Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Min(d)ing the President: A Text Analytic Approach to Measuring Tax News" by Lenard Lieb, Adam Jassem, Rui Jorge Almeida, Nalan Baștürk, and Stephan Smeekes. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - Economic agents react to signals about future tax policy changes. Consequently, estimating their macroeconomic effects requires identification of such signals. We propose a nov...
Forthcoming in the AER: "Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent" by Sebastian Hager, Carlo Schwarz, and Fabian Waldinger. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - We study how performance metrics affect the allocation of talent by exploiting the introduction of the first citation database in science. For technical reasons, it only covere...
The October 2024 issue of AEJ: Macroeconomics (16, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/779.
Vol. 16 No. 4 October 2024
The October 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 10) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/778.
Vol. 114 No. 10 October 2024
Forthcoming in the AER: "Beliefs in Repeated Games: An Experiment" by Masaki Aoyagi, Guillaume R. Fréchette, and Sevgi Yuksel. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper uses a laboratory experiment to study beliefs and their relationship to action and strategy choices in finitely and indefinitely repeated prisoners' dilemma games. W...
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Information Acquisition and Time-Risk Preference" by Daniel Chen and Weijie Zhong. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - An agent acquires information dynamically until her belief about a binary state reaches an upper or lower threshold. She can choose any signal process subject to a const...
The October 2024 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (16, 4) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/777.
Vol. 16 No. 4 October 2024
Cash transfer programs are important development policy tools, but their impact in age-based societies is much different than in kinship societies, says Jacob Moscona of MIT Economics. We spoke with him about social structure and financial ties in East Africa. #econskywww.aeaweb.org/research/cul...
Jacob Moscona discusses how social structure shapes spillover effects of economic development policies.
Forthcoming in the JEL: "Of Markets and Marriages: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of US Poverty" by Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent US poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market act...
Forthcoming in the JEL: "Deep Learning for Economists" by Melissa Dell. #econskywww.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(Forthcoming Article) - Deep learning provides powerful methods to impute structured information from large-scale, unstructured text and image datasets. For example, economists might wish to detect th...