American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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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 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 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 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

C. 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 Nick 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 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 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

Volume 9, issue 4, 2017

Consumption Responses to Temporary Tax Incentives: Evidence from State Sales Tax Holidays pp. 1-27

Sumit Agarwal, Nathan Marwell and Leslie McGranahan

Street Prostitution Zones and Crime pp. 28-63

Paul Bisschop, Stephen Kastoryano and Bas van der Klaauw

Trade Agreements and Enforcement: Evidence from WTO Dispute Settlement pp. 64-100

Chad Bown and Kara Reynolds

Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods pp. 101-43

Leo Feler and Mine Z. Senses

Causal Spousal Health Spillover Effects and Implications for Program Evaluation pp. 144-66

Jason Fletcher and Ryne Marksteiner

Payment Size, Negative Equity, and Mortgage Default pp. 167-91

Andreas Fuster and Paul Willen

Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Inertia in the Residential Electricity Market pp. 192-226

Ali Hortacsu, Seyed Ali Madanizadeh and Steven Puller

Consumers' Response to State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Programs pp. 227-55

Sébastien Houde and Joseph Aldy

Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Educational Attainment pp. 256-80

Joshua Hyman

Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance pp. 281-312

Nicholas Lawson

Liquidity Constraints, Fiscal Externalities, and Optimal Tuition Subsidies pp. 313-43

Nicholas Lawson

Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Effects of Exchange Rates: A Study of the Renminbi pp. 344-66

Aaditya Mattoo, Prachi Mishra and Arvind Subramanian

The Persistent Reduction in Poverty from Filing a Tax Return pp. 367-94

Shanthi Ramnath and Patricia K. Tong

Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Sweden pp. 395-421

David Seim

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 Mansur

Mafia in the Ballot Box pp. 134-67

Giuseppe De Feo and Giacomo 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 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 Murray

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

Laurence Levin, Matthew Lewis and Frank A. Wolak

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

Jason 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 Bushnell, Stephen Holland, Jonathan 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

Jan Palguta and Filip Pertold

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

Jennifer 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 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