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Volume 107, issue 12, 2017

The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the New York City High School Match pp. 3635-89

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Nikhil Agarwal and Parag Pathak

Absolute Poverty: When Necessity Displaces Desire pp. 3690-3721

Robert Allen

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements pp. 3722-59

Alexandre Mas and Amanda Pallais

Announcements of Support and Public Good Provision pp. 3760-87

Judd B. Kessler

Fiscal Unions pp. 3788-3834

Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning

Not So Demanding: Demand Structure and Firm Behavior pp. 3835-74

Monika Mrazova and J. Peter Neary

Recall and Unemployment pp. 3875-3916

Shigeru Fujita and Giuseppe Moscarini

The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries pp. 3917-46

David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist, Matthew Notowidigdo and Robert Östling

Volume 107, issue 11, 2017

Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms pp. 3257-87

Shengwu Li

'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments pp. 3288-3319

Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara and Amanda Pallais

Decentralized Exchange pp. 3320-62

Semyon Malamud and Marzena Rostek

Discriminatory Information Disclosure pp. 3363-85

Hao Li and Xianwen Shi

The Consumption Effects of the 2007–2008 Financial Crisis: Evidence from Households in Denmark pp. 3386-3414

Thais Lærkholm Jensen and Niels Johannesen

Housing Wealth and Consumption: Evidence from Geographically-Linked Microdata pp. 3415-46

Aditya Aladangady

Gross Worker Flows over the Business Cycle pp. 3447-76

Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson and Aysegul Sahin

The Distributional Consequences of Large Devaluations pp. 3477-3509

Javier Cravino and Andrei Levchenko

Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement pp. 3510-49

Jeffrey B. Liebman and Neale Mahoney

Interest Rate Pass-Through: Mortgage Rates, Household Consumption, and Voluntary Deleveraging pp. 3550-88

Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Benjamin Keys, Tomasz Piskorski, Rodney Ramcharan, Amit Seru and Vincent Yao

Gresham's Law of Model Averaging pp. 3589-3616

Inkoo Cho and Kenneth Kasa

Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism pp. 3617-33

Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Lise Vesterlund and Huan Xie

Volume 107, issue 10, 2017

How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model pp. 2877-2907

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics pp. 2908-46

Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian Kovak

Steering the Climate System: Using Inertia to Lower the Cost of Policy pp. 2947-57

Derek Lemoine and Ivan Rudik

Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program pp. 2958-89

Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro

Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Rallying Support pp. 2990-3005

Matias Iaryczower and Santiago Oliveros

Politician Family Networks and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 3006-37

Cesi Cruz, Julien Labonne and Pablo Querubin

Financial Intermediation, International Risk Sharing, and Reserve Currencies pp. 3038-71

Matteo Maggiori

New Evidence on the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries pp. 3072-3118

Christina D. Romer and David Romer

The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina pp. 3119-45

Benjamin Hebert and Jesse Schreger

Search at the Margin pp. 3146-81

Jose Carrasco and Lones Smith

The Growth Potential of Startups over the Business Cycle pp. 3182-3210

Petr Sedlacek and Vincent Sterk

Exporter Dynamics and Partial-Year Effects pp. 3211-28

Andrew Bernard, Esther Ann Bøler, Renzo Massari, José-Daniel Reyes and Daria Taglioni

The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular, and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications: Comment pp. 3229-42

Etienne Gagnon, David López-Salido and Jason Sockin

News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Comment pp. 3243-49

Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia

News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Reply pp. 3250-56

André Kurmann and Christopher Otrok

Volume 107, issue 9, 2017

Culture, Ethnicity, and Diversity pp. 2479-2513

Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín and Romain Wacziarg

The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from US Firms pp. 2514-64

Pol Antras, Teresa Fort and Felix Tintelnot

Bias in Cable News: Persuasion and Polarization pp. 2565-99

Gregory J. Martin and Ali Yurukoglu

Why Are Indian Children So Short? The Role of Birth Order and Son Preference pp. 2600-2629

Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande

The Fundamental Surplus pp. 2630-65

Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas Sargent

Optimal Allocation with Ex Post Verification and Limited Penalties pp. 2666-94

Tymofiy Mylovanov and Andriy Zapechelnyuk

Relational Knowledge Transfers pp. 2695-2730

Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the United States pp. 2731-83

Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão

WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms pp. 2784-2820

Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang and Yifan Zhang

The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade, and Economic Development pp. 2821-54

Luigi Pascali

Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success pp. 2855-75

Eric Bettinger, Lindsay Fox, Susanna Loeb and Eric S. Taylor

Volume 107, issue 8, 2017

Partner Choice, Investment in Children, and the Marital College Premium pp. 2109-67

Pierre-André Chiappori, Bernard Salanié and Yoram Weiss

Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain pp. 2168-2203

Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Miriam Krueger and Nick Zubanov

Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden pp. 2204-42

Timothy Besley, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson and Johanna Rickne

Full Implementation and Belief Restrictions pp. 2243-77

Mariann Ollár and Antonio Penta

Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition pp. 2278-2307

David McKenzie

Multi-category Competition and Market Power: A Model of Supermarket Pricing pp. 2308-51

Øyvind Thomassen, Howard Smith, Stephan Seiler and Pasquale Schiraldi

Stock Price Booms and Expected Capital Gains pp. 2352-2408

Klaus Adam, Albert Marcet and Johannes Beutel

Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass pp. 2409-54

Eric Leeper, Nora Traum and Todd Walker

Hayek, Local Information, and Commanding Heights: Decentralizing State-Owned Enterprises in China pp. 2455-78

Zhangkai Huang, Lixing Li, Guangrong Ma and Lixin Xu

Volume 107, issue 7, 2017

Incomplete Contracts and Control pp. 1731-52

Oliver Hart

Pay for Performance and Beyond pp. 1753-77

Bengt Holmstrom

Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance pp. 1778-1823

Nathaniel Hendren

Estimating Dynamic Games of Electoral Competition to Evaluate Term Limits in US Gubernatorial Elections pp. 1824-57

Holger Sieg and Chamna Yoon

The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners: Evidence from Star Scientists pp. 1858-1903

Enrico Moretti and Daniel Wilson

Inspecting the Mechanism: Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozone pp. 1904-37

Philippe Martin and Thomas Philippon

Investment Banks as Corporate Monitors in the Early Twentieth Century United States pp. 1938-70

Carola Frydman and Eric Hilt

The Empirical Implications of the Interest-Rate Lower Bound pp. 1971-2006

Christopher Gust, Edward Herbst, David López-Salido and Matthew E. Smith

Information Spillovers in Asset Markets with Correlated Values pp. 2007-40

Vladimir Asriyan, William Fuchs and Brett Green

Contracts as a Barrier to Entry in Markets with Nonpivotal Buyers pp. 2041-71

Özlem Bedre-Defolie and Gary Biglaiser

Buyer-Optimal Learning and Monopoly Pricing pp. 2072-80

Anne-Katrin Roesler and Balázs Szentes

Separations, Sorting, and Cyclical Unemployment pp. 2081-2107

Andreas Mueller

Volume 107, issue 6, 2017

Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872 pp. 1365-98

Richard Hornbeck and Daniel Keniston

Bidder Solicitation, Adverse Selection, and the Failure of Competition pp. 1399-1429

Stephan Lauermann and Asher Wolinsky

A Theory of Crowdfunding: A Mechanism Design Approach with Demand Uncertainty and Moral Hazard pp. 1430-76

Roland Strausz

Content-Based Agendas and Qualified Majorities in Sequential Voting pp. 1477-1506

Andreas Kleiner and Benny Moldovanu

Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable pp. 1507-34

Laurens Cherchye, Thomas Demuynck, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen

Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets pp. 1535-63

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

This Mine Is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa pp. 1564-1610

Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier, Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig

Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments pp. 1611-37

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

Eponymous Entrepreneurs pp. 1638-55

Sharon Belenzon, Aaron K. Chatterji and Brendan Daley

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Comment pp. 1656-84

Jesse Rothstein

Measuring the Impacts of Teachers: Reply pp. 1685-1717

Raj Chetty, John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff

Volume 107, issue 5, 2017

Foreword pp. xi-

Alvin Roth

Editors' Introduction pp. xii-

William Johnson and Kelly Markel

Richard T. Ely Lecture: The Economist as Plumber pp. 1-26

Esther Duflo

Assessing the Rate of Replication in Economics pp. 27-31

James Berry, Lucas Coffman, Douglas Hanley, Rania Gihleb and Alistair Wilson

Replications in Development Economics pp. 32-36

Sandip Sukhtankar

Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests pp. 37-40

Daniel Hamermesh

A Proposal to Organize and Promote Replications pp. 41-45

Lucas Coffman, Muriel Niederle and Alistair Wilson

What Is Meant by "Replication" and Why Does It Encounter Resistance in Economics? pp. 46-51

Maren Duvendack, Richard Palmer-Jones and W. Reed

Replication and Economics Journal Policies pp. 52-55

Jan Höffler

Replication, Meta-analysis, and Research Synthesis in Economics pp. 56-59

Richard G. Anderson and Areerat Kichkha

A Preanalysis Plan to Replicate Sixty Economics Research Papers That Worked Half of the Time pp. 60-64

Andrew C. Chang and Phillip Li

Groupy versus Non-Groupy Social Preferences: Personality, Region, and Political Party pp. 65-69

Rachel E. Kranton and Seth G. Sanders

Altruistic Capital pp. 70-75

Nava Ashraf and Oriana Bandiera

Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities pp. 76-80

Julio Elias, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Paola Salardi

Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index pp. 81-85

Daniel Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball

Repugnance Management and Transactions in the Body pp. 86-90

Kieran Healy and Kimberly D. Krawiec

The Ethics of Incentivizing the Uninformed: A Vignette Study pp. 91-95

Sandro Ambuehl and Axel Ockenfels

Sacred versus Pseudo-sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs pp. 96-99

Philip E. Tetlock, Barbara A. Mellers and J. Peter Scoblic

Quantifying the Disincentive Effects of Joint Taxation on Married Women's Labor Supply pp. 100-104

Alexander Bick and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women's Job Choices pp. 105-09

Patricia Cortes and Jessica Pan

The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census pp. 110-14

Claudia Goldin, Sari Pekkala Kerr, Claudia Olivetti and Erling Barth

A Gender Agenda: A Progress Report on Competitiveness pp. 115-19

Muriel Niederle

Trumping Norms: Lab Evidence on Aggressive Communication before and after the 2016 US Presidential Election pp. 120-24

Jennie Huang and Corinne Low

Gender, Competitiveness, and Study Choices in High School: Evidence from Switzerland pp. 125-30

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter and Stefan Wolter

Gender Differences in the Allocation of Low-Promotability Tasks: The Role of Backlash pp. 131-35

Linda Babcock, Maria Recalde and Lise Vesterlund

No Gender Difference in Willingness to Compete When Competing against Self pp. 136-40

Coren L. Apicella, Elif Demiral and Johanna Mollerstrom

Recognition for Group Work: Gender Differences in Academia pp. 141-45

Heather Sarsons

Shopping While Female: Who Pays Higher Prices and Why? pp. 146-49

Anne Fitzpatrick

Women's Inheritance Rights, Household Allocation, and Gender Bias pp. 150-53

Nayana Bose and Shreyasee Das

Assortative Matching under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Malawi pp. 154-57

Manuela Angelucci and Daniel Bennett

The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi pp. 158-62

Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos and Michele Tertilt

Tying the Double-Knot: The Role of Assets in Marriage Commitment pp. 163-67

Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low

Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries? pp. 168-73

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels

Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation pp. 174-79

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share pp. 180-85

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John van Reenen

Pandora's Auctions: Dynamic Matching with Unknown Preferences pp. 186-90

Daniel Fershtman and Alessandro Pavan

Multidimensional Platform Design pp. 191-95

André Veiga, E. Glen Weyl and Alexander White

Discrete Pricing and Market Fragmentation: A Tale of Two-Sided Markets pp. 196-99

Yong Chao, Chen Yao and Mao Ye

Recent Developments in Matching with Constraints pp. 200-204

Yuichiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

Redesigning the Israeli Psychology Master's Match pp. 205-09

Avinatan Hassidim, Assaf Romm and Ran Shorrer

Large-Scale Affirmative Action in School Choice: Admissions to IITs in India pp. 210-13

Orhan Aygün and Bertan Turhan

Stable and Strategy-Proof Matching with Flexible Allotments pp. 214-19

John William Hatfield, Scott Kominers and Alexander Westkamp

The Mechanism Is Truthful, Why Aren't You? pp. 220-24

Avinatan Hassidim, Déborah Marciano, Assaf Romm and Ran Shorrer

Mistaken Play in the Deferred Acceptance Algorithm: Implications for Positive Assortative Matching pp. 225-29

Alex Rees-Jones

Obvious Ex Post Equilibrium pp. 230-34

Shengwu Li

Bounded Rationality and Robust Mechanism Design: An Axiomatic Approach pp. 235-39

Luyao Zhang and Dan Levin

Regression Discontinuity in Serial Dictatorship: Achievement Effects at Chicago's Exam Schools pp. 240-45

Atila Abdulkadroǧlu, Joshua Angrist, Yusuke Narita, Parag Pathak and Roman A. Zarate

Policy Analysis in Matching Markets pp. 246-50

Nikhil Agarwal

The Econometrics and Some Properties of Separable Matching Models pp. 251-55

Alfred Galichon and Bernard Salanié

Specifying a Structural Matching Game of Trading Networks with Transferable Utility pp. 256-60

Jeremy Fox

Double/Debiased/Neyman Machine Learning of Treatment Effects pp. 261-65

Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, Mert Demirer, Esther Duflo, Christian Hansen and Whitney Newey

Testing-Based Forward Model Selection pp. 266-69

Damian Kozbur

L2-Boosting for Economic Applications pp. 270-73

Ye Luo and Martin Spindler

Core Determining Class and Inequality Selection pp. 274-77

Ye Luo and Hai Wang

Estimating Average Treatment Effects: Supplementary Analyses and Remaining Challenges pp. 278-81

Susan Athey, Guido Imbens, Thai Pham and Stefan Wager

What Can We Learn from Experiments? Understanding the Threats to the Scalability of Experimental Results pp. 282-86

Omar Al-Ubaydli, John List and Dana L. Suskind

What Have We Learned from Structural Models? pp. 287-92

Richard Blundell

Economic Research Evolves: Fields and Styles pp. 293-97

Joshua Angrist, Pierre Azoulay, Glenn Ellison, Ryan Hill and Susan Feng Lu

Abducting Economics pp. 298-302

James Heckman and Burton Singer

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Programs on Minorities pp. 303-07

Elizabeth Lyons and Laurina Zhang

Gender Gap in High-Growth Ventures: Evidence from a University Venture Mentoring Program pp. 308-11

Erin L. Scott and Pian Shu

Which Entrepreneurs Are Coachable and Why? pp. 312-16

Kevin Bryan, András Tilcsik and Brooklynn Zhu

Endogenous Appropriability pp. 317-21

Joshua Gans and Scott Stern

Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency, and the Productivity Slowdown pp. 322-26

Ryan Decker, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda

Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity pp. 327-31

Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas

Transferability of Skills across Sectors and Heterogeneous Displacement Costs pp. 332-36

Moises Yi, Steffen Mueller and Jens Stegmaier

Trade and Manufacturing Jobs in Germany pp. 337-42

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen and Jens Suedekum

A Context-Robust Measure of the Disincentive Cost of Unemployment Insurance pp. 343-48

Johannes Schmieder and Till von Wachter

Composition and Aggregate Real Wage Growth pp. 349-52

Mary C. Daly and Bart Hobijn

Do Job-to-Job Transitions Drive Wage Fluctuations over the Business Cycle? pp. 353-57

Fatih Karahan, Ryan Michaels, Benjamin Pugsley, Aysegul Sahin and Rachel Schuh

Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth pp. 358-63

Joyce K. Hahn, Henry Hyatt, Hubert Janicki and Stephen R. Tibbets

The Relative Power of Employment-to-Employment Reallocation and Unemployment Exits in Predicting Wage Growth pp. 364-68

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

Heterogeneous Scarring Effects of Full-Year Nonemployment pp. 369-73

Fatih Guvenen, Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song

Returns to Education through Access to Higher-Paying Firms: Evidence from US Matched Employer-Employee Data pp. 374-78

Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser

Wage Inequality and Firm Growth pp. 379-83

Holger M. Mueller, Paige P. Ouimet and Elena Simintzi

The Role of Firms in Gender Earnings Inequality: Evidence from the United States pp. 384-87

Isaac Sorkin

The Role of Unemployment in the Rise in Alternative Work Arrangements pp. 388-92

Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger

Firm-Related Risk and Precautionary Saving Response pp. 393-97

Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso and Luigi Pistaferri

Worker Betas: Five Facts about Systematic Earnings Risk pp. 398-403

Fatih Guvenen, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Jae Song and Motohiro Yogo

Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world pp. 404-09

Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Segregation and Homeownership in the Early Twentieth Century pp. 410-14

Trevon Logan and John Parman

Who Will Fight? The All-Volunteer Army after 9/11 pp. 415-19

Susan Carter, Alexander Smith and Carl Wojtaszek

Taxman's Dilemma: Coercion or Persuasion? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Ethiopia pp. 420-24

Abebe Abebe, Daniel Zerfu Gurara and Firew Woldeyes

Inequality in the Labor Market for Native American Women and the Great Recession pp. 425-29

Jeffrey Burnette

Consumption Smoothing and Frequency of Benefit Payments of Cash Transfer Programs pp. 430-35

Emma Aguila, Arie Kapteyn and Francisco Perez-Arce

Asylum Applications and Migration Flows pp. 436-40

Anouch Missirian and Wolfram Schlenker

Validating Migration Responses to Flooding Using Satellite and Vital Registration Data pp. 441-45

Joyce Chen, Valerie Mueller, Yuanyuan Jia and Steven Kuo-Hsin Tseng

Heat Exposure and Youth Migration in Central America and the Caribbean pp. 446-50

Javier Baez, German Caruso, Valerie Mueller and Chiyu Niu

Improving Climate-Change Modeling of US Migration pp. 451-55

Mark Partridge, Bo Feng and Mark Rembert

Retirement Contribution Rate Nudges and Plan Participation: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 456-61

Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff and Will Tucker-Ray

Challenges to Replication and Iteration in Field Experiments: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Shots pp. 462-65

Jake Bowers, Nathaniel Higgins, Dean Karlan, Sarah Tulman and Jonathan Zinman

Government-Academic Partnerships in Randomized Evaluations: The Case of Inappropriate Prescribing pp. 466-70

Adam Sacarny, David Yokum and Shantanu Agrawal

Reminders and Recidivism: Using Administrative Data to Characterize Nonfilers and Conduct EITC Outreach pp. 471-75

John Guyton, Pat Langetieg, Dayanand Manoli, Mark Payne, Brenda Schafer and Michael Sebastiani

Does Machine Learning Automate Moral Hazard and Error? pp. 476-80

Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer

Wearable Technologies and Health Behaviors: New Data and New Methods to Understand Population Health pp. 481-85

Benjamin Handel and Jonathan Kolstad

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs pp. 486-90

Margaret Kyle and Heidi Williams

Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient? pp. 491-95

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Atul Gupta

Mothers Care More, but Fathers Decide: Educating Parents about Child Health in Uganda pp. 496-500

Martina Björkman Nyqvist and Seema Jayachandran

Precommitment, Cash Transfers, and Timely Arrival for Birth: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Nairobi Kenya pp. 501-05

Jessica Cohen, Katherine Lofgren and Margaret McConnell

Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India pp. 506-10

Katherine Donato, Grant Miller, Manoj Mohanan, Yulya Truskinovsky and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia pp. 511-15

Nava Ashraf, Erica Field, Giuditta Rusconi, Alessandra Voena and Roberta Ziparo

Does Forest Loss Increase Human Disease? Evidence from Nigeria pp. 516-21

Julia Berazneva and Tanya Byker

Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality pp. 522-25

Elaine Hill and Lala Ma

The Impact of Indonesian Forest Fires on Singaporean Pollution and Health pp. 526-29

Tamara Sheldon and Chandini Sankaran

Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Niger's 1986 Meningitis Epidemic pp. 530-35

Belinda Archibong and Francis Annan

How Children with Mental Disabilities Affect Household Investment Decisions pp. 536-40

Vicki L. Bogan and Jose Fernandez

Excess Male Infant Mortality: The Gene-Institution Interactions pp. 541-45

Roland Pongou, Barthelemy Kuate Defo and Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene

Using Causal Forests to Predict Treatment Heterogeneity: An Application to Summer Jobs pp. 546-50

Jonathan Davis and Sara B. Heller

Does Public Assistance Reduce Recidivism? pp. 551-55

Crystal S. Yang

Moving to Job Opportunities? The Effect of "Ban the Box" on the Composition of Cities pp. 556-59

Jennifer Doleac and Benjamin Hansen

The Effect of Criminal Records on Access to Employment pp. 560-64

Amanda Agan and Sonja Starr

Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 565-71

Jacob Moscona, Nathan Nunn and James A. Robinson

The Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions pp. 572-77

Suresh Naidu, Sung-Ha Hwang and Samuel Bowles

How the Second-Order Free Rider Problem Is Solved in a Small-Scale Society pp. 578-81

Sarah Mathew

Why Being Wrong Can Be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs pp. 582-87

Nathan Nunn and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

Aggregate Demand and the Top 1 Percent pp. 588-92

Adrien Auclert and Matthew Rognlie

Earnings Inequality and Other Determinants of Wealth Inequality pp. 593-97

Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin and Mi Luo

Large Firms and International Business Cycle Comovement pp. 598-602

Julian di Giovanni, Andrei Levchenko and Isabelle Mejean

Big Banks, Idiosyncratic Volatility, and Systemic Risk pp. 603-07

Ricardo Fernholz and Christoffer Koch

China's Gradualistic Economic Approach and Financial Markets pp. 608-13

Markus Brunnermeier, Michael Sockin and Wei Xiong

Rents, Technical Change, and Risk Premia Accounting for Secular Trends in Interest Rates, Returns on Capital, Earning Yields, and Factor Shares pp. 614-20

Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Euro-Area Quantitative Easing and Portfolio Rebalancing pp. 621-27

Ralph S. J. Koijen, Francois Koulischer, Benoît Nguyen and Motohiro Yogo

Capitalization of School Quality in Housing Prices: Evidence from Boundary Changes in Shelby County, Tennessee pp. 628-32

Courtney A. Collins and Erin Kaplan

Teenage Motherhood and Sibling Outcomes pp. 633-37

Jennifer Heissel

The Importance of Information Targeting for School Choice pp. 638-43

Kehinde Ajayi, Willa Friedman and Adrienne Lucas

Trends in Economics and Other Undergraduate Majors pp. 644-49

Wendy A. Stock

Some Lasting Effects of Undergraduate Economics on Retirement Planning pp. 650-54

William Bosshardt and William B. Walstad

Promoting Undergraduate Research in Economics pp. 655-59

Gail M. Hoyt and KimMarie McGoldrick

Learning Outcomes for Economists pp. 660-64

Sam Allgood and Amanda Bayer

Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting: Chicago, IL, January 6, 2017 pp. 667-69

Peter Rousseau

Report of the Secretary pp. 670-73

Peter Rousseau

Report of the Treasurer pp. 674-77

Peter Rousseau

American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics pp. 678-80

Charles E. Scott and John Siegfried

List of Online Reports pp. 681-

Peter Rousseau

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, April 29, 2016 pp. 683-88

Peter Rousseau

Minutes of the Meeting of the Executive Committee: Chicago, IL, January 5, 2017 pp. 689-98

Peter Rousseau

Report of the Editor: American Economic Review pp. 699-712

Pinelopi Goldberg

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature pp. 713-15

Steven Durlauf

Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives pp. 716-18

Enrico Moretti

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics pp. 719-25

Esther Duflo

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy pp. 726-34

Matthew Shapiro

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics pp. 735-42

Richard Rogerson

Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics pp. 743-48

Andrew Postlewaite and Johannes Hörner

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists pp. 749-51

John Siegfried

Report: Committee on Economic Education pp. 752-58

Sam Allgood

Report: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) pp. 759-76

Shelly Lundberg

Report: Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP) pp. 777-91

Cecilia Rouse and Gary Hoover

Report: American Economic Association Committee on Statistics (AEAStat) pp. 792-94

Robert Moffitt

Report: Committee on Government Relations pp. 795-96

Jonathan Skinner

Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the American Economic Review pp. 797-

David Autor

Volume 107, issue 4, 2017

Narrative Economics pp. 967-1004

Robert Shiller

Banks as Secret Keepers pp. 1005-29

Tri Vi Dang, Gary Gorton, Bengt Holmstrom and Guillermo Ordonez

Escaping the Great Recession pp. 1030-58

Francesco Bianchi and Leonardo Melosi

The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment pp. 1059-1103

Tarek Hassan and Thomas M. Mertens

The Macrodynamics of Sorting between Workers and Firms pp. 1104-35

Jeremy Lise and Jean-Marc Robin

Financing Innovation: Evidence from R&D Grants pp. 1136-64

Sabrina T. Howell

Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia pp. 1165-1206

Christopher Blattman, Julian C. Jamison and Margaret Sheridan

Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter? pp. 1207-38

Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva

A Comprehensive Approach to Revealed Preference Theory pp. 1239-63

Hiroki Nishimura, Efe A. Ok and John Quah

Correlation Misperception in Choice pp. 1264-92

Andrew Ellis and Michele Piccione

Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa pp. 1293-1312

Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson

Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution pp. 1313-34

James Feyrer, Erin Mansur and Bruce Sacerdote

Borrowing on the Wrong Credit Card? Evidence from Mexico pp. 1335-61

Alejandro Ponce, Enrique Seira and Guillermo Zamarripa

How to Control Controlled School Choice: Comment pp. 1362-64

Battal Dogan

Volume 107, issue 3, 2017

Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade pp. 633-89

Rodrigo Adao, Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson

Evidence Games: Truth and Commitment pp. 690-713

Sergiu Hart, Ilan Kremer and Motty Perry

Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability pp. 714-47

Linda Babcock, Maria Recalde, Lise Vesterlund and Laurie Weingart

Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy pp. 748-84

Kyle Meng

Inflation Dynamics during the Financial Crisis pp. 785-823

Simon Gilchrist, Raphael Schoenle, Jae Sim and Egon Zakrajšek

The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed's Liquidity Facilities pp. 824-57

Marco Del Negro, Gauti Eggertsson, Andrea Ferrero and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

A Structural Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs pp. 858-96

Manolis Galenianos and Alessandro Gavazza

Modeling the Revolving Revolution: The Debt Collection Channel pp. 897-930

Lukasz A. Drozd and Ricardo Serrano-Padial

Unplanned Purchases and Retail Competition pp. 931-65

Justin P. Johnson

Volume 107, issue 2, 2017

High Discounts and High Unemployment pp. 305-30

Robert Hall

No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012 pp. 331-53

Katharina Knoll, Moritz Schularick and Thomas Steger

In with the Big, Out with the Small: Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India pp. 354-86

Leslie A. Martin, Shanthi Nataraj and Ann Harrison

Price Cutting and Business Stealing in Imperfect Cartels pp. 387-424

B. Douglas Bernheim and Erik Madsen

Peer Effects in the Workplace pp. 425-56

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes pp. 457-92

Raymond Fisman, Daniel Paravisini and Vikrant Vig

You Owe Me pp. 493-526

Ulrike Malmendier and Klaus Schmidt

Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? pp. 527-61

Arash Nekoei and Andrea Weber

Detecting Potential Overbilling in Medicare Reimbursement via Hours Worked pp. 562-91

Hanming Fang and Qing Gong

Misallocation and the Distribution of Global Volatility pp. 592-622

Maya Eden

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Comment pp. 623-28

Samuel Lundstrom

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply pp. 629-31

Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner

Volume 107, issue 1, 2017

Networks, Markets, and Inequality pp. 1-30

Julien Gagnon and Sanjeev Goyal

Beeps pp. 31-53

Jeffrey C. Ely

Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks pp. 54-108

Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

Coarse Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices pp. 109-37

Faruk Gul, Wolfgang Pesendorfer and Tomasz Strzalecki

Clicking on Heaven's Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime pp. 138-68

Paolo Pinotti

Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the US Banking Sector pp. 169-216

Mark Egan, Ali Hortacsu and Gregor Matvos

Tax Policy and Heterogeneous Investment Behavior pp. 217-48

Eric Zwick and James Mahon

Price Setting in Online Markets: Basic Facts, International Comparisons, and Cross-Border Integration pp. 249-82

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Oleksandr Talavera

Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-channel Retailers pp. 283-303

Alberto Cavallo