American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Volume 12, issue 4, 2020

Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation pp. 1-37

Spencer Bastani, Sören Blomquist and Luca Micheletto

How Taxing Is Tax Filing? Using Revealed Preferences to Estimate Compliance Costs pp. 38-57

Youssef Benzarti

Hidden Baggage: Behavioral Responses to Changes in Airline Ticket Tax Disclosure pp. 58-87

Sebastien Bradley and Naomi Feldman

Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia pp. 88-110

Nur Cahyadi, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, Rizal Prima, Elan Satriawan and Ekki Syamsulhakim

Discrete Prices and the Incidence and Efficiency of Excise Taxes pp. 111-43

Christopher T. Conlon and Nirupama L. Rao

Can Rationing Increase Welfare? Theory and an Application to India's Ration Shop System pp. 144-77

Lucie Gadenne

Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand pp. 178-211

Daniel Green, Brian Melzer, Jonathan Parker and Arcenis Rojas

The State of American Entrepreneurship: New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 32 US States, 1988–2014 pp. 212-43

Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern

Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation pp. 244-74

Stephen Holland, Erin Mansur, Nicholas Muller and Andrew Yates

Reported MPC and Unobserved Heterogeneity pp. 275-97

Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri

Optimal Income Taxation with Present Bias pp. 298-327

Benjamin Lockwood

How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree pp. 328-59

Martin Watzinger, Thomas A. Fackler, Markus Nagler and Monika Schnitzer

Volume 12, issue 3, 2020

The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives pp. 1-43

Daron Acemoglu, Leopoldo Fergusson, James Robinson, Dario Romero and Juan Vargas

The Rise of Working Mothers and the 1975 Earned Income Tax Credit pp. 44-75

Jacob Bastian

Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness, and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the US pp. 76-106

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo

Peer Effects in Residential Water Conservation: Evidence from Migration pp. 107-33

Bryan Bollinger, Jesse Burkhardt and Kenneth Gillingham

Long-Term Care Insurance: Information Frictions and Selection pp. 134-69

M. Martin Boyer, Philippe De Donder, Claude Fluet, Marie-Louise Leroux and Pierre-Carl Michaud

Adopt or Innovate: Understanding Technological Responses to Cap-and-Trade pp. 170-201

Raphael Calel

Criminal Deterrence When There Are Offsetting Risks: Traffic Cameras, Vehicular Accidents, and Public Safety pp. 202-37

Justin Gallagher and Paul Fisher

Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design pp. 238-78

Hsing-Wen Han, Hsien-Ming Lien and Tzu-Ting Yang

Price-Linked Subsidies and Imperfect Competition in Health Insurance pp. 279-311

Sonia Jaffe and Mark Shepard

Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of US Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts pp. 312-46

Niels Johannesen, Patrick Langetieg, Daniel Reck, Max Risch and Joel Slemrod

Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration? pp. 347-73

Janna E. Johnson and Morris M. Kleiner

The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector pp. 374-401

Evan Kresch

Bunching to Maximize Tax Credits: Evidence from Kinks in the US Tax Schedule pp. 402-32

Jacob Mortenson and Andrew Whitten

Misunderstanding Nonlinear Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on Residential Electricity Demand pp. 433-61

Blake Shaffer

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 Warren

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

Stephanie R. Cellini, Rajeev Darolia and Lesley 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 Sanchez Torres

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 Cohodes

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

Todd 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