The Economics of Online Postsecondary Education: MOOCs, Nonselective Education, and Highly Selective Education

By Caroline M. Hoxby

American Economic Review, May 2014

I consider economically sustainable online postsecondary education, including massive open online courses (MOOCs). The analysis suggests that MOOCs will be financially sustainable substitutes for some non-selective postsecondary education, but there are s...

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

Rates for Vehicle Loans: Race and Loan Source

By Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Melvin Stephens

American Economic Review, May 2008

Policy Watch: The 1996 Welfare Reform

By Rebecca M. Blank

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1997

Welfare reform legislation was passed in the summer of 1996. Four key research questions that the new law presents to social scientists are as follows: (1) Can states design and operate better programs than AFDC? This includes questions about the ability ...

Nonparametric Density and Regression Estimation

[Symposium: Econometric Tools]

By John DiNardo and Justin L. Tobias

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2001

We provide a nontechnical review of recent nonparametric methods for estimating density and regression functions. The methods we describe make it possible for a researcher to estimate a regression function or density without having to specify in advance a...

The State of Economic Education

By Michael K. Salemi and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 1999

Parental Resources and Child Abuse and Neglect

By Christina Paxson and Jane Waldfogel

American Economic Review, May 1999

Should the American Economic Association Have Toasted Simon Newcomb at Its 100th Birthday Party?

By William J. Barber

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1987

Should the American Economic Association have toasted Simon Newcomb at its 100th birthday party? Some might be inclined to dismiss the question posed above as preposterous. He was never a member of the American Economic Association. Indeed, the moving spi...

Heterogeneity in Neighborhood-Level Price Growth in the United States, 1993-2009

By Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

American Economic Review, May 2012

Examination of detailed geographical information on U.S. housing transactions from 1993 to 2009 find much heterogeneity at the neighborhood level in when the recent boom began, how big the initial jumps in price growth were, how long the booms lasted, and...

List of Online Reports

By Peter L. Rousseau

American Economic Review, May 2013

Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program

By Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten, and Miriam Wüst

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2017

This paper examines the long-run health effects of a universal infant health intervention, the 1937 Danish home visiting program, which targeted all infants. Using administrative population data and exploiting variation in the timing of implementation acr...

Symposium on Federal Deposit Insurance for S&L Institutions

[Symposium: Federal Deposit Insurance]

By Dwight M. Jaffee

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1989

Federal deposit insurance was introduced to eliminate the bank runs of the Great Depression: the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) was created in 1933 to insure commercial bank deposits, and the FSLIC (Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora...

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

By David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, and Kathleen McGarry

American Economic Review, May 2008

Report of the Editor: Macroeconomics

American Economic Review, May 2014

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2009

We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run eff...

The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences

By Arthur J. Robson and Larry Samuelson

American Economic Review, May 2007

Assessment Practices and Trends in Undergraduate Economics Courses

By Georg Schaur, Michael Watts, and William E. Becker

American Economic Review, May 2008

Classroom Experiments: Is More More?

By Tisha L. N. Emerson and Linda English

American Economic Review, May 2016

Studies have demonstrated that classroom experiments have a positive effect on student achievement in economics courses. Questions remain regarding the appropriate number of experiments. In the current study we attempt to determine whether more intensive ...

Institutions, Innovations, and Growth

By Haizhou Huang and Chenggang Xu

American Economic Review, May 1999

A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks

By Rachel E. Kranton and Deborah F. Minehart

American Economic Review, June 2001

This paper introduces a new model of exchange: networks, rather than markets, of buyers and sellers. It begins with the empirically motivated premise that a buyer and seller must have a relationship, a "link," to exchange goods. Networks--buyers, sellers,...