American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

2009 - 2025

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Volume 9, issue 4, 2017

One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in an Authoritarian Regime pp. 1-29

Quoc-Anh Do, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and Anh N. Tran

The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon pp. 30-57

Ariaster B. Chimeli and Rodrigo Soares

There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death of Draft Animals pp. 58-77

Shuo Chen and Xiaohuan Lan

Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program pp. 78-104

Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten and Miriam Wüst

Human Capital Persistence and Development pp. 105-36

Rudi Rocha, Claudio Ferraz and Rodrigo Soares

Conflict and the Persistence of Ethnic Bias pp. 137-65

Moses Shayo and Asaf Zussman

Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana pp. 166-85

Eliana La Ferrara and Annamaria Milazzo

Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China? pp. 186-215

Guojun He and Shaoda Wang

In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Italian Mezzogiorno pp. 216-49

Joshua Angrist, Erich Battistin and Daniela Vuri

Persuasion: A Case Study of Papal Influences on Fertility-Related Beliefs and Behavior pp. 250-302

Vittorio Bassi and Imran Rasul

The Impact of Maternal Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India pp. 303-37

Rukmini Banerji, James Berry and Marc Shotland

Volume 9, issue 3, 2017

Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending pp. 1-35

Mark Hoekstra, Steven Puller and Jeremy West

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic pp. 36-69

Toman Barsbai, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr and Christoph Trebesch

Team Production in International Labor Markets: Experimental Evidence from the Field pp. 70-104

Elizabeth Lyons

Do the Effects of Temporary Ethnic Group Quotas Persist? Evidence from India pp. 105-23

Rikhil Bhavnani

Why Do College-Going Interventions Work? pp. 124-51

Scott Carrell and Bruce Sacerdote

The Persistent Effect of Temporary Affirmative Action pp. 152-90

Conrad Miller

Conflicts of Interest and Steering in Residential Brokerage pp. 191-222

Panle Barwick, Parag Pathak and Maisy Wong

The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes pp. 223-61

W. Bentley Macleod, Evan Riehl, Juan E. Saavedra and Miguel Urquiola

A Short-Run View of What Computers Do: Evidence from a UK Tax Incentive pp. 262-94

Paul Gaggl and Greg Wright

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program pp. 295-320

Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India pp. 321-50

Karthik Muralidharan and Nishith Prakash

Volume 9, issue 2, 2017

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 1-22

Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Dan Svirsky

Sanitation and Education pp. 23-59

Anjali Adukia

Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH pp. 60-92

Danielle Li

Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being? pp. 93-130

Maya Rossin-Slater

Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: A Long-Term Follow-Up pp. 131-43

Orazio Attanasio, Arlen Guarin, Carlos Medina and Costas Meghir

Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement pp. 144-64

Paul Carrillo, Dina Pomeranz and Monica Singhal

Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears pp. 165-201

Ina Ganguli

The Distortionary Effects of Incentives in Government: Evidence from China's "Death Ceiling" Program pp. 202-18

Raymond Fisman and Yongxiang Wang

Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration pp. 219-55

Samuel Bazzi

The Local Political Economy Effects of School Construction in Indonesia pp. 256-89

Monica Martinez-Bravo

Volume 9, issue 1, 2017

Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India pp. 1-32

Sharon Barnhardt, Erica Field and Rohini Pande

Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community-Based Monitoring pp. 33-69

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Damien de Walque and Jakob Svensson

Learning by Driving: Productivity Improvements by New York City Taxi Drivers pp. 70-95

Kareem Haggag, Brian McManus and Giovanni Paci

Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep? pp. 96-117

Lucas Coffman, Clayton Featherstone and Judd B. Kessler

Fertility Decline and Missing Women pp. 118-39

Seema Jayachandran

Ready for Boarding? The Effects of a Boarding School for Disadvantaged Students pp. 140-64

Luc Behaghel, Clément de Chaisemartin and Marc Gurgand

The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime pp. 165-201

Jennifer Doleac

Risky Transportation Choices and the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 202-28

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Edward Miguel

Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India pp. 229-73

Sam Asher and Paul Novosad

Tax Me, but Spend Wisely? Sources of Public Finance and Government Accountability pp. 274-314

Lucie Gadenne

Volume 8, issue 4, 2016

The Long-Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin pp. 1-35

Taryn Dinkelman and Martine Mariotti

The Long-Run Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations: Evidence from Transitory Variation in Pollution pp. 36-65

Avraham Ebenstein, Victor Lavy and Sefi Roth

What Does Debt Relief Do for Development? Evidence from India's Bailout for Rural Households pp. 66-99

Martin Kanz

Buy the Book? Evidence on the Effect of Textbook Funding on School-Level Achievement pp. 100-127

Kristian L. Holden

Does Early Life Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Permanently Harm Childhood Welfare? Evidence from Cigarette Tax Hikes pp. 128-59

David Simon

Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections pp. 160-88

Thomas Fujiwara, Kyle Meng and Tom Vogl

Patents as a Spur to Subsequent Innovation? Evidence from Pharmaceuticals pp. 189-221

Duncan S. Gilchrist

Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru pp. 222-55

Alberto Chong, Isabelle Cohen, Erica Field, Eduardo Nakasone and Maximo Torero

The Impact of High School Financial Education: Evidence from a Large-Scale Evaluation in Brazil pp. 256-95

Miriam Bruhn, Luciana de Souza Leão, Arianna Legovini, Rogelio Marchetti and Bilal Zia

Volume 8, issue 3, 2016

Do Fiscal Rules Matter? pp. 1-30

Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini and Ugo antonio Troiano

The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program pp. 31-68

David Autor, Mark Duggan, Kyle Greenberg and David S. Lyle

The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 69-99

Julia Cagé and Valeria Rueda

The Impact of Women's Health Clinic Closures on Preventive Care pp. 100-124

Yao Lu and David Slusky

Does Merger Simulation Work? Evidence from the Swedish Analgesics Market pp. 125-64

Jonas Björnerstedt and Frank Verboven

Regulation of Insurance with Adverse Selection and Switching Costs: Evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 165-95

Maria Polyakova

Do Employer Pension Contributions Reflect Employee Preferences? Evidence from a Retirement Savings Reform in Denmark pp. 196-216

Itzik Fadlon, Jessica Laird and Torben Nielsen

Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning pp. 217-46

Allison Shertzer, Tate Twinam and Randall Walsh

Parental Job Loss and Children's Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from 7 Million Fathers' Layoffs pp. 247-83

Nathaniel G. Hilger

The Effect of Cash, Vouchers, and Food Transfers on Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Northern Ecuador pp. 284-303

Melissa Hidrobo, Amber Peterman and Lori Heise

Volume 8, issue 2, 2016

Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data pp. 1-34

Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri

The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda pp. 35-64

Christopher Blattman, Eric P. Green, Julian Jamison, M. Christian Lehmann and Jeannie Annan

Spring Forward at Your Own Risk: Daylight Saving Time and Fatal Vehicle Crashes pp. 65-91

Austin Smith

Market Impacts of a Nuclear Power Plant Closure pp. 92-122

Lucas Davis and Catherine Hausman

Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon pp. 123-53

André Gröger and Yanos Zylberberg

Income Opportunities and Sea Piracy in Indonesia: Evidence from Satellite Data pp. 154-94

Sebastian Axbard

Beyond Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores pp. 195-224

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Paul Schrimpf

The Returns to Medical School: Evidence from Admission Lotteries pp. 225-54

Nadine Ketel, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

Volume 8, issue 1, 2016

Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back pp. 1-32

Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier and Yanos Zylberberg

Birthdays, Schooling, and Crime: Regression-Discontinuity Analysis of School Performance, Delinquency, Dropout, and Crime Initiation pp. 33-57

Philip J Cook and Songman Kang

The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment pp. 58-99

David Autor, Alan Manning and Christopher Smith

Understanding the Changing Structure of Scientific Inquiry pp. 100-128

Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb and Florenta Teodoridis

Kwacha Gonna Do? Experimental Evidence about Labor Supply in Rural Malawi pp. 129-49

Jessica Goldberg

The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 150-76

Damon Clark and Emilia Del Bono

Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising? pp. 177-92

Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz

Does Grief Transfer across Generations? Bereavements during Pregnancy and Child Outcomes pp. 193-223

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy pp. 224-56

Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Durante, Brian Knight and Eliana La Ferrara

Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession pp. 257-90

Brian Cadena and Brian Kovak