AEA Member Announcements: Extended Submission deadline for AEA 2023 meetings

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April 01, 2022

View the Member Announcement from April 4, 2022.

The great reset?

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March 18, 2022

Guido Alfani discusses how historical pandemics affected wealth gaps between rich and poor.

Call for Papers in Spatial Macroeconomics

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April 04, 2022

The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 15, 2022.

2021 Continuing Education Webcasts

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Classroom experiments

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Engage students with an interactive activity.

Student guides

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View materials for an introduction to the field of economics.

Economic consulting

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Consulting may be a stepping stone to an economics career.

The legal profession

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Economics students are increasingly enrolling in law school.

The corporate world and the MBA

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A popular path for economics majors.

The Little Divergence

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What was the economic impact of the Black Death in Europe?

Digging into an argument

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Do people become more convinced of their own positions in the midst of a debate?

Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments

By Rachael Meager

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2019

Despite evidence from multiple randomized evaluations of microcredit, questions about external validity have impeded consensus on the results. I jointly estimate the average effect and the heterogeneity in effects across seven studies using Bayesian hiera...

Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs

By Bettina Brüggemann

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2021

This paper computes optimal top marginal tax rates in Bewley-Huggett-Aiyagari–type economies that include entrepreneurs. Consistent with the data, entrepreneurs are overrepresented at the top of the income distribution and are thus disproportionately af...

A generational shift in fertility

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Why are birth rates in the United States dropping?

Oleg Itskhoki, Clark Medalist 2022

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CSWEP Webinar Series on Jobs for Economists

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The 2022 AEJ Best Paper Awards Have Been Announced

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March 17, 2022

Learn more about the papers chosen as the 2022 AEJ Best Papers.

2021 in Featured Charts

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Economists tackled the gender wage gap, political corruption, innovation, and more.

Teaching Assistant Professor

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Building state capacity with local elites

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April 13, 2022

The Democratic Republic of Congo shows how city chiefs can help low-capacity governments collect more taxes.