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Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

By Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted with the goal of improving employment opportunities for ...

蝌蚪网 Continuing Education: Recent Developments Lectures

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Learn about the 蝌蚪网's annual program for continuing education.

Past ASSA Annual Meetings

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Diversifying college applications

[Research Highlight]

January 13, 2026

Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.

Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation

By S. Nageeb Ali and Ran I. Shorrer

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2025

Applicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options, including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework that rationalizes this practice. In this framework, the admissions process is cor...

Past CSWEP Chairs

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蝌蚪网STAT: 2009 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for 蝌蚪网 Committee on Economic Statistics, 2009 ASSA meetings

蝌蚪网STAT: 2008 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for 蝌蚪网 Committee on Economic Statistics, 2008 ASSA meetings

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Distinguished Fellow 2025

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RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Effects of Environmental and Land Use Regulation in the Oil and Gas Industry Using the Wyoming Checkerboard as an Experimental Design

By Mitch Kunce, Shelby Gerking, and William Morgan

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2002

Demand, Competition, and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry

By Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Frank Verboven

Journal of Economic Literature

We review the flourishing literature on the automobile industry since the seminal work of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995), or briefly BLP. Their work provides a structural equilibrium framework that forms a basis for conducting policy counterfactuals i...

CSMGEP: The Minority Report

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Competitive Bottlenecks and Platform Spillovers

By Tat-How Teh and Julian Wright

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

We provide a general framework to analyze competition between oligopolistic platforms in competitive bottleneck settings, allowing for pricing and non-price design choices by platforms, and postparticipation buyer-seller decisions. We show that equilib...

CSWEP Midwest

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Technological change and the transformation of women's work in the twentieth century

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The adoption of milking machines in Norway.

Identifying Tax Compliance from Variation in Tax Policy: Theory and Empirics

By Andrew Bibler, Laura Grigolon, Keith F. Teltser, and Mark J. Tremblay

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Governments increasingly use changes in tax rules to combat evasion. We develop a general approach to point-identify tax compliance along with supply and demand elasticities. Identification requires data on prices and quantities, variation in tax polic...

The Effect of Public Insurance Design on Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from Medicare Part D

By Katja Hofmann and Zong Huang

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Public programs that provide benefits through private markets contend with strategic firm behavior. We study this dynamic in Medicare Part D. The Affordable Care Act closed a coverage gap in Part D by mandating drug manufacturers cover 50% of branded dr...

Prime Locations

By Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N. H. Albers, and Kristian Behrens

蝌蚪网 Review: Insights

We develop a method for delineating prime locations鈥攗ltra-dense clusters of economic activity鈥攚ithin cities and apply it to comprehensive establishment data covering all US metropolitan areas. We further use big data to extend the analysis to a glo...

How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds

By Bruce Sacerdote, Douglas O. Staiger, and Michele Tine

蝌蚪网 Review: Insights

We analyze data from one elite institution and find that test score optional policies harm the likelihood of admission for high achieving applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds. Under test optional policies, these applicants submit test scores at to...

Recurring Auctions with Costly Entry: Theory and Evidence

By Shanglyu Deng and Qiyao Zhou

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

Recurring auctions are ubiquitous for selling durable assets such as artwork and homes, with follow-up auctions held for unsold items. We investigate such auctions theoretically and empirically. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that recurring auctions ...