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Regulations Drive Up Cost of Child Care in Maine

May 23, 2016

A column in the Maine Wire cited a 2011 article from the American Economic Review about the complex effects of regulation in the child care sector

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AEA Member Announcements (May 20, 2016)

May 20, 2016

View AEA member announcements from May 20, 2016

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Slate of Candidates for the 2016 AEA Election Announced

May 19, 2016

Voting opens August 1, 2016

AEA in the news

Pity Russia's billionaires

May 19, 2016

The Economist highlighted a new paper about billionaires in Russia published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review

Research Highlights Article

Can corruption make bureaucracies more efficient?

May 18, 2016

Testing the "efficient grease" hypothesis

Research Highlights Article

Does media bias matter in elections?

May 13, 2016

How politicians and voters respond to slanted media coverage

AEA in the news

There’s a huge gender pay gap for STEM careers – just one year after graduation

May 12, 2016

Bustle and Vox covered a study about the gender pay gap for STEM PhDs published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the American Economic Review

AEA in the news

The inequality that matters most (hint: it's not income)

May 10, 2016

Quartz covered a recent piece in the Journal of Economic Perspectives about measuring and interpreting different forms of inequality

AEA in the news

Ideas Worth Stealing: Move Pennsylvania’s Capital out of Harrisburg and back to Philadelphia

May 9, 2016

A column appearing in Newsworks highlights a 2014 American Economic Review article about corruption in state capitals

Research Highlights Article

When hospitals compete, do patients win?

May 6, 2016

One of the 2016 AEJ Best Papers gives a new meaning to "healthy competition"