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Contemporary Economic Policy

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First published in 1982, CEP publishes scholarly research and analysis on important policy issues facing society.

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✨New Article✨ Jeehyun Ko examines if 1993 Earned Income Tax Credit expansion affected children of single and married mothers differently. Ko finds that the expansion reduced test scores of single mothers' children relative to married mothers' children.
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✨New Article✨ Clemens, Detering, and Mahajan use descriptive and quasi-experimental analyses to examine potential predictors for cross-state variation in per capita Medicaid enrollment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Understanding cross‐state variations in Medicaid enrollment during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

Understanding cross‐state variations in Medicaid enrollment during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

The implementation and unwinding of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act's continuous coverage requirement generated historically large changes in Medicaid enrollment during the COVID-19...

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✨New Article✨ Daniel Thompson and Joshua Mitchell investigate how disability insurance applications allowance rates vary by observable characteristics. When accounting for differing socio-economic and health characteristics, differences are generally not significant.
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Read here: doi.org/10.1111/coep.70052 @WileyEconBiz
Differences in disability insurance allowance rates

Differences in disability insurance allowance rates

Allowance rates for disability insurance (DI) applications vary by race and ethnicity, but it is unclear to what extent these differences are artifacts of other differing socio-economic and health...

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✨New Article✨ Chengyuan Hua examines the wage-setting process in the NHL. He finds that teams with more coarse contracts have worse performance.
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Coarse contract‐setting and behavioral teams

Coarse contract‐setting and behavioral teams

Among National Hockey League (NHL) player contracts signed from 2011 to 24, over 38% are divisible by $100,000. I show that the bunching of NHL contracts at round numbers is partly driven by teams'...

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✨New Article✨ How does protectionist legislation affect consumer welfare? Angerhofer and Blair analyze the Florida Automobile Dealers Act and find that loss in consumer welfare may exceed $3.5 billion in 2023 alone.
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Automobile dealer protectionist legislation and consumer welfare

Automobile dealer protectionist legislation and consumer welfare

In the United States, state legislation prohibits automobile manufacturers from selling cars directly to consumers. Instead, they must rely on independently owned franchised dealerships to distribu...

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✨New Article ✨ Emissions resulting from purchased electricity are difficult to calculate. Werner and Levinson ask how three restrictions on what counts as carbon‐free electricity use affect the degree to which electricity use really is carbon‐free.
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Greenhouse gases resulting from grid‐connected electricity demand

Greenhouse gases resulting from grid‐connected electricity demand

Many businesses would like to claim their electricity use results in no greenhouse gases. Because electricity cannot be traced from specific generators to purchasers, regulators and users propose an...

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✨New Article✨ How does natural resource dependence affect the development of wealth inequality in a country? Kim, Lin, and Liu demonstrate that the inequality effects of financial development are fundamentally shaped by resource dependence.
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Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?

Are natural resources a curse on the distributional consequences of financial development?

This paper examines how natural resource dependence shapes the distributional effects of financial development in developing economies. Using a balanced panel of 90 countries from 1995 to 2022 and...

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✨New Article✨ Yun Huang, Yun Liu, and Meng Ding construct a novel economic index that is accessible, interpretable, and empirically validated for tracking the economy of Hong Kong.
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Tracking Hong Kong economy with a novel leading index

Tracking Hong Kong economy with a novel leading index

We construct a monthly Hong Kong Composite Leading Index that closely tracks Hong Kong's economy. This index has strong correlations with real economic indicators and perfectly predicts downturns...

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✨New Article✨ The success of place-based policies vary widely from region to region. Xuan Zhang finds that the effects of Chinese county-level assistance policies vary based on pre-policy relative opportunity structure.
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When do place‐based assistance policies activate local entrepreneurial entry? Evidence from...

When do place‐based assistance policies activate local entrepreneurial entry? Evidence from...

Why do similar place-based assistance policies generate stronger entrepreneurial responses in some underdeveloped counties than in others? We argue that policy effects depend on counties' pre-exist...

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✨New Article✨ Matsushima, Nishikawa, and Qiu propose a new theoretical mechanism where minimum wage regulation can simultaneously increase employment and a firms profit.
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The effects of minimum wage regulation in inter‐regional oligopoly competition

The effects of minimum wage regulation in inter‐regional oligopoly competition

We examine how minimum wage regulation affects firm profit when labor-market power interacts with product-market competition. A binding wage floor reduces the regulated firm's marginal labor cost,...

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✨New Article✨ How does FDI affect rural counties? Kara Jones estimates the effect of a $1.2 billion investment by Kia Motors in a rural Georgia county. Findings indicate it raised employment, but did not affect income.
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Reindustrialization meets rural reality: The limits of foreign direct investment‐led development

Reindustrialization meets rural reality: The limits of foreign direct investment‐led development

As industrial policy drives new waves of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S., rural areas are becoming key destinations. Using synthetic control, difference-in-differences, and propensity...

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