American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Volume 15, issue 4, 2023

Do Credit Supply Shocks Affect Employment in Middle-Income Countries? pp. 1-36

Emilio Gutierrez, David Jaume and Martin Tobal

Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System pp. 37-74

Michael D. Frakes, Jonathan Gruber and Timothy Justicz

Age Discrimination across the Business Cycle pp. 75-112

Gordon Dahl and Matthew Knepper

My Professor Cares: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Faculty Engagement pp. 113-41

Scott Carrell and Michal Kurlaender

Public Pension Reforms and Retirement Decisions: Narrative Evidence and Aggregate Implications pp. 142-82

Huixin Bi and Sarah Zubairy

Moved to Poverty? A Legacy of the Apartheid Experiment in South Africa pp. 183-221

Bladimir Carrillo, Carlos Charris and Wilman Iglesias

Dynamic Impacts of School-Based Internet Access on Student Learning: Evidence from Peruvian Public Primary Schools pp. 222-54

Leah Lakdawala, Eduardo Nakasone and Kevin Kho

Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students pp. 255-94

David Figlio, Cassandra M. D. Hart and Krzysztof Karbownik

Electoral Cycles in Macroprudential Regulation pp. 295-322

Karsten Müller

Market Power and Price Exposure: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation pp. 323-58

Natalia Fabra and Imelda Imelda

The Effects of Import Competition on Unionization pp. 359-89

John S. Ahlquist and Mitch Downey

Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery pp. 390-427

Gabriel Englander

Digitization and the Market for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project pp. 428-58

Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers

Brexit Uncertainty and Its (Dis)service Effects pp. 459-85

Saad Ahmad, Nuno Limão, Sarah Oliver and Serge Shikher

Do Tax Incentives Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D, Patents, and Spillovers pp. 486-521

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John van Reenen

Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment pp. 522-50

Ashna Arora

Volume 15, issue 3, 2023

Sin Taxes and Self-Control pp. 1-34

Renke Schmacker and Sinne Smed

Special Economic Zones and Human Capital Investment: 30 Years of Evidence from China pp. 35-64

Fangwen Lu, Weizeng Sun and Jianfeng Wu

Common Practice: Spillovers from Medicare on Private Health Care pp. 65-88

Michael L. Barnett, Andrew Olenski and Adam Sacarny

Spending Responses to High-Frequency Shifts in Payment Timing: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 89-114

Aditya Aladangady, Shifrah Aron-Dine, David Cashin, Wendy Dunn, Laura Feiveson, Paul Lengermann, Katherine Richard and Claudia Sahm

How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming pp. 115-50

Rafael Lalive, Arvind Magesan and Stefan Staubli

Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination pp. 151-83

Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Health Care Coordination and Utilization pp. 184-214

Leila Agha, Keith Marzilli Ericson and Xiaoxi Zhao

Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation pp. 215-55

Eric Ohrn

Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions pp. 256-85

Damien de Walque and Christine Valente

The Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem pp. 286-321

Joshua A. Blonz

Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity pp. 322-50

Manuel Bagues and Christopher Roth

More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior during a Pandemic pp. 351-71

Nicolás Ajzenman, Tiago Cavalcanti and Daniel Da Mata

ACE—Analytic Climate Economy pp. 372-406

Christian P. Traeger

Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training pp. 407-37

Blake H. Heller and Kirsten Slungaard Mumma

Voting for Democracy: Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation pp. 438-64

Ethan Kaplan, Fernando Saltiel and Sergio Urzua

College Enrollment and Mandatory FAFSA Applications: Evidence from Louisiana pp. 465-94

Christa Deneault

Volume 15, issue 2, 2023

How Do Institutions of Higher Education Affect Local Invention? Evidence from the Establishment of US Colleges pp. 1-41

Michael Andrews

The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices pp. 42-81

David Card, Alessandra Fenizia and David Silver

Optimal Income Taxation with Spillovers from Employer Learning pp. 82-125

Ashley Craig

Pensions and Fertility: Microeconomic Evidence pp. 126-65

Alexander Danzer and Lennard Zyska

Profiting from Most-Favored-Customer Procurement Rules: Evidence from Medicaid pp. 166-97

Josh Feng, Thomas Hwang and Luca Maini

No Spending without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance pp. 198-235

Brett Fischer

Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria pp. 236-55

Andreas Gulyas, Sebastian Seitz and Sourav Sinha

Peer Effects in Police Use of Force pp. 256-91

Justin E. Holz, Roman G. Rivera and Bocar A. Ba

Can Forward Commodity Markets Improve Spot Market Performance? Evidence from Wholesale Electricity pp. 292-330

Akshaya Jha and Frank A. Wolak

Borrowing Costs after Sovereign Debt Relief pp. 331-58

Valentin Lang, David Mihalyi and Andrea Presbitero

Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College pp. 359-94

Cher Hsuehhsiang Li and Basit Zafar

Climate Change and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from Six Decades of the Indian Census pp. 395-423

Maggie Liu, Yogita Shamdasani and Vis Taraz

Taxing Billionaires: Estate Taxes and the Geographical Location of the Ultra-Wealthy pp. 424-66

Enrico Moretti and Daniel Wilson

Go with the Politician pp. 467-96

Yongwei Nian and Chunyang Wang

Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence pp. 497-525

Thomas Tørsløv, Ludvig Wier and Gabriel Zucman

Coase and Cap-and-Trade: Evidence on the Independence Property from the European Carbon Market pp. 526-58

Aleksandar Zaklan

Volume 15, issue 1, 2023

Housing in Medicaid: Should It Really Change? pp. 1-36

Bertrand Achou

The Effect of Early Childhood Education on Adult Criminality: Evidence from the 1960s through 1990s pp. 37-69

John Anders, Andrew C. Barr and Alexander A. Smith

Exploring Residual Profit Allocation pp. 70-109

Sebastian Beer, Ruud de Mooij, Shafik Hebous, Michael Keen and Li Liu

Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment pp. 110-53

Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Public Investments pp. 154-73

Lukas Buchheim and Martin Watzinger

SOEs and Soft Incentive Constraints in State Bank Lending pp. 174-95

Yiming Cao, Raymond Fisman, Hui Lin and Yongxiang Wang

Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan pp. 196-232

Peter Christensen, David A. Keiser and Gabriel E. Lade

The Extension of Credit with Nonexclusive Contracts and Sequential Banking Externalities pp. 233-71

Giacomo De Giorgi, Andres Drenik and Enrique Seira

Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi pp. 272-305

Pascaline Dupas, Basimenye Nhlema, Zachary Wagner, Aaron Wolf and Emily Wroe

Employed in a SNAP? The Impact of Work Requirements on Program Participation and Labor Supply pp. 306-41

Colin Gray, Adam Leive, Elena Prager, Kelsey Pukelis and Mary Zaki

Implications of Tax Loss Asymmetry for Owners of S Corporations pp. 342-69

Lucas Goodman, Elena Patel and Molly Saunders-Scott

Health Effects of Increasing Income for the Elderly: Evidence from a Chilean Pension Program pp. 370-93

Enrico Miglino, Nicolás Navarrete H., Gonzalo Navarrete H. and Pablo Navarrete H.

The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion pp. 394-437

Sarah Miller, Laura Wherry and Diana Greene Foster

School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order pp. 438-72

Ying Shi and John Singleton

What Does a Provider Network Do? Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid Managed Care pp. 473-509

Jacob Wallace

Student Performance, Peer Effects, and Friend Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Peer Intervention pp. 510-42

Jia Wu, Junsen Zhang and Chunchao Wang