EconLit at Conference Exhibitions

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Visit the EconLit/American Economic Association booth at upcoming conferences.

The lasting gains of universal preschool

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Evidence from Israel’s 1999 preschool law shows that disadvantaged communities can benefit from universal preschool education.

Journal of Economic Perspectives Editor Search — Request for Suggestions

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August 18, 2026

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2027 Candidates for Election

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Disentangling Exploration from Exploitation

By Alessandro Lizzeri, Eran Shmaya, and Leeat Yariv

American Economic Review

Starting from Robbins (1952), the literature on experimentation viamulti-armed bandits has wed exploration and exploitation. Nonetheless, in many applications, agents’ exploration and exploitation need not be intertwined: a policymaker may assess new ...

The Inflation Accelerator

By Andres Blanco, Corina Boar, Callum Jones, and Virgiliu Midrigan

American Economic Review

We develop a tractable sticky price model in which the fraction of price changes evolves endogenously over time and, consistent with the evidence, increases with inflation. Because we assume that firms sell multiple products and choose how many, but no...

Default and Interest Rate Shocks: Renegotiation Matters

By Juan Nicolini, Victor Almeida, Carlos Esquivel, and Timothy J. Kehoe

American Economic Review

We develop a sovereign default model with debt renegotiation in which interest-rate shocks affect default incentives through two mechanisms. Under the standard mechanism, higher interest rates tighten the government’s budget constraint. Under the ren...

Disruption in the Classroom: Experimental Evidence from Ecuador

By Pedro Carneiro, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Francesca Salvati, and Norbert Schady

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data from a unique experiment in Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to classrooms in every grade for seven consecutive grades, between k...

ASSA 2027 Participant Information

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ASSA 2027 KiddieCorp (Childcare)

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ASSA 2027 Job Market Information

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The Andrew Brimmer Undergraduate Essay Prize

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AEA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion

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Supply Chain Resilience: Evidence from Indian Firms

By Gaurav Khanna, Nicolas Morales, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

We study features that supply-chains more resilient. Using new data on firm-to-firm transactions from an Indian state, we construct a firm-specific measure of upstream exposure to Covid-19 lockdowns based on pre-period purchases from affected suppliers. A...

Disentangling Sources of Variation in C-Section Rates

By Stefanie Fischer, Shuhei Kaneko, Heather Royer, and Corey White

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Cesarean section rates vary widely across U.S. counties, but whether this variation reflects patients’ medical risk, beliefs, and preferences or obstetric care environments, including clinicians’ practice styles and delivery facilities, remains uncl...

Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey

By Michael Walker, Suleiman Asman, Sarah Baird, Lia Fernald, Joan Hamory, Alice Huang, Satoshi Koiso, Michael Kremer, Matthew N Krupoff, Michelle Layvant, Eric Ochieng, Pooja Suri, and Edward Miguel

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We assess impacts of a randomized deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients’ children using 23-year longitudinal data on over 5,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality rate fell by 23% (17 deaths per ...

Alphabetical List of US Graduate Programs in Economics

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When managers try to keep their best workers from moving into other departments

[Research Highlight]

August 25, 2026

Ingrid Haegele discusses the costs of talent hoarding.

Talent Hoarding in Organizations

By Ingrid Haegele

American Economic Review, August 2026

Most organizations rely on managers to identify talented workers. However, managers who are evaluated on team performance have an incentive to hoard workers. This study provides the first empirical evidence of talent hoarding using personnel records and s...

Luck Out or Outpay? Competing with a Public Option

By Teddy Mekonnen

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper analyzes the strategic interactions between a profit-maximizing monopolist and a free, capacity-constrained public option. By restricting its own supply, the monopolist intentionally congests the public option and induces rationing, which in...