The Review of Economic Studies is one of the core journals in economics. It is essential reading for economists, consistently ranking among the top five journals.

We study opinion dynamics in a social network consisting of two groups. Agents update their opinions by conforming to members of their own group while rejecting the views of the opposing group (affective polarization), and by listening to a media outlet that may provide biased information.

Using Danish registry data, we study how managers’ gender attitudes shape gender inequality in the workplace by exploiting the birth of a daughter – as opposed to a son – as a plausibly exogenous shock to male managers’ gender attitudes. Comparing within-firm changes in women’s labor outcomes depending on the gender of the manager’s newborn child, we find that women’s relative earnings and employment increase by 4.4% and 2.9% respectively following the birth of the manager’s first daughter.

We show that the emergence of new economic opportunities that draw women away from their traditional domestic roles has significantly influenced the adoption of religious veiling. We measure the prevalence of veiling among young women across Indonesia’s districts for more than two decades by handcoding around a quarter million photographs attached to Indonesia’s public high school registers.

We experimentally study decentralized one-to-one matching markets with transfers. We vary the information available to participants, complete or incomplete, and the surplus structure, supermodular or submodular. Several insights emerge.

Do workers from social groups with comparable productivity distributions obtain comparable lifetime earnings? We study how a small amount of early-career discrimination propagates over time when workers’ productivity is revealed through employment.

We study a parsimonious model of a competitive labor market in which firms privately screen workers to identify talent. The equilibrium exhibits dispersion in wages and productivity; when talent is scarce, firms with superior screening skills post higher wages, attract better applicants, and recruit more talented workers.