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Front Matter (pp. i - vii)

Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Editors' Introduction (pp. viii - viii)

Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Foreword (pp. ix - ix)

Immigration and Inequality (pp. 1 - 21)

The Demography of Mexican Migration to the United States (pp. 22 - 27)

Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives? (pp. 28 - 34)

The Labor Supply of Immigrants in the United States: The Role of Changing Source Country Characteristics (pp. 35 - 40)

Immigration and Poverty in the United States (pp. 41 - 44)

This Job Is "Getting Old": Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure (pp. 45 - 51)

New Evidence on the Returns to Job Skills (pp. 52 - 57)

Job Polarization in Europe (pp. 58 - 63)

Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts (pp. 64 - 68)

Perspectives on the New Architecture for the US National Accounts (pp. 69 - 73)

Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts (pp. 74 - 79)

The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does It Presage the Financial Crisis? (pp. 80 - 86)

Expectations and Perceptions in Developing Countries: Their Measurement and Their Use (pp. 87 - 92)

Egalitarianism and Competitiveness (pp. 93 - 98)

Are Two Cheap, Noisy Measures Better Than One Expensive, Accurate One? (pp. 99 - 103)

Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age (pp. 104 - 09)

Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings (pp. 110 - 15)

Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function (pp. 116 - 21)

Why Are Recessions Good for Your Health? (pp. 122 - 27)

Child Benefits, Maternal Employment, and Children's Health: Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions (pp. 128 - 32)

Average Earnings and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data (pp. 133 - 38)

Time-Use Patterns and Women Entrepreneurs (pp. 139 - 44)

How Do Remittances Affect Human Capital Formation of School-Age Boys and Girls? (pp. 145 - 48)

The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education: First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links (pp. 149 - 53)

Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation (pp. 154 - 58)

Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices (pp. 159 - 64)

Mindless Eating and Healthy Heuristics for the Irrational (pp. 165 - 69)

Time Use and Food Consumption (pp. 170 - 76)

Fetal Exposures to Toxic Releases and Infant Health (pp. 177 - 83)

Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy (pp. 184 - 90)

Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico (pp. 191 - 97)

Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates (pp. 198 - 204)

Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand (pp. 205 - 10)

Climate Change and Birth Weight (pp. 211 - 17)

Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Tropical Disease (pp. 218 - 23)

What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention? (pp. 224 - 30)

Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-Protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa, India (pp. 231 - 35)

Intrahousehold Allocation of Free and Purchased Mosquito Nets (pp. 236 - 41)

Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England (pp. 242 - 47)

Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love (pp. 248 - 54)

How Relevant Is Malthus for Economic Development Today? (pp. 255 - 60)

Institutions versus Policies: A Tale of Two Islands (pp. 261 - 67)

Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance (pp. 268 - 74)

South Africa's Post-apartheid Two-Step: Social Demands versus Macro Stability (pp. 275 - 81)

Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances (pp. 282 - 86)

Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-conflict Liberia (pp. 287 - 91)

Repression or Civil War? (pp. 292 - 97)

Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule? (pp. 298 - 303)

Consolidation of New Democracy, Mass Attitudes, and Clientelism (pp. 304 - 09)

The Real Swing Voter's Curse (pp. 310 - 15)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-election Polling (pp. 316 - 22)

Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election (pp. 323 - 29)

Bayesian Learning and the Pricing of New Information: Evidence from Prediction Markets (pp. 330 - 36)

A Model of Discovery (pp. 337 - 42)

The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues (pp. 343 - 48)

Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth (pp. 349 - 55)

Identifying Preferences under Risk from Discrete Choices (pp. 356 - 62)

Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation (pp. 363 - 68)

Endogenous Effective Discounting, Credit Constraints, and Wealth Inequality (pp. 369 - 73)

Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending? (pp. 374 - 79)

The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship among Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income (pp. 380 - 86)

Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices (pp. 387 - 92)

Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households (pp. 393 - 98)

Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How? (pp. 399 - 405)

Momentum Traders in the Housing Market: Survey Evidence and a Search Model (pp. 406 - 11)

Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles? (pp. 412 - 17)

What Do High-Interest Borrowers Do with Their Tax Rebate? (pp. 418 - 23)

What Do Consumers Really Pay on Their Checking and Credit Card Accounts? Explicit, Implicit, and Avoidable Costs (pp. 424 - 29)

Online Ad Auctions (pp. 430 - 34)

The Quest for QWERTY (pp. 435 - 40)

Skewed Bidding in Pay-per-Action Auctions for Online Advertising (pp. 441 - 47)

Authority versus Persuasion (pp. 448 - 53)

Financial Risk Management: When Does Independence Fail? (pp. 454 - 58)

Over My Dead Body: Bargaining and the Price of Dignity (pp. 459 - 65)

The Aftermath of Financial Crises (pp. 466 - 72)

Expropriation Dynamics (pp. 473 - 79)

Financial Instability, Reserves, and Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008 (pp. 480 - 86)

The Margins of US Trade (pp. 487 - 93)

Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs (pp. 494 - 500)

Plants and Imported Inputs: New Facts and an Interpretation (pp. 501 - 07)

Another Look at the Impacts of Health Reform in Massachusetts: Evidence Using New Data and a Stronger Model (pp. 508 - 11)

Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa (pp. 512 - 16)

A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the United States (pp. 517 - 21)

Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999 (pp. 522 - 26)

How Should Public Pension Plans Invest? (pp. 527 - 32)

Will Public Sector Retiree Health Benefit Plans Survive? Economic and Policy Implications of Unfunded Liabilities (pp. 533 - 37)

Discounting State and Local Pension Liabilities (pp. 538 - 42)

Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism (pp. 543 - 49)

The Lack of an Empirical Rationale for a Revival of Discretionary Fiscal Policy (pp. 550 - 55)

Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy (pp. 556 - 59)

Capital Reallocation and Growth (pp. 560 - 66)

Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007 (pp. 567 - 72)

Is Monetary Policy Effective during Financial Crises? (pp. 573 - 77)

A Note on Liquidity Risk Management (pp. 578 - 83)

Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility (pp. 584 - 88)

Leverage and the Central Banker's Put (pp. 589 - 93)

Market and Public Liquidity (pp. 594 - 99)

Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy (pp. 600 - 605)

The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies (pp. 606 - 10)

The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report (pp. 611 - 18)

The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment (pp. 618 - 20)

The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment (pp. 620 - 21)

The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment (pp. 621 - 23)

Completing an Economics PhD in Five Years (pp. 624 - 29)

Minutes of the Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2009 (pp. 631 - 32)

Report of the Secretary for 2008 (pp. 633 - 36)

Report of the Treasurer (pp. 637 - 40)

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics (pp. 641 - 45)

List of Online Reports (pp. 646 - 46)

Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings (pp. 647 - 59)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review (pp. 660 - 70)

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature (pp. 671 - 73)

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives (pp. 674 - 75)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (pp. 676 - 78)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (pp. 679 - 80)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (pp. 681 - 82)

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (pp. 683 - 84)

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists (pp. 685 - 87)

Report of the Committee on Economic Education (pp. 688 - 91)

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2008 (pp. 692 - 99)

Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (pp. 700 - 709)

Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics (pp. 710 - 710)

AEJ: Macroeconomics: Search Committee Recommendation (pp. 711 - 711)