ASSA 2024 Webcasts of Select Sessions

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ASSA 2025 Webcasts of Select Sessions

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Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States

By Hans A. Holter, Serhiy Stepanchuk, and Yicheng Wang

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper studies the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship, empirically and in a structural macro model with entrepreneurial choice. Combining state-level tax data with household and firm data we document that higher and more progressive ta...

Understanding liquidity traps

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Lessons from Roosevelt's monetary policy changes and the end of the Great Depression.

On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

By Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas, and Elan Satriawan

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Given labor informality in developing countries, addressing employment shocks is challenging. We study Indonesia’s new approach for on-demand online applications for temporary cash assistance and online job training. Through 20 lotteries over two year...

Call for Papers: 2026 Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference

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December 11, 2025

The submission deadline is December 31, 2025.

Technological spillovers

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November 04, 2025

Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley discuss the long-term effects of public R&D investment made during the Cold War–era space race.

Prioritizing Benefit? How Low-Income Patients Respond to Prescription Cost-Sharing

By Christopher Hollrah

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper measures how cost-sharing impacts older low-income patients, exploiting a disconti-nuity in eligibility for a prescription drug subsidy for those who lose access to the Medicaid-linked program. Higher drug prices resulting from subsidy loss lea...

Register Now for Wednesday's Live Workshop about Navigating Authorship

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December 12, 2025

View the AEA Member Announcement from December 15th, 2025.

Increasing Degree Attainment among Low-Income Students: The Role of Intensive Advising and College Quality

By Andrew Barr and Benjamin Castleman

American Economic Review, November 2025

A college degree offers a pathway to economic mobility for low-income students. Using a multisite randomized controlled trial combined with administrative and survey data, we demonstrate that intensive advising during high school and college significantly...

Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth

By Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley

American Economic Review, September 2025

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War–era space race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending...

Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality

By Tine M. Eriksen, Amanda P. Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, and Peter R. Thingholm

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper documents a socioeconomic gradient in adult labor market penalties stemming from a single chronic and treatable childhood health shock in a country with universal access to healthcare. Using childhood onset Type 1 Diabetes, Danish administrat...

How Effective Are R&D Tax Incentives? Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

By Silvia Appelt, Matěj Bajgar, Chiara Criscuolo, and Fernando Galindo-Rueda

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Recent firm-level studies find R&D tax incentives to be much more effective at stimulating firms’ R&D investment than aggregate analyses suggest. Based on a distributed analysis of official R&D survey and administrative tax relief microdata for 19 OE...

Navigating the college choice process

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December 15, 2025

Intensive advising can substantially increase the likelihood of degree attainment for low-income students.

Common Workflow Options for Managing JOE Applications

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Getting Started with JOE Job Listings

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2025 in Featured Charts

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Economists addressed issues related to policing, unemployment benefits, bank bailouts, and more.

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2026

Highway to Hitler

By Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2026

We show that the building of the Autobahn network in Nazi Germany boosted popular support for Adolf Hitler, helping to entrench the Nazi dictatorship. Direct local economic benefits are unlikely to explain the effect. Instead, it reflects successful propa...

The Returns to Physical Capital in Knowledge Production: Evidence from Lab Disasters

By Stefano Baruffaldi and Fabian Gaessler

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2026

We investigate the nature and relevance of physical capital in knowledge production. Exploiting adverse events in research laboratories, we find that scientists experience a persistent reduction in research output if they lose specialized physical capital...