Drivers of Change: Employment Responses to the Lifting of the Saudi Female Driving Ban

By Chaza Abou Daher, Erica Field, Kendal Swanson, and Kate Vyborny

American Economic Review, September 2025

We conduct a field experiment to quantify the impact of the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training. Treated women are 41 percent more likely to be employed yet are 19 percent less...

Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort

By Henrik Kleven, Claus Kreiner, Kristian Larsen, and Jakob Søgaard

American Economic Review, September 2025

We investigate long-run earnings responses to taxes in the presence of dynamic returns to effort. First, we develop a theoretical model of earnings determination with dynamic returns to effort. In this model, earnings responses are delayed and mediated by...

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The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax

By Elisa Casi, Evelina Gavrilova, David Murphy, and Floris T. Zoutman

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We study the effect of stricter enforcement of the dividend-withholding tax (DWT). We focus on a 2016 Danish enforcement reform and compare Denmark to its Nordic neighbors. Throughout the Nordic stock markets, shares on loan spike sharply around dividen...

Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market

By Babur De los Santos, Daniel P. O’Brien, and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper examines how wholesale and agency contracts affect retail prices under bargaining. In wholesale, downstream firms set prices; in agency, upstream firms do. Depending on bargaining power, agency leads to higher or lower prices relative to wholes...

Strategic Evidence Disclosure in Networks and Equilibrium Discrimination

By Leonie Baumann and Rohan Dutta

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

A group of agents with ex-ante independent and identically uncertain quality compete for a prize, awarded by a principal. Agents may possess evidence about the quality of those they share a social connection with (neighbours), and themselves. In one eq...

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The Impact of Unions on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Higher Education

By Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, and Derek Messacar

American Economic Review: Insights

We estimate the impact of unionization on the wage distribution of Canadian university faculty using longitudinal administrative data on salaries and exploiting the staggered rollout of unionization across institutions. We find that unionization compres...

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Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists

By Anton Korinek

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize research. I analyze how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can assist economists by describing dozens of use cases in six areas: ideation and feedback, writing, backgro...

The Economics of Attention

By George Loewenstein and Zachary Wojtowicz

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Attention is an important resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics with a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain documented ...

Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil

By Sergio Firpo and Alysson Portella

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Despite rising inequality in rich countries, many developing economies have experienced a decline in inequality in recent decades. Brazil is a notable example. From 1995 to 2015, its Gini index decreased from 58 to 48 points. An extensive body of research...

A Review Essay of The Economics of Structural Racism by Patrick Mason

By Stephan Lefebvre

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

This essay provides a streamlined presentation of stratification economics (SE) in three pillars and comments on Patrick L. Mason's (2023) book The Economics of Structural Racism: Stratification Economics and US Labor Markets. SE, a field that se...

Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons

By Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Policymakers, public commentators, and researchers often cite the Nordic countries as examples of a socioeconomic model that combines low income inequality with prosperity and growth. This article critically assesses that claim by integrating theoretical ...

Housing and Inequality

By Yannis M. Ioannides and L. Rachel Ngai

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

We approach the literature on housing and inequality from two angles. One is the impact of unequal endowments on housing. The second is the "memberships" inequality associated with neighborhoods, namely, households' location in a geographic and social con...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Downey, Leah. Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters

By Sarah Bloom Raskin

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Edmans, Alex. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do about It

By Russell Golman and Silvia Saccardo

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025

Epstein, Gerald. Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

By Robert F. Bruner

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2025