CeMENT Mentoring Program Accepting Applications for Workshops

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July 28, 2021

Applications will be accepted until August 15, 2021.

AEA Member Announcements: Winners of the 2020 AEA Awards for Diversity and Inclusion

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January 19, 2021

View the Member Announcement for January 20, 2021.

Howard University to Host AEA Summer Training and Scholarship Program

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September 21, 2020

Application portal is open now until the deadline of January 31, 2021.

The long story of industrial innovation

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A new approach to identifying important patents helps shed light on technological breakthroughs since 1860.

Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin

By Tianyi Wang

American Economic Review, September 2021

I study the political impact of the first populist radio personality in American history. Father Charles Coughlin blended populist demagoguery, anti-Semitism, and fascist sympathies to create a hugely popular radio program that attracted 30 million weekly...

AEA Guidance on Timeline for 2021-22 Economics Job Cycle

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September 14, 2021

View AEA Guidance on Timeline for 2021-22 Economics Job Cycle

Consolidation and productivity

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September 16, 2021

Should the United States be worried about its growing monopolies?

Growing Oligopolies, Prices, Output, and Productivity

By Sharat Ganapati

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2021

American industries have grown more concentrated over the last 40 years. In the absence of productivity innovation, this should lead to price hikes and output reductions, decreasing consumer welfare. With US census data from 1972 to 2012, I use price data...

CSWEP Virtual Event: Thriving Amidst Uncertainty

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September 16, 2021

Join us for this interactive workshop on October 6, 2021.

Patterns of US migration

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September 16, 2021

How do social networks influence where migrants choose to settle?

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration

By Bryan A. Stuart and Evan J. Taylor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2021

This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical US migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimate...

Call for Applications: Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowships

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September 21, 2021

The deadline for applications is November 1, 2021.

Search Committee for American Economic Review Editor

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The long-run benefits of Medicaid

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Health insurance for minority children leads to better health and higher levels of employment.

AEACGR: Briefings, Presentations, and AEA Statements

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Slipping into a Kafkaesque state

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September 17, 2021

To what extent is poorly written legislation causing bureaucratic nightmares?

From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws

By Gabriele Gratton, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli

American Economic Review, September 2021

With inefficient bureaucratic institutions, the effects of laws are hard to assess and incompetent politicians may pass laws to build a reputation as skillful reformers. Since too many laws curtail bureaucratic efficiency, this mechanism can generate a st...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2021

Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households

By Natalia Zinovyeva and Maryna Tverdostup

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2021

Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) document that in the United States there is a discontinuity to the right of 0.5 in the distribution of households according to the female share of total earnings, which they attribute to the existence of a gender identit...

Using Nonlinear Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test

By Alexander M. Gelber, Damon Jones, Daniel W. Sacks, and Jae Song

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2021

We estimate the impact of the Social Security Annual Earnings Test (AET) on older workers' employment. The AET reduces social security claimants' current benefits in proportion to their earnings in excess of an exempt amount. Using a regression kink desig...