Member Announcement

A message from the AEA leadership on the professional climate in economics

March 18, 2019

AEA Member Announcements (March 18, 2019)

Press Release

American Economic Association releases results of survey on professional climate in economics

March 18, 2019

Leadership outlines broader effort to address harassment and discrimination within the profession.

Research Highlights Podcast

Tech: economists wanted

March 15, 2019

An interview with Susan Athey and Michael Luca about the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.

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Risky business

March 13, 2019

How did an insurance requirement force small drillers out of Texas' oil and gas industry?

Research Highlights Article

Bias on the bench

March 11, 2019

Judicial politics play a role in perpetuating racial and gender disparities in sentencing.

Research Highlights Article

More competing. More saving.

March 6, 2019

How do national retailers set prices? And who does it help?

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Pinpointing the gender problem in economics

March 4, 2019

Female economists place at lower-ranked departments out of graduate school and are less likely to be promoted.

Announcement

16th NIPE Summer School Announcement

March 4, 2019

Course will be taught at the University of Minho between June 3rd and 6th 2019.

Research Highlights Article

The Poor City Population Boom

March 1, 2019

This video explains why today's fastest growing urban areas are in poorer countries.

Announcement

C. Elton Hinshaw (1936-2019)

February 28, 2019

Elton Hinshaw was a longtime professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and former Secretary-Treasurer of the AEA.