Front Matter
(pp. i-xv)
AEA Papers and Proceedings
Vol. 108 May 2018
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Foreword
(p. xii)
Editors' Introduction
(p. xiii)
Private Paternalism, the Commitment Puzzle, and Model-Free Equilibrium
(pp. 1-21)
Algorithmic Fairness
(pp. 22-27)
Welfarism's Envy Problem Extends to Popular Judgments
(pp. 28-32)
Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy
(pp. 33-37)
Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond "Free"
(pp. 38-42)
What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy?
(pp. 43-47)
Modeling Automation
(pp. 48-53)
A Method to Link Advances in Artificial Intelligence to Occupational Abilities
(pp. 54-57)
Human Judgment and AI Pricing
(pp. 58-63)
Estimating Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences for Restaurants and Travel Time Using Mobile Location Data
(pp. 64-67)
The Potential of Digital Credit to Bank the Poor
(pp. 68-71)
Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data
(pp. 72-76)
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
(pp. 77-82)
Misperceptions about Tax Audits
(pp. 83-87)
Ramsey Strikes Back: Optimal Commodity Tax and Redistribution in the Presence of Salience Effects
(pp. 88-92)
Can Information Change Personal Retirement Savings? Evidence from Social Security Benefits Statement Mailings
(pp. 93-97)
Rationalizations and Mistakes: Optimal Policy with Normative Ambiguity
(pp. 98-102)
The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth
(pp. 103-08)
From Communism to Capitalism: Private versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia
(pp. 109-13)
Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis
(pp. 114-18)
Extreme Inequality: Evidence from Brazil, India, the Middle East, and South Africa
(pp. 119-23)
Challenges in the Measurement of Leakage Risk
(pp. 124-29)
How Trade Sensitive Are Energy-Intensive Sectors?
(pp. 130-35)
Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy
(pp. 136-42)
Is Altruism Sensitive to Scope? The Role of Tangibility
(pp. 143-47)
Mental Budgeting versus Relative Thinking
(pp. 148-52)
When Nudges Are Forever: Inertia in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan
(pp. 153-58)
Cross-Country Differences in Household Stock Market Participation: The Role of Gender Norms
(pp. 159-62)
Gender Norms and Relative Working Hours: Why Do Women Suffer More Than Men from Working Longer Hours Than Their Partners?
(pp. 163-68)
The Language of Discrimination: Using Experimental versus Observational Data
(pp. 169-74)
Gendered Language on the Economics Job Market Rumors Forum
(pp. 175-79)
Representations of Men and Women in Introductory Economics Textbooks
(pp. 180-85)
What Can UWE Do for Economics?
(pp. 186-90)
A Dialogue between a Populist and an Economist
(pp. 191-95)
Is Populism Necessarily Bad Economics?
(pp. 196-99)
Economic Drivers of Populism
(pp. 200-203)
Studying the (Economic) Consequences of Populism
(pp. 204-07)
On the Returns to Invention within Firms: Evidence from Finland
(pp. 208-12)
Local Violence, Academic Performance, and School Accountability
(pp. 213-16)
Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: Evidence from the 1960s Civil Disturbances
(pp. 217-21)
Last Place? The Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Biomedical Authorship
(pp. 222-27)
Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings
(pp. 228-33)
Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
(pp. 234-40)
Racial and Ethnic Sentencing Differentials in the Federal Criminal Justice System
(pp. 241-45)
Participating or Not? Characteristics of Female Entrepreneurs Participating in and Completing an Entrepreneurial Training Program
(pp. 246-51)
Mind The (Profit) Gap: Why Are Female Enterprise Owners Earning Less Than Men?
(pp. 252-55)
Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo
(pp. 256-61)
Disability Saliency and Discrimination in Hiring
(pp. 262-66)
The Effect of the Disability Insurance Application Decision on the Employment of Denied Applicants
(pp. 267-71)
Return-to-Work Policies and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs
(pp. 272-76)
Income Volatility and the PSID: Past Research and New Results
(pp. 277-80)
Nonlinear Persistence and Partial Insurance: Income and Consumption Dynamics in the PSID
(pp. 281-86)
New Evidence on Earnings Volatility in Survey and Administrative Data
(pp. 287-91)
On the Heterogeneity in Family Earnings and Income Dynamics in the PSID
(pp. 292-96)
Beyond the Flipped Class: The Impact of Research-Based Teaching Methods in a Macroeconomics Principles Class
(pp. 297-301)
From "Traditional" to Research-Based Instructional Strategies: An Assessment of Learning Gains
(pp. 302-06)
Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trials in Education
(pp. 307-11)
A New Look at Lake Wobegone: Who's in Your Canoe?
(pp. 312-16)
The Disappearing Large-Firm Wage Premium
(pp. 317-22)
A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium
(pp. 323-27)
The Productivity-Wage Premium: Does Size Still Matter in a Service Economy?
(pp. 328-33)
What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?
(pp. 334-40)
Dynamic Incentives in Wait List Mechanisms
(pp. 341-47)
Dynamics of Child Mortality Inequality
(pp. 348-52)
Cousin Marriage Is Not Choice: Muslim Marriage and Underdevelopment
(pp. 353-57)
Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
(pp. 358-62)
Male Social Status and Women's Work
(pp. 363-67)
Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements
(pp. 368-72)
The Effect of Parental Education on Children's Drug and Alcohol Use
(pp. 373-78)
The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States
(pp. 379-83)
Elasticity of Medicaid Access with Respect to State Financial Distress
(pp. 384-87)
Trends and Disparities in Leave Use under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data
(pp. 388-91)
Gender Peer Effects in a Predominantly Male Environment: Evidence from West Point
(pp. 392-95)
Time and Money: Social Security Benefits and Intergenerational Transfers
(pp. 396-400)
In Debt and Approaching Retirement: Claim Social Security or Work Longer?
(pp. 401-06)
The Changing Face of Debt and Financial Fragility at Older Ages
(pp. 407-11)
The Price of Labor: Evaluating the Impact of Eliminating User Fees on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
(pp. 412-15)
Indoor Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: A New Approach
(pp. 416-21)
Short-Term Impacts of a Pay-It-Forward Livestock Transfer and Training Program in Nepal
(pp. 422-25)
Intangibles, Investment, and Efficiency
(pp. 426-31)
Ownership, Concentration, and Investment
(pp. 432-37)
Workplace Signaling and Financial Commitment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(pp. 438-43)
Digital Financial Services Go a Long Way: Transaction Costs and Financial Inclusion
(pp. 444-48)
Salary Delays and Overdrafts in Rural Ghana
(pp. 449-52)
Carbon Pricing Induces Innovation: Evidence from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots
(pp. 453-57)
China's Rate-Based Approach to Reducing CO2 Emissions: Attractions, Limitations, and Alternatives
(pp. 458-62)
China's New National Carbon Market
(pp. 463-67)
Institutions and Emissions Trading in China
(pp. 468-72)
Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction
(pp. 473-76)
The Empirics of Social Progress: The Interplay between Subjective Well-Being and Societal Performance
(pp. 477-82)
Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption across Countries
(pp. 483-87)
Internet Rising, Prices Falling: Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
(pp. 488-92)
Reach for Yield and Fickle Capital Flows
(pp. 493-98)
Global Financial Cycles and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Perspective from Emerging Markets
(pp. 499-504)
Optimal Payment Areas or Optimal Currency Areas?
(pp. 505-08)
Financial Cycles and Credit Growth across Countries
(pp. 509-12)
The Effects of Tax Changes at the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan
(pp. 513-18)
Unconventional Fiscal Policy
(pp. 519-23)
What Do We Know about the Effects of Austerity?
(pp. 524-30)
Exchange Rates and the Working Capital Channel of Trade Fluctuations
(pp. 531-36)
Foreign Safe Asset Demand for US Treasurys and the Dollar
(pp. 537-41)
Trade Invoicing, Bank Funding, and Central Bank Reserve Holdings
(pp. 542-46)
The Welfare Consequences of Income-Induced Expenditure Switching
(pp. 547-51)
Wealth Redistribution after Exchange Rate Devaluations
(pp. 552-56)
What Is the Impact of Food Stamps on Prices and Products Variety? The Importance of the Supply Response
(pp. 557-61)
The Geographic Spread of a Large Devaluation
(pp. 562-66)
Through a Crystal Ball Darkly: The Future of Monetary Policy Communication
(pp. 567-71)
Central Bank Forward Guidance and the Signal Value of Market Prices
(pp. 572-77)
Central Bank Communications and the General Public
(pp. 578-83)
The "Standard Error" of Event Studies: Lessons from the 2016 Election
(pp. 584-89)
Unequal Rewards to Firms: Stock Market Responses to the Trump Election and the 2017 Corporate Tax Reform
(pp. 590-96)
Economic Expectations, Voting, and Economic Decisions around Elections
(pp. 597-602)
Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2018
(pp. 605-07)
Report of the Secretary
(pp. 608-11)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 612-15)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 616-18)
List of Online Reports
(p. 619)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 14, 2017
(pp. 621-27)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Philadelphia, PA, January 4, 2018
(pp. 628-35)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 636-51)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review: Insights
(pp. 652-53)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 654-56)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 657-59)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 660-67)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 668-76)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 677-85)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 686-93)
Report: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 694-96)
Report: Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 697-703)
Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
(pp. 704-21)
Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)
(pp. 722-35)
Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)
(pp. 736-38)
Report: Committee on Government Relations
(pp. 739-41)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the AEJ: Macroeconomics
(p. 742)
Report by Committee to Appoint the Lead Editor to AER: Insights
(pp. 743-44)
Report of the Search Committee to Appoint a Data Editor for the AEA
(p. 745)