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Volume 99, issue 5, 2009
- Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market pp. 1689-1713

- Pierre Chiappori, Murat Iyigun and Yoram Weiss
- Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right pp. 1714-39

- Nicholas Muller and Robert Mendelsohn
- Has Moral Hazard Become a More Important Factor in Managerial Compensation? pp. 1740-69

- George-Levi Gayle and Robert A. Miller
- Selling to Overconfident Consumers pp. 1770-1807

- Michael Grubb
- Risk Taking by Entrepreneurs pp. 1808-30

- Galina Vereshchagina and Hugo A. Hopenhayn
- Adaptation and Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry pp. 1831-49

- Silke Forbes and Mara Lederman
- Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities pp. 1850-77

- Claudia Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier
- The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com pp. 1878-98

- Igal Hendel, Aviv Nevo and Francois Ortalo-Magne
- Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning pp. 1899-1924

- H. Young
- The Evolution of Time Preference with Aggregate Uncertainty pp. 1925-53

- Arthur Robson and Larry Samuelson
- Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match pp. 1954-78

- Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag Pathak and Alvin Roth
- Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity, and Grading Ethics pp. 1979-2011

- Victor Lavy
- On the Possibility of Credit Rationing in the Stiglitz-Weiss Model pp. 2012-21

- Lutz Arnold and John Riley
- Peer-Induced Fairness in Games pp. 2022-49

- Teck-Hua Ho and Xuanming Su
- A Theory of Demand Shocks pp. 2050-84

- Guido Lorenzoni
- Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect pp. 2085-95

- James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian
- Intra-industry Foreign Direct Investment pp. 2096-2119

- Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
- Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? pp. 2120-28

- Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel
- Surprised by the Parimutuel Odds? pp. 2129-34

- Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sørensen
- Debt Maturity and the International Financial Architecture pp. 2135-48

- Olivier Jeanne
- Departure Times in Y-Shaped Traffic Networks with Multiple Bottlenecks pp. 2149-76

- Terry E. Daniel, Eyran J. Gisches and Amnon Rapoport
- Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from US Manufacturing pp. 2177-92

- Arik Levinson
- Endogenous Verifiability and Relational Contracting pp. 2193-2208

- Ola Kvaløy and Trond Olsen
- The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 2209-26

- Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini, Enrico Rettore and Guglielmo Weber
- Direct Democracy and Public Employees pp. 2227-46

- John Matsusaka
- Individual Behavior and Group Membership: Comment pp. 2247-57

- Matthias Sutter
- A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap: Evidence from a Monte Carlo Experiment pp. 2258-66

- Christian Bayer
- A Comment on the Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap: Evidence from a Monte Carlo Experiment: Reply pp. 2267-76

- Russell Cooper and Jonathan Willis
- Corrigendum: Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution pp. 2277-2277

- Stefano Demichelis and Jörgen Weibull
Volume 99, issue 4, 2009
- Can News about the Future Drive the Business Cycle? pp. 1097-1118

- Nir Jaimovich and Sergio Rebelo
- Portfolio Claustrophobia: Asset Pricing in Markets with Illiquid Assets pp. 1119-44

- Francis Longstaff
- Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence pp. 1145-77

- Raj Chetty, W. Looney and Kory Kroft
- Decentralized Organizational Learning: An Experimental Investigation pp. 1178-1205

- Andreas Blume, John Duffy and April Franco
- Think Locally, Act Locally: Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking pp. 1206-17

- Hikaru Ogawa and David Wildasin
- The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics pp. 1218-44

- Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson
- Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines pp. 1245-77

- Nava Ashraf
- Active and Passive Waste in Government Spending: Evidence from a Policy Experiment pp. 1278-1308

- Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti
- One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry pp. 1309-34

- Ted Bergstrom, Rodney Garratt and Damien Sheehan-Connor
- Institution Formation in Public Goods Games pp. 1335-55

- Michael Kosfeld, Akira Okada and Arno Riedl
- Tax Changes and Asset Pricing pp. 1356-83

- Clemens Sialm
- The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial pp. 1384-1414

- Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy
- Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models pp. 1415-50

- Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide
- Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices pp. 1451-83

- Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi
- Hindsight, Foresight, and Insight: An Experimental Study of a Small-Market Investment Game with Common and Private Values pp. 1484-1507

- Asen Ivanov, Dan Levin and James Peck
- Narrow Bracketing and Dominated Choices pp. 1508-43

- Matthew Rabin and Georg Weizsäcker
- Why Do Sellers (Usually) Prefer Auctions? pp. 1544-75

- Jeremy Bulow and Paul Klemperer
- Learning about the Future and Dynamic Efficiency pp. 1576-87

- Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu
- Bank Runs and Institutions: The Perils of Intervention pp. 1588-1607

- Huberto Ennis and Todd Keister
- Expectation Damages, Divisible Contracts, and Bilateral Investment pp. 1608-18

- Susanne Ohlendorf
- Field Centipedes pp. 1619-35

- Ignacio Palacios-Huerta and Oscar Volij
- VAR Analysis and the Great Moderation pp. 1636-52

- Luca Benati and Paolo Surico
- Art as an Investment and Conspicuous Consumption Good pp. 1653-63

- Benjamin Mandel
- Offshoring and Volatility: Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladora Industry pp. 1664-71

- Paul Bergin, Robert Feenstra and Gordon Hanson
- Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Comment pp. 1672-75

- Moshe Levy
- Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Reply pp. 1676-83

- Jan Eeckhout
Volume 99, issue 3, 2009
- The Increasing Returns Revolution in Trade and Geography pp. 561-71

- Paul Krugman
- Bureaucratic Minimal Squawk Behavior: Theory and Evidence from Regulatory Agencies pp. 572-607

- Clare Leaver
- Incentives and Stability in Large Two-Sided Matching Markets pp. 608-27

- Fuhito Kojima and Parag Pathak
- Economic Catastrophe Bonds pp. 628-66

- Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
- Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased US Gasoline Taxes pp. 667-99

- Antonio Bento, Lawrence H. Goulder, Mark R. Jacobsen and Roger von Haefen
- Should Urban Transit Subsidies Be Reduced? pp. 700-724

- Ian Parry and Kenneth A. Small
- Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons pp. 725-49

- Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor
- Strategic Leniency and Cartel Enforcement pp. 750-68

- Nathan H. Miller
- Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention pp. 769-803

- Bartosz Maćkowiak and Mirko Wiederholt
- The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility pp. 804-26

- Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu
- Tricks with Hicks: The EASI Demand System pp. 827-63

- Arthur Lewbel and Krishna Pendakur
- Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment pp. 864-82

- Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen and Hanming Fang
- Misselling through Agents pp. 883-908

- Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
- Reference-Dependent Consumption Plans pp. 909-36

- Botond Koszegi and Matthew Rabin
- Evolution of Time Preferences and Attitudes toward Risk pp. 937-55

- Nick Netzer
- Cooperation and Competition in Intergenerational Experiments in the Field and the Laboratory pp. 956-78

- Gary Charness and Marie Claire Villeval
- Cooperation among Strangers under the Shadow of the Future pp. 979-1005

- Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari
- Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall pp. 1006-26

- Sharon Maccini and Dean Yang
- Anchoring Effects: Evidence from Art Auctions pp. 1027-39

- Alan Beggs and Kathryn Graddy
- On the Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand pp. 1040-52

- Peter Ireland
- Not All Oil Price Shocks Are Alike: Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market pp. 1053-69

- Lutz Kilian
- Exclusive Dealing and Entry, When Buyers Compete: Comment pp. 1070-81

- Julian Wright
- Corrigendum: Women, Wealth, and Mobility pp. 1082-1082

- Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk
Volume 99, issue 2, 2009
- Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Editors' Introduction pp. viii-viii

- William Johnson and Jane E. Voros
- Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association: Foreword pp. ix-ix

- Angus Deaton
- Immigration and Inequality pp. 1-21

- David Card
- The Demography of Mexican Migration to the United States pp. 22-27

- Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh
- Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives? pp. 28-34

- Una Osili and Jia Xie
- The Labor Supply of Immigrants in the United States: The Role of Changing Source Country Characteristics pp. 35-40

- Mary Lopez and Fernando Lozano
- Immigration and Poverty in the United States pp. 41-44

- Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky
- This Job Is "Getting Old": Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure pp. 45-51

- David Autor and David Dorn
- New Evidence on the Returns to Job Skills pp. 52-57

- Katharine Abraham and James R. Spletzer
- Job Polarization in Europe pp. 58-63

- Maarten Goos, Alan Manning and Anna Salomons
- Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts pp. 64-68

- Dale Jorgenson and J. Landefeld
- Perspectives on the New Architecture for the US National Accounts pp. 69-73

- Michael J. Boskin
- Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts pp. 74-79

- Michael J. Harper, Brent Moulton, Steven Rosenthal and David B. Wasshausen
- The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does It Presage the Financial Crisis? pp. 80-86

- Michael Palumbo and Jonathan Parker
- Expectations and Perceptions in Developing Countries: Their Measurement and Their Use pp. 87-92

- Orazio Attanasio
- Egalitarianism and Competitiveness pp. 93-98

- Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Michel Maréchal and Daniel Schunk
- Are Two Cheap, Noisy Measures Better Than One Expensive, Accurate One? pp. 99-103

- Martin Browning and Thomas Crossley
- Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age pp. 104-09

- Anne Case and Christina Paxson
- Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings pp. 110-15

- Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and John Jones
- Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function pp. 116-21

- Amy Finkelstein, Erzo Luttmer and Matthew Notowidigdo
- Why Are Recessions Good for Your Health? pp. 122-27

- Douglas Miller, Marianne Page, Ann Huff Stevens and Mateusz Filipski
- Child Benefits, Maternal Employment, and Children's Health: Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions pp. 128-32

- Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile
- Average Earnings and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data pp. 133-38

- Daniel Sullivan and Till von Wachter
- Time-Use Patterns and Women Entrepreneurs pp. 139-44

- Tami Gurley-Calvez, Amelia Biehl and Katherine Harper
- How Do Remittances Affect Human Capital Formation of School-Age Boys and Girls? pp. 145-48

- Cynthia Bansak and Brian Chezum
- The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education: First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links pp. 149-53

- Stacey H. Chen, Yen-Chien Chen and Jin-Tan Liu
- Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation pp. 154-58

- Amalia Miller
- Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices pp. 159-64

- Julie S. Downs, George Loewenstein and Jessica Wisdom
- Mindless Eating and Healthy Heuristics for the Irrational pp. 165-69

- Brian Wansink, David Just and Collin R. Payne
- Time Use and Food Consumption pp. 170-76

- Marianne Bertrand and Diane Schanzenbach
- Fetal Exposures to Toxic Releases and Infant Health pp. 177-83

- Janet Currie and Johannes Schmieder
- Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy pp. 184-90

- Douglas Almond, Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone and Hongbin Li
- Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico pp. 191-97

- Andrew Foster, Emilio Gutierrez and Naresh Kumar
- Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates pp. 198-204

- Melissa Dell, Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken
- Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand pp. 205-10

- John Felkner, Kamilya Tazhibayeva and Robert Townsend
- Climate Change and Birth Weight pp. 211-17

- Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Jonathan Guryan
- Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Tropical Disease pp. 218-23

- Hoyt Bleakley
- What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention? pp. 224-30

- Pascaline Dupas
- Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-Protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa, India pp. 231-35

- Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong and Brian Blackburn
- Intrahousehold Allocation of Free and Purchased Mosquito Nets pp. 236-41

- Vivian Hoffmann
- Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England pp. 242-47

- Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins
- Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love pp. 248-54

- Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth
- How Relevant Is Malthus for Economic Development Today? pp. 255-60

- David Weil and Joshua Wilde
- Institutions versus Policies: A Tale of Two Islands pp. 261-67

- Peter Blair Henry and Conrad Miller
- Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance pp. 268-74

- Laura N. Beny and Lisa Cook
- South Africa's Post-apartheid Two-Step: Social Demands versus Macro Stability pp. 275-81

- Brahima Coulibaly and Trevon Logan
- Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances pp. 282-86

- Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel
- Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-conflict Liberia pp. 287-91

- James Fearon, Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Repression or Civil War? pp. 292-97

- Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson
- Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule? pp. 298-303

- Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin
- Consolidation of New Democracy, Mass Attitudes, and Clientelism pp. 304-09

- Adi Brender and Allan Drazen
- The Real Swing Voter's Curse pp. 310-15

- James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-election Polling pp. 316-22

- Elias Walsh, Sarah Dolfin and John DiNardo
- Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election pp. 323-29

- Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti
- Bayesian Learning and the Pricing of New Information: Evidence from Prediction Markets pp. 330-36

- David S. Lee and Enrico Moretti
- A Model of Discovery pp. 337-42

- Michele Boldrin and David Levine
- The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues pp. 343-48

- Josh Lerner
- Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth pp. 349-55

- Joel Mokyr
- Identifying Preferences under Risk from Discrete Choices pp. 356-62

- Pierre Chiappori, Amit Gandhi, Bernard Salanié and Francois Salanie
- Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation pp. 363-68

- Miles Kimball, Claudia R. Sahm and Matthew D. Shapiro
- Endogenous Effective Discounting, Credit Constraints, and Wealth Inequality pp. 369-73

- Jeremy Tobacman
- Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending? pp. 374-79

- Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel Slemrod
- The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship among Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income pp. 380-86

- Karen E. Dynan, Wendy Edelberg and Michael G. Palumbo
- Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices pp. 387-92

- Katja Kaufmann and Luigi Pistaferri
- Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households pp. 393-98

- Laurent Calvet, John Campbell and Paolo Sodini
- Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How? pp. 399-405

- Jonathan Parker and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
- Momentum Traders in the Housing Market: Survey Evidence and a Search Model pp. 406-11

- Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
- Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles? pp. 412-17

- Sumit Agarwal, Paige Marta Skiba and Jeremy Tobacman
- What Do High-Interest Borrowers Do with Their Tax Rebate? pp. 418-23

- Marianne Bertrand and Adair Morse
- What Do Consumers Really Pay on Their Checking and Credit Card Accounts? Explicit, Implicit, and Avoidable Costs pp. 424-29

- Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman
- Online Ad Auctions pp. 430-34

- Hal Varian
- The Quest for QWERTY pp. 435-40

- Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan
- Skewed Bidding in Pay-per-Action Auctions for Online Advertising pp. 441-47

- Nikhil Agarwal, Susan Athey and David Yang
- Authority versus Persuasion pp. 448-53

- Eric Van den Steen
- Financial Risk Management: When Does Independence Fail? pp. 454-58

- Augustin Landier, David Sraer and David Thesmar
- Over My Dead Body: Bargaining and the Price of Dignity pp. 459-65

- Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole
- The Aftermath of Financial Crises pp. 466-72

- Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- Expropriation Dynamics pp. 473-79

- Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador and Gita Gopinath
- Financial Instability, Reserves, and Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008 pp. 480-86

- Maurice Obstfeld, Jay Shambaugh and Alan Taylor
- The Margins of US Trade pp. 487-93

- Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott
- Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs pp. 494-500

- Pinelopi Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova
- Plants and Imported Inputs: New Facts and an Interpretation pp. 501-07

- Maurice Kugler and Eric Verhoogen
- Another Look at the Impacts of Health Reform in Massachusetts: Evidence Using New Data and a Stronger Model pp. 508-11

- Sharon K. Long, Karen Stockley and Alshadye Yemane
- Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa pp. 512-16

- Sophie Mitra
- A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the United States pp. 517-21

- Felicia Ionescu and Linnea Polgreen
- Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999 pp. 522-26

- John C. Ham, Xianghong Li and Lara Shore-Sheppard
- How Should Public Pension Plans Invest? pp. 527-32

- Deborah Lucas and Stephen Zeldes
- Will Public Sector Retiree Health Benefit Plans Survive? Economic and Policy Implications of Unfunded Liabilities pp. 533-37

- Robert L. Clark
- Discounting State and Local Pension Liabilities pp. 538-42

- Jeffrey Brown and David Wilcox
- Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism pp. 543-49

- Alan Auerbach
- The Lack of an Empirical Rationale for a Revival of Discretionary Fiscal Policy pp. 550-55

- John Taylor
- Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy pp. 556-59

- Martin Feldstein
- Capital Reallocation and Growth pp. 560-66

- Janice Eberly and Neng Wang
- Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007 pp. 567-72

- Gary Gorton
- Is Monetary Policy Effective during Financial Crises? pp. 573-77

- Frederic Mishkin
- A Note on Liquidity Risk Management pp. 578-83

- Markus Brunnermeier and Motohiro Yogo
- Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility pp. 584-88

- Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy
- Leverage and the Central Banker's Put pp. 589-93

- Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole
- Market and Public Liquidity pp. 594-99

- Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos and Jose A. Scheinkman
- Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy pp. 600-605

- Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin
- The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies pp. 606-10

- Douglas Diamond and Raghuram Rajan
- The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report pp. 611-18

- David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick
- The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment pp. 618-20

- Catharine Hill
- The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment pp. 620-21

- David Breneman
- The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment pp. 621-23

- George Daly
- Completing an Economics PhD in Five Years pp. 624-29

- Wendy A. Stock, T. Aldrich Finegan and John Siegfried
- Minutes of the Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2009 pp. 631-32

- John Siegfried
- Report of the Secretary for 2008 pp. 633-36

- John Siegfried
- Report of the Treasurer pp. 637-40

- John Siegfried
- American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 641-45

- Charles E. Scott and John Siegfried
- List of Online Reports pp. 646-46

- Charles E. Scott and John Siegfried
- Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings pp. 647-59

- John Siegfried
- Report of the Editor: American Economic Review pp. 660-70

- Robert Moffitt
- Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature pp. 671-73

- Roger Gordon
- Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives pp. 674-75

- Andrei Shleifer
- Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics pp. 676-78

- Esther Duflo
- Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy pp. 679-80

- Alan Auerbach
- Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics pp. 681-82

- Olivier Blanchard
- Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics pp. 683-84

- Andrew Postlewaite
- Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists pp. 685-87

- John Siegfried
- Report of the Committee on Economic Education pp. 688-91

- Michael Watts
- Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2008 pp. 692-99

- Barbara M. Fraumeni
- Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession pp. 700-709

- Cecilia Rouse
- Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics pp. 710-710

- Katharine Abraham
Volume 99, issue 1, 2009
- Governance Institutions and Economic Activity pp. 5-24

- Avinash Dixit
- Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All! pp. 25-48

- Juan Carlos Conesa, Sagiri Kitao and Dirk Krueger
- Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending pp. 49-84

- William Adams, Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin
- Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth pp. 85-111

- Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi
- Peers at Work pp. 112-45

- Alexandre Mas and Enrico Moretti
- Women, Wealth, and Mobility pp. 146-78

- Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk
- Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design pp. 179-215

- Miguel Urquiola and Eric Verhoogen
- Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs pp. 216-42

- Paul Beaudry, Charles Blackorby and Dezsö Szalay
- Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs pp. 243-64

- Robert Barro
- Cognition and Incomplete Contracts pp. 265-94

- Jean Tirole
- The Value of Groups pp. 295-323

- Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap and Daniel Zizzo
- The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health, and Crime pp. 324-49

- Carlos Dobkin and Nancy Nicosia
- Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data pp. 350-84

- Jean Boivin, Marc Giannoni and Ilian Mihov
- Risk, Ambiguity, and the Rank-Dependence Axioms pp. 385-92

- Mark Machina
- Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market pp. 393-430

- Katherine Ho
- Group Identity and Social Preferences pp. 431-57

- Yan Chen and Sherry Li
- Excise Taxes with Multiproduct Transactions pp. 458-71

- Stephen F. Hamilton
- Diversity in the Workplace pp. 472-85

- John Morgan and Felix Vardy
- Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How Do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption? pp. 486-508

- Manuela Angelucci and Giacomo De Giorgi
- Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations? pp. 509-27

- Michael Makowsky and Thomas Stratmann
- Democracy and Foreign Education pp. 528-43

- Antonio Spilimbergo
- Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially pp. 544-55

- Dan Ariely, Anat Bracha and Stephan Meier
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