The European Job Market

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Brigham Walker on equitable access to medical care

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Do provider-targeted nudges reduce discrimination in medical appointments?

The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications

By Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Gee Hee Hong

American Economic Review, March 2015

We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes, and average prices paid by consumers ("effective" prices) using data on prices and quantities sold for numerous retailers across many US metropolitan areas. Inflation in the effective price...

The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular, and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications: Comment

By Etienne Gagnon, David López-Salido, and Jason Sockin

American Economic Review, October 2017

Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Hong (2015) argue that the CPI underestimates the deceleration in consumer prices during economic downturns because the index fails to account for the reallocation of consumer spending from high-price to low-price stores. We sh...

The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications: Reply

By Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Gee Hee Hong

American Economic Review, January 2019

We address how using different censoring thresholds and imputation procedures affects the baseline results of Coibion, Gorodnichenko, and Hong (2015). Higher censoring thresholds introduce measurement error and outliers that generate wide variability in r...

Debt collection

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How prevalent is wage garnishment in the United States?

SongYi Paik on agricultural minimum wages

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How do minimum wages affect agricultural labor markets?

Alan Green on the failures of neoliberalism

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Why has the neoliberal order broken down?

Russell Sage Foundation Opportunities

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March 22, 2024

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March 25, 2024

When should state-owned companies compete with the private sector?

The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets

By Juan Pablo Atal, José Ignacio Cuesta, Felipe González, and Cristóbal Otero

American Economic Review, March 2024

We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaini...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

The Effects of Roads on Trade and Migration: Evidence from a Planned Capital City

By Melanie Morten and Jaqueline Oliveira

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

A large body of literature studies how infrastructure facilitates trade. We ask whether infrastructure also facilitates migration. Using a general equilibrium trade model and rich spatial data, we study the impact of a large, plausibly exogenous shock to ...

The Short- and the Long-Run Impact of Gender-Biased Teachers

By Victor Lavy and Rigissa Megalokonomou

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We examine the persistence of teachers' gender biases by following teachers over time in different classes. We find a very high correlation of gender biases for teachers across their classes. We find a substantial impact of gender bias on student performa...

Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe

By Robert Manduca, Maximilian Hell, Adrian Adermon, Jo Blanden, Espen Bratberg, Anne C. Gielen, Hans van Kippersluis, Keunbok Lee, Stephen Machin, Martin D. Munk, Martin Nybom, Yuri Ostrovsky, Sumaiya Rahman, and Outi Sirniö

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We use linked parent-child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly ...

What's behind Her Smile? Health, Looks, and Self-Esteem

By Francisco A. Gallego, Cristian Larroulet Philippi, and Andrea Repetto

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

This paper examines how improving dental health affects economic, social, and psychological outcomes. In a randomized experiment, we provide a low-income group free dental care, including prostheses, and find significant and persistent impacts on men's an...

SeaTE: Subjective Ex Ante Treatment Effect of Health on Retirement

By Pamela Giustinelli and Matthew D. Shapiro

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

The paper studies the effect of health on work among older workers by eliciting two- and four-year-ahead subjective probabilities of working under alternative health states. These measures predict work outcomes. Person-specific differences in working prob...

The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics

By Francesco Amodio, Giorgio Chiovelli, and Sebastian Hohmann

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We study the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. Using subnational georeferenced data from 15 countries from 1996 to 2017, we compare individuals from ethnicities linked to parties at the margin of electing a representativ...

Maternal Dengue and Health Outcomes of Children

By Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Lívia Menezes

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We study the effect of maternal dengue infections on birth outcomes using linked administrative records from Brazil estimating maternal fixed-effect specifications. In contrast to previous studies, we find robust evidence for the negative effect of dengue...

Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups

By Sam Asher, Paul Novosad, and Charlie Rafkin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

We study intergenerational mobility in India. We propose a new measure of upward mobility: the expected education rank of a child born to parents in the bottom half of the education distribution. This measure works well under data constraints common in de...