Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan

By Peter Christensen, David A. Keiser, and Gabriel E. Lade

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2023

In April 2014 Flint, Michigan switched its drinking water supply from the Detroit water system to the Flint River as a temporary means to save $5 million. Over 18 months it was revealed that the switch exposed residents to dangerous levels of lead, culmin...

The economic fallout from environmental crises

[Research Highlight]

March 02, 2023

The effect of the Flint water crisis on housing prices.

Call for Papers: CSWEP at the 2023 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Meeting

[News]

March 07, 2023

The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2023.

Call for Papers: Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy

[News]

March 10, 2023

The deadline for submissions is April 24, 2023.

Latin American immigration to the United States

[Page]

What are the commonalities and differences among major immigration waves?

Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of "Bob the Broker"?

By Eric Budish and Aditya Bhave

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2023

Economists have long been puzzled by event-ticket underpricing: underpricing reduces revenue for the performer and encourages socially wasteful rent-seeking by ticket brokers. What about using an auction? This paper studies the introduction of auctions in...

Call for Papers: 2023 PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets

[News]

March 20, 2023

The deadline for submissions is June 4, 2023.

Call for Papers: 3rd Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance

[News]

March 21, 2023

The submission deadline is June 30, 2023.

List of Online Reports

By John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009

AEA Journal Article Full-Text Access

[Page]

AEA-CEE Partnerships

[Page]

Committee Spotlight: Q&A with KimMarie McGoldrick, Chair of the Committee on Economic Education

[News]

October 11, 2022

AEA-CEE Chair KimMarie McGoldrick answers some questions about the committee's mission and activities.

AEA-CEE Resources

[Page]

Follow this link to learn more about Conferences, Academic Journals, and Organizations that support economic education (research and teaching).

Early childhood education and crime reduction

[Page]

Evidence from the Head Start rollout in North Carolina.

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

DETER-ing Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement

By Juliano Assunção, Clarissa Gandour, and Romero Rocha

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We study Brazil's recent use of satellite technology to overcome law enforcement shortcomings resulting from weak institutional environments. DETER is a system that processes satellite imagery and issues near-real-time deforestation alerts to target envir...