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C. Elton Hinshaw (1936-2019)

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February 28, 2019

Elton Hinshaw was a longtime professor of economics at Vanderbilt University and former Secretary-Treasurer of the òòò½Íø.

The Poor City Population Boom

[Research Highlight]

February 21, 2019

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

Pinpointing the gender problem in economics

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

16th NIPE Summer School Announcement

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March 04, 2019

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

Bias on the bench

[Research Highlight]

February 08, 2019

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

Review Essay on Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort

By Thierry Verdier

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2019

This paper reviews the book Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort (hereafter, ALV), providing an analytical perspective on the issues related to minority discrimination a...

Risky business

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

òòò½Íø releases results of survey on professional climate in economics

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March 18, 2019

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

Increasing familiarity, reducing discrimination

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Does school diversity make rich students more willing to socialize with poor students?

Alan B. Krueger (1960-2019)

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March 18, 2019

Economics profession saddened by loss of Princeton professor and former òòò½Íø vice president.

Changes in Workplace Heterogeneity and How They Widen the Gender Wage Gap

By Benjamin Bruns

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, April 2019

Using linked employer-employee data for West Germany, I investigate the role of growing wage differentials between firms in the slowdown of gender wage convergence since the 1990s. The results show that two factors are at play: first, high-wage firms expe...

Call for Papers: NTA 112th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2019

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March 26, 2019

Submissions will be accepted until June 1, 2019.

Different expectations

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How do gender stereotypes shape our beliefs of how we will perform on certain tasks?

As farmers go, so goes the nation

[Research Highlight]

March 20, 2019

How did agriculture help the US recover from the Great Depression in the spring of 1933?

A message from the òòò½Íø leadership on the professional climate in economics

[News]

March 11, 2019

òòò½Íø Member Announcements (March 18, 2019)

The indirect effects of good teaching

[Research Highlight]

March 12, 2019

An educator's value is greater than the impact they have on their own students.

Reforming consumption taxes

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When value-added taxes are cut, who benefits?

Fixed-Wage Contracts and Monetary Non-neutrality

By Maria µþÂáö°ù°ì±ô³Ü²Ô»å, Mikael Carlsson, and Oskar Nordström Skans

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

We study the importance of wage rigidities for the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Using uniquely rich micro data on Swedish wage negotiations, we isolate periods when the labor market is covered by fixed-wage contracts. Importantly, negotiations ...

Product Turnover and the Cost-of-Living Index: Quality versus Fashion Effects

By Kozo Ueda, Kota Watanabe, and Tsutomu Watanabe

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019

This paper evaluates the effects of product turnover on a welfare-based cost-of-living index by incorporating the quality effect and the fashion effect. Employing scanner data for Japan for the years 1988–2013, we find that (i) the price and quantity of...

Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference

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April 02, 2019

The annual conference will take place in Singapore on December 12-14, 2019.