Wenlan Qian on consumer response to interest rates

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How does spending change when mortgage interest rates drop?

Steven Bednar on how physical activity affects student achievement

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Does it matter whether students have gym class in the morning or afternoon?

Mallory Avery on colonial resistance and economic development

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How do the reactions of native populations to colonial rule affect future growth?

Alessandro Flamini on illegal drugs and public corruption

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Did the arrival of crack cocaine in California increase institutionalized corruption?

Pallab Ghosh on tenure in economics

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What matters more: the quantity of publications or having fewer papers in top journals?

Tali Regev on the impact of gendered language

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How does referring to women in the masculine affect their performance in math?

Call for Nominations: 2019 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize

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January 10, 2019

Deadline for submission is March 1, 2019.

Boubacar Diallo on the "Scramble for Africa"

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How did the partitioning of Africa in the 19th century affect modern day financial development across countries?

International Trade - Part 9

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Alicia Sasser Modestino on the effectiveness of financial coaching

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To what extent can educational programs improve people's financial behaivor?

Matteo Binfare on the performance of investment-savvy university boards

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Does board member experience with investing improve endowment returns?

Haishan Yuan on the challenges of regulating fisheries

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Are bans effective in reducing the number of boats in fisheries?

Soazic Elise Wang Sonne on climate change and childhood behavior

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Does lower rainfall and higher temperatures lead to bad behaviors in Chadian children?

Boys' club

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December 11, 2018

An elite education can propel someone into a top corporate job...if they are a wealthy man.

Gi-Eu Lee on water right reforms

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What effects did reforms in Texas and New Mexico have on agricultural revenue?

Call for Papers: Applied Economics Teaching Resources

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January 14, 2019

AETR invites submissions for a special issue on Case Studies in Applied Economics.

Youngran Choi on closing the vaccination gap

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How can researchers identify high-risk groups in order to craft more effective vaccination campaigns?

Photos from the 2019 ASSA Annual Meeting

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View slide show of photos from the event.

Media coverage of 2019 Annual Meeting

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January 11, 2019

Gender in economics, Federal Reserve policy, and other issues received widespread coverage in the mainstream press.

Encouraging innovation

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What effect do patents have on the potential for a technology to be used in future product development?