Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses

By Robert H. Frank

American Economic Review, May 2005

Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age

By Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi

American Economic Review, May 2005

Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others?

By Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway

American Economic Review, May 2005

Do Faculty Serve as Role Models? The Impact of Instructor Gender on Female Students

By Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long

American Economic Review, May 2005

Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students

By Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff

American Economic Review, May 2005

Views of Teaching and Research in Economics and Other Disciplines

By William B. Walstad and Sam Allgood

American Economic Review, May 2005

Vanishing Children: From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Developed Countries

By Alicia Adsera

American Economic Review, May 2005

Parental Child Care in Single-Parent, Cohabiting, and Married-Couple Families: Time-Diary Evidence from the United Kingdom

By Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, and Leslie S. Stratton

American Economic Review, May 2005

Resource and Peer Impacts on Girls' Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

By Diane Whitmore

American Economic Review, May 2005

Infertility Insurance Mandates and Fertility

By Lucie Schmidt

American Economic Review, May 2005

The Consequences of the Growth of Health Insurance Premiums

By Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra

American Economic Review, May 2005

Effects of Insurance Coverage on Use of Care and Health Outcomes for Nonpoor Young Women

By Mark V. Pauly

American Economic Review, May 2005

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance

By Amy Finkelstein, Kathleen McGarry, and Amir Sufi

American Economic Review, May 2005

What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Other Health-Related Behaviors?

By David M. Cutler and Edward Glaeser

American Economic Review, May 2005

The Volume-Outcome Effect, Scale Economies, and Learning-by-Doing

By Martin Gaynor, Harald Seider, and William B. Vogt

American Economic Review, May 2005

Access to Care, Provider Choice, and the Infant Health Gradient

By Anna Aizer, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Mark Stabile

American Economic Review, May 2005

Heavy Alcohol Use and the Commission of Nuisance Crime: Evidence from Underage Drunk Driving Laws

By Christopher S. Carpenter

American Economic Review, May 2005

Are Alcohol Tax Hikes Fully Passed Through to Prices? Evidence from Alaska

By Donald S. Kenkel

American Economic Review, May 2005

Heterogeneity in Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Prescription Drug Plan Choice

By Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber

American Economic Review, May 2011

This paper investigates the degree to which choice inconsistencies documented in the context of Medicare Part D plan choice vary across consumers and geographic regions. Our main finding is that there is surprisingly little variation: regardless of age, g...

The Net Effect of an Alcohol Tax Increase on Death Rates in Middle Age

By Philip J. Cook, Jan Ostermann, and Frank A. Sloan

American Economic Review, May 2005