JEP in the classroom

[Research Highlight]

July 18, 2019

The AEA interviews managing editor Tim Taylor about helping college professors find articles for their syllabuses.

Violent protests and distant leaders

[Research Highlight]

July 24, 2019

Remote capitals may bring stability, but their governments can lose touch with the people.

Door-to-door health care

[Research Highlight]

July 08, 2019

Could an "Avon-like" entrepreneurial program reduce child mortality in developing countries?

Stepping back from the cash cliff

[Research Highlight]

July 17, 2019

How much does disability insurance discourage work?

A shift in the gig economy

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People who earn money from online platforms are turning increasingly to leasing services.

Pay the women

[Research Highlight]

August 28, 2019

Why do many female entrepreneurs in developing countries have lower returns on capital than men?

2020 John Bates Clark Medal Nominations

[News]

September 23, 2019

Economics Departments invited to submit nominations for the 2020 John Bates Clark Medal.

Casting a wider tax net

[Research Highlight]

August 01, 2019

A threat paired with insights from behavioral economics can help ensure companies pay their taxes.

Why did productivity drop after the Great Recession?

[Research Highlight]

July 12, 2019

Was it just bad luck, or was there something about how businesses responded that drove the slowdown?

Coping without benefits

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What happens to household spending when unemployment insurance dries up?

Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty

By Alejandro Martínez-Marquina, Muriel Niederle, and Emanuel Vespa

American Economic Review, October 2019

We propose a new channel to account for the difficulties of individuals with contingent reasoning: the presence of uncertainty. When moving from an environment with one state of known value to one with multiple possible values, two changes occur. First, t...

Equilibrium Effects of Firm Subsidies

By Martin Rotemberg

American Economic Review, October 2019

Subsidy programs have two countervailing effects on firms: direct gains for eligible firms and indirect losses for those whose competitors are eligible. In 2006, India changed the eligibility criteria for small-firm subsidies, and the sales of newly eligi...

Meeting the needs of the elderly

[Research Highlight]

June 26, 2019

What should state governments do to improve the quality of nursing homes? Pennsylvania may offer some lessons.

Leave no neighborhood behind

[Research Highlight]

October 01, 2019

Funding formulas for charter schools should be tied to the cost of educating students.

Call for Chapters - Redefining the Theory of the Firm

[News]

September 05, 2019

Proposals are due October 31, 2019 and full chapters are due January 9, 2020.

Bargaining the future

[Research Highlight]

September 17, 2019

Unions provide protections for teachers, but how do they affect students over the long run?

The downside of universal child care

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Plenty of research finds positive effects of early childhood education. But can it ever have negative consequences?

2020 Rand Summer Institute

[News]

October 11, 2019

The Summer Institute will be held on July 6-9, 2020 in Santa Monica, CA.

Tariffs and tearing up trade agreements

[Research Highlight]

October 10, 2019

What would ending NAFTA and Brexit do to car industries around the world?

Videos

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