AEA in the news

Why crude oil prices keep taking us by surprise

April 14, 2016

Vox covered a paper on the difficulties of forecasting oil prices appearing in the Winter 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Research Highlights Article

How much tax revenue are we losing to offshore havens?

April 13, 2016

How corporations use low-tax countries to shelter their profits

Announcement

What's New with the AEA Website?

April 7, 2016

AEA launches a revised web interface and new economics content

Research Highlights Article

How valuable is access to the social safety net in early childhood?

April 6, 2016

The effects of the Food Stamp Program rollout are still visible decades later

AEA in the news

Satellite Images Can Pinpoint Poverty Where Surveys Can’t

April 4, 2016

NYT Upshot blog covered a 2012 AER paper about novel ways of measuring economic growth

Research Highlights Article

Are inattentive taxpayers responding to tax incentives that don't exist?

March 30, 2016

Confusion reigns when families lose the Child Tax Credit

AEA in the news

The US economy does a lot better when Democrats are in the White House

March 29, 2016

Quartz covered an AER paper on on growth of GDP under different administrations.

AEA in the news

Can New York Fix Its Housing Crisis?

March 28, 2016

The Pacific Standard covered an AER paper about an experiment on housing opportunities.

Research Highlights Article

Do employers frown on for-profit colleges and online degrees?

March 23, 2016

Researchers submitted thousands of fictitious resumes to find out

Research Highlights Article

Is 'The Match' responsible for medical residents' low salaries?

March 17, 2016

Understanding the controversy surrounding the job market for residents