Educational returns

[Research Highlight]

February 12, 2019

Are financial aid programs getting their money's worth?

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

Does trade policy really matter?

[Research Highlight]

February 19, 2019

Britain’s protectionism in the 1930s may offer insights for policymakers today.

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

[News]

March 04, 2019

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

More competing. More saving.

[Research Highlight]

February 21, 2019

How do national retailers set prices? And who does it help?

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...

Risky business

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How did an insurance requirement force small drillers out of Texas' oil and gas industry?

American Economic Association releases results of survey on professional climate in economics

[News]

March 18, 2019

Leadership outlines broader effort to address harassment and discrimination within the profession.

Increasing familiarity, reducing discrimination

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Does school diversity make rich students more willing to socialize with poor students?

Alan B. Krueger (1960-2019)

[News]

March 18, 2019

Economics profession saddened by loss of Princeton professor and former AEA vice president.

Changes in Workplace Heterogeneity and How They Widen the Gender Wage Gap

By Benjamin Bruns

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019

Using linked employer-employee data for West Germany, I investigate the role of growing wage differentials between firms in the slowdown of gender wage convergence since the 1990s. The results show that two factors are at play: first, high-wage firms expe...