2024 Continuing Education Webcasts

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2024 Continuing Education Webcasts

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2023 Continuing Education Webcasts

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2022 Continuing Education Webcasts

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Photos from the 2026 ASSA Annual Meeting

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Trade, Value Added, and Productivity Linkages: A Quantitative Analysis

By François de Soyres and Alexandre Gaillard

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2026

Traditional international real business cycle (IRBC) models produce a weak relationship between trade and cross-country real GDP (RGDP) correlations (corrRGDP), contradicting empirical findings. We reassess this quantitative puzzle in a many-country model...

The Pass-Through of Retail Crime

By Carl Hase and Johannes Kasinger

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper shows that retailers increase prices in response to organized retail crime. We match store-level crime data to scanner data from the universe of transactions for cannabis retailers in Washington state. Using quasi-experimental variation from...

AEA Member Announcements and Annual Meeting Highlights

[News]

January 12, 2026

View the AEA Member Announcement from January 13, 2026.

Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation

By Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted with the goal of improving employment opportunities for ...

Past ASSA Annual Meetings

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Diversifying college applications

[Research Highlight]

January 13, 2026

Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.

Hedging When Applying: Simultaneous Search with Correlation

By S. Nageeb Ali and Ran I. Shorrer

American Economic Review, February 2025

Applicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options, including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework that rationalizes this practice. In this framework, the admissions process is cor...

Past CSWEP Chairs

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AEASTAT: 2009 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2009 ASSA meetings

AEASTAT: 2008 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for AEA Committee on Economic Statistics, 2008 ASSA meetings

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Distinguished Fellow 2025

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RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Effects of Environmental and Land Use Regulation in the Oil and Gas Industry Using the Wyoming Checkerboard as an Experimental Design

By Mitch Kunce, Shelby Gerking, and William Morgan

American Economic Review, December 2002

CSMGEP: The Minority Report

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Competitive Bottlenecks and Platform Spillovers

By Tat-How Teh and Julian Wright

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We provide a general framework to analyze competition between oligopolistic platforms in competitive bottleneck settings, allowing for pricing and non-price design choices by platforms, and postparticipation buyer-seller decisions. We show that equilib...

Technological change and the transformation of women's work in the twentieth century

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The adoption of milking machines in Norway.