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Volume 112, issue 12, 2022

Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil pp. 3803-47

Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser

Interaction, Stereotypes, and Performance: Evidence from South Africa pp. 3848-75

Lucia Corno, Eliana La Ferrara and Justine Burns

Dynamic Matching in Overloaded Waiting Lists pp. 3876-3910

Jacob D. Leshno

Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials pp. 3911-40

Yuehao Bai

Convex Supply Curves pp. 3941-69

Christoph Boehm and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar

Trading on Sunspots pp. 3970-94

Boyan Jovanovic and Viktor Tsyrennikov

Learning from Manipulable Signals pp. 3995-4040

Mehmet Ekmekci, Leandro Gorno, Lucas Maestri, Jian Sun and Dong Wei

Dynamic Amnesty Programs pp. 4041-75

Sam Kapon

Volume 112, issue 11, 2022

The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population pp. 3489-3527

Charles Jones

Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey pp. 3528-46

Ceren Baysan

Job Search and Hiring with Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills pp. 3547-83

Eliana Carranza, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin and Neil Rankin

Evaluating Deliberative Competence: A Simple Method with an Application to Financial Choice pp. 3584-3626

Sandro Ambuehl, B. Douglas Bernheim and Annamaria Lusardi

Vulnerability and Clientelism pp. 3627-59

Gustavo J. Bobonis, Paul J. Gertler, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro and Simeon Nichter

Social Media and Mental Health pp. 3660-93

Luca Braghieri, Ro'ee Levy and Alexey Makarin

The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp pp. 3694-3724

Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane and Fatima Zahra

Human Capital Depreciation and Returns to Experience pp. 3725-62

Michael Dinerstein, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Constantine Yannelis

Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: The Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin pp. 3763-3802

Christoph Albert and Joan Monras

Volume 112, issue 10, 2022

Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers pp. 3141-75

David Huffman, Collin Raymond and Julia Shvets

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals pp. 3176-3214

Eduardo Montero and Dean Yang

Posterior Separable Cost of Information pp. 3215-59

Tommaso Denti

Valid t-Ratio Inference for IV pp. 3260-90

David S. Lee, Justin McCrary, Marcelo Moreira and Jack Porter

Credit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income Households pp. 3291-3330

Susanna Berkouwer and Joshua Dean

Demagogues and the Economic Fragility of Democracies pp. 3331-66

Dan Bernhardt, Stefan Krasa and Mehdi Shadmehr

Fake News, Voter Overconfidence, and the Quality of Democratic Choice pp. 3367-97

Melis Kartal and Jean-Robert Tyran

Reference Dependence in the Housing Market pp. 3398-3440

Steffen Andersen, Cristian Badarinza, Lu Liu, Julie Marx and Tarun Ramadorai

How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act pp. 3441-87

Charles Angelucci, Simone Meraglia and Nico Voigtländer

Volume 112, issue 9, 2022

Belief Elicitation and Behavioral Incentive Compatibility pp. 2851-83

David Danz, Lise Vesterlund and Alistair Wilson

RETRACTED BY THE AUTHORS: Dividend Taxes and the Allocation of Capital pp. 2884-2920

Charles Boissel and Adrien Matray

The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China pp. 2921-58

Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao

Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds pp. 2959-91

Michael Gelman, Shachar Kariv, Matthew D. Shapiro and Dan Silverman

Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions pp. 2992-3038

David Arnold, Will Dobbie and Peter Hull

Separating Ownership and Information pp. 3039-62

Paul Voss and Marius Kulms

Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies pp. 3063-3105

Mira Frick, Ryota Iijima and Yuhta Ishii

Experimental Cost of Information pp. 3106-23

Tommaso Denti, Massimo Marinacci and Aldo Rustichini

Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics: Comment pp. 3124-36

Sebastian Kranz and Peter Pütz

Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics: Reply pp. 3137-39

Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook and Anthony Heyes

Volume 112, issue 8, 2022

Sentiment and Speculation in a Market with Heterogeneous Beliefs pp. 2465-2517

Ian Martin and Dimitris Papadimitriou

Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments pp. 2518-52

Tessa Bold, Selene Ghisolfi, Frances Nsonzi and Jakob Svensson

The Impact of Childhood Social Skills and Self-Control Training on Economic and Noneconomic Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Using Administrative Data pp. 2553-79

Yann Algan, Elizabeth Beasley, Sylvana Côté, Jungwee Park, Richard E. Tremblay and Frank Vitaro

Community Colleges and Upward Mobility pp. 2580-2630

Jack Mountjoy

All Eyes on Them: A Field Experiment on Citizen Oversight and Electoral Integrity pp. 2631-68

Natalia Garbiras-Díaz and Juan Mateo Montenegro Zarama

Capital Gains Taxes and Real Corporate Investment: Evidence from Korea pp. 2669-2700

Terry S. Moon

Supply Network Formation and Fragility pp. 2701-47

Matthew Elliott, Benjamin Golub and Matthew V. Leduc

The Economic Effects of Mafia: Firm Level Evidence pp. 2748-73

Litterio Mirenda, Sauro Mocetti and Lucia Rizzica

The Human Side of Structural Transformation pp. 2774-2814

Tommaso Porzio, Federico Rossi and Gabriella Santangelo

Dynamic Oligopoly and Price Stickiness pp. 2815-49

Olivier Wang and Iván Werning

Volume 112, issue 7, 2022

Monopsony in the US Labor Market pp. 2099-2138

Chen Yeh, Claudia Macaluso and Brad Hershbein

Productivity Shocks, Long-Term Contracts, and Earnings Dynamics pp. 2139-77

Neele Balke and Thibaut Lamadon

Heterogeneous Global Booms and Busts pp. 2178-2212

Maryam Farboodi and Péter Kondor

Using the Retail Distribution of Sellers to Impute Expenditure Shares pp. 2213-36

Alexis Antoniades, Robert Feenstra and Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu

When Choices Are Mistakes pp. 2237-68

Kirby Nielsen and John Rehbeck

Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations pp. 2269-2315

Francesco Bianchi, Sydney C. Ludvigson and Sai Ma

Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda pp. 2316-52

Maria Jones, Florence Kondylis, John Loeser and Jeremy Magruder

Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets pp. 2353-92

Ricardo Caballero and Alp Simsek

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy pp. 2393-2423

Kyle R. Myers and Lauren Lanahan

Digital Addiction pp. 2424-63

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow and Lena Song

Volume 112, issue 6, 2022

Design-Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics pp. 1773-81

David Card

The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry pp. 1782-1817

Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin

Aggregating Distributional Treatment Effects: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of the Microcredit Literature pp. 1818-47

Rachael Meager

Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement: Balance of Payments, Foreign Investment, Productivity, and the Labor Share pp. 1848-84

Fatih Guvenen, Raymond J. Mataloni, Dylan G. Rassier and Kim Ruhl

Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China pp. 1885-1914

Clément Imbert, Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg

Concentration Thresholds for Horizontal Mergers pp. 1915-48

Volker Nocke and Michael D. Whinston

Screening Inattentive Buyers pp. 1949-84

Jeffrey Mensch

Spreading Gangs: Exporting US Criminal Capital to El Salvador pp. 1985-2024

Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Efficient Matching in the School Choice Problem pp. 2025-43

Philip J. Reny

Bargaining with Mechanisms pp. 2044-82

Marcin Pęski

Volume 112, issue 5, 2022

Supply and Demand in Disaggregated Keynesian Economies with an Application to the COVID-19 Crisis pp. 1397-1436

David Baqaee and Emmanuel Farhi

Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? pp. 1437-74

Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub and Iván Werning

Effective Demand Failures and the Limits of Monetary Stabilization Policy pp. 1475-1521

Michael Woodford

Bargaining over Contingent Contracts under Incomplete Information pp. 1522-54

Geoffroy de Clippel, Jack Fanning and Kareen Rozen

Rebel on the Canal: Disrupted Trade Access and Social Conflict in China, 1650–1911 pp. 1555-90

Yiming Cao and Shuo Chen

Bargaining over a Divisible Good in the Market for Lemons pp. 1591-1620

Dino Gerardi, Lucas Maestri and Ignacio Monzon

The Demand for Insurance and Rationale for a Mandate: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Insurance pp. 1621-68

Marika Cabral, Can Cui and Michael Dworsky

Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments pp. 1669-1702

Gaurab Aryal, Manudeep Bhuller and Fabian Lange

Multidimensional Auctions of Contracts: An Empirical Analysis pp. 1703-36

Yunmi Kong, Isabelle Perrigne and Quang Vuong

How Do National Firms Respond to Local Cost Shocks? pp. 1737-72

R. Andrew Butters, Daniel W. Sacks and Boyoung Seo

Volume 112, issue 4, 2022

Who Set Your Wage? pp. 1075-90

David Card

Public Procurement in Law and Practice pp. 1091-1117

Erica Bosio, Simeon Djankov, Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at International Debating Competitions pp. 1118-46

Peter Schwardmann, Egon Tripodi and Joël J. van der Weele

Labor Market Power pp. 1147-93

David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff and Simon Mongey

Measuring Geopolitical Risk pp. 1194-1225

Dario Caldara and Matteo Iacoviello

Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the United States pp. 1226-72

Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons

Understanding the Scarring Effect of Recessions pp. 1273-1310

Christopher Huckfeldt

Dynamic Price Competition, Learning-by-Doing, and Strategic Buyers pp. 1311-33

Andrew Sweeting, Dun Jia, Shen Hui and Xinlu Yao

Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act pp. 1334-63

Charles Taylor and Hannah Druckenmiller

Selling Consumer Data for Profit: Optimal Market-Segmentation Design and Its Consequences pp. 1364-93

Kai Hao Yang

Volume 112, issue 3, 2022

State-Dependent Effects of Monetary Policy: The Refinancing Channel pp. 721-61

Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo and Arlene Wong

Local Elites as State Capacity: How City Chiefs Use Local Information to Increase Tax Compliance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo pp. 762-97

Pablo Balán, Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek and Jonathan L. Weigel

Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students pp. 798-826

Claire Duquennois

Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls pp. 827-60

Mark Hoekstra and CarlyWill Sloan

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field pp. 861-98

Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth

Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India pp. 899-927

Diva Dhar, Tarun Jain and Seema Jayachandran

Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism pp. 928-62

Gilat Levy, Ronny Razin and Alwyn Young

Designing Deadlines pp. 963-97

Erik Madsen

Employer Incentives and Distortions in Health Insurance Design: Implications for Welfare and Costs pp. 998-1037

Nicholas Tilipman

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work pp. 1038-74

Stefano DellaVigna, John List, Ulrike Malmendier and Gautam Rao

Volume 112, issue 2, 2022

Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration pp. 369-408

Ellora Derenoncourt

Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in US Electricity Generation pp. 409-41

Steve Cicala

Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services pp. 442-93

Mitra Akhtari, Diana Moreira and Laura Trucco

A Satellite Account for Health in the United States pp. 494-533

David M. Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, Kassandra L. Messer, Trivellore Raghunathan, Allison B. Rosen and Susan T. Stewart

Consumer Information and the Limits to Competition pp. 534-77

Mark Armstrong and Jidong Zhou

Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange pp. 578-615

Mark Shepard

Incomplete Information Bargaining with Applications to Mergers, Investment, and Vertical Integration pp. 616-49

Simon Loertscher and Leslie M. Marx

An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System pp. 650-88

Dmitry Mukhin

Taxes and Turnout: When the Decisive Voter Stays at Home pp. 689-719

Felix Bierbrauer, Aleh Tsyvinski and Nicolas Werquin

Volume 112, issue 1, 2022

Consumption Response to Credit Expansions: Evidence from Experimental Assignment of 45,307 Credit Lines pp. 1-40

Deniz Aydin

Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women's Temperance Crusade pp. 41-80

Camilo García-Jimeno, Angel Iglesias and Pinar Yildirim

College Tuition and Income Inequality pp. 81-121

Zhifeng Cai and Jonathan Heathcote

Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride pp. 122-68

Luigi Butera, Robert Metcalfe, William Morrison and Dmitry Taubinsky

Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials, and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market pp. 169-212

Thibaut Lamadon, Magne Mogstad and Bradley Setzler

Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System pp. 213-34

Anders Jensen

The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation pp. 235-66

Federico Rossi

A/B Contracts pp. 267-303

George Georgiadis and Michael Powell

When Should There Be Vertical Choice in Health Insurance Markets? pp. 304-42

Victoria Marone and Adrienne Sabety

Counterfactuals with Latent Information pp. 343-68

Dirk Bergemann, Benjamin Brooks and Stephen Morris