Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

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Volume 59, issue 4, 2021

Forecasting in the Presence of Instabilities: How We Know Whether Models Predict Well and How to Improve Them pp. 1135-90

Barbara Rossi

A Survey on Income Inequality in China pp. 1191-1239

Junsen Zhang

Mass Atrocities and Their Prevention pp. 1240-92

Charles Anderton and Jurgen Brauer

Ten Years of Evidence: Was Fraud a Force in the Financial Crisis? pp. 1293-1321

John M. Griffin

The Human Tide: A Review Essay pp. 1322-39

Timothy Guinnane

Book Review: The Great Reversal by Thomas Philippon pp. 1340-60

Jan Eeckhout

"Somewhere in the Middle You Can Survive": Review of The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson pp. 1361-75

Avinash Dixit

Volume 59, issue 3, 2021

What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues pp. 773-864

John Duca, John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy

Automated Linking of Historical Data pp. 865-918

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson, James Feigenbaum and Santiago Perez

Household Finance pp. 919-1000

Francisco Gomes, Michael Haliassos and Tarun Ramadorai

A Review of Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti's Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids pp. 1001-22

Lena Edlund

Review of Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences pp. 1023-29

Gérard Roland

Volume 59, issue 2, 2021

Using Synthetic Controls: Feasibility, Data Requirements, and Methodological Aspects pp. 391-425

Alberto Abadie

Foreign Influence and Domestic Policy pp. 426-87

Toke Aidt, Facundo Albornoz and Esther Hauk

Global Public Goods: A Survey pp. 488-545

Wolfgang Buchholz and Todd Sandler

What Limits College Success? A Review and Further Analysis of Holzer and Baum's Making College Work pp. 546-73

Philip Oreopoulos

A Review of Thomas Sowell's Discrimination and Disparities pp. 574-89

Jennifer Doleac

On the Finding of an Equilibrium: Düppe–Weintraub and the Problem of Scientific Credit pp. 590-633

M. Khan

Counterfactuals, Empires, and Institutions: Reflections on Walter Scheidel's Escape from Rome pp. 634-50

Mark Koyama

Volume 59, issue 1, 2021

Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond pp. 3-44

Guido Alfani

Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence pp. 45-89

Bilge Erten, Anton Korinek and José Antonio Ocampo

Directed Search and Competitive Search Equilibrium: A Guided Tour pp. 90-148

Randall Wright, Philipp Kircher, Benoit Julien and Veronica Guerrieri

Behavioral and Experimental Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis: A Complex Systems Approach pp. 149-219

Cars Hommes

Review of Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Åslund pp. 220-43

Michael Alexeev

Planning on the Potomac: A Review Essay on Jason E. Taylor's Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act pp. 244-64

Joshua K. Hausman

Back to the Good—or Were They the Bad—Old Days of Antitrust? A Review Essay of Jonathan B. Baker's The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy pp. 265-84

Clifford Winston

Volume 58, issue 4, 2020

Upgrading Education with Technology: Insights from Experimental Research pp. 897-996

Maya Escueta, Andre Joshua Nickow, Philip Oreopoulos and Vincent Quan

How Well Do Automated Linking Methods Perform? Lessons from US Historical Data pp. 997-1044

Martha Bailey, Connor Cole, Morgan Henderson and Catherine Massey

The Coase Theorem at Sixty pp. 1045-1128

Steven Medema

Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics pp. 1129-79

Guido Imbens

The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices pp. 1180-96

Scott Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym

Volume 58, issue 3, 2020

Explaining the Decline in the US Employment-to-Population Ratio: A Review of the Evidence pp. 585-643

Katharine Abraham and Melissa S. Kearney

Model Averaging and Its Use in Economics pp. 644-719

Mark Steel

The Road to Serfdom after 75 Years pp. 720-48

Bruce Caldwell

Where Economics Went Wrong: A Review Essay pp. 749-76

Marianne Johnson

Commanding Nature by Obeying Her: A Review Essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth pp. 777-92

Enrico Spolaore

Volume 58, issue 2, 2020

Measuring Time Preferences pp. 299-347

Jonathan Cohen, Keith Ericson, David Laibson and John Myles White

The Economics of Language pp. 348-404

Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber

Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics pp. 405-18

George Akerlof

Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five pp. 419-70

James J. Heckman and Sidharth Moktan

Radical Markets by Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl: A Review Essay pp. 471-87

David Levine

The Limits of the Commune: A Review of The Mystery of the Kibbutz pp. 488-97

John Nye

Volume 58, issue 1, 2020

Inside Job or Deep Impact? Extramural Citations and the Influence of Economic Scholarship pp. 3-52

Joshua Angrist, Pierre Azoulay, Glenn Ellison, Ryan Hill and Susan Feng Lu

Historical Legacies and African Development pp. 53-128

Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

What Remains of Cross-Country Convergence? pp. 129-75

Paul Johnson and Chris Papageorgiou

What Students Learn in Economics 101: Time for a Change pp. 176-214

Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin

Reflections of a Textbook Author pp. 215-28

N. Gregory Mankiw

Volume 57, issue 4, 2019

Caste and the Indian Economy pp. 781-834

Kaivan Munshi

The Identification Zoo: Meanings of Identification in Econometrics pp. 835-903

Arthur Lewbel

Tax Compliance and Enforcement pp. 904-54

Joel Slemrod

Review of Walter Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century pp. 955-71

William Easterly

A Review Essay: David Kynaston's Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England, 1694–2013 pp. 972-87

Charles Bean

Rationalizing Choice: A Review Essay on Peter Leeson's WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird pp. 988-1000

Rajiv Sethi

Volume 57, issue 3, 2019

Text as Data pp. 535-74

Matthew Gentzkow, Bryan Kelly and Matt Taddy

What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics? pp. 575-643

Stef Proost and Jacques Thisse

A Review on Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy by Philippe Van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght pp. 644-58

Caterina Calsamiglia and Sabine Flamand

Measuring Progress: A Review Essay on The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life by Eli Cook pp. 659-77

Diane Coyle

Society and Economy: Frameworks and Principles: A Book Review pp. 678-89

Sanjeev Goyal

Volume 57, issue 2, 2019

Dynamic Mechanism Design: An Introduction pp. 235-74

Dirk Bergemann and Juuso Välimäki

What We Have Learned about Terrorism since 9/11 pp. 275-328

Khusrav Gaibulloev and Todd Sandler

Price Theory pp. 329-84

E. Glen Weyl

Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham's Happiness for All? pp. 385-402

David G. Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

Review of Books on Student Loans pp. 403-33

Christopher Avery

Volume 57, issue 1, 2019

Digital Economics pp. 3-43

Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

Information Design: A Unified Perspective pp. 44-95

Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris

Review Essay on Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies by Claire Adida, David Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort pp. 96-119

Thierry Verdier

Gorbachev versus Deng: A Review of Chris Miller's The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy pp. 120-46

Sergei Guriev

The Devil Is in the Details: Implications of Samuel Bowles's The Moral Economy for Economics and Policy Research pp. 147-60

Rachel Kranton

Environmentalism with Chinese Characteristics—A Review of Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng's Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China pp. 161-79

Ian Coxhead