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Volume 102, issue 7, 2012

The Spending and Debt Response to Minimum Wage Hikes pp. 3111-39

Daniel Aaronson, Sumit Agarwal and Eric French

Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements pp. 3140-83

Pol Antras and Robert Staiger

Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools pp. 3184-3213

Jonah E. Rockoff, Doug Staiger, Thomas J. Kane and Eric S. Taylor

Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice pp. 3214-48

M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan Levin and Neale Mahoney

Diagnosing Consumer Confusion and Sub-optimal Shopping Effort: Theory and Mortgage-Market Evidence pp. 3249-76

Susan E. Woodward and Robert Hall

Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market pp. 3277-3316

Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson

Imperfect Public Monitoring with Costly Punishment: An Experimental Study pp. 3317-32

Attila Ambrus and Ben Greiner

Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets pp. 3333-56

James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger

Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences pp. 3357-76

James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger

Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information pp. 3377-3405

Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills pp. 3406-38

Irene Brambilla, Daniel Lederman and Guido Porto

Who Matters in Coordination Problems? pp. 3439-61

József Sákovics and Jakub Steiner

Loss Leading as an Exploitative Practice pp. 3462-82

Zhijun Chen and Patrick Rey

Human Capital Prices, Productivity, and Growth pp. 3483-3515

Audra Bowlus and Chris Robinson

Political Aid Cycles pp. 3516-30

Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus

Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy pp. 3531-60

Mark Pitt, Mark Rosenzweig and Mohammad Nazmul Hassan

The 11-20 Money Request Game: A Level-k Reasoning Study pp. 3561-73

Ayala Arad and Ariel Rubinstein

Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment pp. 3574-93

Lori Beaman and Jeremy Magruder

Innovation and Foreign Ownership pp. 3594-3627

Maria Guadalupe, Olga Kuzmina and Catherine Thomas

The Effect of Evaluation on Teacher Performance pp. 3628-51

Eric S. Taylor and John H. Tyler

The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity pp. 3652-73

Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell

Self-Fulfilling Risk Panics pp. 3674-3700

Philippe Bacchetta, Cédric Tille and Eric van Wincoop

Life Insurance and Household Consumption pp. 3701-30

Jay Hong and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

Revolving Door Lobbyists pp. 3731-48

Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Comment pp. 3749-60

Anthony C. Fisher, Michael Hanemann, Michael Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Reply pp. 3761-73

Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone

Growth Dynamics: The Myth of Economic Recovery: Comment pp. 3774-77

Hannes Mueller

Volume 102, issue 6, 2012

The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment pp. 2381-2409

Thomas Chaney, David Sraer and David Thesmar

Modeling the Change of Paradigm: Non-Bayesian Reactions to Unexpected News pp. 2410-36

Pietro Ortoleva

Markups and Firm-Level Export Status pp. 2437-71

Jan De Loecker and Frédéric Warzynski

The Evolution of Brand Preferences: Evidence from Consumer Migration pp. 2472-2508

Bart J. Bronnenberg, Jean-Pierre H. Dube and Matthew Gentzkow

The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment pp. 2509-39

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

The Rise of the Service Economy pp. 2540-69

Francisco Buera and Joseph Kaboski

Liquidity, Monetary Policy, and the Financial Crisis: A New Monetarist Approach pp. 2570-2605

Stephen Williamson

How General Are Risk Preferences? Choices under Uncertainty in Different Domains pp. 2606-38

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Iuliana Pascu and Mark R. Cullen

Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D pp. 2639-73

Jonathan Ketcham, Claudio Lucarelli, Eugenio Miravete and M. Christopher Roebuck

Maturity, Indebtedness, and Default Risk pp. 2674-99

Satyajit Chatterjee and Burcu Eyigungor

Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions, and Risk Sharing pp. 2700-2733

Doireann Fitzgerald

Disaster Risk and Business Cycles pp. 2734-66

Francois Gourio

But Who Will Monitor the Monitor? pp. 2767-97

David Rahman

Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks pp. 2798-2825

Mark Bils, Pete Klenow and Benjamin Malin

Physician Agency and Adoption of Generic Pharmaceuticals pp. 2826-58

Toshiaki Iizuka

Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk Due to Intermittent Portfolio Rebalancing? pp. 2859-96

YiLi Chien, Harold Cole and Hanno Lustig

The Strategy of Manipulating Conflict pp. 2897-2922

Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom

Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi pp. 2923-54

Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

Testing Models of Consumer Search Using Data on Web Browsing and Purchasing Behavior pp. 2955-80

Babur De los Santos, Ali Hortacsu and Matthijs Wildenbeest

Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction pp. 2981-3003

David Card, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti and Emmanuel Saez

Credit Traps pp. 3004-32

Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman

Economic Growth with Bubbles pp. 3033-58

Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment pp. 3059-76

David Albouy

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply pp. 3077-3110

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson

Volume 102, issue 5, 2012

A Field Study on Matching with Network Externalities pp. 1773-1804

Mariagiovanna Baccara, Ayse Imrohoroglu, Alistair Wilson and Leeat Yariv

Pay for Percentile pp. 1805-31

Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration pp. 1832-56

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson

Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange pp. 1857-97

Matthew Jackson, Tomás Rodríguez and Xu Tan

A Rational Expectations Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution pp. 1898-1926

Patrick Bajari, Jane Fruehwirth, Kyoo il Kim and Christopher Timmins

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 1927-56

Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner

Bundling and Competition for Slots pp. 1957-85

Doh-Shin Jeon and Domenico Menicucci

Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility pp. 1986-2017

Veronica Guerrieri and Péter Kondor

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate pp. 2018-47

Judd B. Kessler and Alvin Roth

Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees pp. 2048-82

Scott Imberman, Adriana Kugler and Bruce Sacerdote

What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose? pp. 2083-2110

Daniel Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones

Industrial Structure and Capital Flows pp. 2111-46

Keyu Jin

Spatial Differentiation and Vertical Mergers in Retail Markets for Gasoline pp. 2147-82

Jean-Francois Houde

Revealed Attention pp. 2183-2205

Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Daisuke Nakajima and Erkut Ozbay

Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market pp. 2206-36

Nicola Lacetera, Devin Pope and Justin R. Sydnor

The Multi-unit Assignment Problem: Theory and Evidence from Course Allocation at Harvard pp. 2237-71

Eric Budish and Estelle Cantillon

Durable Consumption and Asset Management with Transaction and Observation Costs pp. 2272-2300

Fernando Alvarez, Luigi Guiso and Francesco Lippi

Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications pp. 2301-26

Gabriel Jimenez, Steven Ongena, Jose-Luis Peydro and Jesús Saurina

Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows pp. 2327-48

Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato

Interjurisdictional Spillovers, Decentralized Policymaking, and the Elasticity of Capital Supply pp. 2349-57

Thomas Eichner and Marco Runkel

The Hidden Advantage of Delegation: Pareto Improvements in a Gift Exchange Game pp. 2358-79

Gary Charness, Ramon Cobo-Reyes, Natalia Jiménez, Juan A. Lacomba and Francisco Lagos

Volume 102, issue 4, 2012

Statistical Modeling of Monetary Policy and Its Effects pp. 1187-1205

Christopher Sims

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia pp. 1206-40

Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken and Julia Tobias

Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School pp. 1241-78

Esther Duflo, Rema Hanna and Stephen Ryan

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments pp. 1279-1309

Sylvain Chassang, Gerard Padro I Miquel and Erik Snowberg

Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study pp. 1310-42

Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral and Debraj Ray

Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence pp. 1343-77

Robert Barsky and Eric Sims

Why Does Trend Growth Affect Equilibrium Employment? A New Explanation of an Old Puzzle pp. 1378-1413

Michael Elsby and Matthew Shapiro

Understanding Bank Runs: The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks pp. 1414-45

Rajkamal Iyer and Manju Puri

Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs pp. 1446-76

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short- and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe pp. 1477-1507

Richard Hornbeck

The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity pp. 1508-39

Stelios Michalopoulos

Competitive Pressure and the Adoption of Complementary Innovations pp. 1540-70

Tobias Kretschmer, Eugenio Miravete and Jose C. Pernias

Evaluating Microfoundations for Aggregate Price Rigidities: Evidence from Matched Firm-Level Data on Product Prices and Unit Labor Cost pp. 1571-95

Mikael Carlsson and Oskar Skans

On the Timing and Pricing of Dividends pp. 1596-1618

Jules van Binsbergen, Michael Brandt and Ralph Koijen

The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love pp. 1619-44

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

The Currency of Reciprocity: Gift Exchange in the Workplace pp. 1644-62

Sebastian Kube, Michel Maréchal and Clemens Puppe

Risk Aversion and the Labor Margin in Dynamic Equilibrium Models pp. 1663-91

Eric Swanson

Credit Spreads and Business Cycle Fluctuations pp. 1692-1720

Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajšek

Do Matching Frictions Explain Unemployment? Not in Bad Times pp. 1721-50

Pascal Michaillat

Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Comment pp. 1751-63

Jason Abrevaya and Laura Puzzello

Volume 102, issue 3, 2012

Foreword pp. x-x

Christopher Sims

Editors' Introduction pp. xi-xii

William Johnson and Samantha Bennett

Does the Current Account Still Matter? pp. 1-23

Maurice Obstfeld

Simple Market Equilibria with Rationally Inattentive Consumers pp. 24-29

Filip Matejka and Alisdair McKay

Information Processing and Limited Liability pp. 30-34

Bartosz Maćkowiak and Mirko Wiederholt

Information Choice Technologies pp. 35-40

Christian Hellwig, Sebastian Kohls and Laura Veldkamp

Prospect Theory as Efficient Perceptual Distortion pp. 41-46

Michael Woodford

Salience in Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect pp. 47-52

Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

Getting at Systemic Risk via an Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market pp. 53-58

John Geanakoplos, Robert Axtell, J. Farmer, Peter Howitt, Benjamin Conlee, Jonathan Goldstein, Matthew Hendrey, Nathan Palmer and Chun-Yi Yang

Capital Shortfall: A New Approach to Ranking and Regulating Systemic Risks pp. 59-64

Viral Acharya, Robert Engle and Matthew Richardson

Privacy-Preserving Methods for Sharing Financial Risk Exposures pp. 65-70

Emmanuel A. Abbe, Amir E. Khandani and Andrew Lo

Fiscal Policy and the Great Recession in the Euro Area pp. 71-76

Günter Coenen, Roland Straub and Mathias Trabandt

Fiscal Policy in a Financial Crisis: Standard Policy versus Bank Rescue Measures pp. 77-81

Robert Kollmann, Werner Roeger and Jan in 't Veld

Bubbles and Total Factor Productivity pp. 82-87

Jianjun Miao and Pengfei Wang

Debt Financing in Asset Markets pp. 88-94

Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong

Understanding Bubbly Episodes pp. 95-100

Vasco Carvalho, Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

The Safe-Asset Share pp. 101-06

Gary Gorton, Stefan Lewellen and Andrew Metrick

Three Principles for Market-Based Credit Regulation pp. 107-12

Perry Mehrling

Limited-Purpose Banking--Moving from "Trust Me" to "Show Me" Banking pp. 113-19

Christophe Chamley, Laurence Kotlikoff and Herakles Polemarchakis

Within-City Variation in Urban Decline: The Case of Detroit pp. 120-26

Veronica Guerrieri, Daniel Hartley and Erik Hurst

Housing Booms and City Centers pp. 127-33

Edward L. Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb and Kristina Tobio

Heterogeneity in Neighborhood-Level Price Growth in the United States, 1993-2009 pp. 134-40

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

Market Prices of Risk with Diverse Beliefs, Learning, and Catastrophes pp. 141-46

Timothy Cogley, Thomas Sargent and Viktor Tsyrennikov

Financial Innovation and Asset Price Volatility pp. 147-51

Felix Kubler and Karl Schmedders

International Robust Disagreement pp. 152-55

Riccardo Colacito and Mariano M. Croce

Heterogeneous Beliefs, Wealth Distribution, and Asset Markets with Risk of Default pp. 156-60

Viktor Tsyrennikov

Estimating Sovereign Default Risk pp. 161-66

Huixin Bi and Nora Traum

Evolving Monetary/Fiscal Policy Mix in the United States pp. 167-72

Francesco Bianchi

Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Indeterminacy in Postwar US Data pp. 173-78

Saroj Bhattarai, Jae Won Lee and Woong Yong Park

Real Exchange Rate Adjustment in and out of the Eurozone pp. 179-85

Martin Berka, Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

Fiscal Consolidation in an Open Economy pp. 186-91

Christopher Erceg and Jesper Lindé

Managing Currency Pegs pp. 192-97

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

Can Asia Overcome the IMF Stigma? pp. 198-202

Takatoshi Ito

Capital Flow Management pp. 203-06

Olivier Jeanne

International Liquidity in a Multipolar World pp. 207-12

Barry Eichengreen

Follow the Money: Quantifying Domestic Effects of Foreign Bank Shocks in the Great Recession pp. 213-18

Nicola Cetorelli and Linda Goldberg

Flight Home, Flight Abroad, and International Credit Cycles pp. 219-24

Mariassunta Giannetti and Luc Laeven

From Financial Crisis to Great Recession: The Role of Globalized Banks pp. 225-30

Shekhar Aiyar

International Shock Transmission after the Lehman Brothers Collapse: Evidence from Syndicated Lending pp. 231-37

Ralph De Haas and Neeltje Van Horen

Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 238-44

Leah Boustan, Matthew Kahn and Paul Rhode

Nature versus Nurture: The Environment's Persistent Influence through the Modernization of American Agriculture pp. 245-49

Richard Hornbeck

Adaptation to Climate Change in Preindustrial Iceland pp. 250-55

Matthew Turner, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Jian Chen and Chunyan Hao

Race and Gender Differences under Federal Sentencing Guidelines pp. 256-60

Todd Sorensen, Supriya Sarnikar and Ronald Oaxaca

Terrorism and Patriotism: On the Earnings of US Veterans following September 11, 2001 pp. 261-66

Alberto Davila and Marie T. Mora

The Nonlinear Relationship between Terrorism and Poverty pp. 267-72

Walter Enders and Gary Hoover

War and Stature: Growing Up during the Nigerian Civil War pp. 273-77

Richard Akresh, Sonia Bhalotra, Marinella Leone and Una Osili

Nation Building and Economic Growth pp. 278-82

Ellyn Creasey, Ahmed Rahman and Katherine A. Smith

The Determinants and Consequences of School Choice Errors in Kenya pp. 283-88

Adrienne Lucas and Isaac Mbiti

Kinship and Financial Networks, Formal Financial Access, and Risk Reduction pp. 289-93

Cynthia Kinnan and Robert Townsend

Child Health and Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire pp. 294-99

Camelia Minoiu and Olga Shemyakina

How Financial Literacy Affects Household Wealth Accumulation pp. 300-304

Jere Behrman, Olivia Mitchell, Cindy K. Soo and David Bravo

Financial Education and Timely Decision Support: Lessons from Junior Achievement pp. 305-08

Bruce Ian Carlin and David Robinson

Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level pp. 309-13

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

Effectiveness of Employer-Provided Financial Information: Hiring to Retiring pp. 314-18

Robert L. Clark, Melinda Morrill and Steven G. Allen

Efficient Auctions and Interdependent Types pp. 319-24

Dirk Bergemann, Stephen Morris and Satoru Takahashi

Robustly Ranking Mechanisms pp. 325-29

Tilman Börgers and Doug Smith

Approximation in Mechanism Design pp. 330-36

Jason D. Hartline

Copyright Research in the Digital Age: Moving from Piracy to the Supply of New Products pp. 337-42

Joel Waldfogel

Is Wikipedia Biased? pp. 343-48

Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu

Shifts in Privacy Concerns pp. 349-53

Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

New Challenges in Multihospital Kidney Exchange pp. 354-59

Itai Ashlagi and Alvin Roth

Holdout in the Assembly of Complements: A Problem for Market Design pp. 360-65

Scott Kominers and Eric Weyl

Stability and Strategy-Proofness for Matching with Constraints: A Problem in the Japanese Medical Match and Its Solution pp. 366-70

Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

Understanding Price Controls and Nonprice Competition with Matching Theory pp. 371-75

John William Hatfield, Charles Plott and Tomomi Tanaka

After Airline Deregulation and Alfred E. Kahn pp. 376-80

Nancy Rose

Dynamic Pricing of Electricity pp. 381-85

Paul Joskow and Catherine D. Wolfram

Telecommunications Deregulation pp. 386-90

Jerry Hausman and William Taylor

Government Policy for a Partially Deregulated Industry: Deregulate It Fully pp. 391-95

Clifford Winston

Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality pp. 396-401

Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang

Sustaining Production Chains through Financial Linkages pp. 402-06

Se-Jik Kim and Hyun Song Shin

Proximity and Production Fragmentation pp. 407-11

Robert Johnson and Guillermo Noguera

Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows pp. 412-16

Pol Antras, Davin Chor, Thibault Fally and Russell Hillberry

Trade, Labor Market Frictions, and Residual Wage Inequality across Worker Groups pp. 417-23

Pravin Krishna, Jennifer Poole and Mine Senses

Offshoring, Transition, and Training: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data pp. 424-28

David Hummels, Jakob Munch, Lars Skipper and Chong Xiang

Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching pp. 429-34

Carl Davidson, Fredrik Heyman, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm and Susan Chun Zhu

Exports and Within-Plant Wage Distributions: Evidence from Mexico pp. 435-40

Judith A. Frias, David Kaplan and Eric Verhoogen

Village Economic Accounts: Real and Financial Intertwined pp. 441-46

Archawa Paweenawat and Robert Townsend

Innovation in Space pp. 447-52

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage: Old Idea, New Evidence pp. 453-58

Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson

Tariff Revenue and Tariff Caps pp. 459-65

Manuel Amador and Kyle Bagwell

Profits in the "New Trade" Approach to Trade Negotiations pp. 466-69

Ralph Ossa

Trade Agreements and the Nature of Price Determination pp. 470-76

Pol Antras and Robert Staiger

On the Use of Holdout Samples for Model Selection pp. 477-81

Frank Schorfheide and Kenneth I. Wolpin

Prediction with Misspecified Models pp. 482-86

John Geweke and Gianni Amisano

Assumptions Matter: Model Uncertainty and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment pp. 487-92

Steven Durlauf, Chao Fu and Salvador Navarro

Heuristics and Heterogeneity in Health Insurance Exchanges: Evidence from the Massachusetts Connector pp. 493-97

Keith Ericson and Amanda Starc

Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform pp. 498-501

Martin Hackmann, Jonathan T. Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

The Impact of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Health Care Use among Children pp. 502-07

Sarah Miller

How Did Health Care Reform in Massachusetts Impact Insurance Premiums? pp. 508-13

John A. Graves and Jonathan Gruber

The Long-Term Effects of UI Extensions on Employment pp. 514-19

Johannes Schmieder, Till von Wachter and Stefan Bender

Unemployment in the Great Recession: Did the Housing Market Crisis Prevent the Unemployed from Moving to Take Jobs? pp. 520-25

Henry S. Farber

Contract Form, Wage Flexibility, and Employment pp. 526-31

Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley Macleod and Daniel Parent

Access to Credit by Small Businesses: How Relevant Are Race, Ethnicity, and Gender? pp. 532-37

Elizabeth Asiedu, James A. Freeman and Akwasi Nti-Addae

Coming to America: Does Having a Developed Home Country Matter for Self-Employment in the United States? pp. 538-42

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

The Labor Market Impact of Mandated Employment Verification Systems pp. 543-48

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak

The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States pp. 549-54

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

Love and Money by Parental Matchmaking: Evidence from Urban Couples in China pp. 555-60

Fali Huang, Ginger Zhe Jin and Lixin Xu

Business Cycles and Gender Diversification: An Analysis of Establishment-Level Gender Dissimilarity pp. 561-65

Cynthia Bansak, Mary E. Graham and Allan A. Zebedee

Birth Rates and the Vietnam Draft pp. 566-69

Marianne Bitler and Lucie Schmidt

Identification of the Effect of Depression on Risky Sexual Behavior: Exploiting a Natural Experiment pp. 570-74

Susan Averett and Yang Wang

Hiring, Churn, and the Business Cycle pp. 575-79

Edward Lazear and James Spletzer

Job-to-Job Flows in the Great Recession pp. 580-83

Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer

Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence pp. 584-88

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger

Did the Housing Price Bubble Clobber Local Labor Market Job and Worker Flows When It Burst? pp. 589-93

John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber

Time Use, Emotional Well-Being, and Unemployment: Evidence from Longitudinal Data pp. 594-99

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 600-605

Elena Stancanelli and Arthur van Soest

The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework pp. 606-11

Leslie Stratton

Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time pp. 612-16

Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi and Daniel Hamermesh

Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: Chicago, IL: January 7, 2012 pp. 620-21

John Siegfried

Report of the Secretary for 2011 pp. 622-25

John Siegfried

Report of the Treasurer pp. 626-30

John Siegfried

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 631-34

Charles E. Scott and John Siegfried

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 15, 2011 pp. 637-44

John Siegfried

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, January 5, 2012 pp. 645-52

John Siegfried

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review pp. 653-65

Pinelopi Goldberg

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature pp. 666-68

Janet Currie

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives pp. 669-71

David Autor

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics pp. 672-75

Esther Duflo

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy pp. 676-79

Alan Auerbach

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics pp. 680-84

Steven Davis

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics pp. 685-87

Andrew Postlewaite

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists pp. 688-90

John Siegfried

Report of the Committee on Economic Education for 2011 pp. 691-96

Michael Watts

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2011 pp. 697-704

Barbara M. Fraumeni

Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession: Report of Committee Activities for the 2011 Calendar Year pp. 705-09

Marie T. Mora

American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat): Annual Report--2011 pp. 710-710

Robert Feenstra

Committee on Government Relations pp. 711-13

Charles Schultze

The American Economic Association and Allied Social Science Associations pp. 714-15

John Siegfried

Report of the Selection Committee for the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Editor pp. 716-716

Michael Woodford

Volume 102, issue 2, 2012

Comparing Real Wage Rates: Presidential Address pp. 617-42

Orley Ashenfelter

The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multichannel Television Markets pp. 643-85

Gregory Crawford and Ali Yurukoglu

The Use of Full-Line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry pp. 686-719

Katherine Ho, Justin Ho and Julie Mortimer

Slow to Anger and Fast to Forgive: Cooperation in an Uncertain World pp. 720-49

Drew Fudenberg, David G. Rand and Anna Dreber

Relational Contracts and the Value of Relationships pp. 750-79

Marina Halac

Competition through Commissions and Kickbacks pp. 780-809

Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani

Estimating the Peace Dividend: The Impact of Violence on House Prices in Northern Ireland pp. 810-33

Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller

Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs pp. 834-64

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt

Thar She Bursts: Reducing Confusion Reduces Bubbles pp. 865-83

Michael Kirchler, Jurgen Huber and Thomas Stockl

Information and Industry Dynamics pp. 884-913

Emin Dinlersoz and Mehmet Yorukoglu

Carrot or Stick? The Evolution of Reciprocal Preferences in a Haystack Model pp. 914-40

Florian Herold

Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi pp. 941-64

Maarten Voors, Eleonora E. M. Nillesen, Philip Verwimp, Erwin Bulte, Robert Lensink and Daan van Soest

What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program pp. 965-93

Meredith Fowlie, Stephen Holland and Erin Mansur

Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space pp. 994-1028

J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and David Weil

Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles, and Financial Crises, 1870-2008 pp. 1029-61

Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

What Drives US Foreign Borrowing? Evidence on the External Adjustment to Transitory and Permanent Shocks pp. 1062-92

Giancarlo Corsetti and Panagiotis T. Konstantinou

International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food pp. 1093-1117

Ingvild Almås

Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India pp. 1118-39

Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Jonathan Morduch

Search, Design, and Market Structure pp. 1140-60

Heski Bar-Isaac, Guillermo Caruana and Vicente Cuñat

Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the US Health Insurance Industry pp. 1161-85

Leemore Dafny, Mark Duggan and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan

Erratum: Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Shocks pp. 1186-1186

Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini

Volume 102, issue 1, 2012

Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection pp. 1-28

Thomas Philippon and Vasiliki Skreta

Overcoming Adverse Selection: How Public Intervention Can Restore Market Functioning pp. 29-59

Jean Tirole

Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch, and Systemic Bailouts pp. 60-93

Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole

New Trade Models, Same Old Gains? pp. 94-130

Costas Arkolakis, Arnaud Costinot and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

The Environment and Directed Technical Change pp. 131-66

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn and David Hemous

Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle pp. 167-201

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

The Value of Information in the Court: Get It Right, Keep It Tight pp. 202-37

Matias Iaryczower and Matthew Shum

Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Shocks pp. 238-71

Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery pp. 272-304

Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig

Standard Setting Committees: Consensus Governance for Shared Technology Platforms pp. 305-36

Timothy Simcoe

A Continuous Dilemma pp. 337-63

Daniel Friedman and Ryan Oprea

Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital pp. 364-95

Lukasz A. Drozd and Jaromir Nosal

Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act pp. 396-427

Petra Moser and Alessandra Voena

Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences pp. 428-68

Maurizio Mazzocco and Shiv Saini

A Structural Analysis of Disappointment Aversion in a Real Effort Competition pp. 469-503

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence? pp. 504-23

Martin Ravallion

Was the New Deal Contractionary? pp. 524-55

Gauti Eggertsson

The Internet and Local Wages: A Puzzle pp. 556-75

Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

The Impact of Shrouded Fees: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Indian Mutual Funds Market pp. 576-93

Santosh Anagol and Hugh Hoikwang Kim

Contracts versus Salaries in Matching pp. 594-601

Federico Echenique

Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Comment pp. 602-07

Art Fraas and Randall Lutter

Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Reply pp. 608-12

Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn

Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Corrigendum (Mortality Rate Update) pp. 613-16

Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn