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Animal sacrifice

November 8, 2017

China's collectivization movement in the 1950s is a stark example of the power of incentives.

Research Highlights Article

Breaking taboos and making policy

November 6, 2017

The Netherlands' legal prostitution zones reduced citywide crime.

Call For Papers

2018 Pennsylvania Economic Association Annual Conference

November 3, 2017

Call for papers for PEA 2018 Conference, to be held May 31-June 2, 2018

AEA in the news

Planet Money cites Richard Thaler's JEP column "Anomalies"

November 2, 2017

The popular NPR radio show and podcast dedicates an entire episode to Thaler's contributions to behavioral economics.

Announcement

National Academy of Sciences call for research ideas in the social and behavioral sciences

November 2, 2017

The National Academy of Sciences' Committee for the Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security (SBS Decadal Survey) invites all members of the SBS research community to join a virtual town hall on IdeaBuzz

Recommendations for Further Reading

Collective bargaining, getting over globalization, and urbanization in Africa

November 1, 2017

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

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The partisan news effect on politics

November 1, 2017

How much does the political slant of cable news channels impact elections?

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A new crisis each time

October 30, 2017

Financial crises are bad, but they don’t have to be devastating.

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Better Bureaucracy

October 27, 2017

A popular anti-poverty program is changing rural China.

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Born to be big

October 25, 2017

How do aggregate conditions when a startup launches influence its growth potential?