Conditioning Out the Poor? Consumption Inequality and the Design of Cash Transfer Programs

By Santosh Anagol, Thomas Fujiwara, and Martin Navarrete

American Economic Review: Insights

Conditionality can exclude poor households from receiving transfers. Reanalyzing five randomized evaluations of conditional cash transfers (CCTs), we find that 9–37 percent of eligible recipients fail to meet conditions, and they typically have lower ...

Unionization and wage inequality

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The impact of unionization on the salaries of faculty at Canadian universities.

Privatizing Medicaid

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A natural experiment in Louisiana shows private plans can cut drug costs without reducing observed quality.

The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era before Roe by Katherine Parkin

By Theodore Joyce

Journal of Economic Literature

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The Long-Term Earnings' Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

By Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette, and Eliana Viviano

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Using a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset for Italy, we construct an exogenous firm-level measure of exposure to the credit shock during the Global Financial Crisis, based on pre-crisis firm-bank relationships. We track outcom...

Climate change and migration

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July 13, 2026

Extreme temperatures in El Salvador destroy farm jobs and push workers abroad.

Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class

By Benjamin Goldman, Jamie Gracie, and Sonya R. Porter

American Economic Review

Americans rarely marry outside their race or class group, a pattern with well-documented implications for inequality and intergenerational mobility. Limited exposure may partly explain these low intergroup marriage rates. We instrument for exposure usin...

The Unequal Economic Consequences of Carbon Pricing

By Diego R. Känzig

American Economic Review

This paper studies the economic impacts of carbon pricing. Exploiting institutional features of the European carbon market and high-frequency data, I identify carbon policy shocks and trace their dynamic effects. A restrictive carbon policy shock raise...

Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau

By Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag, and Bryan A. Stuart

American Economic Review

How do majority groups respond to narrowing inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this by examining the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency created after the US Civil War to aid former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. U...

Durables and the Marginal Propensity to Spend

By Nathan Zorzi and Martin Beraja

American Economic Review

Durables represent a large share of households’ marginal propensity to spend (MPX). We develop a quantitative model of spending that takes durables into account and matches a rich set of empirical regularities simultaneously. Scaling the response of ...

Union Bargaining Power and the Amenity-Wage Tradeoff

By Lorenzo Lagos

American Economic Review

This paper studies how collective bargaining affects wages and amenities. By merging collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) to linked employer-employee data in Brazil, I combine rich contracted amenities with wage information. I implement a difference...

Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution

By Hans-Joachim Voth ⓡ Bruno Caprettini ⓡ Alex Trew

American Economic Review

We establish a link between labor scarcity and the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. During the Napoleonic Wars, more than 10 percent of the male population served in the armed forces. Where recruitment was heavy, more mac...

Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5 Million Neighborhoods

By Sam Asher ⓡ Kritarth Jha ⓡ Paul Novosad ⓡ Anjali Adukia ⓡ Brandon Tan

American Economic Review

We study residential segregation and access to public services across 1.5 million urban and rural neighborhoods in India. Muslim and Scheduled Caste segregation in India is high by global standards, and only slightly lower than Black-White segregation i...

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