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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d
Forthcoming in the AER: "Immigration, Innovation, and Growth" by Stephen J. Terry, Thomas Chaney, Konrad B. Burchardi, Lisa Tarquinio, and Tarek A. Hassan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Immigration, Innovation, and Growth
(Forthcoming Article) - We propose a novel identification strategy to isolate exogenous immigration shocks across US counties, by interacting quasi-random variations in the composition of ancestry acr...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d
Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency by Oliver Volckart" by William Roberds. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency by Oliver Volckart
(Forthcoming Article)
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 8d
The October 2025 issue of AEJ: Macroeconomics (17, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/821.
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Vol. 17 No. 4 October 2025
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 11d
The October 2025 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (17, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/820.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Vol. 17 No. 4 October 2025
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 11d
Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Effect of Mergers on Innovation" by Kaustav Das, Tatiana Mayskaya, and Arina Nikandrova. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Effect of Mergers on Innovation
(Forthcoming Article) - We study the effect of a merger on R&D activity in a dynamic model with uncertainty about the feasibility of innovation. The merger has three effects: it may reduce the number ...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 11d
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Breaking Bad News" by Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn and Simon Board. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Breaking Bad News
(Forthcoming Article) - We study how information disclosure shapes social learning about a potentially harmful product. Increased transparency helps early agents avoid harm, which may undermine learni...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 12d
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Short- and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel" by Elad DeMalach and Analia Schlosser. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Short- and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel
(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the causal impacts of universal preschool by leveraging a quasi-experimental design based on Israel’s implementation of free public preschool for children ages 3 an...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 12d
Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Optimal Taxation of Inflation" by Damien Capelle and Yang Liu. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Optimal Taxation of Inflation
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper analyzes the effectiveness of a tax on inflation policy (TIP), which would require firms to pay a tax proportional to the increase in their prices or wages, in stabi...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 12d
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Cooking, Health, and Daily Exposure to Pollution Spikes" by Susanna B. Berkouwer and Joshua T. Dean. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Cooking, Health, and Daily Exposure to Pollution Spikes
(Forthcoming Article) - Many routine daily activities—such as cooking and commuting—cause large recurring pollution spikes that may impact health without significantly affecting average exposure. We s...
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