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{"title":"What role for “generational wealth” in explaining racial wealth disparities?","authors":"John Sabelhaus,&nbsp;Jeffrey Thompson","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In light of recent interest in “generational wealth” and its potential to close racial disparities in wealth, this paper revisits an older literature with updated and improved data and methods. Relative to past research, this paper uses more recent data (through 2019) that includes a wider range of retirement assets and recovers intergenerational transfers not reflected in prior research. Despite these innovations, our findings are consistent with earlier research that intergenerational transfers can account for a relatively small share of the racial disparities in wealth that we observe in the data.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"325-349"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145984021","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":"Introduction to the symposium on reproducibility and replicability in economics: Part II","authors":"Farasat A. S. Bokhari,&nbsp;Abel Brodeur,&nbsp;Michalis Drouvelis","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70026","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The second part of the symposium on reproducibility and replicability in economics is a direct continuation of the first part, featuring further reproductions and replications of influential studies in the economics literature. This emphasis aims to rigorously scrutinize established findings within the economic literature and ultimately highlights the progress and the systemic challenges that persist in reproduction and replication efforts. The second part of the symposium includes 11 studies which span a diverse array of economic inquiries—including immigration and innovation, cultural evolution, trade and language, opioid policy, investor sentiment, public goods cooperation, technological inequality, criminal justice policy, commodity price forecasting, and historical climate-economy relationship—and at the same time, demonstrates how replication deepens our understanding of both micro- and macro-level phenomena while reinforcing the empirical foundations of economics as a self-correcting science. We provide a short summary of each article below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first article, “Replication of ‘How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?’,” examines the impact of skilled immigration on innovation in the United States, measured by patenting activity. A concern in this line of work is the endogenous location choice of skilled immigrants, which is typically addressed using shift–share instruments Recent research has raised questions about the validity of such instruments—specifically, that the identifying variation comes from historical shares rather than from shifts in inflows—and has developed diagnostic tools to identify which groups drive the identification. Using reconstructed data and modern shift–share instrumental variable techniques, the author confirms that skilled immigrants significantly boost innovation. However, the analysis also shows that the identifying variation in the instrument is concentrated among a few origin countries, raising potential concerns about exogeneity. Despite this nuance, the positive relationship between skilled immigration and innovation remains robust across multiple econometric specifications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the second article, “Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change: A Replication of Giuliano and Nunn (2021),” the authors revisit the link between ancestral climatic variability and individual-level cultural traits. The reproduction carefully examines the alignment between the paper's stated methods and its implementation, identifying several discrepancies in how samples were constructed and variables coded. After applying corrections to better reflect the original methodological descriptions, many of the main effects become weaker or statistically insignificant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The article titled “Trade and Ethnolinguistic Differences: A Replication and Extension” revisits the hypothesis that historical inter-ethnic trade opportunities influence linguistic similarities between neighboring ethnolinguistic groups. The auth","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969621","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":"Gender differences in cooperation in Congress: Replicating Gagliarducci and Paserman (2022)","authors":"Manuel Bagues,&nbsp;Pamela Campa,&nbsp;Giulian Etingin-Frati","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gagliarducci and Paserman study gender differences in cooperation among politicians using data from the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988–2010. The evidence is consistent with commonality of interest driving cooperation, rather than gender per se. We show that GP's results are robust to the correction of some errors in the control variables and to clustering standard errors at the individual level, instead of individual-term. Additional data from 2011 to 2020 confirms the relevance of the ideological distance between male and female representatives, but also indicates that in recent years female politicians tend to recruit more co-sponsors for the bills that they sponsor.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"199-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987156","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":"Impacts of the USDA Broadband Initiatives Program on house prices","authors":"John Pender,&nbsp;Joshua Goldstein,&nbsp;Hanna Charankevich,&nbsp;Xin Wang,&nbsp;Neil Kattampallil","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We use proprietary house sales data and program data to investigate impacts of 39 projects supported by USDA's Broadband Initiatives Program on house prices and estimate the capitalized economic benefits of those projects. These projects increased house prices by an average of 2.5 percent after all projects were approved. The estimated benefits of these projects totaled $2.0 billion, 2.8 times the investment costs. We found larger benefits per house for higher cost projects and projects promoting fiber-to-the-household or DSL technology than for wireless projects, but similar positive benefits per house in metropolitan, micropolitan, and small town/rural regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"300-324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983978","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":"Strategic cyberwarfare","authors":"Erik Lillethun,&nbsp;Rishi Sharma","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper develops a theoretical model of cyberwarfare between nations, focusing on the factors that determine the severity and outcomes of cyber conflicts. We introduce a two-country model where nations invest in offensive or defensive cyber capabilities across networked systems. We show that resource expenditure intensifies when players' effective values are similar, which can help explain the rise of cyberwarfare. We explore the implications of network structures, showing how larger attack surfaces worsen outcomes for defenders. Additionally, we investigate the impact of private cyber defence provision, and find that centralized policies may either improve or exacerbate cyber conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"221-244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145993973","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":"De-prosecution and death: A comment on Hogan (2022)","authors":"Jacob Kaplan,&nbsp;J. J. Naddeo,&nbsp;Tom Scott","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A recent article presents a synthetic control model showing de-prosecution in Philadelphia in the mid to late 2010s greatly increased the city's homicides. We point out several potential problems with the analysis and re-estimate the relationship between de-prosecution and homicide under different model specifications. We reproduce the author's results after addressing these issues and find that the effect presented in Hogan occurs only in certain model specifications and other decisions that maximize the reported effect of de-prosecution on homicide counts.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"177-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145986887","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":"Unexpected costs of performance incentives with production uncertainty: Theory and evidence from a real-effort laboratory experiment","authors":"Michael S. Kofoed,&nbsp;Aaron Phipps","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Policy advocates often promote market-like incentives for publicly provided services like education or healthcare (e.g., Medicare). Evidence for performance incentives in these sectors is mixed, possibly due to production uncertainty represented as uncertainty about the marginal effect of inputs. Using a principal-agent model, we demonstrate that such uncertainty can lead to inefficiencies in output-based incentives. The model illustrates how employees favor inputs with lower uncertainty and reduce overall effort. Input-based incentives might be more effective in such cases. We conduct a real-effort lab experiment which validates these predictions: participants shift from efficient inputs as uncertainty grows, and reduce overall effort.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"261-285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145986829","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 impact of uncertainty on fan interest surrounding multiple outcomes in open European football leagues","authors":"Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio,&nbsp;J. James Reade","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper uses searches via Google to evaluate the importance of uncertainty in driving demand for entertainment events. We consider various dimensions of uncertainty of outcome in European football to examine whether the removal of uncertainty surrounding the winner of a competition before its conclusion reduces interest. We find a significant decrease in interest, although this appears mitigated by the existence of multiple objectives, such as qualifying for European competitions and avoiding relegation. We conclude that such a diversified and open structure (including promotion and relegation) is desirable in leagues that do not have a final play-off system.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"371-390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145964441","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":"Trade, offshoring, and manufacturing employment volatility in Mexico","authors":"Adam Walke,&nbsp;Stephan Weiler","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We find that manufacturing sectors specializing in the processing and assembly of foreign-owned intermediate goods had higher employment volatility in Mexico from 2007 to 2020, whereas specialization in trade had limited impacts on volatility. In general, the co-evolution of trade integration and international outsourcing complicates efforts to disentangle the distinct effects of trade versus offshoring on developing-country labor markets. We approach that problem by using official statistics that distinguish between production sharing processes typical of offshoring-intensive sectors versus traditional trade activities. The empirical strategy exploits regional and temporal variation within industries using data supplied for this project.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"350-370"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987185","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":"The attack-and-defense conflict with the gun-and-butter dilemma","authors":"Subhasish M. Chowdhury,&nbsp;Iryna Topolyan","doi":"10.1111/ecin.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We analyze a general equilibrium model of attack and defense with production. One attacker and one defender allocate fixed endowments between producing butter and guns. We characterize the unique interior and unique corner equilibrium, and find that (i) the defenders may spend more resources on conflict than the attacker even without loss aversion or other preferential bias, (ii) the attackers may expend all their resources only in conflict, and (iii) the interior and the corner equilibria cannot coexist. These results may help explain Ukraine's sustained high defense effort and Russia's militarized economy, or the excessive conflict expenditure by Hamas etc.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"64 1","pages":"245-260"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145986948","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}