Bicameralism and Its Consequences for the Internal Organization of Legislatures

By Daniel Diermeier and Roger B. Myerson

American Economic Review, December 1999

Theories of organization of legislatures have mainly focused on the U.S. Congress, explaining why committee systems emerge there, but not explaining variance in organization across legislatures of different countries. To analyze the effects of different c...

Explaining Asset Prices with External Habits and Wage Rigidities in a DSGE Model

By Harald Uhlig

American Economic Review, May 2007

Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance

By Suzanne Scotchmer

American Economic Review, May 2010

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2008

Coming to America: Does Having a Developed Home Country Matter for Self-Employment in the United States?

By Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

American Economic Review, May 2012

This research examines the relationship between the economic status of an immigrant's home country and the probability of self-employment in the US. We find that immigrants from developing countries on average have lower self-employment probabilities rela...

A Note on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory

By Matthijs van Veelen and Roy van der Weide

American Economic Review, September 2008

Free Markets and Fettered Consumers

By Daniel McFadden

American Economic Review, March 2006

Taxes, Social Subsidies, and the Allocation of Work Time

By L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher A. Pissarides

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2011

We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes, and two others that have home substitutes but are treated diffe...

Portfolio Choices of Parents and Their Children as Young Adults: Asset Accumulation by African-American Families

By Ngina S. Chiteji and Frank P. Stafford

American Economic Review, May 1999

Regional Workshops to Improve the Teaching Skills of Economics Faculty

By Rae Jean B. Goodman, Mark Maier, and Robert L. Moore

American Economic Review, May 2003

Matriculation in U.S. Economics Ph.D. Programs: How Many Accepted Americans Do Not Enroll?

By T. Aldrich Finegan, Wendy A. Stock, and John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2006

Household Resource Allocation in Stepfamilies: Darwin Reflects on the Plight of Cinderella

By Anne Case, I-Fen Lin, and Sara McLanahan

American Economic Review, May 1999

A Theory of Strategic Voting in Runoff Elections

By Laurent Bouton

American Economic Review, June 2013

This paper analyzes the properties of runoff electoral systems when voters are strategic. A model of three-candidate runoff elections is presented, and two new features are included: the risk of upset victory in the second round is endogenous, and many...

Testing for Indeterminacy: An Application to U.S. Monetary Policy: Reply

By Thomas A. Lubik and Frank Schorfheide

American Economic Review, March 2007

Neuroeconomics: A Comment on Bernheim

By Joel Sobel

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2009

This paper comments on "On the Potential of Neuroeconomics: A Critical (but Hopeful) Appraisal" by B. Douglas Bernheim. (JEL D01, D87)

Capital Mobility in NeoClassical Models of Growth: Comment

By Petr Duczynski

American Economic Review, June 2000

SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?

By Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

American Economic Review, May 2013

Immigrants residing among many coethnics are especially likely to receive SSI for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we consider the ...

Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Comment

By Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek

American Economic Review, March 2001

Fertility and Wars: The Case of World War I in France

By Guillaume Vandenbroucke

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2014

During World War I the birth rate in France fell by 50%. Why? I build a model of fertility choices where the war implies a positive probability that a wife remains alone, a partially-compensated loss of a husband's income, and a temporary decline in pr...

No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes

By Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2011

Many developed countries are currently considering a move toward subsidized, widely accessible child care or preschool. However, studies on how large-scale provision of child care affects child development are scarce, and focused on short-run outcomes. We...