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Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers' Voting on Women's Issues

By Ebonya L. Washington

American Economic Review, March 2008

Parenting daughters, sociologists have shown, increases feminist sympathies. I test the hypothesis that children, much like neighbors or peers, can influence parental behavior. I demonstrate that conditional on total number of children, each daughter i...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.98.1.311

The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers

By Jeanne Lafortune, Laura Salisbury, and Aloysius Siow

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

Over the last century, resource allocations within families changed significantly, as did marriage matching patterns. College-educated women became more likely to marry (and, to a lesser extent, have children) than less educated women. A large literature ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20231648

Social Protection in the Developing World

By Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, and Diana Sverdlin Lisker

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low- and middle-income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which they are operating. This paper reviews the growing literature on the design and ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241646

Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory

By Pierre Fleckinger, David Martimort, and Nicolas Roux

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

What is the most efficient way of designing incentives in an organization? Over the past five decades, agency theory has provided various answers to this crucial question. This line of research suggests that, depending on the organizational context, the o...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241678

Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal

By Ivan Boldyrev

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

What are the effects of authoritarian regimes on scholarly research in economics? And how might economic theory survive ideological pressures? This article addresses these questions by focusing on the mathematization of economics over the past century and...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241699

The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality

By Samuel Bowles and Mattia Fochesato

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

We survey archaeological evidence suggesting that among hunter-gatherers and farmers in Neolithic western Eurasia (11,700 to 5,300 years ago) elevated levels of wealth inequality occurred but were ephemeral and rare compared to the substantial enduring in...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241718

The Economics of Social Media

By Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Ro'ee Levy, and Lena Song

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

We provide a guide to the burgeoning literature on the economics of social media. We first define social media platforms and highlight their unique features. We then synthesize the main lessons from the empirical economics literature and organize them aro...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241743

Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

By Fiona Scott Morton

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2024

This book offers a radical thesis: Technological innovation often benefits elites while worsening conditions for workers, challenging the common view that technology always improves living standards. Through historical transitions like the Industrial Revo...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20241761