American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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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 Dreyer 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

Volume 10, issue 4, 2018

Supply-Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Introduction of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids pp. 1-35

Abby Alpert, David Powell and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments pp. 36-78

Anna Bindler and Randi Hjalmarsson

From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization pp. 79-108

Holger Breinlich, Anson Soderbery and Greg C. Wright

Discounting Disentangled pp. 109-34

Moritz Drupp, Mark C. Freeman, Ben Groom and Frikk Nesje

Fleeing a Lame Duck: Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment in US States pp. 135-52

Nathan Falk and Cameron A. Shelton

The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes pp. 153-76

Peter Ganong and Jeffrey B. Liebman

Can Small Incentives Have Large Effects? The Impact of Taxes versus Bonuses on Disposable Bag Use pp. 177-210

Tatiana A. Homonoff

The Welfare Impact of Second-Best Uniform-Pigouvian Taxation: Evidence from Transportation pp. 211-42

Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler

A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply pp. 243-67

Alvin Murphy

Taxes and US Oil Production: Evidence from California and the Windfall Profit Tax pp. 268-301

Nirupama L. Rao

How Initial Conditions Can Have Permanent Effects: The Case of the Affordable Care Act pp. 302-43

Florian Scheuer and Kent Smetters

The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet pp. 344-74

Maximilian von Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

Volume 10, issue 3, 2018

The Role of Information in Disability Insurance Application: An Analysis of the Social Security Statement Phase-In pp. 1-41

Philip Armour

A Letter and Encouragement: Does Information Increase Postsecondary Enrollment of UI Recipients? pp. 42-68

Andrew Barr and Sarah Turner

Cash-Flow Taxes in an International Setting pp. 69-94

Alan Auerbach and Michael Devereux

Does the Election of a Female Leader Clear the Way for More Women in Politics? pp. 95-121

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Zohal Hessami

Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-Specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D pp. 122-53

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Maria Polyakova

Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D Plans pp. 154-92

Kurt Lavetti and Kosali Simon

Consumer Valuation of Fuel Costs and Tax Policy: Evidence from the European Car Market pp. 193-225

Laura Grigolon, Mathias Reynaert and Frank Verboven

Can Online Off-the-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 226-54

Kirabo Jackson and Alexey Makarin

Does Managed Care Widen Infant Health Disparities? Evidence from Texas Medicaid pp. 255-83

Ilyana Kuziemko, Katherine Meckel and Maya Rossin-Slater

The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure pp. 284-308

Marta Lachowska and Michal Myck

The Impact of Financial Education on Adolescents' Intertemporal Choices pp. 309-32

Melanie Lührmann, Marta Serra-Garcia and Joachim Winter

Projections and Uncertainties about Climate Change in an Era of Minimal Climate Policies pp. 333-60

William Nordhaus

Multimarket Contact in the Hospital Industry pp. 361-87

Matt Schmitt

Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970) pp. 388-417

Oliver Vanden Eynde, Patrick M. Kuhn and Alexander Moradi

Volume 10, issue 2, 2018

Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production pp. 1-38

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

Fiscal Centralization: Theory and Evidence from the Great Depression pp. 39-61

Daniele Coen-Pirani and Michael Wooley

How Do Changes in Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality? pp. 62-89

Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong

The Fall of Coal: Joint Impacts of Fuel Prices and Renewables on Generation and Emissions pp. 90-116

Harrison Fell and Daniel Kaffine

Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior pp. 117-51

Matthew Freedman, Emily Owens and Sarah Bohn

A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Theory pp. 152-81

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Applications pp. 182-216

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

Changing How Literacy Is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics pp. 217-41

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

Cash-on-Hand and College Enrollment: Evidence from Population Tax Data and the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 242-71

Dayanand Manoli and Nicholas Turner

The Effect of Corporate Taxation on Investment and Financial Policy: Evidence from the DPAD pp. 272-301

Eric Ohrn

Volume 10, issue 1, 2018

Under the Radar: The Effects of Monitoring Firms on Tax Compliance pp. 1-38

Miguel Almunia and David Lopez-Rodriguez

Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-respected Preferences for Social Comparisons pp. 39-76

Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in Medicare pp. 77-112

Thomas C. Buchmueller and Colleen Carey

Do Physicians Respond to the Costs and Cost-Sensitivity of Their Patients? pp. 113-52

Mariana Carrera, Dana Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce and Neeraj Sood

The Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits pp. 153-86

Mark Duggan, Jonathan Gruber and Boris Vabson

Identifying the Harm of Manipulable School-Choice Mechanisms pp. 187-213

Umut Dur, Robert G. Hammond and Thayer Morrill

Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners' Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union pp. 214-39

Kai Gehring and Stephan A. Schneider

Moral Suasion and Economic Incentives: Field Experimental Evidence from Energy Demand pp. 240-67

Koichiro Ito, Takanori Ida and Makoto Tanaka

Do Restrictions on Home Equity Extraction Contribute to Lower Mortgage Defaults? Evidence from a Policy Discontinuity at the Texas Border pp. 268-97

Anil Kumar

Cheating and Incentives: Learning from a Policy Experiment pp. 298-325

Cesar Martinelli, Susan Parker, Ana Cristina Pérez-Gea and Rodimiro Rodrigo

The Evolution of Physician Practice Styles: Evidence from Cardiologist Migration pp. 326-56

David Molitor

The Effect of Export Promotion on Firm-Level Performance pp. 357-87

Jakob Munch and Georg Schaur