Economics

Heat, Health, and Harm: The Impact of Extreme Temperatures on Suicide

Baranovski, Yegor (2025)

"Climate change poses well-established risks to physical health, but little is known about its effects on mental health. I study the relationship between extreme tempera- ture exposure during summer months and suicide ...
Effects of Industry and Occupation on Domestic Labor by Gender

Goetz, Genevieve (2025)

This paper uses Panel of Survey Income Dynamics (PSID) data from 1979 to 2019 to examine how a spouse’s industry and occupation of work relates to gender disparities of domestic labor in cohabitating American couples, ...
Cash for Daughters? The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Gender Composition

Tang, Wendy (2025)

This study evaluates the short-term impact of the Mukhyamantri Rajshri Yojana (MRY), a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program introduced in 2016 in Rajasthan, India, aimed at addressing gender disparities. The MRY offers ...