American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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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 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 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 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

Volume 12, issue 4, 2020

War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II pp. 1-38

Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Onorato, Francesco Sobbrio and Guido Tabellini

E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India pp. 39-72

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Clément Imbert, Santhosh Mathew and Rohini Pande

The Not-So-Hot Melting Pot: The Persistence of Outcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration pp. 73-102

Zachary Ward

The Elasticity of Science pp. 103-34

Kyle Myers

Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences pp. 135-63

Lisa Barrow, Lauren Sartain and Marisa de la Torre

Rules for Recovery: Impact of Indexed Disaster Funds on Shock Coping in Mexico pp. 164-95

Alejandro del Valle, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Healthcare Demand under Simple Prices: Evidence from Tiered Hospital Networks pp. 196-223

Elena Prager

Partisan Shocks and Financial Markets: Evidence from Close National Elections pp. 224-52

Daniele Girardi

Job Displacement, Family Dynamics, and Spousal Labor Supply pp. 253-87

Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder and Andrea Weber

The Impact of Insurance Expansions on the Already Insured: The Affordable Care Act and Medicare pp. 288-318

Colleen M. Carey, Sarah Miller and Laura Wherry

Volume 12, issue 3, 2020

The Impact of Information Technology on the Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals pp. 1-39

Kenneth Arrow, L. Kamran Bilir and Alan Sorensen

The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa pp. 40-71

Martin Abel, Rulof Burger and Patrizio Piraino

Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records pp. 72-105

Kyle Bagwell, Robert Staiger and Ali Yurukoglu

Fenced Out: The Impact of Border Construction on US-Mexico Migration pp. 106-39

Benjamin Feigenberg

Front-Loading the Unemployment Benefit: An Empirical Assessment pp. 140-74

Attila Lindner and Balazs Reizer

The Competitive Effects of Entry: Evidence from Supercenter Expansion pp. 175-206

Peter Arcidiacono, Paul B. Ellickson, Carl F. Mela and John Singleton

Prestige Matters: Wage Premium and Value Addition in Elite Colleges pp. 207-25

Sheetal Sekhri

Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models pp. 226-54

Catherine Porter and Danila Serra

What Is the Added Value of Preschool for Poor Children? Long-Term and Intergenerational Impacts and Interactions with an Infant Health Intervention pp. 255-86

Maya Rossin-Slater and Miriam Wüst

One in a Million: Field Experiments on Perceived Closeness of the Election and Voter Turnout pp. 287-325

Alan Gerber, Mitchell Hoffman, John Morgan and Collin Raymond

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