Research Highlights Article

Are taxpayers well-informed about the taxes they pay?

April 20, 2016

What online searches reveal about how people think about taxes

AEA in the news

When Discredited Policies Make Sense

April 20, 2016

A column appearing in Bloomberg View highlights a 2012 American Economic Review piece about economic policy during the Great Depression

Announcement

Past AEA President William Nordhaus Named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

April 19, 2016

Congratulations to William Nordhaus on being named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

AEA in the news

Tax transparency: when less is more

April 15, 2016

The Economist highlighted papers from the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy in an article about the promise of tax transparency laws

AEA in the news

What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life?

April 15, 2016

An article in Slate by the co-founders of Give Directly cited a study from this month’s issue of the American Economic Review

AEA in the news

Why crude oil prices keep taking us by surprise

April 14, 2016

Vox covered a paper on the difficulties of forecasting oil prices appearing in the Winter 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

Research Highlights Article

How much tax revenue are we losing to offshore havens?

April 13, 2016

How corporations use low-tax countries to shelter their profits

Announcement

What's New with the AEA Website?

April 7, 2016

AEA launches a revised web interface and new economics content

Research Highlights Article

How valuable is access to the social safety net in early childhood?

April 6, 2016

The effects of the Food Stamp Program rollout are still visible decades later

AEA in the news

Satellite Images Can Pinpoint Poverty Where Surveys Can’t

April 4, 2016

NYT Upshot blog covered a 2012 AER paper about novel ways of measuring economic growth