How Research Informs Policy Analysis
Journal of Economic Perspectives
ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)
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Labor Market and Macroeconomics
The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge Curve Shifts
by Gadi Barlevy, R. Jason Faberman, Bart Hobijn, and Ayşegül Şahin
(pp. 83–106)
Perspectives on the Labor Share
by Loukas Karabarbounis
(pp. 107–36)
Why Labor Supply Matters for Macroeconomics
by Richard Rogerson
(pp. 137–58)
How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?
by Marianna Kudlyak
(pp. 159–80)
Privacy Protection and Government Data
Government Data of the People, by the People, for the People: Navigating Citizen Privacy Concerns
by Claire McKay Bowen
(pp. 181–200)
When Privacy Protection Goes Wrong: How and Why the 2020 Census Confidentiality Program Failed
by Steven Ruggles
(pp. 201–26)
The Global Market for Talent
Skilled Immigrants, Firms, and the Global Geography of Innovation
by Britta Glennon
(pp. 3–26)
Migration and Innovation: Learning from Patent and Inventor Data
by Francesco Lissoni and Ernest Miguelez
(pp. 27–54)
Taxation and Developing Countries
Tax Equity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
by Pierre Bachas ⓡ Anders Jensen ⓡ Lucie Gadenne
(pp. 55–80)
How Can Lower-Income Countries Collect More Taxes? The Role of Technology, Tax Agents, and Politics
by Oyebola Okunogbe and Gabriel Tourek
(pp. 81–106)
Does the Value-Added Tax Add Value? Lessons Using Administrative Data from a Diverse Set of Countries
by Anne Brockmeyer ⓡ Giulia Mascagni ⓡ Vedanth Nair ⓡ Mazhar Waseem ⓡ Miguel Almunia
(pp. 107–32)
After the Pandemic
Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?
by Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Jorge R. Ledesma
(pp. 3–22)
The Evolution of Work from Home
by José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis
(pp. 23–50)
COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes
by Rebecca Jack and Emily Oster
(pp. 51–70)
Wealth
Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War
by Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick
(pp. 71–90)
Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?
by Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Rory McGee
(pp. 91–114)
Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway
by Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell G. Salvanes
(pp. 115–36)
The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field
by Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
(pp. 137–54)
The Electricity Grid
Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid
by Lucas W. Davis, Catherine Hausman, and Nancy L. Rose
(pp. 155–80)
The Economics of Electricity Reliability
by Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Erin Mansur
(pp. 181–206)
Economics Career Paths
The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem
by Anna Stansbury and Robert Schultz
(pp. 207–30)
Early Career Paths of Economists inside and outside of Academia
by Lucia Foster, Erika McEntarfer, and Danielle H. Sandler
(pp. 231–50)
Supply Chains
How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965–2020
by Sharat Ganapati and Woan Foong Wong
(pp. 3–30)
The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains
by Teresa C. Fort
(pp. 31–58)
Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments
by Laura Boudreau, Julia Cajal-Grossi, and Rocco Macchiavello
(pp. 59–86)
International Dimensions of Climate Change Policy
Are Developed Countries Outsourcing Pollution?
by Arik Levinson
(pp. 87–110)
Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
by Rachel Glennerster and Seema Jayachandran
(pp. 111–36)
Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary
by Kimberly A. Clausing and Catherine Wolfram
(pp. 137–62)
Global Transportation Decarbonization
by David Rapson ⓡ Erich Muehlegger
(pp. 163–88)
Spatial and Urban Economics
Economic Activity across Space: A Supply and Demand Approach
by Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis
(pp. 3–28)
Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates
by Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury
(pp. 29–52)
Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply
by Nathaniel Baum-Snow
(pp. 53–74)
Quantitative Urban Models: From Theory to Data
by Stephen J. Redding
(pp. 75–98)
Universal Health Insurance
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
by Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard
(pp. 99–122)
The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
by Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do
(pp. 123–52)
Economics of Mental Health
America's Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations
by Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied
(pp. 153–78)
Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Erin Grela, Madeline McKelway, Frank Schilbach, Garima Sharma, and Girija Vaidyanathan
(pp. 179–202)
Trade Sanctions and International Relations
Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges
by T. Clifton Morgan, Constantinos Syropoulos, and Yoto V. Yotov
(pp. 3–30)
Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System
by Marco Cipriani, Linda S. Goldberg, and Gabriele La Spada
(pp. 31–52)
Monetary Policy
Monetary Policy When the Central Bank Shapes Financial-Market Sentiment
by Anil K Kashyap and Jeremy C. Stein
(pp. 53–76)
Risk Appetite and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy
by Michael D. Bauer, Ben S. Bernanke, and Eric Milstein
(pp. 77–100)
Landings, Soft and Hard: The Federal Reserve, 1965–2022
by Alan S. Blinder
(pp. 101–20)
Monetary Policy and Inequality
by Alisdair McKay and Christian K. Wolf
(pp. 121–44)
Hispanic Americans
Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox
by José Fernandez, Mónica García-Pérez, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman
(pp. 145–68)
Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations
by Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, and Stephen J. Trejo
(pp. 169–98)
US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective
by Gordon Hanson, Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny
(pp. 199–222)
Labor Market Institutions
Is There Any Future for a US Labor Movement?
by Suresh Naidu
(pp. 3–28)
Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining
by Manudeep Bhuller, Karl Ove Moene, Magne Mogstad, and Ola L. Vestad
(pp. 29–52)
The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
by Simon Jäger, Shakked Noy, and Benjamin Schoefer
(pp. 53–80)
Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties
by Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Michael Svarer
(pp. 81–102)
The Size of Government Debt
Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt
by Ricardo Reis
(pp. 103–24)
Fiscal Histories
by John H. Cochrane
(pp. 125–46)
Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic
by Kenneth Rogoff
(pp. 147–66)
Intangible Capital
Intangible Capital and Modern Economies
by Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, and Massimiliano Iommi
(pp. 3–28)
The Economics of Intangible Capital
by Nicolas Crouzet, Janice C. Eberly, Andrea L. Eisfeldt, and Dimitris Papanikolaou
(pp. 29–52)
Marketing Investment and Intangible Brand Capital
by Bart J. Bronnenberg, Jean-Pierre Dubé, and Chad Syverson
(pp. 53–74)