The Legacy of U.S. Educational Leadership: Notes on Distribution and Economic Growth in the 20th Century Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz (pp. 18-23)
Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th-Century United States Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (pp. 39-44)
Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (pp. 67-72)
In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis and Richard McElreath (pp. 73-78)
Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (pp. 79-84)
Youth Smoking in the 1990's: Why Did It Rise and What Are the Long-Run Implications? Jonathan Gruber (pp. 85-90)
Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War David Card and Thomas Lemieux (pp. 97-102)
Designing Programs for Heterogeneous Populations: The Value of Covariate Information Charles F. Manski (pp. 103-106)
Reconciling Conflicting Evidence on the Performance of Propensity-Score Matching Methods Jeffrey A. Smith and Petra E. Todd (pp. 112-118)
Propensity-Score Matching with Instrumental Variables Hidehiko Ichimura and Christopher Taber (pp. 119-124)
Interactions between Unmarried Fathers and Their Children: The Role of Paternity Establishment and Child-Support Policies Laura M. Argys and H. Elizabeth Peters (pp. 125-129)
The Effect of Child-Support Policies on Visitations and Transfers Daniela Del Boca and Rocio Ribero (pp. 130-134)
New Estimates of the Impact of Child Disability on Maternal Employment Elizabeth T. Powers (pp. 135-139)
The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program James J. Heckman and Yona Rubinstein (pp. 145-149)
Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne (pp. 155-158)
Understanding, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Earnings in the Immigrant Labor Market Anthony P. Carnevale, Richard A. Fry and B. Lindsay Lowell (pp. 159-163)
Black-White Earnings Differentials: Privatization versus Deregulation James Peoples and Wayne K. Talley (pp. 164-168)
Market Structure and Racial Earnings: Evidence from Job-Changers Jacqueline Agesa, Richard U. Agesa and Gary A. Hoover (pp. 169-173)
Racial Differences in Transportation Access to Employment in Chicago and Los Angeles, 1980 and 1990 Chanjin Chung, Samuel L. Myers and Lisa Saunders (pp. 174-177)
Assessing the Property Rights and Transaction-Cost Theories of Firm Scope Michael D. Whinston (pp. 184-188)
Empirical Strategies in Contract Economics: Information and the Boundary of the Firm George Baker and Thomas N. Hubbard (pp. 189-194)
Organizational Design: Decision Rights and Incentive Contracts Susan Athey and John Roberts (pp. 200-205)
The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales (pp. 206-211)
NAIRU Uncertainty and Nonlinear Policy Rules Laurence H. Meyer, Eric T. Swanson and Volker W. Wieland (pp. 226-231)
Optimal Monetary Policy in Open versus Closed Economies: An Integrated Approach Richard Clarida, Jordi Gali and Mark Gertler (pp. 248-252)
Should Central Banks Respond to Movements in Asset Prices? Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler (pp. 253-257)
Price and Quality of Desktop and Mobile Personal Computers: A Quarter-Century Historical Overview Ernst R. Berndt and Neal J. Rappaport (pp. 268-273)
Advances in Routing Technologies and Internet Peering Agreements Stanley Besen, Paul Milgrom, Bridger Mitchell and Padmanabhan Srinagesh (pp. 292-296)
Cable Modems and DSL: Broadband Internet Access for Residential Customers Jerry A. Hausman, J. Gregory Sidak and HalJ. Singer (pp. 302-307)
Schooling Data, Technological Diffusion, and the Neoclassical Model Angel de la Fuente and Rafael Domenech (pp. 323-327)
Cross-Country Technology Diffusion: The Case of Computers Francesco Caselli and Wilbur John Coleman (pp. 328-335)
Guns, Butter, and Openness: On the Relationship between Security and Trade Stergios Skaperdas and Constantinos Syropoulos (pp. 353-357)
The Role of International Fragmentation in the Development Process Ronald W. Jones and Sugata Marjit (pp. 363-366)
International Trade and Business Cycles: Is Vertical Specialization the Missing Link? M. Ayhan Kose and Kei-Mu Yi (pp. 371-375)
National Money as a Barrier to International Trade: The Real Case for Currency Union Andrew K. Rose and Eric van Wincoop (pp. 386-390)
Exchange-Rate Hedging: Financial versus Operational Strategies George Allayannis, Jane Ihrig and James P. Weston (pp. 391-395)
Gender Differences in the Labor-Market Effects of the Dollar Linda Goldberg and Joseph Tracy (pp. 400-405)
The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Jonathan A. Parker (pp. 406-412)
How Important Are Idiosyncratic Shocks? Evidence from Labor Supply Kjetil Storesletten, Chris I. Telmer and Amir Yaron (pp. 413-417)
Venture Capitals As Principals: Contracting, Screening, and Monitoring Steven N. Kaplan and Per Stromberg (pp. 426-430)
Research in Economic Education: Five New Initiatives Michael K. Salemi, John J. Siegfried, Kim Sosin, William B. Walstad and Michael Watts (pp. 440-445)
Teaching Economics at the Start of the 21st Century: Still Chalk-and-Talk William E. Becker and Michael Watts (pp. 446-451)
Assessing the Economic Understanding of U.S. High School Students William B. Walstad and Ken Rebeck (pp. 452-457)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession William Darity Jr. and Cecilia A. Conrad (pp. 497-501)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried (pp. 509-511)