American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Volume 8, issue 4, 2016

Political Economy of Redistribution in the United States in the Aftermath of World War II--Evidence and Theory pp. 1-40

Roel Beetsma, Alex Cukierman and Massimo Giuliodori

Do Consumers Exploit Commitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption pp. 41-69

B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer and Neva K. Novarro

How Do Providers Respond to Changes in Public Health Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits pp. 70-102

Thomas Buchmueller, Sarah Miller and Marko Vujicic

The Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Tobacco Products, Tar, and Nicotine Purchases among Adults: Evidence from Household Panel Data pp. 103-23

Chad Cotti, Erik Nesson and Nathan Tefft

Workers' Spending Response to the 2011 Payroll Tax Cuts pp. 124-59

Grant Graziani, Wilbert van der Klaauw and Basit Zafar

Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions pp. 160-82

Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance pp. 183-219

Steven Levitt, John List, Susanne Neckermann and Sally Sadoff

Trade Costs, CO2, and the Environment pp. 220-54

Joseph Shapiro

Do Health Care Providers Respond to Demand-Side Incentives? Evidence from Indonesia pp. 255-88

Margaret Triyana

Resource Constraints and the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Judicial Vacancies pp. 289-332

Crystal S. Yang

Volume 8, issue 3, 2016

Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency in a Dynamic Tiebout Model pp. 1-38

Levon Barseghyan and Stephen Coate

Health Insurance Mandates, Mammography, and Breast Cancer Diagnoses pp. 39-68

Marianne Bitler and Christopher S. Carpenter

From Today's City to Tomorrow's City: An Empirical Investigation of Urban Land Assembly pp. 69-105

Leah Brooks and Byron Lutz

Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture pp. 106-40

Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick

Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers pp. 141-69

Tom Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell

Transfer Pricing by Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Foreign Firm Ownerships pp. 170-202

Anca D. Cristea and Daniel Nguyen

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany pp. 203-32

Nadja Dwenger, Henrik Kleven, Imran Rasul and Johannes Rincke

Tax Reforms and Intertemporal Shifting of Wage Income: Evidence from Danish Monthly Payroll Records pp. 233-57

Claus Kreiner, Søren Leth-Petersen and Peer Skov

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence from Public Works in India and Indonesia pp. 258-83

Sean Lewis-Faupel, Yusuf Neggers, Benjamin Olken and Rohini Pande

The Effects of the Massachusetts Health Reform on Household Financial Distress pp. 284-313

Bhashkar Mazumder and Sarah Miller

Volume 8, issue 2, 2016

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Program, and Social Security Data pp. 1-43

Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

The Impact of Insurance Provision on Household Production and Financial Decisions pp. 44-88

Jing Cai

Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States Than in Europe? pp. 89-124

Alice Chen, Emily Oster and Heidi Williams

Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? pp. 125-53

Erica Field, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol

Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission pp. 154-85

Seth Freedman

General Equilibrium Impacts of a Federal Clean Energy Standard pp. 186-218

Lawrence H. Goulder, Marc Hafstead and Roberton Williams

Controlling Health Care Costs through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees pp. 219-50

Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight

Does Tax-Collection Invariance Hold? Evasion and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes pp. 251-86

Wojciech Kopczuk, Justin Marion, Erich Muehlegger and Joel Slemrod

Corruption in Procurement and the Political Cycle in Tunneling: Evidence from Financial Transactions Data pp. 287-321

Maxim Mironov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Assessing Financial Education: Evidence from Boot Camp pp. 322-43

William Skimmyhorn

Volume 8, issue 1, 2016

The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust pp. 1-27

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Stephen Ross

The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs pp. 28-51

Christoph Böhringer, Jared Carbone and Thomas F. Rutherford

Paying on the Margin for Medical Care: Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments pp. 52-79

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Heidi Williams

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves pp. 80-114

Rema Hanna, Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone

Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth pp. 115-41

Erin M. Johnson and M. Rehavi

A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages pp. 142-79

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation pp. 180-211

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation pp. 212-52

Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev and Scott Stern

Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution pp. 253-88

Lukas Inderbitzin, Stefan Staubli and Josef Zweimüller

Volume 7, issue 4, 2015

Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services Program pp. 1-40

Jennifer M. Alix-Garcia, Katharine Sims and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

The Effects of Medicare on Medical Expenditure Risk and Financial Strain pp. 41-70

Silvia Helena Barcellos and Mireille Jacobson

The Impact of Regulation on Mortgage Risk: Evidence from India pp. 71-102

John Campbell, Tarun Ramadorai and Benjamin Ranish

Identity-Based Policies and Identity Manipulation: Evidence from Colonial Punjab pp. 103-31

Guilhem Cassan

Tax Compliance and Loss Aversion pp. 132-64

Per Engström, Katarina Nordblom, Henry Ohlsson and Annika Persson

How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits? pp. 165-88

Maria Fitzpatrick

Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence pp. 189-222

Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão

Water Pollution Progress at Borders: The Role of Changes in China's Political Promotion Incentives pp. 223-42

Matthew Kahn, Pei Li and Daxuan Zhao

Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design pp. 243-78

Camille Landais

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality pp. 279-311

Ann Stevens, Douglas Miller, Marianne Page and Mateusz Filipski

Volume 7, issue 3, 2015

Complex Tax Incentives pp. 1-28

Johannes Abeler and Simon Jäger

Return to Treatment in the Formal Health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania pp. 29-57

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany pp. 58-85

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel

Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education pp. 86-125

Najy Benhassine, Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Victor Pouliquen

Human Capital and the Lifetime Costs of Impatience pp. 126-53

Brian Cadena and Benjamin Keys

Housing Vouchers and the Price of Rental Housing pp. 154-76

Michael Eriksen and Amanda Ross

Taxpayer Search for Information: Implications for Rational Attention pp. 177-208

Jeffrey Hoopes, Daniel H. Reck and Joel Slemrod

Asymmetric Incentives in Subsidies: Evidence from a Large-Scale Electricity Rebate Program pp. 209-37

Koichiro Ito

US State Fiscal Policy and Natural Resources pp. 238-57

Alexander James

Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schooling Laws on Immigrants pp. 258-90

Adriana Lleras-Muney and Allison Shertzer

Valuing the Wind: Renewable Energy Policies and Air Pollution Avoided pp. 291-326

Kevin Novan

How Is Tax Policy Conducted over the Business Cycle? pp. 327-70

Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

Volume 7, issue 2, 2015

The Tax Gradient: Spatial Aspects of Fiscal Competition pp. 1-29

David Agrawal

Telecracy: Testing for Channels of Persuasion pp. 30-60

Guglielmo Barone, Francesco D'Acunto and Gaia Narciso

Calculation of a Population Externality pp. 61-87

Henning Bohn and Charles Stuart

Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience pp. 88-124

Anthony Briant, Miren Lafourcade and Benoit Schmutz

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training pp. 125-61

Robert Fairlie, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948 pp. 162-91

Ricard Gil

Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer pp. 192-213

Richard Hornbeck and Pinar Keskin

Mansion Tax: The Effect of Transfer Taxes on the Residential Real Estate Market pp. 214-57

Wojciech Kopczuk and David Munroe

New Evidence on Taxes and the Timing of Birth pp. 258-93

Sara LaLumia, James Sallee and Nick Turner

The Economics of Nationalism pp. 294-325

Xiaohuan Lan and Ben Li

Comparing Charitable Fundraising Schemes: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment and a Structural Model pp. 326-69

Steffen Huck, Imran Rasul and Andrew Shephard

Open Skies: Estimating Travelers' Benefits from Free Trade in Airline Services pp. 370-414

Clifford Winston and Jia Yan

Volume 7, issue 1, 2015

Inflation Expectations and Readiness to Spend: Cross-Sectional Evidence pp. 1-35

Ruediger Bachmann, Tim Berg and Eric Sims

Taxes on the Internet: Deterrence Effects of Public Disclosure pp. 36-62

Erlend Bø, Joel Slemrod and Thor Thoresen

Is There a Link between Foreclosure and Health? pp. 63-94

Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin

The Impact of Including, Adding, and Subtracting a Tax on Demand pp. 95-118

Naomi Feldman and Bradley Ruffle

The Role of Proximity in Foreclosure Externalities: Evidence from Condominiums pp. 119-40

Lynn Fisher, Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen

The Effects of Voting Costs on the Democratic Process and Public Finances pp. 141-71

Roland Hodler, Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health pp. 172-211

Hilary Hoynes, Doug Miller and David Simon

Using Taxes to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rates of New Passenger Vehicles: Evidence from France, Germany, and Sweden pp. 212-42

Thomas Klier and Joshua Linn

Diagnosing Hospital System Bargaining Power in Managed Care Networks pp. 243-74

Matthew Lewis and Kevin E. Pflum

Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 275-99

Jeffrey Liebman and Erzo Luttmer

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Connection between Property Taxes and Residential Capital Investment pp. 300-330

Byron Lutz

New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-experiment pp. 331-59

Chris Rohlfs, Ryan Sullivan and Thomas Kniesner