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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Value of School Social Climate Information: Evidence from Chicago Housing Transactions" by Rene A. Crespin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Value of School Social Climate Information: Evidence from Chicago Housing Transactions
(Forthcoming Article) - I study how publicly released school social climate information is capitalized into housing markets and affects household sorting. Using the initial release of school climate r...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations by Donald H. Chew Jr." by Yueran Ma. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations by Donald H. Chew Jr.
(Forthcoming Article)
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January 2, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The January 2026 issue of the American Economic Review (116, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/832.
American Economic Review
Vol. 116 No. 1 January 2026
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December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The January 2026 issue of AEJ: Macroeconomics (18, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/831.
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Vol. 18 No. 1 January 2026
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December 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
From the unenven effects of automation, to adapting to climate change, to industrial policy in China: here are the 10 most-read Research Highlights of 2025. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/top...
2025 in Research Highlights
Economists addressed issues related to automation, climate change, industrial policy, and more.
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December 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The January 2026 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (18, 1) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/830.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Vol. 18 No. 1 January 2026
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December 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
From the consequences of George Floyd's murder, to extending unemployment benefits, to bank bailouts: here are the 10 most-read Featured Charts of 2025. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
2025 in Featured Charts
Economists addressed issues related to policing, unemployment benefits, bank bailouts, and more.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Similarity of Information and Collective Action" by Deepal Basak, Joyee Deb, and Aditya Kuvalekar. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Similarity of Information and Collective Action
(Forthcoming Article) - We study a canonical collective action game with incomplete information. Individuals attempt to coordinate to achieve a shared goal, while also facing a temptation to free-ride...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Robust Misspecified Models" by Cuimin Ba. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Robust Misspecified Models
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies which misspecified models are likely to persist when decisionmakers compare them with competing models. The main result characterizes such models based on tw...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Effective Are R&D Tax Incentives? Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence" by Silvia Appelt, Matěj Bajgar, Chiara Criscuolo, and Fernando Galindo-Rueda. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
How Effective Are R&D Tax Incentives? Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
(Forthcoming Article) - Recent firm-level studies find R&D tax incentives to be much more effective at stimulating firms’ R&D investment than aggregate analyses suggest. Based on a distributed analysi...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Market Power and Capital Constraints" by Milena Wittwer and Jason Allen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Market Power and Capital Constraints
(Forthcoming Article) - We explore how traders’ equity capitalization influences asset prices in a framework that accounts for market power. In our model, traders with capital constraints engage in tr...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Forthcoming in the JEL: "AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship" by Robert Novy-Marx and Mihail Velikov. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper describes a process for generating academic papers using large language models (LLMs) and demonstrates this process’ efficacy by producing hundreds of complete paper...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development" by Gaurav Khanna, Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and Dean Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
(Forthcoming Article) - We study how international migrant income prospects affect long-run development in origin areas. We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis exchange rate shocks in a shift-sha...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality" by Tine M. Eriksen, Amanda P. Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, and Peter R. Thingholm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents a socioeconomic gradient in adult labor market penalties stemming from a single chronic and treatable childhood health shock in a country with universal ac...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis" by Stephen Ayerst, Loren Brandt, and Diego Restuccia. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis
(Forthcoming Article) - In less developed economies the allocation of factor inputs to more productive farms is often hindered. To analyze how distortions affect farm dynamics and agricultural product...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa" by Andrea Guariso and Thorsten Rogall. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa
(Forthcoming Article) - How are ethnic inequality and ethnic violence related? We empirically investigate this question using an innovative measure of resource inequality between ethnic groups, based ...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform" by Santosh Anagol, Fernando Ferreira, and Jonah Rexer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
(Forthcoming Article) - We estimate the economic value of zoning reform in São Paulo, which altered maximum permitted construction along transportation corridors. Developers increased filings for mult...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Evidence from UK Business Rate Reliefs" by Ben Lockwood, Martin Simmler, and Eddy H.F. Tam. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Evidence from UK Business Rate Reliefs
(Forthcoming Article) - We study how UK property tax rates impact commercial vacancies and rents, using new data, and exploiting exogenous variations in two major property tax reliefs, small business ...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Are Building Codes an Effective Adaptation to Wind Risk? Evidence from Remotely Detected Blue Tarps" by David Wolf and Kenji Takeuchi. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Are Building Codes an Effective Adaptation to Wind Risk? Evidence from Remotely Detected Blue Tarps
(Forthcoming Article) - Hurricanes cause significant wind and water damage, yet economic research primarily focuses on the latter due to data limitations. We overcome this problem by analyzing photogr...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence" by Luis Armona, Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica, and Jesse M. Shapiro. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence
(Forthcoming Article) - We introduce a model in which a benevolent news outlet decides whether to report the realization of a state to a consumer, who pays a cost to receive it. A simple statistical r...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Intensive college advising is a cost-effective way to increase bachelor’s degrees among low-income students, say researchers at @tamuartsci.bsky.social & the University of Virginia. They say that advisors help students to enroll in higher-quality institutions. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/int...
Navigating the college choice process
Intensive advising can substantially increase the likelihood of degree attainment for low-income students.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy by Lenore Palladino" by Ryan Bubb. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy by Lenore Palladino
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December 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Failures of Contingent Reasoning in Annuitization Decisions" by Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Priscila De Oliveira, and Dmitry Taubinsky. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Failures of Contingent Reasoning in Annuitization Decisions
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies psychological biases in take-up of annuities, using an incentivized experiment with a probability-based sample (N = 3,038). Choosing an annuity was payoff-ma...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Trade Protection Along Supply Chains" by Chad P. Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
(Forthcoming Article) - We combine detailed information on US temporary trade barriers during 1989-2020 with input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply chains. We focus on...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia" by Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas, and Elan Satriawan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
(Forthcoming Article) - Given labor informality in developing countries, addressing employment shocks is challenging. We study Indonesia’s new approach for on-demand online applications for temporary ...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM