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Editors' Introduction (pp. viii - viii)

Foreword (pp. x - x)

The Economics of Climate Change (pp. 1 - 37)

Returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina (pp. 38 - 42)

The Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Labor Market Outcomes of Evacuees (pp. 43 - 48)

How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets (pp. 49 - 53)

Measuring the Labor Market Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Migration: Evidence from Houston, Texas (pp. 54 - 57)

Consumption Disasters in the Twentieth Century (pp. 58 - 63)

Variable Rare Disasters: A Tractable Theory of Ten Puzzles in Macro-finance (pp. 64 - 67)

Disasters and Recoveries (pp. 68 - 73)

Disasters and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty (pp. 74 - 78)

How Big Are Total Individual Income Tax Expenditures, and Who Benefits from Them? (pp. 79 - 83)

Tax Expenditures for Owner-Occupied Housing: Deductions for Property Taxes and Mortgage Interest and the Exclusion of Imputed Rental Income (pp. 84 - 89)

Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals (pp. 90 - 94)

Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? (pp. 95 - 99)

Second-Best Institutions (pp. 100 - 104)

The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions (pp. 105 - 09)

The Future of the IMF and the World Bank (pp. 110 - 15)

Rethinking Global Environmental Governance to Deal with Climate Change: The Multiple Logics of Global Collective Action (pp. 116 - 21)

Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States (pp. 122 - 26)

EU Institutional Reform: Evidence on Globalization and International Cooperation (pp. 127 - 32)

Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union (pp. 133 - 37)

Should the Euro Area Be Run as a Closed Economy? (pp. 138 - 45)

Modeling Competition and Market Equilibrium in Insurance: Empirical Issues (pp. 146 - 50)

Does the Secondary Life Insurance Market Threaten Dynamic Insurance? (pp. 151 - 56)

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance (pp. 157 - 62)

The Impact of Computation Time and Experience on Decision Values (pp. 163 - 68)

Economic Insights from "Neuroeconomic" Data (pp. 169 - 74)

Theories of the Mind (pp. 175 - 80)

Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees (pp. 181 - 86)

Costly Expertise (pp. 187 - 93)

Information Aggregation and Strategic Abstention in Large Laboratory Elections (pp. 194 - 200)

Intrinsic Motivation and Incentives (pp. 201 - 05)

Status Incentives (pp. 206 - 11)

Identity, Supervision, and Work Groups (pp. 212 - 17)

Insiders versus Outsiders in Monetary Policymaking (pp. 218 - 23)

Do Monetary Policy Committees Need Leaders? A Report on an Experiment (pp. 224 - 29)

The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value? (pp. 230 - 35)

Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics (pp. 236 - 40)

Frequency-Specific Effects of Stabilization Policies (pp. 241 - 45)

Modeling Macroeconomies as Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents (pp. 246 - 50)

Allowing the Data to Speak Freely: The Macroeconometrics of the Cointegrated Vector Autoregression (pp. 251 - 55)

The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment (pp. 256 - 62)

The Decline of Job Loss and Why It Matters (pp. 263 - 67)

The Probability of Finding a Job (pp. 268 - 73)

How to Define Illegal Price Manipulation (pp. 274 - 79)

Microstructure Bluffing with Nested Information (pp. 280 - 84)

Manipulation and Equity-Based Compensation (pp. 285 - 90)

Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance (pp. 291 - 96)

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds (pp. 297 - 303)

Why Don’t People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle (pp. 304 - 09)

Mortgages, Risk, and Homeownership among Low- and Moderate-Income Families (pp. 310 - 14)

Rates for Vehicle Loans: Race and Loan Source (pp. 315 - 20)

Saving whilst Gambling: An Empirical Analysis of UK Premium Bonds (pp. 321 - 26)

The Drivers of Financial Globalization (pp. 327 - 32)

Home Bias at the Fund Level (pp. 333 - 38)

Is the 2007 US Sub-prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison (pp. 339 - 44)

Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables When Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization (pp. 345 - 50)

Treatment Effect Bounds under Monotonicity Assumptions: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catheterization (pp. 351 - 56)

Estimating Average Treatment Effects with Continuous and Discrete Covariates: The Case of Swan-Ganz Catheterization (pp. 357 - 62)

Transitions: Career and Family Life Cycles of the Educational Elite (pp. 363 - 69)

Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study (pp. 370 - 75)

Do Women Supply More Public Goods Than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies (pp. 376 - 81)

African American and White Differences in the Impacts of Monetary Policy on the Duration of Unemployment (pp. 382 - 86)

The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families (pp. 387 - 91)

Poverty Volatility and Macroeconomic Quiescence (pp. 392 - 97)

Non-white Poverty and Macroeconomy: The Impact of Growth (pp. 398 - 402)

Understanding the Returns to Delayed Childbearing for Working Women (pp. 403 - 07)

The Effect of Children (pp. 408 - 12)

Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare? (pp. 413 - 17)

Who Chooses Annuities? An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Gender, Framing, and Defaults (pp. 418 - 22)

A Structural Approach to Explaining Incomplete Exchange-Rate Pass-Through and Pricing-to-Market (pp. 423 - 29)

Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale (pp. 430 - 37)

Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Menu Cost Model (pp. 438 - 43)

Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade (pp. 444 - 50)

R&D Investments, Exporting, and the Evolution of Firm Productivity (pp. 451 - 56)

Firm-Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh (pp. 457 - 62)

Height, Health, and Cognitive Function at Older Ages (pp. 463 - 67)

Height, Health, and Inequality: The Distribution of Adult Heights in India (pp. 468 - 74)

Height and Economic Development in Italy, 1730-1980 (pp. 475 - 81)

How High Are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya (pp. 482 - 88)

Limited Attention and Income Distribution (pp. 489 - 93)

Spite and Development (pp. 494 - 99)

Motherhood and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Infertility Shocks (pp. 500 - 504)

Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City (pp. 505 - 10)

Stress and Birth Weight: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks (pp. 511 - 15)

Prostitutes and Brides? (pp. 516 - 22)

Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution (pp. 523 - 28)

Trade Costs, 1870-2000 (pp. 529 - 34)

A Century of Global Equity Market Correlations (pp. 535 - 40)

The National Assessment of Educational Progress in Economics: Findings for General Economics (pp. 541 - 46)

The Test of Understanding of College Economics (pp. 547 - 51)

Assessment Practices and Trends in Undergraduate Economics Courses (pp. 552 - 56)

Susan C. Athey: John Bates Clark Medalist 2007 (pp. 559 - 60)

Minutes of the Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 5, 2008 (pp. 561 - 62)

Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings (pp. 563 - 72)

Report of the Secretary for 2007 (pp. 573 - 76)

Report of the Treasurer (pp. 577 - 80)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review (pp. 581 - 90)

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature (pp. 591 - 93)

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives (pp. 594 - 95)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (pp. 596 - 98)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (pp. 599 - 600)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (pp. 601 - 02)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (pp. 603 - 04)

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists (pp. 605 - 07)

Report of the Committee on Economic Education (pp. 608 - 10)

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2007 (pp. 611 - 18)

Report on the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (pp. 619 - 27)

Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics (pp. 628 - 28)

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (pp. 629 - 29)

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics (pp. 630 - 33)