How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax-Base Restrictions

By Antonio Rangel

American Economic Review, March 2005

This paper studies how to protect future generations from expropriation and to induce optimal investment in intergenerational public goods (IPGs), by introducing constitutional restrictions on the tax base. The type of tax-base restrictions that we consid...

Complementarities between Outsourcing and Foreign Sourcing

By Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, and Adam Szeidl

American Economic Review, May 2005

Property Rights and the International Organization of Production

By Pol Antràs

American Economic Review, May 2005

Foreign Direct Investment and the Domestic Capital Stock

By Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr.

American Economic Review, May 2005

Federalism and the Democratic Transition: Lessons from South Africa

By Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

American Economic Review, May 2005

The Labor-Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration

By George J. Borjas

American Economic Review, May 2005

Fellowship Stipend Support and the Supply of Science and Engineering Students: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

By Richard B. Freeman

American Economic Review, May 2005

Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?

By Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Elena Rouse

American Economic Review, May 2005

Tax-Transfer Policy and Labor-Market Outcomes

By Nada Eissa and Austin Nichols

American Economic Review, May 2005

Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination

By Rebecca M. Blank

American Economic Review, May 2005

"Dysfunctional Identities" Can Be Rational

By Hanming Fang and Glenn C. Loury

American Economic Review, May 2005

Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination and Occupational Attainment

By Joseph G. Altonji

American Economic Review, May 2005

Learning and Statistical Discrimination

By Lawrence E. Blume

American Economic Review, May 2005

Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses

By Robert H. Frank

American Economic Review, May 2005

Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age

By Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi

American Economic Review, May 2005

Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others?

By Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway

American Economic Review, May 2005

Do Faculty Serve as Role Models? The Impact of Instructor Gender on Female Students

By Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long

American Economic Review, May 2005

Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students

By Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff

American Economic Review, May 2005

Views of Teaching and Research in Economics and Other Disciplines

By William B. Walstad and Sam Allgood

American Economic Review, May 2005

Vanishing Children: From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Developed Countries

By Alicia Adsera

American Economic Review, May 2005