Forthcoming Publications
The State of Economics, the State of the World: An Introduction
Basu, Kaushik. The State of Economics, the State of the World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.
Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D., Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason Cook, and Miriam Larson-Koester. “Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?” Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
Measuring "Schmeduling"
Rees-Jones, Alex, and Dmitry Taubinsky. “Measuring ‘Schmeduling.’” The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
The Cost of Legal Restrictions on Experience Rating
Barseghyan, Levon, Francesca Molinari, Darcy Steeg Morris, and Joshua C. Teitelbaum. "The Cost of Legal Restrictions on Experience Rating." Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, forthcoming.
Using Invention Activities to Teach Econometrics
McKee, Douglas, and George Orlov. "Using Invention Activities to Teach Econometrics." Journal of Economics Teaching, forthcoming.
The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children
Cawley, John, David Frisvold, Anna Hill, and David Jones. "The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children." Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.
Tightening Belts to Buy a Home: Consumption Responses to Rising Housing Prices in Urban China
Waxman, Andrew, Yuanning Liang, Shanjun Li, and Panle Jia Barwick. "Tightening Belts to Buy a Home: Consumption Responses to Rising Housing Prices in Urban China." Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming.
Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers
Jagnani, Maulik, Christopher B. Barrett, Yanyan Liu, and Liangzhi You. "Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers." The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
Close to the Edge: High Productivity at Plot Peripheries and the Inverse Size-Productivity Relationship
Bevis, Leah EM, and Christopher B. Barrett. "Close to the Edge: High Productivity at Plot Peripheries and the Inverse Size-Productivity Relationship." Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.
Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?
Hahn, Youjin, Asadul Islam, Eleonora Patacchini, Yves Zenou. "Do Friendship Networks Improve Female Education?" The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S.
Gu, Grace Weishi, and Eswar Prasad. "New Evidence on Cyclical Variation in Labor Costs in the U.S." Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
The Political Economy of Weak Treaties
Harstad, Bard, and Marco Battaglini. "The Political Economy of Weak Treaties." Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
Treatment Effects with Heterogeneous Externalities
Arduini, Tiziano, Eleonora Patacchini, and Edoardo Rainone. "Treatment Effects with Heterogeneous Externalities." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, forthcoming.
Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders
Arduini, Tiziano, Daniela Iorio, and Eleonora Patacchini. "Weight, reference points, and the onset of eating disorders." Journal of Health Economics 65, forthcoming.
The Brother Earnings Penalty
Cools, Angela, and Eleonora Patacchini. "The Brother Earnings Penalty." Labour Economics 58, forthcoming.
The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
Karolyi, G. Andrew, David T. Ng, and Eswar S. Prasad. "The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?" Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
Battaglini, Marco, Salvatore Nunnari, and Thomas R. Palfrey. "The Political Economy of Public Debt: A Laboratory Study." Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
Lovenheim, Michael, and Alexander Willén. "The Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.
Battaglini, Marco, and Eleonora Patacchini. "Social Networks in Policy Making." Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming.
Battaglini, Marco, and Rohit Lamba. Optimal Dynamic Contracting: the First-Order Approach and Beyond." Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.
Olivetti, Claudia, Eleonora Patacchini, and Yves Zenou. "Mothers, Peers and Gender-Role Identity." Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
Public School Choice: An Economic AnalysisBarseghyan, Levon, Damon Clark, and Stephen Coate. "Public School Choice: An Economic Analysis." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.
2019 Publications
Peer Preferences, School Competition, and the Effects of Public School Choice
Barseghyan, Levon, Damon Clark, and Stephen Coate. “Peer Preferences, School Competition, and the Effects of Public School Choice.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11, no. 4 (November 2019): 124–158.
The State of Economics, The State of the World
Basu, Kaushik, Claudia Sepulveda, and David Rosenblatt. The State of Economics, the State of the World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019.
Easley, David, Maureen O'Hara, Soumya Basu. "From Mining to Markets: The Evolution of Bitcoin Transaction Fees." Journal of Financial Economics 134, no. 1 (October 2019): 91-109.
Are High-Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study?
Jones, Todd R., and Ronald G. Ehrenberg. "Are High-Quality PhD Programs at Universities Associated with More Undergraduate Students Pursuing PhD Study?" Education Economics 27, no. 5 (September 2019): 451-471.
Speculation and the Bond Market: An Empirical No-Arbitrage Framework
Barillas, Francisco, and Kristoffer Nimark. "Speculation and the Bond Market: An Empirical No-Arbitrage Framework." Management Science 65, no. 9 (September 2019): 3949-4450.
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration: Highlights from the National Academies Report
Blau, Francine D., and Jennifer Hunt. “The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration: Highlights from the National Academies Report.” Business Economics 54, no. 3 (July 2019): 173–176.
In Pursuit of Tenure Track Positions: Career Progression and the Satisfaction of Humanities and Social Sciences Doctorates
Main, Joyce B., Sarah Prenovitz, and Ronald G. Ehrenberg. "In Pursuit of Tenure Track Positions: Career Progression and the Satisfaction of Humanities and Social Science Doctorates." Review of Higher Education 42, no. 4 (Summer 2019): 1309-1336.
The Quality of Growth in Africa
Kanbur, Ravi, Akbar Noman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Quality of Growth in Africa. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019.
Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy
Kanbur, Ravi, and Henry Shue. Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Kanbur, Ravi, and Andy Snell. "Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness." The Economic Journal 129, no. 621 (July 2019): 2216-2239.
Confidence Intervals for Projections of Partially Identified Parameters
Kaido, Hiroaki, Francesca Molinari, Jörg Stoye. "Confidence Intervals for Projections of Partially Identified Parameters." Econometrica 87, no. 4 (July 2019): 1397-1432.
Testing for Family Influences on Obesity: The Role of Genetic Nurture
Cawley, John, Euna Han, Jiyoon Kim, and Edward C. Norton. "Testing for Family Influences on Obesity: The Role of Genetic Nurture." Health Economics 28, no. 7 (July 2019): 937-952.
Optimal Fiscal Limits with Overrides
Coate, Stephen, and Ross T. Milton. "Optimal Fiscal Limits with Overrides." Journal of Public Economics 174 (2019): 76-92.
Emerging Human Infectious Diseases and the Links to Global Food Production
Rohr, Jason R., Christopher B. Barrett, David J. Civitello, Meggan E. Craft, Bryan Delius, Giulio A. Deleo, Peter J. Hudson, Nicolas Jouanard, Karena H. Nguyen, Richard S. Ostfeld, Justin V. Remais, Gilles Riveau, Susanne H. Sokolow, and David Tilman. "Emerging Human Infectious Diseases and the Links to Global Food Production." Nature Sustainability 2 (June 2019): 445-456.
Abay, Kibrom A., Gashaw T. Abate, Christopher B. Barrett, and Tanguy Bernard. "Correlated Non-Classical Measurement Errors, 'Second Best' Policy Inference and the Inverse Size-Productivity Relationship in Agriculture." Journal of Development Economics 139 (June 2019): 171-184.
Individual Preferences and Democratic Processes: Two Theorems with Implications for Electoral Politics
Basu, Kaushik, and Tapan Mitra. "Individual Preferences and Democratic Processes: Two Theorems with Implications for Electoral Politics." Social Choice and Welfare, (2019).
Report by the AEA Data Editor
Vilhuber, Lars. "Report by the AEA Data Editor." AEA Papers and Proceedings 109 (2019): 718-29.
Why the Economics Profession Must Actively Participate in the Privacy Protection DebateAbowd, John M., Ian M. Schmutte, William N. Sexton, and Lars Vilhuber. "Why the Economics Profession Must Actively Participate in the Privacy Protection Debate." AEA Papers and Proceedings 109 (2019): 397-402.
An Economist's Miscellany: From the Groves of Academe to the Slopes of Raisina HillBasu, Kaushik. An Economist's Miscellany: From the Groves of Academe to the Slopes of Raisina Hill. India: Oxford University Press, 2019.
News media and delegated information choiceNimark, Kristoffer P., and Stefan Pitschner. "News Media and Delegated Information Choice." Journal of Economic Theory 181 (May 2019): 160-196.
Inequality, Growth, Poverty, and Lunar Eclipses: Policy and ArithmeticBasu, Kaushik, and S. Subramanian. "Inequality, Growth, Poverty and Lunar Eclipses: Policy and Arithmetic." Development and Change, (May 2019).
Tafere, Kibrom, Christopher B. Barrett, and Erin Lentz. "Insuring Well-Being? Buyer’s Remorse and Peace of Mind Effects From Insurance." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101, no. 3 (April 2019): 627-650.
Takahashi, Kazushi, Christopher B. Barrett, and Munenobu Ikegami. "Does Index Insurance Crowd In or Crowd Out Informal Risk Sharing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 101, no. 3 (April 2019): 672-691.
Basu, Kaushik. "New Technology and Increasing Returns: The End of the Antitrust Century?" IZA Policy Paper Series, Paper No. 46 (April 2019).
Inattention and belief polarizationNimark, Kristoffer P., and Savitar Sundaresan. "Inattention and belief polarization." Journal of Economic Theory 180 (March 2019): 203-228.
The Informational Theory of Legislative Committees: An Experimental AnalysisBattaglini, Marco, Ernest K. Lai, Wooyoung Lim, and Joseph Tao-Yi Wang. "The Informational Theory of Legislative Committees: An Experimental Analysis." American Political Science Review 113, no. 1 (February 2019): 55-76.
The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: an Application of Genetic Instrumental VariablesBöckerman, Petri, John Cawley, Jutta Viinikainen, Terho Lehtimäki, Suvi Rovio, Ilkka Seppälä, Jaakko Pehkonen, and Olli Raitakari. "The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables." Health Economics 28, no. 1 (January 2019): 65-77.
Abowd, John M., and Ian M. Schmutte. "An Economic Analysis of Privacy Protection and Statistical Accuracy as Social Choices." American Economic Review 109, no. 1 (January 2019): 171-202.
2018 Publications
Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future (Chinese Edition)
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., and Charlotte V. Kuh. Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future (Chinese Edition). Beijing: Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2018.
Remembering Stephen Fienberg
Slavković, Aleksandra, and Lars Vilhuber. "Remembering Stephen Fienberg." Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 8, no. 1 (December 2018).
Effects Of A Government-Academic Partnership: Has The NSF-Census Bureau Research Network Helped Improve The U.S. Statistical System?
Weinberg, Daniel H., John M. Abowd, Robert F. Belli, Noel Cressie, David C. Folch, Scott H. Holan, Margaret C. Levenstein, Kristen M. Olson, Jerome P. Reiter, Matthew D. Shapiro, Jolene D. Smyth, Leen-Kiat Soh, Bruce D. Spencer, Seth E. Spielman, Lars Vilhuber, and Christopher K. Wikle. "Effects Of A Government-Academic Partnership: Has The Nsf-Census Bureau Research Network Helped Improve The Us Statistical System?" Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology (December 2018).
Relaunching the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
Vilhuber, Lars. "Relaunching the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality." Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 8, no. 1 (December 2018).
Synthetic Data via Quantile Regression for Heavy-Tailed and Heteroskedastic Data
Pistner, Michelle, Aleksandra Slavković, and Lars Vilhuber. "Synthetic Data via Quantile Regression for Heavy-Tailed and Heteroskedastic Data." Privacy in Statistical Databases (2018): 92-108.
The Economics of Women, Men, and WorkBlau, Francine D., and Anne E. Winkler. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work. 8th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018.
The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity & Social Welfare Policy in BritainBoyer, George R. The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic Insecurity and Social Welfare Policy in Britain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Barrett, Christopher Brendan, Michael R. Carter, and Jean-Paul Chavas. The Economics of Poverty Traps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Influencing Connected LegislatorsBattaglini, Marco, and Eleonora Patacchini. "Influencing Connected Legislators." Journal of Political Economy 126, no. 6 (December 2018): 2277-2322.
Estimating Development Resilience: A Conditional Moments-based ApproachCissé, Jennifer Denno, and Christopher B. Barrett. "Estimating Development Resilience: A Conditional Moments-based Approach." Journal of Development Economics 135 (November 2018): 272-284.
A case for incomplete marketsBlume, Lawrence E., Timothy Cogley, David A. Easley, Thomas J. Sargent, Viktor Tsyrennikov. "A case for incomplete markets." Journal of Economic Theory 178 (November 2018): 191-221.
Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models Kitamura, Yuichi, and Jörg Stoye. "Nonparametric Analysis of Random Utility Models." Econometrica 86, no. 6 (November 2018): 1883-1909.
The Trials of Randomized Control: Probability, Intuition and the Dinosaur Risk. A Commentary on Deaton and CartwrightBasu, Kaushik. “The Trials of Randomized Control: Probability, Intuition and the Dinosaur Risk. A Commentary on Deaton and Cartwright.” Social Science & Medicine 210 (August 2018): 26–28.
Short-run pain, long-run gain? Recessions and technological transformationKopytov, Alexandr, Nikolai Roussanov, and Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel. "Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain? Recessions and Technological Transformation." Journal of Monetary Economics 97 (August 2018): 29-44.
Women, Work, and FamilyBlau, Francine D., and Anne E. Winkler. "Women, Work, and Family." The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy (July 2018).
Choi, Anna, and John Cawley. "Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error." Health Economics 27, no. 3 (March 2018): E1-E29.
Random Sets in EconometricsMolčanov, Ilja S., and Francesca Molinari. Random Sets in Econometrics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
