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AEA Committees

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Learn about the Committees of the American Economic Association.

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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Current editors of AER: Insights, as well as the board of editors and editorial staff.

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

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.

Editors

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Editors and contacts at the Journal of Economic Literature.

Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, and Christoph T. Weiss

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Using a new survey, we document high dispersion of marginal revenue products across firms in the European Union (EU). To interpret this dispersion, we develop a highly portable framework to quantify gains from better allocation of resources. We demonstrat...

What Is Economics?

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Understanding the discipline.

Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry

By Felix Montag

American Economic Review

Policy choices often create trade-offs between workers and consumers. I examine how foreign competition alters the consumer welfare and domestic employment effects of mergers. I construct a model incorporating consumer demand, endogenous product portfo...