American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

2009 - 2025

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Volume 5, issue 4, 2013

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness pp. 1-27

Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

Getting beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City pp. 28-60

Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer

Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor pp. 61-91

Grant Miller, Diana Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernandez

Deterrence and Geographical Externalities in Auto Theft pp. 92-110

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Employment, Wages, and Voter Turnout pp. 111-43

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens

Immigrants' Labor Supply and Exchange Rate Volatility pp. 144-64

Arash Nekoei

Asymmetric Information between Employers pp. 165-205

Lisa Kahn

The Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Education Outcomes and Poverty Reduction pp. 206-40

Stephan Litschig and Kevin M. Morrison

Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism? Experimental Evidence from Benin pp. 241-55

Thomas Fujiwara and Leonard Wantchekon

Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets: Evidence from Payday Lending pp. 256-82

Will Dobbie and Paige Marta Skiba

Volume 5, issue 3, 2013

Fuel Economy and Safety: The Influences of Vehicle Class and Driver Behavior pp. 1-26

Mark R. Jacobsen

Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools pp. 27-40

Dana Burde and Leigh L. Linden

The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso pp. 41-62

Harounan Kazianga, Dan Levy, Leigh L. Linden and Matt Sloan

How Does the Market Use Citation Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics pp. 63-90

Glenn Ellison

Marriage Networks, Nepotism, and Labor Market Outcomes in China pp. 91-112

Shing-Yi Wang

Private Information and the Allocation of Land Use Subsidies in Malawi pp. 113-35

B. Kelsey Jack

A Female Style in Corporate Leadership? Evidence from Quotas pp. 136-69

David A. Matsa and Amalia Miller

Campaign Contributions over CEOs' Careers pp. 170-88

Adam Fremeth, Brian Kelleher Richter and Brandon Schaufele

Teaching Practices and Social Capital pp. 189-210

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Andrei Shleifer

Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren pp. 211-40

Robert Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson

Volume 5, issue 2, 2013

Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers pp. 1-28

Randall Akee, Emilia Simeonova, William Copeland, Adrian Angold and E. Jane Costello

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores pp. 29-57

Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan, Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman

The Effect of Absenteeism and Clinic Protocol on Health Outcomes: The Case of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Kenya pp. 58-85

Markus Goldstein, Joshua Graff Zivin, James Habyarimana, Cristian Pop-Eleches and Harsha Thirumurthy

Health, Height, Height Shrinkage, and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China pp. 86-121

Wei Huang, Xiaoyan Lei, Geert Ridder, John Strauss and Yaohui Zhao

The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka pp. 122-50

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

Making Yourself Attractive: Pre-marital Investments and the Returns to Education in the Marriage Market pp. 151-78

Jeanne Lafortune

Texting Bans and Fatal Accidents on Roadways: Do They Work? Or Do Drivers Just React to Announcements of Bans? pp. 179-99

Rahi Abouk and Scott Adams

Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil pp. 200-231

Molly Lipscomb, Ahmed Mobarak and Tania Barham

The Gorbachev Anti-alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis pp. 232-60

Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann and Grant Miller

Volume 5, issue 1, 2013

Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients pp. 1-31

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez

The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior pp. 32-64

Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan

Real Wage Inequality pp. 65-103

Enrico Moretti

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India pp. 104-35

Shawn Cole, Xavier Gine, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend and James Vickery

Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-Owned Industry pp. 136-62

Sanghamitra Das, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin and Rohini Somanathan

Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya pp. 163-92

Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson

Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making pp. 193-207

Sumit Agarwal and Bhashkar Mazumder

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil pp. 208-38

Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels

Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States pp. 239-73

William Collins and Katharine L. Shester

Volume 4, issue 4, 2012

Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil pp. 1-31

Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Chong and Suzanne Duryea

Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration Using Sentencing Enhancements pp. 32-56

David Abrams

Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal pp. 57-93

David Card and Ana Rute Cardoso

Can Mobile Phones Improve Learning? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Niger pp. 94-120

Jenny C. Aker, Christopher Ksoll and Travis Lybbert

Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States pp. 121-39

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

Limited Insurance within the Household: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya pp. 140-64

Jonathan Robinson

The Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India pp. 165-93

Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova

Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from US Nuclear Power pp. 194-225

Lucas Davis and Catherine Wolfram

Access, Sorting, and Achievement: The Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya pp. 226-53

Adrienne Lucas and Isaac Mbiti

Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement? pp. 254-74

Jason Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen R. Waddell

Volume 4, issue 3, 2012

Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector pp. 1-27

Emek Basker

How Large Are the Effects from Temporary Changes in Family Environment: Evidence from a Child-Evacuation Program during World War II pp. 28-42

Torsten Santavirta

Sweetening the Deal? Political Connections and Sugar Mills in India pp. 43-63

Sandip Sukhtankar

Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality pp. 64-89

Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro

When They're Sixty-Four: Peer Effects and the Timing of Retirement pp. 90-115

Kristine Brown and Ron A. Laschever

The Economic Benefits of Pharmaceutical Innovations: The Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors pp. 116-37

Craig L. Garthwaite

High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa pp. 138-66

Jeremy Magruder

Drug Innovations and Welfare Measures Computed from Market Demand: The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs pp. 167-89

Abe Dunn

Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage and Children's Long-Term Outcomes pp. 190-224

Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages pp. 225-54

Martha Bailey, Brad Hershbein and Amalia Miller

Volume 4, issue 2, 2012

What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes pp. 1-35

Katrine Løken, Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall

What Makes Firm-Based Vocational Training Schemes Successful? The Role of Commitment pp. 36-61

Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg

Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on US Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X pp. 62-97

Martha Bailey

The Impact of Credit on Village Economies pp. 98-133

Joseph Kaboski and Robert Townsend

Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks pp. 134-67

Orazio Attanasio, Abigail Barr, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Garance Genicot and Costas Meghir

Productivity Spillovers across Firms through Worker Mobility pp. 168-98

Andrey Stoyanov and Nick Zubanov

Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behavior: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment pp. 199-218

Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati

The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance pp. 219-46

Tanguy Brachet, Guy David and Andrea M. Drechsler

Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment pp. 247-73

Karen Macours, Norbert Schady and Renos Vakis

Castes and Labor Mobility pp. 274-307

Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri and Sourabh Paul

Volume 4, issue 1, 2012

The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession pp. 1-29

Philip Oreopoulos, Till von Wachter and Andrew Heisz

Partisan Grading pp. 30-48

Talia Bar and Asaf Zussman

An Empirical Investigation of the Option Value of College Enrollment pp. 49-84

Kevin Stange

School Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries pp. 85-108

Leah Boustan

When the Saints Go Marching Out: Long-Term Outcomes for Student Evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pp. 109-35

Bruce Sacerdote

Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences pp. 136-63

Edward Lazear, Ulrike Malmendier and Roberto Weber

Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards pp. 164-92

Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Marta Rubio-Codina

Do Expert Reviews Affect the Demand for Wine? pp. 193-211

Richard Friberg and Erik Grönqvist

Are Female Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India pp. 212-44

Irma Clots-Figueras

Enhancing Cognitive Functioning: Medium-Term Effects of a Health and Family Planning Program in Matlab pp. 245-73

Tania Barham