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Volume 12, issue 2, 2020

The Evolution of Work in the United States pp. 1-34

Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo and Daniel Tannenbaum

Flooded Cities pp. 35-66

Adriana Kocornik-Mina, Thomas K. J. McDermott, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms pp. 67-95

Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Manacorda

Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 96-133

Francesco Drago, Friederike Mengel and Christian Traxler

Charging Ahead: Prepaid Metering, Electricity Use, and Utility Revenue pp. 134-68

Kelsey Jack and Grant Smith

Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap pp. 169-97

Dan Zeltzer

Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India pp. 198-219

Nicholas Bloom, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

Place, Peers, and the Teenage Years: Long-Run Neighborhood Effects in Australia pp. 220-49

Nathan Deutscher

Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and US Immigration pp. 250-77

Parag Mahajan and Dean Yang

The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences pp. 278-302

Ina Ganguli, Jeffrey Lin and Nicholas Reynolds

Energy Cost Pass-Through in US Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes pp. 303-42

Sharat Ganapati, Joseph Shapiro and Reed Walker

Volume 12, issue 1, 2020

Estimating Adjustment Frictions Using Nonlinear Budget Sets: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test pp. 1-31

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

Early Voting Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio pp. 32-60

Ethan Kaplan and Haishan Yuan

A Precinct Too Far: Turnout and Voting Costs pp. 61-85

Enrico Cantoni

The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation pp. 86-114

Tatyana Deryugina, Alexander MacKay and Julian Reif

Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time? pp. 115-39

Judson Boomhower and Lucas Davis

Crafting Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Patent Assertion Entities, Litigation, and Innovation pp. 140-81

Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel

Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation's Labor Market pp. 182-209

Sarena Goodman and Adam Isen

Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa pp. 210-59

Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage pp. 260-87

Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne

Race to the Bottom? Local Tax Break Competition and Business Location pp. 288-317

Evan Mast

Tipping and the Effects of Segregation pp. 318-47

Anders Böhlmark and Alexander Willén

Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction pp. 348-76

Anjali Adukia, Sam Asher and Paul Novosad

Volume 11, issue 4, 2019

Trade and Income—Exploiting Time Series in Geography pp. 1-35

James Feyrer

There Is No Free House: Ethnic Patronage in a Kenyan Slum pp. 36-70

Benjamin Marx, Thomas M. Stoker and Tavneet Suri

Regulating Markups in US Health Insurance pp. 71-104

Steve Cicala, Ethan Lieber and Victoria Marone

The Local Economic and Welfare Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing pp. 105-55

Alexander W. Bartik, Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone and Christopher R. Knittel

Peer Effects in Legislative Voting pp. 156-80

Nikolaj Harmon, Raymond Fisman and Emir Kamenica

Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark pp. 181-209

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais and Jakob Søgaard

Allocating Scarce Organs: How a Change in Supply Affects Transplant Waiting Lists and Transplant Recipients pp. 210-39

Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Todd Elder and Keith Teltser

Leader Selection and Service Delivery in Community Groups: Experimental Evidence from Uganda pp. 240-67

Erika Deserranno, Miri Stryjan and Munshi Sulaiman

Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes pp. 268-304

Arindrajit Dube

Does Cheap Talk Affect Market Outcomes? Evidence from eBay pp. 305-26

Daniel W. Elfenbein, Raymond Fisman and Brian McManus

High Trade Costs and Their Consequences: An Estimated Dynamic Model of African Agricultural Storage and Trade pp. 327-66

Obie Porteous

Pass-Through as a Test for Market Power: An Application to Solar Subsidies pp. 367-401

Jacquelyn Pless and Arthur A. van Benthem

Volume 11, issue 3, 2019

Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act pp. 1-53

Desmond Ang

Medium- and Long-Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia pp. 54-91

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Leigh L. Linden and Juan E. Saavedra

Long-Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity pp. 92-127

Pablo A. Celhay, Paul J. Gertler, Paula Giovagnoli and Christel Vermeersch

Does Teacher Training Actually Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Evaluation of a National Teacher Training Program pp. 128-54

Prashant Loyalka, Anna Popova, Guirong Li and Zhaolei Shi

Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda pp. 155-92

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Andrea Guariso, Jakob Svensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott

ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare pp. 193-224

Jeffrey Denning, Benjamin Marx and Lesley Turner

Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from the Lab and the Dutch Math Olympiad pp. 225-52

Thomas Buser and Huaiping Yuan

Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY's ASAP pp. 253-97

Michael J. Weiss, Alyssa Ratledge, Colleen Sommo and Himani Gupta

Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance pp. 298-337

Filipe R. Campante, Quoc-Anh Do and Bernardo Guimaraes

Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes pp. 338-81

David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth and Melanie Wasserman

The Causes and Consequences of Test Score Manipulation: Evidence from the New York Regents Examinations pp. 382-423

Thomas Dee, Will Dobbie, Brian A. Jacob and Jonah Rockoff

Socializing at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Manufacturing Workers pp. 424-55

Sangyoon Park

Volume 11, issue 2, 2019

Adverse Selection in ACA Exchange Markets: Evidence from Colorado pp. 1-36

Matthew Panhans

Externalities and Taxation of Supplemental Insurance: A Study of Medicare and Medigap pp. 37-73

Marika Cabral and Neale Mahoney

Changes in Workplace Heterogeneity and How They Widen the Gender Wage Gap pp. 74-113

Benjamin Bruns

Soft Commitments, Reminders, and Academic Performance pp. 114-42

Oliver Himmler, Robert Jäckle and Philipp Weinschenk

Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? pp. 143-75

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares and Daniel I. Rees

Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness, and Holes in the Safety Net pp. 176-204

Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal pp. 205-37

Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino

Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases pp. 238-65

Anthony Heyes and Soodeh Saberian

Cooperation in Polygynous Households pp. 266-83

Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker, Wendy Janssens, Bereket Kebede and Berber Kramer

Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap? The Effect of Plan-Making Prompts on Job Search and Employment pp. 284-301

Martin Abel, Rulof Burger, Eliana Carranza and Patrizio Piraino

Health Care Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare pp. 302-32

Vilsa Curto, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan Levin and Jay Bhattacharya

Volume 11, issue 1, 2019

Are Credit Markets Still Local? Evidence from Bank Branch Closings pp. 1-32

Hoai-Luu Q. Nguyen

The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 33-56

Matias Busso and Sebastian Galiani

Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments pp. 57-91

Rachael Meager

Job Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment pp. 92-125

Jonneke Bolhaar, Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

Partners in Crime pp. 126-50

Stephen B. Billings, David J. Deming and Stephen Ross

The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call Center Workers in China pp. 151-72

Tom Y. Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell

Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China pp. 173-201

Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu and Alberto Salvo

Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises pp. 202-35

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons pp. 236-76

Hunt Allcott and Judd B. Kessler

Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the Recruitment of Village Promoters in Uganda pp. 277-317

Erika Deserranno

Early Childhood Education by Television: Lessons from Sesame Street pp. 318-50

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip Levine