Palen, Marc-William. Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

By Saumitra Jha

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025

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Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025

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Journal of Economic Literature, June 2025

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The Economics Profession

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Career Earnings

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Tackling gender inequality in the labor market

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How a UK transparency policy impacted the gender wage gap.

An Analytical Model of Behavior and Policy in an Epidemic

By Lukasz Rachel

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper examines the behavior of individuals susceptible to a deadly disease in a tractable equilibrium setting. We analytically characterize individually optimal mitigation behavior and the resulting equilibrium trajectory. Analysis is facilitated by ...

Call for Papers: Conference on Spatial Dynamics

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June 13, 2025

The submission deadline is September 21, 2025.

Moving down the jobs ladder

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The role of jobless duration in understanding persistent earnings losses.

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Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide

By Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna

Journal of Economic Literature

Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well-understood. However, empirical practices can be ad hoc when researchers go beyond that simple cas...

AEACGR: Annual Reports

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Annual Reports of the AEA Committee on Government Relations

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay

By Andrew C. Johnston

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

I examine teacher preferences using a discrete-choice experiment linked to data on teacher effectiveness. I estimate willingness to pay for a rich set of compensation elements and working conditions. Highly effective teachers usually have the same prefere...

Voice at Work

By Jarkko Harju, Simon Jäger, and Benjamin Schoefer

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We estimate the effects of worker voice on productivity, job quality, and separations. We study the 1991 introduction of a right to worker representation on boards or advisory councils in Finnish firms with at least 150 employees, designed to facilitate w...

New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

By Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson, and Dmitri Koustas

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We show that increases in the share of workers reporting self-employment to the IRS are not associated with changes in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers after 2005 but are driven primarily by self-reported earnings of individuals ...

Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System

By Aditya Shrinivas, Kathy Baylis, and Benjamin Crost

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

India's National Food Security Act of 2013 (NFSA) led to one of the biggest expansions in food transfers in history, affecting over 500 million people. We use plausibly exogenous variation created by the NFSA to estimate the effect of food transfers on ch...

Not Playing Favorites: Parents and the Value of Equal Opportunity

By James Berry, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, and Maulik Jagnani

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2025

We conduct two experiments to identify the value parents place on equality of opportunity when investing in children. The experiments exogenously vary short-run returns to educational investments to identify the weight placed on equalizing "opportunity" (...