Contemporary Economic Policy

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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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In a new open access article, Tanga M. Mohr and John C. Whitehead (@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social) use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to test for differences in discrete choice expiriments with real and hypothetical payoffs

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How does parents' legal status affect children's health insurance? In a new open access article, Nhan Tran finds DACA eligibility among likely undocumented mothers increases Medicaid enrollment among US-born children.

Timing of SNAP disbursement and crime incidence in the United States The timing of welfare benefit distribution is critical but often neglected when evaluating the efficacy of welfare programs. Taking the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as an example,...

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How does timing of SNAP disbursement affect crime in the US? In a new article, Licheng Xu finds that more distribution days and a longer staggering period reduce financially motivated crime.

Did the Plaza Accord cause Japan's real estate bubble? In 1985 the international exchange rate intervention known as the “Plaza Accord” was carried out between the G-5 countries, the US, Japan, Germany, France, and the UK. In this study I employ the synt...

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Following the signing of the Plaza Accord, Japan experienced a bubble in urban real estate and the stock market. In a recently published paper, Jedediah Pisa-Reese explores the causal connection between the agreement and the subsequent bubble

Women's international football success and women's economic freedom We investigate the impact of women's political and economic freedom on success in women's international football. We hypothesize that as women achieve political and economic freedom, the country's wo...

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How do increases in political and economic freedoms affect women’s international football success? Craig A. Depken II and Tomislav Globan find that greater freedoms may initially reduce performance but over time lead to improved success on the pitch.

Taxing windfall money: A quasi‐experimental study This paper examines individuals' reaction to windfall income taxation. We take advantage of similar tax reforms on lottery winnings in Portugal and Spain in 2013 to study effects on lottery participa...

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How do people react to an increase in taxes on lottery winnings? Alvaro Muniz-Fernandez and Levi Perez use a Synthetic Differences in Differences approach to find the effect differs depending on the size of the jackpot.

From bias to bliss: Racial preferences and worker productivity in tennis We investigate the impact of differences in consumers' racial preferences on worker productivity through the example of the home advantage (HA) effect using data on wins in men's tennis from 2001 to ...

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In this new open access article, Carsten Creutzburg, Wolfgang Maennig, and Steffen Q. Mueller investigate the potential effects of consumer-driven racial discrimination on worker productivity in tennis.

Heterogeneity of shifts in economic expectations around elections This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Expectations to study the effects of the 2016 and 2020 US elections on economic expectations. I find that Trump's 2016 election victory elicited broad-based imp...

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How do individuals update their expectations after elections? In a new article, Paul Niekamp uses the Survey of Consumer Expectations to study how the 2016 and 2020 elections affected economic expectations.

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In this open access paper, Marina Mileo Gorzig and Deborah Rho examine a policy that reduces background information on rental applications. After policy implementation, discrimination against African American and Somali American men increased.

How veteran‐nonveteran wage gaps across the wage distribution have evolved over time We examine how veteran-nonveteran wage gaps evolved over 1979–2017. Specifically, we estimate veteran wage differentials at each decile across the unconditional wage distribution to allow for heterog...

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James Fuller and Kelly Vosters analyze the veteran-nonveteran wage gap over time. They find returns to education are a major contributing factor to the wage gap dynamics.

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In a new open access article, Elisabeth Wurm examines the effects of allowing workers to include same-sex partners in insurance plans on labor supply.

The case for borrowing against future social security wealth In perfect credit markets, borrowing against future income could help households smooth consumption and invest in education, housing, or health. Investments in human capital, housing, or health could...

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In this new article, Steve Swidler and Erin Cottle Hunt advocate for a program which allows individuals to access a portion of their Social Security benefits prior to the minimun withdrawl age.

Should more teams “trust the process” of tanking? In many professional sport leagues, the worst-performing teams receive higher probability of earning top draft picks. This provides teams incentives to purposefully lose, or “tank,” if they are not l...

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NBA teams tanking- trying to lose games- is a controversial development in the sport. In a recent open access article, @acardazzi.bsky.social, @candonjohnson.bsky.social sky.social, and Eddie Minuci study the effects of the most extreme case of tanking, finding it affects future winning and income.