Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care

By Edward N. Okeke

American Economic Review

Why do health facilities in developing countries do so poorly? This paper examines the role of financial constraints. I describe an experiment in which we surprised health workers in randomly selected public health clinics in Nigeria with a N600,000 gra...

From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities

By Marina Bassi, Bruno Besbas, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Saravana Ravindran, and Ana Reynoso

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We evaluate a large-scale public preschool construction program in deprived rural communities in Mozambique using a randomized control trial. The program increased preschool enrollment from 2% to 75%, improved primary school enrollment and progression, ...

Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States

By Hans A. Holter, Serhiy Stepanchuk, and Yicheng Wang

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper studies the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship, empirically and in a structural macro model with entrepreneurial choice. Combining state-level tax data with household and firm data we document that higher and more progressive ta...

Who Gets a Family? The Consequences of Family and Congregate Care Allocation for Child Outcomes

By Cameron Taylor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Hundreds of thousands of children grow up in the US foster care system every year and are at high risk of experiencing negative outcomes such as incarceration and homelessness. This paper documents how the placement of foster children into families rat...

Detection of Collusive Networks in Multistage Auctions

By Bruno Baránek, Leon Musolff, and Vítězslav Titl

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We develop a method for detecting cartels in multistage auctions. Our approach allows firms to act collusively against cartel members yet competitively otherwise. In these auctions, bidders submit initial bids and can later revise them downward. As init...

Understanding liquidity traps

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Lessons from Roosevelt's monetary policy changes and the end of the Great Depression.

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CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty

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Information on the CeMENT mentoring program

Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India

By Sarika Gupta

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Governments worldwide administer social programs for vulnerable groups, yet many eligible citizens fail to benefit. This paper studies barriers to take-up of an unconditional cash transfer program for poor women in Delhi, India, where only one-third of...

Communication with Policymakers

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AEACGR: Reports and Communications with Policymakers

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ASSA 2026 Exhibitors

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On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

By Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas, and Elan Satriawan

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Given labor informality in developing countries, addressing employment shocks is challenging. We study Indonesia’s new approach for on-demand online applications for temporary cash assistance and online job training. Through 20 lotteries over two year...

Trade Protection Along Supply Chains

By Chad P. Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We combine detailed information on US temporary trade barriers during 1989-2020 with input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply chains. We focus on measures imposed against China, which has been the main target of trade protec...

Elaine Bennett Research Prize

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Call for Papers: 2026 Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference

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December 11, 2025

The submission deadline is December 31, 2025.

Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance

By Keith M. Ericson and Justin Sydnor

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Insurance moves resources across both time and states. We study the consumptionsmoothing benefits of insurance under liquidity constraints in a model where contracts span multiple consumption periods. The normative benchmarks for insurance demand under...

Failures of Contingent Reasoning in Annuitization Decisions

By Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Priscila De Oliveira, and Dmitry Taubinsky

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper studies psychological biases in take-up of annuities, using an incentivized experiment with a probability-based sample (N = 3,038). Choosing an annuity was payoff-maximizing in the experiment at all prices, but take-up was incomplete and pri...

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