Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2024

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Volume 62, issue 4, 2024

Social Protection in the Developing World pp. 1349-1421

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken and Diana Sverdlin Lisker

The Economics of Social Media pp. 1422-74

Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Ro'ee Levy and Lena Song

The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality pp. 1475-1537

Samuel Bowles and Mattia Fochesato

The Changing Identities of American Wives and Mothers pp. 1538-88

Jeanne Lafortune, Laura Salisbury and Aloysius Siow

Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? The View of Agency Theory pp. 1589-1646

Pierre Fleckinger, David Martimort and Nicolas Roux

Soviet Mathematics and Economic Theory in the Past Century: A Historical Reappraisal pp. 1647-70

Ivan Boldyrev

Can Massive Technological Progress Hurt Workers? A Review of Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson pp. 1671-81

Fiona Scott Morton

Bajoghli, Narges; Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez. How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare pp. 1682-84

Kimberly Ann Elliott

Fairlie, Robert W.; Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, and Nikolas Zolas. The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups pp. 1684-86

Shai Bernstein

James Gerber. Border Economies: Cities Bridging the U.S.–Mexico Divide pp. 1686-87

Madeline Zavodny

Diana B. Henriques. Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism pp. 1687-89

Caroline Fohlin

Simon Hinrichsen. When Nations Can’t Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt pp. 1689-90

Satyajit Chatterjee

Paul Seabright. The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People pp. 1690-93

Sascha O. Becker

Paul E. Smaldino. Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution pp. 1693-95

Alberto Bisin

Volume 62, issue 3, 2024

New Advances on an Old Question: Does Money Matter for Children's Outcomes? pp. 891-947

Marianne E. Page

A Review of the Economics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity pp. 948-94

M. V. Lee Badgett, Christopher S. Carpenter, Maxine J. Lee and Dario Sansone

Bounded Rationality in Choice Theory: A Survey pp. 995-1039

Geoffroy de Clippel and Kareen Rozen

Information Cascades and Social Learning pp. 1040-93

Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer, Omer Tamuz and Ivo Welch

Religion and Growth pp. 1094-1142

Sascha Becker, Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann

Temporary Employment in Markets with Frictions pp. 1143-85

Tito Boeri and Pietro Garibaldi

A Journey into Harold Hotelling's Economics pp. 1186-1212

Marion Gaspard, Antoine Missemer and Thomas Michael Mueller

Can Marshall plus Malthus Explain the Evolution of Ancient Societies? A Review of Economic Prehistory by Dow and Reed pp. 1213-29

Samuel Bowles and Amy Bogaard

France after 1789: Essay on Elster's France before 1789 pp. 1230-55

Antoine Parent

Ulbe Bosma. The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years pp. 1256-58

David Just

Markus K. Brunnermeier. The Resilient Society pp. 1258-59

Jason Furman

Claudia Goldin. Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity pp. 1259-61

Betsey Stevenson

Geoffrey M. Hodgson. The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism pp. 1261-63

Gregory Clark

Meg Rithmire. Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia pp. 1263-65

Ruixue Jia

Barton H. Thompson Jr. Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis pp. 1265-67

Gary D. Libecap

Tara Zahra. Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics between the World Wars pp. 1267-68

Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

Volume 62, issue 2, 2024

Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope? pp. 425-57

Alan Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen

Data and the Aggregate Economy pp. 458-84

Laura Veldkamp and Cindy Chung

Meta-analysis of Empirical Estimates of Loss Aversion pp. 485-516

Alexander Brown, Taisuke Imai, Ferdinand M. Vieider and Colin F. Camerer

Combinatorial Auctions in Practice pp. 517-53

Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, David C. Parkes and Richard Steinberg

Nonparametric Approaches to Empirical Welfare Analysis pp. 554-93

Debopam Bhattacharya

The Political Economics of Non-democracy pp. 594-636

Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

Optimal Income Taxation pp. 637-738

Louis Kaplow

Debunking Immigration Myths: A Review Essay of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success pp. 739-60

Marco Tabellini

Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System: Shadows of Doubt and Beyond pp. 761-806

Amanda Y. Agan

Domina, Thurston; Andrew M. Penner, and Emily K. Penner. Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality pp. 807-09

Julian Betts

Harper, Kyle. Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History pp. 809-11

Paul Rhode

Norberg, Johan. The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World pp. 811-13

Geoffrey Carliner

Rajan, Raghuram. Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences pp. 813-14

Andrew Levin

Surak, Kristin. The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires pp. 814-16

Dominika Langenmayr

Wilson, John Silvanus, Jr. Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy pp. 816-18

Charles Betsey

Wolf, Martin. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism pp. 818-20

Douglas Elmendorf

Volume 62, issue 1, 2024

The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics? pp. 5-46

Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini

New Russian Economic History pp. 47-114

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Sergei Guriev and Andrei Markevich

From Outcome-Based to Language-Based Preferences pp. 115-54

Valerio Capraro, Joseph Y. Halpern and Matjaž Perc

Mediation, Military, and Money: The Promises and Pitfalls of Outside Interventions to End Armed Conflicts pp. 155-95

Dominic Rohner

Why Is Productivity Slowing Down? pp. 196-268

Ian Goldin, Pantelis Koutroumpis, François Lafond and Julian Winkler

Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? How to Fix Slow? pp. 269-93

Aboozar Hadavand, Daniel S. Hamermesh and Wesley Wilson

Beyond the Natural Rate: Stephen Marglin on the Instability of Market Economies pp. 294-316

Michael Woodford

Alfani, Guido. As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West pp. 317-19

Neil Cummins

Coates, John. The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything pp. 319-20

Eric A. Posner

Daniels, Ronald J. What Universities Owe Democracy pp. 320-23

M. Lee Pelton

Deaton, Angus. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality pp. 323-24

Joseph P. Ferrie

Gerstle, Gary. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era pp. 324-25

Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu

Gintis, Herbert. Individuality and Entanglement: The Moral and Material Bases of Social Life pp. 325-27

Arthur Robson

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou. The Unequal Effects of Globalization pp. 327-29

Ed Leamer

Miller, Chris. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology pp. 329-30

Maria Demertzis

Rebitzer, James B. and Robert S. Rebitzer. Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation pp. 330-32

Jonathan Skinner

Tavlas, George S. The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960 pp. 332-33

Carola Binder