A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Guideline Adherence and Access to Expertise

By Amy Finkelstein, Petra Persson, Maria Polyakova, and Jesse M. Shapiro

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2022

We use administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare the adherence of patients without personal access to medical expertise to that of patients with access, namely doctors and their close relatives. We ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy among Ghana's Rural Poor Is Effective Regardless of Baseline Mental Distress

By Nathan Barker, Gharad Bryan, Dean Karlan, Angela Ofori-Atta, and Christopher Udry

American Economic Review: Insights, December 2022

We study the impact of group-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana (N = 7,227). Results from one to three months after the program show strong impacts on mental and ...

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Journal of Economic Literature, March 2004

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Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

By Christopher J. Ruhm

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

This essay reviews Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (hereafter, DEATHS) by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, a fascinating account of life and death in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centurie...

Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments

By Valentin Bolotnyy, Matthew Basilico, and Paul Barreira

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

We study the mental health of graduate students at eight top-ranked economics PhD programs in the United States using clinically validated surveys. We find that 24.8 percent experience moderate or severe symptoms of depression or anxiety—more than two...

Measurement Systems

By Susanne Schennach

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Economic models often depend on quantities that are unobservable, either for privacy reasons or because they are difficult to measure. Examples of such variables include human capital (or ability), personal income, unobserved heterogeneity (such as cons...

Legal Markets

By Gillian K. Hadfield

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

The existence of an effective legal system is assumed throughout economic analysis, and yet there has been little study of the economics of legal markets themselves. Research to date has focused narrowly on the economics of markets for lawyers. In this re...

Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

By Christopher B. Barrett, Thomas Reardon, Johan Swinnen, and David Zilberman

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured research on the economic development process assu...

Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics

By David R. Agrawal, William H. Hoyt, and John D. Wilson

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

This paper critically surveys the growing literature on the policy choices of local governments. First, we identify various reasons for local government policy interactions, including fiscal competition, bidding for firms, yardstick competition, expendi...

Carbon Taxes

By Govinda R. Timilsina

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

There is a growing interest in using carbon taxes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not only in industrialized economies but also in developing economies. Many countries have considered carbon pricing, including carbon taxes, as policy instruments to ...

Modeling Knowledge in Economic Analysis

By Larry Samuelson

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2004

This paper provides an introduction to how knowledge is modeled in economic contexts and the role played by the concepts of knowledge and common knowledge in economic analysis.

Larry Ball's The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay

By V. V. Chari

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Laurence Ball argues that the Federal Reserve (the Fed) could—and should—have bailed out Lehman Brothers so that it did not have to declare bankruptcy. He presents compelling evidence that it could have. I argue that the view that the Fed should not b...

Book Review

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

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Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2022

Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture

By Scott Rozelle and Johan F.M. Swinnen

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2004

The paper analyzes the linkages between the reform strategies in transition countries and economic performance. We focus on agriculture because of the sharpness of the policy changes, fundamental differences among countries, and relative simplicity of agr...

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American Economic Review, January 2023

Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic

By Aljoscha Janssen and Xuan Zhang

American Economic Review, January 2023

This study investigates the role of retail pharmacy ownership in the opioid epidemic. Using data of prescription opioid orders, we show that compared with chain pharmacies, independent pharmacies dispense 39.1 percent more opioids and 60.5 percent more Ox...