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

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March 09, 2018

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

Data visualization for economists

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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

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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...

CSMGEP Profiles: Alfonso Flores-Lagunes

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15th NIPE Summer School Announcement

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April 05, 2018

Course will be taught at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, between June 11th and June 14th 2018

What's best for the baby

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March 22, 2018

The AEA interviews Maya Rossin-Slater and Petra Persson about the long-term impact of maternal stress during pregnancy.

Won't you be my neighbor?

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Sanitation practices help explain a longstanding puzzle over infant mortality rates in India.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution features AER paper on maternal stress

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April 09, 2018

Paper from Stanford University researchers says in utero stress impacts mental health of children later in life.

2018 AEA Poster Videos

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Watch videos from the 2018 AEA Annual Meeting Poster Session

CTREE registration is closing soon

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April 10, 2018

Early registration for the Conference on Teaching & Research in Economic Education closes April 17th.