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- Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Alan Manning
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
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Should College Be "Free"? Evidence on Free College, Early Commitment, and Merit Aid from an Eight-Year Randomized Trial
- Douglas N. Harris, Jonathan Mills
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- Vol. 17, No. 3, August 2025
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- Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard
- American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
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Church Tax Exemption and Structure of Religious Markets: A Dynamic Structural Analysis
- Raphael Corbi, Fabio Miessi Sanches
- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
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The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence
- Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2014
Income Equality in the Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
- Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, Gaute Torsvik
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The Economics of Attention
- George Loewenstein, Zachary Wojtowicz
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A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory
- Adam Szeidl, Ferenc Szucs
- American Economic Review
- Vol. 115, No. 9, September 2025
Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
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- American Economic Review: Insights
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- American Economic Review: Insights
Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market
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- American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups
- Kevin Bryan, Mitchell Hoffman, Amir Sariri
- American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax
- Elisa Casi, Evelina Gavrilova, David Murphy, Floris Zoutman
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Managers and Public Hospital Performance
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- American Economic Review
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