American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

2009 - 2017

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Volume 9, issue 3, 2017

Police Officer on the Frontline or a Soldier? The Effect of Police Militarization on Crime pp. 1-18

Vincenzo Bove and Evelina Gavrilova

Profit with Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise pp. 19-58

Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak

Tenure in Office and Public Procurement pp. 59-105

Decio Coviello and Stefano Gagliarducci

Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets: A Revealed Preference Approach Using the Shale Revolution pp. 106-33

Joseph A. Cullen and Erin T. Mansur

Mafia in the Ballot Box pp. 134-67

Giuseppe De Feo and Giacomo Davide De Luca

The Fiscal Cost of Hurricanes: Disaster Aid versus Social Insurance pp. 168-98

Tatyana Deryugina

Household Finance after a Natural Disaster: The Case of Hurricane Katrina pp. 199-228

Justin Gallagher and Daniel Hartley

The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries' Earnings pp. 229-61

Alexander Gelber, Timothy J. Moore and Alexander Strand

Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service: Evidence from India pp. 262-90

Rema Hanna and Shing-Yi Wang

Peacekeeping Force: Effects of Providing Tactical Equipment to Local Law Enforcement pp. 291-313

Matthew Harris, Jinseong Park, Donald J. Bruce and Matthew N. Murray

High Frequency Evidence on the Demand for Gasoline pp. 314-47

Laurence Levin, Matthew S. Lewis and Frank A. Wolak

How Much Can Expanding Access to Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives Reduce Teen Birth Rates? pp. 348-76

Jason M. Lindo and Analisa Packham

Affirmative Action Exemptions and Capacity Constrained Firms pp. 377-407

Justin Marion

The Effects of State Medicaid Expansions for Working-Age Adults on Senior Medicare Beneficiaries pp. 408-38

Melissa McInerney, Jennifer M. Mellor and Lindsay M. Sabik

Volume 9, issue 2, 2017

The Economics of Rights: Does the Right to Counsel Increase Crime? pp. 1-27

Itai Ater, Yehonatan Givati and Oren Rigbi

Financial Incentives, Hospital Care, and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Fair Pricing Laws pp. 28-56

Michael Batty and Benedic Ippolito

Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA's Clean Power Plan pp. 57-90

James B. Bushnell, Stephen P. Holland, Jonathan E. Hughes and Christopher Knittel

When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization pp. 91-123

Leemore Dafny, Christopher Ody and Matt Schmitt

The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply pp. 124-54

Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire and Lindsey Leininger

College on the Cheap: Consequences of Community College Tuition Reductions pp. 155-88

Jeffrey Denning

Do Output Contractions Cause Investment in Fiscal Capacity? pp. 189-227

Christian Gillitzer

Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence pp. 228-52

Mark Hoekstra and Sandra Orozco-Aleman

Are State Governments Roadblocks to Federal Stimulus? Evidence on the Flypaper Effect of Highway Grants in the 2009 Recovery Act pp. 253-92

Sylvain Leduc and Daniel Wilson

Manipulation of Procurement Contracts: Evidence from the Introduction of Discretionary Thresholds pp. 293-315

Ján Palguta and Filip Pertold

Can Hiring Quotas Work? The Effect of the Nitaqat Program on the Saudi Private Sector pp. 316-47

Jennifer R. Peck

The Role of Government Reimbursement in Drug Shortages pp. 348-82

Ali Yurukoglu, Eli Liebman and David Ridley

Volume 9, issue 1, 2017

When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health pp. 1-37

Stefan Bauernschuster, Timo Hener and Helmut Rainer

Technological Change and Risk Adjustment: Benefit Design Incentives in Medicare Part D pp. 38-73

Colleen Carey

Housing Supply Elasticity and Rent Extraction by State and Local Governments pp. 74-111

Rebecca Diamond

Gridlock: Ethnic Diversity in Government and the Provision of Public Goods pp. 112-36

Brian Beach and Daniel Jones

Understanding Consumption Behavior: Evidence from Consumers' Reaction to Shopping Vouchers pp. 137-53

Kamhon Kan, Shin-Kun Peng and Ping Wang

Does It Pay to Know Prices in Health Care? pp. 154-79

Ethan M. J. Lieber

Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits? pp. 180-209

Oana Borcan, Mikael Lindahl and Andreea Mitrut

The Interest Rate Elasticity of Mortgage Demand: Evidence from Bunching at the Conforming Loan Limit pp. 210-40

Anthony DeFusco and Andrew Paciorek

Eligibility Recertification and Dynamic Opt-In Incentives in Income-Tested Social Programs: Evidence from Medicaid/CHIP pp. 241-76

Zhuan Pei

Are Information Disclosures Effective? Evidence from the Credit Card Market pp. 277-307

Enrique Seira, Alan Elizondo and Eduardo Laguna-Müggenburg

Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance, and Adverse Selection pp. 308-43

Johannes Spinnewijn

The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust: Corrigendum pp. 344-45

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Stephen Ross

Volume 8, issue 4, 2016

Political Economy of Redistribution in the United States in the Aftermath of World War II--Evidence and Theory pp. 1-40

Roel Beetsma, Alex Cukierman and Massimo Giuliodori

Do Consumers Exploit Commitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption pp. 41-69

B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer and Neva K. Novarro

How Do Providers Respond to Changes in Public Health Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits pp. 70-102

Thomas Buchmueller, Sarah Miller and Marko Vujicic

The Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Tobacco Products, Tar, and Nicotine Purchases among Adults: Evidence from Household Panel Data pp. 103-23

Chad Cotti, Erik Nesson and Nathan Tefft

Workers' Spending Response to the 2011 Payroll Tax Cuts pp. 124-59

Grant Graziani, Wilbert van der Klaauw and Basit Zafar

Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions pp. 160-82

Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance pp. 183-219

Steven Levitt, John List, Susanne Neckermann and Sally Sadoff

Trade Costs, CO2, and the Environment pp. 220-54

Joseph S. Shapiro

Do Health Care Providers Respond to Demand-Side Incentives? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 255-88

Margaret Triyana

Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Judicial Vacancies pp. 289-332

Crystal S. Yang

Volume 8, issue 3, 2016

Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency in a Dynamic Tiebout Model pp. 1-38

Levon Barseghyan and Stephen Coate

Health Insurance Mandates, Mammography, and Breast Cancer Diagnoses pp. 39-68

Marianne Bitler and Christopher S. Carpenter

From Today's City to Tomorrow's City: An Empirical Investigation of Urban Land Assembly pp. 69-105

Leah Brooks and Byron Lutz

Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture pp. 106-40

Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick

Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers pp. 141-69

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

Transfer Pricing by Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Foreign Firm Ownerships pp. 170-202

Anca D. Cristea and Daniel Nguyen

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany pp. 203-32

Nadja Dwenger, Henrik Kleven, Imran Rasul and Johannes Rincke

Tax Reforms and Intertemporal Shifting of Wage Income: Evidence from Danish Monthly Payroll Records pp. 233-57

Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Søren Leth-Petersen and Peer Skov

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia pp. 258-83

Sean Lewis-Faupel, Yusuf Neggers, Benjamin A. Olken and Rohini Pande

The Effects of the Massachusetts Health Reform on Household Financial Distress pp. 284-313

Bhashkar Mazumder and Sarah Miller

Volume 8, issue 2, 2016

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Program, and Social Security Data pp. 1-43

Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

The Impact of Insurance Provision on Household Production and Financial Decisions pp. 44-88

Jing Cai

Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States Than in Europe? pp. 89-124

Alice Chen, Emily Oster and Heidi Williams

Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? pp. 125-53

Erica Field, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol

Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission pp. 154-85

Seth Freedman

General Equilibrium Impacts of a Federal Clean Energy Standard pp. 186-218

Lawrence H. Goulder, Marc A. C. Hafstead and Roberton Williams

Controlling Health Care Costs through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees pp. 219-50

Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight

Does Tax-Collection Invariance Hold? Evasion and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes pp. 251-86

Wojciech Kopczuk, Justin Marion, Erich Muehlegger and Joel Slemrod

Corruption in Procurement and the Political Cycle in Tunneling: Evidence from Financial Transactions Data pp. 287-321

Maxim Mironov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Assessing Financial Education: Evidence from Boot Camp pp. 322-43

William Skimmyhorn

Volume 8, issue 1, 2016

The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust pp. 1-27

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Stephen Ross

The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs pp. 28-51

Christoph Böhringer, Jared Carbone and Thomas F. Rutherford

Paying on the Margin for Medical Care: Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments pp. 52-79

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Heidi Williams

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves pp. 80-114

Rema Hanna, Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone

Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth pp. 115-41

Erin M. Johnson and M. Marit Rehavi

A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages pp. 142-79

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation pp. 180-211

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation pp. 212-52

Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev and Scott Stern

Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution pp. 253-88

Lukas Inderbitzin, Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller