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Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement

By Melvin Stephens Jr. and Desmond Toohey

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

Prior research finds food expenditure decreases at retirement, which suggests households are inadequately saving. In contrast, other evidence shows that direct measures of food intake are unaffected by exiting the labor force. Using a wide array of data s...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180378

Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism

By Kyle Handley, Fariha Kamal, and Ryan Monarch

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

We examine the impacts of the 2018–2019 US import tariff increases on US exports through the lens of supply chain linkages. Using 2016 confidential firm-trade linked data, we identify exporters who were importing products that eventually faced tariff in...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210051

Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation since the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services

By Jamein Cunningham and Andrew Goodman-Bacon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty's legal services program (LSP), which provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-difference (DiD) research design based on...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210117

Digital Information Provision and Behavior Change: Lessons from Six Experiments in East Africa

By Raissa Fabregas, Michael Kremer, Matthew Lowes, Robert On, and Giulia Zane

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

While some studies suggest mobile phone–based information programs change behavior; others find no effect. We evaluate six text message agricultural extension programs, collectively covering 128,000 farmers. A meta-analysis finds a 1.22-fold increase in...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220072

Location, Location, Location

By David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

We use linked employer–employee data to study the causal effects of location on earnings in the United States. We estimate a model with employer and employee effects, then aggregate to the commuting zone (CZ) level. Sorting across firms biases tradition...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220427

The Willingness to Pay for a Cooler Day: Evidence from 50 Years of Major League Baseball Games

By Kevin Kuruc, Melissa LoPalo, and Sean O'Connor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

The climate economy literature has documented adverse effects of extreme temperatures on well-being through mechanisms such as mortality, productivity, and conflict. Impacts due simply to discomfort are less well understood. This paper investigates indivi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220606

Wealth Tax Mobility and Tax Coordination

By David R. Agrawal, Dirk Foremny, and Clara Martínez-Toledano

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

We study the effects of decentralized wealth taxation on mobility and the effectiveness of tax coordination at mitigating tax competition. We exploit the reintroduction of the Spanish wealth tax, after which all regions except Madrid levied positive tax r...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220615

Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?

By Raphael Calel, Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, and Matthieu Glachant

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

We develop and implement a new method for identifying wasted subsidies and use it to provide systematic evidence of the misallocation of carbon offsets in the Clean Development Mechanism—the world's largest carbon offset program. Using newly constructed...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230052

Staggered Difference-in-Differences in Gravity Settings: Revisiting the Effects of Trade Agreements

By Arne J. Nagengast and Yoto V. Yotov

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230089

Trade Disruptions and Reshoring

By Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Kanika Mahajan, and Shekhar Tomar

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

Firms are increasingly concerned about the resilience of their sales and sourcing decisions. Using administrative data, we show that a temporary disruption in trade due to state border closures in India led to a persistent trade collapse within the countr...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230270

Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility

By Catherine Haeck and Jean-William Laliberté

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2025

This paper uses census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of occupations to intergenerational income mobility. We document substantial segregation into occupations by parental income. Children of high-income parents are signifi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20230403