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Experimental Age Discrimination Evidence and the Heckman Critique by David Neumark, Ian Burn and Patrick Button. Published in volume 106, issue 5, pages 303-08 of American Economic Review, May 2016, Abstract: We design and implement a large-scale...

When factories leave town, does violence get worse?

Financing Constraints, Radical versus Incremental Innovation, and Aggregate Productivity by Andrea Caggese. Published in volume 11, issue 2, pages 275-309 of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019, Abstract: I provide new empirical...

In a randomized controlled trial, telling students about loans led to more borrowing, but also better grades.

Retrospectives: What Did the Ancient Greeks Mean by Oikonomia? by Dotan Leshem. Published in volume 30, issue 1, pages 225-38 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2016, Abstract: Nearly every economist has at some point in the standard...

When sellers know too much about buyers, both can suffer.

A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers by Daniel Diermeier, Michael Keane and Antonio Merlo. Published in volume 95, issue 1, pages 347-373 of American Economic Review, March 2005, Abstract: Our main goal is to quantify the returns to a...

Fixed-Wage Contracts and Monetary Non-neutrality by Maria Björklund, Mikael Carlsson and Oskar Nordström Skans. Published in volume 11, issue 2, pages 171-92 of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019, Abstract: We study the importance...

Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity by Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter. Published in volume 14, issue 3, pages 159-181 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2000, Abstract: This paper shows that reciprocity has powerful...

Underemployment and the Trickle-Down of Unemployment by Regis Barnichon and Yanos Zylberberg. Published in volume 11, issue 2, pages 40-78 of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019, Abstract: A substantial fraction of workers are...

Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti. Published in volume 11, issue 2, pages 1-39 of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2019, Abstract: We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of...