Can corruption make bureaucracies more efficient?

[Research Highlight]

May 14, 2016

Testing the "efficient grease" hypothesis

American Economic Association Announces Award Recipients for 2016

[News]

April 28, 2016

View recipients of the 2016 awards, including the Clark Medalist, Distinguished Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members, and AEJ Best Paper Prizes

AEA Member Announcements (May 20, 2016)

[News]

May 19, 2016

View AEA member announcements from May 20, 2016

Pity Russia's billionaires

[News]

May 20, 2016

The Economist highlighted a new paper about billionaires in Russia published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review

There’s a huge gender pay gap for STEM careers – just one year after graduation

[News]

May 12, 2016

Bustle and Vox covered a study about the gender pay gap for STEM PhDs published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review

The inequality that matters most (hint: it's not income)

[News]

May 10, 2016

Quartz covered a recent piece in the Journal of Economic Perspectives about measuring and interpreting different forms of inequality

Ideas Worth Stealing: Move Pennsylvania’s Capital out of Harrisburg and back to Philadelphia

[News]

May 09, 2016

A column appearing in Newsworks highlights a 2014 American Economic Review article about corruption in state capitals