This paper reports results from the randomized evaluation of a group-lending microcredit program in Hyderabad, India. A lender worked in 52 randomly selected neighborhoods, leading to an 8.4 percentage point increase in takeup of microcredit. Small business investment and profits of preexisting businesses increased, but consumption did not significantly increase. Durable goods expenditure increased, while…
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics is a peer-reviewed journal published by American Economic Association, covering Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, School Choice and Performance. Over its lifetime it has published 844 papers, which have received 84,091 citations.
| Publisher | American Economic Association |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago/AEA) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare School Choice and Performance Labor market dynamics and wage inequality Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth |
| ISSN | 1945-7782 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 6.93 |
| h-index | 154 |
| i10-index | 622 |
| Top institutions publishing here | National Bureau of Economic Research |
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We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into different markets of Globo, the main novela producer. Women living in areas covered by Globo have significantly lower fertility. The effect is strongest for women of lower socioeconomic status and…
The careers of MBAs from a top US business school are studied to understand how career dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male earnings advantage reaching almost 60 log points a decade after MBA completion. Three…
This paper analyzes the magnitude and sources of long-term earnings declines associated with graduating from college during a recession. Using a large longitudinal university-employer-employee dataset, we find that the cost of recessions for new graduates is substantial and unequal. Unlucky graduates suffer persistent earnings declines lasting ten years. They start to work for lower paying…
Using random year-to-year variation in temperature, we document the relationship between daily temperatures and annual mortality rates and daily temperatures and annual residential energy consumption. Both relationships exhibit nonlinearities, with significant increases at the extremes of the temperature distribution. The application of these results to “business as usual” climate predictions indicates that by the end…