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?

CSWEP Chair: Judith A. Chevalier

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CSWEP At-Large: Karen Pence

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CSWEP At-Large: Jonathan Guryan

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CSWEP Assoc. Chair & Survey Director: Margaret Levenstein

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CSWEP Newsletter Oversight Editor: Katherine Silz Carson

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Expanding access vs. controlling costs

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January 15, 2019

A new paper examines some of the factors that may drive patient choices to pursue expensive fertility treatments.

Test Page 2

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Wealth taxes (and how to evade them)

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Sweden’s wealth tax has proven easy to avoid.

Mental accounting and grocery shopping

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January 17, 2019

Food stamps are designed to put food on the table. But do they work?

The Social Value of Financial Expertise

By Pablo Kurlat

American Economic Review, February 2019

I study expertise acquisition in a model of trading under asymmetric information. I propose and implement a method to measure r, the ratio of the marginal social value to the marginal private value of expertise. This can be decomposed into three sufficien...

CSMGEP Profiles: Kaye Husbands Fealing

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Shipping may vary

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How can differences in export costs explain cross-country income inequality?

Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments

By Hunt Allcott and Christopher Knittel

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing ...