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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2009


Front Matter (page i)
Editor's Note (pp. iii-vi)
Esther Duflo
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School (pp. 1-21)
Erica Field
Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa (pp. 22-48)
Cally Ardington, Anne Case and Victoria Hosegood
Separated at Girth: US Twin Estimates of the Effects of Birth Weight (pp. 49-85)
Heather Royer
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes (pp. 86-111)
Sendhil Mullainathan and Ebonya Washington
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya (pp. 112-35)
Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer and Sylvie Moulin
Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (pp. 136-63)
Joshua Angrist, Daniel Lang and Philip Oreopoulos
The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age (pp. 164-82)
Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin
Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap (pp. 183-218)
Andrea Ichino and Enrico Moretti
Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India (pp. 219-50)
Shawn Cole
The Social Multiplier and Labor Market Participation of Mothers (pp. 251-72)
Eric Maurin and Julie Moschion