The Interaction of Public Retirement Income Programs in the United States

By Elizabeth T. Powers and David Neumark

American Economic Review, May 2003

Monetary Policy Under Imperfect Capital Markets in a Small Open Economy

By Anita Tuladhar

American Economic Review, May 2003

Following the financial crises of the late 1990's an increasing number of emergingmarket countries have adopted a flexible exchange-rate regime and an inflation-targeting monetary-policy framework. This trend has generated a growing debate on the appropri...

Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Incremental Health-Insurance Expansion

By Jonathan Gruber

American Economic Review, May 2003

After a small decline, the number of uninsured persons in the United States is on the rise again, at over 41 million (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2002). This increase is likely to spur efforts to cover the uninsured through legislative action....

A New Approach to Risk-Spreading via Coverage-Expansion Subsidies

By John Holahan, Len M. Nichols, Linda J. Blumberg, and Yu-Chu Shen

American Economic Review, May 2003

The persistently large number of uninsured, roughly 40 million per year since 1993, continues to elicit bipartisan policy interest. Coverage-expansion proposals without mandates, by far the most common since the defeat of the Clinton plan, must address ri...

Reinsuring Risk to Increase Access to Health Insurance

By Katherine Swartz

American Economic Review, May 2003

At least 41 million Americans are currently without health insurance in any given month (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2002). They are uninsured for a variety of reasons, and most people who lack coverage are affected by more than one reason. Two generalizat...

Why Did the Welfare Rolls Fall During the 1990's? The Importance of Entry

By Jeffrey Grogger, Steven J. Haider, and Jacob Klerman

American Economic Review, May 2003

Some Evidence on Race, Welfare Reform, and Household Income

By Marianne P. Bitler, Jonah B. Gelbach, and Hilary W. Hoynes

American Economic Review, May 2003

How Welfare Policies Affect Child and Adolescent Achievement

By Elizabeth Clark-Kauffman, Greg J. Duncan, and Pamela Morris

American Economic Review, May 2003

Changes in the Distribution of Children's Family Income over the 1990's

By Rebecca M. Blank and Robert F. Schoeni

American Economic Review, May 2003

Assimilation across the Latino Generations

By James P. Smith

American Economic Review, May 2003

Catching Up: Wages of Black Men

By Finis Welch

American Economic Review, May 2003

The Political Economy of Antiracism Initiatives in the Post-Durban Round

By Samuel L. Myers Jr., Lajune Thomas Lange, and Bruce Corrie

American Economic Review, May 2003

Racial Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory

By Glenn C. Loury

American Economic Review, May 2003

This essay examines interconnections between "race" and economic inequality in the United States, focusing on the case of African-Americans. I will argue that it is crucially important to distinguish between racial discrimination and racial stigma in the ...

Rethinking Economic Discrimination

By Jomo K.S.

American Economic Review, May 2003

Social Security and Individual Accounts as Elements of Overall Risk-Sharing

By Robert J. Shiller

American Economic Review, May 2003

What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries

By Gary Burtless

American Economic Review, May 2003

Inter-asset Differences in Effective Estate-Tax Burdens

By James M. Poterba and Scott J. Weisbenner

American Economic Review, May 2003

Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritances and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from across States and Time

By Jon M. Bakija, William G. Gale, and Joel B. Slemrod

American Economic Review, May 2003

Thanatology and Economics: The Behavioral Economics of Death

By Joel Slemrod

American Economic Review, May 2003

Consumption Risk and Expected Stock Returns

By Jonathan A. Parker

American Economic Review, May 2003