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Under the cover of disaster

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In the immediate aftermath of natural disasters, members of Congress become more likely to adopt the positions of special interest donors.

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality

By D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, and Daniel I. Rees

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900鈦犫�撯仩1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against foodborne and waterborne diseases. In addition to studying intervent...

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment

By David M. Cutler and Grant Miller

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

We address points raised by Anderson, Charles, and Rees (2022), which comments on our prior work. After correcting unambiguous data mistakes, our revised estimates suggest that municipal water disinfection (filtration) explains 38 percent of the total mor...

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply

By D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, and Daniel I. Rees

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022

This rejoinder is written in response to the comment by Cutler and Miller (hereafter CM) on our paper, "Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality" (Anderson, Charles, and Rees 2022). In their comment, CM ackno...

Don't miss the 蝌蚪网 sessions on how research can inform policy at ASSA 2026!

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September 04, 2025

What Drives the Recent Surge in Inflation? The Historical Decomposition Roller Coaster

By Drago Bergholt, Fabio Canova, Francesco Furlanetto, 狈颈肠辞濒貌 Maffei-Faccioli, and 笔氓濒 Ulvedal

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

What drives the recent inflation surge? To answer this question, one must decompose inflation fluctuations into the contribution of structural shocks. We document how whimsical an historical shock decomposition can be in standard vector autoregressive ...

The Welfare Effects of Eligibility Expansions: Theory and Evidence from SNAP

By Jenna Anders and Charlie Rafkin

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

We study how eligibility expansions in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program affect take-up among previously eligible households and social welfare. Using an event study with administrative take-up data, we document a 鈥渨oodwork effect鈥�:...

Inclusive Teaching: Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom

By Sule Alan, Michela Carlana, and Marinella Leone

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

We evaluate an intervention aimed at addressing social isolation in classrooms. The treatment provides teachers with their students鈥� social networks and information on developmental risks associated with social exclusion. Using friendship data and in...

A Guide to the Job Market for New Economics PhDs

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Watch A Guide to the Job Market for New Economics PhDs (2025)

Call for nominations for CSWEP鈥檚 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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April 21, 2025

Nominations are due by September 19, 2025.

Call for nominations for CSWEP鈥檚 Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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April 21, 2025

Nominations are due by September 19, 2025.

Tax breaks and the composition of religious markets

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September 19, 2025

The effect of tax exemptions on Brazil's religious and political landscape.

Optimal Taxation of Inflation

By Damien Capelle and Yang Liu

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of a tax on inflation policy (TIP), which would require firms to pay a tax proportional to the increase in their prices or wages, in stabilizing inflation. We show that TIP would effectively correct externalities i...

Front Matter

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2025

Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow

By Thomas Le Barbanchon

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2025

This paper tests whether partially unemployed workers value future preserved benefits when they bunch at the kink of the unemployment insurance benefit-withdrawal schedule. I extend the bunching formula of Saez (2010) to a dynamic setting that accounts fo...

Pulled In and Crowded Out: Heterogeneous Outcomes of Merit-Based School Choice

By Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Kai Liu, and Kjell G. Salvanes

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2025

We analyze the effects of reforming the high school admission system from a residence based allocation to a merit-based allocation. The merit-based system generates oversubscribed schools, which favor high-GPA students at the expense of displacing low-GPA...

Labor Market Inequality and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Male and Female Wages

By Richard Blundell, Hugo Lopez, and James P. Ziliak

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2025

We estimate the full distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of men and women in the United States using a quantile selection model to account for systematic differences in employment by gender and education group. Although common within-group time e...

Home Sweet Home: Returns to Returning in the Age of Mass Migration

By Olof Ejermo, Kerstin Enflo, 叠箩枚谤苍 Eriksson, and Erik Prawitz

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2025

Despite significant circular migration flows historically and today, their economic impacts remain understudied. Using data on predominantly rural Swedish migrants who returned from the United States during the Age of Mass Migration, we estimate returns t...

Labor Supply and Entertainment Innovations: Evidence from the US TV Rollout

By George Fenton and Felix Koenig

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2025

We study the impact of entertainment technology on labor supply. Using Social Security work histories and a natural experiment arising from the regulated US rollout of television, we estimate that a station launch reduced the probability of working by aro...