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Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights and Police Violence

By Jamein P. Cunningham, D. L. Feir, Rob Gillezeau, Matthew Harvey, and Abdul Nasser Rad

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

There is widespread concern among activists and legal scholars that Law Enforcement Officers' Bills of Rights (LEOBRs) limit police accountability and potentially impact the use of force. We exploit variation in the timing of the adoption of LEOBRs across...

Police Frisks

By David S. Abrams, Hanming Fang, and Priyanka Goonetilleke

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

The standard economic model of police frisks implies that the contraband hit rate should rise when the number of frisks falls, ceteris paribus. We provide the first empirical corroboration of such models of police behavior by examining changes in frisks f...

Measuring Police Performance: Public Attitudes Expressed in Twitter

By Taeho Kim

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

I study the viability of Twitter-based measures for measuring public attitudes about the police. I find that Twitter-based measures track Gallup's measure of public attitudes toward the police starting around 2014, when the Twitter user base stabilized, b...

Discrimination, Segregation, Integration, and Expropriation

By Geoffrey Fain Williams

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

I look at simple models of segregation and integration in a regional economy using a standard Cobb-Douglas production function and show that White capital does better in integration and White labor does better in segregation. I suggest that White capital ...

Media Access and Consumption in the Civil Rights Era

By Tianyi Wang

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

This paper uses the 1960 census and contemporary individual survey data to document the media landscape during the American civil rights movement. I find that southern Black households' TV ownership was much lower than those of other groups in the nation....

Sundown Towns and Racial Exclusion: The Southern White Diaspora and the "Great Retreat"

By Samuel Bazzi, Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Patrick A. Testa

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

This paper studies the rise of sundown towns鈥攑laces where Blacks and other minorities were excluded after dark鈥攐utside the South after 1890. We provide a new dataset on the timing of sundown town establishment using full count census records. Using a ...

On the Impact of Federal Housing Policies on Racial Inequality

By Omer Ali

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Using data on the value of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance between 1935 and 1939, I estimate the effect of the agency's program on racial disparities in home ownership and home values. The distance between an FHA office and countie...

Inequality in the Effects of Primary School Closures Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Netherlands

By Carla Haelermans, Madelon Jacobs, Rolf van der Velden, Lynn van Vugt, and Sanne van Wetten

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Using a large dataset of around 500,000 students from about 1,900 schools, this paper shows the effect of two school closures and 1.5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic on standardized learning growth for mathematics, reading, and spelling in Dutch primary ed...

More than Shelter: The Effect of Rental Eviction Moratoria on Household Well-Being

By Xudong An, Stuart A. Gabriel, and Nitzan Tzur-Ilan

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We investigate the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 rental eviction moratoria on household well-being. Analysis of new panel data indicates that eviction moratoria reduced evictions and resulted in redirection of scarce household financial resources to immedia...

The Racial Wealth Gap and the Role of Firm Ownership

By Avi Lipton

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

This paper develops an overlapping generations model that isolates the impact of the US racial wealth gap in 1962 on the long-run dynamics of wealth. The model predicts that one component of the initial gap, firm ownership, coupled with the intergeneratio...

Measuring Changes in Disparity Gaps: An Application to Health Insurance

By Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Karen Jiang, Zirui Song, and Jacob Wallace

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We propose a method for reporting how program evaluations reduce gaps between groups, such as the gender or Black-White gap. We first show that the reduction in disparities between groups can be written as the difference in conditional average treatment e...

Self-Employment and Migration: Evidence from Mexico

By Alejandro Gutierrez-Li

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Mexico has one of the highest self-employment rates in the OECD. I study the relationship between business ownership and migration from Mexico to the United States using longitudinal data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP). I find that the self-empl...

How Do Federal Policy Shocks to State Spending Impact Returns to Primary and Secondary Education?

By Miesha Jamell Williams

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Using NIPA and IPEDS data from 2000 to 2017, this research employs a panel event-study VAR to determine the recursive impact of federal education policy on college enrollment and state spending on education. Specifically, this project focuses on race and ...

COVID-19 and Its Impact on Minority-Owned Banks

By Salvador Contreras and Amit Ghosh

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Employing a difference-in-differences framework, we examine the effect of COVID-19 on various performance metrics of minority-owned banks relative to peer banks. We find little evidence of worsening performance of minority-owned banks, except for Asian-ow...

Identity during a Crisis: COVID-19 and Ethnic Divisions in the United States

By Jakina Debnam Guzman, Marie Christelle Mabeu, and Roland Pongou

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

During a crisis, does ethnic composition influence policy efficiency? How do the effects of ethnic divisions differ from those of ethnic diversity? Using the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, we show that ethnic divisions, rather than diversity, significantl...

Laissez-Faire, Social Networks, and Race in a Pandemic

By Roland Pongou, Guy Tchuente, and Jean-Baptiste Tondji

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We study the effects of race, network centrality, and policies that tolerate some level of virus spread (laissez-faire) on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in the United States. Our analysis uses unique data on nursing home networks and calibration-based ...

Who Are the More Dismal Economists? Gender and Language in Academic Economics Research

By Lea-Rachel Kosnik

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Research in disciplines outside of economics has found that male-authored articles often exhibit a positivity bias in writing style and are more likely to portray their results as "novel" and "progressive" than female-authored articles. Such positively ma...

Gender Differences in Economics Course-Taking and Majoring: Findings from an RCT

By Daniel Halim, Elizabeth T. Powers, and Rebecca Thornton

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We use an RCT at an elite public university to evaluate whether undergraduate students in introductory economics courses could be nudged to pursue economics further. Two treatment arms provided information and framed the economics major as either having w...

Gender Disparities in Career Advancement across the Transition to Parenthood: Evidence from the Marine Corps

By Olivia J. Healy and Jennifer A. Heissel

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

We isolate the effect of childbirth on mothers' and fathers' job-relevant physical performance using data from the US Marines. We estimate event study models around the first birth. We assign "placebo births" to non-parents using LASSO-selected predictors...

Convincing the Mummy-ji: Improving Mother-in-Law Approval of Family Planning in India

By S. Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Mahesh Karra, and 搁辞肠铆辞 Valdebenito

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Mothers-in-law, especially those in South Asia, can exert significant influence over women, often even more so than women's husbands or other household members. Using data from rural India, we first show that mothers-in-law are more likely than husbands t...