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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

[Symposium: Universal Health Insurance]

By Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of healthcare through publicly-operated facilities. We discuss two rationales for this transition. First, h...

America's Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations

[Symposium: Economics of Mental Health]

By Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Mental illnesses affect roughly 20 percent of the US population. Like other health conditions, mental illnesses impose costs on individuals; they also generate costs that extend to family members and the larger society. Care for mental illnesses has evo...

Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

[Symposium: Economics of Mental Health]

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Erin Grela, Madeline McKelway, Frank Schilbach, Garima Sharma, and Girija Vaidyanathan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

We combine data from longitudinal surveys in seven low- and middle-income countries (plus the United States for comparison) to document that depressive symptoms among those aged 55 and above are prevalent in those countries and, unlike in the United State...

An Introductory Guide to Event Study Models

By Douglas L. Miller

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

The event study model is a powerful econometric tool used for the purpose of estimating dynamic treatment effects. One of its most appealing features is that it provides a built-in graphical summary of results, which can reveal rich patterns of behavior. ...

Retrospectives: Edgar Sydenstricker: Household Equivalence Scales and the Causes of Pellagra

By Philip Clarke and Guido Erreygers

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

In the early part of the 20th century the disease pellagra, now almost unknown, affected and killed thousands of people in the United States. Some claimed it was an infection, while others maintained it was due to a dietary deficiency. The economist Edg...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates

[Symposium: Spatial and Urban Economics]

By Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. We show that neighborhoods closest to the centers of large US cities rose from having the lowest levels of college attainment in 1980 to the highest in 2017. We discuss t...

Economic Activity across Space: A Supply and Demand Approach

[Symposium: Spatial and Urban Economics]

By Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

What do recent advances in economic geography teach us about the spatial distribution of economic activity? We show that the equilibrium distribution of economic activity can be determined simply by the intersection of labor supply and demand curves. We d...

Quantitative Urban Models: From Theory to Data

[Symposium: Spatial and Urban Economics]

By Stephen J. Redding

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Economic activity is highly unevenly distributed within cities, as reflected in the concentration of economic functions in specific locations, such as finance in the Square Mile in London. The extent to which this concentration reflects natural advantages...

Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?

[Symposium: Universal Health Insurance]

By Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We argue that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficie...

Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply

[Symposium: Spatial and Urban Economics]

By Nathaniel Baum-Snow

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

The US urban population increased by almost 50 percent between 1980 and 2020, with this growth heavily concentrated in the Sun Belt and at the fringes of metropolitan areas. This paper considers the role of housing supply in shaping the growth of cities...

Vaccines, infrastructure costs, and remote work

[News]

April 20, 2023

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Resources for Changing Course Content or Curriculum to Appeal to a Broad Range of Students

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Follow this link for a wide range of resources intended to support the expansion of introductory course topics, in-depth exploration for advanced courses, and topic dedicated electives.

Call for Papers: Inflation Expectations: Determinants and Consequences

[News]

May 04, 2023

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2023.

Delivery practices and newborn health

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What impact do C-sections have on infant health outcomes?

Slate of Candidates for the 2023 Election Announced

[News]

May 08, 2023

Balloting opens on August 1, 2023.

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Call for Papers: 96th International Atlantic Economic Conference

[News]

May 12, 2023

The conference will be held October 5-8, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA.

Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab

By J. Michelle Brock and Ralph De Haas

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2023

We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment with 334 Turkish loan officers to document gender discrimination in small business lending and unpack mechanisms. Officers review multiple real-life loan applications in which we randomize applicant gender. While...