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Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All?

By David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2019

In Happiness for All? Unequal Hopes and Lives in the Pursuit of the American Dream, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today's United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and of...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20171492

Review of Books on Student Loans

By Christopher Avery

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2019

This essay reviews three recent books on the causes and consequences of student debt. In addition to increases in college tuition and fees, supply and resource constraints both contribute to the growing phenomenon of default: degree completion rates are r...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20181469

Medium- and Long-Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

By Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Leigh L. Linden, and Juan E. Saavedra

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

In 2005 the city of Bogota, Colombia, introduced three conditional cash transfer programs for secondary schooling, randomly assigning socioeconomically disadvantaged students to different payment structures. We show, through administrative data, that forc...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170008

Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity

By Pablo A. Celhay, Paul J. Gertler, Paula Giovagnoli, and Christel Vermeersch

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

We show that costs of adjustment as opposed to low perceived value may explain why improved quality care practices diffuse slowly in the medical industry. Using a randomized field experiment conducted in Argentina, we find that temporary financial incenti...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170128

Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program

By Prashant Loyalka, Anna Popova, Guirong Li, and Zhaolei Shi

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

Despite massive investments in teacher professional development (PD) programs in developing countries, there is little evidence on their effectiveness. We present results of a large-scale, randomized evaluation of a national PD program in China in which t...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170226

Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda

By Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Andrea Guariso, Jakob Svensson, and David Yanagizawa-Drott

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

The delivery of basic health products and services remains abysmal in many parts of the world where child mortality is high. This paper shows the results from a large-scale randomized evaluation of a novel approach to health care delivery. In randomly sel...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170201

Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY's ASAP

By Michael J. Weiss, Alyssa Ratledge, Colleen Sommo, and Himani Gupta

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

Nationwide, graduation rates at community colleges are discouragingly low. This randomized experiment provides evidence that graduation rates can be increased dramatically. The City University of New York's (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170430

Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance

By Filipe R. Campante, Quoc-Anh Do, and Bernardo Guimaraes

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

We investigate the links between capital cities, conflict, and the quality of governance, starting from the assumption that incumbent elites are constrained by the threat of insurrection, and that the latter is rendered less effective by distance from the...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170111

Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes

By David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, and Melanie Wasserman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

Boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high school completions than girls from comparable backgrounds. Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170571

The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations

By Thomas S. Dee, Will Dobbie, Brian A. Jacob, and Jonah Rockoff

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2019

We show that the design and decentralized scoring of New York's high school exit exams—the Regents Examinations—led to systematic manipulation of test scores just below important proficiency cutoffs. Exploiting a series of reforms that eliminated scor...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170520