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Parenthood and Academic Career Trajectories

By Anne Sophie Lassen and Ria ±õ±¹²¹²Ô»å¾±Ä‡

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of economics, especially among permanent faculty. As parenthood is an important driver of gender inequality in the labor market, we study the impact of children on the academic careers of economists. We f...

The Influence of COVID-19 on Young Women's Labor Market Aspirations and Expectations in India

By S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, and Sophie Ochmann

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Youth unemployment and gender gaps in labor market outcomes are key policy challenges across developing countries. Young job seekers may struggle to find jobs because of their biased beliefs and unrealistic aspirations about the labor market. We study whe...

Transgender Transitioning and Responsiveness to Policy: Evidence from the Netherlands

By Elisa de Weerd, John Cawley, and Hans van Kippersluis

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This study examines a 2014 policy change in the Netherlands that simplified the process to legally transition gender. Administrative data for 2006–2022 indicate that there was a 725 percent increase in transitions after the policy change, suggesting tha...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Fertility in Spain

By Libertad ³Ò´Ç²Ô³úá±ô±ð³ú and Sofia °Õ°ù´Ç³¾³¾±ô±ð°ù´Ç±¹Ã¡

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study the effect of the first wave of COVID-19 and the accompanying containment measures on fertility in Spain. We use earlier years to predict births in the absence of the pandemic and then compare our prediction to actual births. We document a large ...

Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality

By Francisca M. Antman, Kirk B. Doran, Xuechao Qian, and Bruce A. Weinberg

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity and fields of economic research. We find that underrepres...

Student Debt Relief and Racial Wealth Gaps

By Gerald E. Daniels Jr., Jeffrey Galloway, and Venoo Kakar

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration released a plan to cancel federal student loans for 43 million borrowers on August 24, 2022. While the Supreme Court struck down the Biden-Harris student debt relief plan on June 30, 2023, the White House is now planning to...

DOJ Intervention and the Checkpoint Shift: Profiling Hispanic Motorists under the Section 287(g) Program

By Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Alberto Ortega, and Prentiss A. Dantzler

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

This research examines whether the Department of Justice's (DOJ's) investigation into the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, a 287(g) program participant, influenced the policing behavior of other 287(g)-participating agencies in North Carolina. The study ...

Media Slant and Public Policy Views

By Milena Djourelova, Ruben Durante, Elliot Motte, and Eleonora Patacchini

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We study how exposure to partisan news channels (Fox News and MSNBC) affects individual views on four policy issues: climate change, gun rights, abortion, and immigration. First, using GPT to annotate news transcripts, we document large differences in the...

Who Uses Childcare Centers? Evidence from Burkina Faso

By Kehinde F. Ajayi, Aziz Dao, Estelle °­´Ç³Ü²õ²õ´Ç³Ü²úé, and P. Rita Nikiema

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

What determines childcare center use for low-income urban households? And how does subsidizing provision change access to childcare services? We study these questions using data from a randomized evaluation that subsidized childcare center use for women p...

Is the Gender Pay Gap Largest at the Top?

By Ariel J. Binder, Amanda Eng, Kendall Houghton, and Andrew Foote

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

No: it is at least as large at bottom percentiles of the earnings distribution. Conditional quantile regressions reveal that while the gap at top percentiles is largest among the most educated, the gap at bottom percentiles is largest among the least educ...