China’s struggle to control credit

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Does shadow banking hamstring monetary policy?

Politically risky business

[Research Highlight]

January 30, 2019

How much do close elections affect business investment?

What's in a name?

[Research Highlight]

January 16, 2018

Two researchers propose a new standard for ordering coauthor names.

Alcohol markets, Venezuela development, and disaster insurance

[News]

January 22, 2019

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Stimulating the vote

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The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act provided a boost to Democrats in the 2012 election.

Flexible(ish) working hours

[Research Highlight]

February 06, 2019

How does part-time work respond to economic swings?

AEASTAT: 2019 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2019 ASSA meetings

Looking for work first

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Should welfare require a period of job search?

Call for Papers: Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) 2019 Summer Workshops

[News]

February 19, 2019

The workshops will take place on the Stanford campus from July 1 to September 13, 2019.

Call for Proposals: Host the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program -- Development Economics

[News]

February 22, 2019

Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Fellowship for Academic Year 2020-2021

[News]

February 25, 2019

June 27, 2019 is the application deadline.

Russell Sage Foundation Programs and Initiatives Currently Accepting Letters of Inquiry

[News]

February 25, 2019

The deadline for letters of inquiry is May 23, 2019.

PSID Data User Training Workshop

[News]

February 26, 2019

This five-day workshop will be held June 10-14, 2019 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbo

Earn less, pay more

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Can income tax policy explain how globalization drives income inequality?

C. Elton Hinshaw (1936-2019)

[News]

February 28, 2019

Elton Hinshaw was a longtime professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and former Secretary-Treasurer of the AEA.

The Poor City Population Boom

[Research Highlight]

February 21, 2019

This video explains why today's fastest growing urban areas are in poorer countries.

Pinpointing the gender problem in economics

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Female economists place at lower-ranked departments out of graduate school and are less likely to be promoted.

16th NIPE Summer School Announcement

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March 04, 2019

Course will be taught at the University of Minho between June 3rd and 6th 2019.

Bias on the bench

[Research Highlight]

February 08, 2019

Judicial politics play a role in perpetuating racial and gender disparities in sentencing.

Review Essay on Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort

By Thierry Verdier

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2019

This paper reviews the book Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort (hereafter, ALV), providing an analytical perspective on the issues related to minority discrimination a...