Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Recovery from an early-life shock through improved access to schools 

      Banerjee, R; Bharti, T; Chin, S; et al. (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
      We study recovery from an adverse early-life environmental shock. First, we show that exposure to an adverse rainfall shock in the first year of life leads to lower educational attainment. Next, using geographic variation ...

    • Media Coverage of Immigration and the Polarization of Attitudes 

      Schneider-Strawczynski, S; Valette, J (American Economic Association, 2024)
      This paper investigates the effect of media coverage on immigration attitudes. It combines data on immigration coverage in French television with individual panel data from 2013 to 2017 that records respondents' preferred ...

    • Quickest Detection of Ecological Regimes for Natural Resource Management 

      Deopa, N; Rinaldo, D (Springer, 24 April 2024)
      We study the stochastic dynamics of natural resources under the threat of ecological regime shifts. We establish a Pareto optimal framework of regime shift detection under uncertainty that minimizes the delay with which ...

    • Do in-group biases lead to overconfidence in performance? Experimental evidence 

      Flores, LQ; Fonseca, MA (Elsevier, 3 May 2024)
      Is the phenomenon of people overestimating their skill relative to their peers (overplacement) exacerbated by group affiliation? Social identity theory predicts people evaluate in-group members more positively than out-group ...

    • A review of the effects of legal access to same‐sex marriage 

      Badgett, MVL; Carpenter, CS; Lee, MJ; et al. (Wiley / Association for Public Policy and Management, 23 March 2024)
      On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court extended nationwide legal access to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, following a series of court cases and legislative activities at the state and district levels. ...