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The Journal of Human Resources is a leading journal in empirical microeconomics, with a focus on policy-relevant research.
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When schools closed during COVID, reports of #ChildAbuse dropped in Chile.
Pilar Larroulet, Daniel Pailañir, Daniela Quintana, and @damiancartmusic.bsky.social found that violence reporting didn’t return even after 2 years. Face-to-face contact with teachers matters.
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Schools as Safety Nets: Break-downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence Against Children Pilar Larroulet, Daniel Pailañir, Daniela Quintana, and Damian Clarke Schools are a key channel for formally reporting violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study how widespread such reporting declines were and to what extent they were recovered once schools reopened. Examining the universe of all criminal reports of violence against children in Chile, we observe sharp declines in reports of all types of violence (psychological, physical, and sexual), and find that full recovery in reporting had not occurred even nearly 2 years following initial school closures. Extending beyond the unexpected and long school closures during the pandemic, we find evidence of clear declines in violence reporting during regular school vacations and in a period of student strikes at the secondary level, suggesting a broader relevance of these results.
February 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Students exposed to #HomeViolence don’t significantly harm classmates’ test scores or behavior. Jarod Apperson and Carycruz Bueno find that the negative impact on classmates’ grades, if any, is too small to matter.
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Reconsidering Peer Effects from Schoolmates Exposed to Violence at Home Jarod Apperson and Carycruz Bueno Prior research suggests that students exposed to domestic violence impose substantial negative externalities on peers’ learning and labor market outcomes. We test whether these findings generalize using nine-years of student data from a large urban school district linked to geocoded police records of at-home violence. In contrast to prior work, we find negligible peer effects. Adding one exposed peer to a classroom of 20 students reduces English and math scores by a statistically insignificant 0.006 standard deviations and increases disciplinary incidents by 3.2%. We reject achievement reductions greater than 0.017 standard deviations and disciplinary increases larger than 8.3%.
January 28, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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In Italy’s #LegalProfession, having lawyer relatives matters more than grades - especially for low performers.
Gaetano Basso, Eleonora Brandimarti, Michele Pellizzari, and Giovanni Pica found that 70% of connected low-GPA grads passed the bar.
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Quality and selection in regulated professions Gaetano Basso, Eleonora Brandimarti, Michele Pellizzari and Giovanni Pica Entry into many occupations is regulated to screen out the least able candidates, but available evidence suggests that this objective is rarely achieved. Using microdata covering the universe of Italian law school graduates (2007-2013), we show that this result is largely due to the strong intergenerational transmission of occupations within regulated professions. We find that having relatives already active as lawyers significantly increases the probability of passing the entry exam and boosts earnings, particularly for those who performed poorly in law school.
January 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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January 15, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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#NewResearch reveals a stark pattern: Black workers transitioned to cognitive jobs one generation after white workers. @econhistoryorbust.bsky.social, @smokeefe.bsky.social, Sarah Quincy & Zachary Ward find that even today, Black workers move down while white workers move up.
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Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century Rowena Gray, Siobhan O’Keefe, Sarah Quincy and Zachary Ward We present new evidence on the long-run evolution of occupational task content by race in the United States, 1900-2021. Black workers began the transition to better paid, cognitiveintensive modern jobs at least a generation after white workers; substantial convergence only occurred after 1960. Longitudinal data suggests that task transitions were racially biased: Black men moved to jobs with lower rewarded task content than white men, conditional on initial tasks, though gaps decreased after 1940. Routine-intensive Black workers were less likely to move up into non-routine analytic work in all periods. The results suggest that task-displacement shocks widen Black-white inequality.
January 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Excited and honored to receive the 2025 JHR Highly Cited Paper Award for our research on automation, marriage markets, and family outcomes!
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Highly Cited Paper Award 2025 Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella & Luca Stella
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Highly Cited Paper Award 2025 Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility Massimo Anelli, Osea Giuntella & Luca Stella
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December 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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How does a big #recession shape futures? In a new study, Eleanor Jawon Choi, Jisoo Hwang, and Hyelim Son found that kids who lived through major downturns like Korea’s crisis were less likely to graduate from college, shifted to STEM, and started with lower-quality jobs.
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The Effects of Exposure to a Large-Scale Recession on Higher Education and Early Labor Market Outcomes Eleanor Jawon Choi, Jisoo Hwang and Hyelim Son This study examines the effects of timing of exposure to the Asian financial crisis on higher education and early labor market outcomes. We estimate a generalized difference-in-differences model exploiting variation in age at exposure and regional severity of the recession in South Korea. Using the Census and Youth Panel data, we find that individuals from hard-hit regions are less likely to attain a college education, tend to shift away from humanities to STEM majors, and have lower-quality first jobs, than their peers in the same cohort. These effects are more pronounced among individuals who experienced the recession at younger ages.
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#IntergenerationalMobility is declining, but it’s not less opportunity – it’s more #GenderEquality. Ulrika Ahrsjö, René Karadakic, & Joachim Kahr Rasmussen find that women’s incomes now reflect their skills, and parent-child income links are stronger.
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Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor Ulrika Ahrsjö, René Karadakic and Joachim Kahr Rasmussen Using harmonized administrative data from Scandinavia, we find that intergenerational rank associations in income have increased uniformly across Sweden, Denmark, and Norway for cohorts born between 1951 and 1979. By gender, father-son mobility remains stable, while correlations for mothers and daughters rise. Similar patterns appear in US survey data, albeit with different timing. We show that the decline in income mobility reflects a stronger link between female income and underlying productivity, rather than stronger intergenerational transmission of human capital or changes in assortative mating. Finally, we show that parent-child correlations increase mainly when women gain access to jobs that match their productivity.
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM