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 […]
Moratorium Shield: California Non-Renewal and FAIR Plan Responses Annabella Stoll-Dansereau
California wildfires are intensifying due to climate change, creating more structural damage and straining the housing insurance market. During the period focused on, 2015 to 2021, regulations limited insurance premium increases and prohibited using climate forecasts in pricing models, pushing insurers toward non-renewals. My thesis focuses on the 2019 Moratorium policy that froze insurance non-renewals […]
Protest and Prejudice: The Impact of Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Behaviour CEA 2023 Best Poster Award
Colby Chambers
This paper assesses the impact of Black Lives Matter Protests in the United States on police traffic stops of civilians. Exploiting variation in protest location across 16 states and protest timing from 2014 to 2018, I use a stacked difference-in-differences methodology to find that the protests led to an 12% reduction in stops and 8% […]
The Maternal Health Consequences of Reduced Access to AbortionTali Yaffe
Unencumbered access to abortion allows women to avoid mistimed pregnancies and their associated health risks. I assess the adverse health consequences of reduced access to abortion by examining a Texas policy change which forced the closure of many abortion clinics in the state. Using a TWFE DID research design across time and Texas counties, I […]