Urban Sprawl

By Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall P. Walsh

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2004

We begin with an overview of the causes and consequences of urban sprawl in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on lower transportation costs and self-sorting of the population. By sprawl, we will mean the tendency toward lower city densities as...

The "Pupil" Factory: Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools

By Roland G. Fryer Jr.

American Economic Review, March 2018

I conducted a randomized field experiment in traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization. The average impact of encouraging schools to specialize their teachers on ...

Cite your sources

[Research Highlight]

February 14, 2018

What can economists’ citations tell us about the field?

Coarse Grades

[Research Highlight]

March 15, 2018

Crude measures of quality are sometimes better for consumers.

2018 ASSA Registrants Survey

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2017/2018 JOE Candidate Survey

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2017/2018 JOE Employer Survey

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2017/2018 JOE Reference Writer Survey

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Inside the art market

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Art prices and volume co-move with the economy.

The New York Times features AER paper on hospitalizations

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March 21, 2018

Researchers determined that an admission had severe economic consequences regardless of whether the patient was insured.

Price Theory Summer Camp 2018

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March 23, 2018

Program for PhD students to be held July 8-12, 2018 at the University of Chicago

I.S.E.O. Summer School 2018

[News]

March 09, 2018

Taking place in Italy on June 21-30, 2018.

Data visualization for economists

[Research Highlight]

March 21, 2018

An interview with Jonathan Schwabish

Taxing Russia's drinking problem

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How much would a 50 percent increase on the price of vodka reduce alcohol abuse?

Demand for Alcohol Consumption in Russia and Its Implication for Mortality

By Evgeny Yakovlev

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

Alcohol abuse is widely blamed for the very high rate of male mortality in Russia. I estimate a structural model of the demand for alcohol that incorporates two features of alcohol consumption, peer effects and habits. I use a kink in the policy regime of...

First PhD Student Workshop in Economics and Business Administration

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March 27, 2018

Workshop is jointly offered by the University of Minho and the University of Coimbra on June 15, 2018.

Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Comment

By Brett Matsumoto

American Economic Review, April 2018

The empirical methodology used by Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) to estimate the causal effect of in utero exposure to stress contains a potentially significant flaw. They define the control group in a way that may bias their causal estimates and can le...

Understanding the economic brain

[Research Highlight]

March 28, 2018

What can economics and social neuroscience learn from one another?

Smaller world, better prices

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How the telegraph reduced price volatility

Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake

By Chie Hanaoka, Hitoshi Shigeoka, and Yasutora Watanabe

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2018

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural disaster, specifically, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of nationally representative surveys on risk preferences, we find that men who exp...