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Summer 2020, Volume 34, Issue 3
- 220-236 Facts and Myths about Misperceptions
by Brendan Nyhan - 237-261 Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn
by Josh Lerner & Ramana Nanda - 262-269 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2020, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 3-23 Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement
by Carolyn M. Moehling & Melissa A. Thomasson - 24-48 A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship since Women's Enfranchisement
by Elizabeth U. Cascio & Na'ama Shenhav - 49-67 Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
by Mario L. Small & Devah Pager - 68-89 Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective
by Kevin Lang & Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer - 90-118 Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives
by Cailin Slattery & Owen Zidar - 119-142 Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications
by Henrik Kleven & Camille Landais & Mathilde Muñoz & Stefanie Stantcheva - 143-171 The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
by Sascha O. Becker & Lukas Mergele & Ludger Woessmann - 172-191 The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe
by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln & Matthias Schündeln - 192-214 The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure
by Shane Greenstein - 215-236 The Economics of Tipping
by Ofer H. Azar - 237-244 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2020, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 3-30 Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model
by Rohit Lamba & Arvind Subramanian - 31-54 Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?
by Devesh Kapur - 55-74 The Great Indian Demonetization
by Amartya Lahiri - 75-93 Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy
by Timothy J. Hatton - 94-121 The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
by Courtney Brell & Christian Dustmann & Ian Preston - 122-144 Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
by Kenneth Lee & Edward Miguel & Catherine Wolfram - 145-169 The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right
by Robin Burgess & Michael Greenstone & Nicholas Ryan & Anant Sudarshan - 170-195 Solo Self-Employment and Alternative Work Arrangements: A Cross-Country Perspective on the Changing Composition of Jobs
by Tito Boeri & Giulia Giupponi & Alan B. Krueger & Stephen Machin - 196-221 The Economics of Maps
by Abhishek Nagaraj & Scott Stern - 222-239 Emi Nakamura: 2019 John Bates Clark Medalist
by Janice Eberly & Michael Woodford - 240-247 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2019, Volume 33, Issue 4
- 3-26 What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency?
by Janet Currie & Reed Walker - 27-50 Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act
by Richard Schmalensee & Robert N. Stavins - 51-75 US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?
by David A. Keiser & Joseph S. Shapiro - 76-99 On Latin American Populism, and Its Echoes around the World
by Sebastian Edwards - 100-127 Informational Autocrats
by Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman - 128-151 The Surge of Economic Nationalism in Western Europe
by Italo Colantone & Piero Stanig - 152-170 Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered
by Yotam Margalit - 171-186 What They Were Thinking Then: The Consequences for Macroeconomics during the Past 60 Years
by George A. Akerlof - 187-210 The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare
by Mary Amiti & Stephen J. Redding & David E. Weinstein - 211-228 Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years
by Brett M. Frischmann & Alain Marciano & Giovanni Battista Ramello - 229-236 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2019, Volume 33, Issue 3
- 3-22 Are Price-Cost Markups Rising in the United States? A Discussion of the Evidence
by Susanto Basu - 23-43 Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions
by Chad Syverson - 44-68 Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization
by Steven Berry & Martin Gaynor & Fiona Scott Morton - 69-93 Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets
by Carl Shapiro - 94-117 The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux - 118-143 How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory: A Mutual Interview
by Alvin E. Roth & Robert B. Wilson - 144-162 A Bridge from Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice
by Joshua B. Miller & Adam Sanjurjo - 163-184 A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation
by Nicholas Bloom & John Van Reenen & Heidi Williams - 185-201 How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
by Michael W. L. Elsby & Gary Solon - 202-227 Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence
by Hunt Allcott & Benjamin B. Lockwood & Dmitry Taubinsky - 228-242 Retrospectives: Lord Keynes and Mr. Say: A Proximity of Ideas
by Alain Béraud & Guy Numa - 243-248 Some Journal of Economic Perspectives Articles Recommended for Classroom Use
by Timothy Taylor - 249-256 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2019, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 3-30 Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
by Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo - 31-50 Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction
by Ajay Agrawal & Joshua S. Gans & Avi Goldfarb - 51-70 "Automation" of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study
by Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul W. Rhode - 71-88 The Rise of Robots in China
by Hong Cheng & Ruixue Jia & Dandan Li & Hongbin Li - 89-114 Ten Years after the Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?
by Valerie A. Ramey - 115-140 Rising Government Debt: Causes and Solutions for a Decades-Old Trend
by Pierre Yared - 141-162 Effects of Austerity: Expenditure- and Tax-Based Approaches
by Alberto Alesina & Carlo Favero & Francesco Giavazzi - 163-190 The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men
by Ariel J. Binder & John Bound - 191-210 When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men
by Courtney C. Coile & Mark G. Duggan - 211-228 The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
by Kathryn Edin & Timothy Nelson & Andrew Cherlin & Robert Francis - 229-242 Retrospectives: Ricardo on Machinery
by Samuel Hollander - 243-250 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2019, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 3-22 Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
by Shelly Lundberg & Jenna Stearns - 23-42 Variation in Women's Success across PhD Programs in Economics
by Leah Boustan & Andrew Langan - 43-60 Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Strategies for Making Economics Work for Women at Every Stage
by Kasey Buckles - 61-80 Financial Regulation: Still Unsettled a Decade after the Crisis
by Daniel K. Tarullo - 81-106 Prone to Fail: The Pre-crisis Financial System
by Darrell Duffie - 107-130 Would Macroprudential Regulation Have Prevented the Last Crisis?
by David Aikman & Jonathan Bridges & Anil Kashyap & Caspar Siegert - 131-146 The Value of US Government Data to US Business Decisions
by Ellen Hughes-Cromwick & Julia Coronado - 147-164 On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics
by Hugh Rockoff - 165-184 Evolving Measurement for an Evolving Economy: Thoughts on 21st Century US Economic Statistics
by Ron S. Jarmin - 185-208 Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
by Spencer Banzhaf & Lala Ma & Christopher Timmins - 209-230 Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies
by Susan Athey & Michael Luca - 231-246 Parag Pathak: Winner of the 2018 Clark Medal
by Ariel Pakes & Joel Sobel - 247-254 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2018, Volume 32, Issue 4
- 3-32 An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science
by Solomon Hsiang & Robert E. Kopp - 33-52 Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change
by Maximilian Auffhammer - 53-72 The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Kenneth Gillingham & James H. Stock - 73-96 Is This Tax Reform, or Just Confusion?
by Joel Slemrod - 97-120 Measuring the Effects of Corporate Tax Cuts
by Alan J. Auerbach - 121-146 Outside the Box: Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Great Recession and Beyond
by Kenneth N. Kuttner - 147-172 Unconventional Monetary Policies in the Euro Area, Japan, and the United Kingdom
by Giovanni Dell'Ariccia & Pau Rabanal & Damiano Sandri - 173-200 Ending Global Poverty: Why Money Isn't Enough
by Lucy Page & Rohini Pande - 201-226 Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries
by Rema Hanna & Benjamin A. Olken - 227-240 Retrospectives: On the Genius Behind David Ricardo's 1817 Formulation of Comparative Advantage
by Daniel M. Bernhofen & John C. Brown - 241-248 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2018, Volume 32, Issue 3
- 3-30 What Happened: Financial Factors in the Great Recession
by Mark Gertler & Simon Gilchrist - 31-58 Finance and Business Cycles: The Credit-Driven Household Demand Channel
by Atif Mian & Amir Sufi - 59-86 Identification in Macroeconomics
by Emi Nakamura & Jón Steinsson - 87-112 The State of New Keynesian Economics: A Partial Assessment
by Jordi Galí - 113-140 On DSGE Models
by Lawrence J. Christiano & Martin S. Eichenbaum & Mathias Trabandt - 141-166 Evolution of Modern Business Cycle Models: Accounting for the Great Recession
by Patrick J. Kehoe & Virgiliu Midrigan & Elena Pastorino - 167-194 Microeconomic Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Shocks
by Greg Kaplan & Giovanni L. Violante - 195-214 Compensation and Incentives in the Workplace
by Edward P. Lazear - 215-238 Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning
by Lea Cassar & Stephan Meier - 239-258 The Changing (Dis-)utility of Work
by Greg Kaplan & Sam Schulhofer-Wohl - 259-280 Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects
by Michael Bailey & Rachel Cao & Theresa Kuchler & Johannes Stroebel & Arlene Wong - 281-288 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2018, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 3-24 The US Gains from Trade: Valuation Using the Demand for Foreign Factor Services
by Arnaud Costinot & Andrés Rodríguez-Clare - 25-46 Alternative Sources of the Gains from International Trade: Variety, Creative Destruction, and Markups
by Robert C. Feenstra - 47-72 New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment
by Teresa C. Fort & Justin R. Pierce & Peter K. Schott - 73-90 What Do Trade Agreements Really Do?
by Dani Rodrik - 91-114 Modeling Risk Aversion in Economics
by Ted O'Donoghue & Jason Somerville - 115-134 On the Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preference
by Thomas Dohmen & Armin Falk & David Huffman & Uwe Sunde - 135-154 Are Risk Preferences Stable?
by Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch - 155-172 Risk Preference: A View from Psychology
by Rui Mata & Renato Frey & David Richter & Jürgen Schupp & Ralph Hertwig - 173-192 Space, the Final Economic Frontier
by Matthew Weinzierl - 193-208 Dave Donaldson: Winner of the 2017 Clark Medal
by Daron Acemoglu - 209-222 Retrospectives: Adam Smith's Discovery of Trade Gravity
by Bruce Elmslie - 223-230 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2018, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 3-30 The Economic Implications of Housing Supply
by Edward Glaeser & Joseph Gyourko - 31-58 Homeownership and the American Dream
by Laurie S. Goodman & Christopher Mayer - 59-80 Sand Castles before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities
by Gabriel Metcalf - 81-96 Friedman's Presidential Address in the Evolution of Macroeconomic Thought
by N. Gregory Mankiw & Ricardo Reis - 97-120 Should We Reject the Natural Rate Hypothesis?
by Olivier Blanchard - 121-134 Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Milton Friedman's Presidential Address
by Robert E. Hall & Thomas J. Sargent - 135-154 Exchange-Traded Funds 101 for Economists
by Martin Lettau & Ananth Madhavan - 155-178 Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care?
by Benjamin Handel & Joshua Schwartzstein - 179-194 Do Economists Swing for the Fences after Tenure?
by Jonathan Brogaard & Joseph Engelberg & Edward Van Wesep - 195-210 Retrospectives: Cost-Push and Demand-Pull Inflation: Milton Friedman and the "Cruel Dilemma"
by Johannes A. Schwarzer - 211-218 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2017, Volume 31, Issue 4
- 3-22 Delivering Public Health Insurance through Private Plan Choice in the United States
by Jonathan Gruber - 23-50 Selection in Health Insurance Markets and Its Policy Remedies
by Michael Geruso & Timothy J. Layton - 51-72 The Questionable Value of Having a Choice of Levels of Health Insurance Coverage
by Keith Marzilli Ericson & Justin Sydnor - 73-102 From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application
by Abhijit Banerjee & Rukmini Banerji & James Berry & Esther Duflo & Harini Kannan & Shobhini Mukerji & Marc Shotland & Michael Walton - 103-124 Experimentation at Scale
by Karthik Muralidharan & Paul Niehaus - 125-144 Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature
by Omar Al-Ubaydli & John A. List & Danielle LoRe & Dana Suskind - 145-162 How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor
by Canice Prendergast - 163-184 Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration
by Thomas Sampson - 185-204 Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa
by Tessa Bold & Deon Filmer & Gayle Martin & Ezequiel Molina & Brian Stacy & Christophe Rockmore & Jakob Svensson & Waly Wane - 205-228 Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence
by Tiloka de Silva & Silvana Tenreyro - 229-236 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2017, Volume 31, Issue 3
- 3-28 International Monetary Relations: Taking Finance Seriously
by Maurice Obstfeld & Alan M. Taylor - 29-46 The Safe Assets Shortage Conundrum
by Ricardo J. Caballero & Emmanuel Farhi & Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas - 47-66 Dealing with Monetary Paralysis at the Zero Bound
by Kenneth Rogoff - 67-88 Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble?
by Kathleen M. Kahle & René M. Stulz - 89-102 The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors
by Lucian A. Bebchuk & Alma Cohen & Scott Hirst - 113-130 Towards a Political Theory of the Firm
by Luigi Zingales - 131-150 A Skeptical View of Financialized Corporate Governance
by Anat R. Admati - 151-174 The Causes and Costs of Misallocation
by Diego Restuccia & Richard Rogerson - 175-194 Federal Budget Policy with an Aging Population and Persistently Low Interest Rates
by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Louise M. Sheiner - 195-214 How Digitization Has Created a Golden Age of Music, Movies, Books, and Television
by Joel Waldfogel - 215-230 Retrospectives: Friedrich Hayek and the Market Algorithm
by Samuel Bowles & Alan Kirman & Rajiv Sethi - 231-238 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2017, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 3-32 The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation
by Susan Athey & Guido W. Imbens - 33-58 The Use of Structural Models in Econometrics
by Hamish Low & Costas Meghir - 59-86 Twenty Years of Time Series Econometrics in Ten Pictures
by James H. Stock & Mark W. Watson - 87-106 Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach
by Sendhil Mullainathan & Jann Spiess - 107-124 Identification and Asymptotic Approximations: Three Examples of Progress in Econometric Theory
by James L. Powell - 125-144 Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
by Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke - 145-164 Underestimating the Real Growth of GDP, Personal Income, and Productivity
by Martin Feldstein - 165-186 Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the US Productivity Slowdown
by Chad Syverson - 187-210 How Government Statistics Adjust for Potential Biases from Quality Change and New Goods in an Age of Digital Technologies: A View from the Trenches
by Erica L. Groshen & Brian C. Moyer & Ana M. Aizcorbe & Ralph Bradley & David M. Friedman - 211-236 Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
by Hunt Allcott & Matthew Gentzkow - 237-256 Yuliy Sannikov: Winner of the 2016 Clark Medal
by Susan Athey & Andrzej Skrzypacz - 257-264 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2017, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 3-24 Is China Socialist?
by Barry Naughton - 25-48 Human Capital and China's Future Growth
by Hongbin Li & Prashant Loyalka & Scott Rozelle & Binzhen Wu - 49-70 From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges
by Shang-Jin Wei & Zhuan Xie & Xiaobo Zhang - 71-92 A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China?
by Siqi Zheng & Matthew E. Kahn - 93-116 A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics
by Edward Glaeser & Wei Huang & Yueran Ma & Andrei Shleifer - 117-140 Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
by Bei Qin & David Strömberg & Yanhui Wu - 141-160 The Evolution of China's One-Child Policy and Its Effects on Family Outcomes
by Junsen Zhang - 161-182 The New Life Cycle of Women's Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops
by Claudia Goldin & Joshua Mitchell - 183-204 Specialization Then and Now: Marriage, Children, and the Gender Earnings Gap across Cohorts
by Chinhui Juhn & Kristin McCue - 205-230 The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries
by Claudia Olivetti & Barbara Petrongolo - 231-244 How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process
by Jonathan B. Berk & Campbell R. Harvey & David Hirshleifer - 245-256 Retrospectives: Do Productive Recessions Show the Recuperative Powers of Capitalism? Schumpeter's Analysis of the Cleansing Effect
by Muriel Dal Pont Legrand & Harald Hagemann - 257-264 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2016, Volume 30, Issue 4
- 3-30 Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets
by Giovanni Peri - 31-56 The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results?
by Christian Dustmann & Uta Schönberg & Jan Stuhler - 57-82 Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande? US and EU Immigration Pressures in the Long Run
by Gordon Hanson & Craig McIntosh - 83-106 Global Talent Flows
by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William Kerr & Çağlar Özden & Christopher Parsons - 107-130 Game Theory in Economics and Beyond
by Larry Samuelson - 131-150 New Directions for Modelling Strategic Behavior: Game-Theoretic Models of Communication, Coordination, and Cooperation in Economic Relationships
by Vincent P. Crawford - 151-170 Whither Game Theory? Towards a Theory of Learning in Games
by Drew Fudenberg & David K. Levine - 171-198 The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics
by Dave Donaldson & Adam Storeygard - 199-220 Village and Larger Economies: The Theory and Measurement of the Townsend Thai Project
by Robert M. Townsend - 221-242 Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem
by Amanda Bayer & Cecilia Elena Rouse - 243-250 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2016, Volume 30, Issue 3
- 3-32 The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
by Ludger Woessmann - 33-56 Accountability in US Education: Applying Lessons from K-12 Experience to Higher Education
by David J. Deming & David Figlio - 57-84 What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries?
by Julia Chabrier & Sarah Cohodes & Philip Oreopoulos - 85-108 The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems
by Brian Jacob & Jesse Rothstein - 109-132 The Need for Accountability in Education in Developing Countries
by Isaac M. Mbiti - 133-140 The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning
by Nicholas Epley & Thomas Gilovich - 141-164 Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs
by Roland Bénabou & Jean Tirole - 165-188 The Preference for Belief Consonance
by Russell Golman & George Loewenstein & Karl Ove Moene & Luca Zarri - 189-212 Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically
by Francesca Gino & Michael I. Norton & Roberto A. Weber - 213-234 In Defense of the NSF Economics Program
by Robert A. Moffitt - 235-248 A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research
by Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok - 249-274 Can War Foster Cooperation?
by Michal Bauer & Christopher Blattman & Julie Chytilová & Joseph Henrich & Edward Miguel & Tamar Mitts - 275-282 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2016, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 3-28 Consumption Inequality
by Orazio P. Attanasio & Luigi Pistaferri - 29-52 Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
by Janet Currie & Hannes Schwandt - 53-78 Health Insurance and Income Inequality
by Robert Kaestner & Darren Lubotsky - 79-102 Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
by Shelly Lundberg & Robert A. Pollak & Jenna Stearns - 103-126 Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality
by Magnus Lofstrom & Steven Raphael - 127-150 Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-Offs
by Shane Greenstein & Martin Peitz & Tommaso Valletti