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The Determinants of Mortality

[Symposium: Disease and Development]

By David Cutler, Angus Deaton, and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2006

The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was accompanied by a historically unprecedented decline in mortality...

Retrospectives: The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression

By Jeff Biddle

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2012

At the 1927 meetings of the 蝌蚪网, Paul Douglas presented a paper entitled "A Theory of Production," which he had coauthored with Charles Cobb. The paper proposed the now familiar Cobb-Douglas function as a mathematical representat...

Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

By Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F. P. Luttmer, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2009

Social Ideology and Taxes in a Differentiated Candidates Framework

By Stefan Krasa and Mattias Polborn

蝌蚪网 Review, January 2014

Many observers argue that political polarization, particularly on social and cultural issues, has increased in the United States. How does this influence the political competition on economic issues? We analyze this question using a framework in which ...

The Trade-Offs of Welfare Policies in Labor Markets with Informal Jobs: The Case of the "Seguro Popular" Program in Mexico

By Mariano Bosch and Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2014

In 2002, the Mexican government began an effort to improve health access to the 50 million uninsured in Mexico, a program known as Seguro Popular (SP). The SP offered virtually free health insurance to informal workers, altering the incentives to opera...

What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results

By Omar Al-Ubaydli, John A. List, and Dana L. Suskind

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2017

Policymakers often consider interventions at the scale of the population, or some other large scale. One of the sources of information about the potential effects of such interventions is experimental studies conducted at a significantly smaller scale. A ...

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By Peter Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2010

This paper, written by the members of the 蝌蚪网 (蝌蚪网) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the 蝌蚪网 in the market and focuses in particular on two ...

Limited Attention and Income Distribution

By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Sendhil Mullainathan

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Spontaneous Discrimination

By Marcin 笔臋蝉办颈 and 叠补濒谩锄蝉 Szentes

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2013

We consider a dynamic economy in which agents are repeatedly matched and decide whether or not to form profitable partnerships. Each agent has a physical color and a social color. An agent's social color acts as a signal, conveying information about th...

Reciprocity in Groups and the Limits to Social Capital

By Francis Bloch, Garance Genicot, and Debraj Ray

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2007

On the Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand

By Peter N. Ireland

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2009

Post-1980 US data trace out a stable long-run money demand relationship of Cagan's semi-log form between the M1-income ratio and the nominal interest rate, with an interest semielasticity below 2. Integrating under this money demand curve yields estimates...

Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City

By Erica Field, Matthew Levinson, Rohini Pande, and Sujata Visaria

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Fraudulent Claims and Nitpicky Insurers

By Jean-Marc Bourgeon and Pierre Picard

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2014

Insurers have the reputation of being bad payers who nitpick when- ever an opportunity arises. However, this nitpicking activity has a positive impact on their auditing strategy since auditing may prove profitable when claims are not fraudulent. We show t...

Using Engel's Law to Estimate CPI Bias

By Bruce W. Hamilton

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2001

Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross Section of Countries

By Alberto Alesina and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

蝌蚪网 Review, August 2011

We provide a new compilation of data on ethnic, linguistic, and religious composition at the subnational level for a large number of countries. Using these data, we measure segregation of groups within the country. To overcome the endogeneity problem that...

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

[Symposium: Entrepreneurship]

By William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2014

Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about the fundamental nature of entrepreneurship still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation; the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until...

Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and the Financial Crisis: A New Monetarist Approach

By Stephen D. Williamson

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2012

A model of public and private liquidity integrates financial intermediation theory with a New Monetarist monetary framework. Non-passive fiscal policy and costs of operating a currency system imply that an optimal policy deviates from the Friedman rule. ...

Anomalies: Parimutuel Betting Markets: Racetracks and Lotteries

By Richard H. Thaler and William T. Ziemba

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1988

Economists have given great attention to stock markets in their efforts to test the concepts of market efficiency and rationality. Yet wagering markets are, in one key respect, better suited for testing market efficiency and rationality. The advantage of ...

Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

By Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and John Bailey Jones

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2009

Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2015

By Thomas Piketty and Nancy Qian

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2009

This paper evaluates income tax reforms in China and India. The combination of fast income growth and under-indexed tax schedule in China implies the fraction of the Chinese population subject to income tax has increased from less than 0.1 percent in 1...