Press Release

American Economic Association Announces Award Recipients for 2017

April 14, 2017

View recipients of the 2017 awards, including the Clark Medalist, Distinguished Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members, and AEJ Best Paper Prizes

Research Highlights Article

Catching tax dodgers with data

April 12, 2017

Technology can help governments detect firms misreporting revenue, but is data enough to crack down on tax evaders?

Announcement

2017 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on Social Science and Public Policy

April 12, 2017

Lecture to be given by Professor Alan B. Krueger on May 18, 2017

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Why do 100 million Americans give interest-free loans to the government each year?

April 10, 2017

The mysterious prevalence of tax refunds

AEA in the news

How Filing Taxes Benefits Poor People

April 10, 2017

The Boston Globe cited a forthcoming paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy about how poor people can benefit from filing tax returns.

AEA in the news

The historic failure of the soda tax

April 10, 2017

The Washington Post cited a paper published 98 years ago in The American Economic Review about the Revenue Act of 1918.

Research Highlights Article

Will cities ever break the habit of paying for stadiums?

April 7, 2017

Local governments keep offering up incentives despite economists' misgivings

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Are Chinese workplaces really getting safer?

April 5, 2017

There may be more to accidental death statistics than meets the eye

Announcement

TIAA Institute / Pension Research Council Call for Grant Proposals

April 5, 2017

Proposal deadline is April 17, 2017

Announcement

National Academy of Sciences announces new series “From Research to Reward”

April 5, 2017

A new series about scientific discovery and human benefit