Protection from predators

[Research Highlight]

May 09, 2018

What are the economic consequences when governments don't keep law and order?

The rise of the state

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The Great Depression led to widespread institutional changes in the US.

Call for nominations: CSWEP’s Carolyn Shaw Bell Award and Elaine Bennett Research Prize

[News]

May 16, 2018

Nominations for these awards are due in September 2018.

Creating criminals?

[Research Highlight]

May 02, 2018

Restricting immigrants’ ability to work causes an increase in financially motivated crime.

Nudging and Paternalistic Societies: Free Choice and Subtle Determinism Conference

[News]

May 18, 2018

The conference will be help on June 21, 2018 in Braga, Portugal.

How Do Changes in Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality?

By Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018

US housing voucher holders pay their landlord a fraction of household income and the government pays the rest, up to a rent ceiling. We study how two types of changes to the rent ceiling affect landlords and tenants. A policy that makes vouchers more gene...

Moving on up

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A housing reform in Dallas offers lessons for how voucher design shapes decisions about where to live.

Taking smart chances

[Research Highlight]

May 15, 2018

The AEA interviews David Huffman about how a person’s cognitive ability relates to their taste for risk.

2018 PCAOB/JAR Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets and Call for Papers

[News]

February 06, 2018

The conference is organized by the PCAOB in conjunction with the Journal of Accounting Research (JAR).

IGL2018 Global Conference

[News]

May 24, 2018

The conference will be held in Boston, MA on June 12-14.

Why may workers underinvest in their skills?

[Research Highlight]

May 18, 2018

Big data can help incentivize human capital development.

Economics (in space!)

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Economists are well positioned to study the commercialization of space.

The Role of Startups in Structural Transformation

By Robert C. Dent, Fatih Karahan, Benjamin Pugsley, and Ayşegül Şahin

American Economic Review, May 2016

The U.S. economy has been going through a striking structural transformation--the secular reallocation of employment across sectors--over the past several decades. We propose a decomposition framework to assess the contributions of various margins of firm...

What's it worth to you?

[Research Highlight]

May 03, 2018

Evidence from the Canadian airline industry offers a nuanced view of how competition affects price discrimination.

A better understanding of food insecurity

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A larger share of minorities lack access to healthy food than whites. But the severity of that poor access matters, too.

Mentoring Reading Materials

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Reading materials for economists by CSWEP

Designing theories for the real world

[Research Highlight]

May 31, 2018

The AEA interviews 2018 John Bates Clark Medalist Parag Pathak.

Submissions open for the 2018 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award

[News]

June 05, 2018

The TIAA Institute invites you to submit an entry for the 2018 TIAA PAUL A. SAMUELSON AWARD

There goes the neighborhood

[Research Highlight]

May 25, 2018

Online platforms like Yelp can help economists learn about how gentrification happens in real time.

Let us know how you are using JEP articles in your classroom

[News]

May 31, 2018

Editors of JEP are currently collecting concrete examples of successful uses of JEP articles in classroom settings.