Home-Country Internet and Immigrants' Well-Being

By Alexander Yarkin

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper documents the effects of home-country internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data from the European Social Survey with data on 3G and overall internet expansion, I find that immigrants' SWB increases...

Job Tasks, Leadership, and the Gender Gap after Parenthood

By Daniel Tannenbaum and Brenden Timpe

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We use linked US survey and administrative data to provide new evidence on the job tasks performed by women and men around parenthood. We develop an occupation-level measure of leadership task intensity. Leadership has an increasing and concave age profil...

Home Sweet Home: How Much Do Employees Value Remote Work?

By Zoë Cullen, Bobak Pakzad-Hurson, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We provide revealed-preference evidence on employee value for remote work and on the wage-setting strategies adopted by employers for in-person versus remote work. Using data on the job offers and selections of over 3,000 employees in the US tech sector, ...

Work Hours and Amenity Trade-Offs

By César Garro- Marín, Neil Thakral, and Linh T. Tô

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We present a compensating wage differentials model that incorporates complementarity and substitutability in firms' provision of amenities and workers' preferences for them. These interactions help explain why some amenities tend to be bundled, while othe...

Cross-Gender Social Ties around the World

By Michael Bailey, Drew Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We introduce, describe, and analyze subnational data on cross-gender friendships for nearly 200 countries and territories, using data from 1.38 trillion ties between 1.8 billion Facebook users. Homophily by gender exists nearly everywhere, with individual...

Workplace Segregation between College and Noncollege Workers

By Francis Dillon, Edward L. Glaeser, and William Kerr

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We measure the level and growth of educational segregation in US workplaces from 2000 to 2020. US workplaces showed an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is compa...

ESG Is the Most Polarizing Nonwage Amenity: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Brazil

By Emanuele Colonnelli, Tim McQuade, Gabriel Ramos, Thomas Rauter, and Olivia Xiong

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We examine job seekers' heterogeneous preferences for nonwage amenities, with a focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices, using an incentivized field experiment in Brazil. Our findings reveal that ESG is the most polarizing nonwage a...

Does Unilateral Decarbonization Pay for Itself?

By Adrien Bilal and Diego R. Känzig

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper shows that unilateral decarbonization pays for itself in large economies. We estimate economic damages based on global temperature shocks and combine them with a climate-economy model to construct domestic costs of carbon: $226 per ton for the ...

The Shape of Regulation: 40 Years of Florida Flood Maps

By Abigail Ostriker and Anna Russo

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Many regulations are geographically targeted. We study the evolution of the spatial targeting of floodplain regulation over four decades of regulatory map updates in Florida. We focus on changes in shape irregularity of regulated areas, measured using dif...

Housing Supply and Natural Hazards within and across US Cities

By Augusto Ospital

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This paper investigates the link between housing supply restrictions and increased exposure to natural hazard risks in the United States, considering a wide range of extreme climate threats. It shows that urban growth has heightened exposure to these risk...

Private Markets and Public Assistance for Natural Disaster Supplies

By Michael Dinerstein, Nadia Lucas, Ishan Nath, and Johanna Rayl

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We document existing allocation mechanisms for natural disaster survival goods, such as flashlights, batteries, food, and water and show that Americans face widespread and frequent exposure to natural disasters, that disasters bring a substantial risk of ...

The Political Economy of Geoeconomic Power

By Christopher Clayton, Matteo Maggiori, and Jesse Schreger

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Great powers are increasingly using their economic and financial strength for geopolitical aims. This rise of "geoeconomics" has the potential to reshape the international trade and financial system. This paper examines the role of domestic political econ...

Hegemony and International Alignment

By Fernando Broner, Alberto Martin, Josefin Meyer, Christoph Trebesch, and Jiaxian Zhou Wu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

This article explores the interplay between economic hegemony and political alignment. Using theoretical and empirical insights from Broner et al. (2024), we posit that hegemonic states, like the United States, foster political alignment, which enhances g...

Currency Development through Liquidity Provision

By Antonio Coppola, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Chenzi Xu

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Drawing on the experiences of the historical Eurodollar market and recent Chinese dollar bond issuances traded outside US jurisdiction at negative spreads to Treasuries, we examine the conditions under which a parallel offshore dollar financial system tha...

Changing Global Linkages: Bridging Geopolitical Fragments

By Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Andrea F. Presbitero, and Petia Topalova

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

The recent surge in geopolitical tensions and trade restrictions raises important questions about the global allocation of production, investment, and trade across countries. Using bilateral sectoral data on FDI, trade, and trade distortive measures over ...

AI and Women's Employment in Europe

By Stefania Albanesi, António Dias da Silva, Juan F. Jimeno, Ana Lamo, and Alena Wabitsch

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We examine the link between the diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies and changes in the female employment share in 16 European countries over the period 2011–2019. Using data for occupations at the three-digit level, we find th...

Extending "GPTs Are GPTs" to Firms

By Benjamin Labaschin, Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, and Daniel Rock

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We extend Eloundou et al. (2024) to build firm-level measures of exposure to large language models (LLMs) with data from two sources: Eloundou et al. (2024) for occupation-level measures of LLM exposure and Revelio Labs for firm-level employee counts by o...

A Gender Lens on Labor Market Exposure to AI

By Mauro Cazzaniga, Augustus Panton, Longji Li, Carlo Pizzinelli, and Marina M. Tavares

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

The rise of AI may profoundly impact labor markets, as AI tools could perform numerous cognitive tasks traditionally in the human domain. This paper examines the gendered effects of AI adoption across six economies of varying income levels. In most countr...

How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France

By Philippe Aghion, Simon Bunel, Xavier Jaravel, Thomas Mikaelsen, Alexandra Roulet, and Jakob Søgaard

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

Using French firm-level data on AI adoption from 2017–2020, we find that, first, firms adopting AI are larger and more productive and skill intensive. Second, difference-in-difference estimates reveal an increase in firm-level employment and sales after...

Anonymous Attention and Abuse

By Florian Ederer, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, and Kyle Jensen

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2025

We analyze the content of the anonymous online discussion forum Economics Job Market Rumors (EJMR) and document its evolving interactions with external information sources. We focus on three key aspects: the prevalence and impact of links to external doma...