Pity Russia's billionaires

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May 20, 2016

The Economist highlighted a new paper about billionaires in Russia published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review

There’s a huge gender pay gap for STEM careers – just one year after graduation

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May 12, 2016

Bustle and Vox covered a study about the gender pay gap for STEM PhDs published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review

The inequality that matters most (hint: it's not income)

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May 10, 2016

Quartz covered a recent piece in the Journal of Economic Perspectives about measuring and interpreting different forms of inequality

Ideas Worth Stealing: Move Pennsylvania’s Capital out of Harrisburg and back to Philadelphia

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May 09, 2016

A column appearing in Newsworks highlights a 2014 American Economic Review article about corruption in state capitals

Does diversity hamper economic progress?

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May 02, 2016

Livemint cited a 2015 American Economic Review article in a summary of recent research about public goods

What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life?

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April 15, 2016

An article in Slate by the co-founders of Give Directly cited a study from this month’s issue of the American Economic Review

Why crude oil prices keep taking us by surprise

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April 14, 2016

Vox covered a paper on the difficulties of forecasting oil prices appearing in the Winter 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Duke University study: Fracking lowers home values by $30K

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March 05, 2016

The Charlotte Business Observer covered an AER study about the effect of shale gas wells on home prices

Political risks: Punches, eggs and assassination attempts

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March 04, 2016

BBC News covered an AEJ: Macroeconomics article about assassination attempts

The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap

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March 04, 2016

A Freakonomics podcast cited past AEA president Claudia Goldin's 2014 presidential address about the gender pay gap