Front Matter
(pp. i–vii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 103, No. 6, October 2013
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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
(pp. 2052–86)
The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain
(pp. 2087–2120)
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
(pp. 2121–68)
Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
(pp. 2169–95)
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India
(pp. 2196–2226)
How the West "Invented" Fertility Restriction
(pp. 2227–64)
Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate
(pp. 2265–95)
Urban Accounting and Welfare
(pp. 2296–2327)
Managing Conflicts in Relational Contracts
(pp. 2328–51)
The Cost of Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from the Local Public Sector
(pp. 2352–83)
Competition with Exclusive Contracts and Market-Share Discounts
(pp. 2384–2411)
Spontaneous Discrimination
(pp. 2412–36)
Incarceration and Incapacitation: Evidence from the 2006 Italian Collective Pardon
(pp. 2437–65)
Word-of-Mouth Communication and Percolation in Social Networks
(pp. 2466–98)
The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices
(pp. 2499–2529)
Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
(pp. 2530–53)
Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands
(pp. 2554–84)
Surplus Maximization and Optimality
(pp. 2585–2611)
News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
(pp. 2612–32)
Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations: Comment
(pp. 2633–42)