From the consequences of George Floyd's murder, to extending unemployment benefits, to bank bailouts: here are the 10 most-read Featured Charts of 2025. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Similarity of Information and Collective Action" by Deepal Basak, Joyee Deb, and Aditya Kuvalekar. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Robust Misspecified Models" by Cuimin Ba. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "How Effective Are R&D Tax Incentives? Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence" by Silvia Appelt, Matěj Bajgar, Chiara Criscuolo, and Fernando Galindo-Rueda. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Market Power and Capital Constraints" by Milena Wittwer and Jason Allen. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the JEL: "AI-Powered (Finance) Scholarship" by Robert Novy-Marx and Mihail Velikov. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development" by Gaurav Khanna, Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and Dean Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality" by Tine M. Eriksen, Amanda P. Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, and Peter R. Thingholm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis" by Stephen Ayerst, Loren Brandt, and Diego Restuccia. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa" by Andrea Guariso and Thorsten Rogall. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform" by Santosh Anagol, Fernando Ferreira, and Jonah Rexer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Evidence from UK Business Rate Reliefs" by Ben Lockwood, Martin Simmler, and Eddy H.F. Tam. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Are Building Codes an Effective Adaptation to Wind Risk? Evidence from Remotely Detected Blue Tarps" by David Wolf and Kenji Takeuchi. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence" by Luis Armona, Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica, and Jesse M. Shapiro. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Intensive college advising is a cost-effective way to increase bachelor’s degrees among low-income students, say researchers at @tamuartsci.bsky.social & the University of Virginia. They say that advisors help students to enroll in higher-quality institutions. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/int...

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy by Lenore Palladino" by Ryan Bubb. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Failures of Contingent Reasoning in Annuitization Decisions" by Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Priscila De Oliveira, and Dmitry Taubinsky. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Trade Protection Along Supply Chains" by Chad P. Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia" by Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas, and Elan Satriawan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Missing Loan-to-Value Cycle" by Manuel Adelino, W. Ben McCartney, and Antoinette Schoar. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance" by Keith M. Ericson and Justin Sydnor. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Detection of Collusive Networks in Multistage Auctions" by Bruno Baránek, Leon Musolff, and Vítězslav Titl. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care" by Edward N. Okeke. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Prioritizing Benefit? How Low-Income Patients Respond to Prescription Cost-Sharing" by Christopher Hollrah. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States" by Hans A. Holter, Serhiy Stepanchuk, and Yicheng Wang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India" by Sarika Gupta. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Who Gets a Family? The Consequences of Family and Congregate Care Allocation for Child Outcomes" by Cameron Taylor. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

When interest rates hit zero, central banks lose their most powerful tool for stabilizing the economy. History shows that government spending and public expectations then take the lead, say researchers at Brown University. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs" by Oren Danieli, Daniel Nevo, Itai Walk, Bar Weinstein, and Dan Zeltzer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities" by Bassi, Besbas, Dinarte-Diaz, Ravindran, and Reynoso. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid by Sheilagh Ogilvie" by Vellore Arthi. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Cracking down on a single doctor who overprescribes opioids significantly reduces dispensing. We spoke with Adam Soliman of Clemson University about what his findings mean for combating drug epidemics that begin in the legal pharmaceutical market. www.aeaweb.org/research/dru...

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Intermediaries and Asset Prices" by Valentin Haddad and Tyler Muir. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "All Roads Lead to Rome: Global Air Connectivity and Bilateral Trade" by Zheng Wang, Feicheng Wang, and Zhuo Zhou. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The December 2025 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (63, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/829.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Impacts of Corporate Tax Cuts on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Small Businesses" by Yige Duan and Terry S. Moon. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Equal Pay for Similar Work" by Diego Gentile Passaro, Fuhito Kojima, and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance" by David J. Price and Jae Song. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The abrupt end of unemployment benefits in 2013 led to a surge in employment and labor force growth, especially in states with larger cuts in benefit duration, say researchers at @uio.no, @upenn.edu, and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences" by Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Sequential Protest Formation" by Benjamin Matta. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The December 2025 issue of the American Economic Review (115, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/828.

The December 2025 issue of AER: Insights (7, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/827.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India" by S Anukriti, Bilge Erten, and Priya Mukherjee. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Early Grade Retention Harms Adult Earnings" by Jiee Zhong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "The Economics of Discriminatory Job Reservations" by James P. Choy. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State" by Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, et al. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Price of War" by Jonathan Federle, André Meier, Gernot J. Müller, Willi Mutschler, and Moritz Schularick. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Housing market frictions and relaxed credit conditions explain as much as 70 percent of the 2000s boom in house prices, say researchers at NYU Stern and Boston University. Their findings offer important lessons for macroprudential policies. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cre...

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology by Jorge Goldstein" by Josh Lerner. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...