• The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab013/6217436?redirectedFrom=fulltext 202 comments 11/4/2021

• Increased capital spending on schools leads to improved student achievement, in particular in disadvantaged school districts. The best investments include HVAC systems, pollutant removals, STEM equipment and classroom space while spending on athletic facilities yields no student achievement benefit. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf013 66 comments 19/2/2025 science
• The Gautreaux Project, the largest racial desegregation initiative in US history, enabled thousands of Black families to move into white neighborhoods from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Being raised in these neighborhoods increased children’s future lifetime earnings and wealth. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf011 7 comments 14/2/2025 upliftingnews
• The Gautreaux Project, the largest racial desegregation initiative in US history, enabled thousands of Black families to move into white neighborhoods from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Being raised in these neighborhoods increased children’s future lifetime earnings and wealth. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf011 8 comments 14/2/2025 science
• Women who are denied a wanted abortion are more likely to suffer health problems, economic problems and ending up single than the women who were granted an abortion. The pre-existing children of these women also experience worse outcomes. [Data from Colombia where judges deny or allow abortions] https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf006 131 comments 27/1/2025 science
• IRS audits are extremely effective at raising revenue, both directly and indirectly (by deterring future tax cheating): "An additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5." https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjae037/7888907 310 comments 10/11/2024 science
• Women who begin relationships with (eventually) physically abusive men suffer large and significant earnings and employment falls immediately upon cohabiting with the abusive partner. This contributes to an economic dependence on the abuser that makes it harder to leave the relationship. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjae022/7720515 18 comments 25/7/2024 science
• Slavery and Jim Crow have persistently adverse effects on African Americans – Black families whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income, and wealth than those freed before the Civil War. One reason for this is exposure to Jim Crow after slavery ended. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjae023/7718111 194 comments 23/7/2024 science
• Copayment, a cornerstone of American health insurance, is often credited with reducing wasteful spending and moral hazard. In reality, it leads patients to cut back on life-saving drugs and subject themselves to life-threatening withdrawal. It is highly inefficient and wasteful. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjae015/7664375 562 comments 5/5/2024 science
• The Neolithic revolution, the wide-scale transition to agriculture among at least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations, was enabled by climactic changes. Increased climatic seasonality caused hunter-gatherers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and store food for the season of scarcity. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjae012 13 comments 22/4/2024 science
• Student outcomes in Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice increased markedly. Effect was larger for schools exposed to more competition, supporting the notion that competition is a key channel https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjad052/7304429 5 comments 4/3/2024 science
• Workers severely underestimate the wages that they would earn at other firms – Standard labor market models assume that workers hold accurate information about their outside options and negotiate with their employer accordingly, but this assumption is flawed. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjae001/7515276 5 comments 19/1/2024 science
• Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjad051/7284417?redirectedFrom=fulltext 2 comments 13/10/2023 economics
• Today's wealth gap between Whites and Blacks in the US is rooted in the legacy of very different wealth conditions following emancipation from slavery. This meant that Whites enjoyed higher average savings rates and capital gains rates, making it hard for Blacks to close the gap. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjad044/7276493 773 comments 19/9/2023 science
• A Chicago gun violence prevention program offered a job, cognitive behavioral therapy and social support to at-risk men. This substantially reduced both arrests and victimizations for shootings and homicides, generating social savings between $182,000 and $916,000 per participant. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjad031/7220727?redirectedFrom=fulltext 264 comments 9/8/2023 science
• Prosecution of individuals for nonviolent misdemeanors increases the likelihood of future criminal activity, in particular for first-timers. [The study uses the random assignment of misdemeanor cases to prosecutors to compare what happens to similar misdemeanor offenders who were prosecuted or not]. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjad005/6998589?redirectedFrom=fulltext 9 comments 24/1/2023 science
• Migration restrictions (such as work bans) in destination countries deterred Jewish out-migration from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In the absence of these restrictions, 12-20% more Jews would have migrated and mortality would have been reduced by 6-10%. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad001 4 comments 13/1/2023 science
• Data from 35 million traffic stops show that the probability that a stopped driver is Black increases by 5.74% after Trump 2016 campaign rallies. "The effect is immediate, specific to Black drivers, lasts for up to 60 days after the rally, and is not justified by changes in driver behavior." https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac037 2902 comments 23/9/2022 science
• Market pressures led to reduced racial discrimination by businesses, but the effects were too small to end segregation in public accommodations. Without the Civil Rights Act, explicit racial discrimination by businesses would have persisted. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac035 3 comments 12/9/2022 science
• Paper finds employers increasingly willing to hire workers with criminal records: The researchers found that 51% of businesses without high-value inventory were willing to hire employees with criminal backgrounds. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac029/6673931 7 comments 30/8/2022 science
• Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac024/6605934 3 comments 17/8/2022 science
• An audit survey involving 83,000 fictitious job applications sent to the 108 largest US firms shows that the firms consistently favor White applications over otherwise similar Black applications. In terms of gender, some firms prefer female job applications while others prefer male job applications. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac024/6605934?redirectedFrom=fulltext 663 comments 11/6/2022 science
• Women self-report more harassment from colleagues in male-dominated workplaces where wages are high, and men report more harassment in female-dominated workplaces where wages are low. Women who report harassment are more likely to switch to new workplaces with more female colleagues and lower pay. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac018/6581192 10 comments 12/5/2022 science
• Under a high emissions scenario, climate change will cause an increase in mortality equivalent to 3.2% of global GDP in 2100. Today’s cold locations are projected to benefit, while today’s poor and hot locations have large projected damages. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac020 6 comments 21/4/2022 science
• There is a link between the rise of socialism and the emergence of fascism in interwar Italy. Greater socialist support at the local level led to greater local fascist activity (local party branches, fascist political violence) and greater Fascist Party vote share in the 1921 and 1924 elections. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjac001/6513426?redirectedFrom=fulltext 44 comments 21/1/2022 science
• Researchers—studying how exclusive social groups shape upward mobility—find the link between exclusive college clubs and finance careers persists across the 20th century. This even as Harvard diversifies and that elite university students from highest-income families continue to outearn their peers. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab047/6449025 2 comments 8/12/2021 science
• People stay poor either due to differences in fundamentals like ability, talent or motivation, or differences in opportunities that stem from access to wealth. Study finds large transfers that create better jobs are effective means of getting people out of poverty traps and reducing global poverty. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab045/6455333?redirectedFrom=fulltext 4 comments 8/12/2021 science
• There are two broad views as to why people stay poor: (1) Fundamentals (e.g. ability, skill), and (2) The poverty trap (e.g. lack of opportunity). A large experiment involving cash transfers to 6,000 extreme-poverty households substantiates the poverty trap view, lifting people out of poverty https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab045/6455333 171 comments 7/12/2021 science
• Woodrow Wilson's introduction of racial segregationist policies to the U.S. civil service widened the black-white earnings gap, as existing black civil servants were pushed to lower-paid positions. This had various long-run adverse effects on the descendants of those black civil servants. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab040 236 comments 8/11/2021 science
• When people are shown an economics explainer video about the benefits and costs of raising taxes, they become significantly more likely to support more progressive taxation. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab033/6363701?redirectedfrom=fulltext 2 comments 4/9/2021 economy
• When people are shown an economics explainer video about the benefits and costs of raising taxes, they become significantly more likely to support more progressive taxation. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab033/6363701?redirectedfrom=fulltext 1003 comments 3/9/2021 science
• Affirmative action was banned at California public colleges in 1998. Contrary to the "Mismatch Hypothesis" which holds that minority students are harmed by going to top colleges, the ban led to a huge decline in wages for minority applicants and deterred qualified minority applicants from applying https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab027/6360982?redirectedfrom=fulltext 21 comments 1/9/2021 science
• The introduction of a nationwide minimum wage policy in Germany (for 15% of workers) led to higher wages for workers without any adverse effect on employment. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab028/6355463 16 comments 20/8/2021 science
• Strict voter ID requirements have no effect on voter fraud (actual or perceived). Also, voter ID laws do not have an impact on turnout, in part because political campaigns increase their voter mobilization efforts after strict voter ID requirements have been put in place. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab019 30 comments 25/5/2021 science
• Black and Hispanic motorists are searched at higher rates than White motorists, yet contraband is found at substantially lower rates among Blacks and Hispanics. If police were to equalize search rates across races while maintaining the status quo search rate, they would increase contraband yield https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjab018 1134 comments 23/5/2021 science
• Study: Increased nighttime sleep for the urban poor had no detectable effects on cognition, productivity, decision-making, or well-being. In contrast, short afternoon naps at workplace showed significant increases in productivity, psychological well-being, and cognition, but a decrease in work time. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab013/6217436?redirectedfrom=fulltext 13 comments 11/4/2021 science
• U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past hundred years. Researchers have now found consistent evidence that unions reduce inequality, explaining a significant share of the dramatic fall in inequality between the mid-1930s and late 1940s. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab012/6219103?redirectedfrom=fulltext 241 comments 10/4/2021 science
• US states that opted to expand Affordable Care Act Medicaid had significant reductions in mortality. Individuals in expansion states experienced a 9.4 percent reduction as a result of the Medicaid expansions. The effect is driven by a reduction in disease-related deaths and grows over time. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjab004/6124639 1331 comments 4/2/2021 science
• Men in the military who were randomly assigned to mixed-gender squads for eight weeks developed more egalitarian attitudes than those assigned to male squads. Contrary to some predictions, the integration of women into squads did not reduce male recruits' performance. [Experimental data from Norway] https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa047/6054550?redirectedfrom=fulltext 2524 comments 31/12/2020 science
• A German mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers led to increases in capital investment. It had no impact on the profitability of the firms nor on the wages and employment by the firms. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa038/5944124? 4 comments 2/11/2020 economy
• A German mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers led to increases in capital investment. It had no impact on the profitability of the firms nor on the wages and employment by the firms. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa038/5944124?redirectedfrom=fulltext 201 comments 31/10/2020 science
• Criminalization of sex work increases STDs among female sex workers by 58%, and decreases the earnings of the women who left sex work due to criminalization. [The study uses a quasi-natural experiment where one district of Indonesia unexpectedly criminalized sex work] https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa032/5912394?redirectedfrom=fulltext 57 comments 30/9/2020 science
• In 2017, the IRS sent 3.9 million letters to randomly selected households which had paid a tax penalty in the past for not being enrolled in health insurance. This intervention increased insurance coverage and reduced mortality. This is strong evidence that health insurance can reduce mortality. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa029/5911132?redirectedfrom=fulltext 377 comments 25/9/2020 science
• Computer Science, Engineering, and Business graduates have higher salaries when they enter the labor market, but this advantage declines rapidly over time (because of skill obsolescence). Individuals that score higher on tests for aptitude are more likely to work in STEM at age 24, but not by age 40 https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa021/5858010 29 comments 21/6/2020 science
• Government investments in low-income children’s health and education lead to a five-fold return in net revenue for the government, as the children grow up to pay more in taxes and require less government transfers. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjaa006/5781614 841 comments 19/3/2020 science
• Trump's 2018 increase in tariffs caused an aggregate real income loss of $7.2 billion (0.04% of GDP) by raising prices for consumers. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjz036/5626442?redirectedfrom=fulltext 1533 comments 23/11/2019 science
• The largest-ever natural experiment on wealth taxes found that they work as intended — both raising revenue and controlling income inequality. The taxes had the greatest impact on the top .1% wealthiest. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjz032/5584349 2166 comments 17/10/2019 science
• Minimum wages have no adverse impact on the overall number of low-wage jobs. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjz014/5484905?redirectedfrom=fulltext 245 comments 7/5/2019 science
• "Children from high-income (top 1%) families are ten times as likely to become inventors as those from below-median income families. These gaps persist even among children with similar math test scores in early childhood." https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjy028/5218522?redirectedfrom=fulltext 233 comments 30/11/2018 science
• According to a new research, 250 years after Jesuit missionaries were expelled from their educational missions in the Guirani, people living near the ruins of Jesuit missions complete 10-15% more years of education and earn 10% more than residents of equivalent towns without missions. https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje/qjy024/5123742?guestaccesskey=fdad66da-7cf2-4ea3-84e5-3e40714b58ea 7 comments 12/11/2018 science

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