Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

By Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter

American Economic Review, September 2000

Policy Watch: The Family and Medical Leave Act

By Christopher J. Ruhm

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997

This article summarizes the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act, its possible effects on labor markets, and the resulting changes in the ability of workers to take leave. The author concludes that the actual provisions of the act are quite mode...

Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes

By Beatrice Cherrier

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2017

In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification system used by the American Economic Association (AEA) to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the transformation of economics science throughout the twen...

Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices, and the Allocation of Investment: An Empirical Investigation Using U.K. Panel Data

By Paul Beaudry, Mustafa Caglayan, and Fabio Schiantarelli

American Economic Review, June 2001

Leaving the Countryside: Rural-to-Urban Migration Decisions in China

By Yaohui Zhao

American Economic Review, May 1999

Capture and Governance at Local and National Levels

By Pranab K. Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

American Economic Review, May 2000

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

By John T. Addison and McKinley L. Blackburn

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1994

With the passage of the 1988 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the United States belatedly joined the large number of industrialized nations that require employers to provide affected workers with advance notice of a plant closing or mass...

Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

By Raj Chetty, Adam Looney, and Kory Kroft

American Economic Review, September 2009

Using two strategies, we show that consumers underreact to taxes that are not salient. First, using a field experiment in a grocery store, we find that posting tax-inclusive price tags reduces demand by 8 percent. Second, increases in taxes included in...

Women on Welfare: A Macroeconomic Analysis

By Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, and John A. Knowles

American Economic Review, May 2000

Does Network Theory Connect to the Rest of Us? A Review of Matthew O. Jackson's Social and Economic Networks

By James E. Rauch

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2010

The ubiquity of networks in our social lives has long been recognized, and their importance in our economic lives is increasingly recognized as well. Yet the literature synthesized in Matthew O. Jackson's Social and Economic Networks, which covers the the...

Business and Social Networks in International Trade

By James E. Rauch

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2001

The first two main sections survey the roles of transnational networks in alleviating problems of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities, respectively. The next section covers how domestic networks influence internation...

The Declining Fortunes of the Young since 2000

By Paul Beaudry, David A. Green, and Benjamin M. Sand

American Economic Review, May 2014

We document that successive cohorts of college and post-college degree graduates experienced an increase in the probability of obtaining cognitive jobs both at the start of their careers and with time in the labor market in the 1990s. However, this patter...

The Structure of the Tax System versus the Level of Taxation: An Evaluation of the 1986 Act

[Symposium: Tax Reform Act of 1986]

By J. Gregory Ballentine

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1992

In this paper, I assess the 1986 Tax Reform Act relative to the tax system that might have evolved over the several years following 1986 had that particular tax reform not been enacted. Had tax reform not been enacted, I believe that the pattern of steady...

Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass

By Eric M. Leeper, Nora Traum, and Todd B. Walker

American Economic Review, August 2017

We quantify government spending multipliers in US data using Bayesian prior and posterior analysis of a monetary model with fiscal details and two distinct monetary-fiscal policy regimes. The combination of model specification, observable data, and relati...

Front Matter

By Alan J. Auerbach

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2010

Patent Laws, Product Life-Cycle Lengths, and Multinational Activity

By L. Kamran Bilir

American Economic Review, July 2014

Do intellectual property rights influence multinationals' manufacturing location decisions? My theoretical model indicates that countries with strong patent laws attract multinational activity, but only in sectors with relatively long product life cycles....

Retrospectives: Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy

By Ann Mari May and Robert W. Dimand

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2009

The papers from the first year of the American Economic Review are included in the Archives of the American Economic Association. While researching the early years of the AEA, Ann Mari May came across a folder marked "Controversies, Criticisms, etc."-whi...

As Ye Sweep, So Shall Ye Reap

By Rachel Dunifon, Greg J. Duncan, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

American Economic Review, May 2001

The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints

[Symposium: The Bretton Woods Institutions]

By Martin Ravallion

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2016

Does the World Bank still have an important role to play? How might it fulfill that role? The paper begins with a brief account of how the Bank works. It then argues that, while the Bank is no longer the primary conduit for capital from high-income to low...

Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession: Report of Committee Activities for the 2009 Calendar Year

By Ngina Chiteji

American Economic Review, May 2010