Removing lead from auto racing

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How deadly are leaded gasoline emissions?

What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues

By John V. Duca, John Muellbauer, and Anthony Murphy

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

The role of real estate during the global financial and economic crisis has prompted efforts to better incorporate housing and financial channels into macro models, improve housing models, develop macroprudential tools, and reform the financial system. ...

Review of Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences

By Gerard Roland

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

Archeologists are actively working to quantitatively measure income and wealth inequality in ancient history based on available data, some of them being quite sophisticated. Timothy A. Kohler and Michael E. Smith's Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: Th...

A Review of Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti's Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids

By Lena Edlund

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

As Generation X's (born in the 1960s and 1970s) child bearing years draw to a close, its parenting practices are due for assessment, the topic of the book under review. The book organizes its discussion around Diana Baumrind's three parenting styles: auth...

Automated Linking of Historical Data

By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson, James Feigenbaum, and Santiago Pérez

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We evaluate differen...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

Household Finance

By Francisco Gomes, Michael Haliassos, and Tarun Ramadorai

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2021

Household financial decisions are complex, interdependent, and heterogeneous, and central to the functioning of the financial system. We present an overview of the rapidly expanding literature on household finance (with some important exceptions) and su...

Annual Meeting Registration and Other Announcements

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September 09, 2021

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CeMENT Mentoring Program Accepting Applications for Workshops

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July 28, 2021

Applications will be accepted until August 15, 2021.

AEA Member Announcements: Winners of the 2020 AEA Awards for Diversity and Inclusion

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January 19, 2021

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Howard University to Host AEA Summer Training and Scholarship Program

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September 21, 2020

Application portal is open now until the deadline of January 31, 2021.

The long story of industrial innovation

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A new approach to identifying important patents helps shed light on technological breakthroughs since 1860.

Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin

By Tianyi Wang

American Economic Review, September 2021

I study the political impact of the first populist radio personality in American history. Father Charles Coughlin blended populist demagoguery, anti-Semitism, and fascist sympathies to create a hugely popular radio program that attracted 30 million weekly...

Demagoguery on the airwaves

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September 08, 2021

Tianyi Wang discusses Father Coughlin’s populist radio broadcasts and their effects on public opinion during the Great Depression.

AEA Guidance on Timeline for 2021-22 Economics Job Cycle

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September 14, 2021

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Consolidation and productivity

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September 16, 2021

Should the United States be worried about its growing monopolies?

Growing Oligopolies, Prices, Output, and Productivity

By Sharat Ganapati

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2021

American industries have grown more concentrated over the last 40 years. In the absence of productivity innovation, this should lead to price hikes and output reductions, decreasing consumer welfare. With US census data from 1972 to 2012, I use price data...