American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2012

Late Budgets pp. 1-40

Asger Lau Andersen, David Lassen and Lasse Holbøll Westh Nielsen

Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age pp. 41-67

Luc Behaghel and David Blau

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco pp. 68-99

Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Parienté and Vincent Pons

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor pp. 100-124

Eric Edmonds and Norbert Schady

Innovation and Climate Change Policy pp. 125-45

Joshua Gans

Discrimination in Grading pp. 146-68

Rema N. Hanna and Leigh Linden

The Heterogeneous Geographic and Socioeconomic Incidence of Cigarette Taxes: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan Data pp. 169-98

Matthew Harding, Ephraim Leibtag and Michael Lovenheim

Spatial Competition and Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries pp. 199-229

Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff

The Impact of Year-Round Schooling on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Mandatory School Calendar Conversions pp. 230-52

Steven McMullen and Katy Rouse

Clunkers or Junkers? Adverse Selection in a Vehicle Retirement Program pp. 253-81

Ryan Sandler

Volume 4, issue 3, 2012

Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures pp. 1-29

Toke Aidt and Julia Shvets

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance pp. 30-55

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

The Redistributional Impact of Nonlinear Electricity Pricing pp. 56-90

Severin Borenstein

Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation pp. 91-117

Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan G. Lewis

Does State Fiscal Relief during Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pp. 118-45

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Laura Feiveson, Zachary Liscow and William Gui Woolston

Fast-Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations pp. 146-89

Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi

The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions pp. 190-215

Craig L. Garthwaite

Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? pp. 216-50

Claudia Sahm, Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

Fiscal Spending Jobs Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pp. 251-82

Daniel Wilson

Corrigendum: Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight pp. 283-283

Eric Leeper, Alexander Richter and Todd Walker

Volume 4, issue 2, 2012

Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy pp. 1-27

Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier pp. 28-45

Ryan Chahrour, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

Fiscal Policy Multipliers on Subnational Government Spending pp. 46-68

Jeffrey Clemens and Stephen Miran

Measuring Tax Multipliers: The Narrative Method in Fiscal VARs pp. 69-94

Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

Global Savings and Global Investment: The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks pp. 95-114

James Feyrer and Jay Shambaugh

Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight pp. 115-44

Eric Leeper, Alexander Richter and Todd Walker

Empirical Evidence on the Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated US Tax Policy Shocks pp. 145-81

Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn

Fiscal Imbalances and Borrowing Costs: Evidence from State Investment Losses pp. 182-213

Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh

The Effects of Tax Shocks on Output: Not So Large, but Not Small Either pp. 214-37

Roberto Perotti

Volume 4, issue 1, 2012

The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services pp. 1-27

Michael Anderson, Carlos Dobkin and Tal Gross

Regulation, Ownership, and Costs: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways pp. 28-57

Dan Bogart and Latika Chaudhary

Green Infrastructure: The Effects of Urban Rail Transit on Air Quality pp. 58-97

Yihsu Chen and Alexander Whalley

Sacred Cars? Cost-Effective Regulation of Stationary and Nonstationary Pollution Sources pp. 98-126

Meredith Fowlie, Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram

Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State pp. 127-57

Jonathan Gruber and Samuel Kleiner

Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds pp. 158-85

Damon Jones

Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-social Behavior pp. 186-223

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Robert Slonim

Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision pp. 224-47

David Powell and Hui Shan

Volume 3, issue 4, 2011

Personal Retirement Accounts and Saving pp. 1-24

Emma Aguila

The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii pp. 25-51

Thomas Buchmueller, John DiNardo and Robert Valletta

Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates pp. 52-76

Peter Diamond and Johannes Spinnewijn

Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly pp. 77-102

Gary V. Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber

How Do 401(k)s Affect Saving? Evidence from Changes in 401(k) Eligibility pp. 103-22

Alexander Gelber

Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Defaults to Rise? pp. 123-47

Wenli Li, Michelle J. White and Ning Zhu

Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Thirteen Thousand Resumes pp. 148-71

Philip Oreopoulos

Just Keep My Money! Supporting Tax-Time Savings with US Savings Bonds pp. 172-200

Peter Tufano

Volume 3, issue 3, 2011

After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays pp. 1-34

Douglas Almond and Joseph J. Doyle

Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) pp. 35-61

Christopher Carpenter, Sabina Postolek and Casey Warman

A's from Zzzz's? The Causal Effect of School Start Time on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents pp. 62-81

Scott Carrell, Teny Maghakian and James West

Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from US Municipalities pp. 82-112

Stephen Coate and Brian Knight

The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements pp. 113-43

Peter Egger, Mario Larch, Kevin Staub and Rainer Winkelmann

Electoral Rules and Politicians' Behavior: A Micro Test pp. 144-74

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni

Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Well-Being of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions pp. 175-205

Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile

Implementing Anti-discrimination Policies in Statistical Profiling Models pp. 206-31

Devin Pope and Justin R. Sydnor

Volume 3, issue 2, 2011

Gender-Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores pp. 1-40

Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino and Loukas Karabarbounis

Manipulation of Social Program Eligibility pp. 41-65

Adriana Camacho and Emily Conover

Identifying the Aggregate Productivity Effects of Entry and Size Restrictions: An Empirical Analysis of License Reform in India pp. 66-96

Amalavoyal Chari

No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes pp. 97-129

Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad

The End of Court-Ordered Desegregation pp. 130-68

Byron Lutz

Immigration and the Neighborhood pp. 169-88

Albert Saiz and Susan Wachter

The Surprising Incidence of Tax Credits for the Toyota Prius pp. 189-219

James Sallee

Volume 3, issue 1, 2011

The Cabals of a Few or the Confusion of a Multitude: The Institutional Trade-Off between Representation and Governance pp. 1-24

Leah Brooks, Justin Phillips and Maxim Sinitsyn

The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Post-secondary Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health pp. 25-53

Robert Bifulco, Jason Fletcher and Stephen Ross

Transfer Program Complexity and the Take-Up of Social Benefits pp. 54-90

Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Wojciech Kopczuk

Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants pp. 91-128

Bryan Bollinger, Phillip Leslie and Alan Sorensen

How Effective Are Public Policies to Increase Health Insurance Coverage among Young Adults? pp. 129-56

Phillip Levine, Robin McKnight and Samantha Heep

Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution pp. 157-79

Erzo Luttmer and Monica Singhal

Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 180-205

Adriaan Soetevent