Shifts in Privacy Concerns

By Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

American Economic Review, May 2012

This paper explores how digitization and the associated use of customer data have affected the evolution of consumer privacy concerns. We measure privacy concerns by reluctance to disclose income in an online marketing research survey. Using over three mi...

On the Economics of State Lotteries

By Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

This article examines several aspects of the economics of state lotteries, focusing primarily on the demand for lottery products. We begin by giving a descriptive overview. The succeeding sections examine the motivations for playing lottery games and evid...

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature

By Janet Currie

American Economic Review, May 2013

Experimentation at Scale

[Symposium: From Experiments to Economic Policy]

By Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments "at scale." We review various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss how experimenting at scale along three specific dimensions—the size o...

Menu Pricing and Learning

By Alessandro Bonatti

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2011

We analyze the design of dynamic menus to sell experience goods. The quality of the product is initially unknown, and the total quantity sold in each period determines the amount of information in the market. We characterize the optimum menu as a function...

Does the Secondary Life Insurance Market Threaten Dynamic Insurance?

By Glenn Daily, Igal Hendel, and Alessandro Lizzeri

American Economic Review, May 2008

Productivity Change in Health Care

By David M. Cutler and Mark McClellan

American Economic Review, May 2001

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

By Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Parienté, and Vincent Pons

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2012

Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves healt...

The Allocation of Resources in the Presence of Indivisibilities

By Herbert Scarf

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1994

A major theme of economic theory is that optimality, at the level of the firm or the economy as a whole, can be reached by profit maximization using competitive prices. The conclusion requires the assumption that the production possibility set be convex a...

Symposium on Democracy and Development

[Symposium: Democracy and Development]

By Pranab Bardhan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1993

Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality

By Maximilian Auffhammer and Ryan Kellogg

American Economic Review, October 2011

This paper examines whether US gasoline content regulations, which impose substantial costs on consumers, have successfully reduced ozone pollution. We take advantage of spatial and temporal variation in the regulations' implementation to show that federa...

Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment

By Sebastian Galiani, Alvin Murphy, and Juan Pantano

American Economic Review, November 2015

We use data from a housing-assistance experiment to estimate a model of neighborhood choice. The experimental variation effectively randomizes the rents which households face and helps identify a key structural parameter. Access to two randomly selected t...

Asset Pricing with Concentrated Ownership of Capital and Distribution Shocks

By Kevin J. Lansing

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2015

This paper develops a production-based asset pricing model with two types of agents and concentrated ownership of physical capital. A temporary but persistent "distribution shock" causes the income share of capital owners to fluctuate in a procyclical man...

What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes

By Katrine V. Løken, Magne Mogstad, and Matthew Wiswall

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2012

We assess the implications of nonlinearity for IV and FE estimation when the estimated model is inappropriately assumed to be linear. Our application is the causal link between family income and child outcomes. Our nonlinear IV and FE estimates show an ...

Fairness and Redistribution: Reply

By Alberto Alesina, George-Marios Angeletos, and Guido Cozzi

American Economic Review, February 2013

This paper responds to the comment of Di Tella and Dubra (2013). We first clarify that the model of Alesina and Angeletos (2005) admits two distinct types of multiplicity: one that is at the core of their contribution, and a separate one that is at work i...

Is There a Method of Neuroeconomics?

By Aldo Rustichini

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2009

This note tries to state, precisely, the method of neuroecomics, and is based on the discussion in B. Douglas Bernheim's (2009) appraisal. We claim that the theory formulates hypotheses modeling the choice process as an algorithmic procedure. The hypot...

Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis

By Simon Gilchrist, Raphael Schoenle, Jae Sim, and Egon Zakrajšek

American Economic Review, March 2017

Using a novel dataset, which merges good-level prices underlying the PPI with the respondents' balance sheets, we show that liquidity constrained firms increased prices in 2008, while their unconstrained counterparts cut prices. We develop a model in whic...

Land Reform and Farm Restructuring: What Has Been Accomplished to Date?

By Zvi Lerman

American Economic Review, May 1999

Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th-Century United States

By Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

American Economic Review, May 2001

'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

By Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais

American Economic Review, November 2017

Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? While married and unmarried female MBA students perform similarly when their performance is unobserved by classmates (...