The Impact of Closed Bars Behind Closed Doors: Alcohol Prohibition and Intramarital Violence in Bihar Agrim Gulaty
This paper examines the impact of Bihar’s 2016 alcohol prohibition on physical intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Exploiting variation in pre-prohibition alcohol exposure across villages and census wards, I employ a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment intensity using the UDAYA dataset. I find that the prohibition significantly reduced physical IPV, with a 10 percentage […]
Overlooked Premiums of Overdose Prevention: Neighbourhood Gains from Vancouver Harm Reduction Sites CEA 2026 Best Poster Award Amy Wheeler
Amy Wheeler
I examine the non-medical impacts of Vancouver Downtown Eastside Overdose Prevention Sites on nearby (less than 175 metres away) property values, littered needle rates, and crime rates. I examine sites that opened in 2016 and 2017 during the British Columbia overdose crisis, with my study period spanning 2013-2021. Using a novel application of Callaway-Sant’Anna spatial […]
Voters Know the Difference CEA best paper award Luigi Vicencio
Luigi Vicencio
Abstract: This paper examines whether local exposure to Brazil’s 2014–2016 recession affected incumbent mayors’ electoral outcomes in the 2016 municipal elections. The recession was driven by the end of the commodities boom and Lava Jato, Brazil’s landmark anti-corruption investigation. Using shift-share measures of local exposure to the Lava Jato-driven recession and China trade shocks, I […]
Low Fares Done Right? The Impact of Frontier Airlines’ Entry on Fares, Quality, and Consumer Welfare Accepted to present at the CEA 2026 Sahaj Khanna
Sahaj Khanna
Frontier Airlines entered nearly 500 new routes after transitioning to the ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) model in 2014. This paper examines the effects of these route entries on incumbent fares and service quality. To account for variation in entry timing, I apply a staggered difference-indifferences (DiD) design to a carrier-route level panel with data on fares, […]
Doctors Within Borders: Do Internal Trade Agreements Integrate Physician Labour Markets? Accepted to present at the CEA 2026 Kamakshi Anand
Kamakshi Anand
Abstract Do internal trade agreements meaningfully integrate labour markets? I provide evidence that effectively removing regulatory barriers in labour markets produces measurable reallocation, with effects concentrated in specialties where credentialing friction was highest. I use Saskatchewan’s 2010 accession to the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA) as a natural experiment, and estimate a gravity-based difference-in-differences […]
How Electricity Prices Drive Residential Solar Adoption: Using the United Kingdom Energy Crisis as a Natural Experiment Accepted to present at the CEA 2026 Lucien Ward
Lucien Ward
Abstract: This paper examines the effect of electricity prices on residential solar photovoltaic installations. I use the UK energy crisis, which began in August 2021, as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of short-run electricity price fluctuations on residential solar PV adoption, exploiting the exogenous variation in electricity prices driven by global natural […]
Pay Me! Pay Transparency Act and Wage Outcomes: Mandatory vs. Upon-Request Disclosure Accepted to present at the CEA 2026 Xiaoyang Xi
Xiaoyang Xi
This paper estimates the causal effects of state-level Pay Transparency Acts (PTAs) on wage levels and within-occupation wage dispersion in the United States using Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data (2015–2024). Leveraging staggered policy adoption across six states, I distinguish between two regimes: mandatory disclosure (salary ranges posted; Colorado, California, Washington) […]
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. […]