American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

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How much do local leaders matter?

March 17, 2021
Christian Dippel discusses the Forty-Eighters and their role in the US antislavery movement.
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Spending now or saving for later

March 15, 2021
How do lump-sum severance payments affect consumption for laid-off workers?
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Estimating Frisch elasticity

March 10, 2021
A temporary tax holiday in Switzerland offers insights into how workers adjust to income changes.
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Disappearing gazelles

February 24, 2021
Fewer high-growth startups could be making the US economy much less dynamic.
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Beyond the lab

February 22, 2021
Do experiments with student participants produce valid measures of behavior within the general population?
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The consequences of school choice

February 3, 2021
Harvard professor Chris Avery discusses how allowing students to leave their neighborhood for their education may undercut policymakers' goals.
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Immigrants and upward mobility

February 1, 2021
Children of foreign-born parents climb the income ladder faster than kids of US-born parents, especially among the poorest families.
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Mobilizing the masses to murder

January 29, 2021
How did political elites in Rwanda get civilians to participate in genocide?
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Wholesale collusion?

December 18, 2020
Reforms to African agriculture markets didn’t help farmers or consumers as intended. The reason seems to be with how intermediary traders set prices.