Report of the Committee on Economic Education

By Michael Watts

American Economic Review, May 2009

AEJ: Macroeconomics: Search Committee Recommendation

American Economic Review, May 2009

Metropolitan-Specific Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Supply of Housing, and Their Sources

By Richard K. Green, Stephen Malpezzi, and Stephen K. Mayo

American Economic Review, May 2005

Leverage and the Central Banker's Put

By Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2008

By Barbara M. Fraumeni

American Economic Review, May 2009

Authority versus Persuasion

By Eric Van den Steen

American Economic Review, May 2009

Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish

By Martha J. Bailey and William J. Collins

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2011

We examine the hypothesis that advances in household technology caused the US baby boom, and we find no support for this claim. Advances in household technology occurred before the baby boom, while fertility declined. From 1940 to 1960, levels/changes in ...

Bayesian Learning and the Pricing of New Information: Evidence from Prediction Markets

By David S. Lee and Enrico Moretti

American Economic Review, May 2009

Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances

By Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel

American Economic Review, May 2009

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists

By John J. Siegfried

American Economic Review, May 2009

Time Use and Food Consumption

By Marianne Bertrand and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

American Economic Review, May 2009

Institutional Entrepreneurs

By David Daokui Li, Junxin Feng, and Hongping Jiang

American Economic Review, May 2006

Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities: Europe versus North America

[Symposium: European Unemployment]

By Stephen Nickell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997

The received wisdom tells us that the rigidity and inflexibility of European job markets relative to that in the United States is the reason why Europe has high unemployment. This paper argues that this broad brush analysis is simply too vague to be usefu...

Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India

By Katherine Donato, Grant Miller, Manoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky, and Marcos Vera-Hernández

American Economic Review, May 2017

We study how agents respond to performance incentives according to key personality traits (conscientiousness and neuroticism) through a field experiment offering financial incentives for improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes to rural Indian doct...

Help Wanted: Economists, Crime and Public Policy

[Symposium: The Economics of Crime]

By John J. DiIulio

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1996

Beginning with Gary W. Becker's (1968) article on crime and punishment, economists have contributed important theoretical insights and empirical findings to the study of criminal behavior but the influence of economists on crime-relevant research and over...

Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration

By Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011

This paper develops a new approach to testing for strategic entry deterrence and applies it to the behavior of pharmaceutical incumbents before patent expiration. It examines a cross section of markets, determining whether behavior is nonmonotonic in mark...

Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking

[Symposium: Looking Backward at Economics and the Economy]

By William E. Kovacic and Carl Shapiro

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2000

This article follows the evolution of thinking about competition since the passage of the Sherman Act in 1890 as reflected by major antitrust decisions and research in industrial organization. We divide the U.S. antitrust experience into five periods and ...

Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda

By Martina Björkman Nyqvist and Seema Jayachandran

American Economic Review, May 2017

Research on intrahousehold decision-making generally finds that fathers have more bargaining power than mothers, but mothers put more weight on children's well-being. This suggests a tradeoff when targeting policies to improve child health: fathers have m...

Inequality, Leverage, and Crises

By Michael Kumhof, Romain Rancière, and Pablo Winant

American Economic Review, March 2015

The paper studies how high household leverage and crises can be caused by changes in the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920-1929 and 1983-2008 both exhibited a large increase in the income share of high-income households, a large increase ...

Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages

By Andrew Weiss

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1995

The key difference between signalling and human capital models is that signalling models allow firms to draw inferences about unobserved characteristics of workers. Those inferences can be based on the schooling or work experience of workers, or on direct...