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Government Trust and COVID-19 Vaccination: The Role of Supply Disruptions and Political Allegiances in Sierra Leone

By Anbar Aizenman, Fatu E. Conteh, Rachel Glennerster, Samantha Horn, Desmond M. Kangbai, Anne Karing, and Sarah Shaukat

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We use data on the universe of COVID-19 vaccines in Sierra Leone to examine the relationship between COVID-19 vaccination take-up and support for the party in power and whether interruptions to vaccine supply reduced take-up of second doses. We find that ...

The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

By Lisa Ho, Emily Breza, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Fatima C. Stanford, Renato Fior, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Louis- Ma毛l Jean, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, Esther Duflo, and Marcella Alsan

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many remain unvaccinated. We report on two studies (United States and France) with millions of Facebook users that tested two strategies central to vaccination outreach: health professionals...

Mental Models and Transfer Learning

By Ignacio Esponda, Emanuel Vespa, and Sevgi Yuksel

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Using a laboratory experiment, we investigate the extent to which learning is transferred between related problems in the context of an updating task. The updating principle we study requires updating positively after a positive signal and negatively afte...

Optimal Lending Contracts with Retrospective and Prospective Bias

By J. Aislinn Bohren and Daniel N. Hauser

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Model misspecification is a common approach to model belief formation distortions. Misspecified models can be decomposed into two classes of distortions: prospective and retrospective biases (Bohren and Hauser 2023). Prospective biases correspond to disto...

News Media, Inflation, and Sentiment

By Alistair Macaulay and Wenting Song

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We study the relationship between media portrayals of inflation and consumer sentiment. Using tools from natural language processing, we uncover two competing narratives in US news coverage of inflation: the first relates inflation to financial variables,...

Bank Loan Monitoring, Distance, and Delegation

By Amanda Rae Heitz, Christopher Martin, and Alexander Ufier

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Using a proprietary transaction-level database of nearly 30,000 multiple-draw construction loans and their on-site inspection reports, we empirically examine the relationship between geographic distance and bank information acquisition over the course of ...

Control of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

By Ian Appel and Jillian Grennan

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Blockchain technology has facilitated the emergence of a new type of organizational form, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). In contrast to corporations and other types of business organizations, DAOs do not have managers or directors with for...

Stereotypes about Successful Entrepreneurs

By Victor Lyonnet and 尝茅补 Stern

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

What comes to mind when thinking about a successful entrepreneur? Belief formation models suggest that what comes to mind is an oversimplified picture of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs鈥攖hat is, stereotypes about successful entrepreneurs...

Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline?

By Melissa Gentry, Jonathan Meer, and Danila Serra

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We evaluate the impact of an intervention aimed at informing high school counselors about the field of economics, with the aim of attracting a more diverse student population into the major. Our study involves 234 Texas high schools that send a large numb...

Fully Promoted: The Distribution and Determinants of Full Professorship in the Economics Profession

By Marieke Kleemans and Rebecca Thornton

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

In this paper, we document the distribution and determinants of full professorship in the economics profession. Using department-level data from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, we show that while the share of female full ...

On the Gender Diversity of Research Teams in Economics Seminars

By Marcus Biermann

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Seminars are an important channel through which researchers receive feedback on their work and disseminate it. This paper presents descriptive evidence on the representation of female, male, and mixed teams in economics seminars. I use a balanced panel of...

Effects of Parental Disability on Children's Schooling: The Surprising Role of Parental Education

By Katie Bollman and Leah K. Lakdawala

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

We show that negative effects of parental disability on schooling investments are larger for economically advantaged families. Among children with a veteran father, private school attendance declines with the severity of a father's service-related disabil...

Addressing the Surge in Unaccompanied Migrant Children

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, 闯辞蝉茅 Bucheli, and Mary Lopez

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Unaccompanied migrant children (UMC) account for a growing share of apprehensions along the US-Mexico border. Contrary to past UMC flows, which were primarily comprised of older youth fleeing violence in Mexico, recent UMC flows include children of all ag...

The Self-Employment Effects of Secure Communities in the United States

By Raffi E. 骋补谤肠铆补 and Alejandro 骋耻迟颈茅谤谤别锄-尝颈

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Illegal immigration has increased substantially in recent years. In this paper, we analyze how Secure Communities (SC), a major internal immigration enforcement program, affected self-employment participation and income in the United States between 2008 a...

Anticipatory Migration Responses to Rural Climate Shocks

By Esteban J. 蚕耻颈帽辞苍别蝉, Jenna Nobles, Fernando Riosmena, and Raphael Nawrotzki

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Despite increased incidence and severity of climate shocks associated with climate change, observed levels of adaptation remain low. To assess if individuals adapt to the heat-induced crop losses of neighboring households in rural, agriculturally reliant ...

Do Health Disparities Narrow with Pollution Disparities? Trends from California

By Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle C. Meng

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Pollution concentrations (PM2.5) in the United States have fallen in recent decades. Despite these improvements, disparities in concentrations between racial/ethnic groups persist. We combine administrative data on the universe of emergency roo...

Applicants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities

By Ashley Edwards, Justin Ortagus, Jonathan Smith, and Andria Smythe

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) play an important role in the postsecondary education of Black students in the United States. Using data on where 1.2 million Black SAT takers send their SAT scores, we examine which students consider a...

Colleges and Upward Economic Mobility: The Distinctive Contribution of HBCUs

By James V. Koch and Omari H. Swinton

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

Relying on a panel of more than 600 four-year colleges (including 49 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)), we show that HBCUs as a group outperform other major classes of institutions (for example, flagship state universities) in generati...

Racial Gaps in Federal Flood Buyout Compensations

By Kay Jowers, Lala Ma, and Christopher D. Timmins

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

In a managed retreat, or "buyout," program, homeowners are offered their property's fair-market value to relocate from a flood-prone area. Using a nationwide sample of federal buyout acquisitions and the universe of US housing transactions over the last t...

The Incarceration Penalty and Black-White Economic Inequality: The Case of Baltimore

By Lauren Russell, Jorge N. Zumaeta, Aaron Colston, and William A. Darity Jr.

蝌蚪网 Papers and Proceedings, May 2023

This paper investigates income and wealth gaps by household incarceration history within and across racial groups using the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. We study this in the context of 2017 Baltimore. We find that households exposed to incarceration have...