American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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Volume 7, issue 4, 2015

The Effect of Access to College Assessments on Enrollment and Attainment pp. 1-36

George Bulman

Racial Discrimination in Grading: Evidence from Brazil pp. 37-52

Fernando Botelho, Ricardo A. Madeira and Marcos A. Rangel

Professors in Core Science Fields Are Not Always Biased against Women: Evidence from France pp. 53-75

Thomas Breda and Son Thierry Ly

Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start pp. 76-102

Christopher Walters

The Judge, the Politician, and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing across Electoral Systems pp. 103-35

Claire S. H. Lim, James M. Snyder and David Strömberg

Checklists and Worker Behavior: A Field Experiment pp. 136-68

C. Kirabo Jackson and Henry Schneider

The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade pp. 169-97

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Political Parties and Labor-Market Outcomes: Evidence from US States pp. 198-220

Louis-Philippe Beland

Trade Liberalization and Markup Dispersion: Evidence from China's WTO Accession pp. 221-53

Yi Lu and Linhui Yu

Volume 7, issue 3, 2015

Unintended Effects of Anonymous Résumés pp. 1-27

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Crépon and Thomas Le Barbanchon

Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes pp. 28-50

N. Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir and Reyn Van Ewijk

Incentives, Commitments, and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company pp. 51-84

Heather Royer, Mark Stehr and Justin Sydnor

The Rise of Fringe Competitors in the Wake of an Emerging Middle Class: An Empirical Analysis pp. 85-122

Alon Eizenberg and Alberto Salvo

Hassle Costs and Price Discrimination: An Empirical Welfare Analysis pp. 123-46

Guillermo Marshall

The Girl Next Door: The Effect of Opposite Gender Friends on High School Achievement pp. 147-77

Andrew Hill

The Effect of Income on Religiousness pp. 178-95

Thomas Buser

Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for the Scheduled Castes in India pp. 196-220

Francesca Refsum Jensenius

The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality: Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom pp. 221-47

Marco Leonardi

Volume 7, issue 2, 2015

Improving College Access and Success for Low-Income Students: Evidence from a Large Need-Based Grant Program pp. 1-34

Gabrielle Fack and Julien Grenet

Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes pp. 35-52

Orazio Attanasio, Veruska Oppedisano and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

One Laptop per Child at Home: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru pp. 53-80

Diether Beuermann, Julian Cristia, Santiago Cueto, Ofer Malamud and Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo

Social Networks and the Decision to Insure pp. 81-108

Jing Cai, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance pp. 109-34

Jeffrey Clemens

Do Opposites Detract? Intrahousehold Preference Heterogeneity and Inefficient Strategic Savings pp. 135-74

Simone Schaner

Legal Status and the Criminal Activity of Immigrants pp. 175-206

Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Paolo Pinotti

Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador pp. 207-32

Kate Ambler, Diego Aycinena and Dean Yang

Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee pp. 233-63

Clément Imbert and John Papp

The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions pp. 264-92

Natalia Zinovyeva and Manuel Bagues

Volume 7, issue 1, 2015

Six Randomized Evaluations of Microcredit: Introduction and Further Steps pp. 1-21

Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation pp. 22-53

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan

The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 54-89

Alessandro Tarozzi, Jaikishan Desai and Kristin Johnson

The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia pp. 90-122

Orazio Attanasio, Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Emla Fitzsimons and Heike Harmgart

Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco pp. 123-50

Bruno Crépon, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo and William Parienté

Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco pp. 151-82

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 183-203

Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir

Volume 6, issue 4, 2014

Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia pp. 1-34

Benjamin A. Olken, Junko Onishi and Susan Wong

Citizenship, Fertility, and Parental Investments pp. 35-65

Ciro Avitabile, Irma Clots-Figueras and Paolo Masella

Price, Quality, and Variety: Measuring the Gains from Trade in Differentiated Products pp. 66-89

Gloria Sheu

Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin pp. 90-109

Moussa Blimpo

Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance pp. 110-41

David Autor, Mark Duggan and Jonathan Gruber

Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment pp. 142-74

Luc Behaghel, Bruno Cr?pon and Marc Gurgand

The Distributive Impacts of Financial Development: Evidence from Mortgage Markets during US Bank Branch Deregulation pp. 175-96

Ishani Tewari

Soil Endowments, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Deficit of Women in India pp. 197-225

Eliana Carranza

When the Floodgates Open: "Northern" Firms' Response to Removal of Trade Quotas on Chinese Goods pp. 226-50

Hale Utar

Merit Aid, College Quality, and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy pp. 251-85

Sarah Cohodes and Joshua Goodman

Volume 6, issue 3, 2014

Default Tips pp. 1-19

Kareem Haggag and Giovanni Paci

Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri pp. 20-57

Peter Arcidiacono and Cory Koedel

The Impact of Attending a School with High-Achieving Peers: Evidence from the New York City Exam Schools pp. 58-75

Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer

Wells, Water, and Welfare: The Impact of Access to Groundwater on Rural Poverty and Conflict pp. 76-102

Sheetal Sekhri

Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia pp. 103-32

Stefano Della Vigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race pp. 133-58

Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli and Leeat Yariv

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit pp. 159-88

Francesco Drago, Tommaso Nannicini and Francesco Sobbrio

Persistence of Population Shocks: Evidence from the Occupation of West Germany after World War II pp. 189-205

Abel Schumann

Learning about an Infrequent Event: Evidence from Flood Insurance Take-Up in the United States pp. 206-33

Justin Gallagher

Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya pp. 234-63

Adrienne Lucas and Isaac Mbiti

Volume 6, issue 2, 2014

Keeping It Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb pp. 1-31

Alejandro Drexler, Greg Fischer and Antoinette Schoar

The Global Economics of Water: Is Water a Source of Comparative Advantage? pp. 32-48

Peter Debaere

Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks pp. 49-75

David McKenzie, Caroline Theoharides and Dean Yang

Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements pp. 76-104

Craig L. Garthwaite

Improving Educational Quality through Enhancing Community Participation: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment in Indonesia pp. 105-26

Menno Pradhan, Daniel Suryadarma, Amanda Beatty, Maisy Wong, Arya Gaduh, Armida Alisjahbana and Rima Artha

How Do Teachers Improve? The Relative Importance of Specific and General Human Capital pp. 127-51

Ben Ost

The Demand for Medical Male Circumcision pp. 152-77

Jobiba Chinkhumba, Susan Godlonton and Rebecca Thornton

Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence from 1980-2000 pp. 178-94

Paul Beaudry and Ethan Lewis

Testing Paternalism: Cash versus In-Kind Transfers pp. 195-230

Jesse Cunha

Human Capital and Productivity in a Team Environment: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector pp. 231-59

Ann P. Bartel, Nancy D. Beaulieu, Ciaran S. Phibbs and Patricia W. Stone

Volume 6, issue 1, 2014

Dynamic Implications of Subjective Expectations: Evidence from Adult Smokers pp. 1-37

Yang Wang

Influenza Vaccination Campaigns: Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? pp. 38-72

Courtney Ward

Small Steps for Workers, a Giant Leap for Productivity pp. 73-90

Igal Hendel and Yossi Spiegel

The Great Equalizer: Health Care Access and Infant Mortality in Thailand pp. 91-107

Jonathan Gruber, Nathaniel Hendren and Robert M. Townsend

Awarding Price, Contract Performance, and Bids Screening: Evidence from Procurement Auctions pp. 108-32

Francesco Decarolis

Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers pp. 133-56

David Figlio and Cassandra M. D. Hart

Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently? pp. 157-89

Silvia Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho and Adriana Lleras-Muney

The Historically Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Drought pp. 190-219

Richard Hornbeck and Pinar Keskin

Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data pp. 220-52

William Collins and Marianne Wanamaker

Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform pp. 253-78

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth