Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

[Symposium: Expanding the Appeal of Economics]

By Sergio Barrera, Susan Sajadi, Marionette Holmes, and Sarah Jacobson

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Economics faces stubborn underrepresentation of minoritized identity groups. Economics instructors also largely use antiquated instructional methods. We leverage the literature from the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educati...

Lessons for Expanding the Share of Disadvantaged Students in Economics from the AEA Summer Program at Michigan State University

[Symposium: Expanding the Appeal of Economics]

By Lisa D. Cook and Christine Moser

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Since 1974, the American Economic Association Summer Training Program has provided training and mentoring to students from disadvantaged backgrounds in economics. The aim of the program is to encourage and prepare these students to apply to PhD programs...

What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?

By Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

At a time when the returns to college and graduate school are at historic highs, why do so many students struggle with their student loans? The increase in aggregate student debt and the struggles of today's student loan borrowers can be traced to chang...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Sweeping Changes and an Uncertain Legacy: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

[Symposium: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]

By William G. Gale, Jeffrey L. Hoopes, and Kyle Pomerleau

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 introduced sweeping changes to individual and corporate taxation. We summarize the major provisions, trace the origins of the Act, and compare it to previous tax changes. We also examine the effects on the govern...

The US Individual Income Tax: Recent Evolution and Evidence

[Symposium: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]

By Jon Bakija

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

This paper assesses the current state of the US federal individual taxation, and considers its recent evolution, with an emphasis on the changes to the individual income tax enacted in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), and evidence on their impacts...

Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History

[Symposium: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]

By Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

We assess the business provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the biggest corporate tax cut in US history. We draw five lessons. First, corporate tax revenue fell by 40 percent due to the lower rate and more generous expensing. Second, firms with...

US International Corporate Taxation after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

[Symposium: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]

By Kimberly A. Clausing

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

The root dilemma that informs the past, present, and future of US international taxation is the tension between two desiderata: protecting the corporate tax base from erosion and ensuring the competitiveness of US multinational firms in the world econom...

On the Economics of Extinction and Possible Mass Extinctions

By M. Scott Taylor and Rolf Weder

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2024

Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent concerns over t...

License to die

[Research Highlight]

December 01, 2021

What impact does driving have on teenage mortality and risky behavior?

AEA Member Announcements: Annual Elections and Other Announcements

[News]

April 12, 2024

View member announcements from April 22, 2024.

Slate of Candidates for the 2024 AEA Election

[News]

April 16, 2024

Balloting opens on August 1, 2024.

ASSA 2025 Job Market Information

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AEA Guidance on the 2024-25 Economics Job Market Cycle

[News]

August 05, 2024

View the AEA Member Announcement from August 5th, 2024.

The Evolution of Local Labor Markets after Recessions

By Brad Hershbein and Bryan A. Stuart

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2024

This paper studies how US local labor markets respond to employment losses that occur during recessions. Following recessions from 1973 through 2009, we find areas that lose more jobs during the recession experience persistent relative declines in employm...

Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

By Matthias Doepke and Ruben Gaetani

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2024

Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in which firms and wo...

2024 ASSA Annual Meeting

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AEA Election – Check Your Inbox for Your Ballot

[News]

August 19, 2024

View the AEA Member Announcement from August 19th, 2024.

Explaining differences in the college wage premium across countries

[Research Highlight]

August 14, 2024

Do employment protection policies help buoy the wages of less educated workers relative to their more educated counterparts?

Curtailing Mafia influence

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Dismissing corrupt city councils promoted long-run economic benefits in Italian municipalities.