Robert Shiller, Distinguished Fellow 2017

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Gun policy, the achievement gap, and managing the Fed

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April 10, 2018

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

Cash-on-Hand and College Enrollment: Evidence from Population Tax Data and the Earned Income Tax Credit

By Day Manoli and Nicholas Turner

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018

We estimate causal effects of cash-on-hand on college enrollment decisions of students from low-income families. Using population-level, administrative data from US income tax returns, we exploit variation in tax refunds received in the spring of the high...

From tax credits to college credits

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May 01, 2018

Tax refunds can boost college enrollment among low-income families.

Call for Papers for the Second Conference of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics

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May 09, 2018

The conference will be held at the Seoul National University from December 13-15, 2018.

AEA Code of Professional Conduct

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May 14, 2018

Learn more about the code recently adopted by the AEA Executive Committee.

Protection from predators

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May 09, 2018

What are the economic consequences when governments don't keep law and order?

The rise of the state

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The Great Depression led to widespread institutional changes in the US.

Call for nominations: CSWEP’s Carolyn Shaw Bell Award and Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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May 16, 2018

Nominations for these awards are due in September 2018.

Creating criminals?

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May 02, 2018

Restricting immigrants’ ability to work causes an increase in financially motivated crime.

Nudging and Paternalistic Societies: Free Choice and Subtle Determinism Conference

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May 18, 2018

The conference will be help on June 21, 2018 in Braga, Portugal.

How Do Changes in Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality?

By Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018

US housing voucher holders pay their landlord a fraction of household income and the government pays the rest, up to a rent ceiling. We study how two types of changes to the rent ceiling affect landlords and tenants. A policy that makes vouchers more gene...

Moving on up

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A housing reform in Dallas offers lessons for how voucher design shapes decisions about where to live.

Taking smart chances

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May 15, 2018

The AEA interviews David Huffman about how a person’s cognitive ability relates to their taste for risk.

2018 PCAOB/JAR Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets and Call for Papers

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February 06, 2018

The conference is organized by the PCAOB in conjunction with the Journal of Accounting Research (JAR).

IGL2018 Global Conference

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May 24, 2018

The conference will be held in Boston, MA on June 12-14.

Why may workers underinvest in their skills?

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May 18, 2018

Big data can help incentivize human capital development.

Economics (in space!)

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Economists are well positioned to study the commercialization of space.

The Role of Startups in Structural Transformation

By Robert C. Dent, Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley, and Ayşegül Şahin

American Economic Review, May 2016

The U.S. economy has been going through a striking structural transformation—the secular reallocation of employment across sectors—over the past several decades. We propose a decomposition framework to assess the contributions of various margins of fi...

What's it worth to you?

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May 03, 2018

Evidence from the Canadian airline industry offers a nuanced view of how competition affects price discrimination.