Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory

By Gary Charness and Marie-Claire Villeval

American Economic Review, June 2009

There is economic pressure to postpone the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ older workers. We investigate the comparative behavior of juniors and seniors in experiments conducted both onsite with the employees of two large fi...

The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth

[Symposium: Immigration]

By Rachel M. Friedberg and Jennifer Hunt

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1995

The popular belief that immigrants have a large adverse impact on the wages and employment opportunities of the native-born population of the receiving country is not supported by the empirical evidence. A 10 percent increase in the fraction of immigrants...

Job Polarization and Structural Change

By Zsófia L. Bárány and Christian Siegel

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2018

We document that job polarization—contrary to the consensus—has started as early as the 1950s in the United States: middle-wage workers have been losing both in terms of employment and average wage growth compared to low- and high-wage workers...

Together We Will: Experimental Evidence on Female Voting Behavior in Pakistan

By Xavier Giné and Ghazala Mansuri

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

In many emerging democracies women are less likely to vote than men and, when they do vote, are likely to follow the wishes of male household and clan heads. We assess the impact of a voter awareness campaign on female turnout, candidate choice and party ...

College Party Culture and Sexual Assault

By Jason M. Lindo, Peter Siminski, and Isaac D. Swensen

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law enforcement agencies and an identification strategy that exploits plausibly random variation in th...

Does Concentration Matter? Measurement of Petroleum Merger Price Effects

By Daniel Hosken, Louis Silvia, and Christopher Taylor

American Economic Review, May 2011

We have estimated the price effects of two changes in market structure resulting from two changes in the ownership of gasoline refineries in the San Francisco Bay area: Tosco's purchase of Unocal's Rodeo refinery in April 1997 and UDS's purchase of Tosco'...

Yuliy Sannikov: Winner of the 2016 Clark Medal

By Susan Athey and Andrzej Skrzypacz

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2017

Yuliy Sannikov is an extraordinary theorist who has developed methods that offer new insights in analyzing problems that had seemed well-studied and familiar: for example, decisions that might bring about cooperation and/or defection in a repeated-play pr...

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2011

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2011

Pricing-to-Market and the Failure of Absolute PPP

By George Alessandria and Joseph P. Kaboski

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2011

We show that deviations from the law of one price in tradable goods are an important source of violations of absolute purchasing power parity. Using highly disaggregated export data, we document systematic international price discrimination: at the US doc...

Changes in Business Cycles: Evidence and Explanations

[Symposium: Business Cycles]

By Christina D. Romer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999

This paper shows that the volatility of annual real macroeconomic indicators for the United States and the average severity of recessions have declined only slightly between the pre-World War I and post-World War II eras. Recessions have, however, become ...

For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey

By Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

We exploit a change in the compulsory schooling law in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on the prevalence of domestic violence. By adopting a regression discontinuity design, we find that the reform increased women's schooling by one yea...

Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-social Behavior

By Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, and Robert Slonim

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2012

We present evidence from nearly 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives and from a natural field experiment showing that economic incentives have a positive effect on blood donations without increasing the fraction of donors who are ineligible to donate. T...

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

By Guido W. Imbens and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2009

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has been done on the econometric and statistical analysis of such causal effects. This recent theore...

Rethinking Federalism

[Symposium: Fiscal Federalism]

By Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1997

The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper identifies three approaches and compares their strengths and weaknesses. Economic federalism recommends the use of competitive communities for the provision ...

Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle

By Toshihiko Mukoyama, Christina Patterson, and Ayşegül Şahin

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2018

We create a novel measure of job search effort exploiting the American Time Use and Current Population Surveys. We examine the cyclicality of search effort using time-series, cross-state, and individual variation and find that it is countercyclical. We th...

The Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks

By Lutz Kilian

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2008

Large fluctuations in energy prices have been a distinguishing characteristic of the U.S. economy since the 1970s. Turmoil in the Middle East, rising energy prices in the United States, and evidence of global warming recently have reignited interest in...

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2014

Misallocation and Growth

By Boyan Jovanovic

American Economic Review, April 2014

This paper models growth via on-the-job learning when firms and workers are heterogeneous. It is an overlapping generations model in which young agents match with the old. More efficient assignments lead to faster long-run growth, more inequality, and ...

Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences

By Friedrich Schneider and Dominik H. Enste

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2000

Using various methods, the size of the shadow economy in 76 developing, transition, and OECD countries is estimated. Average size varies from 12 percent of GDP for OECD countries, to 23 percent for transition countries and 39 percent for developing countr...