Assessing a Free College Opportunity for Students in Disadvantaged Schools

In Fall 2007, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) initiated the Flagship Scholarship program. Flagship offers a “free college” opportunity to students from designated high schools if they ar...

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Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Affirmative Action in Local Elite Colleges and Subject Choice

Women are largely underrepresented in STEM careers associated with higher labor market returns. This gender gap is even more stark in a context where societal biases are prevalent and female role mod...

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Enmity or Empathy? Women and the Toxic Culture in Economics

We review and test two competing hypotheses that associate the observed toxicity in economics with the profession's demographics. Utilizing secondary data on negative Economics Job Market Rumors (EJM...

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Extreme Weather Events and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth

The productivity of the agricultural sector is crucial for food security in a changing climate. This study estimates the impacts of extreme weather events on agricultural total factor productivity (T...

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Cultural Fallout? Immigration's Effect on Individualism

Does immigration reshape cultural values, particularly, individualism–collectivism? Immigrants bring diverse cultural values that may either reinforce or challenge individualistic norms, potentially ...

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High‐Income Dominance in Education Economics: Exploring the Publishing Divide

We analyze over 3500 education-related articles published between 2002 and 2022 in the top 22 economics journals, documenting striking geographic disparities. First, 85.7% of publications are based o...

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Do Culture and Law Interact? Evidence From Business Regulation

Countries with individualist cultures tend to adopt fewer business regulations. In this paper, we investigate how individualism affects regulation by incorporating the role of legal institutions. We ...

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Electric Power Reliability and Local Housing Prices in the United States

Given the critical role of electric power in local communities, this study investigates whether power interruptions are capitalized into housing prices at the US county level. Using county-level pane...

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Concussed: Unintended Consequences of the Guardian Cap Mandate in the <fc>NFL</fc>

Guardian Caps are padded shells worn over American football helmets to cushion impacts and reduce concussion risks. In 2022, the NFL mandated their use for specific position groups during preseason p...

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A Stochastic Signaling Model With Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes: Theory and Experiments

We developed and tested a stochastic signaling model where incomplete separation could be explained by sellers' heterogeneous risk attitudes. In this model, sellers of both high- and low-quality prod...

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Because I Got High? Recreational Marijuana Legalization's Impact on Opioid Overdose Deaths

We examine the effect of recreational marijuana legalization (RML) on opioid overdose deaths. Using several event studies and a two-way fixed-effects, difference-in-differences approach adapted to th...

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Funding Stabilization and the Performance of Public Agencies: Evidence From Ohio Libraries

Do the sources of funding available to public agencies—and shocks to these sources—affect the performance of these agencies? Using data on Ohio public libraries, we exploit the sudden state budget cu...

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Forgoing Nuclear: Nuclear Power Plant Closures and Carbon Emissions in the United States

This paper examines the effect of nuclear power plant decommissioning on electricity generation and carbon emissions in the United States. Using data on nuclear reactor closures in the United States ...

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Beggars as Rational Choosers

American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity res...

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Can Better Information Reduce College Gender Gaps? The Impact of Relative Grade Signals on Academic Outcomes for Students in Introductory Economics

This paper considers the impacts of grades and information on gender gaps in college major and college dropout rates at a large public flagship university. Observational and experimental results sugg...

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Economic Hardship and Mental Health for Sexual and Gender Identity Minorities

Using nationally representative data from the US Household Pulse Survey, I show that individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and not cisgender are 10–20 percentage points more likely than their c...

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Early Industrialization and Fertility Patterns in Historical China

This paper employs the demographic shocks between 1851 and 1880 as the instrumental variable to analyze the causal link between early industrialization and fertility patterns using a unique historica...

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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. H...

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Durable goods, costly reversibility, and adjustment costs: A user cost approach with nondurable goods

Durable goods are typically treated as irreversible or costlessly reversible with no allowance for adjustment costs. We formulate and estimate a dynamic structural model of durable goods with the use...

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Effects of family income on child academic achievement: Evidence from changes in the minimum wage

We examine the effect of family earnings on child math and reading test scores using the minimum wage as an instrument for family earnings. We show that a higher minimum wage raises earnings signific...

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Greenway development and gentrification

This paper presents research on expanding access to green spaces in developed areas. Critics claim greenway projects lead to gentrification by increasing the demand for housing and pushing out reside...

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What Determines the Severity of International Lockdowns?

We use a new data set measuring Lockdown Regulatory Freedom to examine the pre-pandemic factors associated with how severely governments locked down their economy in 2020 across a large cross-section...

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The Jamestown/Xiaogang Survival Game: A Class Experiment

One of the most important insights for any economics class is the power of private incentives and competition to work hard when the fruits of one's effort are not diluted by incomplete property right...

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The impact of credit union competition on Bank loan rates, 2010–2019

Although credit unions have steadily increased their role in the U.S. economy over the past 20 years, few studies have attempted to quantify their impact on bank consumer loan rates, particularly in ...

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Persistent Private Information in Experimental Asset Markets

This study evaluates the extent to which laboratory markets disseminate private information about the long-run payout of durable assets, and how persistent private information affects traders' belief...

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Prohibition and Percolation: The Roaring Success of Coffee During US Alcohol Prohibition

During US alcohol prohibition, 1920 to 1933, alcohol consumption fell dramatically. Less well known is that coffee consumption surged as a legal alternative. Using import data and a variety of textua...

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Social Openness and International Capital Flows

We examine whether individual-level social openness correlates with country-level financial openness. We build indexes of social openness for close to 100 countries using principal component analysis...

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Teacher Gender and Students' Academic Outcomes in High School

This paper examines the impact of teacher gender on students' test scores and academic track decisions at the high school level, exploiting the random assignment of students to teachers in China for ...

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The Abilene Paradox: The Curse of Caring Too Much

The Abilene paradox (AP) occurs when a group of people vote for an alternative that no one prefers, resulting in an inferior outcome. We show that in a sequential voting game, a combination of social...

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