✨New Article✨ Eduardo Minuci and Scott Schuh investigate economic and financial behavior among banks in different states. They find states with slower economic growth have more, smaller, and less profitable banks. The banks also experience differing customer and manager behavior.

✨New Article ✨ The Safe Passage Program was implemented in Chicago as a means of protecting the routes students take to school. @matttheeconguy.bsky.social finds that in areas where the program was implemented, fatal encounters decreased by 33%.

Check out our Editor's Report for 2024! It breaks down important metrics including topics covered, time to decision, the referee process, impact factor, and more.

Check out our new special issue: "Women and Economic Freedom". Thought-provoking articles on entrepreneurship, fertility, and more are now availible to read, free for a limited time!

✨New Article ✨ In a new open access article, Tanga M. Mohr and John C. Whitehead (@johnwhitehead81.bsky.social) use attribute non-attendance (ANA) models to test for differences in discrete choice expiriments with real and hypothetical payoffs

✨New Article✨ How does parents' legal status affect children's health insurance? In a new open access article, Nhan Tran finds DACA eligibility among likely undocumented mothers increases Medicaid enrollment among US-born children.

✨New Article✨ How does timing of SNAP disbursement affect crime in the US? In a new article, Licheng Xu finds that more distribution days and a longer staggering period reduce financially motivated crime.

✨New Article ✨ Following the signing of the Plaza Accord, Japan experienced a bubble in urban real estate and the stock market. In a recently published paper, Jedediah Pisa-Reese explores the causal connection between the agreement and the subsequent bubble

✨New Article✨ How do increases in political and economic freedoms affect women’s international football success? Craig A. Depken II and Tomislav Globan find that greater freedoms may initially reduce performance but over time lead to improved success on the pitch.

✨New Article✨ How do people react to an increase in taxes on lottery winnings? Alvaro Muniz-Fernandez and Levi Perez use a Synthetic Differences in Differences approach to find the effect differs depending on the size of the jackpot.

✨New Article✨ In this new open access article, Carsten Creutzburg, Wolfgang Maennig, and Steffen Q. Mueller investigate the potential effects of consumer-driven racial discrimination on worker productivity in tennis.

✨New Article ✨ How do individuals update their expectations after elections? In a new article, Paul Niekamp uses the Survey of Consumer Expectations to study how the 2016 and 2020 elections affected economic expectations.

✨New Article✨ In this open access paper, Marina Mileo Gorzig and Deborah Rho examine a policy that reduces background information on rental applications. After policy implementation, discrimination against African American and Somali American men increased.

✨New Article ✨ James Fuller and Kelly Vosters analyze the veteran-nonveteran wage gap over time. They find returns to education are a major contributing factor to the wage gap dynamics.

✨New Article✨ In a new open access article, Elisabeth Wurm examines the effects of allowing workers to include same-sex partners in insurance plans on labor supply.

In this new article, Steve Swidler and Erin Cottle Hunt advocate for a program which allows individuals to access a portion of their Social Security benefits prior to the minimun withdrawl age.

NBA teams tanking- trying to lose games- is a controversial development in the sport. In a recent open access article, @acardazzi.bsky.social, @candonjohnson.bsky.social sky.social, and Eddie Minuci study the effects of the most extreme case of tanking, finding it affects future winning and income.

✨New Article ✨ Ever wondered about the distribution of economic freedom within a country? This article by Christina Peters, Maria Tackett, and Alexandre Padilla examines the role of foreign education on gender disparities in economic freedom.

✨New Article ✨ Alexander Marsella investigates the effect of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone initiative on violent crime rates in West Philadelphia.

✨New Article ✨ The expansion of child care assistance has been a point of debate for decades. In this open access article, Robert Paul Hartley, Irwin Garfinkel, Elizabeth Ananat, Sophie Collyer, Buyi Wang, and Christopher Wimer examine if social benefits exeed social costs.

✨New Article✨ Israt Jahan explores the causal relationship between economic freedom and the ratio of female-to-male entrepreneurship.

✨New Article✨ Changsu Ko, Jinsoo Bae, and Heepyung Cho study how public housing impacts surrounding neighborhoods. They find that buy-to-rent housing has no measurable effects, but build-to-rent housing reduces local consumption and lowers the share of working-age residents.

✨New Article✨ New study by Russ Leonard & Joe Sabia finds that despite advocates’ hopes, vertical ID laws have no effect on teen drinking or smoking.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about the take-up of new Medicare billing codes? This article analyzes the introduction of new codes for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management and studies how the codes correlate with other services.

✨New Article✨ How do shortage area designations impact mortality? This article by Jessica Sauve-Syed examines the effects of Health Professional Shortage Area designations and finds a reduction in mortality.

✨New Article✨ What is the relationship between domestic migration and business dynamics? This article by Imran Arif studies U.S. metropolitan areas and finds a positive relationship between net migration and business creation.

✨New Issue✨ The April 2025 issue of CEP is available now, and includes 3 open access articles! Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14657287... #EconSky

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about employment adjustments to increased imports? This article by Beyza Ural Marchand studies industry-specific employment in India and finds increased imports reduced agricultural employment but increased employment in other industries.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about the effects of centralized procurement? This article by @fmendozalopez.bsky.social studies the use of framework agreements in Mexico.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about economic freedom, females in top management, and perceived obstacles by Indian firms? This article by Nabamita Dutta and Adam Stivers examines the interactive effect of economic freedom and perceived obstacles.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about the standard system and corporate labor employment? This article studies China's comprehensive standardization reform and finds the reform reduces transaction costs, enhances efficiency, and improves the financing environment.

✨New Article✨ How do corruption investigations influence political trust? This article by Yanjun Li and Hamza Umer uses data from China's anti-corruption campaign and finds a non-linear impact of investigations on trust.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about minimum wages and student employment? This article examines the impact of minimum wage growth in Washington State and finds rising minimum wages are associated with reduced summer employment.

✨New Article✨ How do disaster events influence small business activity? This article uses data from 48 U.S. states from 1998 - 2018 and finds disaster impacts vary by entrepreneurship type.

✨New Article✨ How do prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) affect non-opioid drug prescribing? This article by David Beheshti and Bokyung Kim finds PDMPs do impact non-opioid drug prescribing, but effects differ across drug types.

✨New Article✨ How does completing an introductory course impact persistence for community college students? This article finds withdrawing from a course reduces persistence, but no significant effect of failing on persistence.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about Medicare payments and health IT adoption? This article by Keith Joiner and Jianjing Lin examines how the overpayments/underpayment rate for hospitalization changes as hospitals adopt electronic medical records.

✨New Issue✨ The January 2025 issue, Scope of Practice Regulation in Medical Licensure Symposium, is available now! Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14657287... #EconSky

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about scope of practice? This article by Alicia Plemmons discusses existing literature, what's yet to be done, and current conversation within legislatures.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about the role of unions in workplace safety investment? This article analyzes data from Chinese private enterprises and finds unionization has a positive effect on workplace safety investment.

✨New Article✨ Which states effectively assist youth aging out of foster care? This article by Alexa Prettyman examines state effectiveness across a variety of outcomes, including homelessness, employment, and more.

✨New Article✨ How do abortion bans impact mental health? This article by J. Michael Collins and Vivekananda Das finds women in states where abortion became illegal reported higher rates of anxiety symptoms.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about women's property rights equality and entrepreneurial activity? This article by Colin O'Reilly and Kathleen Sheehan examines how women's property rights impact female entrepreneurship.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about nurse practitioner oversight ratios and labor market outcomes? This article by Andrew Smith and Sara Markowitz examines the effect of eliminating physician oversight ratios and finds little effect on the supply of nurse practitioners.

✨New Article✨ How does economic freedom affect the fertility gap? This article by Clara Piano and Lyman Stone finds women are more likely to achieve their family goals in states with greater economic freedom.

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about bride kidnapping and informal governance institutions? Check out this article by Zachary Porreca:

✨New Article✨ Want to learn more about economic freedom and legal gender disparity? This article by Claudia Williamson Kramer finds economically free countries favor less legal discrimination against women.

✨New Issue✨ The October 2024 issue of CEP is available now and includes two open access articles! Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14657287...

✨New Article✨ How does economic freedom affect female employment and education? This article by Robin Grier finds economic freedom increases women's labor force participation and primary school enrollment.