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Winter 2012, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 3-28 Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
by Hunt Allcott & Michael Greenstone - 29-48 Creating a Smarter U.S. Electricity Grid
by Paul L. Joskow - 49-66 Prospects for Nuclear Power
by Lucas W. Davis - 67-92 The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation
by Severin Borenstein - 93-118 Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
by Christopher R. Knittel - 119-138 How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?
by Catherine Wolfram & Orie Shelef & Paul Gertler - 139-164 The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?
by David J. Deming & Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz - 165-192 Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much--Or Not Enough?
by Christopher Avery & Sarah Turner - 193-216 American Higher Education in Transition
by Ronald G. Ehrenberg - 217-242 Compensation for State and Local Government Workers
by Maury Gittleman & Brooks Pierce - 243-250 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2011, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 3-30 Neuroeconomic Foundations of Economic Choice--Recent Advances
by Ernst Fehr & Antonio Rangel - 31-56 It's about Space, It's about Time, Neuroeconomics and the Brain Sublime
by Marieke van Rooij & Guy Van Orden - 57-82 Molecular Genetics and Economics
by Jonathan P. Beauchamp & David Cesarini & Magnus Johannesson & Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos & Philipp D. Koellinger & Patrick J. F. Groenen & James H. Fowler & J. Niels Rosenquist & A. Roy Thurik & Nicholas A. Christakis - 83-94 Genes, Eyeglasses, and Social Policy
by Charles F. Manski - 95-118 The Composition and Drawdown of Wealth in Retirement
by James Poterba & Steven Venti & David Wise - 119-142 Insuring Long-Term Care in the United States
by Jeffrey R. Brown & Amy Finkelstein - 143-164 Annuitization Puzzles
by Shlomo Benartzi & Alessandro Previtero & Richard H. Thaler - 165-190 The Case for a Progressive Tax: From Basic Research to Policy Recommendations
by Peter Diamond & Emmanuel Saez - 191-210 When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior
by Uri Gneezy & Stephan Meier & Pedro Rey-Biel - 211-222 Retrospectives: X-Efficiency
by Michael Perelman - 223-230 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2011, Volume 25, Issue 3
- 3-16 Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pulling One Off
by John A. List - 17-38 Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
by Jens Ludwig & Jeffrey R. Kling & Sendhil Mullainathan - 39-62 The Role of Theory in Field Experiments
by David Card & Stefano DellaVigna & Ulrike Malmendier - 63-82 Field Experiments with Firms
by Oriana Bandiera & Iwan Barankay & Imran Rasul - 83-106 Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
by Michael A. Clemens - 107-128 Eight Questions about Brain Drain
by John Gibson & David McKenzie - 129-152 Migrant Remittances
by Dean Yang - 153-172 Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis
by Douglas Almond & Janet Currie - 173-196 Internal Migration in the United States
by Raven Molloy & Christopher L. Smith & Abigail Wozniak - 197-216 Esther Duflo: 2010 John Bates Clark Medalist
by Christopher Udry - 217-230 Retrospectives: Hume on Money, Commerce, and the Science of Economics
by Margaret Schabas & Carl Wennerlind - 231-238 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2011, Volume 25, Issue 2
- 3-25 The (Paper)Work of Medicine: Understanding International Medical Costs
by David M. Cutler & Dan P. Ly - 27-46 The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
by Amitabh Chandra & Anupam B. Jena & Jonathan S. Skinner - 47-68 Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Spending Growth
by Katherine Baicker & Dana Goldman - 69-92 Reforming Payments to Healthcare Providers: The Key to Slowing Healthcare Cost Growth While Improving Quality?
by Mark McClellan - 93-110 Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform
by Daniel P. Kessler - 111-132 Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing
by Susan Houseman & Christopher Kurz & Paul Lengermann & Benjamin Mandel - 133-156 The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health
by Christopher Carpenter & Carlos Dobkin - 157-180 The Market for Charitable Giving
by John A. List - 181-197 Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm: What Have We Learned over the Past 25 Years?
by Philippe Aghion & Richard Holden - 199-215 Retrospectives: Lionel W. McKenzie and the Proof of the Existence of a Competitive Equilibrium
by E. Roy Weintraub - 217-224 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2011, Volume 25, Issue 1
- 3-28 A Macroprudential Approach to Financial Regulation
by Samuel G. Hanson & Anil K. Kashyap & Jeremy C. Stein - 29-48 Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics
by Andrei Shleifer & Robert Vishny - 49-70 Over the Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis
by Frederic S. Mishkin - 71-90 A Year of Living Dangerously: The Management of the Financial Crisis in 2008
by Vincent Reinhart - 91-114 Consumer Financial Protection
by John Y. Campbell & Howell E. Jackson & Brigitte C. Madrian & Peter Tufano - 115-138 Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures
by Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein - 139-158 Who Pays for Obesity?
by Jay Bhattacharya & Neeraj Sood - 159-184 Priceless: The Nonpecuniary Benefits of Schooling
by Philip Oreopoulos & Kjell G. Salvanes - 185-208 Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off
by Ran Abramitzky - 209-222 Behavior under Extreme Conditions: The Titanic Disaster
by Bruno S. Frey & David A. Savage & Benno Torgler - 223-238 Retrospectives: The Phillips Curve: A Rushed Job?
by A. G. Sleeman - 239-246 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2010, Volume 24, Issue 4
- 3-20 Why Does the Economy Fall to Pieces after a Financial Crisis?
by Robert E. Hall - 21-44 Financial Intermediation and Macroeconomic Analysis
by Michael Woodford - 45-66 The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective
by Lee E. Ohanian - 67-84 Natural Expectations and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
by Andreas Fuster & David Laibson & Brock Mendel - 85-102 Macroeconomics after the Crisis: Time to Deal with the Pretense-of-Knowledge Syndrome
by Ricardo J. Caballero - 103-126 Treasure Islands
by James R. Hines - 127-140 Shopping for Anonymous Shell Companies: An Audit Study of Anonymity and Crime in the International Financial System
by J. C. Sharman - 141-164 Activist Fiscal Policy
by Alan J. Auerbach & William G. Gale & Benjamin H. Harris - 165-186 Catastrophe Economics: The National Flood Insurance Program
by Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan - 187-206 The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
by Peter Coles & John Cawley & Phillip B. Levine & Muriel Niederle & Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried - 207-217 Retrospectives: An Early Supply-Side-Demand-Side Controversy: Petty, Law, Cantillon
by John Berdell - 219-226 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Summer 2010, Volume 24, Issue 3
- 3-16 Understanding the Mechanisms of Economic Development
by Angus Deaton - 17-32 Theory, General Equilibrium, and Political Economy in Development Economics
by Daron Acemoglu - 33-44 Diagnostics before Prescription
by Dani Rodrik - 45-60 Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics
by Debraj Ray - 61-80 Giving Credit Where It Is Due
by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo - 81-96 Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth
by Mark R. Rosenzweig - 97-118 Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information
by Douglas O. Staiger & Jonah E. Rockoff - 119-132 Aiming for Efficiency Rather Than Proficiency
by Derek Neal - 133-150 The Quality and Distribution of Teachers under the No Child Left Behind Act
by Eric A. Hanushek & Steven G. Rivkin - 151-166 Teachers' Views on No Child Left Behind: Support for the Principles, Concerns about the Practices
by Richard J. Murnane & John P. Papay - 167-182 Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member
by Kevin Lang - 183-206 Emmanuel Saez: 2009 John Bates Clark Medalist
by B. Douglas Bernheim - 207-232 Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
by Jenny C. Aker & Isaac M. Mbiti - 233-250 Markets: State Franchise Laws, Dealer Terminations, and the Auto Crisis
by Francine Lafontaine & Fiona Scott Morton - 251-258 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2010, Volume 24, Issue 2
- 3-30 The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
by Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke - 31-46 Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia
by Edward E. Leamer - 47-58 A Structural Perspective on the Experimentalist School
by Michael P. Keane - 59-68 But Economics Is Not an Experimental Science
by Christopher A. Sims - 69-82 Taking the Dogma out of Econometrics: Structural Modeling and Credible Inference
by Aviv Nevo & Michael D. Whinston - 83-94 The Other Transformation in Econometric Practice: Robust Tools for Inference
by James H. Stock - 95-108 Geographic Variation in the Gender Differences in Test Scores
by Devin G. Pope & Justin R. Sydnor - 109-128 The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions
by Glenn Ellison & Ashley Swanson - 129-144 Explaining the Gender Gap in Math Test Scores: The Role of Competition
by Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund - 145-162 Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report
by Liran Einav & Jonathan Levin - 163-188 The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas
by Nathan Nunn & Nancy Qian - 189-210 Corporate Audits and How to Fix Them
by Joshua Ronen - 211-226 Markets: The Credit Rating Agencies
by Lawrence J. White - 227-234 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2010, Volume 24, Issue 1
- 3-28 How Debt Markets Have Malfunctioned in the Crisis
by Arvind Krishnamurthy - 29-50 When Safe Proved Risky: Commercial Paper during the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
by Marcin Kacperczyk & Philipp Schnabl - 51-72 The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks
by Darrell Duffie - 73-92 Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
by Rene M. Stulz - 93-118 Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
by Christian Laux & Christian Leuz - 119-138 Mental Retirement
by Susann Rohwedder & Robert J. Willis - 139-160 How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging
by Nicole Maestas & Julie Zissimopoulos - 161-182 What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population
by Alan L. Gustman & Thomas L. Steinmeier & Nahid Tabatabai - 183-202 Economic Theory and the World of Practice: A Celebration of the ( S , s ) Model
by Andrew Caplin & John Leahy - 203-224 Why Do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries?
by Nicholas Bloom & John Van Reenen - 225-240 Retrospectives: Engel Curves
by Andreas Chai & Alessio Moneta - 241-248 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2009, Volume 23, Issue 4
- 3-24 The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings
by Peter Gottschalk & Robert Moffitt - 25-48 The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk
by Jonathan Gruber & Helen Levy - 49-68 Changing Household Financial Opportunities and Economic Security
by Karen E. Dynan - 69-93 Job Loss and the Fraying of the Implicit Employment Contract
by Kevin F. Hallock - 95-118 The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges
by Caroline M. Hoxby - 119-146 Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition
by John Bound & Brad Hershbein & Bridget Terry Long - 147-174 Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl & Danny Yagan - 175-190 Mortality Inequality
by Sam Peltzman - 191-210 The Liabilities and Risks of State-Sponsored Pension Plans
by Robert Novy-Marx & Joshua D. Rauh - 211-230 Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century
by Jonah Rockoff - 231-238 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 239-240 The Shrinking Medicare Part D Benefit: Comment
by Carl Johnston
Summer 2009, Volume 23, Issue 3
- 3-20 The Economics of Online Crime
by Tyler Moore & Richard Clayton & Ross Anderson - 21-36 Priced and Unpriced Online Markets
by Benjamin Edelman - 37-60 The Online Advertising Industry: Economics, Evolution, and Privacy
by David S. Evans - 61-76 Subsidizing Creativity through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality
by Robin S. Lee & Tim Wu - 77-92 What Are Grades Made Of?
by Alexandra C. Achen & Paul N. Courant - 93-108 Grade Information and Grade Inflation: The Cornell Experiment
by Talia Bar & Vrinda Kadiyali & Asaf Zussman - 109-124 Interview with Edmund S. Phelps
by Howard R. Vane & Chris Mulhearn - 125-143 The Economics of Two-Sided Markets
by Marc Rysman - 145-164 World Oil: Market or Mayhem?
by James L. Smith - 165-188 The Three Arab Worlds
by James E. Rauch & Scott Kostyshak - 189-204 Retrospectives: Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy
by Ann Mari May & Robert W. Dimand - 205-212 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2009, Volume 23, Issue 2
- 3-4 Note from the Editor: Online Comments for American Economic Association Journals
by David H. Autor - 5-27 Market-Based Policy Options to Control U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Gilbert E. Metcalf - 29-51 The Economic Effects of Climate Change
by Richard S. J. Tol - 53-75 The Coming Global Climate-Technology Revolution
by Scott Barrett - 77-97 The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor's Living Standards
by Christian Broda & Ephraim Leibtag & David E. Weinstein - 99-120 Consumer Shopping Behavior: How Much Do Consumers Save?
by Rachel Griffith & Ephraim Leibtag & Andrew Leicester & Aviv Nevo - 121-142 The Nominal Share Price Puzzle
by William C. Weld & Roni Michaely & Richard H. Thaler & Shlomo Benartzi - 143-168 (Un)happiness in Transition
by Sergei Guriev & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya - 169-189 Faculty without Students: Resource Allocation in Higher Education
by William R. Johnson & Sarah Turner - 191-211 Legal Realism for Economists
by Matthew C. Stephenson - 213-222 Retrospectives: Who Said "Debauch the Currency": Keynes or Lenin?
by Michael V. White & Kurt Schuler - 223-230 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Winter 2009, Volume 23, Issue 1
- 3-25 The Economics of Structured Finance
by Joshua Coval & Jakub Jurek & Erik Stafford - 27-50 The Rise in Mortgage Defaults
by Christopher Mayer & Karen Pence & Shane M. Sherlund - 51-75 Crisis and Responses: The Federal Reserve in the Early Stages of the Financial Crisis
by Stephen G. Cecchetti - 77-100 Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-2008
by Markus K. Brunnermeier - 101-119 Reflections on Northern Rock: The Bank Run That Heralded the Global Financial Crisis
by Hyun Song Shin - 121-146 Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity
by Steven N. Kaplan & Per Stromberg - 147-166 Beware of Venturing into Private Equity
by Ludovic Phalippou - 167-192 Microfinance Meets the Market
by Robert Cull & Asli Demirgüç-Kunt & Jonathan Morduch - 193-208 The U.S. Equity Return Premium: Past, Present, and Future
by J. Bradford DeLong & Konstantin Magin - 209-220 Markets: Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?
by Benjamin Edelman - 221-233 Retrospectives: On the Definition of Economics
by Roger E. Backhouse & Steven G. Medema - 235-242 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Fall 2008, Volume 22, Issue 4
- 3-26 Are We Finally Winning the War on Cancer?
by David M. Cutler - 27-50 Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
by Alan M. Garber & Jonathan Skinner - 51-68 Incremental Universalism for the United States: The States Move First?
by Jonathan Gruber - 69-92 Providing Prescription Drug Coverage to the Elderly: America's Experiment with Medicare Part D
by Mark Duggan & Patrick Healy & Fiona Scott Morton - 93-113 Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Healthcare System
by Randall D. Cebul & James B. Rebitzer & Lowell J. Taylor & Mark E. Votruba - 115-134 Overlapping Generations: The First Jubilee
by Philippe Weil - 135-154 The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
by Jacob Vigdor - 155-180 Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels
by Steven J. Davis & James A. Kahn - 181-198 Susan C. Athey: John Bates Clark Award Winner 2007
by John Roberts - 199-216 Retrospectives: Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of "Student's" t
by Stephen T. Ziliak - 217-224 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 225-226 Comments
by Jerry H. Tempelman & Hendrik Bessembinder & William Maxwell
Summer 2008, Volume 22, Issue 3
- 3-22 Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
by James Feyrer & Bruce Sacerdote & Ariel Dora Stern - 23-46 Parental Education and Parental Time with Children
by Jonathan Guryan & Erik Hurst & Melissa Kearney - 47-70 Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood
by Elizabeth Cascio & Damon Clark & Nora Gordon - 71-92 The Lengthening of Childhood
by David Deming & Susan Dynarski - 93-112 Global Imbalances: Globalization, Demography, and Sustainability
by Richard N. Cooper - 113-125 Resolving the Global Imbalance: The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate
by Martin Feldstein - 127-147 Forensic Finance
by Jay R. Ritter - 149-172 A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
by Eswar S. Prasad & Raghuram G. Rajan - 173-188 Probability and Uncertainty in Economic Modeling
by Itzhak Gilboa & Andrew W. Postlewaite & David Schmeidler - 189-206 Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students
by Michael Kremer & Dan Levy - 207-222 Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success
by Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar & Jialan Wang - 223-230 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor
Spring 2008, Volume 22, Issue 2
- 3-28 What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?
by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo - 29-52 Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid
by William Easterly & Tobias Pfutze - 53-72 Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
by Angus Deaton - 73-92 What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?
by Eric Werker & Faisal Z. Ahmed - 93-114 The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries
by Jishnu Das & Jeffrey Hammer & Kenneth Leonard - 115-131 What the Seller Won't Tell You: Persuasion and Disclosure in Markets
by Paul Milgrom - 133-154 Competition and Truth in the Market for News
by Matthew Gentzkow & Jesse M. Shapiro - 155-169 Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation
by Peter T. Leeson - 171-192 Identity Theft
by Keith B. Anderson & Erik Durbin & Michael A. Salinger - 193-216 Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP
by J. Steven Landefeld & Eugene P. Seskin & Barbara M. Fraumeni - 217-234 Markets: Transparency and the Corporate Bond Market
by Hendrik Bessembinder & William Maxwell - 235-242 Recommendations for Further Reading
by Timothy Taylor - 243-244 Comments: Elbert Dijkgraaf and Raymond Gradus, Thomas Kinnaman; and a Correction
by Elbert Dijkgraaf & Raymond Gradus & Thomas Kinnaman & Dale W. Jorgenson & Mun S. Ho & Kevin J. Stiroh
Winter 2008, Volume 22, Issue 1
- 3-24 A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence
by Dale W. Jorgenson & Mun S. Ho & Kevin J. Stiroh - 25-44 The Productivity Gap between Europe and the United States: Trends and Causes
by Bart van Ark & Mary O'Mahoney & Marcel P. Timmer - 45-66 Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India
by Barry Bosworth & Susan M. Collins