The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Comment

By Samuel Lundstrom

American Economic Review, February 2017

In a recent article in the American Economic Review, Dahl and Lochner (2012) use changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit to estimate the causal effect of family income on child achievement. Their instrumental variable (IV) estimates imply that a ...

Bimetallism Revisited

By Milton Friedman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

Until recently, I shared what I take to be the conventional view of monetary economists about the relative merits of bimetallism and gold monometallism: namely, that bimetallism is an unstable and unsatisfactory monetary standard involving frequent shifts...

Artistic Originals as a Capital Asset

By Rachel Soloveichik

American Economic Review, May 2010

Disasters and Recoveries

By Francois Gourio

American Economic Review, May 2008

Economics of Development and the Development of Economics

By Pranab Bardhan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1993

The purpose of this paper is to restore some historical perspective by highlighting the many contributions of development economics to the rest of economics. We will point out to the younger generations how some of the glittering ideas they currently play...

The Criminal Justice Response to Policy Interventions: Evidence from Immigration Reform

By Sarah Bohn, Matthew Freedman, and Emily Owens

American Economic Review, May 2015

Changes in the treatment of individuals by the criminal justice system following a policy intervention may bias estimates of the effects of the intervention on underlying criminal activity. We explore the importance of such changes in the context of the I...

Offshoring in a Ricardian World

By Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2010

This paper proposes a Ricardian model to understand the short-run and long-run aggregate effects of increased fragmentation and offshoring on rich and poor countries. The short-run analysis shows that, when offshoring is sufficiently high, further incr...

How Costly Is Protectionism?

By Robert C. Feenstra

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1992

How costly is protectionism? This paper begins from a U.S. perspective, examining the costs to both the U.S. and other countries from U.S. protectionism. It emphasizes that substantial costs are imposed on foreign countries by U.S. protectionism. These co...

The Efficacy of Collaborative Learning Recitation Sessions on Student Outcomes

By Kim P. Huynh, David T. Jacho-Chávez, and James K. Self

American Economic Review, May 2010

Editors' Introduction

By William R. Johnson and Jane E. Voros

American Economic Review, May 2009

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a UK Tax Incentive

By Paul Gaggl and Greg C. Wright

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2017

We study the short-run causal effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption on employment and wage distribution. We exploit a natural experiment generated by a tax allowance on ICT investments and find that the primary effect of ICT is...

Foreign Students in U.S. Doctoral Programs

By Nahid Aslanbeigui and Veronica Montecinos

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1998

In 1996, foreigners represented over half of the doctoral student population in economics, up from 20 percent in 1972. This article presents a profile of foreign students in economics Ph.D. programs in the United States based on survey and interview data ...

Culture and Intraracial Wage Inequality among America's African Diaspora

By Patrick L. Mason

American Economic Review, May 2010

Market Design and the Evolution of the Combinatorial Clock Auction

By Lawrence M. Ausubel and Oleg V. Baranov

American Economic Review, May 2014

The Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) is an important recent innovation in auction design which has been adopted for many spectrum auctions worldwide. Since its inception, the CCA has been in almost continual evolution. We begin by reviewing some importan...

Data Watch: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics

By Charles Brown, Greg J. Duncan, and Frank P. Stafford

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1996

By collecting annual economic and demographic information from a large and representative sample of U.S. households for over a quarter century, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics has compiled a remarkably useful set of microdata. This article describes th...

American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat): Annual Report--2010

By Matthew D. Shapiro

American Economic Review, May 2011

Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

By Erzo F. P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2011

Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment ("context"), we relate immigrants' redistributive preferences to the average preference in their birth countries. We...

The End of Court-Ordered Desegregation

By Byron Lutz

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2011

In response to three Supreme Court rulings in the early 1990s, numerous court-ordered desegregation plans have been terminated. Using a unique dataset and an event study research design, this paper explores the impact of these terminations. The results s...

(Over)insuring Modest Risks

By Justin Sydnor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2010

Despite the large literature on anomalies in risky choice, very little research has explored the relevance of these insights in real insurance markets. This paper uses new data on consumers' choices of deductibles for home insurance to provide evidence t...

Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends: How Random Are Social Networks?

By Matthew O. Jackson and Brian W. Rogers

American Economic Review, June 2007

We present a dynamic model of network formation where nodes find other nodes with whom to form links in two ways: some are found uniformly at random, while others are found by searching locally through the current structure of the network (e.g., meetin...