2015 AEA Continuing Education Webcasts

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2015 AEA Continuing Education Webcasts

ASSA 2024 Job Market

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Implications of work experience for economic development

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How important are skills picked up on the job for long-run economic growth?

The Rise of Niche Consumption

By Brent Neiman and Joseph Vavra

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2023

Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by "superstar" products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products fr...

Concentrated spending

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August 21, 2023

Why are US households spending more money on fewer products and showing increasing divergence from each other in their selections?

Past CTREE Annual Conferences

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Other US data

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US Macro and Regional Data

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Data Sources

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Conferences Organized by Academic Associations

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Several academic associations organize conferences that support the dissemination of economic education scholarship.

Conferences Organized by Other Organizations

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A number of organizations (e.g., publishers, universities, or academic journals) promote economic education via economic education-focused conferences.

Economic Education Conferences

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Information about past Conferences on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) as well as links to other conferences organized by academic associations or other organizations.

ASSA 2024 KiddieCorp (Childcare)

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Economic Education Academic Journals

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The field of economic education is supported by a rich academic literature. This link is offered to those wishing to explore the breadth of this literature and to those who are seeking a publishing outlet for their own economic education research.

Social identity and labor market decisions

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Evidence from a field experiment on the effects of caste identity in India.

Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?

By Suanna Oh

American Economic Review, August 2023

How does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing on the effect of caste identity on job-specific labor supply. In a field experiment, laborers choose whether to take up various job off...

Front Matter

American Economic Review, September 2023

Imperfect Financial Markets and Investment Inefficiencies

By Elias Albagli, Christian Hellwig, and Aleh Tsyvinski

American Economic Review, September 2023

We analyze the consequences of noisy information aggregation for investment. Market imperfections create endogenous rents that cause overinvestment in upside risks and underinvestment in downside risks. In partial equilibrium, these inefficiencies are par...