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Hayek: A Life 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell and Hansjörg Klausinger and Liberalism’s Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism by Vikash Yadav

By Ola Innset

Journal of Economic Literature

Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work by Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett

By Shulamit Kahn

Journal of Economic Literature

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy by Teresa Ghilarducci

By Andrew Samwick

Journal of Economic Literature

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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting

By Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, Andrew Waxman, Jing Wu, and Tianli Xia

American Economic Review

We estimate an equilibrium sorting model of housing location and commuting mode choice with endogenous traffic congestion to evaluate urban transportation policies. Leveraging fine-scale data from travel diaries and housing transactions identifying resi...

Summer Economics Fellows Program History

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Some Statistics and a Brief History of the Summer Economics Fellows Program

The Long-Term Effects of Career Guidance in High School and Student Financial Aid: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

By Laetitia Renée

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

This paper studies the effects of a randomized control trial in which Canadian high school students were randomly invited to participate in a career guidance program during high school and/or made eligible for extra financial aid conditional on college...

Do Peers Matter in the Police Academy?

By Roman Rivera

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Increasing underrepresented groups’ representation in police departments is a common proposal to reduce aggressive policing. This paper documents the effects of peer composition in the Chicago police academy on officers’ future arrests by exploitin...

Global Giants and Local Stars: How Changes In Brand Ownership Affect Competition

By Vanessa Alviarez, Keith Head, and Thierry Mayer

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

Large beer and spirits makers expanded abroad mainly by acquiring local brands. Exploiting market share data in 76 countries and changes in brand ownership from 2007 to 2018, we estimate that owners matter little for brand performance, except via a neg...

Price and Choose

By Federico Echenique and Matías Núñez

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We describe a sequential mechanism that fully implements the set of efficient outcomes in environments with quasi-linear utilities. The mechanism asks agents to take turns in defining prices for each outcome, with a final player choosing an outcome for...

Dynamic Outside Options and Optimal Negotiation Strategies

By Andrew McClellan

American Economic Review

We study the design of negotiation strategies when a principal and agent must decide how to split a pie while the agent's outside option changes over time. The principal's optimal strategy under commitment demonstrates a new, but intuitive, set of nego...

AEA Summer Fellows 2010 to Present

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Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts

By Rava Azeredo da Silveira, Yeji Sung, and Michael Woodford

American Economic Review

We propose a model of optimal decision making subject to a memory constraint in the spirit of models of rational inattention; our theory differs from that of Sims (2003) in not assuming costless memory of past cognitive states. The model implies that b...

The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China

By Gaurav Khanna, Wenquan Liang, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, and Ran Song

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

We quantify how pollution affects aggregate productivity and welfare in spatial equilibrium. We show that skilled workers in China emigrate away from polluted cities. These patterns are evident under various empirical specifications, such as when instrume...

Wealth Inequality, Aggregate Consumption, and Macroeconomic Trends under Incomplete Markets

By Byoungchan Lee

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

I construct an incomplete market model featuring a closed-form expression for optimal consumption. In the model, individual consumption is an isoelastic function of wealth, inclusive of income, yielding partial consumption smoothing based on borrowing ...

Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning

By B. Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande

American Economic Review: Insights

We test whether payments for ecosystem services (PES) can curb the highly polluting practice of crop residue burning in India. Standard PES contracts pay participants after verification that they met a pro-environment condition (clearing fields without...

Aggressive Pivots and Entrepreneurial Skill

By Xuelin Li and Martin Szydlowski

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

We study pivots as signaling devices in a dynamic experimentation model. An entrepreneur receives funding from an investor and has private information about a project, which requires costly experimentation to succeed. The entrepreneur has a real option...