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Cutting off support

November 22, 2019

The AEA interviews Thiemo Fetzer about how austerity policies after the financial crisis led to Brexit.

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Sticky wages and recessions

November 11, 2019

Unemployment in Indian villages was exacerbated when laborers resisted pay cuts during bad times.

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Staying put or moving on?

October 15, 2019

A housing law in San Francisco offers lessons for today’s rent-control debates.

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Tariffs and tearing up trade agreements

October 11, 2019

What would ending NAFTA and Brexit do to car industries around the world?

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Leave no neighborhood behind

October 2, 2019

Funding formulas for charter schools should be tied to the cost of educating students.

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Coping without benefits

September 30, 2019

What happens to household spending when unemployment insurance dries up?

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Reshaping financial networks

September 23, 2019

Civil War-era legislation helped usher in a period of top-down banking panics. Are there lessons for today’s economies?

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Scientific progress one funeral at a time

September 13, 2019

What happens to a research field when it loses its leader?

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Breaching the Great Firewall

September 4, 2019

What has censorship done to the Chinese public’s demand for politically sensitive news?

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Unbiased results

August 19, 2019

Many research fields are plagued with publication bias. A new statistical technique can help correct the problem.