Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income

By Evelyn L. Forget

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Margaret Gilpin Reid (1896–1990) began her career as a home economist and, with Dorothy Brady, Milton and Rose Friedman, played a central role in the development of the permanent income hypothesis at Chicago. Reid was the first woman to be elected Fello...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?

[Symposium: After the Pandemic]

By Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Jorge R. Ledesma

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Though all countries struggled to respond to COVID-19, the United States' poor performance during the pandemic was unexpected. Despite having more pandemic preparedness capacities than other countries, the United States experienced more than one million...

COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes

[Symposium: After the Pandemic]

By Rebecca Jack and Emily Oster

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

This article discusses the question of data and our perspective on the importance of public, accessible, and contemporaneous data in the face of public crisis. Then, we present data on the extent of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, both globa...

Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War

[Symposium: Wealth]

By Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

The difference in the average wealth of Black and white Americans narrowed in the first century after the Civil War, but remained large and even widened again after 1980. Given high levels of wealth concentration both historically and today, dynamics at t...

Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?

[Symposium: Wealth]

By Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Rory McGee

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Retired households, especially those with high lifetime income, decumulate their wealth very slowly, and many die leaving large estates. The three leading explanations for the "retirement savings puzzle" are the desire to insure against uncertain lifespan...

Refugees, policymaking, and decarceration

[News]

October 13, 2023

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives"

Trading rights for health security during the pandemic

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Did the willingness to sacrifice civil liberties vary according to income?

Call for Papers: Orlando Annual Business Research Conference (OABRC) 2024

[News]

November 13, 2023

The submission deadline is April 8, 2024.

AEA Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation

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Message from the President: New Resources for AEA Members

[News]

November 09, 2023

View the AEA Member Announcement from November 16, 2023.

Work from Home before and after the COVID-19 Outbreak

By Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, and Karel Mertens

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2023

Based on novel survey data, we document a persistent rise in work from home (WFH) over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using theory and direct survey evidence, we argue that three-quarters of this increase reflects the adoption of new work arrangemen...

Shifting to work from home

[Research Highlight]

November 14, 2023

How did work-from-home arrangements in the United States evolve during and after the pandemic?

Future of Family and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) Summer Data Workshop

[News]

November 20, 2023

The workshop will be held on June 14, 2024.