Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills Abstract. What are the returns in terms of children’s skills development to child allowance policies? Answering this question requires a theory of the trad

Forthcoming article "Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills" by Iacopo Morchio
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When does norms-based discrimination emerge? We stress the importance of economic integration. A minority is at risk of discrimination in democracy (a majority of voters may prefer a world with discrimination than without) when it is composed of many workers and few employers.

A Political Economy of Social Discrimination Abstract. This paper studies the causes and consequences of social discrimination. We consider a labor market in which payoff-irrelevant identity traits ca

Forthcoming article "A Political Economy of Social Discrimination" by Torun Dewan and Stephane Wolton
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Check out the February 2026 issue (24,1) of @jeeanews.bsky.social Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social

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Editorial Board Managing Editor Romain Wacziarg UCLA Anderson School of Management wacziarg@ucla.edu Romain Wacziarg is a professor of economics at UCLA Anderson School of M

EEA Editorial Board 2026: Biggest thanks to Andrea Weber stepping down as Co-Editor after many years of outstanding service on the JEEA Editorial team as well as a warm welcome to Jessica Pan as new Co-Editor @eeanews.bsky.social
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking - ProMarket Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political polarization at historic levels, a new paper finds that ...

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In the “The Common Good and Voter Polarization”, Kendall and Matsusaka use data on ballot propositions to show that voters weight the common good and their own private interests roughly equally. Thus, there is still hope for democracy in an increasingly polarized environment.

The Common Good and Voter Polarization Abstract. Do voters see democracy entirely in spatial terms, as a tradeoff of conflicting interests, or do they also view it as a search for the “common go

Forthcoming article "The Common Good and Voter Polarization" by Chad Kendall and John G Matsusaka
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Can mandatory service build nations? Evidence from Argentina shows conscription boosts national identity and social integration, but not civic values. Effects appear driven by value inculcation in the military, not just contact across social groups.

Nation-Building through Military Service Abstract. This paper studies conscription’s role in durably shaping attitudes and beliefs consistent with nation-building. We pair original survey data cov

Forthcoming article "Nation-Building through Military Service" by Juan Pedro Ronconi and Diego Ramos-Toro
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Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion Abstract. Using unique data covering the entire population of sole proprietorships in Italy with their respective audit files, we examine the role of tax a

Forthcoming article "Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion” by @battaglini.bsky.social Luigi Guiso @chiaralac.bsky.social and Eleonora Patacchini
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Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion* Abstract. Using unique data covering the entire population of sole proprietorships in Italy with their respective audit files, we examine the role of tax a

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My paper with @EleonoraPatacc2, @guiso_luigi, and @chiaralac, “Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion,” is finally out.
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If you are interested in social networks and fiscal policy, this one is for you. 🧵

📢EEA and @jeeanews.bsky.social are delighted to announce that Jessica Pan will join the JEEA Editorial Board.

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Tyler Giles, Dan Hungerman and Tamar Oostrom show that decreases in religious participation increase deaths of despair. Their work explains part of the initial increase in deaths of despair in the early 1990s.

Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion Abstract. In recent decades, death rates from suicides, drug poisonings, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We s

Forthcoming article "Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion" by @tyler-giles.bsky.social Daniel Hungerman and Tamar Oostrom
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Expectations Matter What people believe about the economy—and why it matters

More details in: tinyurl.com/36awpxbk #Macro #RCTs #Expectations #Economics

(2/2) It also shows how expectations and uncertainty drive real economic behavior and highlight challenges and promise for future work.

(1/2) The paper by Coibion & Gorodnichenko shows how Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) can be used to identify the causal impact of expectations (e.g., inflation beliefs) on household & firm decisions—helping address classic identification problems in macro.

Schumpeter Lecture 2025: The New Causal Macroeconomics of Surveys and Experiments Abstract. We discuss how randomized control trials (RCTs) can be used to study the causal effects of expectations on the decisions of households, firms, an

Forthcoming article “The New Causal Macroeconomics of Surveys and Experiments” (Schumpeter Lecture 2025) by Olivier Coibion and @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social

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Thrilled to have you on board!
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Editorial Board Managing Editor Romain Wacziarg UCLA Anderson School of Management wacziarg@ucla.edu Romain Wacziarg is a professor of economics at UCLA Anderson School of M

A big welcome to our new Associate Editors the Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social

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Can fiscal rules curb waste without hurting services? This paper shows that in lower-accountability settings like Colombian municipalities, they do: fiscal rules cut administrative waste, preserve public goods, and raise incumbent reelection by making voters better off.

Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia Abstract. Fiscal rules are a popular tool to improve fiscal discipline and reduce waste in public spending, but their effectiveness and political feasibili

Forthcoming article "Fiscal Rules, Austerity in Public Administration, and Political Accountability: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia” by @mariacarreri.bsky.social and Luis R Martínez
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Marshall Lecture 2025: Political Information and Network Effects* Abstract. Why do political campaigns so often yield unexpected results? We address this question by separately estimating the direct effect of a campaign o

Forthcoming article "Political Information and Network Effects* (Marshall Lecture 2025) by Georgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev, Maxim Mironov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
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Our "Dodging Day Zero" paper is out in JEEA. We uncover how Cape Town avoided 2017's catastrophic drought. But in doing so, created longer term sustainability challenges and weakened the fiscal viability of public water. A lesson for the 1B living in drought vulnerable cities.

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Now in print at JEEA: results from a negotiation training RCT for community leaders in rural Liberia. The goal was to address experience/knowledge asymmetries between community leaders and commercial interests in negotiating mining, logging, land lease, and other resource use contracts.

The study tests whether interest-based negotiation training helps Liberian community leaders secure better land and forest deals. Trained leaders are 27% more likely to reach beneficial agreements, generate 42% more surplus, and reduce forest exploitation by 0.27 SD.

Interest-Based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia Abstract. We experimentally evaluate whether an interest-based negotiation training for community leaders in Liberia improves their ability to strike benef

Forthcoming article "Interest-based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia" Darin Christensen, Alexandra C Hartman @cdsamii.bsky.social and Alessandro Toppeta
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This shows the response of inflation perceptions to CPI data releases