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The Market Evaluation of Criminality: Evidence from the Auction of British Convict Labor in America, 1767-1775

By Farley Grubb

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2001

Land and Racial Wealth Inequality

By Melinda C. Miller

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

Could racial wealth inequality have been reduced if freed slaves had been granted land following the Civil War? This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous variation in policies of the Cherokee Nation and southern United States to identify the impact of fre...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1994

Retrospectives: Animal Spirits

By Roger Koppl

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1991

John Maynard Keynes argued that when the conditions for rational action are not present, people are driven by "animal spirits." This article briefly considers Keynes' argument, and the history of the term.

Eight Reasons Why Real versus Nominal Interest Rates Is the Most Important Concept in Macroeconomics Principles Courses

By Peter E. Kennedy

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?

By Daron Acemoglu, David Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, and Joshua Linn

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2006

The Lack of an Empirical Rationale for a Revival of Discretionary Fiscal Policy

By John B. Taylor

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2009

International Data on Measuring Management Practices

By Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2016

We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and organizational practices. We contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open ended questions" (like the World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (like the MOPS). For this type of data,...

Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution

By Yannis M. Ioannides and Adriaan R. Soetevent

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2006

Have Gender Gaps in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Narrowed under Health Reform? Findings from Massachusetts

By Sharon K. Long, Karen Stockley, and Shanna Shulman

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

Under its health reform legislation, Massachusetts has achieved near universal insurance coverage, along with significant gains in health care access and affordability. This paper examines the impacts of health reform in Massachusetts on differences in co...

Tax Competition When Governments Lack Commitment: Excess Capacity as a Countervailing Threat

By Eckhard Janeba

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2000

Direct Democracy and Public Employees

By John G. Matsusaka

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2009

In the public sector, employment may be inefficiently high because of patronage, and wages may be inefficiently high because of public employee interest groups. This paper explores whether the initiative process, a direct democracy institution of growing ...

Specific Capital and Vintage Effects on the Dynamics of Unemployment and Vacancies

By Burcu Eyigungor

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2010

In a reasonably calibrated Mortensen and Pissarides matching model, shocks to average labor productivity can account for a small portion of the fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies (Shimer (2005)). I add heterogeneity in jobs (matches) with respect ...

Capital Market Integration and Wages

By Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry, and Diego Sasson

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2012

For three years after the typical emerging economy opens its stock market to inflows of foreign capital, the average annual growth rate of the real wage in the manufacturing sector increases by a factor of three. No such increase occurs in a control group...

Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality

By Joni Hersch

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2006

Corrigendum: Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight

By Eric M. Leeper, Alexander W. Richter, and Todd B. Walker

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, August 2012

Diffusion of Information in Medical Care

[Symposium: Health Economics]

By Charles E. Phelps

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1992

This paper presents evidence that doctors behave very differently in making treatment recommendations depending on the region where they work, creating large variations in the quantities of care delivered to seemingly standardized populations. This eviden...

Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers

By Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

The firm is almost entirely absent from models of immigration, and yet firms play a central role for high-skilled immigration. The H-1B visa program, for example, is a firm-sponsored entry where firms are responsible for every stage: from identifying the ...

Boys' Cognitive Skill Formation and Physical Growth: Long-Term Experimental Evidence on Critical Ages for Early Childhood Interventions

By Tania Barham, Karen Macours, and John A. Maluccio

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2013

It is often assumed that early life circumstances, in particular before age two, are important for later human capital development. Using experimental variation in the timing of benefits from a conditional cash transfer program, we test the hypothesis tha...

Correspondence

By Rendigs Fels

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1992

Correspondence and response regarding: An Update on Leontief's Complaint [Academic Economics] [Theory versus Empiricism in Academic Economics: Update and Comparison]. What We Do with Our Heroes [Is Probability Theory Relevant for Uncertainty? A Post...