American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

American Economic Journal Applied Economics

美国经济期刊：应用经济学

We evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent women’s empowerment in Uganda by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction, and marriage. We find that four years postintervention, adolescent girls in treated communities are more likely to be self-employed. Teen pregnancy, early entry into marriage/cohabitation, and the share of girls reporting sex against their will fall sharply. The results highlight the potential of a multifaceted program that provides skills transfers as a viable and cost-effective policy intervention to improve the economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls over a four-year horizon. (JEL I25, J12, J13, J16, J23, J24, O15)

Oriana Bandiera

Niklas Buehren

Robin Burgess

Markus Goldstein

Selim Gulesci

Imran Rasul

Munshi Sulaiman

Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

妇女赋权在行动：来自非洲随机对照试验的证据

The rising rate of chronic disease is a leading driver of the global disease burden. Yet, its determinants are not fully understood. Exploiting the Green Revolution and its expansion in historically groundwater-rich Indian districts, we examine the unanticipated contribution of agricultural productivity growth to the rise in chronic, diet-related diseases. We find that areas with greater adoption of new staple varieties saw an increase in diabetes in men born after the introduction of high-yield crops. We find suggestive evidence that diet is an important mechanism, such as heterogeneous impacts with respect to dietary habits and increases in household calorie consumption. (JEL I12, O13, O15, O31, Q12, Q16)

Sheetal Sekhri

Gauri Kartini Shastry

The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease

富足的诅咒：绿色革命与慢性疾病的增加

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, millions of German expellees were resettled into the new borders of Germany, but not into the parts of Germany that were occupied by France. Using a spatial regression discontinuity framework, I estimate the persistence of the population shock over a 20-year-period. Between 1945 and 1950, the inflow of people increased the population in municipalities where expellees could settle by 21.6 percent. The difference in population levels is highly persistent and remained 17.8 percent in 1970. The results suggest that population patterns in the region that I study were not determined by locational fundamentals. (JEL J11, N34, R12, R23)

Abel Schumann

Persistence of Population Shocks: Evidence from the Occupation of West Germany after World War II

人口冲击的持续性：来自二战后西德占领的证据

This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in a middle income country. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered and not offered training. The program raises earnings and employment for women. Women offered training earn 19.6 percent more and have a 0.068 higher probability of paid employment than those not offered training, mainly in formal-sector jobs. Cost-benefit analysis of these results suggests that the program generates much larger net gains than those found in developed countries. (JEL I28, J13, J24, O15)

Orazio Attanasio

Adriana Kugler

Costas Meghir

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

资助哥伦比亚弱势青年的职业培训：来自随机试验的证据

I study discrimination arising from individual experiences of employers with worker groups. I present a model in which employers are uncertain about the productivity of one of two groups and learn through hiring. Positive experiences lead to positive biases, which correct themselves by leading to more hiring and learning. Negative experiences decrease hiring and learning, preserving negative biases, which can cause persistent discrimination. The model explains prejudice as incorrect statistical discrimination and generates novel predictions and policy implications. I then illustrate experience-based discrimination in an experimental labor market, finding support for key model predictions. (JEL D83, J23, J24, J31, J71, M51)

Louis-Pierre Lepage

Experience-Based Discrimination

基于经验的歧视

We study intergenerational mobility in India. We propose a new measure of upward mobility: the expected education rank of a child born to parents in the bottom half of the education distribution. This measure works well under data constraints common in developing countries and historical contexts. Intergenerational mobility in India has been constant and low since before liberalization. Among sons, we observe rising mobility for Scheduled Castes and declining mobility among Muslims. Daughters’ intergenerational mobility is lower than sons’, with less cross-group variation over time. A natural experiment suggests that affirmative action for Scheduled Castes has substantially improved their mobility. (JEL I24, J13, J15, J16, J62, O12, Z12)

Sam Asher

Paul Novosad

Charlie Rafkin

Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups

印度代际流动：新测量方法与跨时间和社会群体的估计

This paper identifies an important spillover associated with public health insurance: reduced incarceration. In 1990, Congress passed legislation that increased Medicaid eligibility for individuals born after September 30, 1983. We show that Black children born just after the cutoff are 5 percent less likely to be incarcerated by age 28, driven primarily by a decrease in incarcerations connected to financially motivated offenses. Children of other races, who experienced almost no gain in Medicaid coverage as a result of the policy, demonstrate no such decline. We find that reduced incarceration in adulthood substantially offsets the initial costs of expanding eligibility. (JEL H51, I13, I18, I38, J15, K42)

Samuel Arenberg

Seth Neller

Sam Stripling

The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration

青年医疗补助资格对成年监禁的影响

This paper analyzes a large-scale and long-running distance education program in Mexico. We estimate marginal treatment effects (MTEs) for learning in math and Spanish in telesecundarias relative to traditional Mexican secondary schools using an empirical framework that allows for unobserved sorting on gains. The estimated MTEs reveal that school choice is not random and that the average student experiences significant improvements in both math and Spanish after just one year of attendance in telesecundarias. We find that the existing policy reduces educational inequality, and our policy-relevant treatment effects show that expanding telesecundarias would yield significant improvements in academic performance. (JEL I21, I24, I26, I28, O15)

Emilio Borghesan

Gabrielle Vasey

The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias

远程教育的边际回报：来自墨西哥远程中学的证据

短名	Am. Econ. J. Appl. Econ.
Journal Impact	5.42
国际分区	ECONOMICS(Q1)
期刊索引	SCI Q1中科院 1 区

ISSN	1944-9828, 1945-7782, 1945-7790
h-index	109
国内分区	经济学(1区)经济学经济学(1区)
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Women’s Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa

The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease

Persistence of Population Shocks: Evidence from the Occupation of West Germany after World War II

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

The Curse of Plenty: The Green Revolution and the Rise in Chronic Disease

Experience-Based Discrimination

Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Measures and Estimates across Time and Social Groups

The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration

The Marginal Returns to Distance Education: Evidence from Mexico’s Telesecundarias