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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

DETER-ing Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement

By Juliano Assunção, Clarissa Gandour, and Romero Rocha

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We study Brazil's recent use of satellite technology to overcome law enforcement shortcomings resulting from weak institutional environments. DETER is a system that processes satellite imagery and issues near-real-time deforestation alerts to target envir...

Infrastructure Costs

By Leah Brooks and Zachary Liscow

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Despite infrastructure's importance to the US economy, evidence on its cost trajectory over time is sparse. We document real spending per new mile over the history of the Interstate Highway System. We find that spending per mile increased more than threef...

Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana

By Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We report the results of a field experiment that randomly placed unemployed young people as apprentices with small firms in Ghana and included no cash subsidy to firms (or workers) beyond in-kind recruitment services. Treated firms experienced increases i...

Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

By Guojun He and Takanao Tanaka

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan gradually shut down all its nuclear power plants, causing a countrywide power shortage. In response the government launched large-scale energy-saving campaigns to reduce electricity consumption. Exploiting t...

Do Thank-You Calls Increase Charitable Giving? Expert Forecasts and Field Experimental Evidence

By Anya Samek and Chuck Longfield

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Calling to thank donors is considered a key fundraising strategy in the charitable giving industry. Yet the effectiveness of thank-you calls remains untested. We conduct field experiments with public television stations and a national nonprofit in which 5...

Income Segregation and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy

By Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We analyze the effect of an increase in knowledge-intensive activities on spatial inequality in US cities. We leverage a predetermined network of patent citations to instrument for local innovation trends. Between 1990 and 2010, a one-standard-deviation i...

Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap

By Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, and Derek Messacar

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces ...

A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?

By Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew E. Kahn, and Gary C. Lin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

This paper studies the impacts of work from home (WFH) in the housing market from both intercity and intracity perspectives. Our results confirm the theoretical prediction that WFH puts downward pressure on housing prices and rents in high-productivity co...

Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain

By Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, Giuseppe Ippedico, and Giovanni Peri

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Emigration of young, highly educated individuals may deprive origin countries of entrepreneurs. We identify exogenous variation in emigration from Italy by interacting past diaspora networks and current economic pull factors in destination countries. We f...

Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications

By Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson, and Daniel Waldinger

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Transfers paid through annual tax refunds are a large but uncertain source of income for poor households. We document that low-income tax filers have substantial subjective uncertainty about these refunds. We investigate the determinants and consequences ...

When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution

By Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, Nicholas J. Sanders, and Gregor Singer

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant health risks with global economic consequences. Their shared etiological pathways present a case of compounding health risk via interacting externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing win...