Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999

By John C. Ham, Xianghong Li, and Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

By Andrew Postlewaite

American Economic Review, May 2009

Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-election Polling

By Elias Walsh, Sarah Dolfin, and John DiNardo

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics

By Katharine Abraham

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives

By Andrei Shleifer

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Treasurer

By John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009

Matching and Price Competition

By Jeremy Bulow and Jonathan Levin

American Economic Review, June 2006

We develop a model in which firms set impersonal salary levels before matching with workers. Wages fall relative to any competitive equilibrium while profits rise almost as much, implying little inefficiency. Furthermore, the best firms gain the most f...

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

By Alan J. Auerbach

American Economic Review, May 2009

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics

By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009

The Chinese Saving Puzzle and the Life-Cycle Hypothesis

By Franco Modigliani and Shi Larry Cao

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2004

China's per capita income ranks below 100th in the world. Its saving rate, however, has been one of the highest worldwide in recent decades. In this paper, we attempt to explain the seeming paradox within the framework of the Life-Cycle Hypothesis develop...

A Conversation with Amartya Sen

By Arjo Klamer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1989

Arjo Kalmer interviews Amayrtya Sen in December 1985. After some biographical and academic background, the discussion moves to welfare economics, rationality, and Adam Smith. In a postscript, Sen discusses the connection between his critique of the ration...

Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

By Kym Anderson, Gordon Rausser, and Johan Swinnen

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2013

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persis...

Mobility and Conflict

By Sourav Bhattacharya, Joyee Deb, and Tapas Kundu

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2015

We study the role of intergroup mobility in the emergence of conflict. Two groups compete for the right to allocate society's resources. We allow for costly intergroup mobility. The winning group offers an allocation, which the opposition can accept or re...

Recall Expectations and Duration Dependence

By Arash Nekoei and Andrea Weber

American Economic Review, May 2015

Using novel administrative data from Austria, we investigate the nature of temporary layoffs and recalls. We find that on average jobs ending in temporary layoffs lasted shorter but paid higher wages. The majority of temporarily laid-off workers return to...

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2016

Knowledge Spillovers and Patent Citations: Evidence from a Survey of Inventors

By Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, and Michael S. Fogarty

American Economic Review, May 2000

Fertility and Childlessness in the United States

By Thomas Baudin, David de la Croix, and Paula E. Gobbi

American Economic Review, June 2015

We develop a theory of fertility, distinguishing its intensive margin from its extensive margin. The deep parameters are identified using facts from the 1990 US Census: (i) fertility of mothers decreases with education; (ii) childlessness exhibits a U-sha...

Macroeconomic Uncertainty Indices Based on Nowcast and Forecast Error Distributions

By Barbara Rossi and Tatevik Sekhposyan

American Economic Review, May 2015

We propose new indices to measure macroeconomic uncertainty. The indices measure how unexpected a realization of a representative macroeconomic variable is relative to the unconditional forecast error distribution. We use forecast error distributions base...

Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber

By Judd Cramer and Alan B. Krueger

American Economic Review, May 2016

In most cities, the taxi industry is highly regulated and has restricted entry. Ride sharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, which use mobile internet technology to connect passengers and drivers, have begun to compete with traditional taxis. This paper ...

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia

By Sean Lewis-Faupel, Yusuf Neggers, Benjamin A. Olken, and Rohini Pande

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2016

This paper examines whether electronic procurement (e-procurement), which increases access to information and reduces personal interactions with potentially corrupt officials, improves procurement outcomes. We develop unique datasets from India and Indone...