Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments: Comment

By Ernst Fehr, Michael Naef, and Klaus M. Schmidt

American Economic Review, December 2006

Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments: Reply

By Dirk Engelmann and Martin Strobel

American Economic Review, December 2006

Storable Good Monopoly: The Role of Commitment

By Paolo Dudine, Igal Hendel, and Alessandro Lizzeri

American Economic Review, December 2006

We study dynamic monopoly pricing of storable goods in an environment where demand changes over time. The literature on durables has focused on incentives to delay purchases. Our analysis focuses on a different intertemporal demand incentive. The key f...

Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001

By David S. Johnson, Jonathan A. Parker, and Nicholas S. Souleles

American Economic Review, December 2006

Using questions expressly added to the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we estimate the change in consumption expenditures caused by the 2001 federal income tax rebates and test the permanent income hypothesis. We exploit the unique, randomized timing of r...

Inequality Aversion, Efficiency, and Maximin Preferences in Simple Distribution Experiments: Comment

By Gary E. Bolton and Axel Ockenfels

American Economic Review, December 2006

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2006

Toward Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics

By B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel

American Economic Review, May 2007

Mistakes in Choice-Based Welfare Analysis

By Botond Kőszegi and Matthew Rabin

American Economic Review, May 2007

Was Development Assistance a Mistake?

By William Easterly

American Economic Review, May 2007

Neuroeconomic Studies of Impulsivity: Now or Just as Soon as Possible?

By Paul William Glimcher, Joseph Kable, and Kenway Louie

American Economic Review, May 2007

Testing the Mechanisms of Structural Models: The Case of the Mickey Mantle Effect

By Hanming Fang, Michael Keane, Ahmed Khwaja, Martin Salm, and Dan Silverman

American Economic Review, May 2007

Why do We Die? Economics, Biology and Aging

By Arthur J. Robson and Hillard S. Kaplan

American Economic Review, May 2007

The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences

By Arthur J. Robson and Larry Samuelson

American Economic Review, May 2007

Diffusion of Behavior and Equilibrium Properties in Network Games

By Matthew O. Jackson and Leeat Yariv

American Economic Review, May 2007

The McKenna Rule and UK World War I Finance

By James M. Nason and Shaun P. Vahey

American Economic Review, May 2007

The Political Economy of the US Monetary Union: The Civil War Era as a Watershed

By David F. Weiman and John A. James

American Economic Review, May 2007

John Bates Clark Award

American Economic Review, May 2007

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

American Economic Review, May 2007

Measuring Self-Control Problems

By John Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, John Leahy, and Tom Tyler

American Economic Review, June 2007

We develop a survey instrument to measure self-control problems in a sample of highly educated adults. This measure relates in the manner that theory predicts to liquid wealth accumulation and personality measures. Yet while self-control problems are typi...

Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations

[Symposium: Organ Transplants]

By Gary S. Becker and Julio Jorge Elías

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2007

We evaluate the introduction of monetary incentives in the market for live and cadaveric organ donations. We show that monetary incentives would increase the supply of organs for transplant sufficiently to eliminate the very large queues in organ markets,...