Should the American Economic Association Have Toasted Simon Newcomb at Its 100th Birthday Party?

By William J. Barber

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1987

Should the American Economic Association have toasted Simon Newcomb at its 100th birthday party? Some might be inclined to dismiss the question posed above as preposterous. He was never a member of the American Economic Association. Indeed, the moving spi...

Heterogeneity in Neighborhood-Level Price Growth in the United States, 1993-2009

By Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

American Economic Review, May 2012

Examination of detailed geographical information on U.S. housing transactions from 1993 to 2009 find much heterogeneity at the neighborhood level in when the recent boom began, how big the initial jumps in price growth were, how long the booms lasted, and...

List of Online Reports

By Peter L. Rousseau

American Economic Review, May 2013

Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program

By Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten, and Miriam Wüst

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2017

This paper examines the long-run health effects of a universal infant health intervention, the 1937 Danish home visiting program, which targeted all infants. Using administrative population data and exploiting variation in the timing of implementation acr...

Symposium on Federal Deposit Insurance for S&L Institutions

[Symposium: Federal Deposit Insurance]

By Dwight M. Jaffee

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1989

Federal deposit insurance was introduced to eliminate the bank runs of the Great Depression: the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) was created in 1933 to insure commercial bank deposits, and the FSLIC (Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora...

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

By David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, and Kathleen McGarry

American Economic Review, May 2008

Report of the Editor: Macroeconomics

American Economic Review, May 2014

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2009

We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run eff...

The Evolution of Intertemporal Preferences

By Arthur J. Robson and Larry Samuelson

American Economic Review, May 2007

Assessment Practices and Trends in Undergraduate Economics Courses

By Georg Schaur, Michael Watts, and William E. Becker

American Economic Review, May 2008

Classroom Experiments: Is More More?

By Tisha L. N. Emerson and Linda English

American Economic Review, May 2016

Studies have demonstrated that classroom experiments have a positive effect on student achievement in economics courses. Questions remain regarding the appropriate number of experiments. In the current study we attempt to determine whether more intensive ...

Institutions, Innovations, and Growth

By Haizhou Huang and Chenggang Xu

American Economic Review, May 1999

A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks

By Rachel E. Kranton and Deborah F. Minehart

American Economic Review, June 2001

This paper introduces a new model of exchange: networks, rather than markets, of buyers and sellers. It begins with the empirically motivated premise that a buyer and seller must have a relationship, a "link," to exchange goods. Networks--buyers, sellers,...

How to Judge Voting Schemes

[Symposium: Economics of Voting]

By Amartya Sen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

This symposium on voting procedures presents many interesting findings and insights. This note scrutinizes them and discusses two general issues. First, the assumption that voters' preferences are menu-independent (and based on one canonical ordering of t...

A Simple Mechanism for the Efficient Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence

By Josef Falkinger, Ernst Fehr, Simon Gächter, and Rudolf Winter-Ember

American Economic Review, March 2000

Racial Profiling as a Public Policy Question: Efficiency, Equity, and Ambiguity

By Steven N. Durlauf

American Economic Review, May 2005

Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Reply

By Masanori Hashimoto

American Economic Review, March 2001

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law

[Symposium: Intellectual Property]

By Suzanne Scotchmer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1991

Most innovators stand on the shoulders of giants, and never more so than in the current evolution of high technologies, where almost all technical progress builds on a foundation provided by earlier innovators. Most economics literature on patenting and p...

Space: The Final Frontier

[Symposium: Urban Agglomeration]

By Paul Krugman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998

Traditionally, until the early 1990s, spatial economics -- the study of where economic activity takes place and why -- was pretty much neglected. Even now not one of the best-selling introductory textbooks in economics contains a single index entry for "l...

Repo Market Effects of the Term Securities Lending Facility

By Michael J. Fleming, Warren B. Hrung, and Frank M. Keane

American Economic Review, May 2010