Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke H. Peter, Fabian Mierisch, Simon Wiederhold
{"title":"Males Should Mail? Gender Discrimination in Access to Childcare","authors":"Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke H. Peter, Fabian Mierisch, Simon Wiederhold","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231060","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates discrimination against women when searching and applying for childcare in a nationwide field experiment. We send emails from fictitious parents to 9,313 childcare centers in Germany inquiring about access to childcare. We randomize whether the email is sent by the child's mother or father. Our results show that women receive shorter and less positive responses than men. The probability of receiving a response does not differ by gender, highlighting the importance of going beyond response rates to detect discrimination. We provide suggestive evidence that regional differences in gender discrimination are related to gender norms.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83569359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jose Asturias, Emin M. Dinlersoz, J. Haltiwanger, Rebecca Hutchinson
{"title":"Are Business Applications Early Economic Indicators?","authors":"Jose Asturias, Emin M. Dinlersoz, J. Haltiwanger, Rebecca Hutchinson","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231053","url":null,"abstract":"Are business applications early indicators of economic activity? Our analysis indicates that monthly year-over-year growth in applications for likely employer businesses significantly leads growth in total nonfarm employment and has a positive correlation with it. In addition, growth in applications for likely employers leads growth in almost all other monthly Principal Federal Economic Indicators considered. These findings are robust to the inclusion of the COVID-19 pandemic period. Business applications for likely employers appear to be a strong leading indicator of aggregate economic activity.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89916906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Incorrect) Perceived Returns and Strategic Behavior among Talented Low-Income College Graduates","authors":"Jorge M. Agüero, Francisco B. Galarza, G. Yamada","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231059","url":null,"abstract":"Job applicants use resumes to send signals to potential employers. Applicants are free to select the items that go in their resumes and are expected to include signals they perceive will help them achieve their goals and avoid those that they anticipate could hurt them. We show that 92 percent of beneficiaries of a highly selective scholarship for poor and talented students avoid listing this award when applying for jobs. This is consistent with beneficiaries perceiving a negative labor market return from sending that signal. A correspondence study shows instead that listing the scholarship increases callback rates by 20 percent.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77745617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher T. Conlon, Nathan H. Miller, Tsolmon Otgon, Yi Yao
{"title":"Rising Markups, Rising Prices?","authors":"Christopher T. Conlon, Nathan H. Miller, Tsolmon Otgon, Yi Yao","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231098","url":null,"abstract":"The rise in markups and market power documented by De Loecker, Eeckhout, and Unger (2020) has recently generated much discussion in economics. We measure the correlation between the change in firm level markups and the change in industry level prices as measured by the Producer Price Index and find little to no relationship both for 1980-2018 and 2018-present. While a “false negative” result due to mismeasurement is possible, it also raises the possibility that firms have not passed along declines in marginal costs to consumers or that there have been significant changes in scale elasticities.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73012228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report of the Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession","authors":"","doi":"10.1257/pandp.113.792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.113.792","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74640040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can High School Counselors Help the Economics Pipeline?","authors":"Melissa Gentry, J. Meer, Danila Serra","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231121","url":null,"abstract":"We evaluate the impact of an intervention aimed at informing high school counselors about the field of economics, with the aim of attracting a more diverse student population into the major. Our study involves 234 Texas high schools that send a large number of students to Texas A&M University. Half of the schools were randomly selected and invited to send a guidance counselor to an in-person informational counselor workshop. While the intervention did not significantly increase applications into the major in the full student population, it significantly increased the economics applications of top-performing women and underrepresented minority students.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"132 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79644804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report of the Editor, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy","authors":"","doi":"10.1257/pandp.113.745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.113.745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78649310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wage Phillips Curve under Labor Market Power","authors":"A. Burya, Rui C. Mano, Yannick Timmer, A. Weber","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231007","url":null,"abstract":"Using the near universe of online vacancy postings in the United States, we explore linkages between labor market power and the trade-off between unemployment and wages. We estimate the Phillips curve at the commuting zone level and find that the relationship between unemployment and wage inflation is weak in regions with high labor market power. These results help explain the flattening of the wage Phillips curve following the global financial crisis. In the context of rising interest rates, unemployment is likely to rise more in poorer US regions because labor market power is more prevalent there, thus leading to rising inequality.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"191 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76851863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julian di Giovanni, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Alvaro Silva, Muhammed A. Yıldırım
{"title":"Quantifying the Inflationary Impact of Fiscal Stimulus under Supply Constraints","authors":"Julian di Giovanni, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Alvaro Silva, Muhammed A. Yıldırım","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231028","url":null,"abstract":"This paper builds on Baqaee and Farhi (2022) and di Giovanni et al. (2022) to quantify the contribution of fiscal policy on US inflation over the December 2019 to June 2022 period. Model calibrations show that aggregate demand shocks explain roughly two-thirds of total model-based inflation and that the fiscal stimulus contributed half or more of the total aggregate demand effect.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135504487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lorenzo Caliendo, Luca David Opromolla, Fernando Parro, Alessandro Sforza
{"title":"Labor Supply Shocks and Capital Accumulation: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of the Refugee Crisis in Europe","authors":"Lorenzo Caliendo, Luca David Opromolla, Fernando Parro, Alessandro Sforza","doi":"10.1257/pandp.20231077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20231077","url":null,"abstract":"European countries experienced a large increase in labor supply due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine. We study its dynamic effects in a spatial model with forward-looking households of different skills, trade, and endogenous capital accumulation. We find that real GDP increases in Europe in the long term, with large distributional effects across countries and skill groups. In the short run, an increase in the supply of labor strains the use of capital structures that takes time to build. Over time, countries that build capital structures increase output, resulting in potential long-run benefits.","PeriodicalId":72114,"journal":{"name":"AEA papers and proceedings. American Economic Association","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135145693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}