American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Volume 10, issue 3, 2018

The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1-38

Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon

Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural India pp. 39-66

Vincent Somville and Lore Vandewalle

The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor pp. 67-100

Simone Schaner

Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment pp. 101-27

Mark Borgschulte and Paco Martorell

Do Free Trade Agreements Affect Tariffs of Nonmember Countries? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation pp. 128-70

Kamal Saggi, Andrey Stoyanov and Halis Yildiz

Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles pp. 171-205

Ozkan Eren and Naci Mocan

The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labor Supply pp. 206-34

Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes and Emma Tominey

Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming pp. 235-62

Owen Ozier

The Neighborhood Impacts of Local Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Urban Mexico pp. 263-86

Craig McIntosh, Tito Alegría, Gerardo Ordóñez and René Zenteno

Incentivizing Safer Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Lottery Experiment on HIV Prevention pp. 287-314

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Lucia Corno, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

Life after Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead pp. 315-44

Stephen B. Billings and Kevin Schnepel

Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment pp. 345-69

Robert Garlick

Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics pp. 370-402

Andrew Dickens

Volume 10, issue 2, 2018

School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement pp. 1-26

Julien Lafortune, Jesse Rothstein and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Financial Incentives and the Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-Off pp. 27-57

S Anukriti

Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data pp. 58-100

Thomas Joseph, Yaw Nyarko and Shing-Yi Wang

The Effects of Micro-entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile pp. 101-24

Claudia Martínez A., Esteban Puentes and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality pp. 125-62

Michael Geruso and Dean Spears

Borrowing Trouble? Human Capital Investment with Opt-In Costs and Implications for the Effectiveness of Grant Aid pp. 163-201

Benjamin Marx and Lesley Turner

The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns pp. 202-33

Tatyana Deryugina, Laura Kawano and Steven Levitt

Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment pp. 234-56

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries pp. 257-97

Pascaline Dupas, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal

Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake pp. 298-330

Chie Hanaoka, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Yasutora Watanabe

Volume 10, issue 1, 2018

Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort pp. 1-39

Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo

The Price of Prejudice pp. 40-63

Morten Størling Hedegaard and Jean-Robert Tyran

For Better or for Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey pp. 64-105

Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

Demand for Alcohol Consumption in Russia and Its Implication for Mortality pp. 106-49

Evgeny Yakovlev

Social Media and Corruption pp. 150-74

Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Konstantin Sonin

Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement? pp. 175-206

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

Together We Will: Experimental Evidence on Female Voting Behavior in Pakistan pp. 207-35

Xavier Gine and Ghazala Mansuri

College Party Culture and Sexual Assault pp. 236-65

Jason M. Lindo, Peter Siminski and Isaac D. Swensen

The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi pp. 266-306

Victoria Baranov and Hans-Peter Kohler

Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores? pp. 307-41

Anna Aizer, Janet Currie, Peter Simon and Patrick Vivier

Volume 9, issue 4, 2017

One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime pp. 1-29

Quoc-Anh Do, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and Anh N. Tran

The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 30-57

Ariaster B. Chimeli and Rodrigo Soares

There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals pp. 58-77

Shuo Chen and Xiaohuan Lan

Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program pp. 78-104

Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten and Miriam Wüst

Human Capital Persistence and Development pp. 105-36

Rudi Rocha, Claudio Ferraz and Rodrigo Soares

Conflict and the Persistence of Ethnic Bias pp. 137-65

Moses Shayo and Asaf Zussman

Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana pp. 166-85

Eliana La Ferrara and Annamaria Milazzo

Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China? pp. 186-215

Guojun He and Shaoda Wang

In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno pp. 216-49

Joshua Angrist, Erich Battistin and Daniela Vuri

Persuasion: A Case Study of Papal Influences on Fertility-Related Beliefs and Behavior pp. 250-302

Vittorio Bassi and Imran Rasul

The Impact of Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India pp. 303-37

Rukmini Banerji, James Berry and Marc Shotland

Volume 9, issue 3, 2017

Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending pp. 1-35

Mark Hoekstra, Steven Puller and Jeremy West

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic pp. 36-69

Toman Barsbai, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Trebesch

Team Production in International Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from the Field pp. 70-104

Elizabeth Lyons

Do the Effects of Temporary Ethnic Group Quotas Persist? Evidence from India pp. 105-23

Rikhil Bhavnani

Why Do College-Going Interventions Work? pp. 124-51

Scott Carrell and Bruce Sacerdote

The Persistent Effect of Temporary Affirmative Action pp. 152-90

Conrad Miller

Conflicts of Interest and Steering in Residential Brokerage pp. 191-222

Panle Jia Barwick, Parag A. Pathak and Maisy Wong

The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 223-61

W. Bentley Macleod, Evan Riehl, Juan E. Saavedra and Miguel Urquiola

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a UK Tax Incentive pp. 262-94

Paul Gaggl and Greg Wright

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program pp. 295-320

Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India pp. 321-50

Karthik Muralidharan and Nishith Prakash

Volume 9, issue 2, 2017

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 1-22

Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Dan Svirsky

Sanitation and Education pp. 23-59

Anjali Adukia

Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH pp. 60-92

Danielle Li

Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being? pp. 93-130

Maya Rossin-Slater

Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: A Long-Term Follow-Up pp. 131-43

Orazio Attanasio, Arlen Guarin, Carlos Medina and Costas Meghir

Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement pp. 144-64

Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal

Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears pp. 165-201

Ina Ganguli

The Distortionary Effects of Incentives in Government: Evidence from China's "Death Ceiling" Program pp. 202-18

Raymond Fisman and Yongxiang Wang

Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration pp. 219-55

Samuel Bazzi

The Local Political Economy Effects of School Construction in Indonesia pp. 256-89

Monica Martinez-Bravo

Volume 9, issue 1, 2017

Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India pp. 1-32

Sharon Barnhardt, Erica Field and Rohini Pande

Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community-Based Monitoring pp. 33-69

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

Learning by Driving: Productivity Improvements by New York City Taxi Drivers pp. 70-95

Kareem Haggag, Brian McManus and Giovanni Paci

Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep? pp. 96-117

Lucas Coffman, Clayton R. Featherstone and Judd B. Kessler

Fertility Decline and Missing Women pp. 118-39

Seema Jayachandran

Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students pp. 140-64

Luc Behaghel, Clément de Chaisemartin and Marc Gurgand

The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime pp. 165-201

Jennifer Doleac

Risky Transportation Choices and the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 202-28

Gianmarco León and Edward Miguel

Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India pp. 229-73

Sam Asher and Paul Novosad

Tax Me, but Spend Wisely? Sources of Public Finance and Government Accountability pp. 274-314

Lucie Gadenne