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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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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...

Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing: A Reassessment

By Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and 脕办辞蝉 Valentinyi

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The movement of labor out of the agricultural sector is a central feature of the development process. A long-held belief is that successful development requires that much of the labor released from agriculture be allocated to manufacturing rather than ...

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Housing supply skepticism

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October 06, 2025

Christopher Elmendorf discusses the views of the US public on the housing market.

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Entertainment technology and work behavior

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How did the rollout of broadcast television during the mid-twentieth century affect labor supply decisions in the United States?

Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future

By Robert L. Axtell and J. Doyne Farmer

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in many fields. We review ABM in economics and finance and highlight how it can be ...

Organizing Time Exchanges: Lessons from Matching Markets

By Tommy Andersson, 脕驳苍别蝉 Cseh, Lars Ehlers, and Albin Erlanson

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, February 2021

This paper considers time exchanges via a common platform (e.g., markets for exchanging time units, positions at education institutions, and tuition waivers). There are several problems associated with such markets, e.g., imbalanced outcomes, coordination...