Recent Publications by Williams College Economics Faculty
(with student or alumni co-authors noted where applicable)
Owen Thompson. 2024. “Human Capital and Black-White Earnings Gaps, 1966–2019.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 227: 106707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106707
Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Lia C.H. Fernald, and Heather A. Knauer. 2024. “Preprimary Education and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Government Schools in Rural Kenya.” Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 171: 103337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103337
Francesco Carli and Burak R. Uras. 2024. “E-Money, Risk-Sharing, and Welfare.” European Economic Review. Vol. 169: 104832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104832
Quamrul H. Ashraf, Francesco Cinnirella, Oded Galor, Boris Gershman, and Erik Hornung. 2024. “Structural Change, Elite Capitalism, and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation.” Review of Economic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdae043
Miesha Williams, Caitlin Caspi, Sarah Jacobson, Richard (Max) Melstrom, Robert D. Mohr, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo, and Brandon Ware. 2024. “A Call for Social Justice-Related Research in Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resource Economics.” Choices Magazine: A Publication of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. Vol. 39, Quarter 3: 1-7. https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/a-call-for-social-justice-related-research-in-agricultural-environmental-and-natural-resource-economics
Owen Thompson. 2024. “Gifted & Talented Programs and Racial Segregation.” Education Finance and Policy. Vol. 19, Issue 4 (Fall): 692-715, https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00415
Jon Bakija. 2024. “The US Individual Income Tax: Recent Evolution and Evidence.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. Vol. 38, No. 3 (Summer): 33–60. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.38.3.33
Sergio Barrera, Susan Sajadi, Marionette Holmes, and Sarah Jacobson. 2024. “Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education.” Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 38, No. 3 (Summer): 163–190. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.38.3.163
Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger. 2024. “Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia.” The Economic Journal. Vol. 134, Issue 661 (July): 2041–2070, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae011
Owen Thompson. 2024. “Selected Fertility and Racial Inequality.” Journal of Human Resources. Vol. 59, No. 3 (May): 684-710. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0221-11481R2
David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, Amina Mendez Acosta. 2024. “The Impacts of Childcare Interventions on Children in Low- and Middle-income Countries.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 114 (May): 463-466, https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20241015
Karl Boulware and Ken Kuttner. 2024. “What Explains Black Employment Dynamics?” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 114 (May): 191-195, https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20241125
Patricio S. Dalton, Haki Pamuk, Ravindra Ramrattan, Burak Uras and Daan van Soest. 2024. “E-Payments and Business Finance: A Field Experiment with Mobile Money in Kenya.” Management Science. Vol. 70, No. 4 (April): 2590-2625, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4821
William Chen ’19 and Gregory Phelan. 2024. “Liquidity Provision and Financial Stability.” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Vol. 56, No. 2-3 (March-April): 455-487, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13026
Sara LaLumia. 2024. “Intergenerational Effects of the EITC: The Case of Grandparents.” National Tax Journal. Vol. 77, No. 1 (March): 39-73, https://doi.org/10.1086/728396
Burak Uras and Ping Wang. 2024. “Misallocation, Productivity and Development with Endogenous Production Techniques.” Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 167 (March): 103251, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103251
Jean-Paul L’Huillier, Gregory Phelan and Hunter Wieman ‘20. 2024. “Technology Shocks and Predictable Minsky Cycles.” The Economic Journal. Vol. 134, Issue 658 (February): 811–836. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead085
Gregory Casey. 2024. “Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation.” The Review of Economic Studies. Vol. 91, Issue 1 (January): 192-228, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdad001
José Gabo Carreño and Burak Uras. 2024. “Macro Welfare Effects of Flexible Labor Contracts.” European Economic Review. Vol. 161 (January): 104633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104633
Amy W. Ando, Titus O. Awokuse, Nathan W. Chan, Jimena González-Ramı́rez, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew G. Interis, Sarah Jacobson, Dale T. Manning, and Samuel Stolper. 2024. “Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter): 143-164, https://doi.org/10.1086/727693
Matthew Gibson, Maulik Jagnani and Hemant K. Pullabhotla. 2023. “Changes in Children’s Time Use, India 1998-2019.” Research in Labor Economics. Vol. 51: 55-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-912120230000051003
Gregory Casey, Stephie Fried and Ethan Goode. 2023. “Projecting the Impact of Rising Temperatures: The Role of Macroeconomic Dynamics.” IMF Economic Review. Vol. 71 (September): 688-718. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-023-00203-0
Wolfgang Keller, Teresa Molina and William W. Olney. 2023. “The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 211 (July): 270-286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.04.017
William Chen ‘19 and Gregory Phelan. 2023. “Should Monetary Policy Target Financial Stability?” Review of Economic Dynamics. Vol. 49 (July): 181–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2022.08.002
Raymond Fisman, Pamela Jakiela, Shachar Kariv, and Silvia Vannutelli. 2023. “The Distributional Preferences of Americans, 2013-2016.” Experimental Economics. Vol. 26, No. 4: 727–48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-023-09792-z
J. Glandon, Ken Kuttner, Sandeep Mazumder, and Caleb Stroup. 2023. “Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past.” Journal of Economic Literature Vol. 61, No. 3, pp. 1088–1126. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20211609
Dietrich Earnhart, Sarah Jacobson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Richard T. Woodward. 2023. “Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation.” Land Economics. Vol. 99, No. 2: 203-221. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.052520-0071R1
Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger. 2023. “Financing Industrial Corporations in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia.” Financial History Review. Vol. 30, No. 2: 125-161. https://doi.org/10.1017/S096856502200018X
Owen Thompson. 2023. “Gifted and Talented Programs Don’t Cause School Segregation: Uneven Enrollments, but Minor Impacts on Racial Separation.” Education Next, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Spring): 54-49. https://www.educationnext.org/gifted-and-talented-programs-dont-cause-school-segregation/
Sarah Jacobson. 2023. “Ore Money Ore Problems: A Resource Extraction Game.” Journal of Economic Education Vol. 54, No. 2: 158–176. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2023.2171521
Feixue Gong ‘16 and Gregory Phelan. 2023. “Collateral Constraints, Tranching, and Price Bases.” Economic Theory. Vol. 75, No. 2: 317–40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-022-01414-8
Clara Delavallade and Susan Godlonton. 2023. “Locking Crops to Unlock Investment: Experimental Evidence on Warrantage in Burkina Faso.” Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 160 (January): 102959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102959
Matthew Chao and Geoffrey Fisher. 2022. “Self-Interested Giving: The Relationship Between Conditional Gifts, Charitable Donations, and Donor Self-Interestedness.” Management Science Vol. 68, No. 6: 4537-4567. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4039
Margo Beck ’18 and Sara LaLumia. 2022. “Female Role Models and Labor Force Participation: The Case of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.” Eastern Economic Journal. Vol. 48, No. 4 (October): 488–517. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41302-022-00219-w
Abigail LeBlanc ’21 and Stephen Sheppard. 2022. “Women Artists: Gender, Ethnicity, Origin and Contemporary Prices.” Journal of Cultural Economics. Vol. 46, No. 3: 439–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-021-09431-6
Owen Thompson. 2022. “School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment.” Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 104, No. 5: 962–80. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00984
David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, Heather A. Knauer, Amina Mendez Acosta. 2022. “Tools to Measure the Impact of Early Childhood Development Interventions on Maternal Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” SSM – Mental Health. Vol. 2 (December): 100127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100127
Thomas M. Eisenbach and Gregory Phelan. 2022. “Cournot Fire Sales.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. Vol. 14, No. 3: 508–542. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20200283
William W. Olney. 2022. “Intra-African Trade.” Review of World Economics. Vol. 158, No. 1: 25–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-021-00421-6
Kristin F. Butcher, Lucie Schmidt, Lara Shore-Sheppard, and Tara Watson. 2022. “Living with Children and Food Insecurity in Seniors.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Vol. 45, Issue 1: 234-261. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13333
Matthew Chao and Ian Larkin. 2022. “Regulating Conflicts of Interest in Medicine Through Public Disclosure: Evidence from a Physician Payments Sunshine Law.” Management Science. Vol. 68, No. 2: 1078-1094. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3940
William Chen ‘19, and Gregory Phelan. 2021. “International Coordination of Macroprudential Policies with Capital Flows and Financial Asymmetries.” Journal of Financial Stability. Vol. 56 (October): 100929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2021.100929
Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy. 2021. Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226799148.001.0001
David K. Evans, Pamela Jakiela, and Heather A. Knauer. 2021. “The Impact of Early Childhood Interventions on Mothers.” Science. Vol. 372, Issue 6544: 794–796. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg0132
Kate Ambler ‘05, Susan Godlonton, and Maria P. Recalde. 2021. “Follow the Leader? A Field Experiment on Social Influence.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 188 (August): 1280-1297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.05.022
Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels, and Andrew Zeitlin. 2021. “Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools.” American Economic Review. Vol. 111, No. 7: 2213–46. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20191972
Varun Gauri, Julian C. Jamison, Nina Mazar, and Owen Ozier. 2021. “Motivating Bureaucrats through Social Recognition: External Validity – A Tale of Two States.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Vol. 163 (March): 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.05.005
Owen Ozier. 2021. “Replication Redux: The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming.” World Bank Research Observer. Vol. 36, No. 1: 101–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkaa005
David K. Evans, Maryam Akmal, and Pamela Jakiela. 2021. “Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View,” IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January), https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2021-0001
Johannes C. Buggle and Steven Nafziger. 2021. “The Slow Road from Serfdom: Labor Coercion and Long-Run Development in the Former Russian Empire.” Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00857
Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, and Marc Klemp. 2021. “The Ancient Origins of the Wealth of Nations.” In Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, pp. 675–717, Cambridge: Elsevier, Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815874-6.00027-7
Babatunde Abidoye, Sahan T. M. Dissanayake, and Sarah Jacobson. 2021. “Seeds of Learning: Uncertainty and Technology Adoption in an Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Game.” Applied Economics Teaching Resources. Vol. 3, No. 3: 79-103. https://www.aetrjournal.org/UserFiles/file/AETR_2020_24RRR%20Proof%20Final%20UPDATED.docx.pdf
Sahan T. M. Dissanayake, and Sarah Jacobson. 2021. “Money Growing on Trees: A Classroom Game About Payments for Environmental Services in Community Forestry.” Journal of Economic Education. Vol. 52, No. 3: 192-217.https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2021.1925183
de Oliveira, Angela C. M., and Sarah Jacobson. 2021. “(Im)Patience by Proxy: Making Intertemporal Decisions for Others.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 182 (February): 83–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.12.008
Kate Ambler ’05 and Susan Godlonton. 2021. “Earned and Unearned Income: Experimental Evidence on Expenditures and Labor Supply in Malawi.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Vol. 187 (July): 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.03.039
William W. Olney and Dario Pozzoli. 2021. “The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring.” The Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 103(1) (March): 177-195. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00861
Wolfgang Keller and William W. Olney. 2021. “Globalization and Executive Compensation.” Journal of International Economics. Vol. 129 (March). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2020.103408