American Indian Wealth in the Early Twentieth Century

By Donn. L. Feir, Maggie E. C. Jones, and Angela Redish

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use data from the Bureau of Indian Affairs annual reports between 1912 and 1927 to examine the wealth of Indigenous nations in the contiguous United States during the early twentieth century. Our estimates reveal considerable heterogeneity in wealth ho...

Examining the Long-Run Impacts of Racial Terror with Data on Historical Lynchings of Mexicans in Texas

By Francisca M. Antman and Brian Duncan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We merge the longitudinally linked historical US Census records with data on lynchings of Hispanics in Texas to investigate the impacts of historical lynchings of ethnic Mexicans in Texas on US-born Mexican Americans. Using variation in lynching incidents...

Reassessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

By David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data, we demonstrate several facts that are not consistent with the "spatial mismatch" hypothesis that residential segregation and uneven distribution of jobs limit Black workers' opportunities. We show that ...

Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research

By Francisca M. Antman, Kirk B. Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce A. Weinberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using the EconLit dissertation database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics from names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators and dissertation topics. Despite stagnation in the share o...

Moving in Academia: Who Moves and What Happens After?

By Melany Gualavisi, Marieke Kleemans, and Rebecca Thornton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study labor mobility among academic economists in the United States. Analyzing CV data from over 6,000 economists at Research 1 institutions, we document that female assistant and associate professors are 8 percentage points less likely to move with pr...

Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories

By Anne Sophie Lassen and Ria Ivandić

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of economics, especially among permanent faculty. As parenthood is an important driver of gender inequality in the labor market, we study the impact of children on the academic careers of economists. We f...

The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

By S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, and Sophie Ochmann

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Youth unemployment and gender gaps in labor market outcomes are key policy challenges across developing countries. Young job seekers may struggle to find jobs because of their biased beliefs and unrealistic aspirations about the labor market. We study whe...

Transgender Transitioning and Responsiveness to Policy: Evidence from the Netherlands

By Elisa de Weerd, John Cawley, and Hans van Kippersluis

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study examines a 2014 policy change in the Netherlands that simplified the process to legally transition gender. Administrative data for 2006–2022 indicate that there was a 725 percent increase in transitions after the policy change, suggesting tha...

The Impact of Hormonal Contraception on Teen Suicide

By Kelly Ragan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

I use direct data on hormonal contraceptive sales across markets proximate to the pill's introduction in Sweden to study how the diffusion of hormonal contraception is associated with changes in suicide among teenage girls. I do not find evidence of a lar...

Does Reducing Early School Tracking Affect Health Behaviors?

By Serena Canaan

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper examines how delaying the age of school tracking affects long-term health behaviors and access to preventive care. I exploit a reform of the French middle school system, which delayed the placement of students into vocational and academic educa...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Fertility in Spain

By Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the effect of the first wave of COVID-19 and the accompanying containment measures on fertility in Spain. We use earlier years to predict births in the absence of the pandemic and then compare our prediction to actual births. We document a large ...

Analytic Approaches to Measuring the Black-White Wealth Gap

By Jermaine Toney, Fenaba R. Addo, and Darrick Hamilton

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Does the measurement of the racial wealth gap shift depending on the model, method, and dataset used? We contrast the traditional mean Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition with the distributional Recentered Influence Function (RIF) methods. The untransformed, log...

What Explains Black Employment Dynamics?

By Karl David Boulware and Kenneth N. Kuttner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates the proximate causes of excessively cyclical employment growth and persistently high unemployment among Black workers, relative to White workers. Using data from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and Job-to-Job Flows, we find that...

Shocking Offers: Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets

By Belinda Archibong and Peter Blair Henry

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document (i) gender differences in salary offers for jobs and (ii) the response of (i) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female offer lower starting sala...

Racial Disparities in the US Mortgage Market

By Agustin Hurtado and Jung Sakong

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study racial disparities in the US mortgage market. Using new data from Hurtado and Sakong (2024), we present three findings. First, we document access disparities between minority and otherwise-identical White borrowers even within the same bank and w...

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

By Francisca M. Antman, Kirk B. Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce A. Weinberg

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepres...

Student Debt Relief and Racial Wealth Gaps

By Gerald E. Daniels Jr., Jeffrey Galloway, and Venoo Kakar

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration released a plan to cancel federal student loans for 43 million borrowers on August 24, 2022. While the Supreme Court struck down the Biden-Harris student debt relief plan on June 30, 2023, the White House is now planning to...

DOJ Intervention and the Checkpoint Shift: Profiling Hispanic Motorists under the Section 287(g) Program

By Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Alberto Ortega, and Prentiss A. Dantzler

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This research examines whether the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation into the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, a 287(g) program participant, influenced the policing behavior of other 287(g)-participating agencies in North Carolina. The study ...

Research Design with Weighted Lotteries in School Choice

By Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Inkoo Back

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Centralized admissions are an integral part of parental school choice programs. Most districts use a version of the deferred acceptance algorithm to assign applicants to schools. Centralized admissions produce data with quasi-experimental variation in stu...

The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge

By Michael Greenstone

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Rather than facing an isolated climate change challenge, this paper argues that the world must confront the Global Energy Challenge (GEC) that requires all countries to make trade-offs between three often competing and interrelated goals: inexpensive a...