Economic Inquiry

2007 - 2008

Edited by Preston McAfee

from Western Economic Association International

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Volume 46, issue 2, 2008

2006 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS WATER MARKETS IN THE WEST: PRICES, TRADING, AND CONTRACTUAL FORMS pp. 91-112

Jedidiah Brewer, Robert Glennon, Alan Ker and Gary Libecap

WHO IS AFRAID OF THE FRIEDMAN RULE? pp. 113-130

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Joseph Haslag, Antoine Martin and Rajesh Singh

STOCK RETURNS, ASYMMETRIC VOLATILITY, RISK AVERSION, AND BUSINESS CYCLE: SOME NEW EVIDENCE pp. 131-148

Sei-Wan Kim and Bong-Soo Lee

THE AUCTION MARKET FOR MODERN PRINTS: CONFIRMATIONS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND NEW PUZZLES pp. 149-159

James Pesando and Pauline M. Shum

RELIEF FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? THE IMPORTANCE OF AN INCREASINGLY UNIMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL SECTOR pp. 160-178

Martin Gassebner, Noel Gaston and Michael J Lamla

EFFICIENCY WAGES AND SUBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE PAY pp. 179-196

Huanxing Yang

WHY DO EUROPEANS WORK (MUCH) LESS? IT IS TAXES AND GOVERNMENT SPENDING pp. 197-207

Tine Dhont and Freddy Heylen

TRACING THE DYNAMICS OF COMPETITION: EVIDENCE FROM COMPANY PROFITS pp. 208-213

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Adelina Gschwandtner

NATURAL DISASTERS AS CREATIVE DESTRUCTION? EVIDENCE FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 214-226

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Hlouskova and Obersteiner

INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND TRADE: WHICH INSTITUTIONS? WHICH TRADE? pp. 227-240

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat

DO NONPROFIT AND GOVERNMENT NURSING HOMES ENTER UNPROFITABLE MARKETS? pp. 241-260

Jeffrey P. Ballou

ON THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF TIME AND RISK PREFERENCES: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY pp. 261-272

Werner Güth, Maria Vittoria Levati and Matteo Ploner

THE DEMAND FOR CASINO GAMING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A SMOKING BAN pp. 273-282

Richard Thalheimer and Mukhtar M. Ali

IS STATUS QUO BIAS CONSISTENT WITH DOWNWARD-SLOPING DEMAND? pp. 283-288

Donald Wittman

Volume 46, issue 1, 2008

INTRODUCTION pp. 1-1

James J. Heckman

THE ROLE OF NONCOGNITIVE SKILLS IN EXPLAINING COGNITIVE TEST SCORES pp. 2-12

Lex Borghans, Huub Meijers and Bas Ter Weel

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM EFFECTS ON BEHAVIOR: RESULTS FROM THE 21ST CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS PROGRAM NATIONAL EVALUATION pp. 13-18

Susanne James-Burdumy, Mark Dynarski and John Deke

UNPACKING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS pp. 19-24

Ethan Cohen-Cole and Giulio Zanella

UNDERSTANDING REGRESSION VERSUS VARIANCE TESTS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS pp. 25-28

Steven N. Durlauf and Hisatoshi Tanaka

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND DRINKING BEHAVIOR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN IRISH COLLEGE STUDY pp. 29-36

Liam Delaney, Colm P. Harmon and Patrick Wall

AN ASSESSMENT OF CAUSAL INFERENCE IN SMOKING INITIATION RESEARCH AND A FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH pp. 37-44

James J. Heckman, Fredrick Flyer and Colleen Loughlin

RISK BELIEFS AND SMOKING BEHAVIOR pp. 45-59

W. Kip Viscusi and Jahn K Hakes

WHY UNDERSTANDING SMOKING BANS IS IMPORTANT FOR ESTIMATING THEIR EFFECTS: CALIFORNIA'S RESTAURANT SMOKING BANS AND RESTAURANT SALES pp. 60-76

Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

IS THERE RECIPROCITY IN A RECIPROCAL-EXCHANGE ECONOMY? EVIDENCE OF GENDERED NORMS FROM A SLUM IN NAIROBI, KENYA pp. 77-83

Fiona Greig and Iris Bohnet

REPRESENTATIVE TRUST AND RECIPROCITY: PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS pp. 84-90

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Volume 45, issue 4, 2007

READING, WRITING, AND SEX: THE EFFECT OF LOSING VIRGINITY ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE pp. 647-670

Joseph J. Sabia

THE EFFECT OF REWARDS AND SANCTIONS IN PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS pp. 671-690

Martin Sefton, Robert Shupp and James Marvin Walker

COLLUSION AND OVERLENDING pp. 691-707

Jinyoung Hwang, Neville Jiang and Ping Wang

IS AGENCY THEORY SELF-ACTIVATING? pp. 708-720

Daniel G. Arce

A HUMAN CAPITAL MODEL OF THE EFFECTS OF ABILITY AND FAMILY BACKGROUND ON OPTIMAL SCHOOLING LEVELS pp. 721-738

Tracy L. Regan, Ronald L. Oaxaca and Galen Burghardt

CURBSIDE RECYCLING IN THE PRESENCE OF ALTERNATIVES pp. 739-755

Timothy K. M. Beatty, Peter Berck and Jay P. Shimshack

ON THE LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF FASHION pp. 756-769

Luis Araujo and Raoul Minetti

STICKY PRICE AND STICKY INFORMATION PRICE-SETTING MODELS: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? pp. 770-786

Benjamin David Keen

KILLING THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGG: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN HONG KONG pp. 787-799

Nicolaas Groenewold and Sam Hak Kan Tang

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE VALUATION OF EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE pp. 800-816

Nasser Daneshvary and Terrence M. Clauretie

SPATIAL COMPETITION AND THE PRICE OF COLLEGE pp. 817-833

Daniel McMillen, Larry D. Singell and Glen Waddell

RESTRICTED STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND THE UNIT ROOT HYPOTHESIS pp. 834-853

David Papell and Ruxandra Prodan

STRATEGIC DECISIONS ON LAWYERS' COMPENSATION IN CIVIL DISPUTES pp. 854-863

Kyung Hwan Baik and In-Gyu Kim

SURVIVE THEN THRIVE: DETERMINANTS OF SUCCESS IN THE ECONOMICS PH.D. PROGRAM pp. 864-871

Wayne A. Grove, Donald Dutkowsky and Andrew Grodner

Volume 45, issue 3, 2007

EFFECTS AND VALUE OF VERIFIABLE INFORMATION IN A CONTROVERSIAL MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM LAB AUCTIONS OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD pp. 409-432

Matthew C Rousu, Wallace E. Huffman, Jason Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

THE OPTIMAL PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FINANCING POLICY: DOES THE LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MATTER? pp. 433-452

Niloy Bose, Jill A. Holman and Kyriakos C. Neanidis

FISCAL POLICY, EXPECTATION TRAPS, AND CHILD LABOR pp. 453-469

Patrick M. Emerson and Shawn D. Knabb

SUSTAINABILITY OF THE FRIEDMAN RULE IN AN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY GAME pp. 470-486

Dennis W. Jansen, Liqun Liu and Ming-Jang Weng

SOCIAL PREFERENCES AND TAX POLICY DESIGN: SOME EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE pp. 487-501

Lucy F. Ackert, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Mark Rider

BELIEVING IN ECONOMIC THEORIES: SEX, LIES, EVIDENCE, TRUST, AND IDEOLOGY pp. 502-518

D. Andrew Austin and Nathaniel T. Wilcox

STRUCTURAL CHANGE, COMPETITIVE BALANCE, AND THE REST OF THE MAJOR LEAGUES pp. 519-532

Rodney Fort and Young Hoon Lee

EFFICIENT DURABLE GOOD PRICING AND AFTERMARKET TIE-IN SALES pp. 533-537

David L. Kaserman

LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF EMPLOYER-PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE pp. 538-556

Katerina Sherstyuk, Yoav Wachsman and Gerard Russo

VOTING, PUNISHMENT, AND PUBLIC GOODS pp. 557-570

Stephan Kroll, Todd L. Cherry and Jason Shogren

SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF OBESITY pp. 571-591

Burke and Frank Heiland

RENT SEEKING AND DEMOCRACY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR URUGUAY pp. 592-601

César Calderãn and Alberto Chong

AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST ON RETIREMENT DECISIONS pp. 602-614

Enrique Fatas, Juan A. Lacomba and Francisco Lagos

HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND LIFE CYCLE SAVINGS IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS pp. 615-630

Kam Ki Tang and Jie Zhang

TECHNOLOGY, CAPITAL SPENDING, AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION pp. 631-645

Cynthia Bansak, Norman Morin and Martha Starr

Volume 45, issue 2, 2007

THEORIES OF COMMITMENT, ALTRUISM AND RECIPROCITY: EVIDENCE FROM LINEAR PUBLIC GOODS GAMES pp. 199-216

Rachel Croson

CULTURAL DIVERSITY, DISCRIMINATION, AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS pp. 217-232

Ferraro and Cummings

SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AT NIGHT: STANDARD WORK AND CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES pp. 233-250

Erdal Tekin

HOURS FLEXIBILITY AND RETIREMENT pp. 251-267

Philip DeCicca

PAY, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE COST OF WORKER ABSENCE pp. 268-285

Melvyn Glyn Coles, Joseph Lanfranchi, Ali Skalli and John Treble

HOW DOES HEALTH INSURANCE AFFECT WORKERS' COMPENSATION FILING? pp. 286-303

Darius Lakdawalla, Robert T Reville and Seth A Seabury

ABORTION AND CRIME: UNWANTED CHILDREN AND OUT-OF-WEDLOCK BIRTHS pp. 304-324

John R. Lott and John Whitley

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN THE U.S. COMMERCIAL BANKING INDUSTRY pp. 325-341

Yongil Jeon and Stephen M. Miller

CONVEX COSTS AND THE MERGER PARADOX REVISITED pp. 342-349

John S. Heywood and Matthew Mcginty

MULTINATIONALS' PRODUCTIVITY ADVANTAGE: SCALE OR TECHNOLOGY? pp. 350-362

Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg

A CLOSER LOOK AT LONG-RUN U.S. MONEY DEMAND: LINEAR OR NONLINEAR ERROR-CORRECTION WITH M0, M1, OR M2? pp. 363-376

Haug and Julie Tam

INFORMATION AND THE PROVISION OF QUALITY DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS pp. 377-394

Keith Brouhle and Madhu Khanna

THE PROCYCLICAL LEVERAGE EFFECT OF COLLATERAL VALUE ON BANK LOANS-EVIDENCE FROM THE TRANSACTION DATA OF TAIWAN pp. 395-406

Nan-Kuang Chen and Hung-Jen Wang

Volume 45, issue 1, 2007

ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF CURRENCY UNIONS pp. 1-23

Robert J. Barro and Silvana Tenreyro

CAN THE HUMAN CAPITAL APPROACH EXPLAIN LIFE-CYCLE WAGE DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN RACES AND SEXES? pp. 24-39

Huoying Wu

EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF TWO NORTHWEST MINIMUM WAGE INITIATIVES pp. 40-55

Larry D. Singell and James R. Terborg

THE SUCCESS OF THE FED AND THE DEATH OF MONETARISM pp. 56-70

N. Kundan Kishor and Levis A. Kochin

EXIT FROM THE HOSPITAL INDUSTRY pp. 71-81

Federico Ciliberto and Richard C. Lindrooth

DO HMO PLANS REDUCE HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR? pp. 82-99

Jaeun Shin and Sangho Moon

RELIABILITY OF STATED PREFERENCES FOR CHOLERA AND TYPHOID VACCINES WITH TIME TO THINK IN HUE, VIETNAM pp. 100-114

Joseph Cook, Dale Whittington, Do Gia Canh, F. Reed Johnson and Andrew Nyamete

OUTPUT EFFECTS OF INFLATION WITH FIXED PRICE- AND QUANTITY-ADJUSTMENT COSTS pp. 115-120

Leif Danziger

NOMINAL WAGE CONTRACTS AND THE MONETARY TRANSMISSION MECHANISM pp. 121-130

Zuzana Janko

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: THE CASE OF THE DESIGNATED HITTER AND HIT BATTERS pp. 131-144

John Charles Bradbury and Douglas J. Drinen

PLAYING FOR KEEPS: PAY AND PERFORMANCE IN THE NBA pp. 145-161

Kevin Stiroh

CLASSROOM EXPERIMENTS: NOT JUST FUN AND GAMES pp. 162-178

Yvonne Durham, Thomas Mckinnon and Craig Schulman

THE SLOWDOWN IN FIRST-RESPONSE TIMES OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS: CAN IT BE BENEFICIAL? pp. 179-187

Ofer H. Azar

COTTON IN A FREE TRADE WORLD pp. 188-197

Suwen Pan, Mohamadou Fadiga, Samarendu Mohanty and Mark Welch