Committee Spotlight: Q&A with the CSMGEP Co-Chairs Gary Hoover and Ebonya Washington

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March 29, 2022

The CSMGEP Co-Chairs Gary Hoover and Ebonya Washington answer some questions about the committee's mission and activities.

Editors

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Travel Grants

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Views on the dollar shortage controversy

[Research Highlight]

July 01, 2026

Harris Dellas and George Tavlas discuss the postwar dollar shortage debate between Charles Kindleberger and Milton Friedman.

A Model of the Attention Economy: Data, Platforms, and Discovery

By Daniel Chen

American Economic Review

This paper develops a dynamic model of the attention economy featuring two interlinked markets: a product market, where consumers have limited awareness of firms, and an attention market, where platforms attract attention by investing in free services ...

Combinatorial Discrete Choice: Theory and Application to Multinational Production

By Costas Arkolakis, Fabian Eckert, and Rowan Shi

American Economic Review

In general, finding the optimal combination among N items requires evaluating all 2^N possibilities. We develop a method applicable whenever items are complements or substitutes that uses this structure to discard suboptimal combinations without evalua...

The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence by Joshua Gans

By Maximilian Kasy

Journal of Economic Literature

Effects of Domestic Production Tax Incentives on Workers and Firms: Evidence from US Employee-Employer-Matched Tax Filings

By Christine L. Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jacob Mortenson

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper examines the effects of a corporate tax cut aimed at incentivizing domestic production on the within-firm distribution of worker earnings, firm employment, and firm capital investment. We use employee-employer-matched U.S. tax filings and find ...

Climate Policies and Electricity Prices: Why Abate When You Can Generate?

By Kathrine von Graevenitz and Elisa Rottner

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Climate policies often increase electricity prices by more than they increase prices of fossil fuels. Using administrative data on German manufacturing plants from 2009 to 2017, we provide evidence that these price changes induce plants to generate ele...

Taxing Top Incomes in the Emerging World—Fiscal and Economic Impact under the Microscope

By Christopher Axelson, Antonia Hohmann, Jukka Pirttilä, Roxanne Raabe, and Nadine Riedel

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper studies taxpayer responses to an increase in the top marginal tax rate in South Africa, drawing on rich administrative data and a transparent identification strategy. We show that treated taxpayers strongly reduced their reported taxable inc...

Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program

By Maximilian Kasy and Lukas Lehner

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We evaluate a guaranteed job program in Austria in 2020–2024. Our evaluation is based on three approaches, pairwise matched randomization, a pre-registered synthetic control at the municipality level, and a comparison to individuals in control munici...

Index-Based Price Adjustment in US Strategic Petroleum Reserve Drawdowns

By Matthew O'Keefe

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

The Asymmetric Incidence of Business Taxes: Survey Evidence from German Firms

By Richard Winter, Philipp Doerrenberg, Fabian Eble, Davud Rostum-Afschar, and Johannes Voget

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We provide novel evidence on the incidence of business taxes using comprehensive survey and experimental data from German firms. Managers respond asymmetrically to randomized hypothetical tax changes of opposite signs, consistent with asymmetric profit...

Nature, Nurture, and Socioeconomic Outcomes: New Evidence from Sib Pairs and Molecular Genetic Data

By Gareth Markel, Rafael Ahlskog, Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, René Mõttus, Sven Oskarsson, Uku Vainik, Eivind Ystrom, and Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp

American Economic Review: Insights

A consequence of Mendel’s First Law is that siblings' genetic relatedness varies randomly (with a mean of 50%). We use molecular genetic data to compute the genetic relatedness of ~80,000 sib pairs. We then compare the pairs' genetic relatedness to thei...

CSMGEP: Mentoring Program

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Best Practices for Economists

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century US Fertility and Mortality

By Stefan Bauernschuster, Michael Grimm, and Cathy Moran Hajo

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

In 1916, Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in US history. From the mid-1920s, “Sanger clinics” spread over the entire US These clinics advised women on contraception, mainly by fitting diaphragms and explicitly instructing ...

Congestion in Onboarding Workers and Sticky R&D

By Justin Bloesch and Jacob P. Weber

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Adjusting the rate of R&D spending is costly if the probability of converting new hires into productive R&D workers ("onboarding") is decreasing in the number of hires ("congestion"). We show that such congestion induces R&D-producing firms to hire slowly...

How Worker Productivity and Wages Grow with Tenure and Experience: The Firm Perspective

By Andrew Caplin, Minjoon Lee, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Matthew D. Shapiro

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

How worker productivity evolves with tenure and experience shapes life-cycle earnings and losses from job separation. Yet, worker-level productivity is hard to identify from observational data. This paper introduces a firm survey designed to separate ef...