Front Matter
(pp. i-xvi)
American Economic Review
Vol. 107 No. 5 May 2017
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Foreword
(p. xi)
Editors' Introduction
(p. xii)
The Economist as Plumber
(pp. 1-26)
Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics
(pp. 27-31)
Replications in Development Economics
(pp. 32-36)
Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
(pp. 37-40)
A Proposal to Organize and Promote Replications
(pp. 41-45)
What Is Meant by "Replication" and Why Does It Encounter Resistance in Economics?
(pp. 46-51)
Replication and Economics Journal Policies
(pp. 52-55)
Replication, Meta-analysis, and Research Synthesis in Economics
(pp. 56-59)
A Preanalysis Plan to Replicate Sixty Economics Research Papers That Worked Half of the Time
(pp. 60-64)
Groupy versus Non-Groupy Social Preferences: Personality, Region, and Political Party
(pp. 65-69)
Altruistic Capital
(pp. 70-75)
Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
(pp. 76-80)
Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index
(pp. 81-85)
Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body
(pp. 86-90)
The Ethics of Incentivizing the Uninformed: A Vignette Study
(pp. 91-95)
Sacred versus Pseudo-sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs
(pp. 96-99)
Quantifying the Disincentive Effects of Joint Taxation on Married Women's Labor Supply
(pp. 100-104)
Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women's Job Choices
(pp. 105-09)
The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census
(pp. 110-14)
A Gender Agenda: A Progress Report on Competitiveness
(pp. 115-19)
Trumping Norms: Lab Evidence on Aggressive Communication before and after the 2016 US Presidential Election
(pp. 120-24)
Gender, Competitiveness, and Study Choices in High School: Evidence from Switzerland
(pp. 125-30)
Gender Differences in the Allocation of Low-Promotability Tasks: The Role of Backlash
(pp. 131-35)
No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self
(pp. 136-40)
Recognition for Group Work: Gender Differences in Academia
(pp. 141-45)
Shopping While Female: Who Pays Higher Prices and Why?
(pp. 146-49)
Women's Inheritance Rights, Household Allocation, and Gender Bias
(pp. 150-53)
Assortative Matching under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Malawi
(pp. 154-57)
The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi
(pp. 158-62)
Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment
(pp. 163-67)
Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?
(pp. 168-73)
Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation
(pp. 174-79)
Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
(pp. 180-85)
Pandora's Auctions: Dynamic Matching with Unknown Preferences
(pp. 186-90)
Multidimensional Platform Design
(pp. 191-95)
Discrete Pricing and Market Fragmentation: A Tale of Two-Sided Markets
(pp. 196-99)
Recent Developments in Matching with Constraints
(pp. 200-204)
Redesigning the Israeli Psychology Master's Match
(pp. 205-09)
Large-Scale Affirmative Action in School Choice: Admissions to IITs in India
(pp. 210-13)
Stable and Strategy-Proof Matching with Flexible Allotments
(pp. 214-19)
The Mechanism Is Truthful, Why Aren't You?
(pp. 220-24)
Mistaken Play in the Deferred Acceptance Algorithm: Implications for Positive Assortative Matching
(pp. 225-29)
Obvious Ex Post Equilibrium
(pp. 230-34)
Bounded Rationality and Robust Mechanism Design: An Axiomatic Approach
(pp. 235-39)
Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago's Exam Schools
(pp. 240-45)
Policy Analysis in Matching Markets
(pp. 246-50)
The Econometrics and Some Properties of Separable Matching Models
(pp. 251-55)
Specifying a Structural Matching Game of Trading Networks with Transferable Utility
(pp. 256-60)
Double/Debiased/Neyman Machine Learning of Treatment Effects
(pp. 261-65)
Testing-Based Forward Model Selection
(pp. 266-69)
L2-Boosting for Economic Applications
(pp. 270-73)
Core Determining Class and Inequality Selection
(pp. 274-77)
Estimating Average Treatment Effects: Supplementary Analyses and Remaining Challenges
(pp. 278-81)
What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results
(pp. 282-86)
What Have We Learned from Structural Models?
(pp. 287-92)
Economic Research Evolves: Fields and Styles
(pp. 293-97)
Abducting Economics
(pp. 298-302)
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Programs on Minorities
(pp. 303-07)
Gender Gap in High-Growth Ventures: Evidence from a University Venture Mentoring Program
(pp. 308-11)
Which Entrepreneurs Are Coachable and Why?
(pp. 312-16)
Endogenous Appropriability
(pp. 317-21)
Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency, and the Productivity Slowdown
(pp. 322-26)
Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity
(pp. 327-31)
Transferability of Skills across Sectors and Heterogeneous Displacement Costs
(pp. 332-36)
Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany
(pp. 337-42)
A Context-Robust Measure of the Disincentive Cost of Unemployment Insurance
(pp. 343-48)
Composition and Aggregate Real Wage Growth
(pp. 349-52)
Do Job-to-Job Transitions Drive Wage Fluctuations over the Business Cycle?
(pp. 353-57)
Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth
(pp. 358-63)
The Relative Power of Employment-to-Employment Reallocation and Unemployment Exits in Predicting Wage Growth
(pp. 364-68)
Heterogeneous Scarring Effects of Full-Year Nonemployment
(pp. 369-73)
Returns to Education through Access to Higher-Paying Firms: Evidence from US Matched Employer-Employee Data
(pp. 374-78)
Wage Inequality and Firm Growth
(pp. 379-83)
The Role of Firms in Gender Earnings Inequality: Evidence from the United States
(pp. 384-87)
The Role of Unemployment in the Rise in Alternative Work Arrangements
(pp. 388-92)
Firm-Related Risk and Precautionary Saving Response
(pp. 393-97)
Worker Betas: Five Facts about Systematic Earnings Risk
(pp. 398-403)
Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world
(pp. 404-09)
Segregation and Homeownership in the Early Twentieth Century
(pp. 410-14)
Who Will Fight? The All-Volunteer Army after 9/11
(pp. 415-19)
Taxman's Dilemma: Coercion or Persuasion? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Ethiopia
(pp. 420-24)
Inequality in the Labor Market for Native American Women and the Great Recession
(pp. 425-29)
Consumption Smoothing and Frequency of Benefit Payments of Cash Transfer Programs
(pp. 430-35)
Asylum Applications and Migration Flows
(pp. 436-40)
Validating Migration Responses to Flooding Using Satellite and Vital Registration Data
(pp. 441-45)
Heat Exposure and Youth Migration in Central America and the Caribbean
(pp. 446-50)
Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration
(pp. 451-55)
Retirement Contribution Rate Nudges and Plan Participation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(pp. 456-61)
Challenges to Replication and Iteration in Field Experiments: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Shots
(pp. 462-65)
Government-Academic Partnerships in Randomized Evaluations: The Case of Inappropriate Prescribing
(pp. 466-70)
Reminders and Recidivism: Using Administrative Data to Characterize Nonfilers and Conduct EITC Outreach
(pp. 471-75)
Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error?
(pp. 476-80)
Wearable Technologies and Health Behaviors: New Data and New Methods to Understand Population Health
(pp. 481-85)
Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs
(pp. 486-90)
Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient?
(pp. 491-95)
Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda
(pp. 496-500)
Precommitment, Cash Transfers, and Timely Arrival for Birth: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nairobi Kenya
(pp. 501-05)
Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India
(pp. 506-10)
Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia
(pp. 511-15)
Does Forest Loss Increase Human Disease? Evidence from Nigeria
(pp. 516-21)
Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality
(pp. 522-25)
The Impact of Indonesian Forest Fires on Singaporean Pollution and Health
(pp. 526-29)
Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Niger's 1986 Meningitis Epidemic
(pp. 530-35)
How Children with Mental Disabilities Affect Household Investment Decisions
(pp. 536-40)
Excess Male Infant Mortality: The Gene-Institution Interactions
(pp. 541-45)
Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs
(pp. 546-50)
Does Public Assistance Reduce Recidivism?
(pp. 551-55)
Moving to Job Opportunities? The Effect of "Ban the Box" on the Composition of Cities
(pp. 556-59)
The Effect of Criminal Records on Access to Employment
(pp. 560-64)
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 565-71)
The Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions
(pp. 572-77)
How the Second-Order Free Rider Problem Is Solved in a Small-Scale Society
(pp. 578-81)
Why Being Wrong Can Be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs
(pp. 582-87)
Aggregate Demand and the Top 1 Percent
(pp. 588-92)
Earnings Inequality and Other Determinants of Wealth Inequality
(pp. 593-97)
Large Firms and International Business Cycle Comovement
(pp. 598-602)
Big Banks, Idiosyncratic Volatility, and Systemic Risk
(pp. 603-07)
China's Gradualistic Economic Approach and Financial Markets
(pp. 608-13)
Rents, Technical Change, and Risk Premia Accounting for Secular Trends in Interest Rates, Returns on Capital, Earning Yields, and Factor Shares
(pp. 614-20)
Euro-Area Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Rebalancing
(pp. 621-27)
Capitalization of School Quality in Housing Prices: Evidence from Boundary Changes in Shelby County, Tennessee
(pp. 628-32)
Teenage Motherhood and Sibling Outcomes
(pp. 633-37)
The Importance of Information Targeting for School Choice
(pp. 638-43)
Trends in Economics and Other Undergraduate Majors
(pp. 644-49)
Some Lasting Effects of Undergraduate Economics on Retirement Planning
(pp. 650-54)
Promoting Undergraduate Research in Economics
(pp. 655-59)
Learning Outcomes for Economists
(pp. 660-64)
Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: Chicago, IL, January 6, 2017
(pp. 667-69)
Report of the Secretary
(pp. 670-73)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 674-77)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 678-80)
List of Online Reports
(p. 681)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 29, 2016
(pp. 683-88)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, January 5, 2017
(pp. 689-98)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 699-712)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 713-15)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 716-18)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 719-25)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 726-34)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 735-42)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 743-48)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 749-51)
Report: Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 752-58)
Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
(pp. 759-76)
Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)
(pp. 777-91)
Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)
(pp. 792-94)
Report: Committee on Government Relations
(pp. 795-96)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the American Economic Review
(p. 797)