Information on Co-Impact Grant Awarded to CPC and CSWEP

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Co-Impact Grant: Second Call for Proposals

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Committee on Professional Climate

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Co-Impact Grant: Second Call for Proposals

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Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets

By Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ashley Langer, and Mar Reguant

American Economic Review

Natural gas has replaced coal as the dominant fuel for U.S. electricity generation. However, utilities in regulated U.S. states have retired coal more slowly than others. We build a structural model of rate-of-return regulation during an energy transiti...

Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption

By Jorge García-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Angel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, and Antonio Roldán-Monés

American Economic Review

The implementation of evidence-based policies hinges on the dissemination of evidence to policymakers, a process influenced by the attributes of the sender. We conducted a nationwide RCT with ideologically opposite think tanks, major newspapers, and a res...

Self-Fulfilling Fluctuations in HANK Economies

By Sushant Acharya and Jess Benhabib

American Economic Review

We show that in Heterogeneous-Agent New-Keynesian (HANK) economies with countercyclical risk the natural interest rate is endogenous and co-moves with output, leaving the economy susceptible to self-fulfilling fluctuations. Unlike in Representative-Age...

Understanding High-Wage Firms: Monopoly, Monopsony, and Bargaining Power

By Horng Chern Wong

American Economic Review

I study how firm market power and worker bargaining power shape wages and welfare. Using French micro-data, I document patterns linking wages and firm market power that existing models cannot explain. A model in which firms produce vertically different...

Delivering clean water

[Research Highlight]

April 08, 2026

Fiona Burlig discusses an experiment in rural India that measured the value poor households place on potable water.

The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India

By Fiona Burlig, Amir Jina, and Anant Sudarshan

American Economic Review, March 2026

Over 2 billion people lack clean drinking water. Existing solutions face high costs (piped water) or low demand (point-of-use chlorine). Using a 60,000 household cluster-randomized experiment, we test an alternative approach: decentralized treatment and h...

Economics Job Market "Scramble" for new PhDs

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Leading Departments and Workplaces

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Editorial Policy

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