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The Animal-Welfare Levy Abstract. We provide a nonanthropocentric rationale for implementing a levy on meat consumption due to animal-welfare considerations. It operates as a Pigo

Forthcoming article "The Animal-Welfare Levy” by Romain Espinosa and Nicolas Treich
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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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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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Good morning. If you teach economics at a European institution and are running an engaging teaching project, or would like to nominate a colleague doing excellent work, we would be very pleased to receive nominations and applications for the EEA Teaching Awards. #TeachEcon

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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📢 The EEA Education Committee has launched the 5th edition of the Teaching Awards!

Celebrating academic economists who make an outstanding impact through teaching.

Nominate by 30 April ⬇️
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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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#Womenineconomics The Science Behind the Contribution of Economics Papers
🎓 Early career women faculty in economics (PhDs 2021–2026)
🗓️ March 16
⏰ 14:00–16:00 CET
💻 Online (Zoom)
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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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📢@ctale.bsky.social & @cornelluniversity.bsky.social host virtual TeachECONference2026 between June 29-30
📝 Submit 300-word proposals for 10-minute presentations before February 23, 2026
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💡National Bank of Slovakia (NBS)'s GEP is a 12-month postgraduate initiative, offering an exceptional opportunity to combine acquisition of strong academic knowledge with professional experience at NBS
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⏳Application deadline: 15 April
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Many thanks to Andrea Weber @ceu-economics.bsky.social
for 4 years of outstanding service on the JEEA Editorial team🫂

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

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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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📢 Apply by January 26: EEA's Education Committee Seedcorn Fund, supporting development & implementation of small-scale innovative projects aiming to improve the delivery of HE & undergrad or postgrad students' learning experience

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📢 #EconSky 👇
📍Dublin
🗓️August 17-21
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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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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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⏰ Reminder📍#ASSA2026 📢 #EconSky
EEA / @jeeanews.bsky.social – FBBVA Lecture 2026
🎤 Francesco Caselli on Executive Pay Caps & Macro Outcomes
🗓️ Sun, Jan 4, 12:30 EST
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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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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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Good luck to all the candidates and recruiters this week!

#EJME online interviews week!
🍀 Best of luck to all candidates as your work & ideas take centre stage 📚
🤝 Warm wishes to recruiters for a successful and rewarding hiring season
Let’s keep EJME respectful, collaborative & inspiring
Competitive yet cooperative
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Check out the December 2025 issue (23,6) of @jeeanews.bsky.social Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social

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Forthcoming article "The Speed of Firm Response to Inflation" by Ivan Yotzov, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen and Gregory Thwaites
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📢 #EconSky Francesco Caselli will give the 2026
@jeeanews.bsky.social - FBBVA lecture:
"Macroeconomic Implications of Executive Pay Caps"
🗓️Sun, Jan 4 @ 12:30 EST
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Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town Abstract. A near-catastrophic drought in Cape Town, South Africa, illustrates three implications of climate change for publicly provided utility services.

Forthcoming article "Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town" by Alexander Abajian, Cassandra Cole, B Kelsey Jack, @kylemeng.com and Martine Visser
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Pricing Congestion to Increase Traffic: The Case of Bogotá Abstract. In September 2021, the city of Bogotá introduced a major market-based reform to its odd–even driving restriction, known as Pico y Placa. Since th

Forthcoming article “Pricing Congestion to Increase Traffic: The Case of Bogotá" by Juan-Pablo Montero, Felipe Sepúlveda and Leonardo J Basso
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