American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

2009 - 2026

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Volume 18, issue 4, 2026

Inclusive Teaching: Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom pp. 1-31

Sule Alan, Michela Carlana and Marinella Leone

China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System: A General Equilibrium Assessment pp. 32-62

Lawrence H. Goulder, Xianling Long, Chenfei Qu and Da Zhang

The Role of Race in the Legal Representation of Low-Income Defendants pp. 63-93

Maya Mikdash and Suhyeon Oh

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families pp. 94-129

Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson

The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency pp. 130-59

A. Brooks Bowden, Viviana Rodriguez and Zach Weingarten

Polluted IPOs pp. 160-87

Meng Miao, Wei Wang and Zhengyu Zuo

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users' Emotional State pp. 188-207

Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Winter Mason, Arjun Wilkins, Natalie Jomini Stroud, Joshua A. Tucker and US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study Collective

Impacts of Corporate Tax Cuts on Firms and Workers: Evidence from Small Businesses pp. 208-44

Yige Duan and Terry S. Moon

Prioritizing Benefit? How Low-Income Patients Respond to Prescription Cost Sharing pp. 245-72

Christopher Hollrah

Trade Protection along Supply Chains pp. 273-307

Chad P. Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi

On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia pp. 308-45

Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas and Elan Satriawan

Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality pp. 346-82

Tine M. Eriksen, Amanda P. Gaulke, Niels Skipper, Jannet Svensson and Peter R. Thingholm

How Effective Are R&D Tax Incentives? Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence pp. 383-422

Silvia Appelt, Matěj Bajgar, Chiara Criscuolo and Fernando Galindo-Rueda

Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation pp. 423-56

Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas and Crystal S. Yang

The Pass-Through of Retail Crime pp. 457-91

Carl Hase and Johannes Kasinger

Identifying Tax Compliance from Variation in Tax Policy: Theory and Empirics pp. 492-525

Andrew Bibler, Laura Grigolon, Keith F. Teltser and Mark J. Tremblay

Volume 18, issue 3, 2026

Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools pp. 1-37

Andrew Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Eric Hanushek, Ben Ost and Steven Rivkin

Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa pp. 38-60

Andrea Guariso and Thorsten Rogall

The Welfare Effects of Eligibility Expansions: Theory and Evidence from SNAP pp. 61-100

Jenna Anders and Charlie Rafkin

When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience—Evidence from School Parents in Brazil pp. 101-34

Guilherme Lichand, Nina Cunha, Ricardo A. Madeira and Eric Bettinger

Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies, and Electoral Accountability pp. 135-62

Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman and Eleonora Patacchini

The Value of School Social Climate Information: Evidence from Chicago Housing Transactions pp. 163-96

Rene A. Crespin

Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths pp. 197-234

Jamein P. Cunningham and Rob Gillezeau

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform pp. 235-74

Santosh Anagol, Fernando Ferreira and Jonah Rexer

Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information pp. 275-305

Joakim A. Weill

The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity pp. 306-41

Andrew Haughwout, Benjamin Hyman and Or Shachar

Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India pp. 342-71

Sarika Gupta

Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Evidence from UK Business Rate Reliefs pp. 372-410

Ben Lockwood, Martin Simmler and Eddy H. F. Tam

Alcohol, Labor, and Agriculture pp. 411-40

David Murphy

Female Leaders and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from State Elections in India pp. 441-75

S. Anukriti, Bilge Erten and Priya Mukherjee

Racial and Ethnic Inequality and the China Shock pp. 476-508

Lisa B. Kahn, Lindsay Oldenski and Geunyong Park

Are Building Codes an Effective Adaptation to Wind Risk? Evidence from Remotely Detected Blue Tarps pp. 509-40

David Wolf and Kenji Takeuchi

Volume 18, issue 2, 2026

Vertical Integration and Cream Skimming of Profitable Referrals: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities pp. 1-33

David Cutler, Leemore Dafny, David C. Grabowski, Steven Lee and Christopher Ody

Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intrahousehold Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences pp. 34-77

Jorge Luis Garcia

Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks pp. 78-106

Franziska Bremus and Malte Rieth

Adjustable Product Attributes, Indirect Network Effects, and Subsidy Design: The Case of Electric Vehicles pp. 107-40

Kevin Remmy

Harnessing Deductions to Increase Tax Compliance and Formalization pp. 141-80

Albrecht Bohne and Jan Sebastian Nimczik

Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 181-211

Essi Eerola, Tuomas Kosonen, Kaisa Kotakorpi and Teemu Lyytikäinen

Responses to Extreme Temperatures: Migrant Networks and International Migration from El Salvador pp. 212-41

Ana Ibáñez, Juliana Quigua, Maria Jimena Romero and Andrea Velásquez

The Segregative Effects of Charter Schools pp. 242-74

Angela Crema

The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax pp. 275-308

Elisa Casi, Evelina Gavrilova, David Murphy and Floris T. Zoutman

Fiscal Procyclicality in Commodity Exporting Countries: How Much Does It Pour and Why? pp. 309-45

Francisco Arroyo Marioli and Carlos A. Vegh

State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System pp. 346-74

Angélica Meinhofer, Adrian Rubli and Jamein P. Cunningham

Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime: Evidence from Linking Prosecutor Surveys to Court Records pp. 375-403

Emma Harrington, William III Murdock and Hannah Shaffer

Short- and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel pp. 404-40

Elad DeMalach and Analia Schlosser

Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria pp. 441-76

Philipp Ager, Casper Hansen and Peter Lin

Punishing Financial Crimes: The Impact of Prison Sentences on Defendants and Their Colleagues pp. 477-510

Kristiina Huttunen, Martti Kaila, David Macdonald and Emily Nix

Cooking, Health, and Daily Exposure to Pollution Spikes pp. 511-47

Susanna Berkouwer and Joshua T. Dean

Volume 18, issue 1, 2026

Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation pp. 1-34

Robynn Cox, Jamein P. Cunningham, Alberto Ortega and Kenneth Whaley

Geographic Variation in Mental Health Treatment Utilization: Evidence from Migration pp. 35-68

Hui Ding

Insecurity and Firm Displacement: Evidence from Afghan Corporate Phone Records pp. 69-91

Sylvan Herskowitz, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Tarek Ghani, Ethan B. Kapstein, Thomas L. Scherer and Ott Toomet

Are Complementary Policies Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the United Kingdom pp. 92-126

Jacquelyn Pless

Sweeping up Gangs: The Effects of Tough-on-Crime Policies from a Network Approach pp. 127-58

Magdalena Domínguez

Cross-State Strategic Voting pp. 159-89

Gordon Dahl, Joseph Engelberg, Runjing Lu and William Mullins

Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence pp. 190-218

Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín

Polling Place Location and the Costs of Voting pp. 219-55

Gaurav Bagwe, Juan Margitic and Allison Stashko

Hacked to Pieces? The Effects of Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals and Patients pp. 256-81

Hannah Neprash, Claire McGlave and Sayeh Nikpay

Invisible Wounds: How Mental Disability Benefits Shape Veteran Well-Being pp. 282-317

David Silver and Jonathan Zhang

Connections during Democratic Transitions: Insights from the Political Purge in Post-WWII France pp. 318-48

Toke S. Aidt, Jean Lacroix and Pierre-Guillaume Méon