Refugee Return and Conflict: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By Christopher W. Blair, David Van Dijcke, and Austin L. Wright

American Economic Review

We estimate the causal effect of a large-scale cash assistance program for refugee returnees on conflict in Afghanistan. Leveraging historical returnee settlement patterns and novel combat records, we find that policy-induced return had cross-cutting effe...

Why Financial Literacy Is Essential for Fixing a Broken Personal Finance System: A Review of Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai

By Annamaria Lusardi

Journal of Economic Literature

This review assesses John Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai’s book entitled Fixed. Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone. The volume is an excellent discussion of the research on household finances around the world. Most importa...

The Dawn of Civilization Metal Trade and the Rise of Hierarchy

By Matthias Fluckiger, Mario Larch, Markus Ludwig, and Luigi Pascali

American Economic Review

In the 4th millennium BC, our ancestors witnessed a remarkable transformation, progressing from petty chiefdoms to political states and cities. The causes of this “Urban Revolution” remain unclear. We conjecture that the discovery of bronze and the en...

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The Vietnam War and Racial Integration

By Zachary Bleemer

American Economic Review: Insights

The Vietnam draft conscripted hundreds of thousands of young Americans into an integrated military. I combine near-random draft lottery variation with administrative voter data to study the long-run racial integration effects of coerced national service...

The 40-Hour Work Week

By Eunseong Ma

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This study examines the implications of the traditional 40-hour work week using an incomplete-markets model that incorporates both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply, along with a wage penalty for working fewer hours than a specified t...

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Self-Selection and the Diminishing Returns of Research

By Lorenz K.F. Ekerdt and Kai-Jie Wu

American Economic Review

We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector. Estimating a Roy-like mode...

The Laissez-Faire Experiment: Why Britain Embraced and Then Abandoned Small Government, 1800–1914 by W. Walker Hanlon

By Eric Melander

Journal of Economic Literature

Associative Networks in Decision Making

By Jiangtao Li, Rui Tang, and Mu Zhang

American Economic Review

We present a model of associative networks that captures how decision makers expand their consideration set through mental associations between alternatives. Our model provides a tractable approach to study how associations shape choice when some alter...

Seasonal Allergies and Accidents

By Mika Akesaka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Seasonal allergies affect over 400 million people globally, yet the broader economic consequences of pollen exposure remain understudied. Evidence from Japan’s ambulance records suggests that high-pollen days are associated with increases in accidents, ...

Note from the Secretary-Treasurer

By John Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2008

Note from the Secretary-Treasurer

By John Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2010

Note from the Secretary-Treasurer

By John Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009

Note from the Secretary-Treasurer

By John Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2011

Note from the Secretary-Treasurer

By John Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2012