Front Matter
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AEA Papers and Proceedings
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Vol. 116, May 2026
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President's Foreword
(pp. xi–xii)
Editors’ Introduction
(p. xiii)
Where Are the Streets of Gold, and Why? A New Approach to Cross-Country Analysis and an Application to Immigrant Assimilation
(pp. 1–19)
The Adoption of Industrial AI in America
(pp. 20–25)
Generative AI: What Type of Technology?
(pp. 26–30)
Aggregate Productivity Gains from Artificial Intelligence: A Sectoral Perspective
(pp. 31–35)
AI as an Innovation in the Method of Innovation: Implications for Productivity Growth
(pp. 36–40)
American Investment in Chinese Renminbi
(pp. 41–46)
Global Trade, Tariff Uncertainty, and the US Dollar
(pp. 47–52)
Stablecoins and the Dollar: Historical Parallels and Future Risks
(pp. 53–57)
Dynamic Difference-in-Differences with Interference
(pp. 58–63)
When Should Pre-trends Be Parallel?
(pp. 64–69)
Event Studies with Feedback
(pp. 70–74)
Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences with Repeated Cross Sections
(pp. 75–80)
Debiasing Estimates of Global Forest Cover Loss
(pp. 81–86)
Causal Inference with Satellite Imagery: A Comparison of Methods for Forest Conservation Data
(pp. 87–91)
Performing Valid Inference with AI/ML-Generated Covariates: A Guide for Empirical Practice
(pp. 92–97)
A Preview of the Predict-Then-Debias Bootstrap
(pp. 98–102)
The Rare-Earth Footprint of the Global Economy: Input-Output Evidence
(pp. 103–108)
Multilateral Export Control Regimes and Aggregate Exports
(pp. 109–113)
Can Sanctions Deter Wars? The Russia-Ukraine Case
(pp. 114–118)
Geopolitics and Shallow Integration
(pp. 119–126)
Sustaining International Rules in a Multipolar World
(pp. 127–132)
Global Imbalances and Power Imbalances
(pp. 133–137)
Reexamining Geographic Variation in Health and Health Care
(pp. 138–143)
International Comparison of Physician Incomes
(pp. 144–149)
Explaining the Atomistic versus Ecological Fallacies in SES-Health Gradients
(pp. 150–155)
Employment Preferences of Favela Residents
(pp. 156–161)
When Outsiders Become Insiders: Beliefs and the Persistence of Exclusionary Norms
(pp. 162–166)
A New Perspective on Spatial Heterogeneity in African Development
(pp. 167–172)
How Many (Half) Moons? Measuring Technology Adoption from the Sky and on the Ground
(pp. 173–177)
Predicting Well-Being with Mobile Phone Data: Evidence from Four Countries
(pp. 178–183)
Representation in Mobility Data in Emerging Cities
(pp. 184–189)
Persistent Impacts of Improved Apprenticeship Training Quality
(pp. 190–194)
Teacher Content Knowledge in Indian Secondary Schools and Its Relationship with Student Learning
(pp. 195–200)
Beyond the Campus: Indirect Effects of University Openings in Uganda
(pp. 201–205)
The Leaky College Pipeline: Evidence from Administrative Data in Uganda
(pp. 206–211)
Assessing Information: The Content of Asynchronous Communication in Hybrid Work
(pp. 212–217)
Can Remote Work Narrow Gender Gaps in Greedy Jobs?
(pp. 218–222)
Younger Firms and CEOs Allow More Work from Home
(pp. 223–227)
Measuring the Ins and Outs of Remote Work: New Evidence from the Gallup Workplace Panel
(pp. 228–235)
Gender-Specific Occupational Following and Gender Differences in Occupational Choice
(pp. 236–240)
The Declining Local Bias of Entrepreneurship in the United States
(pp. 241–245)
AI-Accelerated Occupational Decline and the Mobility Trap
(pp. 246–250)
Declining Occupations and Career Outcomes in Norway
(pp. 251–255)
The Effect of Noncompete Enforceability on Productivity: Evidence from a New State-Level Manufacturing Dataset
(pp. 256–261)
Noncompetes and Firm Heterogeneity
(pp. 262–266)
Noncompete Agreements and Bargaining Power
(pp. 267–272)
The Impact of Noncompetes on Wages and Job Tenure: New Evidence from NLSY Data
(pp. 273–277)
Measuring the Growth of Skills
(pp. 278–283)
How Universal Preschool Shapes Boys’ and Girls’ Outcomes in Poor and Better-Off Households: Evidence from Mexico
(pp. 284–288)
Refining the Definition of the Unbanked
(pp. 289–293)
Who Remains Unbanked in the United States and Why?
(pp. 294–298)
Beyond Banks: Trust among the Financially Underserved
(pp. 299–304)
Defining Households That Are Underserved in Digital Payment Services
(pp. 305–308)
SNAP Work Requirements, Administrative Burden, and Procedural Denials
(pp. 309–313)
Who Participates in TANF? Variation by Exposure to Work Requirements
(pp. 314–319)
How Do State Child Tax Credits Affect Employment and Poverty?
(pp. 320–325)
A Tale of Two States: Reconciling Medicaid Work Requirement Enrollment Impacts in Georgia and Arkansas
(pp. 326–330)
Birthright Citizenship and Youth Crime
(pp. 331–336)
The Birth of Mass Unauthorized Immigration in the United States
(pp. 337–343)
Unlocking Occupational Opportunity: The Labor Market Effects of DACA
(pp. 344–350)
OPT Reforms and the Relative Supply of STEM Skills
(pp. 351–355)
Do Embedded Supports Promote Engaged Learning? Experimental Evidence on Resource Use among Community College Students
(pp. 356–361)
School’s in for Summer? The Effect of Encouraging Summer Community College Enrollment
(pp. 362–366)
When Intensity Meets Modality: The Effects of Condensed Course Formats in Online and In-Person Instruction
(pp. 367–370)
Inducing Cross-Sector Enrollment for Community College Students through Burden Reduction
(pp. 371–375)
Gatekeepers of Disparities: Variation in Prosecutors’ Effects on Racial Gaps in Incarceration
(pp. 376–381)
Stop and Frisk around the Country
(pp. 382–387)
Reform Prosecutors and the Footprint of the Criminal Justice System
(pp. 388–392)
Race, Ethnicity, and Nonpayment of Unemployment Insurance: The Role of the Employer
(pp. 393–399)
Race, Firm Size, and the School-to-Work Transition
(pp. 400–405)
Black-White Gaps in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
(pp. 406–411)
Understanding Students’ Expected Earnings Beliefs after College at an HBCU
(pp. 412–416)
Does Lowering Entry Costs to Economics for Underrepresented Students Affect Outcomes? Preliminary Experimental Evidence
(pp. 417–421)
Belief Updating, Observability, and Race in the Labor Market
(pp. 422–425)
Competitive Bank Liability Design
(pp. 426–432)
Payment Risk and Bank Liquidity Management
(pp. 433–438)
What Drives Money Competition: Comparative Advantage in Payments versus Reserves
(pp. 439–445)
Quality Adjustment in Industry Deflators Strengthens Estimated Innovation-Productivity Relationships
(pp. 446–451)
The Mysterious Disappearance of Productivity Growth in US Manufacturing: Was It the China Shock?
(pp. 452–456)
Markups and the Manufacturing Productivity Slowdown
(pp. 457–461)
The Productivity Paradox in US Manufacturing: A Firm- and Industry-Level Perspective
(pp. 462–468)
Leveraging Subjective Expectations for Production Functions
(pp. 469–474)
Production Functions under Imperfect Competition: A Quality-Equivalent Cournot Model
(pp. 475–482)
A Generalized Control Function Approach to Production Function Estimation
(pp. 483–489)
Fintech and Customer Capital
(pp. 490–497)
Producing Tangible and Intangible Capital
(pp. 498–503)
R&D Uncertainty and Cycles
(pp. 504–509)
Climate Change and Long-Run Factor Shares
(pp. 510–516)
Climate Policy and the Long-Run Interest Rate: Insights from a Simple Growth Model
(pp. 517–521)
Some Macroeconomic Evidence on Substitution
(pp. 522–526)
Natural Disaster Expectations and Household Adaptation
(pp. 527–531)
Quasilinearity and Its Discontents: Public-Good Regulation with Consumer Risk Aversion and Income Effects
(pp. 532–537)
Institutional Design for Environmental Acts
(pp. 538–543)
The Informational Role of Emission Markets: Prices versus Quantities with Dispersed Information about Externalities
(pp. 544–550)
Quality-Adjusted Unit Value Index: Are Changes in Average Prices Inflation or Quality Change?
(pp. 551–555)
When Do Chained Deflators for IT Goods Overstate Quality Change?
(pp. 556–561)
Look Within: Demographic Grouping Masks Inflation Inequality
(pp. 562–567)
Lack of Uniform Prices or Lack of Uniform Retailers?
(pp. 568–572)
Hormone Therapy Is Associated with Decreased Risk of Running Away among Transgender Adolescents
(pp. 573–577)
Men’s Classified Ads and Risky Health Behaviors
(pp. 578–583)
Prejudice in Sub-Saharan Africa: (Why) Is Homophobia Different?
(pp. 584–588)
Health and Sociocultural Disparities by Sex Characteristics in Chile
(pp. 589–593)
Who Is Biased? Heterogeneity in Gender Bias in Evaluations
(pp. 594–598)
Recent Trends in Labor Supply Decisions among Married Couples in the United States
(pp. 599–604)
Beyond Time and Money: Parental Occupation and Early Childhood Development
(pp. 605–610)
Digital Incentives in Surveys: Response Rates and Sociodemographic Effects in a Large-Scale Parental Nudge Intervention
(pp. 611–617)
The Harder They Fall: Diverging Black-White Wealth in Older Age Using the Health and Retirement Study
(pp. 618–623)
Asian “Chilling Effect” during the Pandemic: What Can We Learn from Reported Health Status?
(pp. 624–629)
Social Security and Retirement of Older Blacks and Hispanics
(pp. 630–634)
Organizing Production across Borders in a Time of Uncertainty
(pp. 635–639)
The Power of Anecdotes
(pp. 640–645)
From Ports to Prices: The Inflationary Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions
(pp. 646–651)
Improved Market Access and Indigenous Land Loss: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century US Railroad Expansion
(pp. 652–657)
Black-White Differences in Income Tax Liability
(pp. 658–663)
The Impact of Immigration Policies on Reentry Rates among Deportees
(pp. 664–669)
Resilient Finance, Stratified Costs: Unmasking Racial Disparities in Disaster-Induced Bank Closures
(pp. 670–678)
Student Representation in Undergraduate Economics: The Impact of STEM Designation
(pp. 679–685)
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Undergraduate Economics Courses
(pp. 686–691)
Is More Better? Evaluating Interventions to Increase Female Students’ Interest in Economics
(pp. 692–696)
Improving Introductory Microeconomics Outcomes through Concurrent Support Courses
(pp. 697–702)
Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 3, 2026
(pp. 705–707)
Report of the Secretary
(pp. 708–713)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 714–719)
American Economic Association 2025–2026 Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 720–723)
Note from the AEA Secretary-Treasurer about the Proceedings Supplement
(p. 724)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee via Zoom, April 18, 2025
(pp. 725–731)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee, Philadelphia, PA, January 2, 2026
(pp. 732–741)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Review
(pp. 742–760)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Review: Insights
(pp. 761–769)
Report of the Editor, Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 770–776)
Report of the Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 777–779)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 780–789)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 790–800)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 801–809)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 810–817)
Changes to AEA Editorial Practices and Procedures
(pp. 818–821)
Report of the Director, Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 822–824)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 825–830)
Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics
(pp. 831–834)
Report of the Committee on Government Relations
(pp. 835–837)
Report of the Committee on the Job Market
(pp. 838–841)
Report of the Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession
(pp. 842–843)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 844–865)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 866–889)
Report of the AEA Data Editor
(pp. 890–904)
Report on the Data and Code Availability Policy
(p. 905)
Report of the Oversight Committee for Registry of Randomized Controlled Trials
(pp. 906–909)
Ombuds Summary of Activity
(pp. 910–915)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(p. 916)