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Bias in academic networking

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A social media field experiment suggests that gender, race, and university affiliation influence the formation of professional relationships among economists.

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蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

Intermediated Asymmetric Information, Compensation, and Career Prospects

By Ron Kaniel and Dmitry Orlov

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

Adverse selection benefits firms able to identify talent. An informed intermediary expropriates agents' ability by threatening to fire and expose them to undervaluation of their skill. An agent's track record gradually reduces intermediary's information a...

Place-Based Redistribution

By Cecile Gaubert, Patrick Kline, Damian Vergara, and Danny Yagan

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

We study optimal income taxation in a spatial equilibrium model with heterogeneous locational preferences, labor supply decisions, and competitive housing and labor markets. Expressions characterizing the optimal tax schedule in each community are provide...

Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes

By Fernando Alvarez, 碍补迟补谤铆苍补 叠辞谤辞惫颈膷办辞惫谩, and Robert Shimer

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

We develop a linear GMM estimator of the discrete-time mixed proportional hazard (MPH) model of duration with an arbitrary distribution of unobserved heterogeneity. We allow for competing risks, observable characteristics, and censoring. We prove our esti...

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

By Evan Munro, Xu Kuang, and Stefan Wager

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

Policy-relevant treatment effect estimation in a marketplace setting requires assessing both the direct treatment benefit and spillovers induced by changes to the market equilibrium. We show how to identify and estimate policy-relevant treatment effects u...

The Value of Software

By Roberto 骋贸尘别锄-颁谤补尘 and Alastair Lawrence

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

Software is one of the most important assets that needs to be priced in the digital economy. It has emerged as a disruptive technology, with companies primarily valued for their software offerings growing from 2 percent to 13 percent of market share betwe...

Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-experiment in Sweden

By John Coglianese, Maria Olsson, and Christina Patterson

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

We analyze a monetary quasi-experiment in Sweden from 2010鈥�2011, when the Riksbank raised the interest rate substantially. We argue that this increase was beyond what labor market conditions warranted, driven instead by new concerns about financial stab...

Diffusion of Reproductive Health Behavior through International Migration: Effects on Origin-Country Fertility

By Susan Godlonton and Caroline Theoharides

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

International migrants may facilitate the transmission of ideas across countries. We examine the impact of migrant exposure to reproductive health policies on origin-country fertility in the Philippines. We exploit temporal variation in destination-countr...

Politics at Work

By Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto, and Edoardo Teso

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes using new microdata from Brazil. We first show that business owners are considerably more likely to employ copartisan workers. This phenomenon is in part driven by the o...

Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring, Cognitive Outcomes, and Soft Skills

By Michela Carlana and Eliana La Ferrara

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2025

We study the Tutoring Online Program (TOP), where tutoring is entirely online and tutors are volunteer university students matched with underprivileged middle school students. We leverage random assignment to estimate effects during and after the pandemic...

The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants

By Maya Mikdash and Suhyeon Oh

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Little is known about the role of race in the defense of low income defendants by court-appointed attorneys. Exploiting the quasi-random assignment of court-appointed attorneys to cases, we test whether attorneys secure better deals for same-race defen...

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A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

By Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children鈥� through duration expansions to the kindergarten day鈥攖o better understand how an implicit childcare subsidy affects mothers and families. Exploiting full-day k...

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Una Carrera en Econom铆a (Spanish Version)

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The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency

By A. Brooks Bowden, Viviana Rodriguez, and Zach Weingarten

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students鈥� endogenous responses. This paper provides empirical evidence of the causal impact...