Call for Papers: Conference on Auctions, Firm Behavior, and Policy

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March 10, 2023

The deadline for submissions is April 24, 2023.

Latin American immigration to the United States

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What are the commonalities and differences among major immigration waves?

Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the Rents of "Bob the Broker"?

By Eric Budish and Aditya Bhave

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2023

Economists have long been puzzled by event-ticket underpricing: underpricing reduces revenue for the performer and encourages socially wasteful rent-seeking by ticket brokers. What about using an auction? This paper studies the introduction of auctions in...

Call for Papers: 2023 PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets

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March 20, 2023

The deadline for submissions is June 4, 2023.

Market design and live events

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March 15, 2023

Eric Budish discusses the introduction of auctions to the primary market for tickets.

Call for Papers: 3rd Lille-Reading Workshop on International Finance

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March 21, 2023

The submission deadline is June 30, 2023.

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American Economic Review, May 2009

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AEA-CEE Partnerships

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Committee Spotlight: Q&A with KimMarie McGoldrick, Chair of the Committee on Economic Education

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October 11, 2022

AEA-CEE Chair KimMarie McGoldrick answers some questions about the committee's mission and activities.

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Early childhood education and crime reduction

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Evidence from the Head Start rollout in North Carolina.

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

DETER-ing Deforestation in the Amazon: Environmental Monitoring and Law Enforcement

By Juliano Assunção, Clarissa Gandour, and Romero Rocha

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We study Brazil's recent use of satellite technology to overcome law enforcement shortcomings resulting from weak institutional environments. DETER is a system that processes satellite imagery and issues near-real-time deforestation alerts to target envir...

Infrastructure Costs

By Leah Brooks and Zachary Liscow

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

Despite infrastructure's importance to the US economy, evidence on its cost trajectory over time is sparse. We document real spending per new mile over the history of the Interstate Highway System. We find that spending per mile increased more than threef...

Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana

By Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We report the results of a field experiment that randomly placed unemployed young people as apprentices with small firms in Ghana and included no cash subsidy to firms (or workers) beyond in-kind recruitment services. Treated firms experienced increases i...