AEJ News Archive
The Wilson Quarterly writes about Núria Rodríguez-Planas' research on the longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and learning incentives on US high school graduation and postsecondary education enrollment among low-performing high school students, which appears in the October 2012 issue of AEJ: Applied. Rodríguez-Planas' shows that these types of interventions had no significant overall effects on students' employment outcomes.
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2012
The Council on Foreign Relations Blog writes about Karen Macours, Norbert Schady, and Renos Vakis' research on the impact of cash transfers on early childhood cognitive development, which appears in the April 2012 issue of
AEJ: Applied. Macours, Schady, and Vakis show that a program that transferred cash to women in Nicaragua improved child development during the program and two years later, after the program was ended and transfers were discontinued.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2012
AOL Daily Finance writes about Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, and Andrew Heisz's research on the career effects of graduating in a
recession, published in the January 2012 issue of AEJ: Applied.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2012
2011
The Daily Mail Online writes about Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter, and Andrew Heisz's findings that graduating in a recession leads to earnings losses that last for 10 years after graduation, published in the January 2012 issue of AEJ: Applied.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
Rema Hanna's findings that American environmental regulations have contributed to the flight of manufacturing overseas, published in the July 2010 issue of AEJ: Applied, are discussed in an article in The American on the impact of environmental regulation on jobs.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
The New York Times writes about David Deming's research on the long-term impact of Head Start in an article making the case for investment in early childhood education. Deming's research appeared in the July 2009 issue of Applied Economics.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
MIT News and FierceHealthcare have written about the paper "Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Evidence from Health Shocks to Patients Far from Home," published in the July 2011 issue of AEJ Applied, in which Joseph Doyle's shows spending more on emergency room care saves lives.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
The Huffington Post and OSU News Research have written about the paper "Financial Constraints and Inflated Home Prices during the Real Estate Boom," which appears in the July 2011 issue of AEJ: Applied. In the paper, author Itzhak Ben-David shows how one ethically questionable and sometimes illegal tactic used to sell homes may have contributed to the housing crash.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal have written about the findings in Talia Bar and Asaf Zussman's paper, "Partisan Grading," which suggests that student grades are linked to the political orientation of professors. The paper is forthcoming in AEJ: Applied.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
The Wilson Quarterly has written about the findings in Steven D. Levitt and John A. List's paper "Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments" published in the January issue of AEJ: Applied.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2011
2010
The paper "Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors," by Marianne Bertrand, Claudia Goldin, and Bernard Katz, which was published in the July 2010 issue of Applied Economics, was recently cited in The New York Times.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2010
MIT Economics Professor David Autor speaks with NPR's Morning Edition about his paper "Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First.' This study on how job seekers can use their time more efficiently was published in the July 2010 AEJ: Applied Economics.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2010
Wilson Quarterly, an international review of ideas and information, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars writes about the paper "Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital; Evidence from Indonesian Villages," by Benjamin A. Olken in the Winter 2010 In Essence section of the publication.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2010
The Economist features Aparajita Goyal's paper "Information, Direct Access to Farmers, and Rural Market Performance in Central India" in an article examining how Internet usage can improve the efficiency of agricultural markets in developing nations. The paper by Jenny Aker, "Information from Markets Near and Far: Mobile Phones and Agricultural Markets in Niger," is also mentioned. Both papers were published in the July 2010 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2010
2009
Physorg.com writes about the paper "How Large are Non-Budget-Constraint Effects of Prices on Demand?" published in the October 2009 issue of AEJ: Applied.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2009