macroeconomic variable is relative to the unconditional forecast error distribution. We use forecast error distributions base...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151124

FOMC Forward Guidance and Investor Beliefs

By Arunima Sinha

American Economic Review, May 2015

This paper considers the effect of different dimensions of the FOMC's forward guidance on ex ante investor expectations about future changes in US Treasury yields. Options and Futures data for 2- and 10-year Treasuries is used to extract State-Price Densi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151123

(Indirect) Input Linkages

By Marcela Eslava, Ana Cecília Fieler, and Daniel Yi Xu

American Economic Review, May 2015

Relative to backward firms, technologically-advanced firms source inputs from other advanced firms. These sourcing patterns lead to a magnification effect of technology adoption. A firm that adopts higher-technology increases the relative supply and deman...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20151122