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The role of football win percentage on college applications for Power Five and Group of Five schools 橄榄球胜率对五强和五强学校申请大学的影响
IF 1.7 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12642
Craig McFarland, Peter A. Groothuis, Dennis Guignet
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Income inequality and party alternation: State-level evidence from the United States 收入不平等与政党更替:美国州一级的证据
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-04 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12641
Peter Calcagno, Alexander Marsella, Yang Zhou
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Gender equity and male and female smoking behavior 性别平等与男女吸烟行为
IF 1.7 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12640
William Jergins
{"title":"Gender equity and male and female smoking behavior","authors":"William Jergins","doi":"10.1111/coep.12640","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12640","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We document a positive relationship between culturally inherited beliefs about gender equity and female smoking, using data on first and second-generation immigrants living in the United States. We find that a one standard deviation increase in our measure of gender equity is associated with an increase in the probability that a female immigrant smokes of approximately 1.4 and 1.8 percentage points or 23% and 20% for first and second-generation immigrants respectively. As male smoking behavior is largely unaffected by gender equality, we find that gender equity tends to reduce the size of the gender gap in smoking.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 3","pages":"448-473"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139680290","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}
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Spillover between Medicare and Medicaid: Evidence from decreasing physician reimbursements 医疗保险和医疗补助之间的溢出效应:医生报销额度下降的证据
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12639
Kole Reddig
{"title":"Spillover between Medicare and Medicaid: Evidence from decreasing physician reimbursements","authors":"Kole Reddig","doi":"10.1111/coep.12639","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12639","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper studies the effect of large changes in Medicaid reimbursement rates on the quantity of care supplied to Medicare beneficiaries. In 2015, the payment parity provision of the Affordable Care Act ended, causing widespread decreases in reimbursements to primary care providers for Medicaid services. Difference-in-differences and triple-differences model estimates show that decreasing physician payments for Medicaid caused a small increase in the number of services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. I explore the mechanisms driving this result, giving context and insight into some current puzzles regarding the effects of the ACA's Medicaid expansion.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 2","pages":"223-236"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139585205","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}
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Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills 为什么大学专业和选择性很重要?专业分组、职业特殊性和工作技能
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12634
Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Colton Cronin, Neil Chin
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Does membership of the EMU matter for economic and financial outcomes? 欧洲货币联盟的成员资格对经济和金融结果有影响吗?
IF 1.7 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12638
Omid M. Ardakani, N. Kundan Kishor, Suyong Song
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Political systems, regime memory, and economic freedom 政治制度、政权记忆和经济自由
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-01-02 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12635
Peter Calcagno, Beatriz Maldonado, Todd Nesbit, Mary Frances Zeager
{"title":"Political systems, regime memory, and economic freedom","authors":"Peter Calcagno,&nbsp;Beatriz Maldonado,&nbsp;Todd Nesbit,&nbsp;Mary Frances Zeager","doi":"10.1111/coep.12635","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12635","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We expand on the economic research about regime types, culture, institutions, and economic freedom, with the development of a unique measure of regime memory and examine the generational effect of past regimes on a country's level of economic freedom. Using a panel of 144 countries between 1970 and 2015 we follow the literature and argue that institutions can be fast and slow-moving. We find evidence that regime memory promotes improvements in (discourages) economic freedom for countries that are historically democratic (autocratic).</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 2","pages":"336-354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12635","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373868","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}
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Do payday lending bans protect or constrain regional economies? Evidence from the Military Lending Act's final rule 发薪日贷款禁令是保护还是限制了地区经济?来自《军事借贷法》最终规则的证据
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12636
Craig Wesley Carpenter, Kristopher Deming, John Anders, Michael Lotspeich-Yadao, Charles M. Tolbert, Adam Ingrao
{"title":"Do payday lending bans protect or constrain regional economies? Evidence from the Military Lending Act's final rule","authors":"Craig Wesley Carpenter,&nbsp;Kristopher Deming,&nbsp;John Anders,&nbsp;Michael Lotspeich-Yadao,&nbsp;Charles M. Tolbert,&nbsp;Adam Ingrao","doi":"10.1111/coep.12636","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12636","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2007 Military Lending Act attempted to ban high-interest loans to U.S. military members and the 2017 “Final Rule” further restricted access, causing regional shocks in payday lending exposure in counties with a military base. Difference-in-differences and dynamic estimators provide mixed evidence on the effect of this payday lending access shock on regional economic outcomes and local business outcomes. However, we consistently find statistically significant reduced entry and exit of firms. Given payday lenders congregate around low-income and minoritized populations analogously to how they congregated around military bases, these results provide policy implications for more general usury bans.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 2","pages":"319-335"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12636","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139071910","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}
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Making the grade: The effect of teacher grading standards on student outcomes 评分:教师评分标准对学生成绩的影响
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-30 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12637
Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt, Adam Tyner
{"title":"Making the grade: The effect of teacher grading standards on student outcomes","authors":"Seth Gershenson,&nbsp;Stephen B. Holt,&nbsp;Adam Tyner","doi":"10.1111/coep.12637","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12637","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One mechanism by which teachers might affect student learning is through the grading standards they set for their classrooms. However, the effects of grading standards on student outcomes are understudied. Using administrative data that links individual students and teachers in Algebra I classrooms from 2006 to 2016, we examine the effects of teachers' grading standards on student learning and attendance. High teacher grading standards increase both contemporaneous student achievement in Algebra I and performance in subsequent math classes. Heterogeneity analyses find that these impacts are positive and similar in size for students of different backgrounds, aptitudes, and school contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 2","pages":"305-318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139071547","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}
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Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications 高等教育:娱乐性大麻对大学申请的影响
IF 1.5 4区 经济学
Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.1111/coep.12633
Christopher D. Blake, Danna Kang Thomas, Joshua Hess
{"title":"Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications","authors":"Christopher D. Blake,&nbsp;Danna Kang Thomas,&nbsp;Joshua Hess","doi":"10.1111/coep.12633","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12633","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model, we investigate the effects of local recreational marijuana (RMJ) policy changes on college applications and find that the three largest state public schools reaped, on average, an almost 54% increase in applications. This increase does not appear to come solely from low-ability students as both first and third quartiles of admitted student composite SAT scores to the largest three public schools do not decrease. Rather, they both increase by almost 3.8% though these estimates are not statistically significant. Robust difference-in-difference and event study models support the signs and magnitudes of these gains and show they diminish over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 2","pages":"259-277"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138559561","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}
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