Dishonesty and Public Employment

By Guillermo Cruces, Martín A. Rossi, and Ernesto Schargrodsky

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

We exploit a natural experiment to study the causal link between dishonest behavior and public employment. When military conscription was mandatory in Argentina, eligibility was determined by both a lottery and a medical examination. To avoid conscription...

Hiring Frictions and the Promise of Online Job Portals: Evidence from India

By A. Nilesh Fernando, Niharika Singh, and Gabriel Tourek

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

Despite the growing prominence of online job portals, firms remain reluctant to hire outside traditional recruitment networks. We find that experimentally providing firms with a combination of advertising and the ability to verify applicant identity incre...

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American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion

By Nelson Lind and Natalia Ramondo

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

We develop a Ricardian model of trade where countries innovate ideas that diffuse globally. Our key result provides necessary and sufficient conditions for innovation and diffusion to generate max-stable Fréchet productivity, linking generalized extreme ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over Ten Years: Experimental Evidence

By Christopher Blattman, Sebastian Chaskel, Julian C. Jamison, and Margaret Sheridan

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2023

Several small, short-term, or nonexperimental studies show that cognitive behavioral–informed interventions reduce antisocial behaviors over one to two years, but persistence research is rare. We followed 999 high-risk men in Liberia ten years after ran...

Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality

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November 30, 2023

The conference will be held on September 3-5, 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa.

CSMGEP: Francisca Antman, ex officio

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CSWEP Board: Francisca Antman

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How to file a formal complaint for a violation of the AEA Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation and/or the AEA Code of Professional Conduct

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CSMGEP Profile: Francisca Antman

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Call for Papers: Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy

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December 01, 2023

The conference will be held at the University of Oklahoma on June 10-11, 2024.

Call for Papers: CSWEP at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI)

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December 01, 2023

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2024.

The Effects of Import Competition on Unionization

By John S. Ahlquist and Mitch Downey

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2023

We study direct and indirect effects of Chinese import competition on union membership in the United States, 1990–2014. Import competition in manufacturing induced a modest decline in unionization within manufacturing industries. The magnitude is small ...

Global trade and unionization

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December 01, 2023

What role did the surge in China imports have on already declining union rates?

What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe's Social Mobility and Education in Britain

By Kjell G. Salvanes

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

The main finding of Bukodi and Goldthorpe (2019), using social status based on occupation groupings, is that there have not been improvements nor any decline in relative intergenerational mobility in Britain since World War II in terms of social class. No...

The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction

By Camille Gardner and Peter Blair Henry

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

In 2015, the World Bank claimed that rich-country private capital could: (i) close the infrastructure services gap in poor countries, (ii) achieve the sustainable development goals, and (iii) make money by moving from "billions to trillions" of investme...

Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market

By Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the Un...

Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash

By Oz Shy

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

Research on holding and use of cash involves many aspects, such as reasons for holding and hoarding cash, transactional demand for cash, cash management, type of spending paid with cash, type of consumer who pays cash, merchant acceptance, how consumers g...