Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Which Reference Groups Matter and How? A Relative Income Information Experiment with Administrative Data" by Xiaogeng Xu, Satu Metsälampi, Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Peter Hans Matthews, and Topi Miettinen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Inclusive Teaching: Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom" by Sule Alan, Michela Carlana, and Marinella Leone. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks" by Franziska Bremus and Malte Rieth. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Brazil's generous tax exemptions for churches inadvertently accelerated the decline of Catholic dominance, while fueling growth among evangelical denominations, say researchers at USP and FGV EESP. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/chu...

Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Theory of Financial Stability Meets Reality: A Unifying Framework for Bank Regulation and Accounting Discretion" by Nina Boyarchenko, Kinda Hachem, and Anya Kleymenova. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Welfare Effects of Eligibility Expansions: Theory and Evidence from SNAP" by Jenna Anders and Charlie Rafkin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intra-Household Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences" by Jorge Luis García. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Adjustable Product Attributes, Indirect Network Effects, and Subsidy Design: The Case of Electric Vehicles" by Kevin Remmy. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Tying with Network Effects" by Jay Pil Choi, Doh-Shin Jeon, and Michael D. Whinston. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility" by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Racial Disparities in Housing Returns" by Amir Kermani and Francis Wong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "First Generation Elite: The Role of School Social Networks" by Sarah Cattan, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Emma Tominey. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Fintech Explained: How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services by Michael R. King" by Richard Holden. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media" by Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, and Christopher Roth. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Macro Recruiting Intensity from Micro Data" by Simon Mongey and Giovanni L. Violante. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

When natural disasters divert public attention from day-to-day governance, members of Congress are more likely to tilt their votes toward the preferences of their special interest donors, say researchers at Maryland, Northwestern, and Queensland. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Voter Information and Distributive Politics" by Benjamin Blumenthal. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria" by Philipp Ager, Casper W. Hansen, and Peter Z. Lin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections" by Niall Hughes. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Sharing Model Uncertainty" by Chiaki Hara, Sujoy Mukerji, Frank Riedel, and Jean-Marc Tallon. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Concentration in Product Markets" by C. Lanier Benkard, Ali Yurukoglu, and Anthony Lee Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences" by Philipp Sadowski and Todd Sarver. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime: Evidence from Linking Prosecutor Surveys to Court Records" by Emma Harrington, William Murdock III, and Hannah Shaffer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists by Maria Bach" by Alex M. Thomas. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Despite progress, Americans continue to live in racially homogeneous neighborhoods. We spoke with Trevon Logan of Ohio State and John Parman of @wm.edu about why residential segregation persists, and why it matters. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/rac...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "On the Programmability and Uniformity of Digital Currencies" by Jonathan Chiu and Cyril Monnet. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review" by Kevin A. Bryan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Order Effects and Teacher Labor Supply: A Nation-Wide RCT in Ecuador" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Gregory Elacqua, Luana Marotta, and Anne Sofie Olsen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Changing Income Risk across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter" by J. Carter Braxton, Kyle Herkenhoff, Jonathan Rothbaum, and Lawrence Schmidt. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Dominated Pension Investments: The Role of Search Frictions and Unawareness" by Karin Kinnerud and Louise Lorentzon. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Opportunity Hunters: A Model of Competitive Sequential Inspections" by Ran Eilat, Zvika Neeman, and Eilon Solan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Political candidates systematically move toward the political center between the first and second rounds of an election, say researchers at Harvard and @hec.ca. Their findings help confirm the forces behind the median voter theorem. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences" by David Dillenberger and Uzi Segal. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Strategic Evidence Disclosure in Networks and Equilibrium Discrimination" by Leonie Baumann and Rohan Dutta. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The September 2025 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (63, 3) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/819.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax" by Elisa Casi, Evelina Gavrilova, David Murphy, and Floris T. Zoutman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market" by Babur De los Santos, Daniel P. O’Brien, and Matthijs R. Wildenbeest. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Impact of Unions on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Higher Education" by Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, and Derek Messacar. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution" by Daniel Haanwinckel. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The September 2025 issue of the American Economic Review (115, 9) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/816.

Black children exposed to greater educational opportunity during Reconstruction had significantly better economic outcomes as adults, and those benefits were passed on to their children, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Marquette University. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/rec...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups" by Kevin A. Bryan, Mitchell Hoffman, and Amir Sariri. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The September 2025 issue of AER: Insights (7, 3) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/815.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Self-Enforced Job Matching" by Ce Liu, Ziwei Wang, and Hanzhe Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "The Economics of the UK Health and Social Care Labour Market: How Labour Economics Can Inform Policy toward the Frontline Care Workforce by Robert Elliott" by Elaine Kelly. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Firm Responses and Wage Effects of Foreign Demand Shocks with Fixed Labor Costs and Monopsony" by Emmanuel Dhyne, Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Toshiaki Komatsu, Magne Mogstad, and Felix Tintelnot. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Responses to Extreme Temperatures: Migrant Networks and International Migration from El Salvador" by Ana Maria Ibáñez, Juliana Quigua, Maria Jimena Romero, and Andrea Velásquez. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry" by Jie Bai, Panle Jia Barwick, Shengmao Cao, and Shanjun Li. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Harnessing Deductions to Increase Tax Compliance and Formalization" by Albrecht Bohne and Jan Sebastian Nimczik. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...