Why do mothers with medical degrees get fewer C-sections?

[Research Highlight]

March 03, 2016

Better information can make a big difference for patients

Do employers frown on for-profit colleges and online degrees?

[Research Highlight]

March 21, 2016

Researchers submitted thousands of fictitious resumes to find out

Why are some schools surprisingly good at producing star math students?

[Research Highlight]

May 31, 2016

Understanding the source of high math achievement

Applications open for the 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

[News]

June 30, 2016

Learn more about the 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in the fields of Business and Economics

What happens to women’s health when women’s health clinics disappear?

[Research Highlight]

June 24, 2016

Evidence from clinic closures in Texas and Wisconsin

One year of Research Highlights

[Research Highlight]

June 27, 2016

Catch up on our most-read stories from the past twelve months

Jeff Ely is joining the AER Editorial Board as a Coeditor (effective July 1, 2016), and Esther Duflo is becoming the new Editor-in-Chief (effective January 1, 2017)

[News]

July 11, 2016

The AER welcomes a new Coeditor and Editor-in-Chief

Do Minimum-Wage Hikes Mean Healthier Babies?

[News]

July 14, 2016

A piece in The Atlantic cited a 2012 piece from the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy about the connection between family income and infant health

2016 Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets

[News]

July 14, 2016

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

AERA Grants Program

[News]

July 14, 2016

AERA announces its Fall 2016 AERA Grants Program application competition

Did the introduction of the printing press bolster social capital in Africa?

[Research Highlight]

July 18, 2016

How missionaries’ attempts to spread the written gospel can have unexpected side benefits

Fossil fuels have had an aeon's head start

[News]

July 27, 2016

Two articles about the economics of fossil fuels in the Journal of Economic Perspectives were featured on the Undercover Economist blog in the Financial Times

The truth about the gender wage gap

[News]

August 02, 2016

Vox covered a 2010 paper on the gender wage gap appearing in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Study: Legal Weed Could Raise $12 Billion a Year in Taxes

[News]

August 02, 2016

Gawker covered a new paper about the potential effects of marijuana legalization appearing in the American Economic Review

Can American agriculture adapt to a hotter climate?

[Research Highlight]

July 28, 2016

How corn and soybean crops fared in the counties hit hardest by climate change

27th Mitsui Finance Symposium: Labor and Corporate Finance

[News]

August 04, 2016

Call for Papers