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.

Empowering women, improving health

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Legal systems that give women more rights lead to lower rates of female HIV.

New Orleans Times-Picayune features paper on Hurricane Katrina victims

[News]

June 14, 2018

Study in AEJ: Applied examined long-run economic impact on storm survivors.

Is a globalized world a less equal world?

[Research Highlight]

May 22, 2018

The relationship between globalization and inequality is not always straightforward.

Cuts to spur corporate investment

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If companies' tax burdens were reduced, how much of an impact would it have on business investment?

Are global firms good?

[Research Highlight]

May 02, 2018

A small number of firms dominate international trade.

The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labor Supply

By Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Emma Tominey

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2018

The historical rise in female labor force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers' working hours is amplified throug...

Trade or technology?

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Explaining the decline of US manufacturing