Applied Microeconomics Archive

Hanno Foerster, University of Mannheim

“The Impact of Post-Marital Maintenance on Dynamic Decisions and Welfare of Couples"

Linh Tô, Harvard University

"The Signaling Role of Parental Leave"

Laura Boudreau, University of California-Berkeley

"Multinational Enforcement of Labor Law: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh’s Apparel Sector"

Chris Neilson, Princeton Universtiy

"Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice"

Chenyu Yang, University of Rochester

"The Efficiency of A Dynamic Decentralized Two-sided Matching Market"

Tobias Salz, MIT

Vivek Bhattacharya, Northwestern University

"Bidding and Drilling Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Analysis of Contingent Payment Auctions"

Robert Metcalfe, Boston University

"Estimating the Trade-off Between Efficiency and Equity from Energy Subsidies"

Daniel Björkegren, Brown University, Brown University

"Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda"

Ray Fisman, Boston University

"Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy"

Mathias Reynaert, Toulouse School of Economics

 "Favoritism and Corrective Taxation"

Hunt Allcott, New York University

"Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax"

Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University 

"Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Party Tariff Negotiations"

Danielle Li, MIT

"Promotions and the Peter Principle"

Kurt Lavetti, The Ohio State University

"Estimating Compensating Wage Differentials with Endogenous Job Mobility"

 John Rust, Georgetown University

"Has Dynamic Programming Improved Decision Making?"

Theodore Papageorgiou, McGill University

 "Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs"

Andrew Barr, Texas A&M University

Alexander MacKay, Harvard University

"An Empirical Model of Consumer Affiliation and Dynamic Price Competition"

Marcella Alsan, Stanford University

"Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland"

Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford University

"Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars"

Laura Gee, Tufts University

"Salary History Bans and Hiring Outcomes:
Evidence from a Field Experiment"

Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto

"What Do Employee Referral Programs Do?"

Lucas Coffman, Harvard University

"Behavioral and Personal Finance Approaches to Recruiting Teachers"

Jesse Gregory, University of Wisconsin

"The Long-Run Effects of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Composition"

Chris Udry, Northwestern University

 "Information, Market Access and Risk: Addressing Constraints to Agricultural Transformation in Northern Ghana" 

“The Welfare Consequences of Free Entry in Vertical Relationships: The Case of the MRI Market”

Ken Onishi, Singapore Management University

 Margaux Luflade, Duke University

“A Structural Analysis of the Rise of Processed Food in the Diet of UK Households”

Valérie Lechene, University College London

"Taxation and Market Power in the Legal Marijuana Industry"

Brett Hollenbeck, UCLA

 "Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia"

Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University

"Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target?  Program Access and Preschool Impacts" 

Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College

"Industry Input in Policymaking: Evidence from Medicare”

Michael Dickstein, New York University

"Promoting Wellness or Waste? Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising"

Brad Shapiro, University of Chicago

"Parental Beliefs and Investments in Human Capital" 

Flávio Cunha, Rice University

"Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Far Size"

Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University

Marco Ghiani, Boston College

A Dynamic Model of Vehicle Ownership, Type Choice, and Usage

Anders Munk-Nielsen, University of Copenhagen

Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration

Jan Stuhler, University of Carlos III

History Dependence in Networks of Close Relationships: Theory, and Application to Job Referrals

Jim Rauch, University of California-San Diego

"Ethnic Discrimination on an Online Marketplace of Vacation Rentals"

Roland Rathelot, University of Warwick

"The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial
Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java"

Melissa Dell, Harvard University

"Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs"

Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University

Nick Diebel, Boston College

"The Perils of Voter Mobilization"

Tavneet Suri, MIT Sloan 

"Quantifying Delay Externalities in Airline Networks"

John Lazarev, NYU

"Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency?
Evidence from Electricity Markets"

Fernando Luco, Texas A&M

"Discretion in Hiring" 

Lisa Kahn, Yale University 

Charlie Murry, Penn State

Wills Hickman, Boston College

“Information Frictions in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda”

Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California