The long view on fighting climate change

[Research Highlight]

January 07, 2019

How much does it cost to reduce one ton of carbon dioxide?

Learning from Sesame Street

[Research Highlight]

January 28, 2019

An interview with Melissa Kearney about the impact of educational television on young children.

Partners in Crime

[Research Highlight]

January 30, 2019

How do schools become breeding grounds for criminal relationships?

Educational returns

[Research Highlight]

February 12, 2019

Are financial aid programs getting their money's worth?

Does trade policy really matter?

[Research Highlight]

February 19, 2019

Britain’s protectionism in the 1930s may offer insights for policymakers today.

More competing. More saving.

[Research Highlight]

February 21, 2019

How do national retailers set prices? And who does it help?

The elephant curve

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How much has inequality grown around the world over the last forty years?

Starting early

[Research Highlight]

May 28, 2019

What are the effects of enrolling younger children in a pre-K program?

Turning to cartels

[Research Highlight]

June 03, 2019

When factories leave town, does violence get worse?

Entertainment and the rise of populism

[Research Highlight]

July 02, 2019

How can watching apolitical television programs drive voter behavior?

Passing the buck

[Research Highlight]

July 25, 2019

Who pays for a raise in the minimum wage and how does it affect job growth?

Casting a wider tax net

[Research Highlight]

August 01, 2019

A threat paired with insights from behavioral economics can help ensure companies pay their taxes.

Tax evasion and the 1 percent

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What can the Panama Papers tell us about inequality?

Newspapers and doing more with less

[Research Highlight]

September 04, 2019

This video looks at how French dailies responded when commercial TV posed competition for ad revenue.

Screened out

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How do increased "application costs" for disability benefits affect who gets assistance?

The persistence of poverty and insecurity

[Research Highlight]

June 08, 2020

An AEA interview with 2020 John Bates Clark Medalist Melissa Dell.

The price is not always right

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How do consumers estimate inflation?

The Return of the Nirvana Fallacy: A Review of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and Its Critics

By Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn

Journal of Economic Literature

John Cassidy's Capitalism and Its Critics surveys 250 years of capitalism's history through the eyes of roughly thirty critics, from the Luddites, early utopians and Marx to modern communitarians, antigrowth proponents, free trade opponents, and sc...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2026

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, May 2026

This paper studies the pricing implications of wholesale and agency contracts when input terms are determined through bargaining. We develop a structural Nash-in-Nash bargaining model and show that the distribution of bargaining power determines whether a...