Taxing Empty Homes: The Impact of Oakland’s Measure W on Housing Markets Accepted to present at the CEA 2025 Alex Haddon
Alex Haddon
In response to growing concerns over housing affordability and the rise of vacant investment properties, cities like Oakland, California have adopted Vacant Property Taxes (VPTs) to discourage property speculation and increase housing availability. By incentivizing occupancy and reducing artificial scarcity, these policies aim to increase supply and, in turn, put downward pressure on home prices. […]
Farewell to Low Fares: The Price Effects of Alaska Airlines’ 2016 Acquisition of Virgin America CEA 2025 Best Paper Award Pierre Lambelet
Pierre Lambelet
To better understand the impacts of market concentration and reduced competition on consumers in the airline industry, this paper investigates the effects of Alaska Airlines’ 2016 merger with Virgin America on airfares and quantities of passengers. I use highly disaggregated route- and firm-level data to conduct an event study and a difference-in-differences analysis with two-way […]
Cat’s in the Cradle: Paternity Leave Policy and Mothers’ Labour Market Outcomes Accepted to present at the CEA 2025 Wuyang Ren
Wuyang Ren
How effective are paternity leave policies in improving new mothers’ labour market outcomes and promoting gender equality? The persistent gender earnings gap largely arises from women’s prolonged career interruptions due to disproportionate childcare responsibilities. Paternity leave policies are designed to mitigate these interruptions by encouraging a more equal share of childcare duties within a household. […]
Always an Angel, Never a God: Prosocial Norms and Gender Differences in Volunteering Accepted to present at the CEA 2025 Megumi Bernardo
Megumi Bernardo
Popular beliefs that women are more caring or helpful than men misalign with mixed evidence about gender differences in prosociality, i.e., behaviour that benefits others. Nevertheless, can such beliefs, specifically about differences in altruism and generalized trust, lead to observed gender gaps in prosocial behaviours like volunteering? Using individual-level data on the volunteering of second-generation […]
Public & Private: The Effect of Public Sector Unions on the Private Sector Elijah Adrian
Government employees make up a significant portion of the workforce and have high union membership rates in both Canada and the United States. To understand how this impacts the macroeconomy I investigate the relationship between public sector unions (PSUs) and the private sector. Synthesizing previous research, I establish that PSUs can lead to ”crowding out” […]
US Parental Involvement Laws: The Impacts in Access to Abortion on Teen Health CEA 2024 Best Paper Award Jane Platt
Jane Platt
Unobstructed access to abortion is a crucial component of healthcare, particularly for teens who have higher risks of negative health consequences associated with birth. I look at the impacts of abortion restrictions on teen health by analyzing US parental involvement laws (PILs), which prohibit physicians from preforming abortions on minors without including their guardians in […]
Migration and the Classroom: The Effects of Immigration on the Test Scores and School Experience of Native Students in Europe CEA 2024 Best Poster Presentation Award Anna Chernesky
Anna Chernesky
Using six waves of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and an IV-FE strategy, I use recent variations in the proportion of immigrant students across European countries to ask the following questions: How does attending school with more immigrant peers affect native-born student test scores, and change self-reported attitudes towards school and immigration? […]
Bank “Resilience”- The Effects of Demonetization and Covid-19 on Bank’s Non-Performing Assets in India Uddhav Kalra
This paper examines the role of Demonetization and COVID-19 on the Non-Performing Assets of banks in India. Demonetization was the event where the Government of India decided that currency notes of denominations 500 and 1000 were no longer legal tender, this accounted for 86% of the currency in circulation. Exploiting variation in bank types and using […]
Do Costco Openings Increase Nearby Property Values? Evidence from the U.S. Silas Kwok
How does introducing a big-box retailer like Costco into a community impact nearby property values? Using Costco openings from 2002 to 2020 across the U.S. and spatial difference-in-differences and event study methodologies, I find that Costco openings caused no significant changes in property values on average. I also find no significant dynamic effects of Costco openings on property values within 20 miles for 2.5 […]
Fortune Sons, Unfortunate People: The Legacy of Herbicidal Warfare in Vietnam Trang Truong
The United States dropped three times the total tonnage used in both World War II and the Korean War on Vietnam and sprayed 20 million gallons of herbicides on South Vietnam during the Second Indochina War (also known as the “Vietnam War” or the “Resistance War against America”), making it one of the most disastrous […]