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Alcohol, Labor, and Agriculture

By David M. A. Murphy

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

I evaluate a randomized control trial in rural Kenya in which selected households received cognitive behavioral therapy and medication to reduce alcohol abuse. Sixteen months post-intervention, the program decreased the likelihood of positive spot brea...

Harnessing Deductions to Increase Tax Compliance and Formalization

By Albrecht Bohne and Jan Sebastian Nimczik

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We evaluate a tax reform in Ecuador that introduced generous deductions from personal income taxes (PIT), encouraging consumers to request receipts. The reform addresses tax evasion by targeting small self-employed businesses that mainly sell goods or s...

Responses to Extreme Temperatures: Migrant Networks and International Migration from El Salvador

By Ana Maria Ibáñez, Juliana Quigua, Maria Jimena Romero, and Andrea Velásquez

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We show that exposure to extreme temperatures significantly increases international migration from El Salvador, where nearly a quarter of the population lives in the United States. Extreme temperatures reduce corn yields, leading producers to decrease th...

Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing: Who and How?

By Daniel S. Hamermesh

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2013

Presenting data on all full-length articles in the three top general economics journals for one year in each decade 1960s-2010s, I analyze changes in patterns of coauthorship, age structure and methodology, and their possible causes. The distribution of n...

Suspension vs. restoration

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Do restorative justice practices in the classroom improve student outcomes?

Funding & Grants

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Self-Enforced Job Matching

By Ce Liu, Ziwei Wang, and Hanzhe Zhang

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Complementarities and peer effects are common in matching markets, yet incorporating them often leads to the nonexistence of stable matchings. We observe that matching is often an ongoing process rather than a static allocation, where long-lived firms i...

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August 25, 2025

View the AEA Member Announcement from August 26th, 2025.

Preferences for Firearms

By Sarah Moshary, Bradley T. Shapiro, and Sara Drango

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

This paper provides a critical input into crafting effective firearms policy: an understanding of consumer demand for guns. We estimate individual-level price sensitivity and substitution patterns across gun types using stated-choice experiments. We find ...

Health Effects of Cousin Marriage: Evidence from US Genealogical Records

By Sam Il Myoung Hwang, Deaglan Jakob, and Munir Squires

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

Cousin marriage rates are high in many countries today. While previous studies have documented increased risks of infant and child mortality, we provide the first estimate of the effect of such marriages on life expectancy throughout adulthood. By studyin...

Exogenous Exits, Market Structure, and Equilibrium Contracts in Health Care

By Natalia Serna

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

This paper quantifies the causal effects of exogenous health insurer exits on contract structure and health care market outcomes, proposing market concentration as a likely mechanism for these effects. Leveraging the termination of the largest health insu...

Consumer-Financed Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Digital Coupons in China

By Jing Ding, Lei Jiang, Lucy Msall, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

In 2020, local governments in China began issuing digital coupons to stimulate spending in targeted categories such as restaurants and supermarkets. Using data from a large e-commerce platform and a bunching estimation approach, we find that the coupons c...

Quantifying Threshold Manipulation in the Presence of Rounding: The Case of Lead Monitoring in US Drinking Water

By Tihitina Andarge, Dalia Ghanem, David A. Keiser, and Gabriel E. Lade

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

Many laws and economic actions depend on thresholds. As a consequence, threshold manipulation is a common concern in a variety of settings. Existing methods for detecting and quantifying threshold manipulation assume a continuous counterfactual distributi...

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter

By Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

This paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. We created 80 bot accounts that claim to be PhD students differing in three characteristics: gender (male or female), race (Black or White), and unive...

A Theory of Fair CEO Pay

By Pierre Chaigneau, Alex Edmans, and Daniel Gottlieb

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

This paper studies executive pay with fairness concerns: If the CEO's wage falls below a perceived fair share of output, he suffers disutility that is increasing in the discrepancy. Fairness concerns do not always lead to fair wages; instead, the firm thr...

Interpreting TSLS Estimators in Information Provision Experiments

By Vod Vilfort and Whitney Zhang

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

In information provision experiments, researchers often estimate the causal effects of beliefs on actions using two-stage least squares (TSLS). This paper formalizes exclusion and monotonicity conditions that ensure that TSLS recovers a positive-weighted ...

Front Matter

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

The long-term impacts of Reconstruction-era education

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August 25, 2025

How did educational opportunities after the American Civil War shape economic outcomes for Black families?

Reconstruction-Era Education and Long-Run Black-White Inequality

By Daniel B. Jones and Ethan Schmick

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2025

The Reconstruction era of American history (c. 1866–1877) saw widespread efforts to educate recently freed people—efforts that were partially curtailed after Reconstruction. This paper examines the impact of childhood exposure to educational opportuni...