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By Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2014

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

By Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna

American Economic Review, October 2014

Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper assesses India's environmental regulations with a difference-in-differences design. The air pollution regulations ...

The Triumph of Monetarism?

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By J. Bradford De Long

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

The story of 20th century macroeconomics begins with Irving Fisher. In his books Appreciation and Interest (1896), The Rate of Interest (1907), and The Purchasing Power of Money (1911), Fisher fueled the intellectual fire that became known as monetarism. ...

This Mine Is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa

By Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, Dominic Rohner, and Mathias Thoenig

American Economic Review, June 2017

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 degree x 0.5 degree for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a posi...

Quality Disclosure Programs and Internal Organizational Practices: Evidence from Airline Flight Delays

By Silke J. Forbes, Mara Lederman, and Trevor Tombe

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2015

Disclosure programs exist in many industries in which consumers are poorly informed about product quality. We study a disclosure program for airline on-time performance, which ranks airlines based on the fraction of their flights that arrive less than 15 ...

Benefit-Cost Analysis for Financial Regulation

By Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl

American Economic Review, May 2013

Calls for benefit-cost analysis in rule-making, based on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, have revealed a paucity of work on allocative efficiency in financial markets. We propose three principles to help fill this gap. First, we highlight the need ...

Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation

By Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen

American Economic Review, September 2005

We show that individuals with identical preferences and abilities can self-organize into communities with starkly different civic environments. Specifically, we consider a multi-community city where community quality depends upon residents' efforts to pre...

When Does Communication Improve Coordination?

By Tore Ellingsen and Robert Östling

American Economic Review, September 2010

We study costless pre-play communication of intentions among inexperienced players. Using the level-k model of strategic thinking to describe players' beliefs, we fully characterize the effects of preplay communication in symmetric 2x2 games. One-way comm...

Gamma Discounting

By Martin L. Weitzman

American Economic Review, March 2001

By incorporating the probability distribution directly into the analysis, this paper proposes a new theoretical approach to resolving the perennial dilemma of being uncertain about what discount rate to use in cost-benefit analysis. A numerical example is...

The Economics of Child Labor: Reply

By Kaushik Basu and Pham Hoang Van

American Economic Review, December 1999

What "Triggers" Mortgage Default?

By Ronel Elul, Nicholas S. Souleles, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Dennis Glennon, and Robert Hunt

American Economic Review, May 2010

The Market for Training Services: A Demand Experiment with Bangladeshi Garment Factories

By Rocco Macchiavello, Atonu Rabbani, and Christopher Woodruff

American Economic Review, May 2015

We marketed a training program for lower level managers (line supervisors) to large factories in the Bangladeshi ready-made garment industry. Take-up of the program (even for a free slot) was low, due to intense production pressures, fire-fighting and con...

Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2011

The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"

By Peter Temin

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015

This review essay of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism (2014), edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, is divided into three parts. First, I describe three chapters from the second volume that I recommend for all economists to add dep...

Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs

By Jonathan M.V. Davis and Sara B. Heller

American Economic Review, May 2017

To estimate treatment heterogeneity in two randomized controlled trials of a youth summer jobs program, we implement Wager and Athey's (2015) causal forest algorithm. We provide a step-by-step explanation targeted at applied researchers of how the algorit...

Getting at Systemic Risk via an Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market

By John Geanakoplos, Robert Axtell, J. Doyne Farmer, Peter Howitt, Benjamin Conlee, Jonathan Goldstein, Matthew Hendrey, Nathan M. Palmer, and Chun-Yi Yang

American Economic Review, May 2012

Systemic risk must include the housing market, though economists have not generally focused on it. We begin construction of an agent-based model of the housing market with individual data from Washington, DC. Twenty years of success with agent-based mod...

Index of Authors of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2010

How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers

[Symposium: Income Inequality and Trade]

By Adrian Wood

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1995

This paper argues that the main cause of the deteriorating economic position of unskilled workers in the United States and other developed countries has been expansion of trade with developing countries. In the framework of a Heckscher-Ohlin model, it out...

Selection in Health Insurance Markets and Its Policy Remedies

[Symposium: Health Insurance and Choice]

By Michael Geruso and Timothy J. Layton

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

Selection (adverse or advantageous) is the central problem that inhibits the smooth, efficient functioning of competitive health insurance markets. Even—and perhaps especially—when consumers are well-informed decision makers and insurance mark...

Term Premia and Inflation Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from an International Panel Dataset: Comment

By Michael D. Bauer, Glenn D. Rudebusch, and Jing Cynthia Wu

American Economic Review, January 2014

Term premia implied by maximum likelihood estimates of affine term structure models are misleading because of small-sample bias. We show that accounting for this bias alters the conclusions about the trend, cycle, and macroeconomic determinants of the ...