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Theories of the Mind

By Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1989

The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy

By Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1993

Recent developments in microeconomic theory have shown that the self-interested behavior underlying neoclassical theory is artificially truncated: it depicts a charmingly Victorian but Utopian world in which conflicts abound but a handshake is a handshake...

The Economics of Online Crime

[Symposium: Internet Economics]

By Tyler Moore, Richard Clayton, and Ross Anderson

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2009

This paper will focus on online crime, which has taken off as a serious industry since about 2004. Until then, much of the online nuisance came from amateur hackers who defaced websites and wrote malicious software in pursuit of bragging rights. But now c...

Labor-Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap: 1940-1990

By Amitabh Chandra

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict

By Sandeep Baliga and Tomas 厂箩枚蝉迟谤枚尘

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2012

Two players choose hawkish or dovish actions in a conflict game with incomplete information. An "extremist," who can either be a hawk or a dove, attempts to manipulate decision making. If actions are strategic complements, a hawkish extremist increases th...

A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation, and Debt

By Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2008

This paper presents a political economy theory of fiscal policy. Policy choices are made by a legislature that can raise revenues via an income tax and by borrowing. Revenues can be used to finance a public good, whose value is stochastic, and pork-bar...

Optimal Project Selection Mechanisms

By Talia Bar and Sidartha Gordon

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

We study mechanisms for selecting up to m out of n projects. Project managers' private information on quality is elicited through transfers. Under limited liability, the optimal mechanism selects projects that maximize some function of the project's obser...

Data Watch: Research Data in the Economics of Education

By Thomas S. Dee, William N. Evans, and Sheila E. Murray

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

One reason for the recent proliferation of empirical studies addressing the role of education in promoting individual and social welfare has been the emergence of high-quality, micro-level data on education. In this paper, we discuss three broad types of ...

The Diffusion of Energy Efficiency in Building

By Nils Kok, Marquise McGraw, and John M. Quigley

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

We analyze the diffusion of buildings certified for energy efficiency across US property markets. Using a panel of 48 metropolitan areas (MSAs) observed over the last 15 years, we model the geographic patterns and dynamics of building certification, relat...

Fear of Flying? Economic Analysis of Airline Safety

[Symposium: Airline Deregulation]

By Nancy L. Rose

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1992

The safety of the commercial airline industry has attracted considerable attention in the wake of airline deregulation, amid growing concerns that the historical superiority of U.S. jet carriers' safety records may have been linked to economic regulation ...

The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk

[Symposium: Household Risks]

By Jonathan Gruber and Helen Levy

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2009

How has the economic risk of health spending changed over time for U.S. households? We describe trends in aggregate health spending in the United States and how private insurance markets and public insurance programs have changed over time. We then presen...

Pay for Percentile

By Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

蝌蚪网 Review, August 2012

We propose an incentive scheme for educators that links compensation to the ranks of their students within comparison sets. Under certain conditions, this scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort. Moreover, because this scheme...

The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain

By Janet Currie, Stefano DellaVigna, Enrico Moretti, and Vikram Pathania

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, August 2010

We investigate how changes in the supply of fast food restaurants affect weight outcomes of 3 million children and 3 million pregnant women. Among ninth graders, a fast food restaurant within 0.1 miles of a school results in a 5.2 percent increase in obes...

Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market

By Andrew B. Abel, Janice C. Eberly, and Stavros Panageas

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2007

Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families

By Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2008

We investigate well-being changes for single mother headed families targeted by recent tax and welfare reforms. Measured income changes sharply differ from consumption changes. We examine disaggregated consumption, time use, and health insurance coverage....

In Defense of the NSF Economics Program

[Symposium: NSF Funding for Economists]

By Robert A. Moffitt

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2016

The NSF Economics program funds basic research in economics across all its disparate fields. Its budget has experienced a long period of stagnation and decline, with its real value in 2013 below that in 1980 and having declined by 50 percent as a percent ...

Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Corrigendum (Mortality Rate Update)

By Nicholas Z. Muller and Robert Mendelsohn

蝌蚪网 Review, February 2012

Profits in the "New Trade" Approach to Trade Negotiations

By Ralph Ossa

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

I highlight two advantages of adopting a "new trade" approach to trade negotiations. First, it allows for a view of trade negotiations in which producer interests play a prominent role. And second, it lends itself naturally to quantitative analyses of non...

Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates

By Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2009