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Why do We Die? Economics, Biology and Aging

By Arthur J. Robson and Hillard S. Kaplan

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2007

Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: San Diego, CA, January 5, 2013

By Peter L. Rousseau

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

Input Trade and the Location of Production

By Ronald Findlay and Ronald W. Jones

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

Social Distance and Other-Regarding Behavior in Dictator Games: Reply

By Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe, and Vernon L. Smith

蝌蚪网 Review, March 1999

The Reaction of Household Consumption to Predictable Changes in Social Security Taxes

By Jonathan A. Parker

蝌蚪网 Review, September 1999

Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

By Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Alex Rees-Jones

蝌蚪网 Review, November 2014

We survey 561 students from U.S. medical schools shortly after they submit choice rankings over residencies to the National Resident Matching Program. We elicit (a) these choice rankings, (b) anticipated subjective well-being (SWB) rankings, and (c) expec...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By David Felix

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment

By Tracy R. Lewis and David E. M. Sappington

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2001

Using Artefactual Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies

By Maarten Voors, Erwin Bulte, Andreas Kontoleon, John A. List, and Ty Turley

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

We implement a public goods game and a social intervention modeled after a public goods game in rural Sierra Leone near the Gola Forest Reserve. We also collect demographic, economic and forest conservation data on households in the area. We use this data...

Disentangling the Effects of Health Reform in Massachusetts: How Important Are the Special Provisions for Young Adults?

By Sharon K. Long, Alshadye Yemane, and Karen Stockley

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2010

Policy Watch: The Introduction of Indexed Government Debt in the United States

By David W. Wilcox

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1998

This article describes the early phases of the development of the market for indexed government debt in the United States. The first such bonds were issued in 1997--one set with a maturity of ten years, the other with a maturity of five years. In the wake...

Panel Discussion

By Martin Feldstein, Mervyn King, and Janet L. Yellen

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2004

Portfolio Claustrophobia: Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets

By Francis A. Longstaff

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2009

Many classes of assets are illiquid or nonmarketable in that they cannot always be traded immediately. Thus, a portfolio position in these becomes at least temporarily irreversible. We study the asset-pricing implications of this type of illiquidity in...

Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach

By Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian K. Kovak

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2015

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Bra...

Retrospectives: Schumpeter, David Wells, and Creative Destruction

By Michael Perelman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1995

Joseph A. Schumpeter's celebrated theory of creative destruction was anticipated by David Wells's Recent Economic Changes (1989). In some respects, Wells's treatment is superior to that of Schumpeter. Unlike Schumpeter, who believed that monopolistic comp...

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

[Symposium: Field Experiments]

By David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, and Ulrike Malmendier

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2011

We classify all published field experiments in five top economics journals from 1975 to 2010 according to how closely the experimental design and analysis are linked to economic theory. We find that the vast majority of field experiments (68 percent) are ...

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data

By Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2005

Symposium on the Economics of Liability

[Symposium: The Economics of Liability]

By Carl Shapiro

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1991

Has the U.S. liability system run amok? Many commentators feel it has, as do many executives who feel that the liability "tax" discourages innovation and ultimately fails to promote safety. On the other hand, economists have ceaselessly pointed out that w...

How Effective Is Green Regulatory Threat?

By Werner Antweiler

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2003

How General Are Risk Preferences? Choices under Uncertainty in Different Domains

By Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Iuliana Pascu, and Mark R. Cullen

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2012

We analyze the extent to which individuals' choices over five employer-provided insurance coverage decisions and one 401(k) investment decision exhibit systematic patterns, as would be implied by a general utility component of risk preferences. We provide...