Contemporary Economic Policy

The 26‐year threshold in a high‐uninsured state: Evidence from Texas The Affordable Care Act's dependent-coverage mandate reduced uninsurance among young adults, but less is known about the consequences of losing parental insurance at age 26. Using a regression discon...

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What are the consequences of losing parental insurance at age 26? Dajung Jun finds a sharp drop in coverage at the cutoff, concentrated among unmarried, unemployed, and nonmetropolitan adults.

The effect of household debt on safety‐net participation We examine how participation in the Food Stamp Program (FSP)/Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program responds to changes in state le....

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Timothy Bianco and Nicholas Moellman examine the effect of household debt on safety-net participation. Using a PVAR, they find TANF participation is generally unresponsive to debt shocks, while SNAP participation responds positively, significantly, and persistently to changes to debt.

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How does economic freedom affect patience and risk tolerance? In a new article, Ryan Kitzan, Adam Stivers, and Nabamita Dutta investigate this relationship and find that countries with both higher economic freedom and risk tolerance also exhibit higher patience.

Contemporary Economic Policy: Vol 44, No 1 Click on the title to browse this issue

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The January 2026 issue of Contemporary Economic Policy has been published. It contains 11 original research articles on a wide range of topics, from teenage drinking to borrowing against future Social Security wealth.
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How are consumers impacted by the elimination of low-denomination coins? In a highly relevant article, Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, and Daniel Levy find that Israel's elimination of the 1¢ and 5¢ coin equivalents led to a relativley small rounding tax on consumers.

Nurse practitioner scope of practice law and safety net participation: Evidence from WIC Given that nurse practitioners (NPs) are likely to practice in underserved areas, NP scope of practice reform may have spillover effects on safety net program participation. Leveraging the staggered ...

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Does nurse practitioner scope of practice expansion affect safety net participation? Owen Fleming and Lilly Springer find that 4-5 years after NP's are granted full practice authority, WIC participation increases by 4.1%.

Turkey on the fault line: The impact of the earthquake on the labor market We assess the impact of the 2011 earthquakes of eastern Turkey on the labor market and the potential resilience strategy by exploring heterogeneity among subgroups. Our findings indicate a rise in lo...

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Natural disasters can have a profound impact on a society. Serkan Demirkılıç, Zuhal Özbay Daş, and Güney Aydin investigate the labor market effects of the 2011 earthquakes in eastern Turkey and find, among other outcomes, an increase in low-skilled employment.

Indoor vaccine mandates in U.S. cities, vaccination behavior, and COVID‐19 outcomes Many U.S. cities introduced indoor vaccine mandates in 2021–2022 to increase COVID-19 vaccination and curb transmission. While national mandates abroad boosted uptake, the effects of city-level manda....

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How did city-level vaccine mandates affect vaccine uptake and COVID-19 transmission? Authors Vitor Melo, Elijah Nelson, and Dorothy Kemboi find no pattern of significant effects, suggesting local mandates may be less effective than national mandates.

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What determines an individual's willingness to pay for top sports teams? In a new open-access article, Jaume Garcia, Fernando Lera-Lopez, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Santos, and Maria Jose Suarzez find that social trust and civic pride drive WTP.

The social cost of US wildfire carbon emissions Combustion during forest fires and decomposition for several decades afterward both release CO2 into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, but the large costs imposed on society by these em....

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Ever thought about the impact of wildfire emissions? Molly Duddleson Elder estimates the social cost of US wildfire emissions, finding the annual social cost of from emmisions for all fires is around $4.6 billion.

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Monopsony power in local labor markets can lead to lower wages. Matthew E. Kahn and Joseph S. Tracy show that counties and time periods with higher levels of employment concentration experience brain drain and lower population growth.

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Eduardo Minuci and Scott Schuh investigate economic and financial behavior among banks in different states.
They find states with slower economic growth have more, smaller, and less profitable banks. The banks also experience differing customer and manager behavior.

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The Safe Passage Program was implemented in Chicago as a means of protecting the routes students take to school. @matttheeconguy.bsky.social finds that in areas where the program was implemented, fatal encounters decreased by 33%.

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Check out our Editor's Report for 2024! It breaks down important metrics including topics covered, time to decision, the referee process, impact factor, and more.

Contemporary Economic Policy: Vol 43, No 4 Click on the title to browse this issue

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Check out our new special issue: "Women and Economic Freedom". Thought-provoking articles on entrepreneurship, fertility, and more are now availible to read, free for a limited time!

External validity of inferred attribute non‐attendance: Evidence from a laboratory experiment with real and hypothetical payoffs We use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to analyze differences in laboratory experiments with real and hypothetical payoffs. In both payoff treatments, we find that the effect of the cost of an ...

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