American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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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 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 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 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 Billings, David 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

Volume 10, issue 4, 2018

Why Has Urban Inequality Increased? pp. 1-42

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Matthew Freedman and Ronni Pavan

Social Networks as Contract Enforcement: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field pp. 43-78

Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Cynthia Kinnan and Horacio Larreguy

Access to Migration for Rural Households pp. 79-119

Cynthia Kinnan, Shing-Yi Wang and Yongxiang Wang

Foreign Rivals Are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry pp. 120-57

Cathy Ge Bao and Maggie Chen

Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization pp. 158-95

Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo Soares and Gabriel Ulyssea

Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya pp. 196-221

Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan and Terence R. Johnson

Role Models or Individual Consulting: The Impact of Personalizing Micro-entrepreneurship Training pp. 222-45

Jeanne Lafortune, Julio Riutort and José Tessada

The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks pp. 246-82

Abel Brodeur

Modern Family? Paternity Leave and Marital Stability pp. 283-307

Daniel Avdic and Arizo Karimi

Diabetes and Diet: Purchasing Behavior Change in Response to Health Information pp. 308-48

Emily Oster

Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations pp. 349-77

Hannes Schwandt

Does Electoral Competition Curb Party Favoritism? pp. 378-407

Marta Curto-Grau, Albert Solé-Ollé and Pilar Sorribas-Navarro

Identifying Sorting in Practice pp. 408-38

Cristian Bartolucci, Francesco Devicienti and Ignacio Monzon

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 Alegria, 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 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 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 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 Pathak and Christopher 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 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