JOE Interview Scheduling

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Learn about the module for scheduling interviews through the JOE Network

Editors

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

Editors

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Current editors and editorial staff of the AEJ: Microeconomics.

Editors

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Editors, Associate Editors, and contacts at the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

What Is Economics?

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Understanding the discipline.

Bayesian Fairness: Reward Rule and Disappointment under Information Asymmetry

By Roland Pongou and Ghislain Junior Sidie

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We provide an axiomatic foundation for the classical problem of compensating workers when effort is unobserved. The employer holds Bayesian beliefs about workers’ effort, observes output precisely or imprecisely, and seeks fairness. We introduce axio...

Undergrad Research Opportunities

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Deadwood Labor? The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection for Older Workers

By Emmanuel Saez, Benjamin Schoefer, and David Seim

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We analyze mandatory retirement in Sweden which eliminates entirely employment protection at age 67. Employment falls by about 10 percent and total average earnings by about 20 percent immediately at age 67. 8 percent of jobs separate immediately due t...

Stanford Initiative for Financial Decision-Making and G53 Network : Financial Literacy Research Boot Camp

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March 26, 2026

The application deadline is April 30, 2026.

AEA Guidelines for Editorial Appointments

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The Editorial Appointments Committee documents procedures governing the appointment of coeditors, associate editors, and editorial board members of AEA journals.

How a win–lose mindset affects political and policy preferences

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March 26, 2026

The origins and consequences of zero-sum thinking in the United States.

Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Differences

By Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva

American Economic Review, March 2026

We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking: the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of 20,400 US residents, we measure zero-sum thinking, political preferences, policy ...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection

By Girija Borker, Jan Eeckhout, Nancy Luke, Shantidani Minz, Kaivan Munshi, and Soumya Swaminathan

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference, in which parents desire a male heir, and daughter aversion, in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls. Our model incorporates both mechanisms, providing m...

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, April 2026

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

Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States

By Cory Smith

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

I study the long-run economic effects of land concentration on the American frontier. Using quasi-random variation in initial land allocations from a checkerboard formula, I analyze a large database of property assessments and find that historical concent...

Age at School Entry and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Lesotho

By Jan-Walter De Neve, Ramaele Moshoeshoe, and Jacob Bor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Evidence on school-entry age impacts in lower-income countries is limited. We assess how school starting age affects human capital development in Lesotho, exploiting an enrollment age threshold. Children who start primary school at older ages overcome ini...

The Long-Term Impacts of Mixing the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Conscript Dorms

By Elias Einiö

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

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...

Ethnic Diversity, Historical Economic Exchange, and Development: Evidence from Andean Peru

By Miriam Artiles

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Is ethnic diversity good or bad for economic development? Most studies find corrosive effects. This paper shows that historical exposure to economic exchange can mitigate these effects in the long run. I collect data from a natural experiment of Peru's co...

Real-World Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine in Young Children

By Michael L. Anderson, Carlos Dobkin, Devon Gorry, and Hung-Fu Tseng

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Influenza causes substantial illness among children. RCTs demonstrate that the influenza vaccine reduces active-surveillance-detected influenza but have insufficient samples to examine outcomes such as health care provider visits. This study documents tha...