Public Policy

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Political Economy

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Economics Profession

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Janet Yellen, Distinguished Fellow 2012

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Janet Yellen is a 2012 Distinguished Fellow

2019 Candidates for Office

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Learn about the candidates running for AEA office in the 2016 election

AEA Member Announcements: AEA 2019 Annual Election and Proposed Bylaw Amendments

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July 25, 2019

View the AEA Member Announcement from July 29, 2019

Dominance and Competitive Bundling

By Sjaak Hurkens, Doh-Shin Jeon, and Domenico Menicucci

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2019

We study how bundling affects competition between two asymmetric multi-product firms. One firm dominates the other in that it produces better products more efficiently. For low (high) levels of dominance, bundling intensifies (relaxes) price competition a...

Multidimensional Reasoning in Games: Framework, Equilibrium, and Applications

By Ayala Arad and Ariel Rubinstein

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2019

We develop a framework for analyzing multidimensional reasoning in strategic interactions, which is motivated by two experimental findings: (i) in games with a large and complex strategy space, players tend to think in terms of strategy characteristics ra...

Inequality in the "Middle Kingdom"

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As China's economy has expanded, how has that wealth been distributed among social classes?

Squeezed middle class, "statistically significant," and the printing press

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July 24, 2019

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

Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers

By Tom Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross, and Matthew Neidell

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2016

We study the effect of outdoor air pollution on the productivity of indoor workers at a pear-packing factory. Increases in fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a pollutant that readily penetrates indoors, leads to significant decreases in productiv...

Faculty Recommendations of Journal of Economic Perspectives Articles for Classroom Use (August 6, 2019)

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August 06, 2019

In February and June 2018, the AEA asked members to share whether and how the Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) is used in the classroom. We were delighted to receive 250 replies suggesting hundreds of JEP articles....

Paying for kidneys

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What are the moral calculations people make when it comes to compensating organ donors?

Survey Concluded

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Best Practices for Diversifying Economic Quality

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A community college booster

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A CUNY program was effective at increasing graduation rates at 2-year postsecondary institutions.

Barron's features AER paper on minimum wage

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August 28, 2019

Research from Hungary finds minimal job losses from raising the pay floor.

ASSA 2020 Housing Instructions

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