Announcement

The Russell Sage Foundation will sponsor the second Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics in June 2017 in Santa Barbara, California

January 17, 2017

The Russell Sage Foundation will sponsor the first summer institute in Computational Social Science in June 2017 at Princeton University

Announcement

The European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) invites applications for 2017-18

January 11, 2017

Learn more about the EDSD's eleven-month program on demography

AEA in the news

Job interviews at the AEA annual meeting

January 9, 2017

Wall Street Journal features high-stakes process at this year's meeting in Chicago

Research Highlights Article

Can Schelling’s focal points help us understand high-stakes negotiations?

January 4, 2017

Testing one of the Nobel laureate’s biggest ideas

Announcement

IAAO Academic Partnership Program

December 30, 2016

International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) has scholarship assistance opportunities

AEA in the news

The Best Films of 2016 (for Behavioral Economists)

December 29, 2016

A Bloomberg View column about behavioral economics concepts in this year’s best films highlighted a 2014 piece from the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

AEA in the news

When Women Run Companies

December 29, 2016

A recent piece in the Atlantic cited a study that appeared in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics in 2013

Research Highlights Article

Retail price reality check

December 28, 2016

How often are prices for items bought online the same as what shoppers pay in stores?

AEA in the news

Impact of Modi govt’s campaign against cash on informal economy

December 27, 2016

A 2014 article from the Journal of Economic Perspectives about regulation of the informal economy was cited in a Mint opinion column

Research Highlights Featured Chart

Which gift cards do recipients like most?

December 21, 2016

eBay data on card resales show that not all gift cards are created equal