Econometrica

Which teachers reduce their students’ future crime? This paper uses new methods to show it's not those who raise test scores, but those who improve attendance and behavior. @evankrose @yotamshemtov
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We develop a methodology for revealing the weights that import tariffs place on groups in society. Our estimates imply that redistributive motives across sectors -- rather than across states -- account for a significant fraction of US tariff variation.
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@johannesmboehm and Chaney combine data on half a million ancient coins with a model of trade and money to reconstruct trade and consumption from AD 325 to 950. The estimates show economic activity shifting away from the Mediterranean from the 6th century.
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Can prices simultaneously incentivize information acquisition and aggregate it? Atakan and Ekmekci show that, in large common-value auctions, prices reveal the common value if and only if the marginal cost of accuracy approaches zero as accuracy vanishes.
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How should an agent prepare for an unexpected decision problem? This paper studies this question trying to uncover how the nature and timing of a decision problem affects the dynamic patterns of learning; for example, what to learn about and when.
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