Front Matter
(pp. i–vii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 102, No. 5, August 2012
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A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities
(pp. 1773–1804)
Pay for Percentile
(pp. 1805–31)
Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
(pp. 1832–56)
Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange
(pp. 1857–97)
A Rational Expectations Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution
(pp. 1898–1926)
The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
(pp. 1927–56)
Bundling and Competition for Slots
(pp. 1957–85)
Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility
(pp. 1986–2017)
Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate
(pp. 2018–47)
Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees
(pp. 2048–82)
What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?
(pp. 2083–2110)
Industrial Structure and Capital Flows
(pp. 2111–46)
Spatial Differentiation and Vertical Mergers in Retail Markets for Gasoline
(pp. 2147–82)
Revealed Attention
(pp. 2183–2205)
Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market
(pp. 2206–36)
The Multi-unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocation at Harvard
(pp. 2237–71)
Durable Consumption and Asset Management with Transaction and Observation Costs
(pp. 2272–2300)
Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications
(pp. 2301–26)
Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows
(pp. 2327–48)
Interjurisdictional Spillovers, Decentralized Policymaking, and the Elasticity of Capital Supply
(pp. 2349–57)
The Hidden Advantage of Delegation: Pareto Improvements in a Gift Exchange Game
(pp. 2358–79)