Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

By Olivier Deschênes and Michael Greenstone

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2011

Using random year-to-year variation in temperature, we document the relationship between daily temperatures and annual mortality rates and daily temperatures and annual residential energy consumption. Both relationships exhibit nonlinearities, with signif...

How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor

By Canice Prendergast

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

A difficult issue for organizations is how to assign valuable resources across competing opportunities. This work describes how Feeding America allocates about 300 million pounds of food a year to over two hundred food banks across the United States. It d...

Beyond Incentive Pay: Insiders' Estimates of the Value of Complementary Human Resource Management Practices

By Casey Ichniowski and Kathryn Shaw

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2003

Do human resource management (HRM) practices, such as incentive pay, teamwork, training, and careful screening practices, raise productivity, and if so, under what conditions does productivity rise? Recently, this question has been a central focus in orga...

Micro-to-Macro Simulation: A Primer with a Labor Market Example

By Barbara R. Bergmann

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1990

Simulation models, now widely used in the physical sciences, can also help economists in depicting the actions and interactions of individuals and firms through time. This article provides an introduction to microsimulation: how it works, how to do it, it...

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

By Gordon B. Dahl and Lance Lochner

American Economic Review, August 2012

Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from the large, nonlinear changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit. The largest of these changes increa...

Toward a General Theory of Wage and Price Rigidities and Economic Fluctuations

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

American Economic Review, May 1999

Does the NAIRU Have the Right Dynamics?

By Ray C. Fair

American Economic Review, May 1999

Why Do Different Wage Series Tell Different Stories?

By Katharine G. Abraham, James R. Spletzer, and Jay C. Stewart

American Economic Review, May 1999

Scale of Local Production and City Size

By Thomas J. Holmes

American Economic Review, May 1999

The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US Cities

By Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner

American Economic Review, October 2011

We investigate the effect of lane kilometers of roads on vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. VKT increases proportionately to roadway lane kilometers for interstate highways and probably slightly less rapidly for other types of roads. The sour...

Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing

By Nicholas Barberis, Ming Huang, and Richard H. Thaler

American Economic Review, September 2006

We argue that “narrow framing,” whereby an agent who is offered a new gamble evaluates that gamble in isolation, may be a more important feature of decisionmaking than previously realized. Our starting point is the evidence that people are often aver...

U.S. Abortion Policy and Fertility

By Jacob Alex Klerman

American Economic Review, May 1999

What Can We Expect from Community-Based Lending for the District of Columbia

By Gwendolyn Flowers

American Economic Review, May 1999

How Departments of Economics Evaluate Teaching

By William E. Becker and Michael Watts

American Economic Review, May 1999

On the Complexities of Complex Economic Dynamics

By J. Barkley Rosser

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1999

Complex economic nonlinear dynamics endogenously do not converge to a point, a limit cycle, or an explosion. Their study developed out of earlier studies of cybernetic, catastrophic, and chaotic systems. Complexity analysis stresses interactions among dis...

Persistence and Change in Culture and Institutions under Autarchy, Trade, and Factor Mobility

By Marianna Belloc and Samuel Bowles

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, November 2017

Differences among nations in culture (preferences including social norms) and institutions (contracts) may result in specialization and gains from trade even in the absence of exogenous differences in factor endowments or technologies. Goods differ in t...

Same Song, Same Refrain? Economic Sanctions in the 1990's

By Kimberly Ann Elliott and Gary Clyde Hufbauer

American Economic Review, May 1999

The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

By Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

American Economic Review, February 2013

This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the prehistoric exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory distance to various settlements across the globe affected genetic diversity and has ha...

The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results?

[Symposium: Immigration and Labor Markets]

By Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg, and Jan Stuhler

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2016

We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups, where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third group estimate the total effect of immigration on wages. We inter...

Farewell to Notes

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2014