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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...

Marriage Penalties and Bonuses by Race and Ethnicity: An Application of Race and Ethnicity Imputation

By Rachel Costello, Portia DeFilippes, Robin Fisher, Ben Klemens, and Emily Y. Lin

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

The Office of Tax Analysis of the Treasury Department imputes race and ethnicity information to its tax model. We apply the imputed information to the calculation of marriage penalties and bonuses for married couples and find differences in the penalty an...

The Slanted-L Phillips Curve

By Pierpaolo Benigno and Gauti B. Eggertsson

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

A slanted-L curve is well suited to represent the nonlinearity of the celebrated Phillips curve. We show this using cross-country data of major industrialized economies since 2009, including the inflationary surge of the 2020s. At high unemployment rates,...

Tailoring Mentorship: Evidence on Diverse Needs and Application Patterns for High School Students

By Caterina Calsamiglia, Javier Garcia-Brazales, and Annalisa Loviglio

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2024

We investigate enrollment in a mentoring program aimed at promoting transition to tertiary education for high school students. Females exhibit both higher initial interest and application completion, while immigrants and financially constrained students i...