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On Binscatter

By Matias D. Cattaneo, Richard K. Crump, Max H. Farrell, and Yingjie Feng

American Economic Review, May 2024

Binscatter is a popular method for visualizing bivariate relationships and conducting informal specification testing. We study the properties of this method formally and develop enhanced visualization and econometric binscatter tools. These include estima...

The Returns to Public Library Investment

By Gregory Gilpin, Ezra Karger, and Peter Nencka

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

Local governments spend over $12 billion annually funding the operation of 15,427 public libraries in the United States, yet we know little about their effects. We use data describing the near universe of public libraries to show that public library capit...

Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation

By Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Johanna Posch, Andreas Steinhauer, and Josef Zweimüller

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and childcare, using administrative data covering Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by...

Hospital Queues, Patient Health, and Labor Supply

By Anna Godøy, Venke F. Haaland, Ingrid Huitfeldt, and Mark Votruba

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

Long waits for health care raise concerns about the consequences of delayed treatment. We use variation in queue congestion to estimate effects of wait time for orthopedic surgery. We do not find that longer wait times lead to increased health care utiliz...

The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?

By Jonas Fluchtmann, Anita M. Glenny, Nikolaj A. Harmon, and Jonas Maibom

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of Danish unemployment insurance recipients, we provide evide...

Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School

By Hannah Klauber, Felix Holub, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel, Nolan Ritter, and Alexander Rohlf

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one-third of all children in Germany. For identification, w...

Opposing Firm-Level Responses to the China Shock: Output Competition versus Input Supply

By Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Matthieu Lequien, Marc J. Melitz, and Thomas Zuber

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

We decompose the "China shock" into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese exports: an output shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and an input supply shock affecting ...

Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences

By Kory Kroft, Jean-William Laliberté, René Leal-Vizcaíno, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

We develop a theory of commodity taxation featuring imperfect competition along with love-of-variety preferences and endogenous firm entry and exit. We derive new formulas for the efficiency and pass-through of specific and ad valorem taxes. These formula...

Public Pensions and Private Savings

By Esteban García-Miralles and Jonathan M. Leganza

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

How does the provision of public pension benefits impact private savings? We answer this question in the context of a Danish reform that increased social security eligibility ages. Using administrative data and a regression discontinuity design, we identi...

Refugee Benefit Cuts

By Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø, and Lars Højsgaard Andersen

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2024

This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects but also its longer-term consequences and its repeal a decade later. The refor...