CSMGEP Profiles: Salvador Contreras

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Quota vs. Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota

By Ursina Schaede and Ville Mankki

American Economic Review

We evaluate equity-efficiency trade-offs from admissions quotas by examining effects on output once beneficiaries start producing in the relevant industry. We estimate the impact of abolishing a 40% quota for male primary school teachers on their pupilsâ€...

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A directory of the Summer Economics Fellows Program Sponsors

The Effect of Field Training Officers on Police Use of Force

By Chandon Adger, Matthew B. Ross, and CarlyWill Sloan

American Economic Review

The influence of on-the-job training and supervisors, especially in high-stakes settings like policing, is poorly understood. Examining a central behavior in the debate surrounding police reform, we investigate the impact of a field training officer (FT...

The Attention–Information Tradeoff

By Marta Serra-Garcia

American Economic Review

How does information transmission change when it requires attracting the attention of receivers? This paper combines an experiment that varies freelance professionals’ incentives to attract attention about scientific findings, with several online expe...

Money, Time, and Grant Design

By Kyle Myers and Wei Yang Tham

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We conduct survey experiments to test how the design of scientific grants— the money and time awarded—can be used to manage researchers. On average, researchers are relatively unwilling to trade o! money for time when choosing among grants. However...

Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

By Marianne Bertrand, Bruno Crépon, Alicia Marguerie, and Patrick Premand

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We study contemporaneous and post-program impacts of a public works program, which provides urban youth seven months of employment at the formal minimum wage with complementary training on entrepreneurship or job search. During the program, we find limi...

Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock

By Lisa B. Kahn, Lindsay Oldenski, and Geunyong Park

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Minority workers tend to be disproportionately harmed by negative economic shocks. Indeed, we show that Hispanic populations experienced worse employment losses due to import competition from China, relative to whites, largely due to lower education le...

The Social Value of Hurricane Forecasts

By Renato Molina and Ivan Rudik

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

What is the impact and value of hurricane forecasts? We study this question using the universe of landfalling US hurricanes between 2005–2022. We find that forecasts drive adaptive protective expenditures, and that erroneous underforecasts result in ...