Who Runs the AEA?

By Kevin D. Hoover and Andrej Svorenčík

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

The leadership structure of the American Economic Association is documented using a biographical database covering every officer and losing candidate for AEA offices from 1950 to 2019. The analysis focuses on institutional affiliations by education and em...

Perspectives on Race/Ethnicity and Economic Justice

By Gerald Jaynes

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children

By Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, Bhashkar Mazumder, and Martha Stinson

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 census to 1) the universe of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 c...

Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries

By Tomás Monarrez and David Schönholzer

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

We describe the empirical relationship between local government boundaries and residential segregation in the United States. First, we study recent changes in the distribution of segregation within and between local governments in all metropolitan areas, ...

A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research

By Evan K. Rose

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Contemporary scholars view race as a constructed social category, not a biological fact. Yet most empirical discrimination research treats race no differently than other individual characteristics typically observed in data. This article considers the imp...

Meritocracy and Representation

By Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

A standard conception of meritocracy, reflected in state referenda and the many legal filings against university admissions policies, is that selection rules should be blind to group identity and monotonic in measures of past accomplishment. We present th...

Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe

By Charlotte Cavaillé and Karine Van der Straeten

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that...

The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice

By Andria Smythe and Linchi Hsu

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Participants at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington supported minimum wage laws using arguments of economic justice. Many economists at the time argued against the minimum wage based on efficiency concerns rooted in neoclassical theory. After decade...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Adler, Matthew D. and Ole F. Norheim, eds. Prioritarianism in Practice

By Kaushik Basu

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Graeber, David and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By Samuel Bowles

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Kurz, Mordecai. The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age

By Abhinav Gupta

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Murphy, Anne L. Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England

By Matthew Jaremski

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Verhezen, Peter. Making Wise Decisions in a Smart World: Responsible Leadership in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

By Joshua Gans

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

JEL Classification System for Books

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health

By Shari J. Eli, Trevon D. Logan, and Boriana Miloucheva

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023

We investigate the effect of income on the long-standing racial mortality gap in the United States by using evidence from White and Black Civil War veterans who went on to receive postwar pensions. To circumvent endogeneity, we propose an exogenous source...

Learning the language

[Research Highlight]

September 01, 2023

Blake Heller discusses the impact of adult English language training programs on immigrant earnings and civic engagement.

Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training

By Blake H. Heller and Kirsten Slungaard Mumma

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2023

The ability to speak and understand a host country's primary language is strongly associated with measures of immigrant integration. We estimate the causal effects of English language training for adult immigrants on participants' civic and economic outco...