Cassatts in the Attic: Is There a Gender Gap in the Commercialization of Science?

By Marlène Koffi and Matt Marx

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We analyze nearly 70 million scientific articles to estimate the gender dynamics in the commercialization of science. We report a gender gap of 14%, which does not appear to be explained either by the quality of the science or by its commercial potential...

Long-Term Securities and Banking Crises

By Jianjun Miao, Zhouxiang Shen, and Dongling Su

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We incorporate banks into a DSGE framework to study how interest rate hikes affect the macroeconomy. The procyclical bank balance sheets and long-term bond prices amplify adverse shocks, which can trigger a bank run. We introduce a macroprudential pol...

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Polling Place Location and the Costs of Voting

By Gaurav Bagwe, Juan Margitic, and Allison Stashko

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We study how distance to one’s polling place affects the likelihood of voting using a geographic regression discontinuity design with data from Pennsylvania and Georgia. A one-mile increase in distance to polling place reduces the likelihood of voting i...

Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence

By Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

What is the effect of politicians’ wages on corruption in the presence of criminal groups, that use both bribes and violence? With a regression discontinuity design and three distinct proxies for corruption, we show that better paid Italian politician...

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Alcohol, Labor, and Agriculture

By David M. A. Murphy

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

I evaluate a randomized control trial in rural Kenya in which selected households received cognitive behavioral therapy and medication to reduce alcohol abuse. Sixteen months post-intervention, the program decreased the likelihood of positive spot brea...

Harnessing Deductions to Increase Tax Compliance and Formalization

By Albrecht Bohne and Jan Sebastian Nimczik

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We evaluate a tax reform in Ecuador that introduced generous deductions from personal income taxes (PIT), encouraging consumers to request receipts. The reform addresses tax evasion by targeting small self-employed businesses that mainly sell goods or s...

Substitution Bias and Fixed-Weight Price Indices in Time-Dependent Pricing Models

By Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Benjamin K. Johannsen

American Economic Review: Insights

This paper compares measured inflation in true and fixed-weight price indices. We construct model-based inflation measures in time-dependent pricing models that are analogous to measures of inflation in the data, e.g., the Consumer Price Index. In the st...

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Current editors and editorial staff of the AEJ: Economic Policy.

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Responses to Extreme Temperatures: Migrant Networks and International Migration from El Salvador

By Ana Maria Ibáñez, Juliana Quigua, Maria Jimena Romero, and Andrea Velásquez

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We show that exposure to extreme temperatures significantly increases international migration from El Salvador, where nearly a quarter of the population lives in the United States. Extreme temperatures reduce corn yields, leading producers to decrease th...

Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing: Who and How?

By Daniel S. Hamermesh

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2013

Presenting data on all full-length articles in the three top general economics journals for one year in each decade 1960s-2010s, I analyze changes in patterns of coauthorship, age structure and methodology, and their possible causes. The distribution of n...

Suspension vs. restoration

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Do restorative justice practices in the classroom improve student outcomes?

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Self-Enforced Job Matching

By Ce Liu, Ziwei Wang, and Hanzhe Zhang

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Complementarities and peer effects are common in matching markets, yet incorporating them often leads to the nonexistence of stable matchings. We observe that matching is often an ongoing process rather than a static allocation, where long-lived firms i...

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August 25, 2025

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Preferences for Firearms

By Sarah Moshary, Bradley T. Shapiro, and Sara Drango

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

This paper provides a critical input into crafting effective firearms policy: an understanding of consumer demand for guns. We estimate individual-level price sensitivity and substitution patterns across gun types using stated-choice experiments. We find ...

Health Effects of Cousin Marriage: Evidence from US Genealogical Records

By Sam Il Myoung Hwang, Deaglan Jakob, and Munir Squires

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2025

Cousin marriage rates are high in many countries today. While previous studies have documented increased risks of infant and child mortality, we provide the first estimate of the effect of such marriages on life expectancy throughout adulthood. By studyin...