Gender Agenda

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Economists as Engineers (Panel Discussion)

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Economic Issues Facing the New President (Panel Discussion)

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AEA Nobel Laureate Luncheon Honoring Angus Deaton from Princeton University

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Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Curse of the Top Five (Panel Discussion)

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AEA Awards Ceremony

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AEA Presidential Address - Narrative Economics

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Weihua Zhao on how self-driving cars will change cities

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Could autonomous vehicles contribute to urban sprawl?

Growth at the extremes

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Polarization in the US job market may have begun decades earlier than previously believed.

Climate Policy and Innovation: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis

By Stephie Fried

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2018

A carbon tax can induce innovation in green technologies. I evaluate the quantitative impact of this channel in a dynamic, general equilibrium model with endogenous innovation in fossil, green, and nonenergy inputs. I discipline the parameters using evide...

Innovation for a greener future

[Research Highlight]

December 18, 2017

By inducing innovation, carbon taxes can achieve more at a lower cost.

CSMGEP: Renee Bowen

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Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort

By Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

American hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care to the uninsured. We use previously confidential hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. Using both panel-data meth...

CSMGEP: James Peoples Jr.

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Unemployment Insurance as a Housing Market Stabilizer

By Joanne W. Hsu, David A. Matsa, and Brian T. Melzer

American Economic Review, January 2018

This paper studies the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on the housing market. Exploiting heterogeneity in UI generosity across US states and over time, we find that UI helps the unemployed avoid mortgage default. We estimate that UI expansions durin...

How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s

By Price Fishback

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017

The New Deal during the 1930s was arguably the largest peace-time expansion in federal government activity in American history. Until recently, there had been very little quantitative testing of the microeconomic impact of the wide variety of New Deal p...

Webcasts and videos from AEA 2018 Annual Meeting

[News]

January 22, 2018

View photos, webcasts, and poster videos from Philadelphia.

The New York Times features AER article on virtual learning

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January 22, 2018

Students who take online courses learn less and are more likely to drop out.

Twitter Conversation for AEA Summer Program

[News]

January 22, 2018

This Wednesday, the program at Michigan State University will be holding a Twitter conversation for prospective students.

Holding corrupt institutions accountable

[Research Highlight]

December 22, 2017

Can social media be a check on power when mainstream news outlets cannot?