Front Matter
(pp. i–xvi)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 107, No. 5, May 2017
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Foreword
(p. xi)
Editors' Introduction
(p. xii)
The Economist as Plumber
(pp. 1–26)
Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics
(pp. 27–31)
Replications in Development Economics
(pp. 32–36)
Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
(pp. 37–40)
A Proposal to Organize and Promote Replications
(pp. 41–45)
What Is Meant by "Replication" and Why Does It Encounter Resistance in Economics?
(pp. 46–51)
Replication and Economics Journal Policies
(pp. 52–55)
Replication, Meta-analysis, and Research Synthesis in Economics
(pp. 56–59)
A Preanalysis Plan to Replicate Sixty Economics Research Papers That Worked Half of the Time
(pp. 60–64)
Groupy versus Non-Groupy Social Preferences: Personality, Region, and Political Party
(pp. 65–69)
Altruistic Capital
(pp. 70–75)
Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
(pp. 76–80)
Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index
(pp. 81–85)
Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body
(pp. 86–90)
The Ethics of Incentivizing the Uninformed: A Vignette Study
(pp. 91–95)
Sacred versus Pseudo-sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs
(pp. 96–99)
Quantifying the Disincentive Effects of Joint Taxation on Married Women's Labor Supply
(pp. 100–104)
Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women's Job Choices
(pp. 105–09)
The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census
(pp. 110–14)
A Gender Agenda: A Progress Report on Competitiveness
(pp. 115–19)
Trumping Norms: Lab Evidence on Aggressive Communication before and after the 2016 US Presidential Election
(pp. 120–24)
Gender, Competitiveness, and Study Choices in High School: Evidence from Switzerland
(pp. 125–30)
Gender Differences in the Allocation of Low-Promotability Tasks: The Role of Backlash
(pp. 131–35)
No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self
(pp. 136–40)
Recognition for Group Work: Gender Differences in Academia
(pp. 141–45)
Shopping While Female: Who Pays Higher Prices and Why?
(pp. 146–49)
Women's Inheritance Rights, Household Allocation, and Gender Bias
(pp. 150–53)
Assortative Matching under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Malawi
(pp. 154–57)
The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi
(pp. 158–62)
Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment
(pp. 163–67)
Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?
(pp. 168–73)
Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation
(pp. 174–79)
Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
(pp. 180–85)
Pandora's Auctions: Dynamic Matching with Unknown Preferences
(pp. 186–90)
Multidimensional Platform Design
(pp. 191–95)
Discrete Pricing and Market Fragmentation: A Tale of Two-Sided Markets
(pp. 196–99)
Recent Developments in Matching with Constraints
(pp. 200–204)
Redesigning the Israeli Psychology Master's Match
(pp. 205–09)
Large-Scale Affirmative Action in School Choice: Admissions to IITs in India
(pp. 210–13)
Stable and Strategy-Proof Matching with Flexible Allotments
(pp. 214–19)
The Mechanism Is Truthful, Why Aren't You?
(pp. 220–24)
Mistaken Play in the Deferred Acceptance Algorithm: Implications for Positive Assortative Matching
(pp. 225–29)
Obvious Ex Post Equilibrium
(pp. 230–34)
Bounded Rationality and Robust Mechanism Design: An Axiomatic Approach
(pp. 235–39)
Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago's Exam Schools
(pp. 240–45)
Policy Analysis in Matching Markets
(pp. 246–50)
The Econometrics and Some Properties of Separable Matching Models
(pp. 251–55)
Specifying a Structural Matching Game of Trading Networks with Transferable Utility
(pp. 256–60)
Double/Debiased/Neyman Machine Learning of Treatment Effects
(pp. 261–65)
Testing-Based Forward Model Selection
(pp. 266–69)
L2-Boosting for Economic Applications
(pp. 270–73)
Core Determining Class and Inequality Selection
(pp. 274–77)
Estimating Average Treatment Effects: Supplementary Analyses and Remaining Challenges
(pp. 278–81)
What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results
(pp. 282–86)
What Have We Learned from Structural Models?
(pp. 287–92)
Economic Research Evolves: Fields and Styles
(pp. 293–97)
Abducting Economics
(pp. 298–302)
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Programs on Minorities
(pp. 303–07)
Gender Gap in High-Growth Ventures: Evidence from a University Venture Mentoring Program
(pp. 308–11)
Which Entrepreneurs Are Coachable and Why?
(pp. 312–16)
Endogenous Appropriability
(pp. 317–21)
Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency, and the Productivity Slowdown
(pp. 322–26)
Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity
(pp. 327–31)
Transferability of Skills across Sectors and Heterogeneous Displacement Costs
(pp. 332–36)
Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany
(pp. 337–42)
A Context-Robust Measure of the Disincentive Cost of Unemployment Insurance
(pp. 343–48)
Composition and Aggregate Real Wage Growth
(pp. 349–52)
Do Job-to-Job Transitions Drive Wage Fluctuations over the Business Cycle?
(pp. 353–57)
Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth
(pp. 358–63)
The Relative Power of Employment-to-Employment Reallocation and Unemployment Exits in Predicting Wage Growth
(pp. 364–68)
Heterogeneous Scarring Effects of Full-Year Nonemployment
(pp. 369–73)
Returns to Education through Access to Higher-Paying Firms: Evidence from US Matched Employer-Employee Data
(pp. 374–78)
Wage Inequality and Firm Growth
(pp. 379–83)
The Role of Firms in Gender Earnings Inequality: Evidence from the United States
(pp. 384–87)
The Role of Unemployment in the Rise in Alternative Work Arrangements
(pp. 388–92)
Firm-Related Risk and Precautionary Saving Response
(pp. 393–97)
Worker Betas: Five Facts about Systematic Earnings Risk
(pp. 398–403)
Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world
(pp. 404–09)
Segregation and Homeownership in the Early Twentieth Century
(pp. 410–14)
Who Will Fight? The All-Volunteer Army after 9/11
(pp. 415–19)
Taxman's Dilemma: Coercion or Persuasion? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Ethiopia
(pp. 420–24)
Inequality in the Labor Market for Native American Women and the Great Recession
(pp. 425–29)
Consumption Smoothing and Frequency of Benefit Payments of Cash Transfer Programs
(pp. 430–35)
Asylum Applications and Migration Flows
(pp. 436–40)
Validating Migration Responses to Flooding Using Satellite and Vital Registration Data
(pp. 441–45)
Heat Exposure and Youth Migration in Central America and the Caribbean
(pp. 446–50)
Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration
(pp. 451–55)
Retirement Contribution Rate Nudges and Plan Participation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(pp. 456–61)
Challenges to Replication and Iteration in Field Experiments: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Shots
(pp. 462–65)
Government-Academic Partnerships in Randomized Evaluations: The Case of Inappropriate Prescribing
(pp. 466–70)
Reminders and Recidivism: Using Administrative Data to Characterize Nonfilers and Conduct EITC Outreach
(pp. 471–75)
Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error?
(pp. 476–80)
Wearable Technologies and Health Behaviors: New Data and New Methods to Understand Population Health
(pp. 481–85)
Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs
(pp. 486–90)
Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient?
(pp. 491–95)
Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda
(pp. 496–500)
Precommitment, Cash Transfers, and Timely Arrival for Birth: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nairobi Kenya
(pp. 501–05)
Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India
(pp. 506–10)
Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia
(pp. 511–15)
Does Forest Loss Increase Human Disease? Evidence from Nigeria
(pp. 516–21)
Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality
(pp. 522–25)
The Impact of Indonesian Forest Fires on Singaporean Pollution and Health
(pp. 526–29)
Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Niger's 1986 Meningitis Epidemic
(pp. 530–35)
How Children with Mental Disabilities Affect Household Investment Decisions
(pp. 536–40)
Excess Male Infant Mortality: The Gene-Institution Interactions
(pp. 541–45)
Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs
(pp. 546–50)
Does Public Assistance Reduce Recidivism?
(pp. 551–55)
Moving to Job Opportunities? The Effect of "Ban the Box" on the Composition of Cities
(pp. 556–59)
The Effect of Criminal Records on Access to Employment
(pp. 560–64)
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 565–71)
The Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions
(pp. 572–77)
How the Second-Order Free Rider Problem Is Solved in a Small-Scale Society
(pp. 578–81)
Why Being Wrong Can Be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs
(pp. 582–87)
Aggregate Demand and the Top 1 Percent
(pp. 588–92)
Earnings Inequality and Other Determinants of Wealth Inequality
(pp. 593–97)
Large Firms and International Business Cycle Comovement
(pp. 598–602)
Big Banks, Idiosyncratic Volatility, and Systemic Risk
(pp. 603–07)
China's Gradualistic Economic Approach and Financial Markets
(pp. 608–13)
Rents, Technical Change, and Risk Premia Accounting for Secular Trends in Interest Rates, Returns on Capital, Earning Yields, and Factor Shares
(pp. 614–20)
Euro-Area Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Rebalancing
(pp. 621–27)
Capitalization of School Quality in Housing Prices: Evidence from Boundary Changes in Shelby County, Tennessee
(pp. 628–32)
Teenage Motherhood and Sibling Outcomes
(pp. 633–37)
The Importance of Information Targeting for School Choice
(pp. 638–43)
Trends in Economics and Other Undergraduate Majors
(pp. 644–49)
Some Lasting Effects of Undergraduate Economics on Retirement Planning
(pp. 650–54)
Promoting Undergraduate Research in Economics
(pp. 655–59)
Learning Outcomes for Economists
(pp. 660–64)
Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: Chicago, IL, January 6, 2017
(pp. 667–69)
Report of the Secretary
(pp. 670–73)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 674–77)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 678–80)
List of Online Reports
(p. 681)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 29, 2016
(pp. 683–88)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, January 5, 2017
(pp. 689–98)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 699–712)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 713–15)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 716–18)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 719–25)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 726–34)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 735–42)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 743–48)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 749–51)
Report: Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 752–58)
Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
(pp. 759–76)
Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)
(pp. 777–91)
Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)
(pp. 792–94)
Report: Committee on Government Relations
(pp. 795–96)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the American Economic Review
(p. 797)