Journal of Economic Literature

Vol. 54 No. 1 March 2016

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(pp. 1-6)

Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Trade-Off

by Peter Arcidiacono and Michael Lovenheim

(pp. 3-51)

Regulatory Races: The Effects of Jurisdictional Competition on Regulatory Standards

by Bruce G. Carruthers and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

(pp. 52-97)

The Economics of Temporary Migrations

by Christian Dustmann and Joseph-Simon Görlach

(pp. 98-136)

Why Organizations Fail: Models and Cases

by Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

(pp. 137-92)

A Quantitative Review of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family by Carbone and Cahn

by Kirsten Cornelson and Aloysius Siow

(pp. 193-207)

The Politics of Financial Development: A Review of Calomiris and Haber's Fragile by Design

by Peter L. Rousseau

(pp. 208-23)

Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution?

by Cormac Ó Gráda

(pp. 224-39)

Book Reviews

(pp. 240-47)

Annotated Listing of New Books

(pp. 248-375)

JEL Classification System

(pp. 376-91)