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Within-City Variation in Urban Decline: The Case of Detroit

By Veronica Guerrieri, Daniel Hartley, and Erik Hurst

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

When a city experiences a decline in income or population, do all neighborhoods within the city decline equally? Or, do some neighborhoods decline more than others? What are the characteristics of the neighborhoods that decline the most? We answer thes...

Job Loss and the Fraying of the Implicit Employment Contract

[Symposium: Household Risks]

By Kevin F. Hallock

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2009

Most workers have one employment contract that is explicit and another one that is implicit. The explicit employment contract specifies working hours, compensation, and job tasks. The implicit contract involves expectations about the extent to which the e...

Productivity Spillovers across Firms through Worker Mobility

By Andrey Stoyanov and Nikolay Zubanov

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, April 2012

Using matched firm-worker data from Danish manufacturing, we observe firm-to-firm worker movements and find that firms that hired workers from more productive firms experience productivity gains one year after the hiring. The productivity gains associated...

Great Expectations and the End of the Depression

By Gauti B. Eggertsson

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2008

This paper suggests that the US recovery from the Great Depression was driven by a shift in expectations. This shift was caused by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policy actions. On the monetary policy side, Roosevelt abolished the gold standard ...

Transportation Fuels Policy since the OPEC Embargo: Paved with Good Intentions

By Christopher R. Knittel

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

A long line of research investigates whether the retail prices of electricity and natural gas send proper signals about scarcity in order to induce efficient consumption. Historically, regulated utilities have not designed tariffs that set marginal price...

Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa

By Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Gayle Martin, Ezequiel Molina, Brian Stacy, Christophe Rockmore, Jakob Svensson, and Waly Wane

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2017

School enrollment has universally increased over the last 25 years in low-income countries. Enrolling in school, however, does not assure that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries complete their primary education lacking even ...

Course Requirements for Bachelor's Degrees in Economics

By William Bosshardt, Michael Watts, and William E. Becker

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

We conducted a national survey of department Chairs to investigate whether departments of economics changed course requirements for bachelors degrees since the Siegfried and Bidani (1992) paper using 1980 data. There have been few changes to course requir...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2013

Symposium on Consumption Smoothing in Developing Countries

[Symposium: Consumption Smoothing in Developing Countries]

By Anne Case

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1995

This symposium explores how households in low-income countries, even without access to formal credit and insurance markets, find ways to smooth consumption in the face of large shocks to their income. This general area of risk sharing and consumption smoo...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1987

Interest Rates and Inflation

By Fernando Alvarez, Robert E. Lucas, and Warren E. Weber

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2013

Forty Years of Leverage: What Have We Learned about Sovereign Debt?

By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2014

Financial crises frequently increase public sector borrowing and threaten some form of sovereign debt crisis. Until recently, high income countries were thought to have become less vulnerable to severe banking crises that have lasting negative effects on ...

A Theory of Rigid Extremists and Flexible Moderates with an Application to the U.S. Congress

By S. Brock Blomberg and Joseph E. Harrington

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2000

Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: On the Elicitation of Time Preference under Conditions of Risk: Comment

By Stephen L. Cheung

蝌蚪网 Review, July 2015

Andreoni and Sprenger (2012a, b) report evidence that distinct utility functions govern choices under certainty and risk. I investigate the robustness of this result to the experimental design. I find that the effect disappears completely when a multiple ...

Public Disagreement

By Rajiv Sethi and Muhamet Yildiz

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2012

We develop a model of deliberation under heterogeneous beliefs and incomplete information, and use it to explore questions concerning the aggregation of distributed information and the consequences of social integration. We show that when priors are corre...

Diversity and Trade

By Gene M. Grossman and Giovanni Maggi

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2000

We develop a competitive model of trade between countries with similar aggregate factor endowments. The trade pattern reflects differences in the distribution of talent across the labor forces of the two countries. The country with a relatively homogeneou...

Quality Adjustment for Health Care Spending on Chronic Disease: Evidence from Diabetes Treatment, 1999-2009

By Karen N. Eggleston, Nilay D. Shah, Steven A. Smith, Ernst R. Berndt, and Joseph P. Newhouse

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

Although US health care expenditures reached 17.6 percent of GDP in 2009, quality measurement in this important service sector remains limited. Studying quality changes associated with 11 years of health care for patients with diabetes, we find that the v...

Does Mestizaje Matter in the US? Economic Stratification of Mexican Immigrants

By Alberto 顿谩惫颈濒补, Marie T. Mora, and Sue K. Stockly

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

Using data from the 2003 New Immigrant Survey, this paper examines whether stratification as reflected by skin shade exists among newly legalized Mexican immigrants in the US. While we do not find evidence that skin color directly related to employment pr...

U.S. Economic Growth at the Industry Level

By Dale W. Jorgenson and Kevin J. Stiroh

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000