Front Matter
(pp. i–vi)
American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
ISSN 1945-7782 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7790 (Online)
Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2009
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Editor's Note
(pp. iii–vi)
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School
(pp. 1–21)
Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa
(pp. 22–48)
Separated at Girth: US Twin Estimates of the Effects of Birth Weight
(pp. 49–85)
Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes
(pp. 86–111)
Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
(pp. 112–35)
Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
(pp. 136–63)
The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age
(pp. 164–82)
Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism, and the Earnings Gap
(pp. 183–218)
Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India
(pp. 219–50)
The Social Multiplier and Labor Market Participation of Mothers
(pp. 251–72)