Journal of Economic Perspectives

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

Issues

Development

Spring 2008

What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

(pp. 3–28)

Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid

by William Easterly and Tobias Pfutze

(pp. 29–52)

Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

by Angus Deaton

(pp. 53–72)

What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

by Eric Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmed

(pp. 73–92)

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

by Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, and Kenneth Leonard

(pp. 93–114)

Economics of Persuasion

Spring 2008

What the Seller Won't Tell You: Persuasion and Disclosure in Markets

by Paul Milgrom

(pp. 115–131)

Competition and Truth in the Market for News

by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro

(pp. 133–154)

Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation

by Peter T. Leeson

(pp. 155–169)

Productivity

Winter 2008

A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence

by Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho, and Kevin J. Stiroh

(pp. 3–24)

The Productivity Gap between Europe and the United States: Trends and Causes

by Bart van Ark, Mary O'Mahoney, and Marcel P. Timmer

(pp. 25–44)

Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India

by Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins

(pp. 45–66)

Regulatory Economics

Winter 2008

Has Economic Analysis Improved Regulatory Decisions?

by Robert W. Hahn and Paul C. Tetlock

(pp. 67–84)

Is the Food And Drug Administration Safe And Effective?

by Tomas J. Philipson and Eric Sun

(pp. 85–102)

Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation

by Thomas W. Hazlett

(pp. 103–128)

Monetary Policy

Fall 2007

The Case for Forecast Targeting as a Monetary Policy Strategy

by Michael Woodford

(pp. 3–24)

Macroeconomic Modeling for Monetary Policy Evaluation

by Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler

(pp. 25–46)

How the World Achieved Consensus on Monetary Policy

by Marvin Goodfriend

(pp. 47–68)

The Evolution of Central Bank Governance around the World

by Christopher Crowe and Ellen E. Meade

(pp. 69–90)

Human Resource Management

Fall 2007

Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources

by Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw

(pp. 91–114)

Human Resources from an Organizational Behavior Perspective: Some Paradoxes Explained

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

(pp. 115–134)

Paying Respect

by Tore Ellingsen and Magnus Johannesson

(pp. 135–150)

Organ Transplants

Summer 2007

Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations

by Gary S. Becker and Julio Jorge Elías

(pp. 3–24)

Producing Organ Donors

by David H. Howard

(pp. 25–36)

Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

by Alvin E. Roth

(pp. 37–58)

The Adequacy of Retirement Saving

Summer 2007

Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?

by Jonathan Skinner

(pp. 59–80)

Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior

by Shlomo Benartzi and Richard Thaler

(pp. 81–104)

Household Economics

Spring 2007

The American Family and Family Economics

by Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak

(pp. 3–26)

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

(pp. 27–52)

The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families

by Dan A. Black, Seth G. Sanders, and Lowell J. Taylor

(pp. 53–70)

Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century

by Roland G. Fryer Jr.

(pp. 71–90)

Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family

by Donald Cox

(pp. 91–108)

Behavioral Finance

Spring 2007

Disagreement and the Stock Market

by Harrison Hong and Jeremy C. Stein

(pp. 109–128)

Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market

by Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler

(pp. 129–152)

U.S. Tax Policy in International Perspective

Winter 2007

How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective

by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

(pp. 3–24)

Cheating Ourselves: The Economics of Tax Evasion

by Joel Slemrod

(pp. 25–48)

Taxing Consumption and Other Sins

by James R. Hines Jr.

(pp. 49–68)

Tax Reform Unraveling

by Michael J. Graetz

(pp. 69–90)

New Rules for Corporate Governance

Winter 2007

The Goals and Promise of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

by John C. Coates IV

(pp. 91–116)

Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe

by Luca Enriques and Paolo Volpin

(pp. 117–140)

Macroeconomic Lessons

Fall 2006

Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory Is Shaping Policy

by V. V. Chari and Patrick J. Kehoe

(pp. 3–28)

The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer

by N. Gregory Mankiw

(pp. 29–46)

The Euro

Fall 2006

The Real Effects of European Monetary Union

by Philip R. Lane

(pp. 47–66)

The European Central Bank, the Euro, and Global Financial Markets

by Kathryn M. E. Dominguez

(pp. 67–88)

American Employment

Summer 2006

The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links

by Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, and John Haltiwanger

(pp. 3–26)

Changes in Labor Force Participation in the United States

by Chinhui Juhn and Simon Potter

(pp. 27–46)

Unemployment Insurance: Strengthening the Relationship between Theory and Policy

by Walter Nicholson and Karen Needels

(pp. 47–70)

The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding

by David H. Autor and Mark G. Duggan

(pp. 71–96)

Disease and Development

Summer 2006

The Determinants of Mortality

by David Cutler, Angus Deaton, and Adriana Lleras-Muney

(pp. 97–120)

The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries: The Case for Prevention

by David Canning

(pp. 121–142)

The Market for Economists

Summer 2006

Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists

by Paul Oyer

(pp. 143–160)

Does the Academic Labor Market Initially Allocate New Graduates Efficiently?

by Valérie Smeets, Frédéric Warzynski, and Tom Coupé

(pp. 161–172)

Cultural Economics

Spring 2006

Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?

by David S. Landes

(pp. 3–22)

Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

by Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales

(pp. 23–48)

Religion and Economy

by Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro

(pp. 49–72)

The Role of Family in Family Firms

by Marianne Bertrand and Antoinette Schoar

(pp. 73–96)

Red and Blue States

Spring 2006

Purple America

by Stephen Ansolabehere, Jonathan Rodden, and James M. Snyder Jr.

(pp. 97–118)

Myths and Realities of American Political Geography

by Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward

(pp. 119–144)

Happiness Economics

Winter 2006

Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being

by Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger

(pp. 3–24)

Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

by Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

(pp. 25–46)

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