American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Volume 12, issue 2, 2020

Tax Credits and Small Firm R&D Spending pp. 1-21

Ajay Agrawal, Carlos Rosell and Timothy Simcoe

An Equilibrium Theory of Retirement Plan Design pp. 22-45

Ryan Bubb and Patrick L. Warren

Where Do Students Go When For-Profit Colleges Lose Federal Aid? pp. 46-83

Stephanie R. Cellini, Rajeev Darolia and Lesley J. Turner

Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement-Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach pp. 84-114

Steven Dieterle, Otavio Bartalotti and Quentin Brummet

Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps pp. 115-58

Joshua Goodman, Oded Gurantz and Jonathan Smith

Unemployment Insurance and Means-Tested Program Interactions: Evidence from Administrative Data pp. 159-92

Pauline Leung and Christopher O'Leary

Upstream and Downstream Impacts of College Merit-Based Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Ser Pilo Paga in Colombia pp. 193-227

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, Catherine Rodriguez and Fabio Sánchez

Does School Desegregation Promote Diverse Interactions? An Equilibrium Model of Segregation within Schools pp. 228-57

Angelo Mele

Rethinking Detroit pp. 258-305

Raymond Owens, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Pierre-Daniel Sarte

Heat and Learning pp. 306-39

R. Jisung Park, Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz and Jonathan Smith

Optimal Climate Policy When Damages Are Unknown pp. 340-73

Ivan Rudik

Volume 12, issue 1, 2020

Financial Education versus Costly Counseling: How to Dissuade Borrowers from Choosing Risky Mortgages? pp. 1-32

Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet and Douglas D. Evanoff

Advertising and Environmental Stewardship: Evidence from the BP Oil Spill pp. 33-61

Lint Barrage, Eric Chyn and Justine Hastings

Teacher Value Added in a Low-Income Country pp. 62-96

Natalie Bau and Jishnu Das

A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students pp. 97-126

John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna and Sarah Turner

The Long-Run Impacts of Specialized Programming for High-Achieving Students pp. 127-66

Sarah R. Cohodes

Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies pp. 167-99

Todd D. Gerarden, W. Spencer Reeder and James H. Stock

Do Credit Market Shocks Affect the Real Economy? Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and "Normal" Economic Times pp. 200-225

Michael Greenstone, Alexandre Mas and Hoai-Luu Nguyen

The Returns to a Large Community College Program: Evidence from Admissions Lotteries pp. 226-53

Michel Grosz

Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach pp. 254-92

Kory Kroft, Kavan Kucko, Etienne Lehmann and Johannes Schmieder

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA pp. 293-324

Elira Kuka, Na'ama Shenhav and Kevin Shih

Where Does Multinational Investment Go with Territorial Taxation? Evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 325-58

Li Liu

Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data pp. 359-88

John P. Papay, Eric S. Taylor, John H. Tyler and Mary E. Laski

Retirement Lock and Prescription Drug Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Part D pp. 389-417

Gal Wettstein

The Marginal Cost of Traffic Congestion and Road Pricing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Beijing pp. 418-53

Jun Yang, Avralt-Od Purevjav and Shanjun Li

Volume 11, issue 4, 2019

Carbon Taxes and CO2 Emissions: Sweden as a Case Study pp. 1-30

Julius J. Andersson

Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas pp. 31-65

Rodney J. Andrews and Kevin M. Stange

Incentives and Unintended Consequences: Spillover Effects in Food Choice pp. 66-95

Manuela Angelucci, Silvia Prina, Heather Royer and Anya Samek

Sustaining Honesty in Public Service: The Role of Selection pp. 96-123

Sebastian Barfort, Nikolaj A. Harmon, Frederik Hjorth and Asmus Leth Olsen

Peer Preferences, School Competition, and the Effects of Public School Choice pp. 124-58

Levon Barseghyan, Damon Clark and Stephen Coate

The Impact of College Diversity on Behavior toward Minorities pp. 159-82

Scott Carrell, Mark Hoekstra and James E. West

The Rise of NGO Activism pp. 183-212

Julien Daubanes and Jean-Charles Rochet

Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs pp. 213-48

Manasi Deshpande and Yue Li

Employed for Higher Pay? How Medicare Payment Rules Affect Hospital Employment of Physicians pp. 249-71

David Dranove and Christopher Ody

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance pp. 272-309

David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Özek and Paola Sapienza

Reducing Inequality through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending pp. 310-49

Rucker C. Johnson and C. Kirabo Jackson

Randomized Safety Inspections and Risk Exposure on the Job: Quasi-experimental Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life pp. 350-74

Jonathan Lee and Laura Taylor

Public Spillovers from Private Insurance Contracting: Physician Responses to Managed Care pp. 375-403

Michael R. Richards and Daniel Tello-Trillo

New Evidence on Information Disclosure through Restaurant Hygiene Grading pp. 404-28

Daniel E. Ho, Zoe C. Ashwood and Cassandra Handan-Nader

New Evidence on Information Disclosure through Restaurant Hygiene Grading: Reply pp. 429-43

Ginger Zhe Jin and Phillip Leslie

Volume 11, issue 3, 2019

The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program pp. 1-26

Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber and Kevin Milligan

Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the United States and the United Kingdom: Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference? pp. 27-54

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell and James P. Smith

Casting a Wider Tax Net: Experimental Evidence from Costa Rica pp. 55-87

Anne Brockmeyer, Spencer Smith, Marco Hernandez and Stewart Kettle

Estimating the Value of Public Insurance Using Complementary Private Insurance pp. 88-129

Marika Cabral and Mark R. Cullen

Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class pp. 130-55

Jeffrey R. Campbell and Zvi Hercowitz

Provider Supply, Utilization, and Infant Health: Evidence from a Physician Distribution Policy pp. 156-96

Bladimir Carrillo and José Féres

Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity pp. 197-231

Michael Frakes and Jonathan Gruber

Voter Response to Peak and End Transfers: Evidence from a Conditional Cash Transfer Experiment pp. 232-60

Sebastian Galiani, Nadya Hajj, Patrick McEwan, Pablo Ibarrarán and Nandita Krishnaswamy

How Do Tax Incentives Affect Investment and Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from China pp. 261-91

Yongzheng Liu and Jie Mao

The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining pp. 292-324

Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén

Place-Based Policies, Creation, and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from China's Economic Zone Program pp. 325-60

Yi Lu, Jin Wang and Lianming Zhu

The Impact of Investment Incentives: Evidence from UK Corporation Tax Returns pp. 361-89

Giorgia Maffini, Jing Xing and Michael Devereux

Reducing Medical Spending of the Publicly Insured: The Case for a Cash-out Option pp. 390-426

Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

Do Kidney Exchanges Improve Patient Outcomes? pp. 427-53

Keith Teltser

Corrigendum: Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers pp. 454-56

Tom Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Neidell

Volume 11, issue 2, 2019

Geographic Cross-Sectional Fiscal Spending Multipliers: What Have We Learned? pp. 1-34

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

Early School Exposure, Test Scores, and Noncognitive Outcomes pp. 35-63

Thomas Cornelissen and Christian Dustmann

Screening in Contract Design: Evidence from the ACA Health Insurance Exchanges pp. 64-107

Michael Geruso, Timothy Layton and Daniel Prinz

Student Loan Nudges: Experimental Evidence on Borrowing and Educational Attainment pp. 108-41

Benjamin Marx and Lesley Turner

Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits pp. 142-64

Nikolas Mittag

Are Home Buyers Inattentive? Evidence from Capitalization of Energy Costs pp. 165-88

Erica Myers

Are Local Tax Rates Strategic Complements or Strategic Substitutes? pp. 189-224

Raphaël Parchet

Good Cop, Bad Cop: Using Civilian Allegations to Predict Police Misconduct pp. 225-68

Kyle Rozema and Max Schanzenbach

Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design pp. 269-300

Philippe Ruh and Stefan Staubli

Snapping Back: Food Stamp Bans and Criminal Recidivism pp. 301-27

Cody Tuttle

Volume 11, issue 1, 2019

Are Consumers Poorly Informed about Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments pp. 1-37

Hunt Allcott and Christopher Knittel

Who Really Benefits from Consumption Tax Cuts? Evidence from a Large VAT Reform in France pp. 38-63

Youssef Benzarti and Dorian Carloni

The Long-Run Impacts of Financial Aid: Evidence from California's Cal Grant pp. 64-94

Eric Bettinger, Oded Gurantz, Laura Kawano, Bruce Sacerdote and Michael Stevens

Direct and Spillover Effects of Middle School Vaccination Requirements pp. 95-125

Christopher S. Carpenter and Emily C. Lawler

Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution pp. 126-59

Judith A. Chevalier and Anil K. Kashyap

Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions pp. 160-91

Alma Cohen and Crystal S. Yang

Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending pp. 192-221

David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern and David Wennberg

Does It Matter if Your Health Insurer Is For Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending pp. 222-65

Leemore Dafny

Effectiveness of Fiscal Incentives for R&D: Quasi-experimental Evidence pp. 266-91

Irem Guceri and Li Liu

Stimulating the Vote: ARRA Road Spending and Vote Share pp. 292-316

Emiliano Huet-Vaughn

The Out-of-State Tuition Distortion pp. 317-50

Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff

Liquidity Constraint Tightness and Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy pp. 351-79

Claus Kreiner, David Lassen and Søren Leth-Petersen

Patchwork Policies, Spillovers, and the Search for Oil and Gas pp. 380-405

Eric Lewis

An Estimable Model of Income Redistribution in a Federation: Musgrave Meets Oates pp. 406-34

Kevin Milligan and Michael Smart