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Heterogeneous Responses to Job Mobility Shocks in a HANK Model with a Frictional Labor Market

By Serdar Birinci, Fatih Karahan, Yusuf Mercan, and Kurt See

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We use a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian model with a frictional labor market featuring on-the-job-search to study how job switching affects consumption decisions for individuals with different wealth levels. We find that an increased job switching rate...

A Model of Harmful Yet Engaging Content on Social Media

By George Beknazar-Yuzbashev, Rafael ´³¾±³¾Ã©²Ô±ð³ú-¶Ù³Ü°ùá²Ô, and Mateusz Stalinski

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Why do social media users spend so much time consuming content that seemingly harms them? We build a simple model to argue that advertising-driven platforms can find it profitable to display content that harms users when it is complementary to their time ...

Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty

By Paul Bose, Lorenzo Lupo, Mahyar Habibi, Dirk Hovy, and Carlo Schwarz

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper investigates disparities among objective poverty measures, individuals' subjective perceptions, and poverty-related social media discourse in US counties. We find that while poverty and perceived poverty are positively correlated, poverty-relat...

Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water

By David A. Keiser, Bhashkar Mazumder, David Molitor, Joseph S. Shapiro, and Brant J. Walker

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the targeting of subsidized loans provided through the Safe Drinking Water Act with the ta...

The Changing Nature of Pollution, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States

By Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis, and Reed Walker

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This paper uses tax records linked to administrative Census data and high-resolution measures of air pollution exposure (PM2.5) to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap since 1984. We decompose changes in the racial exposure gap in...

Long-Term Effects of Preschool Subsidies and Cash Transfers on Child Development: Evidence from Uganda

By Kjetil Bjorvatn, Denise Ferris, Selim Gulesci, Arne Nasgowitz, Vincent Somville, and Lore Vandewalle

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, three-to-five-year-old children in Uganda were randomly offered a subsidy to attend full-day preschool for one year. A second treatment group received cash transfers that were at least as large as the cos...

The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children's Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

By David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, and Amina Mendez Acosta

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Center-based childcare programs are expanding rapidly in low- and middle-income countries. The impacts of these programs on women's labor market outcomes are consistently positive, but what are the impacts on children's developmental outcomes? We systemat...

Residential versus Online? Experimental Evidence on Diversifying the STEM Pipeline

By Sarah R. Cohodes, Helen Ho, Elizabeth Huffaker, and Silvia C. Robles

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Prior research has shown that most educational interventions boost student outcomes to a greater extent when delivered in person as opposed to online. However, we know little about whether this is true for enrichment programs targeted to highly motivated ...