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- Growth by proximity – Moretti on the effect of high-tech hubs on innovation https://www.aeaweb.org/research/enrico-moretti-high-tech-clusters 5 comments
- Unintended Effects of Anonymous Résumés https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fapp.20140185 2 comments
- Paper: Abandoning Gold Standard Pulls Countries Out of Depressions https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20221479 43 comments economy
- The Ryan White CARE Act, a 1990 law that provided federal funding to treat HIV/AIDS in low-income people, saved approximately 57,000 lives through 2018. The cost of each life saved is approximately $334,000. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20220089 53 comments science
- White South-African students who were randomly allocated to share a dorm room with black students were less likely to express negative stereotypes of Blacks and more likely to form interracial friendships, while the black students improved their GPA, passed more exams and had lower dropout rates. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20181805 1822 comments science
- Investment in school facilities lead to better test scores, attendance, and house prices. Each dollar spent generated $1.62 in household value, with about 24% coming directly through test score gains and 76% from capitalization of non-test-score amenities. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fapp.20200467 74 comments science
- The $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic was highly regressive and inefficient, as most recipients were not in need (three-quarters of PPP funds accrued to the top quintile of households). The US lacked the administrative infrastructure to target aid to those in distress. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.36.2.55 841 comments science
- Gas prices when drivers are age 15-18 impact those drivers' travel preferences for the rest of their lives. Effects are not explained by recessions, income, or costly skill acquisition & are inconsistent w/ recency bias, mental plasticity, & standard habit-formation models. (Pos. causes in abstract) https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/app.20200407?PHPSESSID=3ca3a20cc29997109b3eea0c2a476acb&aeawebcookie=5HjDaL1rJZ3MGQCw15zBuNV81fV7LpMKU4K&etoc=1&perm_aeawebcookie=Uc5S59qvlX8FcXY47heEuSYFOU4aP4Z6irl 58 comments science
- White police officers are substantially more likely than non-white officers to use force and shoot civilians when they are dispatched to minority neighbourhoods. [Data from 1.6 million 911 calls] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20201292 3 comments law
- Using data from Florida Highway Patrol (individualized to each officer), researchers show that Whites drivers are significantly more likely to receive a discount on their speeding tickets than minorities. They estimate that 42 percent of Florida Highway Patrol officers practice discrimination. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20181607 13 comments science
- New study suggests that Facebook may be exacerbating polarization. It provides strong evidence that Facebook’s algorithm currently tailors users’ feeds in a way that filters out differing views—even if a user subscribes to a counter-attitudinal news page—creating a so-called “filter bubble.” https://www.aeaweb.org/research/social-media-news%20consumption-polarization-facebook 297 comments science
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) in the US massively improved the financial standing of disabled individuals: "Disability allowance reduces the likelihood of bankruptcy by 20 percent, foreclosure by 33 percent, and home sale by 15 percent." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20190709 12 comments science
- Study: German immigrants significantly boosted Union Army enlistments through newspapers, social clubs, and public speaking tours. Their words and leadership helped President Lincoln and the North win the Civil War. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/leaders-social-movements-forty-eighters 55 comments science
- Economists offer some positive news for researchers who rely on lab experiments for their work. Comparing survey responses from students to other populations, they found that the campus lab is generally reliable for gaining general insights into human behavior. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/lab-experiments-external-validity 5 comments science
- Paid maternity leave leads to improved maternal health, in particular for first-time and low-resource mothers. [Data from Norway] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20190022 8 comments science
- Factors that drive college attendance have shifted dramatically in the post-WWII era. Rising demand for higher education has led to institutional stratification, making college more attractive to high-ability students and less attractive to weaker ones, regardless of family background. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/charts/college-quality-attendance-family-academics 11 comments science
- The introduction of mobile banking to very poor rural Bangladeshi households (and family members who had migrated to the city) led to increased remittances by 26%, increased consumption by 7.5%, and greater savings. It reduced borrowing and led to a decline in extreme poverty. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20190067 3 comments science
- Study: Issues aren’t with the farmers or the consumers—it’s with the intermediaries connecting the two. Wholesale traders, particularly the large ones, have outsized influence on food markets and are engaged in a kind of tacit collusion to ensure they collect the biggest profits. https://www.aeaweb.org/research/intermediary-collusion-kenyan-ag-market 926 comments science
- Affirmative-action policies in Chicago high schools were a mixed bag. High-achieving students from poorer neighborhoods admitted to Chicago’s elite high schools had lower grades and were less likely to attend a selective college. But these students also reported more positive high school experiences https://www.aeaweb.org/research/affirmative-action-unintended-consequences-chicago 75 comments science
- Between 300 and 400 cities in the U.S. employ traffic camera programs. New research using Houston, Texas, data, shows that there was a change in the frequency of certain types of accidents, but no reduction in total accidents and no increase in the total number of people injured. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170674 10 comments science
- Republicans have argued against Medicaid expansion, saying that expansion will adversely affect the health care received by Medicare recipients. A large-scale panel data study finds no evidence that Medicaid expansion impaired access to care or utilization for the Medicare population. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20190176 2062 comments science
- The DACA program, which provided temporary stay to undocumented immigrants who were brought into the US as minors, significantly increased high school attendance and high school graduation rates. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20180352 38 comments science
- "Between 1996 and 2012, a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations led to an increase in foreign enrollment of 16 percent at public research universities." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170620 3 comments science
- A 1 standard deviation (0.245 mile) increase in distance to a polling location reduces US voter turnout by 2-5%. The effects are larger in non-presidential elections. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180306 108 comments science
- Promotions to top jobs dramatically increase women's probability of divorce, but does not do so for men when they got promoted. "Divorces are concentrated in more gender-traditional couples, while women in more gender-equal couples are unaffected." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180435 10 comments science
- Sweden's implementation of a carbon tax successfully and substantially reduced carbon dioxide emissions https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170144 227 comments science
- "There is robust evidence that higher minimum wages increase family incomes at the bottom of the distribution." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170085 1418 comments science
- In 1996, a federal welfare reform prohibited convicted drug felons from ever obtaining food stamps. The ban increased recidivism among drug felons. The increase is driven by financially motivated crimes, suggesting that ex-convicts returned to crime to make up for the lost transfer income. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20170490 2649 comments science
- Restrictions on new housing in high-productivity cities (e.g. New York, San Francisco) lowered US productivity growth by 36% from 1964 to 2009. In the absence of onerous zoning regulations, US GDP would be 3.7% higher (which translates into an additional $3,685 in average annual earnings). https://www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf/doi/10.1257/mac.20170388?return_path=/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/mac.20170388&etoc=1 13 comments science
- Preschool-age children who were exposed to Sesame Street perform better in school, in particular boys. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20170300 25 comments science
- Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's Early Rise to Riches https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.4.165 3 comments economy
- Racism explains almost the entire shift from Democrats to Republicans in the US South https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161413 69 comments science
- Pretrial detention significantly increases the likelihood that defendants plead guilty, but has no net effect on the crime rate https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161503 6 comments science
- The current rate of federal judge vacancies has resulted in 1,000 fewer prison inmates annually compared to a fully-staffed court system, a 1.5 percent decrease. Judges are now more likely to dismiss cases, and defendants are more likely to plead guilty and less likely to be incarcerated. https://www.aeaweb.org/atypon.php?return_path=/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/pol.20150150&etoc=1 11 comments science
- Most hosts of modern Olympics incur far greater economic costs than benefits https://www.aeaweb.org/research/are-the-olympics-ever-worth-it-host-city 294 comments science
- Why infant mortality is higher in the United States than in Europe. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20140224 22 comments science
- By almost every measure, the US economy has performed better when the president of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican. Further, since 1947, "of the 49 quarters classified as being in recession, only 8 came under Democrats versus 41 under Republicans." https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.20140913 41 comments politics
- Why Are There Still So Many Jobs. The History and Future of Workplace Automation. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.29.3.3&new2 3 comments science
- Changing My Master Studies from Economics to Statistics/Machine Learning. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257%2Fjep.28.2.3 3 comments statistics
- Early retirement appears to have a significant negative impact on the cognitive ability of people in their early 60s that is both quantitatively important and causal. http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.24.1.119 4 comments cogsci