Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?

[Symposium: Polarization in Courts]

By Daniel Hemel

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2021

Proposals for structural changes to the US Supreme Court have attracted attention in recent years amid a perceived “legitimacy crisis” afflicting the institution. This article first assesses whether the court is in fact facing a legitimacy crisis and ...

City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?

[Symposium: Minimum Wage]

By Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2021

Cities are increasingly setting their own minimum wages, and this trend has accelerated sharply in recent years. While in 2010 there were only three cities with their own minimum wages exceeding the state or federal standard, by 2020 there were 42. This n...

CSWEP COVID-19 Resources and Webinars

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Women's aspirations, robo-apocalypse, and China's growth

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January 28, 2021

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

Blossoming borders

[Research Highlight]

February 05, 2021

Indonesia's efforts to redraw political boundaries shed light on factors affecting ethnic polarization.

The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions

By Samuel Bazzi and Matthew Gudgeon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2021

We use a policy experiment in Indonesia to show how local political boundaries affect ethnic tension. Redrawing district borders along group lines reduces conflict. However, the gains in stability are undone or even reversed when new boundaries increase e...

Hunter College and African School of Economics Program to Expand Representation in Economics

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February 09, 2021

Can policing be reformed?

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A series of experiments in India changed officer behavior with relatively modest interventions.

Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel

By Naomi Gershoni and Corinne Low

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2021

Israel's 1994 adoption of free in vitro fertilization (IVF) provides a natural experiment for how fertility time horizons impact women's marriage timing and other outcomes. We find a substantial increase in average age at first marriage following the poli...

How IVF changed Israel’s marriage market

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February 05, 2021

Extending their “biological clocks” led young Jewish-Israeli women to delay tying the knot and invest in themselves.

Business incomes at the top

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The rich have changed the way they report their income. That has important consequences for how economists measure inequality.

Tech: economists wanted

[Research Highlight]

March 08, 2019

An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.

International Conference on Establishment Statistics Student Contest

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February 18, 2021

The conference will be held June 14-17, 2021.

Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics and Politics

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February 19, 2021

Learn how to propose an element for this new editorial project.

Upcoming Funding Opportunities from the Russell Sage Foundation

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February 12, 2021

View available funding opportunities.

Rising regulations, ebbing emissions

[Research Highlight]

November 30, 2018

What’s behind the decline in US manufacturing pollution?

Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

By Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv

American Economic Review, February 2021

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire undergraduate university student population, a representative sample of the US population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external ...

Call for Applications: CSUS Library Research Fellowship Program

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February 24, 2021

The application deadline is April 2, 2021.

William T. Grant Foundation 2021 Scholars Program

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February 24, 2021

The online application opens on April 1, 2021 and the deadline to submit an application is July 7, 2021.