ASSA 2022: Behavioral Economics and Pension Design (1254)

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ASSA 2016 Webcast: AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon. January, 4, 2016

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ASSA 2016: AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon. January, 4, 2016

ASSA 2016 Webcast: AEA Presidential Address: Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future, January 4, 2016

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ASSA 2016: AEA Presidential Address: Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future, January 4, 2016

Implications of work experience for economic development

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How important are skills picked up on the job for long-run economic growth?

The Rise of Niche Consumption

By Brent Neiman and Joseph Vavra

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2023

Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by "superstar" products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products fr...

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Conferences Organized by Academic Associations

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Several academic associations organize conferences that support the dissemination of economic education scholarship.

Conferences Organized by Other Organizations

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A number of organizations (e.g., publishers, universities, or academic journals) promote economic education via economic education-focused conferences.

Economic Education Conferences

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Information about past Conferences on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) as well as links to other conferences organized by academic associations or other organizations.

Economic Education Academic Journals

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The field of economic education is supported by a rich academic literature. This link is offered to those wishing to explore the breadth of this literature and to those who are seeking a publishing outlet for their own economic education research.

Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

By Suanna Oh

American Economic Review, August 2023

How does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up various job off...

Front Matter

American Economic Review, September 2023

Imperfect Financial Markets and Investment Inefficiencies

By Elias Albagli, Christian Hellwig, and Aleh Tsyvinski

American Economic Review, September 2023

We analyze the consequences of noisy information aggregation for investment. Market imperfections create endogenous rents that cause overinvestment in upside risks and underinvestment in downside risks. In partial equilibrium, these inefficiencies are par...

A Road to Efficiency through Communication and Commitment

By Ala Avoyan and João Ramos

American Economic Review, September 2023

We experimentally examine the efficacy of a novel pre-play institution in a well-known coordination game—the minimum-effort game—in which coordination failures are robust and persistent phenomena. This new institution allows agents to communicate whil...

Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity

By Michael Rubens

American Economic Review, September 2023

I examine the effects of oligopsony power on allocative efficiency and income redistribution by studying a size regulation in the Chinese tobacco industry that led to ownership consolidation. I show that separate identification of input price markdowns, g...

The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression

By Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Loukas Karabarbounis, and Rohan Kekre

American Economic Review, September 2023

Greece experienced a boom until 2007, followed by a collapse of unprecedented magnitude and persistence. We assess the sources of the boom and the bust, using a rich estimated dynamic general equilibrium model. External demand and government consumption f...

Second-Best Fairness: The Trade-off between False Positives and False Negatives

By Alexander W. Cappelen, Cornelius Cappelen, and Bertil Tungodden

American Economic Review, September 2023

A main focus in economics is how to design optimal policies in second-best situations, which often requires a trade-off between giving some individuals more than they deserve, false positives, and others less than they deserve, false negatives. This paper...

Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries

By Elisa Macchi

American Economic Review, September 2023

I study the economic value of obesity—a status symbol in poor countries associated with raised health risks. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I find that obesity is perceived as a reliable signal of we...