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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 17h

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Taxing the Wealth of the Poor: Evidence from the Danish Old-Age Support Asset Test" by Niels Johannesen, Johan Sæverud, and Emmanuel Saez. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Taxing the Wealth of the Poor: Evidence from the Danish Old-Age Support Asset Test

(Forthcoming Article) - We document strong behavioral responses to an asset test for an old-age support program in Denmark using comprehensive administrative data. We show that the density distributio...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 1d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment" by Essi Eerola, Tuomas Kosonen, Kaisa Kotakorpi, and Teemu Lyytikäinen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment

(Forthcoming Article) - We study rental income tax compliance using novel third-party information and a large-scale randomized field experiment. The third-party information combines register data on t...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 1d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare" by Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare

(Forthcoming Article) - Firms often exploit weaknesses in government contracts to boost revenues, yet little is known about how they allocate these funds. We study how hospitals allocated $3 billion o...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Segregative Effects of Charter Schools" by Angela Crema. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Segregative Effects of Charter Schools

(Forthcoming Article) - I study the effects of charters on student racial segregation, identifying a novel mechanism: the assignment of white and nonwhite students to regular classrooms within their s...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Fostering Cooperation: The Conflict-Reducing Effects of Inter-Village Competition for Government Transfers" by Teevrat Garg, Caterina Gennaioli, Stefania Lovo, and Gregor Singer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Fostering Cooperation: The Conflict-Reducing Effects of Inter-Village Competition for Government Transfers

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the effect of inter-group competition on within-group violent conflict in Indonesia. Using a triple-differences design, we find that higher competition for national ...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency" by A. Brooks Bowden, Viviana Rodriguez, and Zach Weingarten. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency

(Forthcoming Article) - Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’ endoge...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Americans understand supply and demand when it comes to cars and crops, but struggle to apply the same logic to housing markets. We spoke with @cselmendorf.bsky.social of UC Davis about what this might mean for economic messaging on housing policy. #ResearchHighlight www.aeaweb.org/research/hou...

Housing supply skepticism

Christopher Elmendorf discusses the views of the US public on the housing market.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing: A Reassessment" by Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and Ákos Valentinyi. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing: A Reassessment

(Forthcoming Article) - The movement of labor out of the agricultural sector is a central feature of the development process. A long-held belief is that successful development requires that much of th...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 2d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System" by Angélica Meinhofer, Adrian Rubli, and Jamein P. Cunningham. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System

(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the direct and spillover effects of cannabis legalization on longstanding racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. We find that legalization reduces cannabi...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 7d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States" by Cory Smith. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Land Concentration and Long-Run Development in the Frontier United States

(Forthcoming Article) - I study the long-run economic effects of land concentration on the American frontier. Using quasi-random variation in initial land allocations from a checkerboard formula, I an...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 7d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 7d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity" by Jaden Yang Chen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Sequential Learning Under Informational Ambiguity

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper investigates a sequential social learning problem in which individuals face ambiguity about others’ signal structures and have max-min expected utility preferences, ...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants" by Maya Mikdash and Suhyeon Oh. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants

(Forthcoming Article) - Little is known about the role of race in the defense of low income defendants by court-appointed attorneys. Exploiting the quasi-random assignment of court-appointed attorneys...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences" by Sebastian O. Schneider and Matthias Sutter. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Risk Preferences and Field Behavior: The Relevance of Higher-Order Risk Preferences

(Forthcoming Article) - Using new methods, we measure the intensities of higher-order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an incentivized experiment with 658 adolescents. Aligned with theory...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Decentralizing Development: The Economic Impacts of Government Splits" by Ricardo Dahis and Christiane Szerman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Decentralizing Development: The Economic Impacts of Government Splits

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the economic impacts of the creation of smaller government units through splitting. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp increases in the number of government units ...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in Supply Chains" by Felipe Brugués. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in Supply Chains

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies the efficiency of self-enforced relational agreements, a common solution to contracting frictions, when sellers have market power and contracts cannot be ext...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Management and Misallocation in Mexico" by Nicholas Bloom, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López, and John Van Reenen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Management and Misallocation in Mexico

(Forthcoming Article) - Is management a reason for lower productivity in developing countries? Implementing the first comprehensive management survey in Mexico, we find large management gaps with the ...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines And the Exodus of Women from Farming" by Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, and Kjell G. Salvanes. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines And the Exodus of Women from Farming

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies how gender-biased technological change in agriculture affected women’s work in 20th-century Norway. In the 1950s, dairy farms began widely adopting milking m...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households" by Shilpa Aggarwal, Jenny C. Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jonathan Robinson, and Alan Spearot. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households

(Forthcoming Article) - Little is known about the evolution and persistence of the effects of one-time cash transfers, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment oppo...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Optimal Taxation and Market Power" by Jan Eeckhout, Chunyang Fu, Wenjian Li, and Xi Weng. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Optimal Taxation and Market Power

(Forthcoming Article) - Should optimal income taxation change when firms have market power? We analyze how the planner can optimally set taxes on the labor income of workers and on the profits of entr...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 9d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Financial Advice" by Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Andreas Hackethal, Johannes Koenen, and Christine Laudenbach. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Gender Differences in Financial Advice

(Forthcoming Article) - Based on data gathered from 27,000 real-world meetings between financial advisors and clients of a large German bank, we show that advisors offer more self-serving advice to wo...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 10d

Academic economists forming connections on social media show a bias toward certain races, genders, and elite institutions, say researchers at @mcgill.ca, Sao Paulo School of Economics, and MIT. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Bias in academic networking

A social media field experiment suggests that gender, race, and university affiliation influence the formation of professional relationships among economists.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 10d

The October 2025 issue of the American Economic Review (115, 10) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/822.

American Economic Review

Vol. 115 No. 10 October 2025

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 10d

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Human Capital and Racial Inequality in the US Labor Market" by Owen Thompson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Human Capital and Racial Inequality in the US Labor Market

(Forthcoming Article) - If racial gaps in measures of human capital like educational attainment and standardized test scores were eliminated, what would happen to racial disparities in wages, employme...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 11d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence" by Daniel Reck and Arthur Seibold. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence

(Forthcoming Article) - We analyze welfare under reference-dependent preferences. We decompose the first-order welfare effects of reference-point and price changes into direct and behavioral effects. ...

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