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When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior

Uri Gneezy, Stephan Meier and Pedro Rey-Biel

Fall 2011, (pp. 191-210)

Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis

Douglas Almond and Janet Currie

Summer 2011, (pp. 153-72)

Internal Migration in the United States

Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith and Abigail Wozniak

Summer 2011, (pp. 173-96)

Esther Duflo: 2010 John Bates Clark Medalist

Christopher Udry

Summer 2011, (pp. 197-216)

Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing

Susan Houseman, Christopher Kurz, Paul Lengermann and Benjamin Mandel

Spring 2011, (pp. 111-32)

The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health

Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin

Spring 2011, (pp. 133-56)

The Market for Charitable Giving

John A. List

Spring 2011, (pp. 157-80)

Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm: What Have We Learned over the Past 25 Years?

Philippe Aghion and Richard Holden

Spring 2011, (pp. 181-97)

Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

Winter 2011, (pp. 115-38)

Who Pays for Obesity?

Jay Bhattacharya and Neeraj Sood

Winter 2011, (pp. 139-58)

Priceless: The Nonpecuniary Benefits of Schooling

Philip Oreopoulos and Kjell G. Salvanes

Winter 2011, (pp. 159-84)

Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off

Ran Abramitzky

Winter 2011, (pp. 185-208)

Behavior under Extreme Conditions: The Titanic Disaster

Bruno S. Frey, David A. Savage and Benno Torgler

Winter 2011, (pp. 209-22)

Activist Fiscal Policy

Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale and Benjamin H. Harris

Fall 2010, (pp. 141-64)

Catastrophe Economics: The National Flood Insurance Program

Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

Fall 2010, (pp. 165-86)

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

Peter Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried

Fall 2010, (pp. 187-206)

Emmanuel Saez: 2009 John Bates Clark Medalist

B. Douglas Bernheim

Summer 2010, (pp. 183-206)

Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti

Summer 2010, (pp. 207-32)

Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report

Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin

Spring 2010, (pp. 145-62)

The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas

Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

Spring 2010, (pp. 163-88)

Corporate Audits and How to Fix Them

Joshua Ronen

Spring 2010, (pp. 189-210)

Economic Theory and the World of Practice: A Celebration of the (S, s) Model

Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

Winter 2010, (pp. 183-202)

Why Do Management Practices Differ across Firms and Countries?

Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen

Winter 2010, (pp. 203-24)

Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice

N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl and Danny Yagan

Fall 2009, (pp. 147-74)

Mortality Inequality

Sam Peltzman

Fall 2009, (pp. 175-90)

The Liabilities and Risks of State-Sponsored Pension Plans

Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh

Fall 2009, (pp. 191-210)

Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century

Jonah Rockoff

Fall 2009, (pp. 211-30)

Interview with Edmund S. Phelps

Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

Summer 2009, (pp. 109-24)

The Economics of Two-Sided Markets

Marc Rysman

Summer 2009, (pp. 125-43)

World Oil: Market or Mayhem?

James L. Smith

Summer 2009, (pp. 145-64)

The Three Arab Worlds

James E. Rauch and Scott Kostyshak

Summer 2009, (pp. 165-88)

The Nominal Share Price Puzzle

William C. Weld, Roni Michaely, Richard H. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi

Spring 2009, (pp. 121-42)

(Un)happiness in Transition

Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Spring 2009, (pp. 143-68)

Faculty without Students: Resource Allocation in Higher Education

William R. Johnson and Sarah Turner

Spring 2009, (pp. 169-89)

Legal Realism for Economists

Matthew C. Stephenson

Spring 2009, (pp. 191-211)

Microfinance Meets the Market

Robert Cull, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

Winter 2009, (pp. 167-92)

The U.S. Equity Return Premium: Past, Present, and Future

J. Bradford DeLong and Konstantin Magin

Winter 2009, (pp. 193-208)

Overlapping Generations: The First Jubilee

Philippe Weil

Fall 2008, (pp. 115-34)

The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Jacob Vigdor

Fall 2008, (pp. 135-54)

Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels

Steven J. Davis and James A. Kahn

Fall 2008, (pp. 155-80)

Susan C. Athey: John Bates Clark Award Winner 2007

John Roberts

Fall 2008, (pp. 181-98)

Forensic Finance

Jay R. Ritter

Summer 2008, (pp. 127-47)

A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar S. Prasad and Raghuram G. Rajan

Summer 2008, (pp. 149-72)

Probability and Uncertainty in Economic Modeling

Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew W. Postlewaite and David Schmeidler

Summer 2008, (pp. 173-88)

Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students

Michael Kremer and Dan Levy

Summer 2008, (pp. 189-206)

Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success

Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar and Jialan Wang

Summer 2008, (pp. 207-22)

Identity Theft

Keith B. Anderson, Erik Durbin and Michael A. Salinger

Spring 2008, (pp. 171-192)

Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP

J. Steven Landefeld, Eugene P. Seskin and Barbara M. Fraumeni

Spring 2008, (pp. 193-216)

Biological Measures of the Standard of Living

Richard H. Steckel

Winter 2008, (pp. 129-152)

Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Barry T. Hirsch

Winter 2008, (pp. 153-176)

Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Jeffrey R. Brown

Winter 2008, (pp. 177-198)