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Volume 99, issue 5 , 2009
Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market pp. 1689-1713
Pierre Chiappori , Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss
Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right pp. 1714-39
Nicholas Z. Muller and Robert Owen Mendelsohn
Has Moral Hazard Become a More Important Factor in Managerial Compensation? pp. 1740-69
George-Levi Gayle and Robert A. Miller
Selling to Overconfident Consumers pp. 1770-1807
Michael D. Grubb
Risk Taking by Entrepreneurs pp. 1808-30
Galina Vereshchagina and Hugo A. Hopenhayn
Adaptation and Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry pp. 1831-49
Silke Januszewski Forbes and Mara Lederman
Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities pp. 1850-77
Claudia M. Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier
The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com pp. 1878-98
Igal Hendel , Aviv Nevo and François Ortalo-Magné
Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning pp. 1899-1924
H. Peyton Young
The Evolution of Time Preference with Aggregate Uncertainty pp. 1925-53
Arthur John Robson and Larry Samuelson
Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match pp. 1954-78
Atila Abdulkadiroglu , Parag Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity, and Grading Ethics pp. 1979-2011
Victor Chaim Lavy
On the Possibility of Credit Rationing in the Stiglitz-Weiss Model pp. 2012-21
Lutz Georg Arnold and John Graham Riley
Peer-Induced Fairness in Games pp. 2022-49
Teck Hua Ho and Xuanming Su
A Theory of Demand Shocks pp. 2050-84
Guido Lorenzoni
Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect pp. 2085-95
James Jinwoo Choi , David Isaac Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Intra-industry Foreign Direct Investment pp. 2096-2119
Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? pp. 2120-28
Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
Surprised by the Parimutuel Odds? pp. 2129-34
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sørensen
Debt Maturity and the International Financial Architecture pp. 2135-48
Olivier Jeanne
Departure Times in Y-Shaped Traffic Networks with Multiple Bottlenecks pp. 2149-76
Terry E. Daniel , Eyran J. Gisches and Amnon Rapoport
Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from US Manufacturing pp. 2177-92
Arik Levinson
Endogenous Verifiability and Relational Contracting pp. 2193-2208
Ola Kvaløy and Trond E. Olsen
The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 2209-26
Erich Battistin , Agar Brugiavini , Enrico Rettore and Guglielmo Weber
Direct Democracy and Public Employees pp. 2227-46
John G. Matsusaka
Individual Behavior and Group Membership: Comment pp. 2247-57
Matthias Sutter
A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap: Evidence from a Monte Carlo Experiment pp. 2258-66
Christian Bayer
A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap: Evidence from a Monte Carlo Experiment: Reply pp. 2267-76
Russell Cooper and Jonathan L. Willis
Corrigendum: Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution pp. 2277-2277
Stefano Demichelis and Jörgen W. Weibull
Volume 99, issue 4 , 2009
Can News about the Future Drive the Business Cycle? pp. 1097-1118
Nir Jaimovich and Sergio T Rebelo
Portfolio Claustrophobia: Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets pp. 1119-44
Francis A. Longstaff
Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence pp. 1145-77
Raj Chetty , W. Adam Looney and Kory Kroft
Decentralized Organizational Learning: An Experimental Investigation pp. 1178-1205
Andreas Blume , John Duffy and April Franco
Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking pp. 1206-17
Hikaru Ogawa and David Wildasin
The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics pp. 1218-44
Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson
Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines pp. 1245-77
Nava Ashraf
Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment pp. 1278-1308
Oriana Bandiera , Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti
One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry pp. 1309-34
Ted Bergstrom , Rodney John Garratt and Damien Sheehan-Connor
Institution Formation in Public Goods Games pp. 1335-55
Michael Kosfeld , Akira Okada and Arno Riedl
Tax Changes and Asset Pricing pp. 1356-83
Clemens Sialm
The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial pp. 1384-1414
Joshua D Angrist and Victor Chaim Lavy
Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models pp. 1415-50
Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide
Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices pp. 1451-83
Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi
Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight: An Experimental Study of a Small-Market Investment Game with Common and Private Values pp. 1484-1507
Asen Ivanov , Dan Levin and James Peck
Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices pp. 1508-43
Matthew Rabin and Georg Weizsäcker
Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions? pp. 1544-75
Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer
Learning about the Future and Dynamic Efficiency pp. 1576-87
Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
Bank Runs and Institutions: The Perils of Intervention pp. 1588-1607
Huberto M. Ennis and Todd Keister
Expectation Damages, Divisible Contracts, and Bilateral Investment pp. 1608-18
Susanne Ohlendorf
Field Centipedes pp. 1619-35
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta and Oscar Volij
VAR Analysis and the Great Moderation pp. 1636-52
Luca Benati and Paolo Surico
Art as an Investment and Conspicuous Consumption Good pp. 1653-63
Benjamin R. Mandel
Offshoring and Volatility: Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladora Industry pp. 1664-71
Paul Bergin , Robert C. Feenstra and Gordon Hanson
Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Comment pp. 1672-75
Moshe Levy
Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Reply pp. 1676-83
Jan Eeckhout
Volume 99, issue 3 , 2009
The Increasing Returns Revolution in Trade and Geography pp. 561-71
Paul R. Krugman
Bureaucratic Minimal Squawk Behavior: Theory and Evidence from Regulatory Agencies pp. 572-607
Clare Leaver
Incentives and Stability in Large Two-Sided Matching Markets pp. 608-27
Fuhito Kojima and Parag Pathak
Economic Catastrophe Bonds pp. 628-66
Joshua D. Coval , Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased US Gasoline Taxes pp. 667-99
Antonio M. Bento , Lawrence H. Goulder , Mark R. Jacobsen and Roger Hans von Haefen
Should Urban Transit Subsidies Be Reduced? pp. 700-724
Ian Parry and Kenneth A. Small
Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons pp. 725-49
Brian R. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor
Strategic Leniency and Cartel Enforcement pp. 750-68
Nathan H. Miller
Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention pp. 769-803
Bartosz Maćkowiak and Mirko Wiederholt
The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility pp. 804-26
Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu
Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Demand System pp. 827-63
Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur
Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment pp. 864-82
Hongbin Cai , Yuyu Chen and Hanming Fang
Misselling through Agents pp. 883-908
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans pp. 909-36
Botond Koszegi and Matthew Rabin
Evolution of Time Preferences and Attitudes toward Risk pp. 937-55
Nick Netzer
Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory pp. 956-78
Gary Charness and Marie Claire Villeval
Cooperation among Strangers under the Shadow of the Future pp. 979-1005
Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari
Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall pp. 1006-26
Sharon Maccini and Dean Yang
Anchoring Effects: Evidence from Art Auctions pp. 1027-39
Alan Beggs and Kathryn Graddy
On the Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand pp. 1040-52
Peter N. Ireland
Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike: Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market pp. 1053-69
Lutz Kilian
Exclusive Dealing and Entry, When Buyers Compete: Comment pp. 1070-81
Julian Wright
Corrigendum: Women, Wealth, and Mobility pp. 1082-1082
Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk
Volume 99, issue 2 , 2009
Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Editors' Introduction pp. viii-viii
William R. Johnson and Jane E. Voros
Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Foreword pp. ix-ix
Angus S. Deaton
Immigration and Inequality pp. 1-21
David E. Card
The Demography of Mexican Migration to the United States pp. 22-27
Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh
Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives? pp. 28-34
Una Okonkwo Osili and Jia Xie
The Labor Supply of Immigrants in the United States: The Role of Changing Source Country Characteristics pp. 35-40
Mary Lopez and Fernando A. Lozano
Immigration and Poverty in the United States pp. 41-44
Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky
This Job Is "Getting Old": Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure pp. 45-51
David Autor and David Dorn
New Evidence on the Returns to Job Skills pp. 52-57
Katharine Gail Abraham and James R. Spletzer
Job Polarization in Europe pp. 58-63
Maarten Goos , Alan Manning and Anna Salomons
Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts pp. 64-68
Dale W. Jorgenson and J. Steven Landefeld
Perspectives on the New Architecture for the US National Accounts pp. 69-73
Michael J. Boskin
Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts pp. 74-79
Michael J. Harper , Brent R Moulton , Steven Rosenthal and David B. Wasshausen
The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does It Presage the Financial Crisis? pp. 80-86
Michael G. Palumbo and Jonathan A. Parker
Expectations and Perceptions in Developing Countries: Their Measurement and Their Use pp. 87-92
Orazio Attanasio
Egalitarianism and Competitiveness pp. 93-98
Bjorn Bartling , Ernst Fehr , Michel André Maréchal and Daniel Schunk
Are Two Cheap, Noisy Measures Better Than One Expensive, Accurate One? pp. 99-103
Martin Browning and Thomas F. Crossley
Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age pp. 104-09
Anne Case and Christina Paxson
Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings pp. 110-15
Mariacristina De Nardi , Eric Baird French and John Bailey Jones
Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function pp. 116-21
Amy Finkelstein , Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Why Are Recessions Good for Your Health? pp. 122-27
Douglas Lee Miller , Marianne Elizabeth Page , Ann Huff Stevens and Mateusz Filipski
Child Benefits, Maternal Employment, and Children's Health: Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions pp. 128-32
Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile
Average Earnings and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data pp. 133-38
Daniel G. Sullivan and Till von Wachter
Time-Use Patterns and Women Entrepreneurs pp. 139-44
Tami Gurley-Calvez , Amelia Biehl and Katherine Harper
How Do Remittances Affect Human Capital Formation of School-Age Boys and Girls? pp. 145-48
Cynthia Bansak and Brian Chezum
The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education: First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links pp. 149-53
Stacey Hsiangju Chen , Yen-Chien Chen and Jin-Tan Liu
Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation pp. 154-58
Amalia Rebecca Miller
Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices pp. 159-64
Julie S. Downs , George Loewenstein and Jessica Wisdom
Mindless Eating and Healthy Heuristics for the Irrational pp. 165-69
Brian Wansink , David R. Just and Collin R. Payne
Time Use and Food Consumption pp. 170-76
Marianne Bertrand and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Fetal Exposures to Toxic Releases and Infant Health pp. 177-83
Janet Currie and Johannes F. Schmieder
Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy pp. 184-90
Douglas Almond , Yuyu Chen , Michael Greenstone and Hongbin Li
Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico pp. 191-97
Andrew Foster , Emilio Gutierrez and Naresh Kumar
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates pp. 198-204
Melissa Dell , Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken
Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand pp. 205-10
John Felkner , Kamilya Tazhibayeva and Robert M. Townsend
Climate Change and Birth Weight pp. 211-17
Olivier Deschenes , Michael Greenstone and Jonathan Guryan
Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Tropical Disease pp. 218-23
Hoyt Bleakley
What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention? pp. 224-30
Pascaline Dupas
Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-Protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa, India pp. 231-35
Alessandro Tarozzi , Aprajit Mahajan , Joanne Kannan Yoong and Brian Blackburn
Intrahousehold Allocation of Free and Purchased Mosquito Nets pp. 236-41
Vivian E. Hoffmann
Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England pp. 242-47
Gregory Clark and Neil J Cummins
Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love pp. 248-54
Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth
How Relevant Is Malthus for Economic Development Today? pp. 255-60
David N. Weil and Joshua Wilde
Institutions versus Policies: A Tale of Two Islands pp. 261-67
Peter Blair Henry and Conrad Miller
Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance pp. 268-74
Laura N. Beny and Lisa D. Cook
South Africa's Post-apartheid Two-Step: Social Demands versus Macro Stability pp. 275-81
Brahima Coulibaly and Trevon D. Logan
Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances pp. 282-86
Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel
Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-conflict Liberia pp. 287-91
James Dana Fearon , Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy M. Weinstein
Repression or Civil War? pp. 292-97
Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson
Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule? pp. 298-303
Daron Acemoglu , Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin
Consolidation of New Democracy, Mass Attitudes, and Clientelism pp. 304-09
Adi Brender and Allan Drazen
The Real Swing Voter's Curse pp. 310-15
James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik
Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-election Polling pp. 316-22
Elias Walsh , Sarah Dolfin and John Enrico DiNardo
Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election pp. 323-29
Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti
Bayesian Learning and the Pricing of New Information: Evidence from Prediction Markets pp. 330-36
David S. Lee and Enrico Moretti
A Model of Discovery pp. 337-42
Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues pp. 343-48
Josh Lerner
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth pp. 349-55
Joel Mokyr
Identifying Preferences under Risk from Discrete Choices pp. 356-62
Pierre Chiappori , Amit Gandhi , Bernard Salanié and François Salanié
Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation pp. 363-68
Miles Spencer Kimball , Claudia R. Sahm and Matthew D. Shapiro
Endogenous Effective Discounting, Credit Constraints, and Wealth Inequality pp. 369-73
Jeremy Tobacman
Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending? pp. 374-79
Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod
The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship among Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income pp. 380-86
Karen E. Dynan , Wendy Edelberg and Michael G. Palumbo
Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices pp. 387-92
Katja Maria Kaufmann and Luigi Pistaferri
Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households pp. 393-98
Laurent E. Calvet , John Y. Campbell and Paolo Sodini
Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How? pp. 399-405
Jonathan A. Parker and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
Momentum Traders in the Housing Market: Survey Evidence and a Search Model pp. 406-11
Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles? pp. 412-17
Sumit Agarwal , Paige Marta Skiba and Jeremy Tobacman
What Do High-Interest Borrowers Do with Their Tax Rebate? pp. 418-23
Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse
What Do Consumers Really Pay on Their Checking and Credit Card Accounts? Explicit, Implicit, and Avoidable Costs pp. 424-29
Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman
Online Ad Auctions pp. 430-34
Hal Ronald Varian
The Quest for QWERTY pp. 435-40
Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan
Skewed Bidding in Pay-per-Action Auctions for Online Advertising pp. 441-47
Nikhil Agarwal , Susan Athey and David Yang
Authority versus Persuasion pp. 448-53
Eric Jan Van den Steen
Financial Risk Management: When Does Independence Fail? pp. 454-58
Augustin Landier , David Alexandre Sraer and David Thesmar
Over My Dead Body: Bargaining and the Price of Dignity pp. 459-65
Roland J. Benabou and Jean Tirole
The Aftermath of Financial Crises pp. 466-72
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S Rogoff
Expropriation Dynamics pp. 473-79
Mark Aguiar , Manuel Amador and Gita Gopinath
Financial Instability, Reserves, and Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008 pp. 480-86
Maurice Obstfeld , Jay C. Shambaugh and Alan M. Taylor
The Margins of US Trade pp. 487-93
Andrew B. Bernard , J. Bradford Jensen , Stephen James Redding and Peter K. Schott
Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs pp. 494-500
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg , Amit Kumar Khandelwal , Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova
Plants and Imported Inputs: New Facts and an Interpretation pp. 501-07
Maurice Kugler and Eric Verhoogen
Another Look at the Impacts of Health Reform in Massachusetts: Evidence Using New Data and a Stronger Model pp. 508-11
Sharon K. Long , Karen Stockley and Alshadye Yemane
Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa pp. 512-16
Sophie Mitra
A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the United States pp. 517-21
Felicia A Ionescu and Linnea Ann Polgreen
Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999 pp. 522-26
John C. Ham , Xianghong Li and Lara Shore-Sheppard
How Should Public Pension Plans Invest? pp. 527-32
Deborah J. Lucas and Stephen P. Zeldes
Will Public Sector Retiree Health Benefit Plans Survive? Economic and Policy Implications of Unfunded Liabilities pp. 533-37
Robert L. Clark
Discounting State and Local Pension Liabilities pp. 538-42
Jeffrey Robert Brown and David W. Wilcox
Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism pp. 543-49
Alan Auerbach
The Lack of an Empirical Rationale for a Revival of Discretionary Fiscal Policy pp. 550-55
John B. Taylor
Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy pp. 556-59
Martin S. Feldstein
Capital Reallocation and Growth pp. 560-66
Janice Eberly and Neng Wang
Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007 pp. 567-72
Gary Gorton
Is Monetary Policy Effective during Financial Crises? pp. 573-77
Frederic Mishkin
A Note on Liquidity Risk Management pp. 578-83
Markus K. Brunnermeier and Motohiro Yogo
Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility pp. 584-88
Ricardo J. Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy
Leverage and the Central Banker's Put pp. 589-93
Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole
Market and Public Liquidity pp. 594-99
Patrick Bolton , Tano Santos and Jose Alexandre Scheinkman
Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy pp. 600-605
Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin
The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies pp. 606-10
Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report pp. 611-18
David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment pp. 618-20
Catharine Hill
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment pp. 620-21
David W. Breneman
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment pp. 621-23
George Daly
Completing an Economics PhD in Five Years pp. 624-29
Wendy A. Stock , T. Aldrich Finegan and John J. Siegfried
Minutes of the Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2009 pp. 631-32
John J. Siegfried
Report of the Secretary for 2008 pp. 633-36
John J. Siegfried
Report of the Treasurer pp. 637-40
John J. Siegfried
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 641-45
Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried
List of Online Reports pp. 646-46
Charles E. Scott and John J. Siegfried
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings pp. 647-59
John J. Siegfried
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review pp. 660-70
Robert A. Moffitt
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature pp. 671-73
Roger Gordon
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives pp. 674-75
Andrei Shleifer
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics pp. 676-78
Esther Duflo
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy pp. 679-80
Alan Auerbach
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics pp. 681-82
Olivier Blanchard
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics pp. 683-84
Andrew Postlewaite
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists pp. 685-87
John J. Siegfried
Report of the Committee on Economic Education pp. 688-91
Michael Watts
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2008 pp. 692-99
Barbara M. Fraumeni
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession pp. 700-709
Cecilia Rouse
Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics pp. 710-710
Katharine Gail Abraham
Volume 99, issue 1 , 2009
Governance Institutions and Economic Activity pp. 5-24
Avinash Kamalakar Dixit
Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All! pp. 25-48
Juan Carlos Conesa , Sagiri Kitao and Dirk Krueger
Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending pp. 49-84
William Adams , Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin
Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth pp. 85-111
Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi
Peers at Work pp. 112-45
Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti
Women, Wealth, and Mobility pp. 146-78
Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk
Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design pp. 179-215
Miguel Urquiola and Eric Verhoogen
Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs pp. 216-42
Paul Beaudry , Charles Blackorby and Dezsoe Szalay
Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs pp. 243-64
Robert J. Barro
Cognition and Incomplete Contracts pp. 265-94
Jean Tirole
The Value of Groups pp. 295-323
Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel John Zizzo
The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health, and Crime pp. 324-49
Carlos Dobkin and Nancy Nicosia
Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data pp. 350-84
Jean Boivin , Marc P. Giannoni and Ilian Mihov
Risk, Ambiguity, and the Rank-Dependence Axioms pp. 385-92
Mark Machina
Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market pp. 393-430
Kate Ho
Group Identity and Social Preferences pp. 431-57
Yan Chen and Sherry Xin Li
Excise Taxes with Multiproduct Transactions pp. 458-71
Stephen F. Hamilton
Diversity in the Workplace pp. 472-85
John Morgan and Felix Vardy
Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How Do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption? pp. 486-508
Manuela Angelucci and Giacomo De Giorgi
Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations? pp. 509-27
Michael Douglas Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
Democracy and Foreign Education pp. 528-43
Antonio Spilimbergo
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially pp. 544-55
Dan Ariely , Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier