American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Volume 14, issue 4, 2022

Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans pp. 1-34

Paul Novosad, Charlie Rafkin and Sam Asher

Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from Isolated Markets pp. 35-57

Christos Genakos and Mario Pagliero

Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure pp. 58-90

Lorenzo Casaburi and Tristan Reed

Time to Repay or Time to Delay? The Effect of Having More Time before a Payday Loan Is Due pp. 91-126

Susan Carter, Kuan Liu, Paige Marta Skiba and Justin Sydnor

The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade pp. 127-66

Woan Foong Wong

Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Entry and Competition pp. 167-99

Eric Avis, Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan and Carlos Varjão

Leave the Door Open? Prison Conditions and Recidivism pp. 200-233

Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Daniele Terlizzese

The Health Effects of Prison pp. 234-70

Randi Hjalmarsson and Matthew Lindquist

Pathways into Opioid Dependence: Evidence from Practice Variation in Emergency Departments pp. 271-300

Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang

Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850–1920 pp. 301-42

James Feigenbaum, James Lee and Filippo Mezzanotti

The Impact of Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises on Workers pp. 343-80

David Arnold

Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Health Care pp. 381-410

Toshiaki Iizuka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

The Impact of Presidential Appointment of Judges: Montesquieu or the Federalists? pp. 411-45

Sultan Mehmood

Lifetime Earnings in the United States over Six Decades pp. 446-79

Fatih Guvenen, Greg Kaplan, Jae Song and Justin Weidner

Why Is Europe More Equal than the United States? pp. 480-518

Thomas Blanchet, Lucas Chancel and Amory Gethin

Comment on "Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases" pp. 519-28

Holger Spamann

Correction to "Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases" and Reply to Spamann pp. 529-33

Anthony Heyes and Soodeh Saberian

Volume 14, issue 3, 2022

Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? pp. 1-29

Jeffrey Denning, Eric R. Eide, Kevin Mumford, Richard W. Patterson and Merrill Warnick

Neighbors' Effects on University Enrollment pp. 30-60

Andres Barrios-Fernández

The Long-Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility pp. 61-83

Yonatan Berman

African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880 pp. 84-117

William J. Collins and Marianne H. Wanamaker

And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy pp. 118-63

Paolo Acciari, Alberto Polo and Giovanni L. Violante

Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries pp. 164-84

Elisabeth Artmann, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

The Roots of Health Inequality and the Value of Intrafamily Expertise pp. 185-223

Yiqun Chen, Petra Persson and Maria Polyakova

Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks pp. 224-53

Jhacova Williams

The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles pp. 254-89

Julien Lafortune and David Schönholzer

The Side Effects of Immunity: Malaria and African Slavery in the United States pp. 290-328

Elena Esposito

Breastfeeding and Child Development pp. 329-66

Emla Fitzsimons and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Health Experiment pp. 367-99

Melvin Stephens and Desmond Toohey

Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation pp. 400-444

Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps and Farah Said

Assortative Matching at the Top of the Distribution: Evidence from the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market pp. 445-87

Marc Goñi

Peer Effects in Product Adoption pp. 488-526

Michael Bailey, Drew Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel and Arlene Wong

Emotions and Risk Attitudes pp. 527-58

Armando N. Meier

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 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 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