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Call for Submissions for òòò½ÍøStat Sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting

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The Committee on Economic Statistics sponsors sessions every year at the ASSA Annual Meeting.

Submission Portal for òòò½ÍøStat-Sponsored Sessions at the 2027 òòò½Íø Annual Meeting

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Submission Portal for CSQIEP-Sponsored Sessions at the 2027 òòò½Íø Annual Meeting

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EconHarmony

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EconHarmony allows prospective individual paper submitters who are members of the òòò½Íø to post information about their paper and search for other paper authors who might join them to form a complete session.

Navigating the "Problem from Hell": A Guide to Climate Damages

By Derek Lemoine ⓡ Catherine Hausman ⓡ Jeffrey G. Shrader

Journal of Economic Literature

Multiple lines of research aim to quantify the economic impacts of climate change. We show that the effects of climate change on economic activity depend on how climate change alters weather across time and space. Changes in contemporary weather have dire...

ASSA 2025 General Information

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ASSA 2025 Housing Information

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ASSA 2025 Job Market Information

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ASSA 2025 KiddieCorp (Childcare)

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ASSA 2025 Participant Information

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Leaning Against the Global Financial Cycle

By Andrea Ferrero, Maurizio Michael Habib, Livio Stracca, and Fabrizio Venditti

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics

We investigate the impact of institutional quality on shielding emerging economies from the Global Financial Cycle. Our findings indicate that countries with a higher rule of law, characterized by superior contract enforcement and more robust protectio...

Certification and Recertification in Welfare Programs: What Happens When Automation Goes Wrong?

By Derek Wu and Bruce D. Meyer

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy

This paper studies the impacts of administrative burdens across multiple welfare programs and application stages via an increasingly widespread phenomenon: the automation of caseworker assistance. Leveraging a natural experiment phased in across Indiana...

Long-Distance Trade and Long-Term Persistence

By Sebastian Ellingsen

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics

Do changes in the location of trading opportunities cause changes in the location of economic activity? I explore this question using a lifting of restrictions on trade across the Spanish Empire in the 18th century. I combine a difference-in-differences a...

Population and Welfare: Measuring Growth when Life is Worth Living

By Mohamad Adhami, Mark Bils, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics

Economic growth is typically measured in per capita terms. A long tradition in philosophy, however, suggests that social welfare may depend on the number of people as well. To illustrate how much this matters quantitatively, we decompose welfare growth...

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls

By Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Xiaoyue Shan

òòò½Íø Review: Insights

We evaluate the effects of teaching negotiation skills to adolescent girls in economically vulnerable communities in Lusaka, Zambia ten years later. Treated participants complete 0.23 more years of education. Consistent with greater relational empowerme...

Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India

By Lucie Gadenne, Tushar K. Nandi, and Roland Rathelot

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics

This paper considers how tax policy affects supply chains in a developing economy. Using administrative panel data on firms and transactions between them, we document substantial segmentation of supply chains between firms paying Value-Added Taxes (VAT) a...

Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series

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East–West preindustrial wage divergence

[Research Highlight]

April 21, 2026

The effects of land ownership on wages in Japan, 1600–1870

How Equality Created Poverty in Preindustrial Japan, 1600–1870

By Yuzuru Kumon

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics, April 2026

Despite well-developed economic institutions, premodern Japan, 1600–1868, had among the lowest real wages according to available estimates, around half those in preindustrial England. However, many Japanese peasants owned land, unlike their mostly landl...

Call for nominations for CSWEP’s Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

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April 23, 2026

Nominations are due by September 20, 2026.