Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

By Alberto Alesina and Beatrice Weder

American Economic Review, September 2002

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2006

Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy

By Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig

American Economic Review, September 2006

This paper addresses the question of how traditional institutions interact with the forces of globalization to shape the economic mobility and welfare of particular groups of individuals in the new economy. We explore the role of one such traditional i...

Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer

By P.-A. Chiappori, S. Levitt, and T. Groseclose

American Economic Review, September 2002

International Spillovers and Water Quality in Rivers: Do Countries Free Ride?

By Hilary Sigman

American Economic Review, September 2002

Reservation Wages: An Analysis of the Effects of Reservations on Employment of American Indian Men

By J. Gitter and Patricia B. Reagan

American Economic Review, September 2002

Savings and Portfolio Choice in a Two-Period Two-Asset Model

By Saku Aura, Peter Diamond, and John Geanakoplos

American Economic Review, September 2002

Education, Social Cohesion, and Economic Growth

By Mark Gradstein and Moshe Justman

American Economic Review, September 2002

Competitive Pressure and Labor Productivity: World Iron-Ore Markets in the 1980's

By José E. Galdón-Sánchez and James A. Schmitz Jr.

American Economic Review, September 2002

Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment

By Justin McCrary

American Economic Review, September 2002

Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply

By Steven D. Levitt

American Economic Review, September 2002

Losing Sleep at the Market: Comment

By J. Michael Pinegar

American Economic Review, September 2002

Losing Sleep at the Market: The Daylight Saving Anomaly: Reply

By Mark J. Kamstra, Lisa A. Kramer, and Maurice D. Levi

American Economic Review, September 2002

Property Rights and Finance

By Simon Johnson, John McMillan, and Christopher Woodruff

American Economic Review, December 2002

Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their pro...

Transport Costs and the Geography of Arbitrage in Eighteenth-Century China

By Carol H. Shiue

American Economic Review, December 2002

Trade has been considered a condition for growth and development, a view that might have merits in explaining the rise of the Western world. I use a new data set from archival sources of eighteenth-century China to revisit this question. This analysis sug...

Racial Profiling, Fairness, and Effectiveness of Policing

By Nicola Persico

American Economic Review, December 2002

Citizens of two groups may engage in crime, depending on their legal earning opportunities and on the probability of being audited. Police audit citizens. Police behavior is fair if both groups are policed with the same intensity. We provide exact conditi...

Learning-by-Doing as a Propagation Mechanism

By Yongsung Chang, Joao F. Gomes, and Frank Schorfheide

American Economic Review, December 2002

This paper suggests that skill accumulation through past work experience, or "learning-by-doing" (LBD), can provide an important propagation mechanism in a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model, as the current labor supply affects future productivi...

Social Value of Public Information

By Stephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin

American Economic Review, December 2002

What are the welfare effects of enhanced dissemination of public information through the media and disclosures by market participants with high public visibility? We examine the impact of public information in a setting where agents take actions appropria...

Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

By Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, Elizabeth King, and Michael Kremer

American Economic Review, December 2002

Colombia used lotteries to distribute vouchers which partially covered the cost of private secondary school for students who maintained satisfactory academic progress. Three years after the lotteries, winners were about 10 percentage points more likely to...

Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival: What Do the Industry Data Say?

By Kevin J. Stiroh

American Economic Review, December 2002