Well-being and poverty

[Research Highlight]

May 11, 2021

There are important considerations beyond incentives to work more.

Making economic tools more reliable

[Research Highlight]

June 08, 2021

An interview with Isaiah Andrews, the 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist

"Drowning in products"

[Research Highlight]

June 02, 2021

Are consumers helped more by professional critics’ reviews or crowd-based ratings?

Digitization and Pre-purchase Information: The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings

By Imke Reimers and Joel Waldfogel

American Economic Review, June 2021

Digitization has led to many new creative products, straining the capacity of professional critics and consumers. Yet, the digitization of retailing has also delivered new crowd-based sources of pre-purchase information. We compare the relative impacts of...

Variation in punishment

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How much does racial heterogeneity affect the severity of criminal sentencing?

2017 ASSA Annual Meeting

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Collaborative versus adversarial contact

[Research Highlight]

June 17, 2021

How do shared goals among different social groups impact prejudice?

Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

By Matt Lowe

American Economic Review, June 2021

I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, thr...

How COVID-19 exacerbated the gender gap in academia

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Time spent on research fell dramatically, especially for women, as parents adjusted to life with kids in quarantine.

Universities Classified as R1 in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education®

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LGBTQ economics

[Research Highlight]

June 17, 2021

Lee Badgett discusses her research on the effects of sexual orientation-based discrimination and how economists can engage in the fight for equality.

2021 NBER NSF Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics (SBIES)

[News]

June 23, 2021

The seminar will be held online August 6-7, 2021.

Call for Papers: 2021 PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets

[News]

June 23, 2021

The deadline for submissions is August 6, 2021.

Organizations that Support Economic Education

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Professional Organizations

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Professional economic associations that provide economic education materials, events, and other materials.

Resources for K-12 Economic Education

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Organizations with a primary focus on K-12 are described and include materials, conferences, and student-oriented events.

Federal Reserve Banks

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Each Federal Research bank has a mission to support economic education, although the approaches they take vary and include community outreach and student and/or faculty-oriented programs/event/materials at the K-12 education and higher education levels.

Other Organizations

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A wide range of other organizations that are not as uniquely classified provide support to economic education.

CTREE Conference 2017

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May 31 – June 2, 2017, Denver, CO

CTREE Conference 2016

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June 1-3, 2016, Atlanta, GA