Organizing Time Exchanges: Lessons from Matching Markets

By Tommy Andersson, Ágnes Cseh, Lars Ehlers, and Albin Erlanson

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2021

This paper considers time exchanges via a common platform (e.g., markets for exchanging time units, positions at education institutions, and tuition waivers). There are several problems associated with such markets, e.g., imbalanced outcomes, coordination...

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

By N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2010

Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones? The standard utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wage...

Polluted IPOs

By Meng Miao, Wei Wang, and Zhengyu Zuo

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Chinese companies must undergo a review by a regulator-appointed committee before proceeding with initial public offerings (IPOs). We find that firms, particularly politically unconnected ones, are more likely to pass this review on polluted days (i.e.,...

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Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic

By Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asad Islam, and Firoz Ahmed

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

This paper evaluates a randomized, over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2,402 women across 357 villages in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of two hours of mental support plus...

On Taking a Skewed Risk More Than Once

By Sebastian Ebert and Mats Köster

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Penny-picking refers to the often-observed phenomenon of repeatedly taking negatively skewed risks and seems directly at odds with evidence on (positive-)skewness-seeking as observed in static settings. We show that penny-picking may not only occur desp...

Doctor Decision Making and Patient Outcomes

By Janet Currie, W. Bentley MacLeod, and Kate Musen

Journal of Economic Literature

Doctors often treat similar patients differently, which affects health outcomes and medical spending. We assess the recent literature on doctor decision making through the lens of a model that incorporates diagnostic and procedural skills, beliefs, incent...

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