List of Online Reports

By Peter L. Rousseau

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2021

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the American Economic Review

By Lawrence Katz

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor for the Journal of Economic Literature

By Valerie Ramey

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2022

AEA Guidance on Timeline for 2022-23 Economics Job Cycle

[News]

June 30, 2022

View AEA Guidance on Timeline for 2022-23 Economics Job Cycle

Exporting US gangs

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Do deportation policies spread criminal networks?

AEA Director of Government Relations

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Policy on Revisions of Data and Code Deposits in the AEA Data and Code Repository (September 2020)

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eLearn Classrooms

[Research Highlight]

July 12, 2022

An experiment in Pakistan shows the power of giving teachers expert-led videos to use as aids in the classroom.

Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not

By Sabrin Beg, Waqas Halim, Adrienne M. Lucas, and Umar Saif

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2022

Using two RCTs in middle schools in Pakistan, we show that brief, expert-led, curriculum-based videos integrated into the classroom experience improved teaching effectiveness: student test scores in math and science increased by 0.3 standard deviations, 6...

CSMGEP: Ebonya Washington, co-chair

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Monopsony trends

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How much employer market power does the US manufacturing sector have?

AEA Announcements: Plans for 2023 ASSA Meeting in New Orleans

[News]

July 20, 2022

View announcement from July 21, 2022.

Committee Spotlight: Q&A with Sam Allgood, Chair of the Task Force on Outreach to High School and Undergraduate Students in Economics

[News]

July 05, 2022

The Chair of the Task Force on Outreach, Sam Allgood, answers some questions about the task force's mission and activities.

Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?

By Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric R. Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, Richard W. Patterson, and Merrill Warnick

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2022

We document that college completion rates have increased since the 1990s, after declining in the 1970s and 1980s. We find that most of the increase in graduation rates can be explained by grade inflation and that other factors, such as changing student ch...

Grade inflation and graduation

[Research Highlight]

July 21, 2022

Jeffrey Denning discusses how lower grading standards have led to higher college completion rates.

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2022

Strategic Teaching and Learning in Games

By Burkhard C. Schipper

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2022

We show there is no uncoupled learning heuristic leading to Nash equilibrium in all finite games that a player has an incentive to adopt, that would be evolutionary stable, or that could "learn itself." Rather, a player has an incentive to strategically t...

Term Limits and Bargaining Power in Electoral Competition

By Germán Gieczewski

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2022

I study a dynamic model of electoral competition between candidates with heterogeneous valence. When the candidates' and voters' policy preferences differ, the winner extracts rents, limited only by the voters' threat of electing the weaker candidate. Thi...

Waiting to Choose: The Role of Deliberation in Intertemporal Choice

By Alex Imas, Michael A. Kuhn, and Vera Mironova

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2022

We study the impact of deliberation on intertemporal choices. Using multiple experiments, including a field study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we show that the introduction of waiting periods—a policy that temporally separates information ab...

Acquisition, Aggregation, and Sharing of Information in Sequential-Move Aggregative Games

By Eray Cumbul

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2022

We study quadratic payoff common-value sequential-move aggregative games with signaling. Applications include Stackelberg quantity-setting, public good contribution, common resource, gas emission, and manufacturer-retailer games. Whereas efficient aggrega...