American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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• Early Voting Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio AI翻译
  作者：Kaplan, Ethan; Yuan, Haishan
  作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Queensland
  摘要：We estimate effects of early voting on voter turnout using a 2010 homogenization law from Ohio that forced some counties to expand and others to contract early voting. Using voter registration data, we compare individuals who live within the same 2 x 2 mile square block but in different counties. We find substantial positive impacts of early voting on turnout equal to 0.22 percentage points of additional turnout per additional early voting day. We also find greater impacts on women, Democrats,...
• The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa AI翻译
  作者：Abel, Martin; Burger, Rulof; Piraino, Patrizio
  作者单位：Middlebury College; Stellenbosch University; University of Notre Dame
  摘要：We show that reference letters from former employers alleviate information frictions in a-low-skill labor market, improving applicant screening and gender equity. A resume audit study finds that using a reference letter in the application increases callbacks by 60 percent. Women drive the effect. Letters are effective because they provide valuable information about workers' skills that employers use to select applicants of higher ability. A second experiment, which encourages job seekers to ob...
• All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage AI翻译
  作者：Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna
  作者单位：Uppsala University; Stockholm University
  摘要：We study how promotions to top jobs affect the probability of divorce. We compare the relationship trajectories of winning and losing candidates for mayor and parliamentarian and find that a promotion to one of these jobs doubles the baseline probability of divorce for women, but not for men. We also find a widening gender gap in divorce rates for men and women after being promoted to CEO. An analysis of possible mechanisms shows that divorces are concentrated in more gender-traditional couple...
• Front-Loading the Unemployment Benefit: An Empirical Assessment AI翻译
  作者：Lindner, Attila; Reizer, Balazs
  作者单位：University of London; University College London
  摘要：We estimate the effect of front-loading unemployment benefit payments on nonemployment duration and reemployment wages. Exploiting a sharp change in the path of benefits for those who claimed unemployment benefits after November 1, 2005 in Hungary, we show that nonemployment duration fell by two weeks, while reemployment wages rose by 1.4 percent as a result of front-loading. We show that these behavioral responses were large enough to offset the mechanical cost increase of the unemployment in...
• Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models AI翻译
  作者：Porter, Catherine; Serra, Danila
  作者单位：Lancaster University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
  摘要：We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored in economics at the same university. The intervention significantly impacted female students' enrollment in further economics classes, increasing their likelihood to major in economics by 8 percentage points. This is a large effect, given that only 9 percent of women were majoring in economics at ...
• Flooded Cities AI翻译
  作者：Kocornik-Mina, Adriana; McDermott, Thomas K. J.; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Oxford
  摘要：Does economic activity move away from areas that are at high risk of recurring shocks? We examine this question in the context of floods, which displaced more than 650 million people worldwide in the last 35 years. We study large urban floods using spatially detailed inundation maps and night lights data spanning the globe's cities. We find that low-elevation urban areas are flooded more frequently, and yet they concentrate more economic activity per square kilometer. When cities are flooded, ...
• Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences AI翻译
  作者：Barrow, Lisa; Sartain, Lauren; de la Torre, Marisa
  作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  摘要：We investigate whether elite Chicago public high schools differentially benefit high-achieving students from more and less affluent neighborhoods. Chicago's place-based affirmative action policy allocates seats based on achievement and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). Using regression discontinuity design (RDD), we find that these schools do not raise test scores overall, but students are generally more positive about their high school experiences. For students from low-SES neighborhoo...
• The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation AI翻译
  作者：Deryugina, Tatyana; MacKay, Alexander; Reif, Julian
  作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; National Bureau of Economic Research; Harvard University
  摘要：We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long-lasting price changes in over 250 Illinois communities. Using a flexible difference-in-difference matching approach, we estimate that the price elasticity of demand grows from -0.09 in the first six months to -0.27 two years later. We find similar results with a dynamic model in which usage is a function of past and future prices. Our findings highlight the importance of acco...
• E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India AI翻译
  作者：Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Imbert, Clement; Mathew, Santhosh; Pande, Rohini
  作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Warwick; Harvard University
  摘要：Can e-governance reforms improve government policy? By making information available on a real-time basis, information technologies may reduce the theft of public funds. We analyze a large field experiment and the nationwide scale-up of a reform to India's workfare program. Advance payments were replaced by just-in-time payments, triggered by e-invoicing, making it easier to detect misreporting. Leakages went down: program expenditures dropped by 24 percent, while employment slightly increased:...
• Estimating Adjustment Frictions Using Nonlinear Budget Sets: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test AI翻译
  作者：Gelber, Alexander M.; Jones, Damon; Sacks, Daniel W.
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Chicago; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
  摘要：We introduce a method for estimating the cost of adjusting earnings, as well as the earnings elasticity with respect to the net-of-tax share. Our method uses information on bunching in the earnings distribution at convex budget set kinks before and after policy-induced changes in the magnitude of the kinks: the larger is the adjustment cost, the smaller is the absolute change in bunching from before to after the policy change. In the context of the Social Security Earnings Test, our results de...