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Volume 101, issue 7, 2011

Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment pp. 2873-98

Andreas Hornstein, Per Krusell and Giovanni Violante

Search and Satisficing pp. 2899-2922

Andrew Caplin, Mark Dean and Daniel Martin

Sources of Lifetime Inequality pp. 2923-54

Mark Huggett, Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron

Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements pp. 2955-79

Viral Acharya, Peter DeMarzo and Ilan Kremer

The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics pp. 2980-3018

Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse Shapiro and Michael Sinkinson

School Desegregation, School Choice, and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race pp. 3019-46

Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Byron F. Lutz

Dynamic Inefficiencies in an Employment-Based Health Insurance System: Theory and Evidence pp. 3047-77

Hanming Fang and Alessandro Gavazza

The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa pp. 3078-3108

Taryn Dinkelman

Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment pp. 3109-29

John Ifcher and Homa Zarghamee

Who Thinks about the Competition? Managerial Ability and Strategic Entry in US Local Telephone Markets pp. 3130-61

Avi Goldfarb and Mo Xiao

Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison pp. 3162-95

M. Scott Taylor

Extreme Walrasian Dynamics: The Gale Example in the Lab pp. 3196-3220

Sean Crockett, Ryan Oprea and Charles Plott

The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa pp. 3221-52

Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon

Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia pp. 3253-85

Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution pp. 3286-3307

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson and James Robinson

Trends in Employment and Earnings of Allowed and Rejected Applicants to the Social Security Disability Insurance Program pp. 3308-29

Till von Wachter, Jae Song and Joyce Manchester

Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment pp. 3330-48

Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan and Nikos Nikiforakis

Relational Contracts and the Value of Loyalty pp. 3349-67

Simon Board

Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector pp. 3368-99

Christopher Knittel

Overborrowing and Systemic Externalities in the Business Cycle pp. 3400-3426

Javier Bianchi

Stakes Matter in Ultimatum Games pp. 3427-39

Steffen Andersen, Seda Ertaç, Uri Gneezy, Moshe Hoffman and John List

US International Equity Investment and Past and Prospective Returns pp. 3440-55

Stephanie E. Curcuru, Charles Thomas, Francis Warnock and Jon Wongswan

The Cross Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and Consumption Growth Risk: Comment pp. 3456-76

Craig Burnside

The Cross-Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and Consumption Growth Risk: Reply pp. 3477-3500

Hanno Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan

Volume 101, issue 6, 2011

Searching and Learning by Trial and Error pp. 2277-2308

Steven Callander

Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000 pp. 2309-49

Pedro Carneiro and Sokbae (Simon) Lee

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya pp. 2350-90

Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson

Aggregation and the PPP Puzzle in a Sticky-Price Model pp. 2391-2424

Carlos Carvalho and Fernanda Nechio

Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices pp. 2425-49

Joseph E. Harrington and Andrzej Skrzypacz

International Prices, Costs, and Markup Differences pp. 2450-86

Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Nicholas Li

The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital pp. 2487-2529

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks pp. 2530-61

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Pablo Guerron, Juan F Rubio-Ramirez and Martín Uribe

The Potential of Social Identity for Equilibrium Selection pp. 2562-89

Roy Chen and Yan Chen

Bayesian Persuasion pp. 2590-2615

Emir Kamenica and Matthew Gentzkow

The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US Cities pp. 2616-52

Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner

Bid Preference Programs and Participation in Highway Procurement Auctions pp. 2653-86

Elena Krasnokutskaya and Katja Seim

Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality pp. 2687-2722

Maximilian Auffhammer and Ryan Kellogg

The Chinese Warrants Bubble pp. 2723-53

Wei Xiong and Jialin Yu

Estimating Marginal Returns to Education pp. 2754-81

Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

How Demanding Is the Revealed Preference Approach to Demand? pp. 2782-95

Timothy Beatty and Ian A. Crawford

Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Reexamination pp. 2796-2822

Charles Engel

Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk in a Frictional Labor Market pp. 2823-43

Leena Rudanko

Expectations, Learning, and Business Cycle Fluctuations pp. 2844-72

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

Volume 101, issue 5, 2011

Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy pp. 1649-75

Nicholas Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus

From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis pp. 1676-1706

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods pp. 1707-38

Tim Erickson and Ariel Pakes

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya pp. 1739-74

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets pp. 1775-1805

V. Joseph Hotz and Mo Xiao

Competition among Sellers in Securities Auctions pp. 1806-41

Alexander S. Gorbenko and Andrey Malenko

Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance pp. 1842-71

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

Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross Section of Countries pp. 1872-1911

Alberto Alesina and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

New York City Cab Drivers' Labor Supply Revisited: Reference-Dependent Preferences with Rational-Expectations Targets for Hours and Income pp. 1912-32

Vincent Crawford and Juanjuan Meng

Climbing atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research pp. 1933-63

Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern

Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors pp. 1964-2002

Francisco Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Yongseok Shin

Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch pp. 2003-41

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

Bargaining in Stationary Networks pp. 2042-80

Mihai Manea

State Misallocation and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from China pp. 2081-2107

Shing-Yi Wang

Forced Sales and House Prices pp. 2108-31

John Campbell, Stefano Giglio and Parag Pathak

House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the US Household Leverage Crisis pp. 2132-56

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime, and the July 2005 Terror Attacks pp. 2157-81

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and Robert Witt

Barriers to Investment in Polarized Societies pp. 2182-2204

Marina Azzimonti

The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities pp. 2205-25

Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski, Xavier Gabaix and Hernán A. Makse

The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and Their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery pp. 2226-47

Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Soetevent and Arie Kapteyn

Did Household Consumption Become More Volatile? pp. 2248-70

Olga Gorbachev

Strotz Meets Allais: Diminishing Impatience and the Certainty Effect: Comment pp. 2271-75

Kota Saito

Volume 101, issue 4, 2011

Unemployment, Vacancies, Wages pp. 1045-72

Peter Diamond

Markets with Search Friction and the DMP Model pp. 1073-91

Dale Mortensen

Equilibrium in the Labor Market with Search Frictions pp. 1092-1105

Christopher Pissarides

The Role of Trading Frictions in Real Asset Markets pp. 1106-43

Alessandro Gavazza

Read All about It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock? pp. 1144-79

Michelle Alexopoulos

Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program pp. 1180-1210

Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber

Participation pp. 1211-37

Gary Charness and Martin Dufwenberg

What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization pp. 1238-73

Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger

Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments pp. 1274-1311

Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan

R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics pp. 1312-44

Bee Yan Aw, Mark Roberts and Yi Xu

Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization pp. 1345-74

Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray

Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards pp. 1375-1409

Soren Anderson and James M. Sallee

Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives, and Evaluation pp. 1410-35

Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates and Daniel S. Hamermesh

The Inflation-Output Trade-Off with Downward Wage Rigidities pp. 1436-66

Pierpaolo Benigno and Luca Ricci

Education and Labor Market Discrimination pp. 1467-96

Kevin Lang and Michael Manove

Face Value pp. 1497-1513

Catherine Eckel and Ragan Petrie

Term Premia and Inflation Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from an International Panel Dataset pp. 1514-34

Jonathan Wright

Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection and Online Disclosure: The Case of eBay Motors pp. 1535-46

Gregory Lewis

Ambiguity Models and the Machina Paradoxes pp. 1547-60

Aurelien Baillon, Olivier L'Haridon and Laetitia Placido

Optimal Policy Intervention and the Social Value of Public Information pp. 1561-74

Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler

Why Do Payment Card Networks Charge Proportional Fees? pp. 1575-90

Oz Shy and Zhu Wang

Information and Prices with Capacity Constraints pp. 1591-1600

Benjamin Lester

Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia pp. 1601-15

Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang and Feng Zhu

Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment pp. 1616-28

Richard Crump, Gopi Goda and Kevin Mumford

Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins: Comment pp. 1629-35

Vikesh Amin

Corrigendum: Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment pp. 1636-1636

Jose Apesteguia and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta

Volume 101, issue 3, 2011

Foreword pp. x-x

Orley Ashenfelter

Editors' Introduction pp. xi-xii

William Johnson and Samantha Bennett

Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences pp. 1-22

Janet Currie

Recessions, Retirement, and Social Security pp. 23-28

Courtney Coile and Phillip Levine

What Explains Changes in Retirement Plans during the Great Recession? pp. 29-34

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

Time to Retire? The Effect of State Fiscal Policies on Retirement Decisions pp. 35-39

Tami Gurley-Calvez and Brian Hill

Crash and Wait? The Impact of the Great Recession on the Retirement Plans of Older Americans pp. 40-44

Brooke Helppie McFall

Does Concentration Matter? Measurement of Petroleum Merger Price Effects pp. 45-50

Daniel Hosken, Louis Silvia and Christopher Taylor

More Evidence on the Performance of Merger Simulations pp. 51-55

Matthew Weinberg

Challenges in Merger Simulation Analysis pp. 56-59

Christopher Knittel and Konstantinos Metaxoglou

The Effect of Bottle Laws on Income: New Empirical Results pp. 60-64

Bevin Ashenmiller

Promoting Recycling: Private Values, Social Norms, and Economic Incentives pp. 65-70

W Viscusi, Joel Huber and Jason Bell

The Environmental Consequences of Global Reuse pp. 71-76

Thomas Kinnaman and Hide-Fumi Yokoo

The Diffusion of Energy Efficiency in Building pp. 77-82

Nils Kok, Marquise McGraw and John Quigley

Do Residential Customers Respond to Hourly Prices? Evidence from a Dynamic Pricing Experiment pp. 83-87

Frank A. Wolak

Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects pp. 88-92

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

Is an Automaker's Road to Bankruptcy Paved with Customers' Beliefs? pp. 93-97

Ali Hortacsu, Gregor Matvos, Chaehee Shin, Chad Syverson and Sriram Venkataraman

Consumers' Perceptions and Misperceptions of Energy Costs pp. 98-104

Hunt Allcott

Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety pp. 105-09

Mark R. Jacobsen

Forecasting Gasoline Prices Using Consumer Surveys pp. 110-14

Soren Anderson, Ryan Kellogg, James M. Sallee and Richard T. Curtin

Credit Ratings and Security Prices in the Subprime MBS Market pp. 115-19

Adam Ashcraft, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Peter Hull and James Vickery

Credit Ratings Accuracy and Analyst Incentives pp. 120-24

Heski Bar-Isaac and Joel Shapiro

Did Credit Rating Agencies Make Unbiased Assumptions on CDOs? pp. 125-30

John M. Griffin and Dragon Yongjun Tang

Credit Ratings and the Evolution of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Market pp. 131-35

Jie He, Jun Qian and Philip E. Strahan

Wine Retail Price Dispersion in the United States: Searching for Expensive Wines? pp. 136-41

David Jaeger and Karl Storchmann

Climate, Grapevine Phenology, Wine Production, and Prices: Pauillac (1800-2009) pp. 142-46

Jean-Michel Chevet, Sébastien Lecocq and Michael Visser

Isolating the Symbolic Implications of Employee Mobility: Price Increases after Hiring Winemakers from Prominent Wineries pp. 147-51

Peter W. Roberts, Mukti Khaire and Christopher I. Rider

What Is the Value of Terroir? pp. 152-56

Robin Cross, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert N. Stavins

The Restoration of Welfare Economics pp. 157-61

Anthony Atkinson

Markets and Morality pp. 162-65

Jagdish Bhagwati

Economics: A Moral Inquiry with Religious Origins pp. 166-70

Benjamin M. Friedman

Economists as Worldly Philosophers pp. 171-75

Robert J. Shiller and Virginia M. Shiller

Completion Rates and Time-to-Degree in Economics PhD Programs (with comments by David Colander, N. Gregory Mankiw, Melissa P. McInerney, James M. Poterba) pp. 176-88

Wendy A. Stock, John Siegfried and T. Aldrich Finegan

A Bright Idea for Measuring Economic Growth pp. 194-99

Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and David Weil

Does Quality Adjustment Matter for Technologically Stable Products? An Application to the CPI for Food pp. 200-205

John S. Greenlees and Robert McClelland

Quality Adjustment for Health Care Spending on Chronic Disease: Evidence from Diabetes Treatment, 1999-2009 pp. 206-11

Karen Eggleston, Nilay D. Shah, Steven A. Smith, Ernst R. Berndt and Joseph Newhouse

Sale Rates and Price Movements in Art Auctions pp. 212-16

Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy

Rock and Roll Bands, (In)complete Contracts, and Creativity pp. 217-21

Cedric Ceulemans, Victor Ginsburgh and Patrick Legros

Art and Money pp. 222-26

William Goetzmann, Luc Renneboog and Christophe Spaenjers

Optimal Learning Patterns for Creativity Generation in a Field pp. 227-32

Jonathan S. Feinstein

Why Can't US Airlines Make Money? pp. 233-37

Severin Borenstein

Comparing the Costs of Intermittent and Dispatchable Electricity Generating Technologies pp. 238-41

Paul Joskow

Financial Regulatory Reform: Challenges Ahead pp. 242-46

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

Measuring the Benefits of Greater Spatial Granularity in Short-Term Pricing in Wholesale Electricity Markets pp. 247-52

Frank A. Wolak

Challenges from State-Federal Interactions in US Climate Change Policy pp. 253-57

Lawrence H. Goulder and Robert N. Stavins

The Role of Trade and Competitiveness Measures in US Climate Policy pp. 258-62

Carolyn Fischer and Alan Fox

Vertical Targeting and Leakage in Carbon Policy pp. 263-67

James Bushnell and Erin Mansur

The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets with Imperfect Enforcement pp. 268-72

Hilary Sigman and Howard F. Chang

Corrective Taxation versus Liability pp. 273-76

Steven Shavell

Optimal Proof Burdens, Deterrence, and the Chilling of Desirable Behavior pp. 277-80

Louis Kaplow

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle pp. 281-87

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth pp. 288-92

Dana Chandler, Steven Levitt and John List

The "Collapse in Quality" Hypothesis pp. 293-97

Andrei Levchenko, Logan Lewis and Linda Tesar

Trade Finance and the Great Trade Collapse pp. 298-302

JaeBin Ahn, Mary Amiti and David Weinstein

US Trade and Inventory Dynamics pp. 303-07

George Alessandria, Joseph Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan

Vertical Linkages and the Collapse of Global Trade pp. 308-12

Rudolfs Bems, Robert Johnson and Kei-Mu Yi

Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience pp. 313-17

John List

The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment pp. 318-22

Paul Ferraro, Juan Jose Miranda and Michael Price

Can Tailored Communications Motivate Environmental Volunteers? A Natural Field Experiment pp. 323-28

Omar Al-Ubaydli and Min Lee

Using Artefactual Field Experiments to Learn about the Incentives for Sustainable Forest Use in Developing Economies pp. 329-33

Maarten Voors, Erwin Bulte, Andreas Kontoleon, John List and Ty Turley

Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription: New Estimates Using Social Security Data pp. 334-38

Joshua Angrist, Stacey H. Chen and Jae Song

Battle Scars? The Puzzling Decline in Employment and Rise in Disability Receipt among Vietnam Era Veterans pp. 339-44

David Autor, Mark Duggan and David S. Lyle

Long-Run Mortality Effects of Vietnam-Era Army Service: Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries pp. 345-49

Peter Siminski and Simon Ville

The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Postwar Household Stability pp. 350-54

Dalton Conley and Jennifer Heerwig

Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present pp. 355-59

William Collins and Robert Margo

Covenants without Courts: Enforcing Residential Segregation with Legally Unenforceable Agreements pp. 360-65

Richard R. W. Brooks

The New Deal, Race, and Home Ownership in the 1920s and 1930s pp. 366-70

Trevor Kollmann and Price Fishback

Land and Racial Wealth Inequality pp. 371-76

Melinda Miller

Heterogeneity in Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Prescription Drug Plan Choice pp. 377-81

Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber

Part D Formulary and Benefit Design as a Risk-Steering Mechanism pp. 382-86

Dana Goldman, Geoffrey F. Joyce and William B. Vogt

The Medium-Term Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices pp. 387-92

Mark Duggan and Fiona Scott Morton

Are Drugs Substitutes or Complements for Intensive (and Expensive) Medical Treatment pp. 393-97

Yuting Zhang, Joseph Newhouse and Katherine Baicker

The Risky Steady State pp. 398-401

Nicolas Coeurdacier, Helene Rey and Pablo Winant

Market Sentiment: A Tragedy of the Commons pp. 402-05

Tarek A. Hassan and Thomas Mertens

Disasterization: A Simple Way to Fix the Asset Pricing Properties of Macroeconomic Models pp. 406-09

Xavier Gabaix

Regulating Asset Price Risk pp. 410-12

Philippe Bacchetta, Cédric Tille and Eric van Wincoop

Leverage and the Financial Accelerator in a Liquidity Trap pp. 413-16

Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn

Helping Consumers Know Themselves pp. 417-22

Emir Kamenica, Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard Thaler

The Limits of Transparency: Pitfalls and Potential of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest pp. 423-28

George Loewenstein, Daylian M. Cain and Sunita Sah

The Financial Education Fallacy pp. 429-34

Lauren E. Willis

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health pp. 435-41

Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone and Enrico Moretti

Environmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act pp. 442-47

Reed Walker

Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption pp. 448-53

Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell and Wolfram Schlenker

Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers pp. 454-59

Michael Ransom and Val Lambson

Teacher Mobility Responses to Wage Changes: Evidence from a Quasi-natural Experiment pp. 460-65

Torberg Falch

Negative Returns to Seniority and Job Mobility across the Program Quality Distribution: Are Top Public PhD-Granting Programs Different? pp. 466-70

Michael J. Hilmer and Christiana E. Hilmer

Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent? A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins pp. 471-75

Raj Chetty, Adam Guren, Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

Interpreting Labor Supply Regressions in a Model of Full- and Part-Time Work pp. 476-81

Yongsung Chang, Sun-Bin Kim, Kyooho Kwon and Richard Rogerson

Labor Supply and the Extensive Margin pp. 482-86

Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Guy Laroque

A Labor Supply Elasticity Accord? pp. 487-91

Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas Sargent

Which Dimensions of Culture Matter for Long-Run Growth? pp. 492-98

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland

Fertility and the Plough pp. 499-503

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

The Weight of History on European Cultural Integration: A Gravity Approach pp. 504-08

Pauline Grosjean

Social Preferences and Fairness Norms as Informal Institutions: Experimental Evidence pp. 509-13

Pamela Jakiela

Gender Gap in Performance under Competitive Pressure: Admissions to Czech Universities pp. 514-18

Stepan Jurajda and Daniel Münich

The Roma/Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary pp. 519-25

Gabor Kertesi and Gabor Kezdi

Learn English, Not the Local Language! Ethnic Russians in the Baltic States pp. 526-31

Ott Toomet

Oaxaca-Blinder as a Reweighting Estimator pp. 532-37

Patrick Kline

Robustness to Parametric Assumptions in Missing Data Models pp. 538-43

Bryan Graham and Keisuke Hirano

Flexible Estimation of Treatment Effect Parameters pp. 544-51

Thomas MaCurdy, Xiaohong Chen and Han Hong

Origins of the Unemployment Rate: The Lasting Legacy of Measurement without Theory pp. 552-57

David Card

The Lerner Index of Monopoly Power: Origins and Uses pp. 558-64

Kenneth Elzinga and David Mills

Real Wage Index Numbers pp. 565-70

John Pencavel

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Ethnic Stratification in Africa pp. 571-76

Warren Whatley and Rob Gillezeau

Global Financial Crisis and Africa: Is the Impact Permanent or Transitory? Time Series Evidence from North Africa pp. 577-81

Hassan Y. Aly and Mark C. Strazicich

Remittances and Income Smoothing pp. 582-87

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo

Applying Fixed Effects to Hierarchical Segregation Models pp. 588-92

Dina Shatnawi, Ronald Oaxaca and Michael Ransom

Does Mestizaje Matter in the US? Economic Stratification of Mexican Immigrants pp. 593-97

Alberto Davila, Marie T. Mora and Sue K. Stockly

Estimating the Ex Ante Expected Returns to College pp. 598-602

Andrew J. Hussey and Omari H. Swinton

Tracking Intergenerational Progress for Immigrant Groups: The Problem of Ethnic Attrition pp. 603-08

Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

Owner-Occupied Housing: Life-Cycle Implications for the Household Portfolio pp. 609-14

Marjorie Flavin and Takashi Yamashita

House Prices and Marital Stability pp. 615-19

Martin Farnham, Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

Hazardous Waste Cleanup, Neighborhood Gentrification, and Environmental Justice: Evidence from Restricted Access Census Block Data pp. 620-24

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran and Christopher Timmins

Estimating the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Violent Crime: A Dynamic Approach pp. 625-29

Kelly Bishop and Alvin Murphy

Compensating Differentials for Sexual Harassment pp. 630-34

Joni Hersch

Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership pp. 635-39

David A. Matsa and Amalia Miller

Have Gender Gaps in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Narrowed under Health Reform? Findings from Massachusetts pp. 640-44

Sharon K. Long, Karen Stockley and Shanna Shulman

International Migration and Gender Discrimination among Children Left Behind pp. 645-49

Francisca Antman

Minutes of the Annual Meeting: Denver, CO, January 8, 2011 pp. 653-54

John Siegfried

Report of the Secretary for 2010 pp. 655-58

John Siegfried

Report of the Treasurer pp. 659-63

John Siegfried

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 664-67

Charles E. Scott and John Siegfried

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 23, 2010 pp. 669-76

John Siegfried

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Denver, CO, January 6, 2011 pp. 677-83

John Siegfried

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review (with Appendix by Philip J. Glandon) pp. 684-93

Robert Moffitt

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature pp. 700-702

Janet Currie

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives pp. 703-05

David Autor

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics pp. 706-09

Esther Duflo

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy pp. 710-12

Alan Auerbach

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics pp. 713-17

Steven Davis

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics pp. 718-20

Andrew Postlewaite

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists pp. 721-23

John Siegfried

Report of the Committee on Economic Education for 2010 pp. 724-30

Michael Watts

Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2010 pp. 731-36

Barbara M. Fraumeni

Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession: Report of Committee Activities for the 2010 Calendar Year pp. 737-38

Ngina Chiteji

American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat): Annual Report--2010 pp. 739-40

Matthew D. Shapiro

Committee on Government Relations pp. 741-43

Katharine Abraham

Volume 101, issue 2, 2011

The Long Slump pp. 431-69

Robert E. Hall

Reference Points and Effort Provision pp. 470-92

Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk, Lorenz Goette and David Huffman

Contracts as Reference Points--Experimental Evidence pp. 493-525

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

The Economics of Credence Goods: An Experiment on the Role of Liability, Verifiability, Reputation, and Competition pp. 526-55

Uwe Dulleck, Rudolf Kerschbamer and Matthias Sutter

Performance Pay and Multidimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences, and Gender pp. 556-90

Thomas Dohmen and Armin Falk

Are Risk Preferences Stable across Contexts? Evidence from Insurance Data pp. 591-631

Levon Barseghyan, Jeffrey Prince and Joshua Teitelbaum

Collaborating pp. 632-63

Alessandro Bonatti and Johannes Horner

Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behavior in a Broad Population pp. 664-94

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Arthur van Soest and Erik Wengström

The Rich Domain of Uncertainty: Source Functions and Their Experimental Implementation pp. 695-723

Mohammed Abdellaoui, Aurelien Baillon, Laetitia Placido and Peter Wakker

Procedural Analysis of Choice Rules with Applications to Bounded Rationality pp. 724-48

Yuval Salant

The Bidder's Curse pp. 749-87

Ulrike Malmendier and Young Han Lee

Falsifiability pp. 788-818

Wojciech Olszewski and Alvaro Sandroni

Deferred Compensation in Multiperiod Labor Contracts: An Experimental Test of Lazear's Model pp. 819-43

Steffen Huck, Andrew J. Seltzer and Brian Wallace

Sales and Monetary Policy pp. 844-76

Bernardo Guimaraes and Kevin D. Sheedy

The Cyclical Behavior of Debt and Equity Finance pp. 877-99

Francisco Covas and Wouter J. Den Haan

Search Dynamics in Consumer Choice under Time Pressure: An Eye-Tracking Study pp. 900-926

Elena Reutskaja, Rosemarie Nagel, Colin Camerer and Antonio Rangel

Coordination in the Presence of Asset Markets pp. 927-47

Shimon Kogan, Anthony M. Kwasnica and Roberto Weber

Real-Time Search in the Laboratory and the Market pp. 948-74

Meta Brown, Christopher Flinn and Andrew Schotter

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players pp. 975-90

Steven Levitt, John List and Sally E. Sadoff

The Willingness to Pay—Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations: Comment pp. 991-1011

Andrea Isoni, Graham Loomes and Robert Sugden

The Willingness to Pay--Willingness to Accept Gap, the "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, and Experimental Procedures for Eliciting Valuations: Reply pp. 1012-28

Charles Plott and Kathryn Zeiler

Stationary Concepts for Experimental 2 X 2 Games: Comment pp. 1029-40

Christoph Brunner, Colin Camerer and Jacob Goeree

Stationary Concepts for Experimental 2 X 2 Games: Reply pp. 1041-44

Reinhard Selten, Thorsten Chmura and Sebastian Goerg

Volume 101, issue 1, 2011

Front Matter and Editor's Note pp. i-i

Robert Moffitt

100 Years of the American Economic Review: The Top 20 Articles pp. 1-8

Kenneth Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin Feldstein, Daniel McFadden, James Poterba and Robert Solow

The Economic History of the American Economic Review: A Century's Explosion of Economics Research pp. 9-35

Robert Margo

Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation (1911) pp. 36-48

Katharine Coman

Reflections on "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation" pp. 49-63

Elinor Ostrom

Institutional Path Dependence in Climate Adaptation: Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation" pp. 64-80

Gary D. Libecap

The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled after 100 Years pp. 81-108

Robert N. Stavins

Two Illustrations of the Quantity Theory of Money: Breakdowns and Revivals pp. 109-28

Thomas Sargent and Paolo Surico

Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes pp. 129-57

Devin Pope and Maurice E. Schweitzer

The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth pp. 158-95

Justin McCrary and Heather Royer

Growing Like China pp. 196-233

Zheng Song, Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti

Reference Prices, Costs, and Nominal Rigidities pp. 234-62

Martin Eichenbaum, Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo

Bundle-Size Pricing as an Approximation to Mixed Bundling pp. 263-303

Chenghuan Sean Chu, Phillip Leslie and Alan Sorensen

Trade Liberalization, Exports, and Technology Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinian Firms pp. 304-40

Paula Bustos

Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation, and the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation pp. 341-70

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run pp. 371-98

Aleksander Berentsen, Guido Menzio and Randall Wright

Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: The "Boston Mechanism" Reconsidered pp. 399-410

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che and Yosuke Yasuda

The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence pp. 411-29

Pedro Dal Bó and Guillaume R. Frochette