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

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The adoption of milking machines in Norway.

EDUCATE Teaching Workshop

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Expanding Diversity in Undergraduate Classes with Advancements in (the) Teaching (of) Economics (EDUCATE) Workshop

EDUCATE Teaching Workshop: Details

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Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Public Service

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Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan

By Shan Aman-Rana and Clement Minaudier

American Economic Review

Digitization reforms have been hailed as an effective way of strengthening state capacity. However, digitization can also fundamentally reshape the organization of bureaucracies. Using a unique administrative dataset on agricultural taxation and surveys o...

Games on Multiplex Networks

By Yves Zenou and Junjie Zhou

American Economic Review

We develop a simple multilayer network model in which agents allocate effort across layers with heterogeneous structures, subject to an aggregate effort constraint. Incentives are shaped by agents’ network positions within each layer, and equilibrium...

Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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Identifying Tax Compliance from Variation in Tax Policy: Theory and Empirics

By Andrew Bibler, Laura Grigolon, Keith F. Teltser, and Mark J. Tremblay

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Governments increasingly use changes in tax rules to combat evasion. We develop a general approach to point-identify tax compliance along with supply and demand elasticities. Identification requires data on prices and quantities, variation in tax polic...

The Effect of Public Insurance Design on Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from Medicare Part D

By Katja Hofmann and Zong Huang

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Public programs that provide benefits through private markets contend with strategic firm behavior. We study this dynamic in Medicare Part D. The Affordable Care Act closed a coverage gap in Part D by mandating drug manufacturers cover 50% of branded dr...

Editors

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

Prime Locations

By Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N. H. Albers, and Kristian Behrens

American Economic Review: Insights

We develop a method for delineating prime locations—ultra-dense clusters of economic activity—within cities and apply it to comprehensive establishment data covering all US metropolitan areas. We further use big data to extend the analysis to a glo...

Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series

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How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds

By Bruce Sacerdote, Douglas O. Staiger, and Michele Tine

American Economic Review: Insights

We analyze data from one elite institution and find that test score optional policies harm the likelihood of admission for high achieving applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds. Under test optional policies, these applicants submit test scores at to...

Recurring Auctions with Costly Entry: Theory and Evidence

By Shanglyu Deng and Qiyao Zhou

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Recurring auctions are ubiquitous for selling durable assets such as artwork and homes, with follow-up auctions held for unsold items. We investigate such auctions theoretically and empirically. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that recurring auctions ...

AEA Poster Session Videos

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Communication with Policymakers

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AEACGR: Reports and Communications with Policymakers

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Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2026

On Dynamic Pricing

By Ilia Krasikov and Rohit Lamba

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2026

This paper builds a theory of dynamic pricing for the sale of timed goods. The main friction is private and evolving valuation of the buyer prior to the date of consumption, which follows a Poisson process. A combination of membership fees and continuousl...