Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program

By Maximilian Kasy and Lukas Lehner

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We evaluate a guaranteed job program in Austria in 2020–2024. Our evaluation is based on three approaches, pairwise matched randomization, a pre-registered synthetic control at the municipality level, and a comparison to individuals in control munici...

Index-Based Price Adjustment in US Strategic Petroleum Reserve Drawdowns

By Matthew O'Keefe

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Nature, Nurture, and Socioeconomic Outcomes: New Evidence from Sib Pairs and Molecular Genetic Data

By Gareth Markel, Rafael Ahlskog, Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, René Mõttus, Sven Oskarsson, Uku Vainik, Eivind Ystrom, and Jonathan Pierre Beauchamp

American Economic Review: Insights

A consequence of Mendel’s First Law is that siblings' genetic relatedness varies randomly (with a mean of 50%). We use molecular genetic data to compute the genetic relatedness of ~80,000 sib pairs. We then compare the pairs' genetic relatedness to thei...

The Impact of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century US Fertility and Mortality

By Stefan Bauernschuster, Michael Grimm, and Cathy Moran Hajo

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

In 1916, Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in US history. From the mid-1920s, “Sanger clinics” spread over the entire US These clinics advised women on contraception, mainly by fitting diaphragms and explicitly instructing ...

Congestion in Onboarding Workers and Sticky R&D

By Justin Bloesch and Jacob P. Weber

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Adjusting the rate of R&D spending is costly if the probability of converting new hires into productive R&D workers ("onboarding") is decreasing in the number of hires ("congestion"). We show that such congestion induces R&D-producing firms to hire slowly...

Conditioning Out the Poor? Consumption Inequality and the Design of Cash Transfer Programs

By Santosh Anagol, Thomas Fujiwara, and Martin Navarrete

American Economic Review: Insights

Conditionality can exclude poor households from receiving transfers. Reanalyzing five randomized evaluations of conditional cash transfers (CCTs), we find that 9–37 percent of eligible recipients fail to meet conditions, and they typically have lower ...

Unionization and wage inequality

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The impact of unionization on the salaries of faculty at Canadian universities.

Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession

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The Long-Term Earnings' Effects of a Credit Market Disruption

By Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Enrico Sette, and Eliana Viviano

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Using a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset for Italy, we construct an exogenous firm-level measure of exposure to the credit shock during the Global Financial Crisis, based on pre-crisis firm-bank relationships. We track outcom...

Climate change and migration

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July 13, 2026

Extreme temperatures in El Salvador destroy farm jobs and push workers abroad.

CSWEP Mentoring and Networks

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Successfully Navigating Your PhD:

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AEASP: FAQs for Students

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CSMGEP: Programs

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The Mentoring Program, the Summer Training Program, and the Summer Economics Fellows Program

Predictably Unpredictable Inspections

By Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, and Maggie Shi

American Economic Review

Inspections are a common tool for acquiring information and incentivizing compliance. Though typically unannounced, they often follow a predictable schedule. We study how this predictability shapes firm effort and patient outcomes in U.S. nursing homes...

EconTrack: The AEA's Job Market Information Board

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The long shadow of infant illness

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Danish data reveal how viruses brought home by older siblings influence lifetime income.

CTREE Conference 2026

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May 27–29, 2026 | Rio Hotel, Las Vegas

2026 Election Candidates

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2026 Annual Election

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July 24, 2026

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