Preparing for Graduate School

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Other Student Resources

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Gender and income

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

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.

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

EDUCATE Teaching Workshop: Details

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JOE Interview Scheduling

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Learn about the module for scheduling interviews through the JOE Network

Editors

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Current editors and editorial staff of the AEJ: Economic Policy.

Editors

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Current editors and editorial staff of the AEJ: Microeconomics.

Editors

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Editors, Associate Editors, and contacts at the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

What Is Economics?

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Understanding the discipline.

Bayesian Fairness: Reward Rule and Disappointment under Information Asymmetry

By Roland Pongou and Ghislain Junior Sidie

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We provide an axiomatic foundation for the classical problem of compensating workers when effort is unobserved. The employer holds Bayesian beliefs about workers’ effort, observes output precisely or imprecisely, and seeks fairness. We introduce axio...

Undergrad Research Opportunities

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Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making and G53 Network : Financial Literacy Research Boot Camp

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March 26, 2026

The application deadline is April 30, 2026.

AEA Guidelines for Editorial Appointments

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The Editorial Appointments Committee documents procedures governing the appointment of coeditors, associate editors, and editorial board members of AEA journals.

How a win–lose mindset affects political and policy preferences

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March 26, 2026

The origins and consequences of zero-sum thinking in the United States.

Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Differences

By Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva

American Economic Review, March 2026

We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking: the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of 20,400 US residents, we measure zero-sum thinking, political preferences, policy ...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection

By Girija Borker, Jan Eeckhout, Nancy Luke, Shantidani Minz, Kaivan Munshi, and Soumya Swaminathan

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference, in which parents desire a male heir, and daughter aversion, in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls. Our model incorporates both mechanisms, providing m...