Jim Marrone on the black market for antiquities

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How do economists study archaeological looting?

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2014

Sriya Anbil on emergency lending in the Great Depression

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How can we identify "bad banks"?

Ann Owen on gender diversity on bank boards

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How does having more women on a board affect bank performance?

Dennis Bonam on the stability of monetary unions

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Can monetary unions come back from unstable times?

Shaikh Eskander on how Bangladeshi farmers adapt to natural disasters

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How do farmers use the land rental market to mitigate the effects of climate change?

Lei Gao on mortgage discrimination to same-sex loan applicants

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How do lenders treat homosexual borrowers differently?

Elmer Li on assessing school quality

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Is student mobility a better measure of school quality than test scores?

Carola Binder on how gas prices are tied to consumer inflation expectations

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How should monetary policymakers respond to energy price fluctuations?

Lucy Xiaolu Wang on how health IT reduces opioid-related deaths

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How can prescription monitoring programs be more effective?

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2017

Jonathan James on the formation of dietary habits

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How malleable are dietary habits in childhood and later in life?

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2009

Antonio Alonso Arechar on the role of honesty in cooperation

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Does "cheap talk" help people work together?

Richard Steckel on economic growth and diabetes

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Can rapid economic growth cause diabetes?

The New York Times highlights the AEA's role in addressing gender bias

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January 11, 2018

The AEA is taking steps to address concerns about gender bias in the economics profession.

Photos from the 2018 ASSA Annual Meeting

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Weihua Zhao on how self-driving cars will change cities

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Could autonomous vehicles contribute to urban sprawl?

Growth at the extremes

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Polarization in the US job market may have begun decades earlier than previously believed.

Climate Policy and Innovation: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis

By Stephie Fried

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2018

A carbon tax can induce innovation in green technologies. I evaluate the quantitative impact of this channel in a dynamic, general equilibrium model with endogenous innovation in fossil, green, and nonenergy inputs. I discipline the parameters using evide...