Escaping to opportunity

[Research Highlight]

September 18, 2018

Leaving impoverished public housing projects has profound long-term consequences for children.

2019 Annual Meeting: General Information

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View general meeting information for the ASSA 2019

Assistant Professor

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Take it to the bank

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How payment methods determine the amount you save

Ad hoc Committee to Consider Certified Random Ordering of Authors at AEA Journals

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Visible women

[Research Highlight]

August 06, 2018

How much does having a female leader help shrink the gender gap for rank-and-file positions?

Call for Papers: Federal Reserve Board Conference on the Interconnectedness of Financial Systems

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May 22, 2018

The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2018.

Helping small business earn bigger profits

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What types of training are most effective at helping microenterprises grow?

Congratulations to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer on Being Awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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October 08, 2018

American economists lauded for having “designed methods for addressing some of our time’s most basic and pressing questions."

Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth

By Paul M. Romer

American Economic Review, May 2015

Mathiness lets academic politics masquerade as science. Like mathematical theory, mathiness uses a mixture of words and symbols, but instead of making tight links, it leaves ample room for slippage between statements in the languages of words as opposed t...

Instructions for Posting on the EconTrack Job Market Information Board

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Assistant professor

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All quiet on the job front

[Research Highlight]

October 01, 2018

How costly are recessions for veterans?

Cutting taxes, creating jobs

[Research Highlight]

September 26, 2018

How would lowering the corporate tax rate affect entrepreneurial decisions and employment?

On the wrong track

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An education reform at the University of Cape Town offers lessons on grouping students by academic achievement.

Boosting mobile savings

[Research Highlight]

October 08, 2018

Can automatic enrollments encourage saving in developing countries?

Bloomberg features EconSpark discussion

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October 19, 2018

Columnist Noah Smith highlights newly launched forum in an article about whether low interest rates encourage risk taking.

Hurt on the job

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States are trying to rein in workers' compensation costs. How does that affect earnings for injured employees?

Modern family

[Research Highlight]

October 10, 2018

How do parental leave policies affect relationship stability at home?

Choice, Consideration Sets, and Attribute Filters

By Mert Kimya

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2018

It is well known that decision makers do not always consider all of the available alternatives when making a choice. When the alternatives have attributes, these attributes provide a natural way to form the consideration set. I assume a procedure in which...