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Estimating Macro-Fiscal Effects of Climate Shocks from Billions of Geospatial Weather Observations

By Berkay Akyapı, Matthieu Bellon, and Emanuele Massetti

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

The literature studying the macroeconomics of weather has focused on temperature and precipitation annual averages, while micro studies have focused more on extreme weather measures. We construct hundreds of variables from high frequency, high spatial r...

Committee Members

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Karen Dynan, Chair

Triplet Embeddings for Demand Estimation

By Lorenzo Magnolfi, Jonathon McClure, and Alan Sorensen

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We propose a method to augment conventional demand estimation approaches with crowd-sourced data on the product space. Our method obtains triplets data (“product A is closer to B than it is to C”) from an online survey to compute an embedding—i.e...

Guidelines for Proposals

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EconEdNews

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Our newsletter provides timely information about conferences and events sponsored by the AEA-CEE, highlights resources for educators, and shares economic education activities associated with organizations around the world.

Pausing student loans

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How did borrowers respond to the 2020 debt moratorium on US student loans?

AEA Journal Policies

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The High and Falling Price of Cement in Africa

By Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello, and Tristan Reed

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Prices for several intermediate inputs, including cement, are higher in developing economies—particularly in Africa. Combining recent data from the International Comparison Program with a global directory of cement firms we estimate an industry equil...

Back Issues of AEA Journals

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Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply

By Barbara Boelmann, Anna Raute, and Uta Schönberg

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women’s labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of t...

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The Aggregate-Demand Doom Loop: Precautionary Motives and the Welfare Costs of Sovereign Risk

By Francisco Roldán

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

I examine the role of households’ precautionary savings motive in amplifying and propagating movements in sovereign spreads. I study this mechanism in a model where the government of a small open economy borrows from foreigners but the debt is then ...

Job Displacement and Earnings Losses: The Role of Joblessness

By Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger, Erika McEntarfer, and Matthew Staiger

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

A large literature finds that workers displaced in mass layoffs experience persistent earnings losses. We find that the earnings penalty from job displacement is mediated by the length of the jobless spell after displacement. Workers who experience litt...

Long-Term Relationships in the US Truckload Freight Industry

By Adam Harris and Thi Mai Anh Nguyen

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper provides evidence on the scope and incentive mechanisms of long-term relationships in the US truckload freight industry. In this setting, shippers and carriers engage in repeated interactions under fixed-rate contracts that allow for ineffic...