Faculty publications 2024 and 2023

Trade-offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia 

by Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

The Review of Economics and Statistics (2024) 106 (2): 322–333.

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Women’s Participation in the Arab Spring Protests and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Egypt

Tomer Stern & Bilge Erten

Feminist Economics, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2024.2408001

An Indian Enigma? Labour market impacts of the world’s largest livelihoods program

by Ashwini Deshpande, Shantanu Khanna & Daksh Walia

Journal of Population Economics 2024, Volume 37, article number 64

Inherently Stable Cartels: Economics and Policy

University of Baltimore Law Review: Vol. 53: Iss. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/ublr/vol53/iss1/9/

“Revisiting Structural Remedies,” Antitrust, Fall 2024

“Methodology Matters: The 2017 FTC Remedies Study,” CPI Chronicle, October 2024

“The Next Administration Must Finish the Merger Guidelines Revision,” ProMarket June 2024

The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility” (2024)

by Shariq Mohammed, Martha Bailey, Peter Lin, and Alexa Prettyman

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, January 2024, 10 (1) 32-56.

“Black Economic Progress in the Jim Crow South: Evidence from Rosenwald Schools”

by Shariq Mohammed, Paul Mohnen

forthcoming, The Journal of Economic History

Government shutdown and SNAP disbursements: effects on household expenditures

by Associate Professor Mindy Marks, Professor Silvia Prina, and PhD candidate Roy Gernhardt

Review of Economics of the Household

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Marks, M., Prina, S. & Gernhardt, R. Government shutdown and SNAP disbursements: effects on household expenditures. Rev Econ Household (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-024-09719-4

Short-term labor supply response to the timing of transfer payments

by Mindy Marks, Silvia Prina and Redina Tahaj 

Labour Economics, December 2024

Can destigmatizing mental health increase willingness to seek help? Experimental evidence from Nepal

by Lindsey Lacey, , Priya Mukherjee, Nikhilesh Prakash, Nishith Prakash, Diane Quinn, Shwetlena Sabarwal, Deepak Saraswat

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, September 2024

https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.22643

When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India

by Nishith Prakash, Soham Sahoo, Deepak Saraswat
and Reetika Sindhi

forthcoming, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization

Transitory income changes and consumption smoothing: Evidence from Mexico

Manuela Angelucci, Carlos Chiapa , Silvia Prina, Irvin Rojas 

Journal of Public Economics Volume 230, February 2024

Passing the Message: Peer Outreach about COVID-19 Precautions in Zambia

by Alfredo Burlando, Pradeep Chintagunta, Jessica Goldberg, Melissa Graboyes, Peter Hangoma, Dean Karlan, Mario Macis & Silvia Prina

Journal of Development Economics, Volume 171, 2024,
103318,
ISSN 0304-3878,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103318.

Sustainability: A Business Case for Adoption

Chapter in Sustainability in Business Education, Research and Practices 

by Madhavi Venkatesan, Khadija Elsewedy, Shruti Vummadising & Brandon Gunasti 

Part of the book series: World Sustainability Series ((WSUSE))

2023 Publications:

Thomas Barnay and François-Olivier Baudot’s paper Work Accident Effect on the Use of Psychotropic Drugs: The Case of Benzodiazepines was published in Health Economics Review, Volume 13, Article Number 48 (2023).

In the September issue of LABOUR, Thomas Barnay and  Éric Defebvre‘s paper “Work strains and disabilities in French workers: A career-long retrospective study” was published.

Thomas Barnay, Visiting Professor in Economics, and Éric Defebvre of Sorbonne University have published an issue brief, “The First COVID Wave: Comparing Experiences of Adults Age 50 and Older in the U.S. and Europe” in The Commonwealth Fund in April 2023.

The Gendered Effects of Globalization: Recent Evidence from Developing Countries by Bilge Erten and Jessica Leight

Journal of Globalization and Development, Volume 14 Issue 2, December 2023

Syrian Refugee Inflows, Health Care Access, and Childhood Vaccination in Turkey by Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Miray Omurtak, Ilhan Can Ozen, and Yusuf Emre Akgündüz

World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (1): 127–146.

“ANTITRUST ECONOMICS AT A TIME OF UPHEAVAL: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents” by Northeastern University’s John Kwoka (Finnegan Professor of Economics), Professor Tommaso M. Valletti (Imperial College London) and Professor Lawrence J. White (New York University) has been published by Competition Policy International.

Closing the Gap in Merger Enforcement

John Kwoka

ProMarket, June 22, 2023

Identifying exchange rate effects and spillovers of US monetary policy shocks in the presence of time-varying instrument relevance
Wenting Liao, Jun Ma, Chengsi Zhang

Journal of Applied Econometrics
First published: 09 July 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2998

International Housing Markets and the U.S. Subprime Crisis, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
SHIKONG (SCOTT) LUO, JUN MA
First published: 07 February 2023

Is there a national housing market bubble brewing in the United States?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2023

Rangan Gupta, Jun Ma, Konstantinos Theodoridis and Mark E. Wohar

The Creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational, Family Electronic Micro-Database Project.” (2023). (Shariq Mohammed, Martha Bailey, Peter Lin, Paul Mohnen, Jared Murray, Mengying Zhang, and Alexa Prettyman) Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 56 (3): 138-159.

“Perception and Reality of Sustainable Urban Development in India.” Shariq Mohammed (2023). Sustainability and Climate Change. 16(4), 262-267.

School’s Out: How Summer Youth Employment Programs Impact Academic Outcomes

Alicia Sasser Modestino, and Richard Paulsen

Education Finance and Policy (2023) 18 (1): 97–126.

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Small business lending and the bank-branch network
by Ivan Petkov

Journal of Financial Stability

Volume 64, February 2023, 101097

With novel data of within county lending, this paper is the first to confirm that exposure to oil and residential booms impacts supply of credit to small businesses in other markets.

“Can a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention teach financial skills to youth? Experimental evidence from a financial diaries study”
Veronica Frisancho, Alejandro Herrera, Silvia Prina

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Volume 214, October 2023, Pages 595-614

“C-Sections, Obesity, and Healthcare Specialization: Evidence from Mexico” 

Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Silvia Prina

The World Bank Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad022

Published: 01 September 2023

“The Interplay Among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment”

Margherita Comola, Silvia Prina

The Economic Journal, Volume 133, Issue 649, January 2023, Pages 516–535

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling

by Jesse J. Kalinowski, Matthew B. Ross and Stephen L. Ross.

J. Human Resources, January 9, 2023 0822- 12513R1

Huifeng Yu & Gerald Marschke & Matthew B. Ross & Joseph Staudt & Bruce A. Weinberg, 2023. “Publish or Perish: Selective Attrition as a Unifying Explanation for Patterns in Innovation over the Career,” 2023

Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 58(4), pages 1307-1346.

“Socially Responsible Consumption and Marketing in Practice” by Madhavi Venkatesan and Martina Yorde Rincon (BS Economics/Business 2023) has been published as a chapter in the recently published book, Dealing with Socially Responsible Consumers – Studies in Marketing

by Madhavi Venkatesan, Martina Yorde Rincon, Kathleen Grevers, Shannon M. Welch & Elizabeth L. Cline

Contemporary Justice Review published a special issue on bell hooks. Two papers by Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan and students in her Economics of Crime class were featured.

–Designing engagement: A student-based perspective of the Economics of Crime.

Authors: Madhavi Venkatesan, Noah Alper, Alexis Baker, Stephen Bernard, Paolo Lichtenthal, Katherine Murphy, Jacklyn Peterson, Rayana Radueva, Anthea Simon.

This paper, developed by participants in an Economics of Crime course at Northeastern University in conjunction with their professor, Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan, highlights student perspectives of the relationship between the economic system, its operations and institutions, and the marginalization and victimization of Black people. 

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–Addressing race in economics: Teaching to transgress by Madhavi Venkatesan and 4 NU Department of Economics undergraduates.

Authors: Madhavi Venkatesan, Wenchunyan Liang, Emre Muftu,
Ira Sharma, Darlene Rumenser

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In the 2023 book Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future, a chapter by Madhavi Venkatesan and students from Sustainable U. Productions (Radhika Barot, Amani Chinni, Adam Regenstrief, Priyasha Singh, Julia Sucov, and John Sun) was published. The paper, “Documentary Film and Institutional Behavior Change: A Student-Driven Mobilization for Sustainability” describes the importance of film to address sustainability issues. The authors tell the story of producing their own documentary, Plastic Linings. The film addresses the issue of convenience waste from the perspective of the cost of convenience.

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Dr. Madhavi Venkatesan’s paper Aligning Economic Measurement with Well-Being: Sustainability has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change.