American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Volume 4, issue 2, 2012

What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes pp. 1-35

Katrine V. Loken, Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

What Makes Firm-Based Vocational Training Schemes Successful? The Role of Commitment pp. 36-61

Christian Dustmann and Uta Schonberg

Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on US Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X pp. 62-97

Martha J. Bailey

The Impact of Credit on Village Economies pp. 98-133

Joseph P. Kaboski and Robert M. Townsend

Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks pp. 134-67

Orazio Attanasio, Abigail Barr, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Garance Genicot and Costas Meghir

Productivity Spillovers across Firms through Worker Mobility pp. 168-98

Andrey Stoyanov and Nick Zubanov

Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behavior: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment pp. 199-218

Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati

The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance pp. 219-46

Tanguy Brachet, Guy David and Andrea M. Drechsler

Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment pp. 247-73

Karen Macours, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis

Castes and Labor Mobility pp. 274-307

Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri and Sourabh Paul

Volume 4, issue 1, 2012

The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession pp. 1-29

Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz

Partisan Grading pp. 30-48

Talia Bar and Asaf Zussman

An Empirical Investigation of the Option Value of College Enrollment pp. 49-84

Kevin M. Stange

School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries pp. 85-108

Leah Platt Boustan

When the Saints Go Marching Out: Long-Term Outcomes for Student Evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pp. 109-35

Bruce Sacerdote

Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences pp. 136-63

Edward P. Lazear, Ulrike Malmendier and Roberto A. Weber

Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards pp. 164-92

Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian W. Martinez and Marta Rubio-Codina

Do Expert Reviews Affect the Demand for Wine? pp. 193-211

Richard Friberg and Erik Gronqvist

Are Female Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India pp. 212-44

Irma Clots-Figueras

Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab pp. 245-73

Tania Barham

Volume 3, issue 4, 2011

Informal Taxation pp. 1-28

Benjamin A. Olken and Monica Singhal

Public Provision and Protection of Natural Resources: Groundwater Irrigation in Rural India pp. 29-55

Sheetal Sekhri

Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance during Pregnancy pp. 56-85

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits pp. 86-118

Melvin Stephens and Takashi Unayama

Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals pp. 119-51

Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US pp. 152-85

Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone

Subsidized Farm Input Programs and Agricultural Performance: A Farm-Level Analysis of West Bengal's Green Revolution, 1982-1995 pp. 186-214

Pranab K. Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment pp. 215-27

Antonio Ciccone

Re-examining Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict pp. 228-32

Edward Andrew Miguel and Shanker Satyanath

Volume 3, issue 3, 2011

Government Transfers and Political Support pp. 1-28

Marco Manacorda, Edward Andrew Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics pp. 29-54

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc

Financial Constraints and Inflated Home Prices during the Real Estate Boom pp. 55-87

Itzhak Ben-David

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women pp. 88-123

Patricia Cortés and José Tessada

Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching pp. 124-57

Ran Abramitzky, Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos

Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone pp. 158-87

Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial pp. 188-220

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir

Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Evidence from Health Shocks to Patients Far from Home pp. 221-43

Joseph J. Doyle

Do Social Connections Reduce Moral Hazard? Evidence from the New York City Taxi Industry pp. 244-67

C. Kirabo Jackson and Henry S. Schneider

Corrigendum: Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School pp. 268-268

Victor Chaim Lavy and Analía Schlosser

Volume 3, issue 2, 2011

Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School pp. 1-33

Victor Chaim Lavy and Analia Schlosser

The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality pp. 34-66

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat

Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy pp. 67-95

Olof Aslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery pp. 96-118

Joshua D Angrist and Stacey H. Chen

Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery pp. 119-36

Sebastian Galiani, Martin A. Rossi and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Global Poor pp. 137-66

Angus S. Deaton and Olivier Dupriez

Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia pp. 167-95

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh L. Linden and Francisco Perez-Calle

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta pp. 196-214

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Andrew Miguel, Daniel Ortega and Francisco Rafael Rodríguez

Volume 3, issue 1, 2011

Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya pp. 1-34

Pascaline Dupas

Transactional Sex as a Response to Risk in Western Kenya pp. 35-64

Jonathan Robinson and Ethan Yeh

Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass pp. 65-90

Janet Currie and Reed Walker

Menstruation, Sanitary Products, and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation pp. 91-100

Emily Oster and Rebecca L. Thornton

The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment pp. 101-28

Erik Lindqvist and Roine Vestman

Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability pp. 129-51

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John Michael van Reenen

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? pp. 152-88

Michael L. Anderson and David A. Matsa

Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services pp. 189-223

Mireille Jacobson and Heather North Royer

Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments pp. 224-38

Steven Levitt and John List

Caste as an Impediment to Trade pp. 239-63

Siwan Anderson