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Political Polarization and US-Mexico Migration (2025)
Journal Article
Caballero, M. E., Ippedico, G., & Peri, G. (2025). Political Polarization and US-Mexico Migration. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 115, 421-426. https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20251025

We study how the US presidential election of 2016 affected the subsequent inflow of Mexican-born immigrants. We use the "Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridad" data to construct proxies for annual inflows and internal movements of Mexican-born individ... Read More about Political Polarization and US-Mexico Migration.

Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist (2025)
Journal Article
Malthouse, E., Pilgrim, C., Sgroi, D., & Hills, T. T. (2025). Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 104, Article 102592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102592

Collective action problems describe situations such as climate change in which the efforts of multiple individuals are required to achieve joint outcomes. Many of these problems feature a threshold (e.g. limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-in... Read More about Luck framing supports the avoidance of collective disaster when inequalities in vulnerability exist.

Gender differences in household education expenditure in Malaysia (2025)
Journal Article
Surianshah, S., & Bridges, S. (2025). Gender differences in household education expenditure in Malaysia. International Journal of Social Economics, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-03-2024-0247

Purpose
The objective of this study is to examine gender differences in the allocation of household expenditure on education in Malaysia.

Design/methodology/approach
This study examines the determinants of expenditure on education using a double... Read More about Gender differences in household education expenditure in Malaysia.

Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act (2025)
Journal Article
Bernini, A., Facchini, G., Tabellini, M., & Testa, C. (in press). Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act. Journal of Political Economy, https://doi.org/10.1086/736766

How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we... Read More about Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act.

The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data (2025)
Journal Article
Bartelme, D., Costinot, A., Donaldson, D., & Rodríguez-Clare, A. (2025). The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data. Journal of Political Economy, 133(5), 1527–1573. https://doi.org/10.1086/734129

The textbook case for industrial policy is well understood. If some sectors are subject to external economies of scale, whereas others are not, a government should subsidize the first group of sectors at the expense of the second. Little is known, ho... Read More about The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data.

Unit Root Tests for Explosive Financial Bubbles in the Presence of Deterministic Level Shifts (2025)
Journal Article
Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., Tatlow, B. S., & Zu, Y. (2025). Unit Root Tests for Explosive Financial Bubbles in the Presence of Deterministic Level Shifts. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12668

This article considers the issue of testing for an explosive bubble in financial time series in the presence of deterministic level shifts. We demonstrate that the sign-based variants of the Phillips-Shi-Yu test retain their asymptotic validity in th... Read More about Unit Root Tests for Explosive Financial Bubbles in the Presence of Deterministic Level Shifts.

Worker-firm screening and the business cycle (2025)
Journal Article
Bradley, J. (2025). Worker-firm screening and the business cycle. Review of Economic Dynamics, 57, Article 101272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2025.101272

To understand the co-movement of vacancies and employment, an equilibrium model with two-sided screening is developed. On one side of the market, both employed and unemployed workers can evaluate multiple job openings simultaneously and decide which... Read More about Worker-firm screening and the business cycle.

The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China (2025)
Journal Article
Bridges, S., & Liu, L. (2025). The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China. China Economic Review, 90, Article 102360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102360

This paper uses data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) conducted in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2018 to examine the effect recent health and societal changes have had on the ability of households to manage the financial burden... Read More about The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China.

At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect (2025)
Journal Article
Quispe-Torreblanca, E., Hume, D., Gathergood, J., Loewenstein, G., & Stewart, N. (in press). At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, https://doi.org/10.1086/735785

The disposition effect is the reluctance to sell assets at a loss relative to a salient point of reference, typically assumed to be the purchase price. Using data on stocks and housing sales, we show that the peak price achieved by an asset during th... Read More about At the Top of the Mind: Peak Prices and the Disposition Effect.

Import processing and trade costs (2025)
Journal Article
Carballo, J., Graziano, A. G., Schaur, G., & Martincus, C. V. (2025). Import processing and trade costs. Journal of International Economics, 154, Article 104060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2025.104060

We estimate import processing costs based on the time it takes to import. To do so, we first develop a theoretical model that extends existing time-cost measures to account for uncertainty in import processing. Second, we use detailed, highly disaggr... Read More about Import processing and trade costs.