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Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

By B. Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2025

We test whether payments for ecosystem services (PES) can curb the highly polluting practice of crop residue burning in India. Standard PES contracts pay participants after verification that they met a proenvironment condition (clearing fields without bur...

Community Engagement with Law Enforcement after High-Profile Acts of Police Violence

By Desmond Ang, Panka Bencsik, Jesse Bruhn, and Ellora Derenoncourt

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2025

We document a sharp rise in gunshots coupled with declining 911 call volume across 13 major US cities in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. National survey data also indicate that victims of crime became less likely to report their victimization...

When Big Data Enables Behavioral Manipulation

By Daron Acemoglu, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, and Asuman Ozdaglar

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2025

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness," which captures attributes that make p...

Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector

By Erika Deserranno, Philipp Kastrau, and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2025

We study promotion incentives in the public sector. In collaboration with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, we introduce exogenous variation in the meritocratic nature of promotions from health worker to supervisor positions and in health workers' percep...