"We analyze a nonlinear pricing model where the seller controls both product pricing (screening) and buyer information about their own values (persuasion)." NEW in @jpolecon.bsky.social by Dirk Bergemann, Tibor Heumann, and Stephen Morris: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Congratulations to John Eric Humphries for being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! Humphries is one of three Yale faculty members honored this year by the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. Learn more about his background & research in our Q&A: economics.yale.edu/news/260217/...

📢 📢 Calling all pre-doctoral fellows 📢 📢 The second annual Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference will be hosted by Yale University on Friday, June 5. Please use this link to submit your research by April 6th: tobin.yale.edu/events/2026/...

⚖️ What shapes public support for trade? 🇨🇷 EGC affiliate Diana Van Patten and coauthor Esteban Méndez analyzed a unique Costa Rican referendum to study popular attitudes towards trade, finding that economic factors play a significant role. 📚 Read the research summary: egc.yale.edu/research/wha...

New Summary: Forthcoming in Econometrica, How Does Informality Affect Gains from Trade? @rafael-dix.bsky.social, Penny Goldberg, Costas Meghir & @gulyssea.bsky.social find in Brazil, ⬇️ trade barriers helps workers move to more productive formal sector & real income ⬆️ egc.yale.edu/research/how...

📢 📢 Calling all pre-doctoral fellows 📢 📢 The second annual Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference will be hosted by Yale University on Friday, June 5. Please use this link to submit your research by April 6th: tobin.yale.edu/events/2026/...

Why would a university ever prefer less information about its applicants? That question lies at the heart of two new papers coauthored by Yale economist Navin Kartik with @wouterdessein.bsky.social (@columbiabusiness.bsky.social) & Alex Frankel (UChicago): economics.yale.edu/news/260206/...

"This chapter takes stock of what has been learned from the recent micro-development literature about wedges." NEW in @nber.org by Lauren F. Bergquist, @ldaniall.bsky.social, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social: nber.org/papers/w34756

New at JIE: "Using satellite imagery to measure the impacts of new highways: An application to India" by Kathryn Baragwanath, Gordon H. Hanson, Amit K. Khandelwal (@yaleeconomics.bsky.social), Chen Liu, Hogeun Park doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

"We model how environmental quality affects health, productivity and well-being and how individuals privately adapt to environmental hazards." NEW in @nber.org by B. Kelsey Jack & Nicholas Ryan: www.nber.org/papers/w34735

"This paper reviews recent developments in the economics of human development, focusing on the early years of life as a critical period for shaping long-term outcomes." NEW in @nber.org by Orazio Attanasio: www.nber.org/papers/w34651

NEW in @jpolecon.bsky.social: "In this paper, we investigate the determinants and consequences of parental interference in their children’s peer relationships." By Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti, and Fabrizio Zilibotti: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Congratulations to Yale's Cormac O'Dea, & coauthors Taha Choukhmane / Lucas Goodman, for winning the 2025 TIAA Samuelson Award for their paper “Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples” Full story here: www.tiaa.org/public/about...

Congratulations to Yale's Cormac O'Dea, & coauthors Taha Choukhmane / Lucas Goodman, for winning the 2025 TIAA Samuelson Award for their paper “Efficiency in Household Decision-Making: Evidence from the Retirement Savings of US Couples” Full story here: www.tiaa.org/public/about...

Missed Leah Boustan's AEA Distinguished Lecture at the conference? Watch it here: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Her new findings on recent immigrant assimilation patterns across Europe show some similarities, but also some critical differences compared to the US.

Recently back from the COP30 conference, EGC director Rohini Pande explains how a new plan for carbon emissions she presented there could offer a path to global net zero. news.yale.edu/2025/12/16/w...

How can experiments give us a better understanding of human behavior? Maria Kogelnik & Alejandro Martinez-Marquina discuss how the field has evolved & what their own research reveals about controversial policies like gender quotas. From @yaleegc.bsky.social: egc.yale.edu/news/251201/...

We're launching the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics & Policy Program, a hub for policy-relevant health economics research at Yale. Co-directed by Janet Currie & Zack Cooper, the Program will catalyze rigorous economic scholarship to directly inform policy: tobin.yale.edu/news/251117/...

We're launching the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics & Policy Program, a hub for policy-relevant health economics research at Yale. Co-directed by Janet Currie & Zack Cooper, the Program will catalyze rigorous economic scholarship to directly inform policy: tobin.yale.edu/news/251117/...

This paper shows how exposure to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) during childhood affects women’s health outcomes in early-adulthood, as well as the health of their infants. NEW in @nber.org by Janet Currie and Jessica Van Parys: nber.org/papers/w34464

Agricultural supply chains expert Lauren Falcao Bergquist @yaleeconomics.bsky.social joins Development Economics @ Michigan this Thursday! This & more Dev Econ events upcoming: @deanyang.bsky.social devecon.umich.edu/events/

"This chapter explores the long-run implications of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for economic growth and labor markets." NEW in @nber.org by Pascual Restrepo: nber.org/papers/w34423

We’re excited to introduce the Yale Department of Economics 2025-26 Job Market Candidates! Look out for individual posts about their research interests and job market papers this week, and learn more about the candidates here: economics.yale.edu/phd-program/...

We’re excited to introduce the Yale Department of Economics 2025-26 Job Market Candidates! Look out for individual posts about their research interests and job market papers this week, and learn more about the candidates here: economics.yale.edu/phd-program/...

"We study the role of information in Bertrand competition with differentiated goods and heterogeneous production costs." NEW in AEJ: Microeconomics by Dirk Bergemann, Benjamin Brooks, and Stephen Morris: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

"We provide new evidence on how felony non-carceral conviction and incarceration affect future criminal justice involvement." NEW in Quarterly Journal of Economics by John Eric Humphries, Aurélie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, Megan T Stevenson, & Winnie van Dijk: academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking economic historian. Read more in Yale News: news.yale.edu/2025/10/16/p...

How do vertically integrated firms' pricing and product provision decisions change with upstream and downstream competition? NEW in @nber.org by Charles Hodgson & Shilong Sun: nber.org/papers/w34390

"We provide new evidence on how felony non-carceral conviction and incarceration affect future criminal justice involvement." NEW in Quarterly Journal of Economics by John Eric Humphries, Aurélie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, Megan T Stevenson, & Winnie van Dijk: academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking economic historian. Read more in Yale News: news.yale.edu/2025/10/16/p...

The Economics Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy are hiring several Pre-Doctoral Fellows starting in Summer 2026. Come join our vibrant program! Learn more and apply here: tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...

"We examine information versus hassle costs in the context of Medicaid prior authorization requirements for preschool antipsychotic prescribing." NEW in @nber.org by Janet Currie & Kate Musen: nber.org/papers/w34369

The Economics Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy are hiring several Pre-Doctoral Fellows starting in Summer 2026. Come join our vibrant program! Learn more and apply here: tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...

To celebrate Professor Steve Berry and his lifetime of accomplishments, we interviewed many colleagues and students and wrote about the lasting impact of his work, in the words of those who know him best: tobin.yale.edu/news/250930/...

NEW in the Journal of Political Economy: "Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States" By Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, and Hanzhe Zhang: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

NEW in @nber.org: "Drivers of Digital Payment Adoption: Lessons from Brazil, Costa Rica, and Mexico" By David Argente, Paula Gonzalez Alvarez, Esteban Méndez, and Diana Van Patten: www.nber.org/papers/w34280

"This paper revisits the relationship between international trade, trade policy, and development in light of the structural, policy, and geopolitical shifts that have transformed globalization over the past decade." NEW in @nber.org by Goldberg & Ruta: www.nber.org/papers/w34283

Join us for the 6th Women in International Economics Conference, October 16-17, 2025 at Yale! See the agenda below. More information here: cowles.yale.edu/events/2025/...

"We develop a method of solving rational expectations models with dispersed information and dynamic strategic complementarities." NEW in The Review of Economic Studies by Zhen Huo & Naoki Takayama: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

"Using geographic discontinuities in the Norwegian annual net-wealth tax and third-party-reported data on savings, I find that wealth taxation causes households to save more." NEW in The Review of Economic Studies by Marius Ring: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

Join us tomorrow (Sept. 10) at noon for the first Cowles Lunch Talk of the semester! Featuring Dirk Bergemann on "Information Design in the Digital Economy:" cowles.yale.edu/events/cowle...

"This paper proposes that test-optional policies are a response to social pressure on admission decisions." NEW in the American Economic Review by Wouter Dessein, Alex Frankel, and Navin Kartik: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Join us for the 6th Women in International Economics Conference, October 16-17, 2025 at Yale! See the agenda below. More information here: cowles.yale.edu/events/2025/...

As we kick off the fall semester, join us in welcoming our new faculty members to Yale! Learn more about their backgrounds and research: economics.yale.edu/news/250828/...

"This paper introduces a decomposition of welfare assessments for general dynamic stochastic economies with heterogeneous individuals." NEW in Journal of Political Economy by Eduardo Dávila and Andreas Schaab: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

As we kick off the fall semester, join us in welcoming our new faculty members to Yale! Learn more about their backgrounds and research: economics.yale.edu/news/250828/...

"We examine whether large-scale information interventions can improve college application outcomes in a centralized admissions system." NEW in @nber.org by Tomás Larroucau, Ignacio A. Rios, Anaïs Fabre, & Christopher Neilson nber.org/papers/w34164

Former White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi visited Yale's Tobin Center to discuss challenges and opportunities for business leaders, policymakers, & others in this moment of disruption in the clean energy space. Watch the full interview here: tobin.yale.edu/news/250821/...

How much could an economy grow from improvements in women’s labor market opportunities? The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) links changes in gender gaps in the labor market to productivity growth. NEW in @nber.org: nber.org/papers/w34142

🆕 How internal migration is reshaping rural India Today on VoxDev, @raamadhok.bsky.social (University of Minnesota), Frederik Noack (UBC), @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (Yale) & Olivier Deschenes (UCSB) discuss the internal migration of agricultural workers in India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...