AEA Climate Survey

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November 13, 2018

NORC at the University of Chicago is conducting a survey on behalf of the American Economic Association (AEA) about the professional climate in economics.

AEA Member Survey on Professional Climate

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November 12, 2018

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A post from the Executive Committee

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October 12, 2018

2019 Elected AEA Officers Announced

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October 11, 2018

Congratulations to President-elect Janet Yellen and all the new AEA officers!

AEA Member Announcements: Annual Elections and Other Announcements (May 7, 2018)

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May 04, 2018

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The 2018 AEJ Best Paper Awards Have Been Announced

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April 17, 2018

Learn more about the papers chosen as the 2018 AEJ Best Papers

American Economic Association Announces Award Recipients for 2018

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April 17, 2018

View recipients of the 2018 awards, including the Clark Medalist, Distinguished Fellows, Foreign Honorary Members, and AEJ Best Paper Prizes.

AEA Member Announcements: Annual Meeting Registration and Other Announcements (November 27, 2017)

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November 21, 2017

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Statement of the AEA Executive Committee

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October 20, 2017

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Fewer but Better: Sudden Stops, Firm Entry, and Financial Selection

By Sina T. Ates and Felipe E. Saffie

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

We develop a tractable quantitative framework to study the productivity effects of financial crises. The model features endogenous productivity, heterogeneous firm dynamics, and aggregate risk. Selection of the most promising ideas gives rise to a trade-o...

Enfranchisement and education

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How did women's suffrage affect educational outcomes for children?

Weathering a sudden stop

[Research Highlight]

August 12, 2021

What are the long-term effects of short-term financial crises?

The politics of tax evasion

[Research Highlight]

August 11, 2021

Julie Berry Cullen and Ebonya Washington discuss the ways in which attitudes toward government affect how people report income.

Political Alignment, Attitudes toward Government, and Tax Evasion

By Julie Berry Cullen, Nicholas Turner, and Ebonya Washington

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2021

We ask whether attitudes toward government play a causal role in the evasion of US personal income taxes. As turnover elections move voters in partisan counties into and out of alignment with the party of the president, we find with alignment (i) taxpayer...

Uber versus Taxi: A Driver's Eye View

By Joshua D. Angrist, Sydnee Caldwell, and Jonathan V. Hall

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

Rideshare drivers pay a proportion of their fares to a ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditional taxi drivers...

What drives drivers?

[Research Highlight]

August 17, 2021

The preference for Uber's commission-based compensation over the fixed-fee arrangements of traditional taxis.

Health Inequality and COVID-19

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How have the effects of COVID-19 varied among different population groups in the United States?

The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes

By Barbara Biasi

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2021

Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies the effects of a reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. Following the reform some districts sw...

Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run

By Bryan Kelly, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, and Matt Taddy

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2021

We use textual analysis of high-dimensional data from patent documents to create new indicators of technological innovation. We identify important patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these patents are d...

A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lock-down, Testing, and Tracing

By Fernando Alvarez, David Argente, and Francesco Lippi

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2021

We study the optimal lock-down for a planner who controls the fatalities of COVID-19 while minimizing the output costs of the lock-down. The policy prescribes a severe lock-down beginning a few weeks after the outbreak, covering almost 50 percent of the p...