Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, Michael R. Springborn
{"title":"Researchers' degrees of flexibility: Revisiting COVID-19 policy evaluations","authors":"Joakim A. Weill, Matthieu Stigler, Olivier Deschenes, Michael R. Springborn","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13273","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Empirical research involves multiple, seemingly-minor choices that can substantially impact a study's findings. While acknowledged, the importance of these “degrees of flexibility” on published estimates is not well understood. We examine the considerable literature focused on the impacts of early COVID-19 policies on social distancing to assess the role of researchers' degrees of flexibility on the estimated effects of mobility-reducing policies. We find that estimates reported in previous studies are not robust to minor changes in typically-unexplored dimensions of the degree of flexibility space, and usual robustness tests systematically fail to detect these issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"441-462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.13273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629771","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":"Dynamic norms and organ donation","authors":"Ruqian Zang, Jianbiao Li, Xiaofei Niu","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13274","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We conduct three experiments with over 1600 subjects to examine the impact of dynamic norms on organ donation. We find that dynamic norms (low-prevalence behaviors framed as increasing in popularity over time) significantly increase organ donor registration, and that this effect is mainly driven by dynamic trends (prevalence of behaviors with a growth trend). The positive effect of dynamic trends on organ donor registration is better than that of combined norms (low-descriptive but high-injunctive behaviors). The underlying mechanism may be future norm perceptions and moral emotions (elevation). Our paper presents a novel and effective strategy to increase organ donation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"591-607"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629772","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}
Po-yang Yu, Hamid Beladi, Hsun Chu, Ching-chong Lai
{"title":"International licensing and quality-enhancing technology spillover in a product cycle model","authors":"Po-yang Yu, Hamid Beladi, Hsun Chu, Ching-chong Lai","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the effects of an international quality-enhancing technology spillover on the international industry distribution and innovation in a dynamic North-South model. When a Southern firm receives a technology transfer from the North through international licensing, the technology spills over to other Southern firms by enhancing the quality of their products. We find that a stronger spillover effect depresses both Northern innovative R&D and Southern adaptive R&D, and thus is welfare-impairing both for the advanced country and recipient country. The results cast doubt on the common view that regards the technology spillover as a positive externality.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"608-635"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629904","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}
William C. Boning, Joel Slemrod, Ellen Stuart, Alex Turk
{"title":"Does giving tax debtors a break improve compliance and income? Evidence from quasi-random assignment of IRS Revenue Officers","authors":"William C. Boning, Joel Slemrod, Ellen Stuart, Alex Turk","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13268","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper uses the quasi-random assignment of IRS Revenue Officers to tax debtors' cases as an instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of suspending debt collection on tax compliance and future income. In contrast to uninstrumented estimates, we find no statistically significant evidence that putting off attempts to collect debt reduces compliance with future tax obligations or future reported income. Among marginal hardship cases, pausing collection instead increases future income, specifically wage earnings by the taxpayer's spouse. In addition, we address concerns about potential non-random assignment of Revenue Officers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"486-503"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629805","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":"Optimal lockdowns under constraints","authors":"Jihad C. Dagher, Christian Parkinson","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13265","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present a systematic examination of the impact of frictions on optimal pandemic response, bridging the significant gap between policy recommendations and implementation. We focus in particular on constraints in testing delivery and in lockdown efficacy in the context of a canonical pandemic model. The latter is modified for a more faithful representation of lockdowns. The paper sheds light on nuanced, and sometimes counter-intuitive, relationships. It rationalizes key but divergent findings in the literature on the extent of substitution and complementarity between lockdowns and testing. It also demonstrates remarkable robustness in lockdown policy to changes in its efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"523-544"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629751","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":"Replication code availability over time and across fields: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel","authors":"Lukas Fink, Jan Marcus","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13267","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Providing replication code is an inexpensive way to facilitate reproducibility. However, little is known about the extent of replication code provision. Therefore, we examine the availability of replication code for over 2500 peer-reviewed articles based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the most widely used datasets in economics and other social sciences. We find that only 6% of SOEP-based studies have code available, but that this proportion has increased sharply over time. We provide evidence that the increase in code provision is driven by technological advances, individual researcher initiatives, and journal policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"357-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.13267","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629876","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":"Parenthood and occupational mobility","authors":"Andrew Yizhou Liu","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13266","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I show that parenthood contributes to the downward-sloping age-occupational-mobility profile. After the birth of the first child, men experience a 20% decline in occupational switching which is uniform across upward and downward mobility. For women, the decline is 14%, which is larger for upward than for downward occupational mobility. Therefore, parenthood can explain 22% and 12% of the declines in occupational mobility for working men and women between 25 and 45 years of age, respectively. Workers in disadvantaged groups experience larger decreases, highlighting the potential impacts of parenthood on their occupational choices.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 2","pages":"504-522"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629899","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":"Sentiment analysis of economic text: A lexicon-based approach","authors":"Luca Barbaglia, Sergio Consoli, Sebastiano Manzan, Luca Tiozzo Pezzoli, Elisa Tosetti","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13264","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose an economic lexicon (EL) specifically designed for textual applications in economics. We construct the dictionary with two important characteristics: (1) to have a wide coverage of terms used in documents discussing economic concepts, and (2) to provide a human-annotated sentiment score in the range [−1, 1]. We illustrate the use of the EL in the context of a simple sentiment measure and consider several applications in economics. The comparison to other lexicons shows that the EL is superior due to its wider coverage of domain relevant terms and its more accurate categorization of the word sentiment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 1","pages":"125-143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ecin.13264","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114637","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}
Maria Ferrara, Cristiana Fiorelli, Elisabetta Marzano, Monica Varlese
{"title":"Fiscal consolidation plans with underground economy","authors":"Maria Ferrara, Cristiana Fiorelli, Elisabetta Marzano, Monica Varlese","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13263","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fiscal consolidation literature often neglects that there are economies characterized by sizable underground sectors, with their mechanisms of response to fiscal policy shocks. Therefore, reliable analyses of fiscal consolidation plans call for the decomposition of Gross Domestic Product in its regular and hidden components. We investigate fiscal consolidation effects in the context of tax evasion for the Italian economy. Results show that a temporary cut in public spending associated with a permanent drop in tax rate yet entails tax evasion reduction. The main underlying mechanism is the strong responsiveness of the underground sector, implying a reallocation of resources toward the regular sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 1","pages":"144-159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112219","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":"On the design of an optimal immigration policy","authors":"Armando R. Lopez-Velasco","doi":"10.1111/ecin.13260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13260","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper constructs a model for the study of optimal immigration from the perspective of natives. They have preferences over redistributive transfers, a public good subject to congestion, and over the level of family-based migration. Border enforcement is costly. The model derives conditions for an optimal immigration policy, which balances skill-based against family-based migration, equalizes the fiscal opportunity cost of unauthorized immigration with the marginal cost of enforcement, and balances the effects on transfers against the implied congestion effects. A parameterized version of the model studies the 1994–2008 period and finds legislation projects on immigration consistent with the model's predictions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51380,"journal":{"name":"Economic Inquiry","volume":"63 1","pages":"47-97"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112218","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}