Prosperity in Mexico, the gun debate, and pricing morality

[News]

April 24, 2019

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

Good cop, bad cop

[Research Highlight]

April 25, 2019

Can civilian allegations of officer misconduct be used to prevent future incidents?

AEA Code of Professional Conduct

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The AEA strives to promote these principles.

Equal pay for equal work (or I quit!)

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What impact do unequal wage raises have on employee retention?

2019 AEA Poster Videos

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Watch videos from the 2019 AEA Annual Meeting Poster Session

Splitting repayments between credit cards

[Research Highlight]

May 08, 2019

How do borrowers pay their debts? And why are they so bad at it?

Lessons from the UK’s industrial policy

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How much does government support for manufacturers help workers?

A Well-Being Snapshot in a Changing World

By Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, and Miles Kimball

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019

Although technology-driven economic growth generates gains in consumption and employment opportunities, it may also negatively impact other dimensions of well-being, such as emotional well-being or sense of stability. We study 204 aspects of self-reported...

Why the Economics Profession Must Actively Participate in the Privacy Protection Debate

By John M. Abowd, Ian M. Schmutte, William N. Sexton, and Lars Vilhuber

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019

When Google or the US Census Bureau publishes detailed statistics on browsing habits or neighborhood characteristics, some privacy is lost for everybody while supplying public information. To date, economists have not focused on the privacy loss inherent ...

Policy Options at the Zero Lower Bound When Foresight is Limited

By Michael Woodford and Yinxi Xie

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2019

We reconsider several monetary and fiscal policies that have been proposed as tools of stabilization policy when conventional interest-rate policy is constrained by the zero lower bound on interest rates, assuming that households and firms are capable of ...

The economics of anti-Semitism

[Research Highlight]

May 03, 2019

The AEA interviews Sascha Becker about how the Protestant Reformation created competition and conflict between Christians and Jews.

Alice M. Rivlin (1931-2019)

[News]

May 14, 2019

Founding Director of the Congressional Budget office was AEA president in 1986.

The sources of switching costs

[Research Highlight]

May 15, 2019

How does complexity and bureaucracy affect pension fund choices?

Different management styles

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What drives the variety of approaches to running an organization within the same company?

Inst. Autocomplete

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Submissions open for the 2019 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award

[News]

May 23, 2019

The TIAA Institute invites you to submit an entry for the 2019 TIAA PAUL A. SAMUELSON AWARD

A token of trust

[Research Highlight]

May 10, 2019

How important are monetary systems in getting people to cooperate in large-scale interactions?

Front Matter

American Economic Review: Insights, June 2019

Robot Arithmetic: New Technology and Wages

By Francesco Caselli and Alan Manning

American Economic Review: Insights, June 2019

Existing economic models show how new technology can cause large changes in relative wages and inequality. But there are also claims, based largely on verbal expositions, that new technology can harm workers on average or even all workers. This paper show...

Introducing AER: Insights

[Research Highlight]

May 21, 2019

The AEA interviews editor Amy Finkelstein about the launch of the organization's newest journal.