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American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
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A “dark side” to the commodity boom in Africa
June 28, 2017
New evidence on the resource curse
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An empirical turn in economics research
June 26, 2017
Economics journals are publishing more empirical research and less theory
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What's in a name?
June 19, 2017
Companies named for their founders do better. This video explains why more firms don't bear their owners’ names
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The resource curse in action
June 12, 2017
Violence in mineral-rich regions of Africa rose along with commodity prices
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How the Great Fire of 1872 helped Boston grow
June 9, 2017
The upside of an urban disaster
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Does an older population crimp economic growth?
June 7, 2017
An aging workforce doesn't necessarily mean that a country's economic growth will slow
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Separate and more equal?
May 24, 2017
Certain tax systems can discourage married women from working more.
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Whose jobs are the most recession-proof?
May 15, 2017
Where you want to be if the economy takes a dive
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