American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

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Expanding access vs. controlling costs

January 23, 2019
A new paper examines some of the factors that may drive patient choices to pursue expensive fertility treatments.
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Encouraging innovation

January 16, 2019
What effect do patents have on the potential for a technology to be used in future product development?
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Boys' club

January 14, 2019
An elite education can propel someone into a top corporate job...if they are a wealthy man.
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Man vs machine

November 28, 2018
Robots take jobs, but create new ones too. Which will happen faster?
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Waiting for the windfall

November 19, 2018
How do financial considerations influence discharge decisions at long-term acute-care hospitals?
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State-unbuilding

November 14, 2018
The Taliban recognized the importance of elections and made them a primary target.