Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)

American Economic Review, May 2014

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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2014

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2006

Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab

By Tania Barham

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2012

It is believed that early life circumstances are crucial to success later in life. Yet causal evidence that the impacts of early childhood health interventions continue into late childhood and adolescence is sparse. This paper exploits a quasi-random pla...

Parameter Learning in General Equilibrium: The Asset Pricing Implications

By Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Michael Johannes, and Lars A. Lochstoer

American Economic Review, March 2016

Parameter learning strongly amplifies the impact of macroeconomic shocks on marginal utility when the representative agent has a preference for early resolution of uncertainty. This occurs as rational belief updating generates subjective long-run consum...

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy 102: Beyond Nudging

By Saurabh Bhargava and George Loewenstein

American Economic Review, May 2015

Policymakers have recently embraced Behavioral Economics as an alternative approach which recognizes the limits and consequences of human decision-making. Early applications of BE ("nudges") produced notable successes and helped to set the stage for more...

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Journal of Economic Literature, June 2017

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By Robert D. Laurent, J. Bradford De Long, George Bredon, Martin Shanahan, Carl S. Bonham, and Richard H. Cohen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2000

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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2009

Border Effect or Country Effect? Seattle May Not Be So Far from Vancouver After All

By Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Linda L. Tesar

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2009

This paper reexamines the evidence on the border effect. We argue that if there is cross-country heterogeneity in the distribution of within-country price differentials, there is no clear benchmark from which to gauge the effect of a border. In the abs...

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1988

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1997

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2001

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1990

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Journal of Economic Literature, June 2014

Stress for Success: A Review of Timothy Geithner's Financial Crisis Memoir

By Gary Gorton

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015

Timothy Geithner's memoir of the financial crisis of 2007-08—Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises—is an important historical document offering details of how policies were formed and implemented during the crisis, showing the ...

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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2014

What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature

By Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2014

A rapidly growing body of research applies panel methods to examine how temperature, precipitation, and windstorms influence economic outcomes. These studies focus on changes in weather realizations over time within a given spatial area and demonstrate im...

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American Economic Review, January 2016

Public Goods in Endogenous Networks

By Markus Kinateder and Luca Paolo Merlino

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2017

We study a local public good game in an endogenous network with heterogeneous players. The source of heterogeneity affects the gains from a connection and hence equilibrium networks. When players differ in the cost of producing the public good, active pla...