Vertical Contracting with Informational Opportunism

By Vianney Dequiedt and David Martimort

American Economic Review, July 2015

We consider vertical contracting arrangements between a manufacturer and a retailing network when retailers have private information and the organization is run through bilateral contracts. We highlight a new form of informational opportunism arising when...

What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?

[Symposium: Wealth and Inequality]

By Wojciech Kopczuk

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2015

I discuss available evidence about the evolution of top wealth shares in the United States over the course of the 20th century. The three main approaches—the Survey of Consumer Finances, estate tax multiplier, and capitalization methods—gene...

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2009

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

Schooling, Labor-Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations

By Eric A. Hanushek and Dennis D. Kimko

American Economic Review, December 2000

Direct measures of labor-force quality from international mathematics and science test scores are strongly related to growth. Indirect specification tests are generally consistent with a causal link: direct spending on schools is unrelated to student perf...

Report: Committee on Economic Education

American Economic Review, May 2014

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2013

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1989

Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

By Iain M. Cockburn, Jean O. Lanjouw, and Mark Schankerman

American Economic Review, January 2016

Analysis of the timing of launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries during 1983-2002 shows that patent and price regulation regimes strongly affect how quickly new drugs become commercially available in different countries. Price regulation delays launch,...

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2015

Symposium on Women in the Labor Market

[Symposium: Women in the Labor Market]

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1989

This symposium contains four essays on the general topic of women in the labor market. The essays are varied, not only in focus, but also in philosophical outlook. The topic is of central importance today. Few economic trends have been more pronounced or ...

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature

American Economic Review, May 2014

Asymmetric Information between Employers

By Lisa B. Kahn

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2013

This study explores whether potential employers have the same information about worker ability as the incumbent firm. I develop a model of asymmetric learning that nests the symmetric learning case and allows the degree of asymmetry to vary. I then sho...

Index to Volume 4

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2011

Income Inequality, Capitalism, and Ethno-linguistic Fractionalization

By Jan-Egbert Sturm and Jakob De Haan

American Economic Review, May 2015

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism. Our results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and Gi...

Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)

American Economic Review, May 2014

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2014

Notes

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2006

Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab

By Tania Barham

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2012

It is believed that early life circumstances are crucial to success later in life. Yet causal evidence that the impacts of early childhood health interventions continue into late childhood and adolescence is sparse. This paper exploits a quasi-random pla...