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

By Jenna Anders and Charlie Rafkin

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

We study how eligibility expansions in the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) affect take-up among previously eligible households and social welfare. Using an event study with administrative take-up data, we document a "woodwork effect": ...

When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience—Evidence from School Parents in Brazil

By Guilherme Lichand, Nina Cunha, Ricardo A. Madeira, and Eric Bettinger

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Do informational interventions work because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction or, to a large extent, because they increase the salience of the decision they target? We randomly assign parents to either an information group...

Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies, and Electoral Accountability

By Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman, and Eleonora Patacchini

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

This paper studies the conditions under which legislators promote policies that may be unpopular in the short term but yield long-term benefits. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations from 1989 to 2020, we document that representative...

The Value of School Social Climate Information: Evidence from Chicago Housing Transactions

By Rene A. Crespin

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Educational institutions increasingly measure and publish indicators of social climate. I exploit a plausibly exogenous shock of Chicago school information to examine how social climate information is capitalized into housing markets and affects homebuyer...

Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths

By Jamein P. Cunningham and Rob Gillezeau

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Using an event-study design, we examine whether states' introduction of duty-to-bargain requirements for police unions led to meaningful changes in civilians killed by law enforcement. We find that the introduction of collective bargaining rights signific...

Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information

By Joakim A. Weill

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

This paper examines the provision of official flood risk information in the United States and its distributional impacts on residential flood insurance take-up. Assembling all flood maps produced after Hurricane Katrina, I document that updated maps decre...

The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity

By Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Hyman, and Or Shachar

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

States and localities are relied upon to implement macroeconomic stabilization policies and ensure service delivery in times of crisis. In April 2020, the introduction of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) added an emergency lending instrument to the ...

Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India

By Sarika Gupta

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Governments worldwide administer social programs for vulnerable groups, yet many eligible citizens fail to benefit. This paper studies barriers to take-up of an unconditional cash transfer program for poor women in Delhi, India, where only one-third of el...

Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Evidence from UK Business Rate Reliefs

By Ben Lockwood, Martin Simmler, and Eddy H. F. Tam

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

We study how UK property tax rates impact commercial vacancies and rents, using new data and exploiting exogenous variations in two major property tax reliefs: small business relief and retail relief. We estimate that both reliefs are effective at achievi...

Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools

By Andrew Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Eric Hanushek, Ben Ost, and Steven Rivkin

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty schools remains a persistent challenge. We evaluate the impact of an initiative that offered substantial performance-based compensation to highly effective teachers in the lowest-achieving school...

Alcohol, Labor, and Agriculture

By David M. A. Murphy

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

I evaluate a randomized control trial in rural Kenya in which selected households received cognitive behavioral therapy and medication to reduce alcohol abuse. At 16 months post-intervention, the program decreased the likelihood of positive spot breathaly...

Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India

By S. Anukriti, Bilge Erten, and Priya Mukherjee

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

We study the impact of women's political representation on the well-being of their female constituents, specifically in the domain of health. Increasing women's political representation leads to greater public provision of reproductive health care service...

Are Building Codes an Effective Adaptation to Wind Risk? Evidence from Remotely Detected Blue Tarps

By David Wolf and Kenji Takeuchi

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Hurricanes cause significant wind and water damage, yet economic research primarily focuses on the latter due to data limitations. We overcome this problem by analyzing photographs taken after Hurricane Irma (2017 ) to locate blue-tarped homes. Using a re...

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform

By Santosh Anagol, Fernando Ferreira, and Jonah Rexer

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

We estimate the economic value of zoning reform in São Paulo, which altered maximum permitted construction along transportation corridors. Developers increased filings for multifamily construction in blocks affected by the reform, leading to more housing...

Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock

By Lisa B. Kahn, Lindsay Oldenski, and Geunyong Park

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, August 2026

Minority workers tend to be disproportionately harmed by negative economic shocks. Indeed, we show that Hispanic populations experienced worse employment losses, relative to Whites, due to import competition from China largely due to lower education level...

Disentangling Probabilistic and Strategic Errors

By Sen Geng and Menglong Guan

òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics

In many strategic environments with asymmetric information, systematic decision mistakes can arise from two sources: failures in probabilistic reasoning when updating beliefs and incorrect strategic inference about opponents’ private information or c...

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The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era before Roe by Katherine J. Parkin

By Theodore Joyce

Journal of Economic Literature

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Current editors and editorial staff of the AEJ: Applied Economics.

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òòò½Íø Review, August 2026