{"title":"Employment adjustments to increased imports: Evidence from a developing country","authors":"Beyza Ural Marchand","doi":"10.1111/coep.12691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12691","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the impact of imports from developed countries on industry-specific employment in India between 1983 and 2010. The identification strategy relies on comparing differential changes in import exposure across regions to the differential changes in employment within industries. The variation in the changes in imports to other developing countries is used to identify the component of the changes in imports driven by world demand. The results suggest that the increase in import exposure during the post-liberalization period reduced agricultural employment but increased employment in manufacturing, business, and social services. No significant impacts were found in the pre-liberalization period.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"520-538"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The standard system and corporate labor employment: Empirical evidence from China's comprehensive standardization reform","authors":"Lianchao Yu, Hongji Geng, Feifei Song, Changheng Zhao","doi":"10.1111/coep.12688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12688","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study employs China's comprehensive standardization reform as an exogenous policy shock to investigate the impact of the standard system on corporate labor employment. The findings indicate that comprehensive standardization reform facilitates corporate labor employment by reducing transaction costs, enhancing operational efficiency, and improving the financing environment. The heterogeneity analysis reveals that the effects of comprehensive standardization reform on corporate labor employment are more pronounced in firms with non-state ownership, operating in competitive industries, located in regions with lower levels of marketization, and exhibiting significant gender disparities. Overall, this study highlights the employment externalities associated with the standard system.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"495-519"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The non-linear impact of corruption investigations on political trust","authors":"Yanjun Li, Hamza Umer","doi":"10.1111/coep.12689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12689","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Trust in political institutions and their officials is crucial for implementing policies, enacting reforms, and facilitating collective action. This paper examines how corruption investigations influence trust in local cadres. Using data from China's anti-corruption campaign, which increased corruption case disclosures, we find positive signals about checks and balances outweigh negative ones only when corruption cases are few. However, as investigations increase, trust diminishes due to heightened perceptions of corruption and lower evaluations of local governments, especially among those who lacked prior beliefs about local corruption levels before the campaign.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"539-564"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12689","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dude, where's my (summer) job? Minimum wages and student employment","authors":"Adam C. Wright, Darius D. Martin, John M. Krieg","doi":"10.1111/coep.12687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12687","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We use rich administrative data to study employment and income during a period of minimum wage growth in Washington State for a group of workers who may be particularly sensitive to changes in the minimum wage: college students. Using a within-student estimator and quarterly work records, we consistently find that rising minimum wages are associated with reduced summer employment, the quarter in which students tend to work the most. Students experiencing the largest reductions in employment are those with little or no work experience and non-local students. This is partially mitigated by students working more during the academic year.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"411-426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Omer Bayar, Christopher Boudreaux, Todd Richard Yarbrough
{"title":"Natural disasters and economic dynamism: Evidence from U.S. entrepreneurial activity","authors":"Omer Bayar, Christopher Boudreaux, Todd Richard Yarbrough","doi":"10.1111/coep.12686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12686","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine how disaster events influence small business activity in a sample of 48 U.S. states for the period from 1998 to 2018. Our results show that disaster impacts vary by entrepreneurship type; the rate of new entrepreneurs and start-up job creation rise in the aftermath of natural disasters, whereas the opportunity share of new entrepreneurs and start-up survival fall. These findings present a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between natural disasters and entrepreneurial activity than reported in the relevant literature. We interpret our findings in the context of economic dynamism and discuss policy implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"470-494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12686","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond opioids: The effect of prescription drug monitoring programs on non-opioid drug prescribing","authors":"David Beheshti, Bokyung Kim","doi":"10.1111/coep.12684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12684","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A growing literature has examined how mandatory access prescription drug monitoring programs (MA PDMPs), laws that require providers to consider a patient's prescription history before prescribing controlled substances, affect opioid-related outcomes. However, evidence of their impact on non-opioid-related prescribing is mixed. This paper investigates the effect of MA PDMPs on prescribing patterns of stimulants and benzodiazepines. Using updated difference-in-differences methodology, we show that MA PDMPs led to decreases in stimulant prescribing but had no significant effects on benzodiazepine prescribing. Our findings highlight that MA PDMPs do have effects on non-opioid drug prescribing, but these effects differ substantially across drug types.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"452-469"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dora Gicheva, Julie Edmunds, Marie Hull, Beth Thrift
{"title":"Getting students to stick around: The effects of completing an introductory course on persistence for community college students","authors":"Dora Gicheva, Julie Edmunds, Marie Hull, Beth Thrift","doi":"10.1111/coep.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12685","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper studies the impacts of withdrawing from and failing an online course, relative to successful completion, on persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification. Withdrawing reduces the probability of persistence by about 20 percentage points, while the impact of failing is smaller and statistically indistinguishable from zero. Course withdrawals are highly correlated with institutional withdrawal, which is then linked to lower likelihood of returning the following semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college even if they earn a failing grade.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"427-451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shall we blame health IT for Medicare overpayments? New evidence from Medicare recovery audit program","authors":"Keith A. Joiner, Jianjing Lin","doi":"10.1111/coep.12680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12680","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The observation of increasing healthcare bills with health IT adoption could arise in two fashions: the <i>bill-inflation</i> and <i>complete-coding</i> mechanisms. Prior studies using claims data may not distinguish between them, as both lead to similar patterns in claims data. Using data from the Medicare Recovery Audit Program, which reviews Medicare Parts A and B fee-for-service claims, we examine how the overpayments/underpayment rate for hospitalization changes as hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs). Our finding of little correlation between EMRs and overpayments but lower underpayments in EMR hospitals suggests EMRs improve coding and documentation. The results have potentially important policy implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 2","pages":"343-361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New evidence on the labor market effects of scope of practice laws for physicians and nurse practitioners","authors":"Moiz Bhai, David T. Mitchell","doi":"10.1111/coep.12683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12683","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the labor market effects of state-level scope of practice (SOP) reform for nurse practitioners that grants full practice authority (FPA) on the earnings and labor supply decisions of physicians and nurse practitioners. We employ a difference-in-differences research design using data from the American Community Survey between 2010 and 2019 to find that SOP laws granting FPA increase earnings of nurse practitioners and have some impacts on their labor supply. However, we find no effects on the earnings of physicians. To examine mechanisms, we use aggregated Medicare data from the Dartmouth Atlas to show no change on physician reimbursements.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"31-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scope of practice: A discussion of non-physician providers in care management","authors":"Alicia Plemmons","doi":"10.1111/coep.12682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12682","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scope of practice is a phrase used to describe the types of services that can be performed by non-physician healthcare providers. In the United States, the range of services a practitioner may offer is not determined by representatives of the profession, but instead through a state-level legislative process. Researchers in this space have focused on understanding the effects of these state policies on the accessibility, quality, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare for patients. As the physician shortage grows, understanding areas where non-physician providers can bridge this care gap presents potential solutions to healthcare barriers. This introduction outlines the themes of the issue, what has been done in the literature, what is yet to be done, and the current conversation within state and federal legislatures.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"4-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}