Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

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Volume 23, issue 4, 2009

The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings pp. 3-24

Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt

The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk pp. 25-48

Jonathan Gruber and Helen Levy

Changing Household Financial Opportunities and Economic Security pp. 49-68

Karen E. Dynan

Job Loss and the Fraying of the Implicit Employment Contract pp. 69-93

Kevin F. Hallock

The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges pp. 95-118

Caroline M. Hoxby

Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition pp. 119-46

John Bound, Brad Hershbein and Bridget Long

Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice pp. 147-74

N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl and Danny Yagan

Mortality Inequality pp. 175-90

Sam Peltzman

The Liabilities and Risks of State-Sponsored Pension Plans pp. 191-210

Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh

Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century pp. 211-30

Jonah Rockoff

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 231-38

Timothy Taylor

The Shrinking Medicare Part D Benefit: Comment pp. 239-40

Carl Johnston

Volume 23, issue 3, 2009

The Economics of Online Crime pp. 3-20

Tyler Moore, Richard Clayton and Ross Anderson

Priced and Unpriced Online Markets pp. 21-36

Benjamin Edelman

The Online Advertising Industry: Economics, Evolution, and Privacy pp. 37-60

David Evans

Subsidizing Creativity through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality pp. 61-76

Robin Lee and Tim Wu

What Are Grades Made Of? pp. 77-92

Alexandra C. Achen and Paul Courant

Grade Information and Grade Inflation: The Cornell Experiment pp. 93-108

Talia Bar, Vrinda Kadiyali and Asaf Zussman

Interview with Edmund S. Phelps pp. 109-24

Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn

The Economics of Two-Sided Markets pp. 125-43

Marc Rysman

World Oil: Market or Mayhem? pp. 145-64

James Smith

The Three Arab Worlds pp. 165-88

James Rauch and Scott Kostyshak

Retrospectives: Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy pp. 189-204

Ann Mari May and Robert Dimand

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 205-12

Timothy Taylor

Volume 23, issue 2, 2009

Note from the Editor: Online Comments for American Economic Association Journals pp. 3-4

David Autor

Market-Based Policy Options to Control U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions pp. 5-27

Gilbert Metcalf

The Economic Effects of Climate Change pp. 29-51

Richard Tol

The Coming Global Climate-Technology Revolution pp. 53-75

Scott Barrett

The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor's Living Standards pp. 77-97

Christian Broda, Ephraim Leibtag and David Weinstein

Consumer Shopping Behavior: How Much Do Consumers Save? pp. 99-120

Rachel Griffith, Ephraim Leibtag, Andrew Leicester and Aviv Nevo

The Nominal Share Price Puzzle pp. 121-42

William C. Weld, Roni Michaely, Richard Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi

(Un)happiness in Transition pp. 143-68

Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Faculty without Students: Resource Allocation in Higher Education pp. 169-89

William Johnson and Sarah Turner

Legal Realism for Economists pp. 191-211

Matthew C. Stephenson

Retrospectives: Who Said "Debauch the Currency": Keynes or Lenin? pp. 213-22

Michael White and Kurt Schuler

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 223-30

Timothy Taylor

Volume 23, issue 1, 2009

The Economics of Structured Finance pp. 3-25

Joshua Coval, Jakub Jurek and Erik Stafford

The Rise in Mortgage Defaults pp. 27-50

Christopher Mayer, Karen Pence and Shane M. Sherlund

Crisis and Responses: The Federal Reserve in the Early Stages of the Financial Crisis pp. 51-75

Stephen Cecchetti

Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-2008 pp. 77-100

Markus Brunnermeier

Reflections on Northern Rock: The Bank Run That Heralded the Global Financial Crisis pp. 101-19

Hyun Song Shin

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity pp. 121-46

Steven Kaplan and Per Stromberg

Beware of Venturing into Private Equity pp. 147-66

Ludovic Phalippou

Microfinance Meets the Market pp. 167-92

Robert Cull, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch

The U.S. Equity Return Premium: Past, Present, and Future pp. 193-208

J. Bradford DeLong and Konstantin Magin

Markets: Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? pp. 209-20

Benjamin Edelman

Retrospectives: On the Definition of Economics pp. 221-33

Roger Backhouse and Steven Medema

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 235-42

Timothy Taylor

Volume 22, issue 4, 2008

Are We Finally Winning the War on Cancer? pp. 3-26

David Cutler

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? pp. 27-50

Alan M. Garber and Jonathan Skinner

Incremental Universalism for the United States: The States Move First? pp. 51-68

Jonathan Gruber

Providing Prescription Drug Coverage to the Elderly: America's Experiment with Medicare Part D pp. 69-92

Mark Duggan, Patrick Healy and Fiona Scott Morton

Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Healthcare System pp. 93-113

Randall D. Cebul, James Rebitzer, Lowell Taylor and Mark E. Votruba

Overlapping Generations: The First Jubilee pp. 115-34

Philippe Weil

The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina pp. 135-54

Jacob Vigdor

Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels pp. 155-80

Steven Davis and James Kahn

Susan C. Athey: John Bates Clark Award Winner 2007 pp. 181-98

John Roberts

Retrospectives: Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of "Student's" t pp. 199-216

Stephen Ziliak

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 217-24

Timothy Taylor

Comments pp. 225-26

Jerry Tempelman, Hendrik Bessembinder and William Maxwell

Volume 22, issue 3, 2008

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations pp. 3-22

James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

Parental Education and Parental Time with Children pp. 23-46

Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst and Melissa Kearney

Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood pp. 47-70

Elizabeth Cascio, Damon Clark and Nora Gordon

The Lengthening of Childhood pp. 71-92

David Deming and Susan Dynarski

Global Imbalances: Globalization, Demography, and Sustainability pp. 93-112

Richard N. Cooper

Resolving the Global Imbalance: The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate pp. 113-25

Martin Feldstein

Forensic Finance pp. 127-47

Jay Ritter

A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization pp. 149-72

Eswar Prasad and Raghuram Rajan

Probability and Uncertainty in Economic Modeling pp. 173-88

Itzhak Gilboa, Andrew Postlewaite and David Schmeidler

Peer Effects and Alcohol Use among College Students pp. 189-206

Michael Kremer and Dan Levy

Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success pp. 207-22

Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar and Jialan Wang

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 223-30

Timothy Taylor

Volume 22, issue 2, 2008

What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World? pp. 3-28

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid pp. 29-52

William Easterly and Tobias Pfutze

Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll pp. 53-72

Angus Deaton

What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do? pp. 73-92

Eric Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmed

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries pp. 93-114

Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Kenneth Leonard

What the Seller Won't Tell You: Persuasion and Disclosure in Markets pp. 115-131

Paul Milgrom

Competition and Truth in the Market for News pp. 133-154

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation pp. 155-169

Peter Leeson

Identity Theft pp. 171-192

Keith B. Anderson, Erik Durbin and Michael Salinger

Taking the Pulse of the Economy: Measuring GDP pp. 193-216

J. Landefeld, Eugene P. Seskin and Barbara M. Fraumeni

Markets: Transparency and the Corporate Bond Market pp. 217-234

Hendrik Bessembinder and William Maxwell

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 235-242

Timothy Taylor

Comments: Elbert Dijkgraaf and Raymond Gradus, Thomas Kinnaman; and a Correction pp. 243-244

Elbert Dijkgraaf, Raymond Gradus, Thomas Kinnaman, Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh

Volume 22, issue 1, 2008

A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence pp. 3-24

Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho and Kevin J. Stiroh

The Productivity Gap between Europe and the United States: Trends and Causes pp. 25-44

Bart van Ark, Mary O'Mahoney and Marcel Timmer

Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India pp. 45-66

Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins

Has Economic Analysis Improved Regulatory Decisions? pp. 67-84

Robert W. Hahn and Paul C. Tetlock

Is the Food And Drug Administration Safe And Effective? pp. 85-102

Tomas Philipson and Eric Sun

Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation pp. 103-128

Thomas W. Hazlett

Biological Measures of the Standard of Living pp. 129-152

Richard H. Steckel

Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist? pp. 153-176

Barry T. Hirsch

Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pp. 177-198

Jeffrey Brown

Dispelling Some Misconceptions about Agricultural Trade Liberalization pp. 199-216

Stephen Tokarick

Markets: Ready-Mixed Concrete pp. 217-234

Chad Syverson

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 235-242

Timothy Taylor