Member Announcement

AEA Member Survey on Professional Climate

November 12, 2018

View member announcement from November 12, 2018.

Recommendations for Further Reading

Housing inventories, the Kerner Commission Report, and plastic waste

November 9, 2018

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Announcement

2018 China International Conference in Economics

November 8, 2018

The CICE will be held in Beijing from December 13 - 16, 2018.

Research Highlights Article

The heroin balloon

November 7, 2018

A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.

Research Highlights Featured Chart

A shock to civility

November 5, 2018

When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.

Research Highlights Article

Fragile innovation

November 2, 2018

This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.

Research Highlights Featured Chart

Paranormal stock activity

October 31, 2018

An old stock market puzzle is still stumping economists.

Research Highlights Podcast

How Democrats lost the South

October 29, 2018

The AEA interviews Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington about why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.

Announcement

Russell Sage Foundation 2019 Summer Institutes

October 29, 2018

The application deadlines are in January and February 2019 for these summer institutes.

Research Highlights Article

Modern family

October 24, 2018

How do parental leave policies affect relationship stability at home?