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2020 蝌蚪网 Poster Videos

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Watch videos from the 2020 蝌蚪网 Annual Meeting Poster Session

Giorgio Presidente on automation in developing countries

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Do new technologies present an opportunity or a threat to developing economies?

Don鈥檛 feed the trolls

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February 07, 2020

More care in crafting patents could be an efficient way to rein in frivolous lawsuits.

CSWEP Board: Jennifer Doleac

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CSWEP Board: Terry-Ann Craigie

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Foreign investment

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Public research universities in states that have had severe funding cuts for higher education have also had large gains in international students.

Call for Abstracts: European Conference on the Diffusion of Genomic Medicine

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February 04, 2020

PSID Data User Training Workshop

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February 13, 2020

The workshop will be held June 15-19, 2020, at the University of Michigan.

Dreaming of an education

[Research Highlight]

January 30, 2020

The DACA program significantly boosted high school enrollment for undocumented migrants.

ASSA 2020 蝌蚪网 Workshop

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Join the club

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Safe spaces for young girls in Africa helped them take control of their lives.

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

By Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2001

We exploit differences in European mortality rates to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. In places where Europe...

Breaking the silence

[Research Highlight]

February 18, 2020

Do victims of sexual assault have an incentive to file a report earlier than libelers?

Call for papers: Future of Housing Finance: Diverse Challenges, Innovative Solutions

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February 20, 2020

The deadline for papers is May 15, 2020

Opioids, improving teaching, and waste in health care

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January 16, 2020

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

One tax to rule them all

[Research Highlight]

February 07, 2020

Uniform markups may be simple, but are states leaving tax revenue on the table?

Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

By Pascaline Dupas, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson, and Diego Ubfal

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2018

We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17, 10, and 3 percent of treatment individuals made five or more deposits, respectively. Average monthly deposits in treatment accou...

Call for Papers for 6th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on 鈥淐hallenges to Financial Stability鈥�

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February 25, 2020

The submission deadline is April 26th, 2020.

Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas

By Rodney J. Andrews and Kevin M. Stange

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2019

We assess the importance of price regulation and price discrimination to low-income students' access to opportunities in public higher education. In 2003, Texas shifted tuition-setting authority away from the state legislature to public universities thems...

Navigating reality

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How do maps shape economic decisions with the information they convey?