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The Effects of the 1930s HOLC "Redlining" Maps

By Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, and Bhashkar Mazumder

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2021

This study uses a boundary design and propensity score methods to study the effects of the 1930s-era Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) "redlining" maps on the long-run trajectories of urban neighborhoods. The maps led to reduced home ownership rates, ho...

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Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases

By Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Dmitri Koustas

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2021

We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the United States since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as households stock up on storable goods (i.e., inventory...

Measuring consumption inequality

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October 21, 2021

Warehouse stores reduce the frequency of shopping trips.

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality

[Symposium: Geographic Disparities in Health]

By Benjamin K. Couillard, Christopher L. Foote, Kavish Gandhi, Ellen Meara, and Jonathan Skinner

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

The twenty-first century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this paper, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent between 1992 and 2016. This was not simply beca...

The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity

[Symposium: Geographic Disparities in Health]

By Tatyana Deryugina and David Molitor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on health from ...

When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic

By David M. Cutler and Edward L. Glaeser

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

The fourfold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of demand for pain relief鈥攑hysical pain and despair鈥攁re high and in many cases rising, but their...

Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects

By Eric Chyn and Lawrence F. Katz

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes? Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social scientists during the past half-century. Recent empirical studies using experimental an...

College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap

By Carolyn M. Sloane, Erik G. Hurst, and Dan A. Black

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

The paper assesses gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college-educated and highlights how those differences have evolved over time. Women choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male wages associated with those m...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions

[Symposium: Criminal Justice]

By Monica C. Bell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

The Black Lives Matter movement has operated alongside a growing recognition among social scientists that policing research has been limited in its scope and outmoded in its assumptions about the nature of public safety. This essay argues that social scie...

The Economics of Policing and Public Safety

[Symposium: Criminal Justice]

By Emily Owens and Bocar Ba

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2021

The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level may be harmful at the local level, because the distribution of d...