Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2008

Symposium on New Institutions for Developing Country Debt

[Symposium: New Institutions for Developing Country Debt]

By Kenneth Rogoff

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1990

Kenneth Rogoff provides a brief synopsis of the developing country debt problem.

Report: Committee on Government Relations

By Jonathan Skinner

American Economic Review, May 2016

Asymmetric Contests with Head Starts and Nonmonotonic Costs

By Ron Siegel

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

This paper studies equilibrium behavior in a class of games that models asymmetric multiprize competitions in which players' costs need not be strictly increasing in their performance. Such costs accommodate various types of asymmetries, including head st...

The Reasons for CSWEP

By Carolyn Shaw Bell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1998

Both overt and covert instances of less than equal treatment for women and men were taken for granted until the so-called 'women's movement' of the l960s, of which CSWEP was a part. 'Economics is a man's field' summarizes the environment in the profession...

Getting the 21st-Century GDP Right: What's Underway?

By Brent R. Moulton

American Economic Review, May 2000

Privatization Is Transition--Or Is It?

[Symposium: Transition from Socialism]

By Josef C. Brada

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1996

Various means of creating a private sector have been used in transition economies, including restitution, privatization of state firms through sales or voucher schemes, and start-ups of new private firms. The privatization of state-owned firms raises ques...

Messaging and the Mandate: The Impact of Consumer Experience on Health Insurance Enrollment through Exchanges

By Natalie Cox, Benjamin Handel, Jonathan Kolstad, and Neale Mahoney

American Economic Review, May 2015

The ability of web-based retailers to learn about and provide targeted consumer experiences is touted as an important distinction from traditional retailers. In principal, web-based insurance exchanges could benefit from these advantages. Using data from ...

Missing Import Price Changes and Low Exchange Rate Pass-Through

By Etienne Gagnon, Benjamin R. Mandel, and Robert J. Vigfusson

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2014

A large body of empirical work has found that exchange rate movements have only modest effects on U.S. inflation. However, exchange rate pass-through may be underestimated because some price changes are missed when constructing price indexes. We invest...

Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers

By Michael R. Ransom and Val E. Lambson

American Economic Review, May 2011

We examine the sex differences in the pay of school teachers in Missouri. In Missouri school districts, pay is determined by a salary schedule that maps teaching experience and education level of an individual to a salary level. In spite of this apparentl...

Agglomeration of Invention in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT

By Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein

American Economic Review, May 2016

We document that the Bay Area rose from 4% of all successful US patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to informa...

Stop the Clock Policies and Career Success in Academia

By Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Lisa M. Leslie, and Amit Kramer

American Economic Review, May 2010

The Administrative Foundations of Self-Enforcing Constitutions

By Yadira Gonzalez de Lara, Avner Greif, and Saumitra Jha

American Economic Review, May 2008

The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes: The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya

By Markus Goldstein, Joshua Graff Zivin, James Habyarimana, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Harsha Thirumurthy

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2013

We show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse's attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital. Furthermore, women with high pretest expectations of be...

Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor

By Grant Miller, Diana Pinto, and Marcos Vera-Hernández

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2013

Unexpected medical care spending imposes considerable financial risk on developing country households. Based on managed care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance program target...

Front Matter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

The Productivity Slowdown, the Oil Shocks, and the Real Cycle

[Symposium: The Slowdown in Productivity Growth]

By Mancur Olson

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1988

Five facts stand out about economic performance in the United States since World War II. The first is that, for most of the postwar period, the U.S. has had a slower rate of economic growth than the other major developed democracies except Great Britain, ...

Inflation and Price Adjustments: Micro Evidence from Norwegian Consumer Prices 1975-2004

By Fredrik Wulfsberg

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2016

This is the first paper documenting the frequency and size of price adjustments using micro data from both the high-inflation period in the 1970s and 1980s, and the period of low inflation since the early 1990s. When inflation is high and volatile, prices...

The Journal of Economic Perspectives at 100 (Issues)

[Symposium: 100 Issues of JEP]

By David Autor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2012

When I was a graduate student, I discovered that the Journal of Economic Perspectives embodied much of what I love about the field of economics: the clarity that pierces rhetoric to seek the core of a question; the rigor to identify the causal re...

2017 in Research Highlights

[Research Highlight]

December 13, 2017

Economists tackled gender issues, education, globalization, and more.