Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr

By Gilles Saint-Paul

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies, by Paul Starr, revisits the history of political economy through the lens of a novel concept: that of entrenchment. Policies that benefit some interest groups may become e...

Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women's Vote

By Toke S. Aidt

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

Recent years have seen several 100-year anniversaries of the women's vote, and today universal and equal suffrage is an inseparable part of democracy. Dawn Teele's book, Forging the Franchise, is an inquiry into the reasons why male politicians...

The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies

By Hanna Halaburda, Guillaume Haeringer, Joshua Gans, and Neil Gandal

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

Since its launch in 2009 much has been written about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains. While the discussions initially took place mostly on blogs and other popular media, we now are witnessing the emergence of a growing body of rigorous academ...

The Political Economy of Populism

By Sergei Guriev and Elias Papaioannou

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

We synthesize the literature on the recent rise of populism. First, we discuss definitions and present descriptive evidence on the recent increase in support for populists. Second, we cover the historical evolution of populist regimes since the late nin...

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Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2022

AEA Member Announcements: American Economic Review: Insights Editor search -- request for suggestions

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September 02, 2022

Trade and Urbanization: Evidence from Hungary

By Dávid Krisztián Nagy

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2022

I study how trade affects urbanization and real income. To this end, I exploit large-scale exogenous changes in trade stemming from the redrawing of Hungary's borders after the First World War. I show that urbanization in counties near the new border decr...

Data Resources for Economists

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US macroeconomic data, survey data, data by sector, and international data.

Call for Papers: CSWEP at the Eastern Economic Association (EEA)

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September 08, 2022

The deadline is October 24, 2022.

2022 Center for Accounting Research and Education Conference

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September 09, 2022

The COVID-19 Pandemic Disrupted Both School Bullying and Cyberbullying

By Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Joshua Goodman, Jennifer Greif Green, and Melissa K. Holt

American Economic Review: Insights, September 2022

One-fifth of US high school students report being bullied each year. We use internet search data for real-time tracking of bullying patterns as COVID-19 disrupted in-person schooling. We first show that pre-pandemic internet searches contain useful inform...

2023 John Bates Clark Medal Nominations

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September 16, 2022

Economics Departments are invited to submit nominations for the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal.

Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and the Social Sciences

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September 21, 2022

The first session in the monthly series begins on September 27, 2022.

Front Matter

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2022

Time to Repay or Time to Delay? The Effect of Having More Time before a Payday Loan Is Due

By Susan Payne Carter, Kuan Liu, Paige Marta Skiba, and Justin Sydnor

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2022

We examine the effect of state laws on minimum payday loan durations that give some borrowers an additional pay cycle to repay their initial loan with no other changes to contract terms. Neoclassical models predict this "grace period" would reduce borrowe...

Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism

By Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Daniele Terlizzese

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2022

We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with time served in an open-cell one. We deal with the endogenous assignment of inmates to different prison regimes using variation that is driven by nearby priso...