In Fall 2007, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) initiated the Flagship Scholarship program. Flagship offers a “free college” opportunity to students from designated high schools if they ar...

Women are largely underrepresented in STEM careers associated with higher labor market returns. This gender gap is even more stark in a context where societal biases are prevalent and female role mod...

We review and test two competing hypotheses that associate the observed toxicity in economics with the profession's demographics. Utilizing secondary data on negative Economics Job Market Rumors (EJM...

The productivity of the agricultural sector is crucial for food security in a changing climate. This study estimates the impacts of extreme weather events on agricultural total factor productivity (T...

Does immigration reshape cultural values, particularly, individualism–collectivism? Immigrants bring diverse cultural values that may either reinforce or challenge individualistic norms, potentially ...

We analyze over 3500 education-related articles published between 2002 and 2022 in the top 22 economics journals, documenting striking geographic disparities. First, 85.7% of publications are based o...

Countries with individualist cultures tend to adopt fewer business regulations. In this paper, we investigate how individualism affects regulation by incorporating the role of legal institutions. We ...

Given the critical role of electric power in local communities, this study investigates whether power interruptions are capitalized into housing prices at the US county level. Using county-level pane...

Guardian Caps are padded shells worn over American football helmets to cushion impacts and reduce concussion risks. In 2022, the NFL mandated their use for specific position groups during preseason p...

We developed and tested a stochastic signaling model where incomplete separation could be explained by sellers' heterogeneous risk attitudes. In this model, sellers of both high- and low-quality prod...

We examine the effect of recreational marijuana legalization (RML) on opioid overdose deaths. Using several event studies and a two-way fixed-effects, difference-in-differences approach adapted to th...

Do the sources of funding available to public agencies—and shocks to these sources—affect the performance of these agencies? Using data on Ohio public libraries, we exploit the sudden state budget cu...

This paper examines the effect of nuclear power plant decommissioning on electricity generation and carbon emissions in the United States. Using data on nuclear reactor closures in the United States ...

American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity res...

This paper considers the impacts of grades and information on gender gaps in college major and college dropout rates at a large public flagship university. Observational and experimental results sugg...

Using nationally representative data from the US Household Pulse Survey, I show that individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and not cisgender are 10–20 percentage points more likely than their c...

This paper employs the demographic shocks between 1851 and 1880 as the instrumental variable to analyze the causal link between early industrialization and fertility patterns using a unique historica...

James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. H...

Durable goods are typically treated as irreversible or costlessly reversible with no allowance for adjustment costs. We formulate and estimate a dynamic structural model of durable goods with the use...

We examine the effect of family earnings on child math and reading test scores using the minimum wage as an instrument for family earnings. We show that a higher minimum wage raises earnings signific...

This paper presents research on expanding access to green spaces in developed areas. Critics claim greenway projects lead to gentrification by increasing the demand for housing and pushing out reside...

We use a new data set measuring Lockdown Regulatory Freedom to examine the pre-pandemic factors associated with how severely governments locked down their economy in 2020 across a large cross-section...

One of the most important insights for any economics class is the power of private incentives and competition to work hard when the fruits of one's effort are not diluted by incomplete property right...

Although credit unions have steadily increased their role in the U.S. economy over the past 20 years, few studies have attempted to quantify their impact on bank consumer loan rates, particularly in ...

This study evaluates the extent to which laboratory markets disseminate private information about the long-run payout of durable assets, and how persistent private information affects traders' belief...

During US alcohol prohibition, 1920 to 1933, alcohol consumption fell dramatically. Less well known is that coffee consumption surged as a legal alternative. Using import data and a variety of textua...

We examine whether individual-level social openness correlates with country-level financial openness. We build indexes of social openness for close to 100 countries using principal component analysis...

This paper examines the impact of teacher gender on students' test scores and academic track decisions at the high school level, exploiting the random assignment of students to teachers in China for ...

The Abilene paradox (AP) occurs when a group of people vote for an alternative that no one prefers, resulting in an inferior outcome. We show that in a sequential voting game, a combination of social...

This paper investigates the relationship between residential water consumption and lawn watering, considering precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, and lawn size. This paper uses a unique d...

Student-driven teaching evaluations are commonly used in faculty assessments but are known to exhibit gender and racial biases. Despite this, some argue that student comments provide meaningful feedb...

We describe a game in which teams of students compete to get the most hypothetical prospective students to attend their college. This provides an opportunity to both teach students how price discrimi...

The academic performance of students who take an introductory economics subject taught from CORE's The Economy is compared to the performance of students taught using the Australian adaptation of Man...

Education is considered one of the great equalizers of economic opportunity. In this paper, we ask whether childhood food insecurity may decrease educational attainment, which, in turn, may increase ...

This study explores the impact of China's “Revitalize Border Areas and Enrich Residents' Lives Policy” on export competitiveness in border-region firms. Using a difference-in-differences model, the a....

Does exposure to business and economics education make students less prosocial and more selfish? Employing a difference-in-difference strategy with panel-data from three subsequent cohorts of student...

The immigrant background is an acknowledged source of disadvantage. We study whether this background interacts with absolute and relative age effects generating additional barriers—that is, a double ...

We study behavior in a trust game where first-movers initially have a higher endowment than second-movers but the occurrence of a positive random shock can eliminate this inequality by increasing the....

This paper finds that price discrimination tends to enhance social welfare under oligopoly when the number of firms in the strong market is higher than in the weak market. As a result, we obtain a fu...

This paper examines the impact of daily temperature variations on rural income per capita and evaluates the effectiveness of adaptation based on China's county-level socioeconomic statistics and hous...

The negative correlation between growth and natural resource abundance is widely studied in the resource curse literature. We add to this literature by examining the heterogeneous effect of resource ...

We propose a kernel smoothing method to estimate average treatment effects (ATE) when covariates are all discrete variables. This approach is based on Ouyang et al. (2009), who developed a Econometri...