Call for Papers: NTA 112th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2019

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March 26, 2019

Submissions will be accepted until June 1, 2019.

Different expectations

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How do gender stereotypes shape our beliefs of how we will perform on certain tasks?

As farmers go, so goes the nation

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March 20, 2019

How did agriculture help the US recover from the Great Depression in the spring of 1933?

A message from the AEA leadership on the professional climate in economics

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March 11, 2019

AEA Member Announcements (March 18, 2019)

The indirect effects of good teaching

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March 12, 2019

An educator's value is greater than the impact they have on their own students.

Reforming consumption taxes

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When value-added taxes are cut, who benefits?

Fixed-Wage Contracts and Monetary Non-neutrality

By Maria Björklund, Mikael Carlsson, and Oskar Nordström Skans

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

We study the importance of wage rigidities for the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Using uniquely rich micro data on Swedish wage negotiations, we isolate periods when the labor market is covered by fixed-wage contracts. Importantly, negotiations ...

Product Turnover and the Cost-of-Living Index: Quality versus Fashion Effects

By Kozo Ueda, Kota Watanabe, and Tsutomu Watanabe

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

This paper evaluates the effects of product turnover on a welfare-based cost-of-living index by incorporating the quality effect and the fashion effect. Employing scanner data for Japan for the years 1988–2013, we find that (i) the price and quantity of...

Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference

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April 02, 2019

The annual conference will take place in Singapore on December 12-14, 2019.

Reassessing public health campaigns

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March 26, 2019

Are we overstating the role that anti-TB initiatives played in driving down death rates in the 20th century?

Curbing a desire to drink

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An experiment measures how much Indian cycle-rickshaw drivers actually wanted to remain sober on the job.

Closing the tuition gap

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April 10, 2019

Should out-of-state students pay more than in-state students?

A randomized option for ordering coauthor names

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April 12, 2019

The AEA now offers an alternative option for author order.

The elephant curve

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How much has inequality grown around the world over the last forty years?

Survey says?

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April 02, 2019

Inaccurate Census data has led researchers to underestimate the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs.

Connecting Africa to the digital fastlane

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March 27, 2019

How did high-speed, high-capacity Internet affect African businesses and workers?

The downsides of making benefits more flexible

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April 17, 2019

For the neediest, giving in-kind may be better than giving cash.

Understanding "underemployment"

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A new paper explores the dynamics when college graduates take jobs for which they are overqualified.

The Comparative Statics of Optimal Hierarchies

By Cheng Chen and Wing Suen

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2019

Several classes of models of hierarchical organizations share two common properties: the characteristics at different levels of the hierarchy are complementary, but this complementarity does not extend beyond adjacent levels. We propose a unified yet simp...

Policies in Relational Contracts

By Daniel Barron and Michael Powell

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2019

We consider how a firm's policies constrain its relational contracts. A policy is a sequence of decisions made by a principal; each decision determines how agents' efforts affect their outputs. We consider surplus-maximizing policies in a flexible dynamic...