Hospital Transaction Prices and Managed-Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies

By Avi Dor, Michael Grossman, and Siran M. Koroukian

American Economic Review, May 2004

Repetition and Reputation: Implications for Trust and Trustworthiness When Institutions Change

By Iris Bohnet and Steffen Huck

American Economic Review, May 2004

Social Capital and Contributions in a Public-Goods Experiment

By Lisa R. Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor, and Jeffrey Milyo

American Economic Review, May 2004

Gender and Competition at a Young Age

By Uri Gneezy and Aldo Rustichini

American Economic Review, May 2004

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

By Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan, Karthik Muralidharan, and Venkatesh Sundararaman

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2013

Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student test scores are higher when schools receive unan...

Evaluating the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach

By Dan A. Black, Jose Galdo, and Jeffrey A. Smith

American Economic Review, May 2007

Subjective and Objective Evaluations of Teacher Effectiveness

By Jonah E. Rockoff and Cecilia Speroni

American Economic Review, May 2010

Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession

By Cecilia Rouse

American Economic Review, May 2009

Risk, Ambiguity, and the Rank-Dependence Axioms

By Mark J. Machina

American Economic Review, March 2009

Choice problems in the spirit of Ellsberg (1961) suggest that rank-dependent ("Choquet expected utility") preferences over subjective gambles might be subject to the same difficulties that Ellsberg's earlier examples posed for subjective expected utili...

The Strategic Dis/advantage of Voting Early

By Eddie Dekel and Michele Piccione

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2014

Under sequential voting, voting late enables conditioning on which candidates are viable, while voting early can influence the field of candidates. But the latter effect can be harmful: shrinking the field increases not only the likelihood that future ...

The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring on Student Achievement at the University Level

By Vincent G. Munley, Eoghan Garvey, and Michael J. McConnell

American Economic Review, May 2010

Multinational Production: Data and Stylized Facts

By Natalia Ramondo, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Felix Tintelnot

American Economic Review, May 2015

We present a comprehensive data set on the bilateral activity of multinational firms, with focus on two variables: affiliate revenues and the number of affiliates across country pairs. Our basic data are from UNCTAD and include 59 countries, an average ov...

A Biological Theory of Social Discounting

By Arthur J. Robson and Balázs Szentes

American Economic Review, November 2014

We consider a growth model in which intergenerational transfers are made via stocks of private and public capital. Private capital is the outcome of individuals' private savings while decisions regarding public capital are made collectively. We hypothes...

The Demography of Mexican Migration to the United States

By Gordon H. Hanson and Craig McIntosh

American Economic Review, May 2009

Economic and Monetary Union in Europe

[Symposium: Europe in 1992]

By Charles R. Bean

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1992

The European Council's Maastricht Agreement maps out a precise route to monetary union and the eventual introduction of a common currency. My discussion begins with a look at the general arguments for and against monetary union. I shall then discuss the p...

Local Institutions and the Dynamics of Community Sorting

By Andrea Robbett

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

This paper studies the dynamics by which populations with heterogeneous preferences for public good provision sort themselves into communities. I conduct laboratory experiments to consider which institutions best facilitate efficient self-organization whe...

Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform

By Steven D. Levitt

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

While campaign finance reform attracts a lot of attention, it seems unlikely that such reform, at least in it current guise, will have a large impact on the functioning of the American political system. Recent studies have called into question the convent...

Information Percolation in Large Markets

By Darrell Duffie and Gustavo Manso

American Economic Review, May 2007

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1992

Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes, and Competition from the Internet

By Austan Goolsbee, Michael F. Lovenheim, and Joel Slemrod

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2010

This paper documents the rise of the Internet as a source of state tax-free cigarettes and its impact on taxed sales elasticities. Using data on cigarette tax rates, taxable cigarette sales and individual smoking rates by state from 1980 to 2005 merged...