The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department

By David Chan and Yiqun Chen

American Economic Review

This paper studies the productivity of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians, two professions performing overlapping tasks but with starkly different backgrounds, training, and pay. Using quasi-experimental variation in patient assignment to NPs versus...

Contextually Private Mechanisms

By Andreas Haupt and Zoë Hitzig

American Economic Review

A designer employs a dynamic protocol to elicit private information. Protocols produce a set of contextual privacy violations— information learned that may be superfluous given the context. A protocol is maximally contextually private if there is no ...

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

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JOE Interview Scheduling

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Learn about the module for scheduling interviews through the JOE Network

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

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Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions

By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, and Christoph T. Weiss

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Using a new survey, we document high dispersion of marginal revenue products across firms in the European Union (EU). To interpret this dispersion, we develop a highly portable framework to quantify gains from better allocation of resources. We demonstrat...

What Is Economics?

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Understanding the discipline.

Mergers, Foreign Competition, and Jobs: Evidence from the U.S. Appliance Industry

By Felix Montag

American Economic Review

Policy choices often create trade-offs between workers and consumers. I examine how foreign competition alters the consumer welfare and domestic employment effects of mergers. I construct a model incorporating consumer demand, endogenous product portfo...

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...

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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...

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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.

Monetary Policy without Commitment

By Hassan Afrouzi, Marina Halac, Kenneth Rogoff, and Pierre Yared

American Economic Review

This paper studies the implications of central bank credibility for long-run inflation and inflation dynamics. We introduce central bank lack of commitment into a standard non-linear New Keynesian economy with sticky-price monopolistically competitive ...

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.