American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

2009 - 2025

Current editor(s): Matthew Shapiro

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The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation pp. 1-25: Guy David, Sara Markowitz and Seth Richards-Shubik
Detecting Illegal Arms Trade pp. 26-57: Stefano DellaVigna and Eliana La Ferrara
International Trade in Used Vehicles: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA pp. 58-82: Lucas Davis and Matthew Kahn
Sharing Demographic Risk--Who Is Afraid of the Baby Bust? pp. 83-118: Alexander Ludwig and Michael Reiter
Short-Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality pp. 119-47: Jonah Rockoff and Lesley Turner
Appropriation, Property Rights Institutions, and International Trade pp. 148-72: Christodoulos Stefanadis
Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization pp. 173-204: Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei

Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm pp. 1-31: Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez
The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain pp. 32-63: Janet Currie, Stefano DellaVigna, Enrico Moretti and Vikram Pathania
The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates pp. 64-89: Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel
Is Lottery Gambling Addictive? pp. 90-110: Jonathan Guryan and Melissa Kearney
Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from US Tariffs pp. 111-33: Douglas Irwin
The Price of Gasoline and New Vehicle Fuel Economy: Evidence from Monthly Sales Data pp. 134-53: Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn
Dynamic Commitment and the Soft Budget Constraint: An Empirical Test pp. 154-79: Per Pettersson-Lidbom
Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points? pp. 180-212: Emmanuel Saez

Front Matter and Editor's Note pp. i-ii: Alan Auerbach
Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates pp. 1-27: Sören Blomquist, Vidar Christiansen and Luca Micheletto
A Greater Price for a Greater Good? Evidence That Consumers Pay More for Charity-Linked Products pp. 28-60: Daniel W. Elfenbein and Brian McManus
The Micro-geography of Tax Avoidance: Evidence from Littered Cigarette Packs in Chicago pp. 61-84: David Merriman
Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance pp. 85-114: Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez
Are Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving Efficient? Evidence from France pp. 117-41: Gabrielle Fack and Camille Landais
The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses pp. 142-62: Justine Hastings and Ebonya Washington
Child Benefit Support and Method of Payment: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Belgium pp. 163-84: Marieke Huysentruyt and Eva Lefevere
Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform pp. 185-215: Helena Nielsen, Torben Sørensen and Christopher Taber

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India pp. 1-30: Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Stuti Khemani
Tagging and Income Taxation: Theory and an Application pp. 31-50: Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery pp. 51-76: David M. Cutler, Robert Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad
Tax Competition for Heterogeneous Firms with Endogenous Entry pp. 77-102: Ronald Davies and Carsten Eckel
Time Is Money: Choosing between Charitable Activities pp. 103-30: Naomi Feldman
Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes, and Competition from the Internet pp. 131-54: Austan Goolsbee, Michael Lovenheim and Joel Slemrod
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution pp. 155-76: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl
Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence pp. 177-208: Jesse Rothstein

Crowded Colleges and College Crowd-Out: The Impact of Public Subsidies on the Two-Year College Market pp. 1-30: Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance pp. 31-52: Raj Chetty
Tax Sensitivity and Home State Preferences in Internet Purchasing pp. 53-71: Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison
Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage pp. 72-112: Meredith L. Fowlie
How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy? pp. 113-37: Shanjun Li, Christopher Timmins and Roger von Haefen
The Divergence of Legal Procedures pp. 138-62: Aron Balas, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
Heterogeneity in Intra-monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement pp. 163-89: Giovanni Mastrobuoni and Matthew Weinberg
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness pp. 190-225: Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

Editor's Note pp. iii-iii: Alan Auerbach
Optimal Tax Design and Enforcement with an Informal Sector pp. 1-27: Robin Boadway and Motohiro Sato
A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries pp. 28-51: Jan Brueckner and Harris Selod
Technology's Edge: The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction pp. 52-74: Lisa Barrow, Lisa Markman and Cecilia Elena Rouse
Housing, Health, and Happiness pp. 75-105: Matias Cattaneo, Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez and Rocio Titiunik
Greenhouse Gas Reductions under Low Carbon Fuel Standards? pp. 106-46: Stephen Holland, Jonathan Hughes and Christopher Knittel
An Empirical Framework for Large-Scale Policy Analysis, with an Application to School Finance Reform in Michigan pp. 147-80: Maria Marta Ferreyra
Domestic Effects of the Foreign Activities of US Multinationals pp. 181-203: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James Hines
Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-Up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving pp. 204-28: Emmanuel Saez
Who Misvotes? The Effect of Differential Cognition Costs on Election Outcomes pp. 229-57: Kelly Shue and Erzo Luttmer
Altruism and the Child Cycle of Alumni Donations pp. 258-86: Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen