Innovation output

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Do R&D tax incentives actually increase innovation?

Advances in Imputing Race and Ethnicity to Administrative Data

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2023 in Research Highlights

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December 07, 2023

Economists addressed issues related to graduate student mental health, teacher diversity, the origin of government, and more.

Robert M. Solow (1924–2023)

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December 22, 2023

The economics profession is saddened by the loss of the Nobel laureate and former AEA president.

ASSA 2024 Live-Streamed Sessions

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Call for Papers: 80th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance

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December 22, 2023

The submission deadline is February 15, 2024.

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

Increasing the Cost of Informal Employment: Evidence from Mexico

By Brenda Samaniego de la Parra and León Fernández Bujanda

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

We estimate the effect of increasing the cost of informal jobs on formal firms' and workers' outcomes. We combine administrative records and household surveys and exploit exogenous variation in the cost of informality generated by over 480,000 random work...

The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration

By Samuel Arenberg, Seth Neller, and Sam Stripling

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

This paper identifies an important spillover associated with public health insurance: reduced incarceration. In 1990, Congress passed legislation that increased Medicaid eligibility for individuals born after September 30, 1983. We show that Black childre...

The Unintended Consequences of Test-Based Remediation

By David Figlio and Umut Ozek

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school students who sco...

At What Level Should One Cluster Standard Errors in Paired and Small-Strata Experiments?

By Clément de Chaisemartin and Jaime Ramirez-Cuellar

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

In matched pairs experiments in which one cluster per pair of clusters is assigned to treatment, to estimate treatment effects, researchers often regress their outcome on a treatment indicator and pair fixed effects, clustering standard errors at the unit...

Does Exposure to Other Ethnic Regions Promote National Integration? Evidence from Nigeria

By Oyebola Okunogbe

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

This paper examines how temporary exposure to a different ethnic region affects national integration, using original survey data from participants in Africa's largest national youth service program. Seven years later, participants randomly assigned to ser...

Employer Concentration and Wages for Specialized Workers

By Anna Thoresson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration by using the deregulation of the Swedish pharmacy industry. The reform involved a substantial and policy-driven increase in the number of employers that varied by local labo...

Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China

By Sebastian Axbard and Zichen Deng

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

Government regulations are often imperfectly enforced by public officials. In this study, we exploit the introduction of air pollution monitors in China to investigate whether real-time monitoring of policy outcomes affects the enforcement of existing reg...

Reversing the Resource Curse: Foreign Corruption Regulation and the Local Economic Benefits of Resource Extraction

By Hans B. Christensen, Mark Maffett, and Thomas Rauter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2024

We examine how foreign corruption regulation affects the economic benefits communities receive from extraction activities in the resource-rich areas of Africa. After a mid-2000s increase in enforcement of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), night...