The Economic Journal

Geographical Roots of Language–Culture Coevolution: agriculture fostered future orientation and future tense, land suitable for plow use reinforced gender bias and grammatical gender & ecological diversity spurred power distance and politeness distinctions.

AEA RCT preregistrations often feature vague primary outcomes and frequent sample size deviations, while p-value distributions look similar for registered and unregistered studies. A dynamic signalling model shows banning late registration can actually raise registration rates.

In the Brazilian Amazon, landholders play a prominent role in local politics. Large landholders make political donations to overcome barriers to soybean adoption. Mayors reciprocate by promoting agriculture, resulting in increased land conversion and environmental violations.

Research on the UK's 2016 NPS ban finds it cut drug availability in prisons but also triggered surge in inmate violence & self-harm. Effective policy must integrate demand-side addiction treatment & mental health services to ensure safety in complex settings.

We introduce an experience-based Kalman filter into an NK model to study the macroeconomic implications of expectation heterogeneity. We test this mechanism empirically. In general equilibrium, it produces sluggish adjustments, explaining key features of post-pandemic dynamics

Hiring committees favor candidates whose research resembles their own. This “similarity bias” helps explain who gets tenure-track jobs—and why women, having less research overlap with male-dominated committees, face extra barriers.

The boll weevil infestation—a major agricultural shock to the American South—ended up helping Black sons in the long run. Linked census data show they earned more as adults, while White sons weren’t hurt—narrowing racial inequality.

How do cognitive skills develop after childhood, and can wages proxy adult skills? Linking childhood skills to wages and skills at 50, the paper finds education predicts both later skills and wages, while occupation and time out of work predict wages only.