Measuring Sensitive Outcomes through Ballot-Bag Surveys

By Bruno Crépon, Ahmed Elsayed, and Jules Gazeaud

American Economic Review: Insights

Prevailing methods for measuring sensitive outcomes confront researchers with an inherent bias-variance trade-off: direct questioning is prone to a sensitivity bias, while indirect methods such as list experiments are substantially less precise. We test...

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Country Designation for Submission Fees

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Gender and income

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Nonbinary and transgender workers face substantial earnings penalties relative to cisgender men.

King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency by Paul Blustein

By Ethan Ilzetzki

Journal of Economic Literature

Call for Papers: 7th World Conference on Remedies to Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality

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March 23, 2026

Abstracts should be submitted by April 17, 2026.

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Spatial Spillovers of Conflict in Somalia

By Marco Alfano and Thomas Cornelissen

American Economic Review

Conflict along transportation routes during Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgency significantly increases maize prices at distant locations, decreasing food security, health, and education. Estimated conflict risk has strong price effects independently of r...

The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department

By David Chan and Yiqun Chen

American Economic Review

This paper studies the productivity of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians, two professions performing overlapping tasks but with starkly different backgrounds, training, and pay. Using quasi-experimental variation in patient assignment to NPs versus...

Contextually Private Mechanisms

By Andreas Haupt and Zoë Hitzig

American Economic Review

A designer employs a dynamic protocol to elicit private information. Protocols produce a set of contextual privacy violations— information learned that may be superfluous given the context. A protocol is maximally contextually private if there is no ...

EDUCATE Teaching Workshop

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Expanding Diversity in Undergraduate Classes with Advancements in (the) Teaching (of) Economics (EDUCATE) Workshop

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