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Volume 108, issue 12, 2018

How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel pp. 3493-3540

Justine Hastings and Jesse Shapiro

Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America pp. 3541-82

Lee Ohanian, Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria and Mark Wright

Market Integration, Demand, and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India pp. 3583-3625

Robert Jensen and Nolan H. Miller

Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation pp. 3626-50

Albert H. Choi and Kathryn E. Spier

Speed, Accuracy, and the Optimal Timing of Choices pp. 3651-84

Drew Fudenberg, Philipp Strack and Tomasz Strzalecki

Identifying Industry Margins with Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals pp. 3685-3724

Pierre Dubois and Laura Lasio

Health Care Access, Costs, and Treatment Dynamics: Evidence from In Vitro Fertilization pp. 3725-77

Barton H. Hamilton, Emily Jungheim, Brian McManus and Juan Pantano

Time versus State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya pp. 3778-3813

Lorenzo Casaburi and Jack Willis

Why Is Pollution from US Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade pp. 3814-54

Joseph S. Shapiro and Reed Walker

Commuting, Migration, and Local Employment Elasticities pp. 3855-90

Ferdinando Monte, Stephen Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

The Nexus of Monetary Policy and Shadow Banking in China pp. 3891-3936

Kaiji Chen, Jue Ren and Tao Zha

Volume 108, issue 11, 2018

Firm Sorting and Agglomeration pp. 3117-53

Cecile Gaubert

Near-Feasible Stable Matchings with Couples pp. 3154-69

Thành Nguyen and Rakesh Vohra

The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire pp. 3170-98

Guo Xu

The Logic of Insurgent Electoral Violence pp. 3199-3231

Luke N. Condra, James D. Long, Andrew C. Shaver and Austin L. Wright

Strategic Patient Discharge: The Case of Long-Term Care Hospitals pp. 3232-65

Paul J. Eliason, Paul L. E. Grieco, Ryan McDevitt and James W. Roberts

Measuring and Bounding Experimenter Demand pp. 3266-3302

Jonathan de Quidt, Johannes Haushofer and Christopher Roth

Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility pp. 3303-38

Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik and Oskar Nordström Skans

Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade pp. 3339-76

Réka Juhász

The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers pp. 3377-3415

Scott Carrell, Mark Hoekstra and Elira Kuka

BKK the EZ Way: International Long-Run Growth News and Capital Flows pp. 3416-49

Ric Colacito, Max Croce, Steven Ho and Philip Howard

Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth pp. 3450-91

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William Kerr

Volume 108, issue 10, 2018

Learning from Others' Outcomes pp. 2763-2801

Alexander Wolitzky

Narrative Sign Restrictions for SVARs pp. 2802-29

Juan Antolin-Diaz and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate pp. 2830-67

Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington

Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan pp. 2868-2901

Joshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen and Tarek Ghani

Estimating Group Effects Using Averages of Observables to Control for Sorting on Unobservables: School and Neighborhood Effects pp. 2902-46

Joseph Altonji and Richard Mansfield

Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance pp. 2947-94

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Matthew Notowidigdo

Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Reforms pp. 2995-3027

David Powell and Seth Seabury

Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolition on Children pp. 3028-56

Eric Chyn

Evaluating Strategic Forecasters pp. 3057-3103

Rahul Deb, Mallesh M. Pai and Maher Said

Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences: Comment pp. 3104-13

Aditya Shrinivas and Marcel Fafchamps

Testing Efficient Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Risk Preferences: Reply pp. 3114-15

Maurizio Mazzocco and Shiv Saini

Volume 108, issue 9, 2018

The Market for Used Capital: Endogenous Irreversibility and Reallocation over the Business Cycle pp. 2383-2419

Andrea Lanteri

Equal but Inequitable: Who Benefits from Gender-Neutral Tenure Clock Stopping Policies? pp. 2420-41

Heather Antecol, Kelly Bedard and Jenna Stearns

Media Bias in China pp. 2442-76

Bei Qin, David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu

Forward Guidance without Common Knowledge pp. 2477-2512

George-Marios Angeletos and Chen Lian

Incidental Bequests and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks pp. 2513-50

Lee Lockwood

Fiscal Foundations of Inflation: Imperfect Knowledge pp. 2551-89

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

Asset Bubbles and Credit Constraints pp. 2590-2628

Jianjun Miao and Pengfei Wang

International Reserves and Rollover Risk pp. 2629-70

Javier Bianchi, Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez

How Do Firms Form Their Expectations? New Survey Evidence pp. 2671-2713

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Saten Kumar

In Search of Labor Demand pp. 2714-57

Paul Beaudry, David Green and Ben M. Sand

A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms: Comment pp. 2758-60

Hongru Tan and Julian Wright

A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms: Reply pp. 2761-62

E. Glen Weyl

Volume 108, issue 8, 2018

Firms, Informality, and Development: Theory and Evidence from Brazil pp. 2015-47

Gabriel Ulyssea

Do Larger Health Insurance Subsidies Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage pp. 2048-87

Marika Cabral, Michael Geruso and Neale Mahoney

Aggregate Recruiting Intensity pp. 2088-2127

Alessandro Gavazza, Simon Mongey and Giovanni L. Violante

Innovation and Production in the Global Economy pp. 2128-73

Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Stephen Yeaple

Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program pp. 2174-2211

Daniel Fetter and Lee Lockwood

Endogenous Disasters pp. 2212-45

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Lu Zhang and Lars-Alexander Kuehn

Marking to Market versus Taking to Market pp. 2246-76

Guillaume Plantin and Jean Tirole

Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable pp. 2277-2304

Michal Kolesár and Christoph Rothe

Fiscal Rules and Discretion in a World Economy pp. 2305-34

Marina Halac and Pierre Yared

From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin pp. 2335-65

Paola Conconi, Manuel Garcia-Santana, Laura Puccio and Roberto Venturini

Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan: Comment pp. 2366-82

Ferdinand Vieider

Volume 108, issue 7, 2018

Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design pp. 1609-58

Alvin Roth

Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition in Lending Markets pp. 1659-1701

Gregory S. Crawford, Nicola Pavanini and Fabiano Schivardi

News or Noise? The Missing Link pp. 1702-36

Ryan Chahrour and Kyle Jurado

Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings pp. 1737-72

Brad Hershbein and Lisa Kahn

The Twin Ds: Optimal Default and Devaluation pp. 1773-1819

Seunghoon Na, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Martín Uribe and Vivian Yue

Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce pp. 1820-59

Michael Dinerstein, Liran Einav, Jonathan Levin and Neel Sundaresan

University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege pp. 1860-98

Hans K. Hvide and Benjamin Jones

Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country pp. 1899-1941

Brian McCaig and Nina Pavcnik

The Persistence of Local Joblessness pp. 1942-70

Michael Amior and Alan Manning

Backward Induction in the Wild? Evidence from Sequential Voting in the US Senate pp. 1971-2013

Jörg Spenkuch, B. Pablo Montagnes and Daniel B. Magleby

Volume 108, issue 6, 2018

From Cashews to Nudges: The Evolution of Behavioral Economics pp. 1265-87

Richard Thaler

Enfranchising Your Own? Experimental Evidence on Bureaucrat Diversity and Election Bias in India pp. 1288-1321

Yusuf Neggers

Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France pp. 1322-63

Vincent Pons

Trucks without Bailouts: Equilibrium Product Characteristics for Commercial Vehicles pp. 1364-1406

Thomas G. Wollmann

Legal Origins and Female HIV pp. 1407-39

Siwan Anderson

Escaping Malthus: Economic Growth and Fertility Change in the Developing World pp. 1440-67

Shoumitro Chatterjee and Tom Vogl

Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion pp. 1468-87

Michael Clemens, Ethan G. Lewis and Hannah M. Postel

The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment pp. 1488-1542

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

Real Exchange Rates and Sectoral Productivity in the Eurozone pp. 1543-81

Martin Berka, Michael Devereux and Charles Engel

Investment Strategy and Selection Bias: An Equilibrium Perspective on Overoptimism pp. 1582-97

Philippe Jehiel

Volume 108, issue 4-5, 2018

Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure pp. 899-934

Dave Donaldson

International Recessions pp. 935-84

Fabrizio Perri and Vincenzo Quadrini

The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden pp. 985-1033

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

Team-Specific Capital and Innovation pp. 1034-73

Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and Alex Bell

The Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire pp. 1074-1117

Andrei Markevich and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions pp. 1118-46

Mark Bils, Pete Klenow and Benjamin Malin

Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy pp. 1147-86

Guillaume Rocheteau, Randall Wright and Cathy Zhang

The Limits to Partial Banking Unions: A Political Economy Approach pp. 1187-1213

Dana Foarta

Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation pp. 1214-52

Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater

Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Comment pp. 1253-55

Brett Matsumoto

Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Reply pp. 1256-63

Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater

Volume 108, issue 3, 2018

Just Starting Out: Learning and Equilibrium in a New Market pp. 565-615

Ulrich Doraszelski, Gregory Lewis and Ariel Pakes

The "Pupil" Factory: Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools pp. 616-56

Roland G. Fryer

Real Effects of Information Frictions: When the States and the Kingdom Became United pp. 657-96

Claudia Steinwender

Monetary Policy According to HANK pp. 697-743

Greg Kaplan, Benjamin Moll and Giovanni L. Violante

A Model of Trading in the Art Market pp. 744-74

Stefano Lovo and Christophe Spaenjers

How Does Household Income Affect Child Personality Traits and Behaviors? pp. 775-827

Randall Akee, William Copeland, E. Jane Costello and Emilia Simeonova

Advertising and Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets pp. 828-67

Naoki Aizawa and You Suk Kim

Disentangling the Effects of a Banking Crisis: Evidence from German Firms and Counties pp. 868-98

Kilian Huber

Volume 108, issue 2, 2018

The Effects of Pretrial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges pp. 201-40

Will Dobbie, Jacob Goldin and Crystal S. Yang

Implications of US Tax Policy for House Prices, Rents, and Homeownership pp. 241-74

Kamila Sommer and Paul Sullivan

The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security pp. 275-307

Erzo Luttmer and Andrew Samwick

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions pp. 308-52

Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo

Export Destinations and Input Prices pp. 353-92

Paulo Bastos, Joana Silva and Eric Verhoogen

Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany pp. 393-418

Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

Lying Aversion and the Size of the Lie pp. 419-53

Uri Gneezy, Agne Kajackaite and Joel Sobel

Option-Based Credit Spreads pp. 454-88

Christopher L. Culp, Yoshio Nozawa and Pietro Veronesi

Certified Random: A New Order for Coauthorship pp. 489-520

Debraj Ray and Arthur Robson

Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution pp. 521-54

Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva and Edoardo Teso

An Efficient Ascending-Bid Auction for Multiple Objects: Comment pp. 555-60

Noriaki Okamoto

An Efficient Ascending-Bid Auction for Multiple Objects: Reply pp. 561-63

Lawrence M. Ausubel

Volume 108, issue 1, 2018

The Design and Price of Information pp. 1-48

Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti and Alex Smolin

Unemployment Insurance as a Housing Market Stabilizer pp. 49-81

Joanne Hsu, David A. Matsa and Brian Melzer

The Micro Origins of International Business-Cycle Comovement pp. 82-108

Julian di Giovanni, Andrei Levchenko and Isabelle Mejean

Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Input Linkages: Theory and Evidence from Colombia pp. 109-46

Ana Cecília Fieler, Marcela Eslava and Yi Xu

Bid Shading and Bidder Surplus in the US Treasury Auction System pp. 147-69

Ali Hortaçsu, Jakub Kastl and Allen Zhang

How Do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications pp. 170-99

Alexander Bick, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and David Lagakos