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 ...

The Dynamics of Evasion: The Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports and the Amassing of the Shadow Fleet

By Diego S. Cardoso, Stephen W. Salant, and Julien Daubanes

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

To reduce Russia’s funding for its Ukraine invasion, Western governments imposed, after a delay, a price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil exports utilizing Western services. To evade that ceiling, Russia developed a “shadow fleet” using no such ser...

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Why Is Fertility So Low in High-Income Countries?

By Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine

Journal of Economic Literature

We consider why fertility has fallen in recent decades in almost all high-income countries. We begin by documenting declining total fertility and rising childlessness across cohorts, highlighting the need to focus on cohort versus period-specific fertilit...

The effects of tariffs on consumer credit terms

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The 2018 steel and aluminum tariffs increased interest rates on auto loans, especially for lower-income consumers.

Household-Level Responses to the European Energy Crisis

By Lassi Ahlvik, Tuomas Kaariaho, Matti Liski, and Iivo Vehviläinen

American Economic Review: Insights

Cost-of-living shocks can have large and unequal effects, but causal evidence on households’ adaptive responses is scarce. Using Finnish administrative microdata from the 2022 energy crisis, we exploit variation in electricity contract expirations to ...

Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

By Andrew Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Eric Hanushek, Ben Ost, and Steven Rivkin

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty schools remains a persistent challenge. We evaluate the impact of an initiative that offered substantial performance-based compensation to highly effective teachers in the lowest-achieving school...

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Increasing Inventories: The Role of Delivery Times

By Maria-Jose Carreras-Valle

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Inventories mitigate the risk of global sourcing. I present new evidence of the rise in U.S. manufacturing inventories after 2005, reversing a declining trend that lasted for decades. I examine this trend in a model of delivery times and inventories. T...

Diversion Risk, Markups, and the Financing Cost Advantage of Trade Credit

By Alvaro Garcia-Marin, Santiago Justel, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Trade credit is a key source of short-term finance. This paper develops a model where trade credit reduces borrowing from banks. This reduction gives rise to a financing cost advantage of trade credit that increases in the product of markups and borrowi...

The Lost Marie Curies and Foregone Economic Growth

By Jean-Félix Brouillette

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Women made up only 15% of U.S. inventors in 2024. Assuming no intrinsic gender differences in inventive potential, the scarcity of women in research reveals that the U.S. is missing out on some of its brightest minds. How costly is this talent misalloca...

Environmental Subsidies to Mitigate Net-Zero Transition Costs

By Eric Jondeau, Gregory Levieuge, Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, and Gauthier Vermandel

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Imperfect competition within the pollution abatement equipment sector may hinder the Paris Agreement’s goals. We show that carbon tax–funded environmental subsidies can stimulate firm entry, enhance competition, and lower abatement costs for busine...