American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Edited by Alan J. Auerbach

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Volume 5, issue 2, 2013

Natural Resources and Local Communities: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine pp. 1-25

Fernando M. Arag?n and Juan Pablo Rud

Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam pp. 26-52

Eric P. Bettinger, Brent J. Evans and Devin G. Pope

Does Less Income Mean Less Representation? pp. 53-76

Eric Brunner, Stephen L. Ross and Ebonya Washington

Multi-product Firms and Exchange Rate Fluctuations pp. 77-110

Arpita Chatterjee, Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Jade Vichyanond

How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-century GI Bills pp. 111-47

Daniel K. Fetter

Evaluating US Fuel Economy Standards in a Model with Producer and Household Heterogeneity pp. 148-87

Mark R. Jacobsen

The EITC, Tax Refunds, and Unemployment Spells pp. 188-221

Sara LaLumia

Social Capital and Political Accountability pp. 222-50

Tommaso Nannicini, Andrea Stella, Guido Tabellini and Ugo Troiano

Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure pp. 251-81

Cecilia Elena Rouse, Jane Hannaway, Dan Goldhaber and David Figlio

Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving? pp. 282-312

Todd Sinai and Nicholas Souleles

The Contagion Effect of Neighboring Foreclosures pp. 313-35

Charles Towe and Chad Lawley

Volume 5, issue 1, 2013

The Iceberg Theory of Campaign Contributions: Political Threats and Interest Group Behavior pp. 1-31

Marcos Chamon and Ethan Daniel Kaplan

Let Them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and toward an Individual Exchange pp. 32-58

Leemore Dafny, Kate Ho and Mauricio Varela

Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of US Productivity Growth pp. 59-93

Robert C. Feenstra, Benjamin R. Mandel, Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Matthew J. Slaughter

Political Price Cycles in Regulated Industries: Theory and Evidence pp. 94-121

Rodrigo M. S. Moita and Claudio A. Paiva

Long-Term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts on Homeownership among Baseline Renters: Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment pp. 122-45

Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Michael Sherraden, William G. Gale, William M. Rohe, Mark Schreiner and Clinton Key

The Demand for Food of Poor Urban Mexican Households: Understanding Policy Impacts Using Structural Models pp. 146-78

Manuela Angelucci and Orazio Attanasio

Public Transfers and Domestic Violence: The Roles of Private Information and Spousal Control pp. 179-205

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Melissa González-Brenes and Roberto Castro

Targeting with Agents pp. 206-38

Paul Niehaus, Antonia Atanassova, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers: A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool pp. 239-61

Orley C. Ashenfelter, Daniel S. Hosken and Matthew Weinberg

Unemployment in an Interdependent World pp. 262-301

Gabriel J Felbermayr, Mario Larch and Wolfgang Lechthaler

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Cigarette Tax Salience and Regressivity pp. 302-36

Jacob Goldin and Tatiana Homonoff

Volume 4, issue 4, 2012

Late Budgets pp. 1-40

Asger Lau Andersen, David Dreyer Lassen and Lasse Holbøll Westh Nielsen

Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age pp. 41-67

Luc Behaghel and David M. Blau

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco pp. 68-99

Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Parienté and Vincent Pons

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor pp. 100-124

Eric Edmonds and Norbert Schady

Innovation and Climate Change Policy pp. 125-45

Joshua Gans

Discrimination in Grading pp. 146-68

Rema N. Hanna and Leigh L. Linden

The Heterogeneous Geographic and Socioeconomic Incidence of Cigarette Taxes: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan Data pp. 169-98

Matthew Harding, Ephraim Leibtag and Michael F. Lovenheim

Spatial Competition and Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries pp. 199-229

Brian G. Knight and Nathan Mudrick Schiff

The Impact of Year-Round Schooling on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mandatory School Calendar Conversions pp. 230-52

Steven C. McMullen and Kathryn E. Rouse

Clunkers or Junkers? Adverse Selection in a Vehicle Retirement Program pp. 253-81

Ryan Sandler

Volume 4, issue 3, 2012

Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures pp. 1-29

Toke S Aidt and Julia Shvets

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance pp. 30-55

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

The Redistributional Impact of Nonlinear Electricity Pricing pp. 56-90

Severin Borenstein

Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation pp. 91-117

Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ethan G. Lewis

Does State Fiscal Relief during Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pp. 118-45

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow and William Gui Woolston

Fast-Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations pp. 146-89

Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi

The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions pp. 190-215

Craig L. Garthwaite

Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? pp. 216-50

Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

Fiscal Spending Jobs Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pp. 251-82

Daniel John Wilson

Corrigendum: Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight pp. 283-283

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

Volume 4, issue 2, 2012

Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy pp. 1-27

Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier pp. 28-45

Ryan Chahrour, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe

Fiscal Policy Multipliers on Subnational Government Spending pp. 46-68

Jeffrey P. Clemens and Stephen Miran

Measuring Tax Multipliers: The Narrative Method in Fiscal VARs pp. 69-94

Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

Global Savings and Global Investment: The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks pp. 95-114

James Donald Feyrer and Jay C. Shambaugh

Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight pp. 115-44

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

Empirical Evidence on the Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated US Tax Policy Shocks pp. 145-81

Karel Mertens and Morten Overgaard Ravn

Fiscal Imbalances and Borrowing Costs: Evidence from State Investment Losses pp. 182-213

Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh

The Effects of Tax Shocks on Output: Not So Large, but Not Small Either pp. 214-37

Roberto Perotti

Volume 4, issue 1, 2012

The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services pp. 1-27

Michael L. Anderson, Carlos Dobkin and Tal Gross

Regulation, Ownership, and Costs: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways pp. 28-57

Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary

Green Infrastructure: The Effects of Urban Rail Transit on Air Quality pp. 58-97

Yihsu Chen and Alexander Whalley

Sacred Cars? Cost-Effective Regulation of Stationary and Nonstationary Pollution Sources pp. 98-126

Meredith Fowlie, Christopher R. Knittel and Catherine Wolfram

Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State pp. 127-57

Jonathan Gruber and Samuel A. Kleiner

Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds pp. 158-85

Damon Jones

Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-social Behavior pp. 186-223

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Robert L Slonim

Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision pp. 224-47

David Powell and Hui Shan