American Economic Review

Vol. 103 No. 6 October 2013

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(pp. i-vii)

Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto and Peter Savelyev

(pp. 2052-86)

The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain

Damon Clark and Heather Royer

(pp. 2087-2120)

The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

David H. Autor, David Dorn and Gordon H. Hanson

(pp. 2121-68)

Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Amit K. Khandelwal, Peter K. Schott and Shang-Jin Wei

(pp. 2169-95)

Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India

Erica Field, Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol

(pp. 2196-2226)

How the West "Invented" Fertility Restriction

Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

(pp. 2227-64)

Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate

Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker

(pp. 2265-95)

Urban Accounting and Welfare

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

(pp. 2296-2327)

Managing Conflicts in Relational Contracts

Jin Li and Niko Matouschek

(pp. 2328-51)

The Cost of Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from the Local Public Sector

Philippe Gagnepain, Marc Ivaldi and David Martimort

(pp. 2352-83)

Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts

Giacomo Calzolari and Vincenzo Denicolò

(pp. 2384-2411)

Spontaneous Discrimination

Marcin Pęski and Balázs Szentes

(pp. 2412-36)

Incarceration and Incapacitation: Evidence from the 2006 Italian Collective Pardon

Paolo Buonanno and Steven Raphael

(pp. 2437-65)

Word-of-Mouth Communication and Percolation in Social Networks

Arthur Campbell

(pp. 2466-98)

The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices

Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Ted O'Donoghue and Joshua C. Teitelbaum

(pp. 2499-2529)

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Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

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(pp. 2530-53)

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Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands

Swati Dhingra

(pp. 2554-84)

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Surplus Maximization and Optimality

Edward E. Schlee

(pp. 2585-2611)

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News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

André Kurmann and Christopher Otrok

(pp. 2612-32)

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Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations: Comment

Anthony Ziegelmeyer, Christoph March and Sebastian Krügel

(pp. 2633-42)