American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2023

How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Datasets pp. 1-29

Asger Lau Andersen, Amalie Sofie Jensen, Niels Johannesen, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Søren Leth-Petersen and Adam Sheridan

Improving Regulatory Effectiveness through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA pp. 30-67

Matthew S. Johnson, David Levine and Michael W. Toffel

Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles pp. 68-99

Mika Akesaka, Peter Eibich, Chie Hanaoka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States over Time pp. 100-141

Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica

Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions pp. 142-76

Nicolás Ajzenman, Patricio Dominguez and Raimundo Undurraga

Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates pp. 177-217

Riako Granzier, Vincent Pons and Clemence Tricaud

Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft pp. 218-51

Giorgio Gulino and Federico Masera

Collateralized Marriage pp. 252-91

Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low

How Cable News Reshaped Local Government pp. 292-320

Elliott Ash and Sergio Galletta

Hidden Income and the Perceived Returns to Migration pp. 321-52

Travis Baseler

Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery pp. 353-88

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Iffath Sharif and Maheshwor Shrestha

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis pp. 389-421

Marcella Alsan, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva and David Yang

Discrimination in Times of Crises and the Role of the Media pp. 422-51

Asaf Zussman

Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment pp. 452-76

Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix and Steeve Marchand

The Effect of Hospital Postpartum Care Regulations on Breastfeeding and Maternal Time Allocation pp. 477-513

Emily C. Lawler and Katherine G. Yewell

Volume 15, issue 3, 2023

When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effects of Coeducation on Women's College Major Choices pp. 1-34

Avery Calkins, Ariel Binder, Dana Shaat and Brenden Timpe

Uncovering Peer Effects in Social and Academic Skills pp. 35-79

Román Andrés Zárate

Does Discipline Decrease Police Misconduct? Evidence from Chicago Civilian Allegations pp. 80-116

Kyle Rozema and Max Schanzenbach

Halfway Home? Residential Housing and Reincarceration pp. 117-49

Logan M. Lee

Does Cash Bail Deter Misconduct? pp. 150-82

Aurélie Ouss and Megan Stevenson

When Do Politicians Appeal Broadly? The Economic Consequences of Electoral Rules in Brazil pp. 183-209

Moya Chin

School Attendance Boundaries and the Segregation of Public Schools in the United States pp. 210-37

Tomás E. Monarrez

Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration pp. 238-69

William J. Collins and Ariell Zimran

From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Antiminority Sentiment pp. 270-312

Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz

Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from an RCT in Pakistan pp. 313-40

Torben Fischer, Markus Frölich and Andreas Landmann

What Difference Does a Health Plan Make? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid pp. 341-79

Michael Geruso, Timothy Layton and Jacob Wallace

Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market pp. 380-410

Mariana Carrera and Sofia Villas-Boas

Volume 15, issue 2, 2023

Infrastructure Costs pp. 1-30

Leah Brooks and Zachary Liscow

Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab pp. 31-68

J. Michelle Brock and Ralph De Haas

Income Segregation and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy pp. 69-102

Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani

Do Thank-You Calls Increase Charitable Giving? Expert Forecasts and Field Experimental Evidence pp. 103-24

Anya Samek and Chuck Longfield

DETER-ing Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement pp. 125-56

Juliano Assunção, Clarissa Gandour and Romero Rocha

Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap pp. 157-83

Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas and Derek Messacar

Natural Resource Booms, Human Capital, and Earnings: Evidence from Linked Education and Employment Records pp. 184-217

Alina Kovalenko

Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain pp. 218-52

Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, Giuseppe Ippedico and Giovanni Peri

Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana pp. 253-84

Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland

A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy? pp. 285-319

Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew Kahn and Gary C. Lin

When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution pp. 320-51

Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, Nicholas Sanders and Gregor Singer

Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications pp. 352-76

Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson and Daniel Waldinger

Energy Saving May Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident pp. 377-414

Guojun He and Takanao Tanaka

Volume 15, issue 1, 2023

The Impact of Income-Driven Repayment on Student Borrower Outcomes pp. 1-25

Daniel Herbst

Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 26-67

Sandra Black, Jeffrey Denning and Jesse Rothstein

A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany pp. 68-106

Luis Martinez, Jonas Jessen and Guo Xu

Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs pp. 107-35

Rita Ginja, Arizo Karimi and Pengpeng Xiao

Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964 pp. 136-63

Shmuel San

The Effect of Immigration Restrictions on Local Labor Markets: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure pp. 164-91

Ran Abramitzky, Philipp Ager, Leah Boustan, Elior Cohen and Casper Hansen

Temperature, Worker Productivity, and Adaptation: Evidence from Survey Data Production pp. 192-229

Melissa LoPalo

Every Day Is Earth Day: Evidence on the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Activism pp. 230-58

Daniel Hungerman and Vivek Moorthy

Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India pp. 259-91

Jessica Goldberg, Mario Macis and Pradeep Chintagunta

Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets pp. 292-318

Bernardus Van Doornik, David Schoenherr and Janis Skrastins

Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation pp. 319-50

Ujjayant Chakravorty, Manzoor H. Dar and Kyle Emerick

High School Majors and Future Earnings pp. 351-82

Gordon Dahl, Dan-Olof Rooth and Anders Stenberg

The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries pp. 383-410

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Diego Ubfal and Federico Araya

The Employee Costs of Corporate Debarment in Public Procurement pp. 411-41

Christiane Szerman

The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States pp. 442-73

Patrick Baylis and Judson Boomhower

Wage Stagnation and the Decline of Standardized Pay Rates, 1974–1991 pp. 474-507

Maxim Massenkoff and Nathan Wilmers