Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government -- by...
A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence public sector careers. We describe how elections alter...
View ArticleFrom Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an...
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us--possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple...
View ArticleFDI and Inequality in Vietnam: An Approach with Census Data -- by John...
We investigate the effects of inward FDI on income distribution and absolute living standards in Vietnam using census data from 1989-2009. We compute the number of employees of foreign establishments...
View ArticleLocked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis -- by Jennifer...
This paper examines how housing market distress affects job search. Using data from a leading online job search platform during the Great Recession, we find that job seekers in areas with depressed...
View ArticleBooks or Laptops? The Cost-Effectiveness of Shifting from Printed to Digital...
Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities,...
View ArticleEducational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased -- by Rania...
Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have...
View ArticleHigh-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration -- by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William...
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the...
View ArticleAre Fuel Economy Standards Regressive? -- by Lucas W. Davis, Christopher R....
Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of...
View ArticleWhy Does Capital No Longer Flow More to the Industries with the Best Growth...
With functionally efficient capital markets, we expect capital to flow more to the industries with the best growth opportunities. As a result, these industries should invest more and see their assets...
View ArticleDisrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction...
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students...
View ArticleAutomated Economic Reasoning with Quantifier Elimination -- by Casey B. Mulligan
Many theorems in economics can be proven (and hypotheses shown to be false) with "quantifier elimination." Results from real algebraic geometry such as Tarski's quantifier elimination theorem and...
View ArticleCoal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution -- by W. Walker Hanlon
While the Industrial Revolution brought economic growth, there is a long debate in economics over the costs of the pollution externalities that accompanied early industrialization. To help settle this...
View ArticleLabor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using...
We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by the...
View ArticleA Poor Means Test? Econometric Targeting in Africa -- by Caitlin Brown,...
Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a proxy-means test score based on...
View ArticleDisappearing Routine Jobs: Who, How, and Why? -- by Guido Matias Cortes, Nir...
We study the deterioration of employment in middle-wage, routine occupations in the United States in the last 35 years. The decline is primarily driven by changes in the propensity to work in routine...
View ArticleImproving the Quality of Choices in Health Insurance Markets -- by Jason...
Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing concern over whether consumers choose appropriately in such markets - and little...
View ArticleStimulating Housing Markets -- by David Berger, Nicholas Turner, Eric Zwick
This paper studies temporary policy incentives designed to address capital overhang by inducing asset demand from buyers in the private market. Using variation across local geographies in ex ante...
View ArticleEconomic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: Evidence from Tanzania...
At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other time in recent history. Employment growth has also been strong keeping up with...
View ArticleWeekly Top 5 Papers â December 12, 2016
1. How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? by Paul Gompers (Harvard Business School â Finance Unit) and Will Gornall (University of British Columbia (UBC) â Division of Finance) and Steven...
View ArticleLeading Dispersed Teams
Eric McNulty, director of research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, has written a blog post for Strategy + Business that addresses how to lead dispersed teams effectively. McNulty...
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