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Inequality Beyond Income
Consumption Inequality
by Orazio P. Attanasio and Luigi Pistaferri
(pp. 3–28)
Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach
by Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt
(pp. 29–52)
Health Insurance and Income Inequality
by Robert Kaestner and Darren Lubotsky
(pp. 53–78)
Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
by Shelly Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak, and Jenna Stearns
(pp. 79–102)
Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality
by Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael
(pp. 103–26)
The Bretton Woods Institutions
The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention
by Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
(pp. 3–28)
The IMF's Unmet Challenges
by Barry Eichengreen and Ngaire Woods
(pp. 29–52)
The New Role for the World Bank
by Michael A. Clemens and Michael Kremer
(pp. 53–76)
The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
by Martin Ravallion
(pp. 77–94)
The World Trade Organization and the Future of Multilateralism
by Richard Baldwin
(pp. 95–116)
Oil and Gas Markets
Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels?
by Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel
(pp. 117–38)
Forty Years of Oil Price Fluctuations: Why the Price of Oil May Still Surprise Us
by Christiane Baumeister and Lutz Kilian
(pp. 139–60)
Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So Difficult?
by Anthony J. Venables
(pp. 161–84)
Overconfidence
On the Verges of Overconfidence
by Ulrike Malmendier and Timothy Taylor
(pp. 3–8)
Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace
by Michael D. Grubb
(pp. 9–36)
Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence
by Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate
(pp. 37–60)
Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading
by Kent Daniel and David Hirshleifer
(pp. 61–88)
The Future of Retail
The Ongoing Evolution of US Retail: A Format Tug-of-War
by Ali Hortaçsu and Chad Syverson
(pp. 89–112)
Adolescence and the Path to Maturity in Global Retail
by Bart J. Bronnenberg and Paul B. Ellickson
(pp. 113–34)
Online Higher Education
Online Higher Education: Beyond the Hype Cycle
by Michael S. McPherson and Lawrence S. Bacow
(pp. 135–54)
How Economics Faculty Can Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) in a Brave New Online World
by Peter Navarro
(pp. 155–76)
Automation and Labor Markets
Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation
by David H. Autor
(pp. 3–30)
The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?
by Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth
(pp. 31–50)
Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics?
by Gill A. Pratt
(pp. 51–60)
Pre-Analysis Plans in Economics
Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans
by Benjamin A. Olken
(pp. 61–80)
Pre-analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible
by Lucas C. Coffman and Muriel Niederle
(pp. 81–98)
Doing Business
Law, Regulation, and the Business Climate: The Nature and Influence of the World Bank Doing Business Project
by Timothy Besley
(pp. 99–120)
How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules
by Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Lant Pritchett
(pp. 121–40)
The Bailouts of 2007-2009
A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
by Austan D. Goolsbee and Alan B. Krueger
(pp. 3–24)
The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
by W. Scott Frame, Andreas Fuster, Joseph Tracy, and James Vickery
(pp. 25–52)
An Assessment of TARP Assistance to Financial Institutions
by Charles W. Calomiris and Urooj Khan
(pp. 53–80)
AIG in Hindsight
by Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson
(pp. 81–106)
Legal, Political, and Institutional Constraints on the Financial Crisis Policy Response
by Phillip Swagel
(pp. 107–22)
Disability Insurance
Understanding the Increase in Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt in the United States
by Jeffrey B. Liebman
(pp. 123–50)
The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands
by Pierre Koning and Maarten Lindeboom
(pp. 151–72)
Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom
by James Banks, Richard Blundell, and Carl Emmerson
(pp. 173–90)
Wealth and Inequality
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
(pp. 3–28)
Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality
by Charles I. Jones
(pp. 29–46)
What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?
by Wojciech Kopczuk
(pp. 47–66)
Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty
(pp. 67–88)
Social Networks
Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors
by Matthew O. Jackson
(pp. 3–22)
From Micro to Macro via Production Networks
by Vasco M. Carvalho
(pp. 23–48)
Community Networks and the Process of Development
by Kaivan Munshi
(pp. 49–76)
Tax Enforcement and Compliance
How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much?
by Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
(pp. 77–98)
Why Do Developing Countries Tax So Little?
by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson
(pp. 99–120)
Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits
by Gabriel Zucman
(pp. 121–48)
Tax Morale
by Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal
(pp. 149–68)
Entrepreneurship
The Role of Entrepreneurship in US Job Creation and Economic Dynamism
by Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda
(pp. 3–24)
Entrepreneurship as Experimentation
by William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
(pp. 25–48)
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
by Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber
(pp. 49–70)
Classic Ideas in Development
The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective
by Douglas Gollin
(pp. 71–88)
The Missing "Missing Middle"
by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Benjamin A. Olken
(pp. 89–108)
Informality and Development
by Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer
(pp. 109–26)
Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence
by Aart Kraay and David McKenzie
(pp. 127–48)
Academic Production
Page Limits on Economics Articles: Evidence from Two Journals
by David Card and Stefano DellaVigna
(pp. 149–68)
What Policies Increase Prosocial Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics
by Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez, and Laszlo Sandor
(pp. 169–88)
The Effects of an Anti-Grade-Inflation Policy at Wellesley College
by Kristin F. Butcher, Patrick J. McEwan, and Akila Weerapana
(pp. 189–204)
The Research Productivity of New PhDs in Economics: The Surprisingly High Non-success of the Successful
by John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder
(pp. 205–16)
Big Data
Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics
by Hal R. Varian
(pp. 3–28)
High-Dimensional Methods and Inference on Structural and Treatment Effects
by Alexandre Belloni, Victor Chernozhukov, and Christian Hansen
(pp. 29–50)
Political Campaigns and Big Data
by David W. Nickerson and Todd Rogers
(pp. 51–74)
Privacy and Data-Based Research
by Ori Heffetz and Katrina Ligett
(pp. 75–98)
Global Supply Chains
Slicing Up Global Value Chains
by Marcel P. Timmer, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer, and Gaaitzen J. de Vries
(pp. 99–118)
Five Facts about Value-Added Exports and Implications for Macroeconomics and Trade Research
by Robert C. Johnson
(pp. 119–42)