Skipping #ASSA2020 this year, so instead I'm cruising paper abstracts. Here's one from a panel about how financial crises fuel political radicalization: A cut to housing subsidies in the UK depressed turnout and increased support for the Leave vote in 2016 aeaweb.org/conference/202… 
(Along with, you know, increasing homelessness, evictions, and bankruptcies; all of which forced local governments to incur costs that offset savings from cutting subsidies in the first place)
Oy, this might turn into a thread. People often oppose immigrants out of concern for overloading public schools, but a study in Florida found that immigrants generally improve the academic performance of native-born kids:
Republican firm managers in places where Fox News was introduced during the GWBush administration were more likely to boost investment and leverage, possibly because they were encouraged by rosier coverage of the economy (and more likely to believe it) aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Horizontal mergers in the pharmaceutical industry lead to higher prices for drugs and have no discernible effect on innovation: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Bank consolidation in postwar Germany did not increase efficiency or profits, but did boost risk-taking and media visibility: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
The opening of refugee centers in the Netherlands depressed surrounding housing prices in areas with higher shares of anti-immigrant voters, which is interesting even if the conclusion the authors draw is ... questionable aeaweb.org/conference/202…
!! The CIA's use of a vaccination campaign as cover during the hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2011 significantly depressed immunization rates in Pakistan: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Statistical confirmation of this story @nationalgeographic reported in 2015: nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/1…
Statistical confirmation of this story @nationalgeographic reported in 2015: nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/1…
EU labor market reforms over the past few decades fostering employer "flexibility" didn't affect employment or unemployment, but did fuel income inequality, poverty and part time/temporary work: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
High temperatures and natural disasters have started to make people vote for candidates who talk about climate change: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Poor workers in India are more productive in the days after they've received paychecks, likely because financial strain is a distraction from the task at hand: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Older workers are pouring into the labor market, but have less bargaining power than other generations, for a long list of reasons including healthcare costs, eroding retirement income security and relative geographic immobility: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Legalizing abortion didn't depress fertility rates in the 1970s -- eliminating the paternity exemption for the draft did, since before that men could avoid deployment by fathering a child: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Sure, people kill people, but so do more lenient gun laws (especially on hot days): aeaweb.org/conference/202…
A narrowing in the racial homeownership gap following civil rights reforms of the 50s and 60s has reversed itself for the Millennial generation, in which African Americans are further behind their white contemporaries than ever: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
The wages of street harassment: Young women in India were willing to go to worse colleges and pay more in tuition if they allowed them a safer route to get to class aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Common ownership in the pharmaceutical industry (i.e. when the same investors own shares in similar companies) reduces the likelihood that generic drugmakers will enter their markets with competing products: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
IPOs suck for towns where the company going public is based, since access to the public markets decreases reliance on local communities (especially rural ones) and leads to more geographic diversification. aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Mortgage approval rates are higher in states represented by the chairs of the Senate Banking Committee, especially by riskier banks, especially right after the Senator becomes chair and right before his election. aeaweb.org/conference/202…
Talk about moving your money!! Banks that financed the Dakota Access Pipeline saw slower deposit growth, especially in branches located near the pipeline and in more environmentally conscious counties: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
It's often rumored that employers discriminate against job applicants who've been in unions. This study did a fake resume study to prove it's true, in a big way, at least in Germany: aeaweb.org/conference/202…
