Front Matter
(pp. i–xv)
AEA Papers and Proceedings
ISSN 2574-0768 (Print) | ISSN 2574-0776 (Online)
Vol. 108, May 2018
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Foreword
(p. xii)
Editors' Introduction
(p. xiii)
Private Paternalism, the Commitment Puzzle, and Model-Free Equilibrium
(pp. 1–21)
Algorithmic Fairness
(pp. 22–27)
Welfarism's Envy Problem Extends to Popular Judgments
(pp. 28–32)
Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy
(pp. 33–37)
Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving beyond "Free"
(pp. 38–42)
What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy?
(pp. 43–47)
Modeling Automation
(pp. 48–53)
A Method to Link Advances in Artificial Intelligence to Occupational Abilities
(pp. 54–57)
Human Judgment and AI Pricing
(pp. 58–63)
Estimating Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences for Restaurants and Travel Time Using Mobile Location Data
(pp. 64–67)
The Potential of Digital Credit to Bank the Poor
(pp. 68–71)
Estimating Economic Characteristics with Phone Data
(pp. 72–76)
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
(pp. 77–82)
Misperceptions about Tax Audits
(pp. 83–87)
Ramsey Strikes Back: Optimal Commodity Tax and Redistribution in the Presence of Salience Effects
(pp. 88–92)
Can Information Change Personal Retirement Savings? Evidence from Social Security Benefits Statement Mailings
(pp. 93–97)
Rationalizations and Mistakes: Optimal Policy with Normative Ambiguity
(pp. 98–102)
The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth
(pp. 103–08)
From Communism to Capitalism: Private versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia
(pp. 109–13)
Applying Generalized Pareto Curves to Inequality Analysis
(pp. 114–18)
Extreme Inequality: Evidence from Brazil, India, the Middle East, and South Africa
(pp. 119–23)
Challenges in the Measurement of Leakage Risk
(pp. 124–29)
How Trade Sensitive Are Energy-Intensive Sectors?
(pp. 130–35)
Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy
(pp. 136–42)
Is Altruism Sensitive to Scope? The Role of Tangibility
(pp. 143–47)
Mental Budgeting versus Relative Thinking
(pp. 148–52)
When Nudges Are Forever: Inertia in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan
(pp. 153–58)
Cross-Country Differences in Household Stock Market Participation: The Role of Gender Norms
(pp. 159–62)
Gender Norms and Relative Working Hours: Why Do Women Suffer More Than Men from Working Longer Hours Than Their Partners?
(pp. 163–68)
The Language of Discrimination: Using Experimental versus Observational Data
(pp. 169–74)
Gendered Language on the Economics Job Market Rumors Forum
(pp. 175–79)
Representations of Men and Women in Introductory Economics Textbooks
(pp. 180–85)
What Can UWE Do for Economics?
(pp. 186–90)
A Dialogue between a Populist and an Economist
(pp. 191–95)
Is Populism Necessarily Bad Economics?
(pp. 196–99)
Economic Drivers of Populism
(pp. 200–203)
Studying the (Economic) Consequences of Populism
(pp. 204–07)
On the Returns to Invention within Firms: Evidence from Finland
(pp. 208–12)
Local Violence, Academic Performance, and School Accountability
(pp. 213–16)
Racial Differences in Police Use of Force: Evidence from the 1960s Civil Disturbances
(pp. 217–21)
Last Place? The Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Biomedical Authorship
(pp. 222–27)
Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings
(pp. 228–33)
Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
(pp. 234–40)
Racial and Ethnic Sentencing Differentials in the Federal Criminal Justice System
(pp. 241–45)
Participating or Not? Characteristics of Female Entrepreneurs Participating in and Completing an Entrepreneurial Training Program
(pp. 246–51)
Mind The (Profit) Gap: Why Are Female Enterprise Owners Earning Less Than Men?
(pp. 252–55)
Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo
(pp. 256–61)
Disability Saliency and Discrimination in Hiring
(pp. 262–66)
The Effect of the Disability Insurance Application Decision on the Employment of Denied Applicants
(pp. 267–71)
Return-to-Work Policies and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs
(pp. 272–76)
Income Volatility and the PSID: Past Research and New Results
(pp. 277–80)
Nonlinear Persistence and Partial Insurance: Income and Consumption Dynamics in the PSID
(pp. 281–86)
New Evidence on Earnings Volatility in Survey and Administrative Data
(pp. 287–91)
On the Heterogeneity in Family Earnings and Income Dynamics in the PSID
(pp. 292–96)
Beyond the Flipped Class: The Impact of Research-Based Teaching Methods in a Macroeconomics Principles Class
(pp. 297–301)
From "Traditional" to Research-Based Instructional Strategies: An Assessment of Learning Gains
(pp. 302–06)
Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trials in Education
(pp. 307–11)
A New Look at Lake Wobegone: Who's in Your Canoe?
(pp. 312–16)
The Disappearing Large-Firm Wage Premium
(pp. 317–22)
A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium
(pp. 323–27)
The Productivity-Wage Premium: Does Size Still Matter in a Service Economy?
(pp. 328–33)
What Matters for the Productivity of Kidney Exchange?
(pp. 334–40)
Dynamic Incentives in Wait List Mechanisms
(pp. 341–47)
Dynamics of Child Mortality Inequality
(pp. 348–52)
Cousin Marriage Is Not Choice: Muslim Marriage and Underdevelopment
(pp. 353–57)
Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries
(pp. 358–62)
Male Social Status and Women's Work
(pp. 363–67)
Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements
(pp. 368–72)
The Effect of Parental Education on Children's Drug and Alcohol Use
(pp. 373–78)
The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States
(pp. 379–83)
Elasticity of Medicaid Access with Respect to State Financial Distress
(pp. 384–87)
Trends and Disparities in Leave Use under California's Paid Family Leave Program: New Evidence from Administrative Data
(pp. 388–91)
Gender Peer Effects in a Predominantly Male Environment: Evidence from West Point
(pp. 392–95)
Time and Money: Social Security Benefits and Intergenerational Transfers
(pp. 396–400)
In Debt and Approaching Retirement: Claim Social Security or Work Longer?
(pp. 401–06)
The Changing Face of Debt and Financial Fragility at Older Ages
(pp. 407–11)
The Price of Labor: Evaluating the Impact of Eliminating User Fees on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes
(pp. 412–15)
Indoor Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: A New Approach
(pp. 416–21)
Short-Term Impacts of a Pay-It-Forward Livestock Transfer and Training Program in Nepal
(pp. 422–25)
Intangibles, Investment, and Efficiency
(pp. 426–31)
Ownership, Concentration, and Investment
(pp. 432–37)
Workplace Signaling and Financial Commitment: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(pp. 438–43)
Digital Financial Services Go a Long Way: Transaction Costs and Financial Inclusion
(pp. 444–48)
Salary Delays and Overdrafts in Rural Ghana
(pp. 449–52)
Carbon Pricing Induces Innovation: Evidence from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots
(pp. 453–57)
China's Rate-Based Approach to Reducing CO2 Emissions: Attractions, Limitations, and Alternatives
(pp. 458–62)
China's New National Carbon Market
(pp. 463–67)
Institutions and Emissions Trading in China
(pp. 468–72)
Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction
(pp. 473–76)
The Empirics of Social Progress: The Interplay between Subjective Well-Being and Societal Performance
(pp. 477–82)
Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption across Countries
(pp. 483–87)
Internet Rising, Prices Falling: Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
(pp. 488–92)
Reach for Yield and Fickle Capital Flows
(pp. 493–98)
Global Financial Cycles and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Perspective from Emerging Markets
(pp. 499–504)
Optimal Payment Areas or Optimal Currency Areas?
(pp. 505–08)
Financial Cycles and Credit Growth across Countries
(pp. 509–12)
The Effects of Tax Changes at the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan
(pp. 513–18)
Unconventional Fiscal Policy
(pp. 519–23)
What Do We Know about the Effects of Austerity?
(pp. 524–30)
Exchange Rates and the Working Capital Channel of Trade Fluctuations
(pp. 531–36)
Foreign Safe Asset Demand for US Treasurys and the Dollar
(pp. 537–41)
Trade Invoicing, Bank Funding, and Central Bank Reserve Holdings
(pp. 542–46)
The Welfare Consequences of Income-Induced Expenditure Switching
(pp. 547–51)
Wealth Redistribution after Exchange Rate Devaluations
(pp. 552–56)
What Is the Impact of Food Stamps on Prices and Products Variety? The Importance of the Supply Response
(pp. 557–61)
The Geographic Spread of a Large Devaluation
(pp. 562–66)
Through a Crystal Ball Darkly: The Future of Monetary Policy Communication
(pp. 567–71)
Central Bank Forward Guidance and the Signal Value of Market Prices
(pp. 572–77)
Central Bank Communications and the General Public
(pp. 578–83)
The "Standard Error" of Event Studies: Lessons from the 2016 Election
(pp. 584–89)
Unequal Rewards to Firms: Stock Market Responses to the Trump Election and the 2017 Corporate Tax Reform
(pp. 590–96)
Economic Expectations, Voting, and Economic Decisions around Elections
(pp. 597–602)
Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2018
(pp. 605–07)
Report of the Secretary
(pp. 608–11)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 612–15)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 616–18)
List of Online Reports
(p. 619)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 14, 2017
(pp. 621–27)
Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Philadelphia, PA, January 4, 2018
(pp. 628–35)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 636–51)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review: Insights
(pp. 652–53)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 654–56)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 657–59)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 660–67)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 668–76)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 677–85)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 686–93)
Report: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 694–96)
Report: Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 697–703)
Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP)
(pp. 704–21)
Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP)
(pp. 722–35)
Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat)
(pp. 736–38)
Report: Committee on Government Relations
(pp. 739–41)
Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the AEJ: Macroeconomics
(p. 742)
Report by Committee to Appoint the Lead Editor to AER: Insights
(pp. 743–44)
Report of the Search Committee to Appoint a Data Editor for the AEA
(p. 745)