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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 ...

Media Slant and Public Policy Views

By Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante, Elliot Motte, and Eleonora Patacchini

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study how exposure to partisan news channels (Fox News and MSNBC) affects individual views on four policy issues: climate change, gun rights, abortion, and immigration. First, using GPT to annotate news transcripts, we document large differences in the...

Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?

By Ariel J. Binder, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

No: it is at least as large at bottom percentiles of the earnings distribution. Conditional quantile regressions reveal that while the gap at top percentiles is largest among the most educated, the gap at bottom percentiles is largest among the least educ...

Marriage Penalties and Bonuses by Race and Ethnicity: An Application of Race and Ethnicity Imputation

By Rachel Costello, Portia DeFilippes, Robin Fisher, Ben Klemens, and Emily Y. Lin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Office of Tax Analysis of the Treasury Department imputes race and ethnicity information to its tax model. We apply the imputed information to the calculation of marriage penalties and bonuses for married couples and find differences in the penalty an...

The Slanted-L Phillips Curve

By Pierpaolo Benigno and Gauti B. Eggertsson

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

A slanted-L curve is well suited to represent the nonlinearity of the celebrated Phillips curve. We show this using cross-country data of major industrialized economies since 2009, including the inflationary surge of the 2020s. At high unemployment rates,...

Tailoring Mentorship: Evidence on Diverse Needs and Application Patterns for High School Students

By Caterina Calsamiglia, Javier Garcia-Brazales, and Annalisa Loviglio

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We investigate enrollment in a mentoring program aimed at promoting transition to tertiary education for high school students. Females exhibit both higher initial interest and application completion, while immigrants and financially constrained students i...