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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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Deadwood Labor? The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection for Older Workers

By Emmanuel Saez, Benjamin Schoefer, and David Seim

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We analyze mandatory retirement in Sweden which eliminates entirely employment protection at age 67. Employment falls by about 10 percent and total average earnings by about 20 percent immediately at age 67. 8 percent of jobs separate immediately due t...

EconEdNews

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Our newsletter provides timely information about conferences and events sponsored by the AEA-CEE, highlights resources for educators, and shares economic education activities associated with organizations around the world.

Monetary Policy without Commitment

By Hassan Afrouzi, Marina Halac, Kenneth Rogoff, and Pierre Yared

American Economic Review

This paper studies the implications of central bank credibility for long-run inflation and inflation dynamics. We introduce central bank lack of commitment into a standard non-linear New Keynesian economy with sticky-price monopolistically competitive ...

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.

Information on Co-Impact Grant Awarded to CPC and CSWEP

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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 ...

The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism by Sebastian Edwards

By Raimundo Soto

Journal of Economic Literature

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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...

Cassatts in the Attic: Is There a Gender Gap in the Commercialization of Science?

By Marlène Koffi and Matt Marx

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

We analyze nearly 70 million scientific articles to estimate the gender dynamics in the commercialization of science. We report a gender gap of 14 percent, which does not appear to be explained either by the quality of the science or by its commercial pot...

Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States

By Cory Smith

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

I study the long-run economic effects of land concentration on the American frontier. Using quasi-random variation in initial land allocations from a checkerboard formula, I analyze a large database of property assessments and find that historical concent...

Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho

By Jan-Walter De Neve, Ramaele Moshoeshoe, and Jacob Bor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Evidence on school-entry age impacts in lower-income countries is limited. We assess how school starting age affects human capital development in Lesotho, exploiting an enrollment age threshold. Children who start primary school at older ages overcome ini...

The Long-Term Impacts of Mixing the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Conscript Dorms

By Elias Einiö

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

To what extent is economic success determined by with whom individuals interact socially? We tackle this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment in the Finnish conscription. Our research design is based on the alphabetization of dorms, whi...

The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement

By Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag, and Bryan A. Stuart

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of citywide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the arrangement of railroad tr...