Giving and taking between husband, wives, and co-wives

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How does family structure affect cooperation?

Panel Study of Income Dynamics Annual User Conference 2019

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April 30, 2019

The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2019.

Edward Lazear, Distinguished Fellow 2019

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Edward Lazear is a 2019 Distinguished Fellow

Ariel Pakes, Distinguished Fellow 2019

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A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities

By Yinghua He, Antonio Miralles, Marek Pycia, and Jianye Yan

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2018

We propose a pseudo-market mechanism for no-monetary-transfer allocation of indivisible objects based on priorities such as those in school choice. Agents are given token money, face priority-specific prices, and buy utility-maximizing random assignments....

Alvin Roth, Distinguished fellow 2018

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Olivier Blanchard, Distinguished Fellow 2019

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Geographic Cross-Sectional Fiscal Spending Multipliers: What Have We Learned?

By Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2019

A geographic cross-sectional fiscal spending multiplier measures the effect of an increase in spending in one region of a monetary union. Empirical studies of such multipliers have proliferated. I review this research and what the evidence implies for nat...

Are Home Buyers Inattentive? Evidence from Capitalization of Energy Costs

By Erica Myers

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2019

This paper explores whether home buyers are attentive to energy costs. The cost-effectiveness of market-based pollution policies crucially depends on whether consumers are attentive to energy costs when purchasing energy-using durables. I exploit energy-c...

Emi Nakamura, Clark Medalist 2019

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Emi Nakamura is the Clark Medalist for 2019

Amy Finkelstein, Clark Medalist 2012

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Amy Finkelstein is the 2012 Clark Medalist

Margaret Slade, Distinguished Fellow 2019

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Land reforms that left Indian girls behind

[Research Highlight]

April 29, 2019

Why has economic growth not led to more gender equality in India?

Clark medal winner Emi Nakamura receives widespread coverage

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May 03, 2019

The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Bloomberg feature UC Berkeley macroeconomist.

Prosperity in Mexico, the gun debate, and pricing morality

[News]

April 24, 2019

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

Good cop, bad cop

[Research Highlight]

April 25, 2019

Can civilian allegations of officer misconduct be used to prevent future incidents?

AEA Code of Professional Conduct

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The AEA strives to promote these principles.

Equal pay for equal work (or I quit!)

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What impact do unequal wage raises have on employee retention?

2019 AEA Poster Videos

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Watch videos from the 2019 AEA Annual Meeting Poster Session

Splitting repayments between credit cards

[Research Highlight]

May 08, 2019

How do borrowers pay their debts? And why are they so bad at it?