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Call for Applications: Financial Literacy Research Boot Camp 2025

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March 12, 2025

April 30, 2025 is the application deadline.

Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities, and House Prices

By Lutz Sager and Gregor Singer

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2025

We assess the US Clean Air Act standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Using high-resolution data, we find that the 2005 regulation reduced PM2.5 levels by 0.4 μg/ m3 over five years, with larger effects in more po...

Reexamining air quality regulations

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April 15, 2025

Lutz Sager and Gregor Singer discuss the Clean Air Act and how to estimate its impact on air quality.

AEA Submission Portal Still Open for Sessions – Deadline Extended to April 20

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April 16, 2025

View the AEA Member Announcement from April 16, 2025.

The Long-Term Impacts of Mixing the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Conscript Dorms

By Elias Einiö

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

To what extent is economic success determined by with whom individuals interact socially? We tackle this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment in the Finnish conscription. Our research design is based on the alphabetization of dorms, whi...

Release, Detain, or Surveil? The Effect of Electronic Monitoring on Defendant Outcomes

By Roman Rivera

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper studies the effect of pretrial electronic monitoring (EM) relative to both pretrial release and pretrial detention (jail). EM often involves a defendant wearing an electronic bracelet, which aims to reduce pretrial misconduct at a low cost. ...

What Is a Barrier to Entry?

By R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon, and Michael A. Williams

American Economic Review, May 2004

Susan M. Collins, Distinguished Fellow 2025

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Stefanie Stantcheva, Clark Medalist 2025

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American Economic Association Announces Award Recipients for 2025

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April 02, 2025

View recipients of the 2025 awards, including the Clark Medalist, Distinguished Fellows, and AEJ Best Paper Awards.

The 2025 AEJ Best Paper Awards Have Been Announced

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April 02, 2025

Learn more about the papers chosen as the 2025 AEJ Best Papers.

American Economic Association Announces Award Recipients for 2025

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April 21, 2025

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Working Remotely? Selection, Treatment, and the Market for Remote Work

By Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2024

How does remote work affect productivity and how productive are workers who choose remote jobs? We decompose these effects in a Fortune 500 firm. Before COVID-19, remote workers answered 12 percent fewer calls per hour than on-site workers. After offices ...

Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraints and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

By Thomas Drechsel

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2023

Microeconomic evidence reveals a direct link between firms' current earnings and their access to debt. This paper studies macroeconomic implications of earnings-based borrowing constraints. In a macro model, firms with earnings-based constraints borrow mo...

Competition in Pricing Algorithms

By Zach Y. Brown and Alexander MacKay

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2023

We document new facts about pricing technology using high-frequency data, and we examine the implications for competition. Some online retailers employ technology that allows for more frequent price changes and automated responses to price changes by riva...

The effect of informational and financial interventions on student outcomes

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How does career guidance stack up against financial aid when it comes to college enrollment, graduation, and income?

Call for Papers: 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference

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April 22, 2025

The submissions deadline is November 1, 2025.

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