Majority Choice of an Income-Targeted Educational Voucher

By Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, and Sinan Sarpça

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2018

A model of majority choice of voucher characteristics with quantitative counterpart explains observed income eligibility requirements for educational vouchers. Households differ by income and preference for religious schooling. They elect a policy maker w...

CSWEP: Haworth Committee Funding

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Information on mentoring funding related to CSWEP

Russell Sage Foundation 2019 Summer Institutes

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October 29, 2018

The application deadlines are in January and February 2019 for these summer institutes.

From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization

By Holger Breinlich, Anson Soderbery, and Greg C. Wright

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

In this paper we focus on a new channel of adaptation to trade liberalization, namely the shift toward increased provision of services in lieu of goods production. We exploit variation in European Union trade policy to show that lower manufacturing tariff...

A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply

By Alvin Murphy

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

This paper estimates a dynamic microeconometric model of housing supply. The model features forward-looking landowners who optimally choose both the timing and the nature of construction while taking into account expectations about future prices and costs...

The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

By Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2018

Using a natural experiment, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. The spatial regression discontinuity design controls for continuous local agglomeration externalities, so we attribute an important r...

E-cigarettes, socio-economics of LGBTI, and kidney donors

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July 17, 2018

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

The Halloween Indicator, "Sell in May and Go Away": Another Puzzle

By Sven Bouman and Ben Jacobsen

American Economic Review, December 2002

Paranormal stock activity

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An old stock market puzzle is still stumping economists.

CSMGEP Profiles: Susan Collins

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Fragile innovation

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November 01, 2018

This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.

Eric Byron Fix-Monda Endowed Professorship

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Shuttle Information

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View information about shuttle service at ASSA 2019

A shock to civility

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When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.

The heroin balloon

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October 30, 2018

A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.

2018 China International Conference in Economics

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November 08, 2018

The CICE will be held in Beijing from December 13 - 16, 2018.

Housing inventories, the Kerner Commission Report, and plastic waste

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October 30, 2018

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Shadow business

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October 26, 2018

How many cartels exist and how important is competition policy to reining them in?

State-unbuilding

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The Taliban recognized the importance of elections and made them a primary target.

Making economics transparent and reproducible

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November 14, 2018

The AEA interviews Ted Miguel about the credibility of economics.