Journal of Economic Perspectives

Vol. 17 No. 3 Summer 2003

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Abstract

Author

Symposium: Global Poverty Reduction

Halving Global Poverty

Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess

(pp. 3-22)

Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?

William Easterly

(pp. 23-48)

Symposium: Stock Options

The Trouble with Stock Options

Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy

(pp. 49-70)

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Lucian Arye Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

(pp. 71-92)

Articles

Why Have Americans Become More Obese?

David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro

(pp. 93-118)

The Negative Income Tax and the Evolution of U.S. Welfare Policy

Robert A. Moffitt

(pp. 119-140)

The Economics and Law of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Kaushik Basu

(pp. 141-157)

In Honor of Matthew Rabin: Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal

Colin Camerer and Richard H. Thaler

(pp. 159-176)

Features

Retrospectives: Who Invented Instrumental Variable Regression?

James H. Stock and Francesco Trebbi

(pp. 177-194)

Recommendations for Further Reading

Bernard Saffran

(pp. 195-202)

Comments (pp. 203-206)

Notes (pp. 207-213)