Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature

American Economic Review, May 2014

Asymmetric Information between Employers

By Lisa B. Kahn

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2013

This study explores whether potential employers have the same information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I develop a model of asymmetric learning that nests the symmetric learning case and allows the degree of asymmetry to vary. I then sho...

Index to Volume 4

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2011

Income Inequality, Capitalism, and Ethno-linguistic Fractionalization

By Jan-Egbert Sturm and Jakob De Haan

American Economic Review, May 2015

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism. Our results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and Gi...

Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)

American Economic Review, May 2014

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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2014

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2006

Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab

By Tania Barham

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2012

It is believed that early life circumstances are crucial to success later in life. Yet causal evidence that the impacts of early childhood health interventions continue into late childhood and adolescence is sparse. This paper exploits a quasi-random pla...

Parameter Learning in General Equilibrium: The Asset Pricing Implications

By Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Michael Johannes, and Lars A. Lochstoer

American Economic Review, March 2016

Parameter learning strongly amplifies the impact of macroeconomic shocks on marginal utility when the representative agent has a preference for early resolution of uncertainty. This occurs as rational belief updating generates subjective long-run consum...

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy 102: Beyond Nudging

By Saurabh Bhargava and George Loewenstein

American Economic Review, May 2015

Policymakers have recently embraced Behavioral Economics as an alternative approach which recognizes the limits and consequences of human decision-making. Early applications of BE ("nudges") produced notable successes and helped to set the stage for more...

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Journal of Economic Literature, June 2017

Correspondence

By Robert D. Laurent, J. Bradford De Long, George Bredon, Martin Shanahan, Carl S. Bonham, and Richard H. Cohen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2000

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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2009

Border Effect or Country Effect? Seattle May Not Be So Far from Vancouver After All

By Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Linda L. Tesar

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2009

This paper reexamines the evidence on the border effect. We argue that if there is cross-country heterogeneity in the distribution of within-country price differentials, there is no clear benchmark from which to gauge the effect of a border. In the abs...

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Journal of Economic Literature, June 2014