Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

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Volume 61, issue 4, 2023

Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists pp. 1281-1317

Anton Korinek

The Global Infrastructure Gap: Potential, Perils, and a Framework for Distinction pp. 1318-58

Camille Gardner and Peter Blair Henry

Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market pp. 1359-1409

Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan

Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries pp. 1410-64

Eric Verhoogen

Cash Is Alive: How Economists Explain Holding and Use of Cash pp. 1465-1520

Oz Shy

A Fed for Our Times: A Review Essay on 21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke pp. 1521-39

Lucrezia Reichlin

What Drives Intergenerational Mobility? The Role of Family, Neighborhood, Education, and Social Class: A Review of Bukodi and Goldthorpe's Social Mobility and Education in Britain pp. 1540-78

Kjell G Salvanes

Ahmed, Faisal Z. Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies pp. 1579-81

Eric Chaney

Einav, Liran and Amy Finkelstein. We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care pp. 1581-82

Amitabh Chandra

Fuhrer, Jeff. The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It) pp. 1583-84

Kelly Vosters

Mody, Ashoka. India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today pp. 1584-85

Anand V. Swamy

Myers, Geoffrey. Spectrum Auctions: Designing Markets to Benefit the Public, Industry and the Economy pp. 1585-87

Evan Kwerel

Paul, Mark. The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights pp. 1587-89

Neil Fligstein

Sauer, Robert M., ed. The Economics of Religion pp. 1589-92

Rachel M. McCleary

Volume 61, issue 3, 2023

Perspectives on Race/Ethnicity and Economic Justice pp. 839-45

Gerald Jaynes

The Long-Run Effects of the 1930s Redlining Maps on Children pp. 846-62

Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, Bhashkar Mazumder and Martha Stinson

Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation across Local Government Boundaries pp. 863-87

Tomás Monarrez and David Schönholzer

The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican American School Desegregation pp. 888-905

Francisca M. Antman and Kalena E. Cortes

A Constructivist Perspective on Empirical Discrimination Research pp. 906-23

Evan K. Rose

The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health pp. 924-40

Shari J. Eli, Trevon Logan and Boriana Miloucheva

Meritocracy and Representation pp. 941-57

Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan

Immigration and Support for Redistribution: Lessons from Europe pp. 958-76

Charlotte Cavaillé and Karine Van der Straeten

The Minimum Wage as a Tool for Racial Economic Justice pp. 977-87

Andria Smythe and Linchi Hsu

Measuring Intergenerational Income Mobility: A Synthesis of Approaches pp. 988-1036

Nathan Deutscher and Bhashkar Mazumder

Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting pp. 1037-87

Antony Millner and Geoffrey Heal

Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past pp. 1088-1126

P. J. Glandon, Ken Kuttner, Sandeep Mazumder and Caleb Stroup

Who Runs the AEA? pp. 1127-71

Kevin D. Hoover and Andrej Svorenčík

Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves: A Review Essay pp. 1172-87

Dionissi Aliprantis

Adler, Matthew D. and Ole F. Norheim, eds. Prioritarianism in Practice pp. 1188-90

Kaushik Basu

Graeber, David and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity pp. 1190-98

Samuel Bowles

Kurz, Mordecai. The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age pp. 1198-99

Abhinav Gupta

Murphy, Anne L. Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England pp. 1199-1201

Matthew Jaremski

Verhezen, Peter. Making Wise Decisions in a Smart World: Responsible Leadership in an Era of Artificial Intelligence pp. 1201-02

Joshua Gans

Volume 61, issue 2, 2023

Encouraging Desistance from Crime pp. 383-427

Jennifer L. Doleac

What Can Economics Say about Alzheimer's Disease? pp. 428-70

Amitabh Chandra, Courtney Coile and Corina Mommaerts

From Micro to Macro Development pp. 471-503

Francisco J. Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Robert M. Townsend

How Experiments with Children Inform Economics pp. 504-64

John List, Ragan Petrie and Anya Samek

Sovereign Debt in the Twenty-first Century pp. 565-623

Kris James Mitchener and Christoph Trebesch

What Is Certain about Uncertainty? pp. 624-54

Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia, Cisil Sarisoy, Juan M. Londono, Bo Sun, Deepa Datta, Thiago Ferreira, Olesya Grishchenko, Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, Francesca Loria, Sai Ma, Marius Rodriguez, Ilknur Zer and John Rogers

The Impact of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Infrastructure, Health, and Education pp. 655-715

Anaïs Fabre and Stephane Straub

Game Theory and the First World War pp. 716-35

Roger Myerson

Book Reviews pp. 736-44

Eric M. Leeper, Robert Mendelsohn and Mostafa Beshkar

Volume 61, issue 1, 2023

Designing Information Provision Experiments pp. 3-40

Ingar Haaland, Christopher Roth and Johannes Wohlfart

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Randomized Controlled Trials with Structural Modeling pp. 41-85

Petra Todd and Kenneth I. Wolpin

The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana pp. 86-143

D. Mark Anderson and Daniel I. Rees

The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions pp. 144-80

Ning Jia, Raven Molloy, Christopher Smith and Abigail Wozniak

Hysteresis and Business Cycles pp. 181-225

Valerie Cerra, Antonio Fatas and Sweta Saxena

Rational Inattention: A Review pp. 226-73

Bartosz Maćkowiak, Filip Matejka and Mirko Wiederholt

How Unique Is VC's American History? pp. 274-94

Arthur Korteweg and Berk Sensoy

Volume 60, issue 4, 2022

Living and Dying in America: An Essay on Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism pp. 1159-87

Christopher Ruhm

Graduate Student Mental Health: Lessons from American Economics Departments pp. 1188-1222

Valentin Bolotnyy, Matthew Basilico and Paul Barreira

Measurement Systems pp. 1223-63

Susanne Schennach

Legal Markets pp. 1264-1315

Gillian K. Hadfield

Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 1316-77

Christopher Barrett, Thomas Reardon, Johan Swinnen and David Zilberman

Local Policy Choice: Theory and Empirics pp. 1378-1455

David Agrawal, William H. Hoyt and John D. Wilson

Carbon Taxes pp. 1456-1502

Govinda R. Timilsina

Larry Ball's The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay pp. 1503-08

V. V. Chari

Volume 60, issue 3, 2022

The Political Economy of Populism pp. 753-832

Sergei Guriev and Elias Papaioannou

Belief-Dependent Motivations and Psychological Game Theory pp. 833-82

Pierpaolo Battigalli and Martin Dufwenberg

The Economics of Tobacco Regulation: A Comprehensive Review pp. 883-970

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Michael Lovenheim

The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies pp. 971-1013

Hanna Halaburda, Guillaume Haeringer, Joshua Gans and Neil Gandal

Book Review: Entrenchment by Paul Starr pp. 1014-28

Gilles Saint-Paul

The Historical Perspective on the Donald Trump Puzzle: A Review of Barry Eichengreen's The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era pp. 1029-38

Konstantin Sonin

Review of Forging the Franchise: The Political Origins of the Women's Vote pp. 1039-51

Toke S. Aidt

Does Prediction Machines Predict Our AI Future? A Review pp. 1052-57

Laurence Kotlikoff

Volume 60, issue 2, 2022

Symposium: Race and Economic Literature—Introduction pp. 375-76

Trevon Logan and Samuel L. Myers

Stratification Economics: Core Constructs and Policy Implications pp. 377-99

Grieve Chelwa, Darrick Hamilton and James Stewart

Position and Possessions: Stratification Economics and Intergroup Inequality pp. 400-426

William Darity

A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws pp. 427-53

Nina Banks and Warren C. Whatley

Black Economists on Race and Policy: Contributions to Education, Poverty and Mobility, and Public Finance pp. 454-93

Dania V. Francis, Bradley L. Hardy and Damon Jones

Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime pp. 494-526

Patrick Mason, Samuel L. Myers and Margaret Simms

An Analysis of the Literature on International Unconventional Monetary Policy pp. 527-97

Saroj Bhattarai and Christopher Neely

Satisficing: Integrating Two Traditions pp. 598-635

Florian M. Artinger, Gerd Gigerenzer and Perke Jacobs

Volume 60, issue 1, 2022

Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times pp. 3-40

Guido Alfani

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19 pp. 41-84

Brian Beach, Karen Clay and Martin Saavedra

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses pp. 85-131

David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

The Economic Impact of the Black Death pp. 132-78

Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama

Looking Back at 50 Years of the Clean Air Act pp. 179-232

Joseph E. Aldy, Maximilian Auffhammer, Maureen Cropper, Arthur Fraas and Richard Morgenstern

A Review of Robert Sugden's Community of Advantage pp. 233-55

Patrick Harless and Romans Pancs

Religion and Discrimination: A Review Essay of Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom pp. 256-78

Sriya Iyer