American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Volume 14, issue 2, 2022

Will Studying Economics Make You Rich? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Returns to College Major pp. 1-22

Zachary Bleemer and Aashish Mehta

Political Fragmentation and Government Stability: Evidence from Local Governments in Spain pp. 23-50

Felipe Carozzi, Davide Cipullo and Luca Repetto

Missing Women, Integration Costs, and Big Push Policies in the Saudi Labor Market pp. 51-77

Conrad Miller, Jennifer Peck and Mehmet Seflek

The Rising Return to Noncognitive Skill pp. 78-100

Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom and Björn Öckert

LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training pp. 101-25

Laurel Wheeler, Robert Garlick, Eric Johnson, Patrick Shaw and Marissa Gargano

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality pp. 126-57

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Comment pp. 158-65

David M. Cutler and Grant Miller

Reexamining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply pp. 166-69

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Daniel I. Rees

Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care pp. 170-99

Max Gross and E. Jason Baron

Health Insurance Design Meets Saving Incentives: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts pp. 200-227

Adam Leive

Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine pp. 228-55

Vellore Arthi, Brian Beach and W Hanlon

Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline pp. 256-84

Christopher Severen and Arthur A. van Benthem

Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data pp. 285-319

Lester Lusher, Geoffrey Schnorr and Rebecca Taylor

Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey pp. 320-43

Onur Altindag, Bilge Erten and Pinar Keskin

Volume 14, issue 1, 2022

Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India pp. 1-41

Reshmaan Hussam, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani and Natalia Rigol

The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income pp. 42-74

Bryan Stuart

Finally a Smoking Gun? Compensating Differentials and the Introduction of Smoking Bans pp. 75-106

Daniel Wissmann

Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb pp. 107-32

Morgane Laouenan and Roland Rathelot

Information Frictions, Internet, and the Relationship between Distance and Trade pp. 133-63

Anders Akerman, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad

Subways and Urban Air Pollution pp. 164-96

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Stefano Polloni and Matthew A. Turner

Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education pp. 197-224

Mikko Silliman and Hanna Virtanen

Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs? pp. 225-60

Carolina Lopez, Anja Sautmann and Simone Schaner

The Origins of Common Identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine pp. 261-92

Sirus H. Dehdari and Kai Gehring

How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy pp. 293-326

Mariella Gonzales, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Luis Martinez

Inversions in US Presidential Elections: 1836–2016 pp. 327-57

Michael Geruso, Dean Spears and Ishaana Talesara

The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States pp. 358-89

Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri and Walter Steingress

Volume 13, issue 4, 2021

The Political Premium of Television Celebrity pp. 1-33

Heyu Xiong

Different Strokes for Different Folks? Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills pp. 34-69

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

Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago pp. 70-100

Evan Herrnstadt, Anthony Heyes, Erich Muehlegger and Soodeh Saberian

Temperature, Labor Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India pp. 101-24

Jonathan Colmer

Teaching Labor Laws: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in South Africa pp. 125-49

Marianne Bertrand and Bruno Crépon

Using Nonlinear Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test pp. 150-93

Alexander M. Gelber, Damon Jones, Daniel W. Sacks and Jae Song

The Effects of DNA Databases on the Deterrence and Detection of Offenders pp. 194-225

Anne Sofie Tegner Anker, Jennifer L. Doleac and Rasmus Landersø

"Too Young to Die": Deprivation Measures Combining Poverty and Premature Mortality pp. 226-57

Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan and Benoît Decerf

Gender Identity, Coworking Spouses, and Relative Income within Households pp. 258-84

Natalia Zinovyeva and Maryna Tverdostup

The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885–1905 pp. 285-324

Wei You

Volume 13, issue 3, 2021

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records pp. 1-30

Itzik Fadlon and Torben Nielsen

Capital Markets in China and Britain, 1770–1860: Evidence from Grain Prices pp. 31-64

Wolfgang Keller, Carol H. Shiue and Xin Wang

Communication Infrastructure and Stabilizing Food Prices: Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China pp. 65-101

Pei Gao and Yu-Hsiang Lei

A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918 pp. 102-33

Seth Benzell and Kevin Cooke

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from US Mass Migration pp. 134-75

Bryan Stuart and Evan J. Taylor

Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors pp. 176-201

Jian Chu, Raymond Fisman, Songtao Tan and Yongxiang Wang

Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 202-36

M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin

Minority Salience and Political Extremism pp. 237-71

Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording and Nico Pestel

Uber versus Taxi: A Driver's Eye View pp. 272-308

Joshua Angrist, Sydnee Caldwell and Jonathan V. Hall

Volume 13, issue 2, 2021

Cell Phone Access and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Afghanistan pp. 1-51

Robert Gonzalez

Improving Last-Mile Service Delivery Using Phone-Based Monitoring pp. 52-82

Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, Sandip Sukhtankar and Jeffrey Weaver

Subways and Road Congestion pp. 83-115

Yizhen Gu, Chang Jiang, Junfu Zhang and Ben Zou

Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance pp. 116-50

Gordon Dahl and Anne C. Gielen

Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes pp. 151-78

Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross and Yalun Su

The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme pp. 179-205

Wei Huang and Chuanchuan Zhang

Subsidies and the African Green Revolution: Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique pp. 206-29

Michael Carter, Rachid Laajaj and Dean Yang

The Power of Example: Corruption Spurs Corruption pp. 230-57

Nicolás Ajzenman

Physician Practice Organization and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes pp. 258-96

Naomi Hausman and Kurt Lavetti

Growing Markets through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya pp. 297-332

David McKenzie and Susana Puerto

Volume 13, issue 1, 2021

Going Beneath the Surface: Petroleum Pollution, Regulation, and Health pp. 1-37

Michelle Marcus

Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh pp. 38-71

Jean N. Lee, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran, Abu Shonchoy and Hassan Zaman

Gambling, Saving, and Lumpy Liquidity Needs pp. 72-104

Sylvan Herskowitz

The Black-White Gap in Noncognitive Skills among Elementary School Children pp. 105-32

Todd Elder and Yuqing Zhou

Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times pp. 133-69

Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

A Dose of Managed Care: Controlling Drug Spending in Medicaid pp. 170-97

David Dranove, Christopher Ody and Amanda Starc

Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproductive Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel pp. 198-234

Naomi Gershoni and Corinne Low

The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions pp. 235-66

Samuel Bazzi and Matthew Gudgeon