AEA Sessions from the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting

January 07 — 09

Enjoy our library of recorded videos from the 2022 ASSA Annual Meeting.

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Sessions found: 147

Household Consumption and Investment Decisions

Chair:
Silvia Prina
The Effect of Stock Ownership on Individual Spending and Loyalty —
Michaela Pagel
, Vrinda Mittal
, and Paolina Medina
The Investment Side of College Savings —
Alexey Vasilenko
Can Estimated Risk and Time Preferences Explain Real-Life Financial Choices? —
Jorgo Goossens
, Marike Knoef
, and Eduard Ponds
Do People With a High Permanent Income Respond More to a Transitory Income Shock? —
Jeanne Commault
The Spending Response to the 2020-2021 Stimulus Payments —
Daniel M. Sullivan
, Peter Ganong
, and Pascal Noel

Housing and the Macroeconomy

Chair:
Patrick Moran
Managing a Housing Boom —
Jason Allen
and Daniel Greenwald
The Covid-19 Housing Boom: A Result of Fiscal Policy? —
William Diamond
, Tim Landvoigt
, and German Sanchez Sanchez
Racial Heterogeneity in Mortgage Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic —
Kris Gerardi
, Lauren Lambie-Hanson
, and Paul Willen
Stuck at Home: Housing Demand During the COVID-19 Pandemic —
James Graham
Breaking the Commitment Device: The Effect of Home Equity Withdrawal on Consumption, Saving, and Welfare —
Agnes Kovacs
and Patrick Moran

How Mental Illness Impacts the Criminal Justice System

Chair:
Adrienne Sabety
Indigent Defense, Social Workers and Suicide Attempts in Jail: Evidence from Randomized Therapist —
Vivian Vigliotti
, Jonathan Seward
, and Scott Cunningham
Mental Health and Criminal Involvement: Evidence from Losing Medicaid Eligibility —
Elisa Jacome
Reducing Re-Arrests Through Light Touch Mental Health Outreach —
Mary Kate Batistich
, William Evans
, and David C. Phillips

Identity, Culture, and the Economics of Gender

Chair:
Claudia Olivetti
Gender Identity and Economic Decision-Making —
Anne Ardila Brenøe
, Lea Heursen
, Eva Ranehill
, and Roberto Weber
Gender Norms, Integration Costs, and Missing Women in Firms —
Jennifer R. Peck
, Conrad Miller
, and Mehmet Seflek
Hacking Gender Stereotypes —
Michela Carlana
and Margherita Fort
Gender Economics and the Meaning of Discrimination —
Shelly Lundberg

If You Only Had Two Hours–Best Advice for New Instructors of Economics

Chair:
Gail Hoyt
Advice to New Economic Educators from the Profession: If You Only Had Five Minutes —
Roisin O'Sullivan
, Gail Hoyt
, and Darshak Patel
New Instructor Identity: Knowing Yourself and Knowing Your Audience —
Jennifer Imazeki
How to belong? Inclusive Pedagogy Practices for Beginning Instructors in the Economics Classroom —
Mary Lopez
and Kirsten Wandschneider
Student Engagement and Interaction in the Economics Classroom: Essentials for Economic Educators —
Carlos Asarta
Actively Selecting Assessment Techniques: Asking the Why —
Gina Pieters
Educational Technology for Teaching Economics–Where to Start and How to Grow? —
William L. Goffe

Immigration, Perceptions and Beliefs

Chair:
Sandra Rozo
Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions —
Nicolás Ajzenman
, Patricio Dominguez
, and Raimundo Undurraga
Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools —
Alberto Alesina
, Michela Carlana
, Eliana La Ferrara
, and Paolo Pinotti
Misperceptions about Others —
Leonardo Bursztyn
and David Y. Yang

Implications of Micro Level Heterogeneity for Macroeconomic Stabilization and Growth

Chair:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy —
Rüdiger Bachmann
, Benjamin Born
, Olga Goldfayn-Frank
, Georgi Kocharkov
, Ralph Luetticke
, and Michael Weber
Accelerating the Recovery: the Role of Automatic Stabilization Policy in a Model with Wealth Inequality —
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
, Lilia Maliar
, Serguei Maliar
, and Christopher Naubert
Consumer Bankruptcy as Aggregate Demand Management —
Adrien Auclert
and Kurt Mitman
The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures —
Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln
, Dirk Krueger
, Alexander Ludwig
, and Irina Popova

Implications of the Coronavirus Epidemic on the Macroeconomy and Inequalities

Chair:
Laurence Boone
Persistent COVID-19: Exploring Potential Economic Implications —
Olivier Blanchard
and Jean Pisani-Ferry
Inequality in Life and Death —
Martin Eichenbaum
, Sergio Rebelo
, and Mathias Trabandt
COVID-19 Epidemics in Emerging Economies – Policies and Consequences —
Balazs Egert
, Iikka Korhonen
, and Riikka Nuutilainen

Incentives for Public-Sector Delivery of Health and Education in Developing Countries

Chair:
Owen Ozier
Do Performance Contracts Retain Better Teachers, and Do They (De)motivate? —
Clare Leaver
, Owen Ozier
, Pieter Serneels
, and Andrew Zeitlin
Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector —
Erika Deserranno
, Stefano Caria
, Philipp Kastrau
, and Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta
The Roles of Financial Incentives and Performance Monitoring in Improving the Quality of Health Care: Evidence from a National Pay-for-Performance Trial in the Kyrgyz Republic —
Jed Friedman
and Eeshani Kandpal
Subjective versus Objective Incentives and Employee Productivity —
Tahir Andrabi
and Christina Brown

Incorporating Racial Inequality into Macroeconomic Models

Moderators:
Abigail Wozniak
and Trevon D. Logan
Panelists:
Raquel Fernandez
,
Alessandra Fogli
,
Patrick Bayer
, and
Illenin Kondo

Increased Access to Administrative Data for Policy Research: Its Value and How We Get There

Moderator:
Kenneth Troske
Panelists:
Katharine Abraham
,
Bruce D. Meyer
,
Nancy Potok
,
Julia Lane
, and
John M. Abowd

Industrial Organization

Chair:
Julie Holland Mortimer
Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry —
Kory Kroft
, Yao Luo
, Magne Mogstad
, and Bradley Setzler
Long-Term Contracts and Efficiency in the Liquefied Natural Gas Industry —
Nahim Bin Zahur
Manufacturer-Retailer Relationships and the Distribution of New Products —
Bowen Luo
Mergers Between Multi-Product Firms with Endogenous Variety: Theory and an Application to the RTE-Cereal Industry —
Francisco Garrido
Market Structure Design —
Alexander K. Zentefis
and Kai Hao Yang

Inequality within Families

Chair:
Shelly Lundberg
Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting —
Ana Reynoso
, Paula Calvo
, and Ilse Lindenlaub
Dowries, Resource Allocation, and Poverty —
Rossella Calvi
and Ajinkya Keskar
The Effect of Violent Crime on Intra-household Resource Allocation and Bargaining Power —
Maria Hernandez-de-Benito
Brothers, Sisters, and Support to Older Parents: Separate Spheres Across and Within Support Types? —
Christine Ho
and Kathleen McGarry

Information and Communication in Empirical Settings

Chair:
Brent Hickman
Information Design in Common Value Auction with Moral Hazard: Application to OCS Leases —
Anh Nguyen
Resolving Failed Banks: Uncertainty, Multiple Bidding, and Auction Design —
Brent Hickman
Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration —
Yunmi Kong
Physicians as Persuaders: Evidence from Hospitals in China —
Jia Xiang

Intergenerational Transfers, Parenthood, and Female Hardship

Chair:
Jennifer Doleac
Do Richer Parents Cushion the Fall? Disparate Impacts of Job Loss by Parental Income and Implications for Intergenerational Mobility —
Emily Nix
, Martti Kaila
, and Krista Riukula
Does the Child Penalty Strike Twice?   —
Sarah Sander
, Mette Gørtz
, and Almudena Sevilla
Maternal Stress, Compositional Change, and Infant Health after a State Sentencing Reform   —
Siobhan O'Keefe
The Impact of Unconditional Police Reporting on Domestic Violence —
Esther Arenas-Arroyo

Intergenerational Transmission of Labor Market Outcomes

Chair:
Maria B. Zhu
The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers —
Matthew Staiger
Minimum Wages and the Human Capital of the Next Generation —
Daniel Araújo
, Bladimir Carrillo
, Wilman Javier Iglesias Pinedo
, and Breno Sampaio
A Bridge to Graduation: Testing the Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail Exit Exams —
Jane Arnold Lincove
, Kalena Cortes
, and Catherine Mata
The Effect of Microinsurance on Child Work and Schooling: Evidence from Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia —
Hyuk Son
Public and Parental Investments, and Children’s Skill Formation —
Miriam Gensowski
, Rasmus Landersø
, Dorthe Bleses
, Philip Dale
, and Anders Højen

International Capital Flows before and during the COVID Crisis

Chair:
Linda Goldberg
Changing Patterns of Capital Flows —
Gerardo Garcia
and Livio Stracca
Capital Flows-at-Risk: Push, Pull and the Role of Policy —
Fernando Eguren-Martin
, Cian O'Neill
, Andrej Sokol
, and Lukas von dem Berge
How Capital Inflows Translate into New Bank Lending: Tracing the Mechanism —
Carlos Cantu
and Catherine Casanova

International Environmental Economics

Chair:
Joseph S. Shapiro
Coordination and Commitment in International Climate Action: Evidence from Palm Oil —
Allan Hsiao
The Carbon Footprint of Multinational Production —
Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman
, Natalia Ramondo
, Andres Rodriguez-Clare
, and Joseph S. Shapiro
International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta —
Giovanni Maggi
and Robert W. Staiger
Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes —
Panle Jia Barwick
, Dave Donaldson
, Shanjun Li
, Yatang Lin
, and Deyu Rao

International Money and Finance

Chair:
Ivanova Reyes
The Real Costs of International Financial Dis-Integration —
Karen Lewis
and Edith X. Liu
The Rise and Fall of Global Currencies over Two Centuries —
Roger Vicquery
Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis through Multinational Firms —
Kilian Huber
and Marcus Biermann
Risk-Sharing and Amplification in the Global Financial Network —
Leslie Sheng Shen
and Tony Zhang
Monetary Policy Independence and the Strength of the Global Financial Cycle —
Christian Friedrich
, Pierre Guerin
, and Danilo Leiva-Leon

International Trade

Chair:
Natalia Ramondo
Automation, Trade and Multinational Activity: Micro Evidence from Spain —
Katherine Stapleton
and Michael Webb
No Sugar Coating: Quantifying the Welfare Losses from the Cuban Embargo —
Stefania Garetto
and Marie Petkus
Self-Harming Trade Policy? Protectionism and Production Networks —
Matteo Cacciatore
and Alessandro Barattieri
International Trade of Essential Goods during a Pandemic —
Fernando Leibovici
and Ana Maria Santacreu
Trade and Establishments: Reevaluating Why Location Matters —
Jooyoun Park
, Mina Kim
, and Benjamin Raymond