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The Elephant in the Room: The Impact of Labor Obligations on Credit Markets by Jack Favilukis, Xiaoji Lin and Xiaofei Zhao. Published in volume 110, issue 6, pages 1673-1712 of American Economic Review, June 2020, Abstract: We show that labor market...

(June 2020) - Offering comprehensive education support services to disadvantaged students shows promise for improving academic attainment. We explore longer-term impacts of the Pathways to Education program, a set of coaching, tutoring, group...

(June 2020) - Statistical significance is often interpreted as providing greater information than nonsignificance. In this article we show, however, that rejection of a point null often carries very little information, while failure to reject may be...

Revealed Preferences over Risk and Uncertainty by Matthew Polisson, John K.-H. Quah and Ludovic Renou. Published in volume 110, issue 6, pages 1782-1820 of American Economic Review, June 2020, Abstract: We develop a nonparametric method, called...

(June 2020) - We develop a nonparametric method, called Generalized Restriction of Infinite Domains (GRID), for testing the consistency of budgetary choice data with models of choice under risk and under uncertainty. Our test can allow for...

Revealed Preferences over Risk and Uncertainty by Matthew Polisson, John K.-H. Quah and Ludovic Renou. Published in volume 110, issue 6, pages 1782-1820 of American Economic Review, June 2020, Abstract: We develop a nonparametric method, called...

(June 2020) - Measuring the geographic spillovers from an economic shock remains a challenging econometric problem. In Feyrer, Mansur, and Sacerdote (2017) we study the propagation of positive shocks from the recent boom in oil and gas production...

(June 2020) - Feyrer, Mansur, and Sacerdote (2017) estimates the spatial dispersion of the effects of the recent shale-energy boom by unconditionally regressing income and employment on energy production at various levels of geographic aggregation....

(June 2020) - Quantity vouchers are used in redistributive programs to shield participants from price variation and alter their consumption patterns. However, because participants are insensitive to prices, vendors of program goods are incentivized...

Regulation by Shaming: Deterrence Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws by Matthew S. Johnson. Published in volume 110, issue 6, pages 1866-1904 of American Economic Review, June 2020, Abstract: Publicizing firms'...

(Forthcoming Article) - Does political corruption erode civic values and foster dishonest behavior? I test this hypothesis in the context of Mexico by combining data on local government corruption and cheating on school tests. I find that,...

(April 2020) - Using the text from job ads, we introduce a new dataset to describe the evolution of work from 1950 to 2000. We show that the transformation of the US labor market away from routine cognitive and manual tasks and toward nonroutine...

Stephanie Cellini discusses the ways students are affected in a much maligned industry.

Gregory Mankiw reflects on three decades as a textbook author.