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Telling Better Stories in Introductory Macro

By David Colander

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

The Continuous Combinatorial Auction Architecture

By Charles R. Plott, Hsing-Yang Lee, and Travis Maron

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2014

The paper reports the architecture of a continuous combinatorial auction. Preferences are based on sets of items and feasibility requires the nonintersection of sets. Countdown clocks replace eligibility and activity requirements typical of rounds-based a...

The Changing Distributions of New Ph.D. Economists and Their Employment: Implications for the Future

By Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

This essay addressed the changing demographic composition of new Ph.D.s in economics and the changing distribution of the jobs that they are obtaining. It discusses how future trends may interact to influence the types of training that economists may prov...

Correspondence

By Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1993

The Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions

By Suresh Naidu, Sung-Ha Hwang, and Samuel Bowles

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2017

Motivated by historical examples and ideas from socio-linguistics, in particular the "non-reciprocal power semantic" of Brown and Gilman (1960), we extend evolutionary models of language to incorporate intentional linguistic innovations among conventions ...

Symposium on Public and Private Unionization

[Symposium: Explaining Savings]

By Edward P. Lazear

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1988

Understanding the source of the decline of private sector unions and concomitant rise of public sectors unions is essential. Without that knowledge, the welfare effects of the changes cannot be ascertained. The two essays that follow take us a long way do...

Owner-Occupied Housing: Life-Cycle Implications for the Household Portfolio

By Marjorie Flavin and Takashi Yamashita

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

The paper constructs a model of optimal portfolio allocation incorporating the role of housing as collateral. Current house value is a state variable in the portfolio decision due to a nonconvex adjustment cost. Holding risk aversion constant, the percent...

Business Fixed Investment and "Bubbles": The Japanese Case

By Robert S. Chirinko and Huntley Schaller

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2001

Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health: Evidence from Scale-Up in Zambia

By Adrienne M. Lucas and Nicholas L. Wilson

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

One in five Zambian children lives with an HIV/AIDS-infected adult. We estimate the effect that the availability of adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) has on the health of such children. Using a triple difference specification, we find that adult access t...

The Effects of School Calendar Type on Maternal Employment across Racial Groups: A Story of Child Care Availability

By Jennifer Graves

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

This paper presents evidence that school districts' use of an alternative academic calendar, the year-round school calendar, results in a reduction in maternal employment for women with school-aged children that varies in magnitude across racial groups. N...

An Asset Allocation Puzzle: Comment

By Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, James V. Jordan, and Roland Portait

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2001

Betrayal Aversion: Evidence from Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States

By Iris Bohnet, Fiona Greig, Benedikt Herrmann, and Richard Zeckhauser

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2008

Due to betrayal aversion, people take risks less willingly when the agent of uncertainty is another person rather than nature. Individuals in six countries (Brazil, China, Oman, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States) confronted a binary-choice tru...

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors

By Sara Markowitz, Robert Kaestner, and Michael Grossman

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2005

Heterogeneous Beliefs, Wealth Distribution, and Asset Markets with Risk of Default

By Viktor Tsyrennikov

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

We study asset markets and wealth dynamics in the economy with heterogeneous beliefs and risk of default. Agents can trade a full set of Arrow securities but are allowed to default on their delivery promises. Financial markets rationally subject agents to...

The Value of Groups

By Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel John Zizzo

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2009

We present the results of an experiment that attempts to measure the social value of groups. In the experiment, group membership is induced artificially: subjects interact with insiders and outsiders in trust games and periodically enter markets where ...

In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno

By Joshua D. Angrist, Erich Battistin, and Daniela Vuri

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, October 2017

Instrumental variables (IV) estimates show strong class-size effects in Southern Italy. But Italy's Mezzogiorno is distinguished by manipulation of standardized test scores as well as by economic disadvantage. IV estimates suggest small classes increase m...

Political Credit Cycles: The Case of the Eurozone

[Symposium: The Euro]

By 闯别蝉煤蝉 贵别谤苍谩苍诲别锄-痴颈濒濒补惫别谤诲别, Luis Garicano, and Tano Santos

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2013

We study the mechanisms through which the entry into the euro delayed, rather than advanced, key economic reforms in the eurozone periphery and led to the deterioration of important institutions in these countries. We show that the abandonment of the re...

Putting Firms into Optimal Tax Theory

By Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2006

Correspondence

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1996

The Role of Human Capital in Earnings Differences between Black and White Men

[Symposium: The Economic Status of African-Americans]

By June O'Neill

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1990

This article examines the factors underlying the differential in earnings between black men and white men, with a focus on the role of human capital. Since 1940, successive generations of black men entering the labor force have been increasingly more educ...