About CSWEP

[Page]

CSWEP’s past and present–our mission, our history, what we do and who we are.

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Editor Search — Request for Suggestions

[News]

March 02, 2026

View the AEA Member Announcement from March 2, 2026.

CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty

[Page]

Information on the CeMENT mentoring program

Globalization, Capital Taxation, and Development: Evidence from a Macro-Historical Database

By Pierre Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, Anders Jensen, and Gabriel Zucman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper builds and analyzes a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates on capital and labor in 154 countries. We establish a new stylized fact: while effective capital tax rates fell in developed countries between 1965 and 2018, th...

Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession

[Page]

CSQIEP Award for Outstanding Research Paper in LGBTQ+ Economics

[Page]

Learn more about this annual award.

University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization

By Stanislav Avdeev

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper provides the first evidence on the impact of exposure to international students on the long-term outcomes of native students. I combine unique survey and administrative data from the Netherlands covering one million students across three dec...

Fiscal Transfers to Local Governments and the Distribution of Economic Activity

By Teemu Lyytikäinen, Sander Ramboer, and Max Toikka

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We study the economic effects of transfers to local governments using a reform of the Finnish municipal grant system as a source of exogenous variation. We find that higher grants lead to lower municipal taxes and fees, higher public spending and impro...

The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods

By Mariagrazia Cavallo, Elizabeth Dhuey, Luca Fumarco, Levi Halewyck, and Simon ter Meulen

Journal of Economic Literature

This article reviews the growing literature on age at school entry and its effects over the life course. Age at school entry affects a broad range of outcomes, including education, labor-market performance, health, social relationships, and family formati...

2026 AEA CSQIEP Economics PhD Student and Early Career Economist Mentoring Conference

[Page]

Price Setting and Volatility: Evidence from Oil Price Volatility Shocks

By Matthew Klepacz

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Do changes in aggregate volatility alter the impulse response of output to monetary policy? I use plausibly exogenous oil price volatility shocks and exploit heterogene- ity in oil usage across industries to show that PPI item level price changes become...

Macroeconomic Effects of ‘Free’ Secondary Schooling in the Developing World

By Junichi Fujimoto, David Lagakos, and Mitchell VanVuren

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of free secondary schooling in the developing world. Our analysis is based on an OLG model of human capital accumulation that we estimate to match experimental evidence on the effects of secondary school schola...

CSWEP News

[Page]

Published four times yearly since 1972 and full of advice and information on how the profession works for all economists

Submission Guidelines

[Page]

Electoral Campaign Attacks: Theory and Evidence

By Marcos Y. Nakaguma and Danilo Souza

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper studies the determinants of electoral campaign attacks. We first propose a model to examine the main factors that influence candidates’ decisions to attack. Our theoretical analysis yields a number of predictions which we test using informa...

Cognitive Ability and Perceived Disagreement in Learning

By Piotr Evdokimov and Umberto Garfagnini

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Do agents believe they agree more with others over time? This paper explores how individuals perceive the belief updating behavior of others and the resulting disagreement in a sequential experiment with public information. We uncover a persistent gap i...

Land, Wealth, and Taxation

By Roberto Brunetti, Carl Gaigné, and Fabien Moizeau

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper examines the role of land in wealth dynamics and its consequences on efficiency and inequality. We focus on the interplay among agents’ bidding for location, mortgage market imperfections, and inheritance in a model in which agents leave t...

The Perils of Overreaction

By Konstantin von Beringe and Mark Whitmeyer

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

In order to study updating rules, we consider the problem of a malevolent principal screening an imperfectly Bayesian agent. We uncover a fundamental dichotomy between underreaction and overreaction to information. If, for some signal realization, the ...

Editors

[Page]

Search Committee for AEJ: Microeconomics Editor

[Page]