Competing Diffusions in a Social Network

By Arthur Campbell, C. Matthew Leister, Philip Ushchev, and Yves Zenou

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We develop a model of competing diffusions of goods on a social network. There are two types of goods and individuals: mass-market and niche-market. We find that there is a unique stable steady state and show that the adoption of a massmarket good is g...

Reputation and Competitive Selection

By Joyee Deb and Jack Fanning

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We demonstrate how selection in competitive markets can impede longrun reputational incentives. In our model, competent firms can exert costly effort to improve expected product quality, but inept firms cannot. With low entry barriers, we show competen...

Strategic Limit Orders and Intertemporal Price Dispersion

By Suman Banerjee, Ravi Jagannathan, and Kai Wang

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study a two-period commodity market with competitive consumers and Cournot sellers. Without speculation, equilibrium is stationary. A storage-capable, strategically large speculator can profitably create deterministic intertemporal price dispersion u...

Learning in the Marriage Market: The Economics of Dating

By Yair Antler, Daniel Bird, and Daniel Fershtman

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper develops a search-and-matching model where potential partners can learn about their compatibility as a couple by spending time together (interpreted as dating). We show that a steady-state equilibrium exists and characterize its induced dati...

Bonus Question: How Does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Unemployment Dynamics?

By Meghana Gaur, John Grigsby, Jonathon Hazell, and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

American Economic Review: Insights

We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment fluctuations. Our main result is that wage cyclicality from incentives does not affect the response of unemployment to productivity shocks. The response of unemployment is the same, ...

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Call for papers for the CSQIEP Research Award, the upcoming Annual Meeting, and other opportunities

Submission Portal for AEAStat-Sponsored Sessions at the 2027 AEA Annual Meeting

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EconHarmony

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EconHarmony allows prospective individual paper submitters who are members of the AEA to post information about their paper and search for other paper authors who might join them to form a complete session.

Navigating the "Problem from Hell": A Guide to Climate Damages

By Derek Lemoine ⓡ Catherine Hausman ⓡ Jeffrey G. Shrader

Journal of Economic Literature

Multiple lines of research aim to quantify the economic impacts of climate change. We show that the effects of climate change on economic activity depend on how climate change alters weather across time and space. Changes in contemporary weather have dire...

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Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs: What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?

By Derek Wu and Bruce D. Meyer

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper studies the impacts of administrative burdens across multiple welfare programs and application stages via an increasingly widespread phenomenon: the automation of caseworker assistance. Leveraging a natural experiment phased in across Indiana...

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls

By Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Xiaoyue Shan

American Economic Review: Insights

We evaluate the effects of teaching negotiation skills to adolescent girls in economically vulnerable communities in Lusaka, Zambia ten years later. Treated participants complete 0.23 more years of education. Consistent with greater relational empowerme...

Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India

By Lucie Gadenne, Tushar K. Nandi, and Roland Rathelot

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper considers how tax policy affects supply chains in a developing economy. Using administrative panel data on firms and transactions between them, we document substantial segmentation of supply chains between firms paying Value-Added Taxes (VAT) a...

East–West preindustrial wage divergence

[Research Highlight]

April 21, 2026

The effects of land ownership on wages in Japan, 1600–1870

How Equality Created Poverty in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1870

By Yuzuru Kumon

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Despite well-developed economic institutions, premodern Japan, 1600–1868, had among the lowest real wages according to available estimates, around half those in preindustrial England. However, many Japanese peasants owned land, unlike their mostly landl...