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Gi-Eu Lee on water right reforms

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What effects did reforms in Texas and New Mexico have on agricultural revenue?

Call for Papers: Applied Economics Teaching Resources

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January 14, 2019

AETR invites submissions for a special issue on Case Studies in Applied Economics.

Youngran Choi on closing the vaccination gap

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How can researchers identify high-risk groups in order to craft more effective vaccination campaigns?

Photos from the 2019 ASSA Annual Meeting

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View slide show of photos from the event.

Media coverage of 2019 Annual Meeting

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January 11, 2019

Gender in economics, Federal Reserve policy, and other issues received widespread coverage in the mainstream press.

Encouraging innovation

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What effect do patents have on the potential for a technology to be used in future product development?

CSWEP Chair: Judith A. Chevalier

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CSWEP At-Large: Karen Pence

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CSWEP At-Large: Jonathan Guryan

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CSWEP Assoc. Chair & Survey Director: Margaret Levenstein

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CSWEP Newsletter Oversight Editor: Katherine Silz Carson

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Expanding access vs. controlling costs

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January 15, 2019

A new paper examines some of the factors that may drive patient choices to pursue expensive fertility treatments.

Test Page 2

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Wealth taxes (and how to evade them)

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Sweden鈥檚 wealth tax has proven easy to avoid.

Mental accounting and grocery shopping

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January 17, 2019

Food stamps are designed to put food on the table. But do they work?

The Social Value of Financial Expertise

By Pablo Kurlat

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2019

I study expertise acquisition in a model of trading under asymmetric information. I propose and implement a method to measure r, the ratio of the marginal social value to the marginal private value of expertise. This can be decomposed into three sufficien...

CSMGEP Profiles: Kaye Husbands Fealing

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Shipping may vary

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How can differences in export costs explain cross-country income inequality?

Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments

By Hunt Allcott and Christopher Knittel

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing ...

Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution

By Judith A. Chevalier and Anil K. Kashyap

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019

This paper proposes a method for aggregating prices when retailers use periodic sales to price-discriminate amongst heterogeneous customers. In the motivating model, loyal customers buy one brand and do not strategically time purchases, while Bargain Hunt...