Policy Watch: Designing an Effective Investment Tax Credit

By Laurence H. Meyer, Joel L. Prakken, and Chris P. Varvares

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1993

The investment tax credit (ITC) allows firms to reduce their tax liability by an amount related to their expenditures on equipment, and thus reduces the cost of acquiring capital. An investment tax credit can be introduced temporarily to stimulate investm...

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American Economic Review, April 2012

Front Matter includes photograph of Orley Ashenfelter as part of a series of photographs of past presidents of the Association.

Covering the Uninsured in the United States

By Jonathan Gruber

Journal of Economic Literature, September 2008

One of the major social policy issues facing the United States in the first decade of the twenty-first century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured. I rev...

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American Economic Review, August 2015

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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2013

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Journal of Economic Literature, December 2006

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1990

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives

By David Autor

American Economic Review, May 2010

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2014

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2011

Correspondence

By John Komlos

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1988

Correspondence regarding: Is Free Trade Passe? The Making of an Economist

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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2011

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Philadelphia, PA, January 2, 2014

American Economic Review, May 2014

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Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1992

Correspondence: Should Class Attendance Be Mandatory?

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1994

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Journal of Economic Literature, March 2013

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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2009

Correspondence

By Richard Brooks, Susan Helper, Patrick Bolton, David S. Scharfstein, Andrew Kamarck, Peter R. Orszag, Coleman Bazelon, and Kent Smetters

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2000

Latin America's Social Policy Challenge: Education, Social Insurance, Redistribution

By Santiago Levy and Norbert Schady

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2013

Long regarded as a region beset by macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and excessive poverty and inequality, Latin America has undergone a major transformation over the last 20 years. The region has seen improved macroeconomic management and substa...

Binary Response Models: Logits, Probits and Semiparametrics

[Symposium: Econometric Tools]

By Joel L. Horowitz and N. E. Savin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2001

A binary-response model is a mean-regression model in which the dependent variable takes only the values zero and one. This paper describes and illustrates the estimation of logit and probit binary-response models. The linear probability model is also dis...