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Richard Steckel on economic growth and diabetes

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Can rapid economic growth cause diabetes?

The New York Times highlights the 蝌蚪网's role in addressing gender bias

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January 11, 2018

The 蝌蚪网 is taking steps to address concerns about gender bias in the economics profession.

Photos from the 2018 ASSA Annual Meeting

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Weihua Zhao on how self-driving cars will change cities

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Could autonomous vehicles contribute to urban sprawl?

Growth at the extremes

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Polarization in the US job market may have begun decades earlier than previously believed.

Climate Policy and Innovation: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis

By Stephie Fried

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2018

A carbon tax can induce innovation in green technologies. I evaluate the quantitative impact of this channel in a dynamic, general equilibrium model with endogenous innovation in fossil, green, and nonenergy inputs. I discipline the parameters using evide...

Innovation for a greener future

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December 18, 2017

By inducing innovation, carbon taxes can achieve more at a lower cost.

CSMGEP: Renee Bowen

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Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort

By Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

American hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care to the uninsured. We use previously confidential hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. Using both panel-data meth...

CSMGEP: James Peoples Jr.

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Unemployment Insurance as a Housing Market Stabilizer

By Joanne W. Hsu, David A. Matsa, and Brian T. Melzer

蝌蚪网 Review, January 2018

This paper studies the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on the housing market. Exploiting heterogeneity in UI generosity across US states and over time, we find that UI helps the unemployed avoid mortgage default. We estimate that UI expansions durin...

How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s

By Price Fishback

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017

The New Deal during the 1930s was arguably the largest peace-time expansion in federal government activity in American history. Until recently, there had been very little quantitative testing of the microeconomic impact of the wide variety of New Deal p...

Webcasts and videos from 蝌蚪网 2018 Annual Meeting

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January 22, 2018

View photos, webcasts, and poster videos from Philadelphia.

The New York Times features AER article on virtual learning

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January 22, 2018

Students who take online courses learn less and are more likely to drop out.

Twitter Conversation for 蝌蚪网 Summer Program

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January 22, 2018

This Wednesday, the program at Michigan State University will be holding a Twitter conversation for prospective students.

Holding corrupt institutions accountable

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December 22, 2017

Can social media be a check on power when mainstream news outlets cannot?

How Do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications

By Alexander Bick, Nicola 贵耻肠丑蝉-厂肠丑眉苍诲别濒苍, and David Lagakos

蝌蚪网 Review, January 2018

This paper builds a new internationally comparable database of hours worked to measure how hours vary with income across and within countries. We document that average hours worked per adult are substantially higher in low-income countries than in high-in...

Why do people in high-income countries work less?

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Employment rates and individual hours worked both play a role.

蝌蚪网STAT: 2017 Annual Meeting

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Sessions for 蝌蚪网 Committee on Economic Statistics, 2017 ASSA meetings

Closing Pakistan鈥檚 gender gap in voter turnout

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January 23, 2018

A simple message encouraged women to vote, and it did not cost much.