Rachel Croson receives 2017 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

[News]

November 14, 2017

Michigan State University dean lauded for devoting "an enormous amount of energy" to mentoring women in the economics profession.

Benevolence on the Ballot

[Research Highlight]

November 13, 2017

People vote based on more than self-interest.

Bloomberg View cites AER article about real estate

[News]

November 16, 2017

Columnist Justin Fox examines how rise in real estate prices contributes to economic inequality.

The power of Papal persuasion

[Research Highlight]

November 02, 2017

How much did Pope John Paul II influence the beliefs and actions of Catholics?

Refusing the power to choose

[News]

October 31, 2017

Why are consumers slow to change energy providers even when they have a less expensive option?

From RCT to Policy

[Research Highlight]

November 03, 2017

Scaling up RCTs involves countless challenges. One NGO overcame all of them.

Macro Week in Marrakech

[News]

November 30, 2017

Conferences will take place in April 2018

Vox cites AER paper on sexual harassment

[News]

November 30, 2017

Vanderbilt professor Joni Hersch compared wages in high- and low-risk workplaces.

AER: Insights Address Change

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Let us know if your address changes

Call for Papers for American Economic Review: Insights

[News]

November 30, 2017

The newest journal of the American Economic Association, American Economic Review: Insights, invites submissions

Why do people give?

[Research Highlight]

November 21, 2017

An interview with Lise Vesterlund on how economics can help us better understand altruism.

A better way to feed the poor

[News]

November 15, 2017

A national nonprofit develops a more efficient system to allocate food donations.

Back to work

[Research Highlight]

November 27, 2017

The U.S. labor market is not as flexible as once thought.

Breaking down Brexit

[News]

December 04, 2017

Leaving the EU will cost the UK.

Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges

[Symposium: Transition Economies]

By Jan Svejnar

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2002

I present data and assess the first twelve years of the transition from plan to market. Transformations have taken place, but the income gap between the transition and advanced economies has widened. Transition countries further east have performed worse ...

Environmental Policy Since Earth Day I: What Have We Gained?

By A. Myrick Freeman III

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2002

I review the data on costs and benefits of the major environmental laws passed during the 1970s. The winners in terms of benefit-cost analysis include: getting lead out of gasoline; controlling particulate air pollution; reducing the concentration of lead...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2002

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2002

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The New Economy: Post Mortem or Second Wind?

By Martin Neil Baily

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2002

There was an acceleration of U.S. productivity after 1995. Investment in information technology hardware and software contributed importantly to this, but was not its sole cause. In part, heavy IT investment, perhaps overinvestment, was the result of the ...

Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection

[Symposium: Evolutionary Economics]

By Theodore C. Bergstrom

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2002

How selfish does our evolutionary history suggest that humans will be? We explore models in which groups are formed and dissolved and where reproduction of individuals is determined by their payoffs in a game played within groups. If groups are formed "ra...