American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Volume 17, issue 4, 2025

Take-up of Social Benefits: Experimental Evidence from France pp. 1-29

Laura Castell, Marc Gurgand, Clément Imbert and Todor Tochev

Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland pp. 30-71

Jósef Sigurdsson

The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt pp. 72-105

Benedict Guttman-Kenney, Paul Adams, Stefan Hunt, David Laibson, Neil Stewart and Jesse Leary

Does Getting Forecasts Earlier Matter? Evidence from Winter Advisories and Vehicle Crashes pp. 106-34

Vaibhav Anand

Social Welfare Portability and Migration: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System pp. 135-64

Travis Baseler, Ambar Narayan, Odyssia Ng and Sutirtha Sinha Roy

Disrupting Drug Markets: The Effects of Crackdowns on Rogue Opioid Suppliers pp. 165-91

Adam Soliman

The Not-So-Uniform Effects of Trade Secret Protection on Business Entry pp. 192-227

Asli Leblebicioglu and Tanseli Savaşer

The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa pp. 228-59

Jacob Moscona

Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth pp. 260-91

Eric Chyn and Na'ama Shenhav

Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs pp. 292-330

James Lake and Ding Liu

Public Financing and Racial Disparities: Does a Rising Tide Always Lift All Boats? pp. 331-53

Tian Qiu

Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation? pp. 354-78

Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn

Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients pp. 379-409

N. Meltem Daysal, William N. Evans, Mikkel Hasse Pedersen and Mircea Trandafir

Volume 17, issue 3, 2025

Eliminating Fares to Expand Opportunities: Experimental Evidence on the Impacts of Free Public Transportation on Economic and Social Disparities pp. 1-34

Rebecca Brough, Matthew Freedman and David Phillips

The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender on Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap pp. 35-70

Demid Getik and Armando N. Meier

Communication Barriers and Infant Health: The Intergenerational Effect of Randomly Allocating Refugees across Language Regions pp. 71-106

Daniel Auer and Johannes S. Kunz

Transmitting Rights: Effective Cooperation, Inter-gender Contact, and Student Achievement pp. 107-30

Sultan Mehmood, Shaheen Naseer and Daniel L. Chen

Fiscal Rules and the Selection of Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Italy pp. 131-64

Matteo Gamalerio and Federico Trombetta

Reconstruction-Era Education and Long-Run Black-White Inequality pp. 165-96

Daniel B. Jones and Ethan Schmick

HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes pp. 197-235

Ashley Edwards, Justin Ortagus, Jonathan Smith and Andria Smythe

Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Skill Investments pp. 236-80

Danyelle Branco, Bladimir Carrillo and Wilman Iglesias

Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial at the USPTO pp. 281-310

Nicholas A. Pairolero, Andrew A. Toole, Peter-Anthony Pappas, Charles A. W. de Grazia and Mike H. M. Teodorescu

International Transmission of Inequality through Trade pp. 311-44

Sergey Nigai

Does the "Boost for Mathematics" Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the "Lesson Study" Methodology on Student Performance pp. 345-72

Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert and Olof Rosenqvist

Should College Be "Free"? Evidence on Free College, Early Commitment, and Merit Aid from an Eight-Year Randomized Trial pp. 373-406

Douglas N. Harris and Jonathan Mills

Terrorism and Voting: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Germany pp. 407-40

Navid Sabet, Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel

Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics pp. 441-70

Ethan Kaplan, Jörg Spenkuch and Haishan Yuan

Healthy at Work? Evidence from a Social Experimental Evaluation of a Firm-Based Wellness Program pp. 471-95

Marianne Simonsen and Lars Skipper

The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries pp. 496-521

Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Daniel Santín

Volume 17, issue 2, 2025

Dividend Taxation and Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Payout Responses pp. 1-29

Katarzyna Bilicka, İrem Güçeri and Evangelos Koumanakos

Buy Baits and Consumer Sophistication: Field Evidence from Instant Rebates pp. 30-59

Matthias Rodemeier

Increasing Organ Donor Registration as a Means to Increase Transplantation: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations pp. 60-83

Judd B. Kessler and Alvin Roth

Public and Private Provision of Information in Market-Based Public Programs: Evidence from Advertising in Health Insurance Marketplaces pp. 84-121

Naoki Aizawa and You Suk Kim

Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família pp. 122-61

Katy Bergstrom, William Dodds and Juan Rios

A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anticorruption Policy pp. 162-93

Elliott Ash, Sergio Galletta and Tommaso Giommoni

Do Consumers Distinguish Fixed Cost from Variable Cost? "Schmeduling" in Two-Part Tariffs in Energy pp. 194-223

Koichiro Ito and Shuang Zhang

Free Trade and the Formation of Environmental Policy: Evidence from US Legislative Votes pp. 224-58

Jevan Cherniwchan and Nouri Najjar

Show Me the Money! A Field Experiment on Electric Vehicle Charge Timing pp. 259-84

Megan R. Bailey, David Brown, Blake Shaffer and Frank A. Wolak

Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States pp. 285-318

Nicola Mastrorocco and Arianna Ornaghi

The Effects of a Multifaceted Poverty Alleviation Program on Rural Income and Household Behavior in China pp. 319-57

Rui Li, Hong Song, Jun Zhang and Junsen Zhang

Corporate Minimum Tax and the Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Administrative Tax Records pp. 358-87

Jaroslav Bukovina, Tomáš Lichard, Ján Palguta and Branislav Žúdel

Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants: Experimental Evidence from Ghana pp. 388-417

Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falezan, Seema Jayachandran and Mark Walsh

Pay Transparency and Gender Equality pp. 418-45

Jack Blundell, Emma Duchini, Ştefania Simion and Arthur Turrell

Communicating Program Eligibility: A Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Field Experiment pp. 446-70

Jeffrey Hemmeter, John Phillips, Elana Safran and Nicholas Wilson

Physician Group Influences on Treatment Intensity and Health: Evidence from Physician Switchers pp. 471-505

Joseph J. Doyle and Becky Staiger

Volume 17, issue 1, 2025

Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities, and House Prices pp. 1-36

Lutz Sager and Gregor Singer

Uncharted Waters: Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation pp. 37-69

Jamie Hansen-Lewis and Michelle Marcus

Mental Health Consequences of Correctional Sentencing pp. 70-105

Manudeep Bhuller, Laura Khoury and Katrine Løken

The Impact of Provider Payments on Health Care Utilization of Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid pp. 106-43

Marika Cabral, Colleen Carey and Sarah Miller

Spillover, Efficiency, and Equity Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies pp. 144-80

Sebastian Siegloch, Nils Wehrhöfer and Tobias Etzel

Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign pp. 181-215

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta, Dijana Zejcirovic and Fernando Fernandez

The Great Recession and the Widening Income Gap between Alumni of Elite and Less Selective Universities pp. 216-41

Russell Weinstein

Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay's Financial Inclusion Reform pp. 242-72

Anne Brockmeyer and Magaly Sáenz Somarriba

My Taxes Are Too Darn High: Why Do Households Protest Their Taxes? pp. 273-310

Brad Nathan, Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Alejandro Zentner

Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wraparound Services pp. 311-61

William N. Evans, Shawna Kolka, James Sullivan and Patrick Turner

Fueling Alternatives: Gas Station Choice and the Implications for Electric Charging pp. 362-400

Jackson Dorsey, Ashley Langer and Shaun McRae

The Long-Run Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and US Tax Data pp. 401-31

Martha Bailey, Tanya Byker, Elena Patel and Shanthi Ramnath

Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation pp. 432-63

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo Isphording, Thu- Van Nguyen, Felix Poege and Sebastian Siegloch

Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes? pp. 464-505

Marius Brülhart, Jayson Danton, Raphaël Parchet and Jörg Schläpfer

The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives pp. 506-39

Lamar Pierce, Alex Rees-Jones and Charlotte Blank

Effective Health Aid: Evidence from Gavi's Vaccine Program pp. 540-74

Gauri Shastry and Daniel Tortorice