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Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.55.4.1

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2015

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.53.2.484

Productivity Growth in World Agriculture: Sources and Constraints

By Vernon W. Ruttan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2002

During the last half-century, advances in crop production came from expansion in areas irrigated from more intensive application of fertilizers and crop protection chemicals, and from crop varieties that were more responsive to technical inputs and manage...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/089533002320951028

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2015

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.53.4.1

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2015

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.53.3.836

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

By Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2013

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities experience increases in revenues and report corresponding increases in spending on public goo...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.5.1.208

Intergenerational Inequality: A Sociological Perspective

[Symposium: Intergenerational Mobility]

By Robert Erikson and John H. Goldthorpe

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2002

When economists are concerned with the inheritance of inequality, they typically focus on the intergenerational transmission of income or wealth. In contrast, sociologists are more likely to analyze intergenerational mobility between (and immobility in) d...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/089533002760278695

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

By Todd D. Gerarden, Richard G. Newell, and Robert N. Stavins

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2017

Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but it has long been observed that these technologies may not be adopted by individuals and firms to the degr...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20161360

Don't Demotivate, Discriminate

By Jurjen J. A. Kamphorst and Otto H. Swank

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2016

This paper offers a new theory of discrimination in the workplace. We consider a manager who has to assign two tasks to two employees. The manager has superior information about the employees' abilities. We show that besides an equilibrium where the manag...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20140204

How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits?

By Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2015

Public sector employees receive large fractions of their lifetime income in the form of deferred compensation. The introduction of the opportunity provided to Illinois public school employees to purchase additional pension benefits allows me to estimate e...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20140087

Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?

By Mark Aguiar and Mark Bils

American Economic Review, September 2015

We revisit to what extent the increase in income inequality since 1980 was mirrored by consumption inequality. We do so by constructing an alternative measure of consumption expenditure using a demand system to correct for systematic measurement error in ...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20120599

Asymmetric Auctions with Resale

By Isa Hafalir and Vijay Krishna

American Economic Review, March 2008

We study first- and second-price auctions with resale in a model with independent private values. With asymmetric bidders, the resulting ineffi ciencies create a motive for post-auction trade which, in our model, takes place via monopoly pricing—...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.98.1.87

Efficient Transportation Infrastructure Policy

By Clifford Winston

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1991

This paper offers a perspective on paying for and investing in the transportation infrastructure. The following example illustrates the need to move away from the current national mind set. Pick any pothole-laden, congested two-lane road in an urban area....

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.5.1.113

Markets: Preserving Funeral Markets with Ready-to-Embalm Laws

By David E. Harrington

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2007

Thirty-nine states currently have ready-to-embalm laws, which typically require that all firms selling any type of funeral service (even those specializing in cremations) have embalming preparation rooms and all funeral directors be trained as embalmers....

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.21.4.201

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2016

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.54.2.1

Shocking Labor Supply: A Reassessment of the Role of World War II on Women's Labor Supply

By Claudia Goldin and Claudia Olivetti

American Economic Review, May 2013

The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of wome...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.103.3.257