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Hidden genius

December 16, 2020

How does a successful research career relate to where someone was born?

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Rural education and the send-down movement

December 14, 2020

A chaotic episode in China’s past paved the way for better schooling in the countryside.

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Gendered laws

December 9, 2020

Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.

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Lifting the resource curse

December 7, 2020

Better information helped stop political violence over natural gas in Mozambique.

Member Announcement

AEA Member Announcements: Annual Meeting Registration and Other Announcements

December 7, 2020

View member announcements from December 7, 2020.

Call For Papers

International conference on gender economics: "Rethinking gender: Economic and social costs of gender inequality”

December 4, 2020

The deadline for submissions is January 5, 2021.

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Elite education and affirmative action

December 4, 2020

Do selective high schools help students with disadvantaged backgrounds get into better colleges?

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Moving to a healthier place

December 2, 2020

Hurricane Katrina forced New Orleanians to uproot and live somewhere else. What effect did that have on their health?

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Incentivizing innovation

November 30, 2020

Could the "interim-payment" model solve flaws with research contests?

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The anatomy of inequality

November 25, 2020

Florian Hoffman discusses how income disparities have grown in the US and Europe over the last 40 years.