Editors' Introduction
(p. viii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 98, No. 2, May 2008
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Foreword
(p. x)
The Economics of Climate Change
(pp. 1–37)
Returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
(pp. 38–42)
The Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the Labor Market Outcomes of Evacuees
(pp. 43–48)
How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets
(pp. 49–53)
Measuring the Labor Market Impacts of Hurricane Katrina Migration: Evidence from Houston, Texas
(pp. 54–57)
Consumption Disasters in the Twentieth Century
(pp. 58–63)
Variable Rare Disasters: A Tractable Theory of Ten Puzzles in Macro-finance
(pp. 64–67)
Disasters and Recoveries
(pp. 68–73)
Disasters and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty
(pp. 74–78)
How Big Are Total Individual Income Tax Expenditures, and Who Benefits from Them?
(pp. 79–83)
Tax Expenditures for Owner-Occupied Housing: Deductions for Property Taxes and Mortgage Interest and the Exclusion of Imputed Rental Income
(pp. 84–89)
Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals
(pp. 90–94)
Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?
(pp. 95–99)
Second-Best Institutions
(pp. 100–104)
The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions
(pp. 105–09)
The Future of the IMF and the World Bank
(pp. 110–15)
Rethinking Global Environmental Governance to Deal with Climate Change: The Multiple Logics of Global Collective Action
(pp. 116–21)
Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
(pp. 122–26)
EU Institutional Reform: Evidence on Globalization and International Cooperation
(pp. 127–32)
Widening and Deepening: Reforming the European Union
(pp. 133–37)
Should the Euro Area Be Run as a Closed Economy?
(pp. 138–45)
Modeling Competition and Market Equilibrium in Insurance: Empirical Issues
(pp. 146–50)
Does the Secondary Life Insurance Market Threaten Dynamic Insurance?
(pp. 151–56)
Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance
(pp. 157–62)
The Impact of Computation Time and Experience on Decision Values
(pp. 163–68)
Economic Insights from "Neuroeconomic" Data
(pp. 169–74)
Theories of the Mind
(pp. 175–80)
Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees
(pp. 181–86)
Costly Expertise
(pp. 187–93)
Information Aggregation and Strategic Abstention in Large Laboratory Elections
(pp. 194–200)
Intrinsic Motivation and Incentives
(pp. 201–05)
Status Incentives
(pp. 206–11)
Identity, Supervision, and Work Groups
(pp. 212–17)
Insiders versus Outsiders in Monetary Policymaking
(pp. 218–23)
Do Monetary Policy Committees Need Leaders? A Report on an Experiment
(pp. 224–29)
The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?
(pp. 230–35)
Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics
(pp. 236–40)
Frequency-Specific Effects of Stabilization Policies
(pp. 241–45)
Modeling Macroeconomies as Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents
(pp. 246–50)
Allowing the Data to Speak Freely: The Macroeconometrics of the Cointegrated Vector Autoregression
(pp. 251–55)
The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment
(pp. 256–62)
The Decline of Job Loss and Why It Matters
(pp. 263–67)
The Probability of Finding a Job
(pp. 268–73)
How to Define Illegal Price Manipulation
(pp. 274–79)
Microstructure Bluffing with Nested Information
(pp. 280–84)
Manipulation and Equity-Based Compensation
(pp. 285–90)
Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance
(pp. 291–96)
Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds
(pp. 297–303)
Why Don’t People Insure Late-Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle
(pp. 304–09)
Mortgages, Risk, and Homeownership among Low- and Moderate-Income Families
(pp. 310–14)
Rates for Vehicle Loans: Race and Loan Source
(pp. 315–20)
Saving whilst Gambling: An Empirical Analysis of UK Premium Bonds
(pp. 321–26)
The Drivers of Financial Globalization
(pp. 327–32)
Home Bias at the Fund Level
(pp. 333–38)
Is the 2007 US Sub-prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison
(pp. 339–44)
Using Selection on Observed Variables to Assess Bias from Unobservables When Evaluating Swan-Ganz Catheterization
(pp. 345–50)
Treatment Effect Bounds under Monotonicity Assumptions: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catheterization
(pp. 351–56)
Estimating Average Treatment Effects with Continuous and Discrete Covariates: The Case of Swan-Ganz Catheterization
(pp. 357–62)
Transitions: Career and Family Life Cycles of the Educational Elite
(pp. 363–69)
Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study
(pp. 370–75)
Do Women Supply More Public Goods Than Men? Preliminary Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies
(pp. 376–81)
African American and White Differences in the Impacts of Monetary Policy on the Duration of Unemployment
(pp. 382–86)
The Changing Incidence and Severity of Poverty Spells among Female-Headed Families
(pp. 387–91)
Poverty Volatility and Macroeconomic Quiescence
(pp. 392–97)
Non-white Poverty and Macroeconomy: The Impact of Growth
(pp. 398–402)
Understanding the Returns to Delayed Childbearing for Working Women
(pp. 403–07)
The Effect of Children's Gender on Living Arrangements and Child Support
(pp. 408–12)
Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?
(pp. 413–17)
Who Chooses Annuities? An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Gender, Framing, and Defaults
(pp. 418–22)
A Structural Approach to Explaining Incomplete Exchange-Rate Pass-Through and Pricing-to-Market
(pp. 423–29)
Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale
(pp. 430–37)
Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Menu Cost Model
(pp. 438–43)
Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade
(pp. 444–50)
R&D Investments, Exporting, and the Evolution of Firm Productivity
(pp. 451–56)
Firm-Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh
(pp. 457–62)
Height, Health, and Cognitive Function at Older Ages
(pp. 463–67)
Height, Health, and Inequality: The Distribution of Adult Heights in India
(pp. 468–74)
Height and Economic Development in Italy, 1730-1980
(pp. 475–81)
How High Are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya
(pp. 482–88)
Limited Attention and Income Distribution
(pp. 489–93)
Spite and Development
(pp. 494–99)
Motherhood and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Infertility Shocks
(pp. 500–504)
Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City
(pp. 505–10)
Stress and Birth Weight: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
(pp. 511–15)
Prostitutes and Brides?
(pp. 516–22)
Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
(pp. 523–28)
Trade Costs, 1870-2000
(pp. 529–34)
A Century of Global Equity Market Correlations
(pp. 535–40)
The National Assessment of Educational Progress in Economics: Findings for General Economics
(pp. 541–46)
The Test of Understanding of College Economics
(pp. 547–51)
Assessment Practices and Trends in Undergraduate Economics Courses
(pp. 552–56)
Susan C. Athey: John Bates Clark Medalist 2007
(pp. 559–60)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 5, 2008
(pp. 561–62)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 563–72)
Report of the Secretary for 2007
(pp. 573–76)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 577–80)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 581–90)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 591–93)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 594–95)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 596–98)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 599–600)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 601–02)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 603–04)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 605–07)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 608–10)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2007
(pp. 611–18)
Report on the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 619–27)
Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics
(pp. 628–28)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 629–29)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 630–33)