Hassle costs and take-up

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April 01, 2025

Is paperwork an effective way to limit public program enrollment?

Attitudes towards Success and Failure

By Larbi Alaoui and Antonio Penta

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Individuals often attach a special meaning to attaining a certain goal, and getting past a threshold marks the difference between success and failure. In this paper we take a standard EU setting with an exogenous reference point that separates success fro...

ASSA 2022 Webcasts of Select AEA Sessions

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Call for Papers: Institutions, Trade and Economic Development (InsTED) Workshop

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April 07, 2025

The submission deadline is May 1, 2025.

About the AEA

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Learn more about the America Economic Association (AEA)

Still too big to fail?

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How bank bailout expectations changed after the global financial crisis

Call for Proposals: 2025 PCAOB/Management Science Registered Reports Conference

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January 23, 2025

The deadline for proposal submissions is May 15, 2025.

Universities Classified as R1 in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education®

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AEA Membership

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Join more than 17,000 of your colleagues who are committed to the advancement of economics and its enduring contributions to society.

Direct and Indirect Effects of Vaccines: Evidence from COVID-19

By Seth Freedman, Daniel W. Sacks, Kosali Simon, and Coady Wing

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We estimate direct and indirect vaccine effectiveness and assess how far the infection-reducing externality extends from the vaccinated, a key input to policy decisions. Our empirical strategy uses nearly-universal microdata from a single state and reli...

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.

Submissions for the AEA Annual Meeting

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Highway to Hitler

By Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We show that the building of the Autobahn network in Nazi Germany boosted popular support for Adolf Hitler, helping to entrench the Nazi dictatorship. Support for the Nazis increased particularly strongly where highway construction coincided with greater ...

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.

Breaking Bad: How Health Shocks Prompt Crime

By Steffen Andersen, Elin Colmsjö, Gianpaolo Parise, and Kim Peijnenburg

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Exploiting plausibly exogenous variations in the timing of cancer diagnoses, we establish that health shocks elicit a large and persistent increase in the probability of committing a crime. This effect materializes in a substantial rise in both first c...

From Immediate Acceptance to Deferred Acceptance: Effects on School Admissions and Achievement in England

By Camille Terrier, Parag A. Pathak, and Kevin Ren

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Countries and cities around the world increasingly rely on centralized systems for student placement. Two algorithms, deferred acceptance (DA) and immediate acceptance (IA), are widespread. We investigate the effects of the national ban of IA in England. ...

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. ...