What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists?

By Richard H. Steckel

American Economic Review, May 2003

Living Standards During the Industrial Revolution: An Economist's Guide

By Hans-Joachim Voth

American Economic Review, May 2003

The Industrial Revolution is a topic of renewed interest for growth economists. After the first wave of "new growth" theory that addressed the causes of sustained increases in productivity, more attention has been given to an important additional stylized...

The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods

By Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn

American Economic Review, May 2003

At What Level of Labor-Market Intermittency Are Women Penalized?

By Julie L. Hotchkiss and M. Melinda Pitts

American Economic Review, May 2003

Low Take-Up in Medicaid: Does Outreach Matter and for Whom?

By Anna Aizer

American Economic Review, May 2003

Impact of Immigration on Prenatal Care Use and Birth Weight: Evidence from California in the 1990's

By Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Kusum Mundra

American Economic Review, May 2003

Price and Spouse's Coverage in Employee Demand for Health Insurance

By Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig

American Economic Review, May 2003

Guaranteeing Individual Accounts

By Marie-Eve Lachance and Olivia S. Mitchell

American Economic Review, May 2003

Global aging is prompting workers and taxpayers everywhere to recognize their vulnerability to the inherent uncertainty of unfunded social-security systems. This has generated an international wave of social-security reforms over the last two decades, pro...

The Interaction of Public Retirement Income Programs in the United States

By Elizabeth T. Powers and David Neumark

American Economic Review, May 2003

Monetary Policy Under Imperfect Capital Markets in a Small Open Economy

By Anita Tuladhar

American Economic Review, May 2003

Following the financial crises of the late 1990's an increasing number of emergingmarket countries have adopted a flexible exchange-rate regime and an inflation-targeting monetary-policy framework. This trend has generated a growing debate on the appropri...

Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Incremental Health-Insurance Expansion

By Jonathan Gruber

American Economic Review, May 2003

After a small decline, the number of uninsured persons in the United States is on the rise again, at over 41 million (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2002). This increase is likely to spur efforts to cover the uninsured through legislative action....

A New Approach to Risk-Spreading via Coverage-Expansion Subsidies

By John Holahan, Len M. Nichols, Linda J. Blumberg, and Yu-Chu Shen

American Economic Review, May 2003

The persistently large number of uninsured, roughly 40 million per year since 1993, continues to elicit bipartisan policy interest. Coverage-expansion proposals without mandates, by far the most common since the defeat of the Clinton plan, must address ri...

Reinsuring Risk to Increase Access to Health Insurance

By Katherine Swartz

American Economic Review, May 2003

At least 41 million Americans are currently without health insurance in any given month (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2002). They are uninsured for a variety of reasons, and most people who lack coverage are affected by more than one reason. Two generalizat...

Why Did the Welfare Rolls Fall During the 1990's? The Importance of Entry

By Jeffrey Grogger, Steven J. Haider, and Jacob Klerman

American Economic Review, May 2003

Some Evidence on Race, Welfare Reform, and Household Income

By Marianne P. Bitler, Jonah B. Gelbach, and Hilary W. Hoynes

American Economic Review, May 2003

How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent Achievement

By Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Greg J. Duncan, and Pamela Morris

American Economic Review, May 2003

Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's

By Rebecca M. Blank and Robert F. Schoeni

American Economic Review, May 2003

Assimilation across the Latino Generations

By James P. Smith

American Economic Review, May 2003

Catching Up: Wages of Black Men

By Finis Welch

American Economic Review, May 2003

The Political Economy of Antiracism Initiatives in the Post-Durban Round

By Samuel L. Myers Jr., Lajune Thomas Lange, and Bruce Corrie

American Economic Review, May 2003