Report: Ad Hoc Committee on Criterion for the John Bates Clark Medal

By Jonathan Gruber, Chris Paxson, Valerie Ramey, and Michael Woodford

American Economic Review, May 2013

Who Is a Member of the AEA?

By John J. Siegfried

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998

The appointment of a new Secretary of the American Economic Association provides an opportunity for assessing the Association's membership trends and 'market coverage.' Toward these ends, the author has assembled information about trends in both aggregate...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

Who Gets on the AEA Program?

By C. Elton Hinshaw and John J. Siegfried

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

The dominance of the AEA program by leading research universities declined substantially over the past four decades, but they have maintained their share of papers published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the Americn Economic Review. Their share o...

Struggling to Understand the Stock Market

By Robert E. Hall

American Economic Review, May 2001

The McKenna Rule and UK World War I Finance

By James M. Nason and Shaun P. Vahey

American Economic Review, May 2007

Online Advertising: Heterogeneity and Conflation in Market Design

By Jonathan Levin and Paul Milgrom

American Economic Review, May 2010

Habits, Peers, and Happiness: An Evolutionary Perspective

By Luis Rayo and Gary S. Becker

American Economic Review, May 2007

Interbank Markets and Banking Crises: New Evidence on the Establishment and Impact of the Federal Reserve

By Mark Carlson and David C. Wheelock

American Economic Review, May 2016

This paper examines the impact of the Federal Reserve's founding on seasonal pressures and contagion risk in the interbank system. Deposit flows among classes of banks were highly seasonal before 1914; amplitude and timing varied regionally. Panics interr...

The Subjectivist Response

By Dale J. Poirier

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1988

[This paper responds to comments on "Frequentist and Subjectivist Perspectives on the Problems of Model Building in Economics," by Dale J. Poirier.] It is a rare opportunity to have one's research discussed in print by as eminent and contemplative a group...

Expropriation Dynamics

By Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador, and Gita Gopinath

American Economic Review, May 2009

Sexual Violence against Women and Labor Market Outcomes

By Joseph J. Sabia, Angela K. Dills, and Jeffrey DeSimone

American Economic Review, May 2013

This study is the first in the economics literature to explore the labor market consequences of sexual violence toward women. Using data from the Add Health, we find that sexual violence against women is associated with a 6.6 percent lower probability of ...

Spatial Evolution of Population and Industry in the United States

By Duncan Black and Vernon Henderson

American Economic Review, May 1999

Corrigendum: Ideologues Beat Idealists

By Sambuddha Ghosh and Vinayak Tripathi

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2012

The Impact of Market Size and Composition on Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the First Year of the Affordable Care Act

By Michael J. Dickstein, Mark Duggan, Joe Orsini, and Pietro Tebaldi

American Economic Review, May 2015

Under the Affordable Care Act, individual states have discretion in how they define coverage regions, within which insurers must charge the same premium to buyers of the same age, family structure, and smoking status. We exploit variation in these definit...

Report of the Secretary for 2009

By John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2010

The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Postwar Household Stability

By Dalton Conley and Jennifer Heerwig

American Economic Review, May 2011

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military service on health and earnings. However, household and residential outcomes may be more sensitive to the psychological effects of militar...

Economic Growth and the Elasticity of Substitution: Two Theorems and Some Suggestions

By Rainer Klump and Olivier de La Grandville

American Economic Review, March 2000

Revealing Preferences Graphically: An Old Method Gets a New Tool Kit

By Syngjoo Choi, Raymond Fisman, Douglas M. Gale, and Shachar Kariv

American Economic Review, May 2007

Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty Is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay

By Laura Schechter

American Economic Review, December 2007

In developing countries lacking legal enforcement, villagers may use implicit contracts to minimize crime. I construct a dynamic limited-commitment model, in which a thief cannot commit to forego stealing, but is induced to steal less by the promise of ...