Differences in Teachers' Assessments of Students by English Learner Status

By Maria Zhu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates potential disparities in how teachers perceive academic achievement between English Learner (EL) students and their non-EL counterparts. Using data on elementary and middle school students in North Carolina, I compare teachers' aca...

Vertical Spillovers in Global Value Chains

By Swapnika Rachapalli

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper uses input-output relationships across highly disaggregated products to establish two empirical regularities with bilateral trade data. First, countries are likely to have revealed comparative advantage (RCA) in a product if they also have RCA ...

Aggregation Bias in the Measurement of US Global Value Chains

By Aaron Flaaen, Fariha Kamal, Eunhee Lee, and Kei-Mu Yi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper employs US census microdata to construct establishment-level measures of global value chains (GVCs) and then assesses aggregation bias—the bias occurring when an entire industry is essentially treated as a single establishment. Our establishm...

Thinking about Parents: Gender and Field of Study

By Michela Carlana and Lucia Corno

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Globally, women remain underrepresented in STEM. Our lab-in-the-field study delves into parental influence on adolescents' perceptions of scientific versus humanistic aptitude. We find that thinking about parental recommendation affects students' beliefs ...

The Gender Wage Gap: Skills, Sorting, and Returns

By John Eric Humphries, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, and Gregory F. Veramendi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

There is a large gender wage gap among college graduates. This gender gap could be partially driven by differences in college major and prior skills. We use Swedish register data to study how much of the gender gap can be explained by differences in major...

Navigating Policy Specificity in Academia: The Evolution of Sexual Harassment Policies around #MeToo

By Marina Gertsberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

I study how universities changed the specificity of their sexual harassment policies around #MeToo. I observe a trend toward increasing policy specificity after #MeToo, particularly in private universities, those with publicized harassment cases, or unive...

Racial Inequality and Publication in Economics

By Marlène Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines racial disparities in economic publishing using bibliometric data from over 200 economic journals. We find notable differences in authorship between White and non-White authors, with Black, Hispanic, and Asian economists significantly ...

Teaching-Track Economists in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

By Fabio Arico, Alvin Birdi, Avi J. Cohen, Caroline Elliott, Tisha Emerson, Gail Hoyt, Cloda Jenkins, Ashley Lait, Jennifer Murdock, and Christian Spielmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

For Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we illuminate the landscape for a relatively new and evolving role: full-time, teaching-track economists who work in the same departments as research-track economists, but with a greater emphasis on t...

Teaching-Track Faculty at US National Universities

By Tisha L. N. Emerson and Gail M. Hoyt

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper (alongside the other papers in this session) reports the findings from a mixed-methods study of teaching-track faculty in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Our approach combines a qualitative analysis of interviews with a quant...

Teaching-Track Economists: A Canadian Perspective

By Jennifer Murdock and Avi J. Cohen

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We find that over two-thirds of economics departments in large Canadian universities have full-time teaching-track faculty positions that parallel traditional research-track positions but with a heavier teaching focus. Teaching-track economists approach o...

Teaching-Track Economists in the United Kingdom

By Fabio Arico, Alvin Birdi, Caroline Elliott, Cloda Jenkins, Ashley Lait, and Christian Spielmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

In this companion paper to Arico et al (2024), we use a mixed-methods approach to characterize teaching-track faculty positions in the United Kingdom. We find these roles are more prevalent in the United Kingdom compared to the United States or Canada, an...

Constructing Confidence Intervals for BIFSG Disparity Estimates

By Elena Derby, Connor Dowd, and Jacob Mortenson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper describes a method to construct confidence intervals for estimates of disparities in outcomes between racial/ethnic groups when race and ethnicity are estimated using Bayesian Improved First Name and Surname Geocoding (BIFSG). Standard errors p...

Refundable Credits by Race/Hispanic Ethnicity, Income, and Filing Status

By Julie-Anne Cronin, Portia DeFilippes, and Robin Fisher

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using the US Department of the Treasury's tax model with an updated race and Hispanic ethnicity (RH) imputation, we find that Hispanic and Black families are not more likely than White families to benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or Child ...

Using Multiple Data Sources to Learn about the Race and Ethnicity of Taxpayers

By Rebecca Heller, Shannon Mok, James Pearce, and Jonathan Rothbaum

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Recently, studying income by race and ethnicity has gained interest among policymakers. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) regularly reports on the distribution of household income, using a statistically matched dataset with survey and administrative t...

Marriage Equality and the Transnational Flow of Skilled Labor: The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization in the United States on the Inflow of Skilled Labor

By Koroles Awad and Jill J. McCluskey

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines the impact on skilled labor migration to the United States of same-sex marriage legalization in European countries and US federal recognition of foreign same-sex marriages. Analyzing US Department of Homeland Security data, we find tha...

LGBTQ+ Homeownership in the United States

By Ana H. Kent and Sophia C. Scott

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

LGBTQ+ adults had a lower homeownership rate (53 percent) than non-LGBTQ+ adults (72.5 percent). Looking at LGBTQ+ subgroups by sexual orientation and gender identity revealed important nuances. Transgender people and bisexual people had the lowest homeow...

Family Matters: Exposure to Gender-Affirming or Gender-Denying Practices Following Gender Identity Milestones

By Travis Campbell, Samuel Mann, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, and Nathaniel M. Tran

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study examines the relationship between gender identity milestones, family support, and exposure to gender-affirming or gender-denying practices. Leveraging a retrospective panel from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, we compare changes in exposure to ...

Matching Patterns among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in Latin America

By Ercio A. Muñoz and Dario Sansone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using microdata from the censuses of eight countries in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay), this paper describes matching patterns by age, ethnicity, and education among same-sex and different-sex coup...

The Linear Algebra of Economic Geography Models

By Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, and Stephen J. Redding

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We provide sufficient statistics for nominal and real wage exposure to productivity shocks in a constant elasticity economic geography model. These exposure measures summarize the first-order general equilibrium elasticity of nominal and real wages in eac...

The Traveling Trucker Problem

By Treb Allen, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo Cleves, and Carlos Eduardo Hernandez

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper documents three new stylized facts showing that truckers in Colombia frequently choose to make complex chains of shipments in a single trip before returning home. It then provides a new model of optimal trucker trip-chaining with a general geog...