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

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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)

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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

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May 09, 2016

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

Does diversity hamper economic progress?

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May 02, 2016

Livemint cited a 2015 American Economic Review article in a summary of recent research about public goods

What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life?

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April 15, 2016

An article in Slate by the co-founders of Give Directly cited a study from this month’s issue of the American Economic Review

Why crude oil prices keep taking us by surprise

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April 14, 2016

Vox covered a paper on the difficulties of forecasting oil prices appearing in the Winter 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Duke University study: Fracking lowers home values by $30K

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March 05, 2016

The Charlotte Business Observer covered an AER study about the effect of shale gas wells on home prices

Political risks: Punches, eggs and assassination attempts

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March 04, 2016

BBC News covered an AEJ: Macroeconomics article about assassination attempts

The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap

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March 04, 2016

A Freakonomics podcast cited past AEA president Claudia Goldin's 2014 presidential address about the gender pay gap

Why Raising The Minimum Wage Probably Won't Fix Income Inequality

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March 04, 2016

The Huffington Post covered an AEJ: Applied Economics paper about wage inequality and the minimum wage

Election 2016: How too many Debates Contributed to the Rise of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders

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March 04, 2016

The International Business Times covered a recent AEJ: Micro study in an article about the 2016 presidential race

People are fed up with taking surveys, and that’s bad for science

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March 05, 2016

Quartz covered a JEP article about the declining quality of government data

The US economy does a lot better when Democrats are in the White House

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March 29, 2016

Quartz covered an AER paper on on growth of GDP under different administrations.

Obamacare Sign-Ups Could Get A Bump As Higher Penalties Kick In

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March 05, 2016

NPR's Morning Edition covered an AER article in a story about health insurance penalties

Is Blind Hiring the Best Hiring?

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February 25, 2016

The New York Times Magazine covered a 2000 AER study in an article about hiring practices

So What Would It Mean to 'Beat China' on Trade?

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March 04, 2016

The NYT Upshot covered a 2013 AER article in a piece about the consequences of trade with China

Satellite Images Can Pinpoint Poverty Where Surveys Can’t

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April 04, 2016

NYT Upshot blog covered a 2012 AER paper about novel ways of measuring economic growth