The introduction of milking machines to Norwegian dairy farms in the 1950s eliminated one of the most common occupations performed by rural women. In a paper in the American Economic Review, authors Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, and Kjell G. Salvanes tracked approximately 725,000 Norwegians, using detailed registry data to documen...
Roger Guesnerie, a past president of the EEA, passed away in Paris, France on January 4, 2026. He was a major figure in theoretical economics whose work shaped several core areas of the discipline, including general equilibrium theory, public economics, incentive theory, macroeconomic fluctuations, the theory of expectations, and climate economics. Bo...
14 January 2026, 09:00 – 12:00 ESTRegistration Deadline: 9 December 2025, 23:59 ESTWorkshop LeadersGuest coeditors of the Special Research Spotlight: From Circularity to Regeneration in Management and OrganizationsOana Branzei, Western UniversityNancy Bocken, Maastricht UniversityStefano Pascucci, University of ExeterSusan Cohen, Deputy Editor,&...
Nageeb Ali and Ran Shorrer discuss the optimal strategy for applying to college.Guidance counselors generally advise college applicants to diversify their applications across schools they believe to be safeties, matches, and reaches. Yet, prevailing economic theories of school choice suggest that such hedging strategies are suboptimal and that applicants s...
The Academy of Management returns to North America for AOM 2026 in Philadelphia, PA.31 July – 4 August 2026Submission Deadline: 13 January 2026, 17:00 ESTPhiladelphia, PA, USA The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management is the premier event for scholarly engagement, and the largest gathering of management and organization scholars in the wor...
Submission Deadline: 13 January 2026 (17:00 ET GMT/UTC-5)The Academy of Management and its Divisions and Interest Groups (DIGs), Affiliates, and Caucus Committee are excited to invite submissions and seek reviewers to evaluate conference submissions for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 31 J...
To:Members of the American Economic AssociationFrom:Peter L. Rousseau, Secretary-TreasurerThe 2026 ASSA Meeting took place in Philadelphia, with more than 5,000 registrants. The energy among attendees and colleagues to be back together and the excitement for the new opportunities at the meeting were unmistakable throughout the hotels and meeting areas. Six...
In 1991, the EEA created a medal to be awarded once every 2 years (even years) to the author(s) of an outstanding article published in the Association's journal during the two preceding years. It has been named the Hicks-Tinbergen medal to make it clear that the EEA stands for both theoretical and empirical work in economics in Europe. It was awarded f...
A comprehensive measure of well-being shows that the gap between Black and White Americans is larger than traditional metrics suggest.Source: barsikStandard measures of welfare typically focus on single dimensions like wealth or life expectancy, but these isolated comparisons may substantially understate the extent of the welfare gap in the United States. ...
Early and Mid-career faculty — especially women — don’t lack expertise. What they lack is time. Delegation is essential for sustaining research productivity and supporting the next generation. This masterclass provides a clear, teachable framework to help early career faculty women define their research question, articulate their contribu...
