Technology, Taxation, and Corruption: Evidence from the Introduction of Electronic Tax Filing

By Oyebola Okunogbe and Victor Pouliquen

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2022

Many e-government initiatives introduce technology to improve efficiency and avoid potential human bias. Using experimental variation, we examine the impact of electronic tax filing (to replace in-person submission to tax officials) using data from Tajiki...

The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality

By David Hémous and Morten Olsen

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2022

We build an endogenous growth model with automation (the replacement of low-skill workers with machines) and horizontal innovation (the creation of new products). Over time, the share of automation innovations endogenously increases through an increase in...

Common Ownership in America: 1980–2017

By Matthew Backus, Christopher Conlon, and Michael Sinkinson

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2021

We empirically assess the implications of the common ownership hypothesis from a historical perspective using the set of S&P 500 firms from 1980 to 2017. We show that the dramatic rise in common ownership in the time series is driven primarily by the rise...

Guillermo Calvo, Distinguished Fellow 2023

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Front Matter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

[Symposium: Universal Health Insurance]

By Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of healthcare through publicly-operated facilities. We discuss two rationales for this transition. First, h...

America's Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations

[Symposium: Economics of Mental Health]

By Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Mental illnesses affect roughly 20 percent of the US population. Like other health conditions, mental illnesses impose costs on individuals; they also generate costs that extend to family members and the larger society. Care for mental illnesses has evo...

Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

[Symposium: Economics of Mental Health]

By Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Erin Grela, Madeline McKelway, Frank Schilbach, Garima Sharma, and Girija Vaidyanathan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

We combine data from longitudinal surveys in seven low- and middle-income countries (plus the United States for comparison) to document that depressive symptoms among those aged 55 and above are prevalent in those countries and, unlike in the United State...

An Introductory Guide to Event Study Models

By Douglas L. Miller

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

The event study model is a powerful econometric tool used for the purpose of estimating dynamic treatment effects. One of its most appealing features is that it provides a built-in graphical summary of results, which can reveal rich patterns of behavior. ...

Retrospectives: Edgar Sydenstricker: Household Equivalence Scales and the Causes of Pellagra

By Philip Clarke and Guido Erreygers

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

In the early part of the 20th century the disease pellagra, now almost unknown, affected and killed thousands of people in the United States. Some claimed it was an infection, while others maintained it was due to a dietary deficiency. The economist Edg...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates

[Symposium: Spatial and Urban Economics]

By Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

We study changing trends in within-city sorting by education over the last 40 years. We show that neighborhoods closest to the centers of large US cities rose from having the lowest levels of college attainment in 1980 to the highest in 2017. We discuss t...

Economic Activity across Space: A Supply and Demand Approach

[Symposium: Spatial and Urban Economics]

By Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2023

What do recent advances in economic geography teach us about the spatial distribution of economic activity? We show that the equilibrium distribution of economic activity can be determined simply by the intersection of labor supply and demand curves. We d...