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Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation

By Peter Blair Henry

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2007

Research on the macroeconomic impact of capital account liberalization finds few, if any, robust effects of liberalization on real variables. In contrast to the prevailing wisdom, I argue that the textbook theory of liberalization holds up quite well to...

Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms

By Elhanan Helpman, Marc J. Melitz, and Stephen R. Yeaple

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2004

Zeros, Quality, and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

By Richard Baldwin and James Harrigan

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, May 2011

Bilateral, product-level data exhibit a number of strong patterns that can be used to evaluate international trade theories, notably the spatial incidence of "export zeros" (correlated with distance and importer size), and of export unit values (positivel...

Retrospectives: Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era

By Thomas C. Leonard

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2005

During the Progressive Era, eugenic approaches to social and economic reform were popular, respectable and widespread. This essay documents the influence of eugenic ideas upon American economic reform, especially in the areas of immigration and labor refo...

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

By Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller, and David Simon

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, February 2015

This paper uses quasi-experimental variation from federal tax reform to evaluate the effect of the EITC on infant health outcomes. We find that the EITC reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight: a $1,000 treatment-on-the-t...

Long-Term Educational Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia

By Joshua Angrist, Eric Bettinger, and Michael Kremer

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2006

Colombia's PACES program provided over 125,000 poor children with vouchers that covered the cost of private secondary school. The vouchers were renewable annually conditional on adequate academic progress. Since many vouchers were assigned by lottery, pro...

The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply

By Eric French and Jae Song

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, May 2014

This paper exploits the effectively random assignment of judges to Disability Insurance cases to estimate the causal impact of Disability Insurance receipt on labor supply. We find that benefit receipt reduces labor force participation by 26 percentage...

Stability and Strategy-Proofness for Matching with Constraints: A Problem in the Japanese Medical Match and Its Solution

By Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2012

Real matching markets are subject to constraints. For example, the Japanese government introduced a new medical matching system in 2009 that imposes a "regional cap" in each of its 47 prefectures, which regulates the total number of medical residents who ...

Understanding PPPs and PPP-Based National Accounts: Comment

By Martin Ravallion

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2010

The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment

By Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2012

We document a negative correlation, at business cycle frequencies, between the net job creation rate of large employers and the level of aggregate unemployment that is much stronger than for small employers. The differential growth rate of employment betw...

The Home-Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns

By Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2004

We develop a monopolistic-competition model of trade with many industries to examine how home-market effects vary with industry characteristics. Industries with high transport costs and more differentiated products tend to be more concentrated in large co...

Markets: Beer in Germany and the United States

By William James Adams

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2006

Between 1950 and 2000, the four-firm producer-concentration ratio for beer increased from 22 to 95 in the United States; and Anheuser-Busch's share of domestic output ballooned from 6 to 54 percent. In Germany, concentration has risen, but it remains low....

Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By Adriaan R. Soetevent

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, February 2011

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitable giving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment. Respondents can donate cash only, use debit only, or have both options. Cash donations have lower visibility vis-à-vis solicit...

The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

By Tarek A. Hassan and Thomas M. Mertens

蝌蚪网 Review, April 2017

We show that the stock market may fail to aggregate information even if it appears to be efficient, and that the resulting decrease in the information content of prices may drastically reduce welfare. We solve a macroeconomic model in which information ab...

A Theory of Military Dictatorships

By Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2010

We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. The elite may build a strong military and make the concessions necessary for the military to behave as their perfect agent, or t...

Immigration and Inequality

By David Card

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2009

Federal Budget Policy with an Aging Population and Persistently Low Interest Rates

By Douglas W. Elmendorf and Louise M. Sheiner

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2017

Some observers have argued that the projections for high and rising debt pose a grave threat to the country's economic future and give the government less fiscal space to respond to recessions or other unexpected developments, so they urge significant cha...

Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility

By Raquel 贵别谤苍谩苍诲别锄 and Alessandra Fogli

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2009

We study culture by examining the work and fertility behavior of second-generation American women. Culture is proxied with past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the woman's country of ancestry. The values of these variabl...

International Trade in Used Vehicles: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA

By Lucas W. Davis and Matthew E. Kahn

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2010

Since trade restrictions were eliminated in 2005, Mexico has imported over 2.5 million used vehicles from the United States. Using a unique, vehicle-level dataset, we find that traded vehicles are dirtier than the stock of vehicles in the United States an...

Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?

By Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2009