Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance

By Dania V. Francis, Bradley L. Hardy, and Damon Jones

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2022

We explore the contributions of Black economists to research on major economic and social policy problems in the United States. We focus on applications in education, poverty and economic mobility, and public finance to extract common themes and patterns....

Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime

By Patrick L. Mason, Samuel L. Myers Jr., and Margaret Simms

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2022

This essay examines the extent to which research on the economics of race and crime produced by Black economists or published in the flagship journal of the organization of Black economists, the Review of Black Political Economy (RBPE), is unde...

Reconceptualizing the path to universal health insurance

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June 07, 2023

Mark Shepard discusses the limitations of a “market failures” approach to achieving universal health insurance coverage in the United States.

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The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities

[Symposium: Sports Economics]

By John J. Siegfried and Andrew Zimbalist

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2000

Since the 1950s, taxpayers have been the primary investors in stadia built for the use of privately-owned professional sports teams. Team owners have argued that sports facilities boost local economic activity; however, economic reasoning and empirical ev...

The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk onto Already Narrow Science Models

By Nicholas Stern

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2013

Scientists describe the scale of the risks from unmanaged climate change as potentially immense. However, the scientific models, because they omit key factors that are hard to capture precisely, appear to substantially underestimate these risks. Many ec...

Climate Change Policy: What Do the Models Tell Us?

By Robert S. Pindyck

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2013

Very little. A plethora of integrated assessment models (IAMs) have been constructed and used to estimate the social cost of carbon (SCC) and evaluate alternative abatement policies. These models have crucial flaws that make them close to useless as to...

Tail-Hedge Discounting and the Social Cost of Carbon

By Martin L. Weitzman

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2013

The choice of an overall discount rate for climate change investments depends critically on how different components of investment payoffs are discounted at differing rates reflecting their underlying risk characteristics. Such underlying rates can vary...

Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?

By Noam Angrist, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, and Dean Jolliffe

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2021

Occasional widely publicized controversies have led to the perception that growth statistics from developing countries are not to be trusted. Based on the comparison of several data sources and analysis of novel IMF audit data, we find no support for th...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2019

Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects

By Michael Bailey, Rachel Cao, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Arlene Wong

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2018

Social networks can shape many aspects of social and economic activity: migration and trade, job-seeking, innovation, consumer preferences and sentiment, public health, social mobility, and more. In turn, social networks themselves are associated with geo...

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American Economic Review, February 2011

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process

By Jonathan B. Berk, Campbell R. Harvey, and David Hirshleifer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2017

The review process for academic journals in economics has grown vastly more extensive over time. Journals demand more revisions, and papers have become bloated with numerous robustness checks and extensions. Even if the extra resulting revisions do on ave...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2016

Can War Foster Cooperation?

By Michal Bauer, Christopher Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, and Tamar Mitts

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community pa...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2016

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2015