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Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

By Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley J. Larsen, and Erik Brynjolfsson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2024

We study the demand and supply implications of occupational licensing using transaction-level data from a large online platform for home improvement services. We find that demand is more responsive to a professional's reviews than to the professional's pl...

Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections

By Abhijit Banerjee, Nils Enevoldsen, Rohini Pande, and Michael Walton

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2024

Two years prior to elections, two-thirds of Delhi municipal councillors learned they had been randomly chosen for a preelection newspaper report card. Treated councillors in high-slum areas increased pro-poor spending, relative both to control counterpart...

Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

By Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun W. Mukand, and Fabian Waldinger

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2024

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics ...