Selection, Structural Transformation, and the Cost Disease of Services

By Martin Shu

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Labor productivity growth in the service sector may be mismeasured if workers with heterogeneous skills self-select into sectors. I document with U.S. data that workers reallocated from manufacturing earn more than incumbent workers in professional ser...

ASSA 2026 Exhibitors

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AEA Continuing Education: Recent Developments Lectures

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Learn about the AEA's annual program for continuing education.

Past ASSA Annual Meetings

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Editors

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Current editors and editorial staff of the AEJ: Macroeconomics.

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

Product Liability Litigation and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices

By Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study the impact of product liability litigation on new product introductions by leading medical device firms. We find that the defendant firms, and other firms to a lesser extent, reduce their propensity to introduce new products in the litigated prod...

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Distinguished Fellow 2025

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Women's Power in the Household

By Seema Jayachandran and Alessandra Voena

Journal of Economic Literature

We examine women’s household power in low- and middle-income countries, synthesizing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence on its measurement, determinants, and consequences. We define women’s household power as their influence over household ...

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: Mentoring Program

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Demand, Competition, and Public Policy in the Automobile Industry

By Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Frank Verboven

Journal of Economic Literature

We review the flourishing literature on the automobile industry since the seminal work of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995), or briefly BLP. Their work provides a structural equilibrium framework that forms a basis for conducting policy counterfactuals i...

CSMGEP: The Minority Report

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EconEdNews

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Our newsletter provides timely information about conferences and events sponsored by the AEA-CEE, highlights resources for educators, and shares economic education activities associated with organizations around the world.

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...

CSWEP Midwest

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