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Explaining the gender wage gap

September 13, 2017
Vox featured a paper that appeared in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics about the gender wage gap.
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The online price advantage

September 8, 2017
Bloomberg Businessweek cites an AER paper that compared prices online and in stores.
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Reconsidering Police Militarization

August 28, 2017
The Washington Post and The New York Times cite two articles that appear in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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Eponymous Entrepreneurs

August 21, 2017
The Economist features a paper that appeared in the June issue of The American Economic Review.
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Reconsidering negative interest rates

August 14, 2017
The Telegraph featured a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives in an article about how central banks should consider cutting interest rates below zero in preparing for the next recession.
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Dealing with trade deficits

August 7, 2017
The Associated Press quotes JEP editor Timothy Taylor in a story about trade deficits.
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Cash for Corollas

August 2, 2017
Quartz featured a paper about the "cash for clunkers" program that appears in the July issue of AEJ: Applied