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Journal of Economic Perspectives
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European Union
The Resilience of the Euro
by Philip R. Lane
(pp. 3–22)
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms
by Keith Head and Thierry Mayer
(pp. 23–48)
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe
by David Dorn and Josef Zweimüller
(pp. 49–76)
Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization
by Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli, and Roberto Perotti
(pp. 77–100)
Preventive Medicine
An Ounce of Prevention
by Joseph P. Newhouse
(pp. 101–18)
Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?
by Amanda E. Kowalski
(pp. 119–40)
Minimum Wage
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
by Alan Manning
(pp. 3–26)
City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?
by Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner
(pp. 27–50)
How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins
by Jeffrey Clemens
(pp. 51–72)
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968
by Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer
(pp. 73–96)
Polarization in Courts
Estimating Judicial Ideology
by Adam Bonica and Maya Sen
(pp. 97–118)
Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?
by Daniel Hemel
(pp. 119–42)
Economics of Higher Education
Staffing the Higher Education Classroom
by David Figlio and Morton Schapiro
(pp. 143–62)
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
by John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner
(pp. 163–84)
Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
by W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola
(pp. 185–206)
How Much Income and Wealth Inequality?
The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts
by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
(pp. 3–26)
Business Incomes at the Top
by Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick
(pp. 27–51)
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
by Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee, and Thomas Lemieux
(pp. 52–78)
Economics and Epidemiology
An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease
by Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison, and Sara Fisher Ellison
(pp. 79–104)
Epidemiology's Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics
by Eleanor J. Murray
(pp. 105–20)
Productivity Advantages of Cities
The Economics of Urban Density
by Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga
(pp. 3–26)
How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies
by Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange
(pp. 27–49)
Tech Clusters
by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
(pp. 50–76)
Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions
by Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri
(pp. 77–98)
Place-Based Policies
Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities
by Timothy J. Bartik
(pp. 99–127)
Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities
by Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry G. Overman
(pp. 128–49)
Cities in Developing Countries
Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?
by J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew A. Turner
(pp. 150–73)
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?
by David Lagakos
(pp. 174–92)
One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage
Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement
by Carolyn M. Moehling and Melissa A. Thomasson
(pp. 3–23)
A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship since Women's Enfranchisement
by Elizabeth U. Cascio and Na'ama Shenhav
(pp. 24–48)
Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
by Mario L. Small and Devah Pager
(pp. 49–67)
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective
by Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer
(pp. 68–89)
How Taxes Affect Location Choices
Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives
by Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar
(pp. 90–118)
Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications
by Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Mathilde Muñoz, and Stefanie Stantcheva
(pp. 119–42)
The Departure of Communism
The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
by Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, and Ludger Woessmann
(pp. 143–71)
The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe
by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln
(pp. 172–91)
Economics of India
Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model
by Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian
(pp. 3–30)
Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?
by Devesh Kapur
(pp. 31–54)
The Great Indian Demonetization
by Amartya Lahiri
(pp. 55–74)
Assimilation of Refugees
Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy
by Timothy J. Hatton
(pp. 75–93)
The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
by Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann, and Ian Preston
(pp. 94–121)
Electricity in Developing Countries
Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
by Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel, and Catherine Wolfram
(pp. 122–44)
The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right
by Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan
(pp. 145–69)
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Clean Air and Water Acts
What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency?
by Janet Currie and Reed Walker
(pp. 3–26)
Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act
by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins
(pp. 27–50)
US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?
by David A. Keiser and Joseph S. Shapiro
(pp. 51–75)
Modern Populism
On Latin American Populism, and Its Echoes around the World
by Sebastian Edwards
(pp. 76–99)
Informational Autocrats
by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
(pp. 100–127)
The Surge of Economic Nationalism in Western Europe
by Italo Colantone and Piero Stanig
(pp. 128–51)
Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered
by Yotam Margalit
(pp. 152–70)