How COVID-19 exacerbated the gender gap in academia

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Time spent on research fell dramatically, especially for women, as parents adjusted to life with kids in quarantine.

LGBTQ economics

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June 17, 2021

Lee Badgett discusses her research on the effects of sexual orientation-based discrimination and how economists can engage in the fight for equality.

2021 NBER NSF Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics (SBIES)

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June 23, 2021

The seminar will be held online August 6-7, 2021.

Call for Papers: 2021 PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets

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June 23, 2021

The deadline for submissions is August 6, 2021.

Organizations that Support Economic Education

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Professional Organizations

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Professional economic associations that provide economic education materials, events, and other materials.

Resources for K-12 Economic Education

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Organizations with a primary focus on K-12 are described and include materials, conferences, and student-oriented events.

Federal Reserve Banks

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Each Federal Research bank has a mission to support economic education, although the approaches they take vary and include community outreach and student and/or faculty-oriented programs/event/materials at the K-12 education and higher education levels.

Other Organizations

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A wide range of other organizations that are not as uniquely classified provide support to economic education.

CTREE Conference 2017

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May 31 – June 2, 2017, Denver, CO

CTREE Conference 2016

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June 1-3, 2016, Atlanta, GA

CTREE Conference 2014

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May 28 - 30, 2014, Washington, DC

CTREE Conference 2021

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June 2 - 4, 2021, Virtual

CTREE Conference 2019

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May 29 – 31, 2019, St. Louis, MO

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records

By Itzik Fadlon and Torben Heien Nielsen

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

We provide new evidence on households' labor supply responses to fatal and severe nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using ho...

Capital Markets in China and Britain, 1770–1860: Evidence from Grain Prices

By Wolfgang Keller, Carol H. Shiue, and Xin Wang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Based on comprehensive grain price data, we employ a storage model to estimate consistent interest rates and compare capital market development between Britain and China. Interest rates for Britain were lower than China's on average by about 3 percentage ...

Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

By M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi, and M. Helal Uddin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Traders are often blamed for high prices, prompting government regulation. We study the effects of a government ban of a layer of financing intermediaries in edible oil supply chain in Bangladesh during 2011–2012. Contrary to the predictions of a standa...

Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China

By Pei Gao and Yu-Hsiang Lei

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

This paper exploits a unique historical setting―the expansion of the telegraph network in nineteenth-century China when railroads were limited―to examine whether the reduction of information frictions stabilizes grain prices. Employing a difference-in...

Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors

By Jian Chu, Raymond Fisman, Songtao Tan, and Yongxiang Wang

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Audits are a standard mechanism for reducing corruption in government investments. The quality of audits themselves, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show greater l...