Search Committee for AEJ: Microeconomics Editor

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Beyond Social Death: A Review Essay of Enslavement: Past and Present by Orlando Patterson

By Leonard Wantchekon

Journal of Economic Literature

Enslavement: Past and Present by Orlando Patterson should be required reading for any economist or economic historian interested in long-run development and growth, race, inequality, political economy, or institutional development. Patterson synthe...

Curbing the influence of criminals on public officials

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Better pay for politicians is associated with less corruption in public procurement.

IT investment and the earnings distribution

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February 25, 2026

The geographic dimension of wage polarization.

The effects of tariffs on consumer credit terms

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The 2018 steel and aluminum tariffs increased interest rates on auto loans, especially for lower-income consumers.

ASSA 2026 Exhibitors

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CSWEP News Archives

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Demo Home Test 3

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AEJ Best Paper Awards

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View articles selected for the annual AEJ Best Paper Awards.

The First 1,000 Days and Beyond: The Process of Child Development

By Orazio P. Attanasio

Journal of Economic Literature

This paper reviews recent research in the economics of human development, focusing on the early years of life as a critical period for shaping long-term outcomes. Early childhood development is inherently multidimensional: cognitive and socioemotional ski...

Strapped for Cash: The Role of Financial Constraints for Innovating Firms, Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity Growth

By Esther Ann Bøler, Andreas Moxnes, and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We analyze the impact of reduced financial constraints on innovating firms' performance and access to credit using a reform that allowed firms to use patents as collateral. We develop a theoretical framework to guide the analysis and quantify the aggregat...

EconLit at Conference Exhibits

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Visit the EconLit/American Economic Association booth at upcoming conferences.

The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid

By Danil Agafiev Macambira, Michael Geruso, Anthony Lollo, Chima D. Ndumele, and Jacob Wallace

American Economic Review

This paper examines the effects of privatizing social health insurance. We exploit a natural experiment in Medicaid, wherein nearly 100,000 enrollees were randomly assigned between a publicly-operated fee-for-service system and private managed care. Man...

Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series

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Data and Code Availability Policy

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It is the policy of the American Economic Association to publish papers only if the data and code used in the analysis are clearly and precisely documented and access to the data and code is non-exclusive to the authors.

A short history of Asian immigration

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March 10, 2026

Hannah Postel discusses the evolution of Asian immigration to the United States.

AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE)

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AEA Distinguished Economic Education Award

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AEA-CEE Members

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Current Members of the Education Committee

International Universities Included in the Top 200 of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities

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