Review Essay on Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort

By Thierry Verdier

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2019

This paper reviews the book Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort (hereafter, ALV), providing an analytical perspective on the issues related to minority discrimination a...

Risky business

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How did an insurance requirement force small drillers out of Texas' oil and gas industry?

American Economic Association releases results of survey on professional climate in economics

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March 18, 2019

Leadership outlines broader effort to address harassment and discrimination within the profession.

Increasing familiarity, reducing discrimination

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Does school diversity make rich students more willing to socialize with poor students?

Alan B. Krueger (1960-2019)

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March 18, 2019

Economics profession saddened by loss of Princeton professor and former AEA vice president.

Changes in Workplace Heterogeneity and How They Widen the Gender Wage Gap

By Benjamin Bruns

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019

Using linked employer-employee data for West Germany, I investigate the role of growing wage differentials between firms in the slowdown of gender wage convergence since the 1990s. The results show that two factors are at play: first, high-wage firms expe...

Call for Papers: NTA 112th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2019

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March 26, 2019

Submissions will be accepted until June 1, 2019.

Different expectations

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How do gender stereotypes shape our beliefs of how we will perform on certain tasks?

As farmers go, so goes the nation

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March 20, 2019

How did agriculture help the US recover from the Great Depression in the spring of 1933?

A message from the AEA leadership on the professional climate in economics

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March 11, 2019

AEA Member Announcements (March 18, 2019)

The indirect effects of good teaching

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March 12, 2019

An educator's value is greater than the impact they have on their own students.

Reforming consumption taxes

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When value-added taxes are cut, who benefits?

Fixed-Wage Contracts and Monetary Non-neutrality

By Maria Björklund, Mikael Carlsson, and Oskar Nordström Skans

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

We study the importance of wage rigidities for the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Using uniquely rich micro data on Swedish wage negotiations, we isolate periods when the labor market is covered by fixed-wage contracts. Importantly, negotiations ...

Product Turnover and the Cost-of-Living Index: Quality versus Fashion Effects

By Kozo Ueda, Kota Watanabe, and Tsutomu Watanabe

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

This paper evaluates the effects of product turnover on a welfare-based cost-of-living index by incorporating the quality effect and the fashion effect. Employing scanner data for Japan for the years 1988–2013, we find that (i) the price and quantity of...

Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference

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April 02, 2019

The annual conference will take place in Singapore on December 12-14, 2019.

Reassessing public health campaigns

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March 26, 2019

Are we overstating the role that anti-TB initiatives played in driving down death rates in the 20th century?

Curbing a desire to drink

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An experiment measures how much Indian cycle-rickshaw drivers actually wanted to remain sober on the job.

Closing the tuition gap

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April 10, 2019

Should out-of-state students pay more than in-state students?

A randomized option for ordering coauthor names

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April 12, 2019

The AEA now offers an alternative option for author order.

The elephant curve

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How much has inequality grown around the world over the last forty years?