Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

By Simon Gilchrist

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

By Johannes Hörner

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: Job Openings for Economists

By John J. Siegfried

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: Committee on Economic Education

By Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)

By Margaret Levenstein

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)

By Gary A. Hoover and Ebonya Washington

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession (CSQIEP)

By Lee Badgett and Kitt Carpenter

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)

By John Haltiwanger

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report: Committee on Government Relations (CGR)

By Kenneth Troske

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Report by the AEA Data Editor

By Lars Vilhuber, James Turrito, and Keesler Welch

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

AEA Data and Code Availability Policy

By Lars Vilhuber

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Building Nations through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football

By Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ruben Durante, and Filipe Campante

American Economic Review, May 2020

We examine whether shared collective experiences help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams' victories in sub-Saharan Africa. We find that individuals surveyed in the days after an important victory of their countr...

Nation building through sports

[Research Highlight]

April 28, 2020

Could the success of a national team be enough to unite a divided country?

Investing in themselves

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Displaced migrants often prioritize their education over physical assets when they resettle, leading to generational consequences.

The Demographic Effects of Dodging the Vietnam Draft

By Martha J. Bailey and Eric Chyn

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

This paper quantifies the impact of the Vietnam War on fertility rates in the late 1960s and early 1970s. For draft-eligible men wishing to avoid military service, the hardship deferment (III-A) for paternity created a powerful incentive to father a child...

Rethinking Detroit

By Raymond Owens III, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Pierre-Daniel Sarte

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2020

This paper studies the urban structure of Detroit—one that is clearly not optimal for its size—which features a business district immediately surrounded by largely vacant neighborhoods. A model is presented where residential externalities lead to mult...

Gender in the Twenty-First Century

By Marianne Bertrand

AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2020

Reviving neighborhoods in rust-belt cities

[Research Highlight]

May 21, 2020

Why are areas near Detroit’s thriving downtown less developed than ones further away?

Keeping up best practices

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Do management interventions last? The textile industry in India provides a clue.

Whistleblower Policy

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American Economic Association Whistleblower Policy, adopted by the Executive Committee on April 20, 2007.