Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Issues

Economics of Higher Education

Winter 2021

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?

Fall 2020

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

Fall 2020

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

Summer 2020

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

Summer 2020

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

Summer 2020

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

Spring 2020

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

Spring 2020

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

Spring 2020

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

Spring 2020

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

Winter 2020

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

Winter 2020

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

Winter 2020

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

Fall 2019

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

Fall 2019

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)

Markups

Summer 2019

Are Price-Cost Markups Rising in the United States? A Discussion of the Evidence

by Susanto Basu

(pp. 3–22)

Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions

by Chad Syverson

(pp. 23–43)

Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization

by Steven Berry, Martin Gaynor, and Fiona Scott Morton

(pp. 44–68)

Issues in Antitrust

Summer 2019

Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets

by Carl Shapiro

(pp. 69–93)

The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google

by Naomi R. Lamoreaux

(pp. 94–117)

Automation and Employment

Spring 2019

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor

by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

(pp. 3–30)

Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, and Avi Goldfarb

(pp. 31–50)

"Automation" of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study

by Jeremy Atack, Robert A. Margo, and Paul W. Rhode

(pp. 51–70)

The Rise of Robots in China

by Hong Cheng, Ruixue Jia, Dandan Li, and Hongbin Li

(pp. 71–88)

Fiscal Policy

Spring 2019

Ten Years after the Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?

by Valerie A. Ramey

(pp. 89–114)

Rising Government Debt: Causes and Solutions for a Decades-Old Trend

by Pierre Yared

(pp. 115–40)

Effects of Austerity: Expenditure- and Tax-Based Approaches

by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi

(pp. 141–62)

The Problems of Men

Spring 2019

The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men

by Ariel J. Binder and John Bound

(pp. 163–90)

When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men

by Courtney C. Coile and Mark G. Duggan

(pp. 191–210)

The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men

by Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin, and Robert Francis

(pp. 211–28)

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