Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

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Volume 56, issue 4, 2018

Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics pp. 1261-91

Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin

Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links pp. 1292-1359

Timur Kuran

Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II pp. 1360-1446

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Valentina Duque

The Formation of Expectations, Inflation, and the Phillips Curve pp. 1447-91

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Rupal Kamdar

The Sound of Silence: A Review Essay of Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America pp. 1492-1537

Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

Riddles and Models: A Review Essay on Michel De Vroey's A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond pp. 1538-76

Costas Azariadis

Finance and Economic Development in the Very Long Run: A Review Essay pp. 1577-86

Yongseok Shin

The Case for Imposing Cashlessness: A Review Article pp. 1587-91

Neil Wallace

Volume 56, issue 3, 2018

Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination pp. 799-866

David Neumark

Production and Welfare: Progress in Economic Measurement pp. 867-919

Dale Jorgenson

Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research pp. 920-80

Garret Christensen and Edward Miguel

Offshoring and Labor Markets pp. 981-1028

David Hummels, Jakob Munch and Chong Xiang

Optimal Income Taxation Theory and Principles of Fairness pp. 1029-79

Marc Fleurbaey and Francois Maniquet

Mind the Gap: A Review of The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Sir Michael Marmot pp. 1080-1101

Adriana Lleras-Muney

The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King: A Review Essay pp. 1102-18

Roger Farmer

The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development pp. 1119-55

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

Volume 56, issue 2, 2018

Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry pp. 397-449

Darius Lakdawalla

Identifying and Estimating Neighborhood Effects pp. 450-500

Bryan Graham

Estimating Risk Preferences in the Field pp. 501-64

Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, Ted O'Donoghue and Joshua Teitelbaum

Global Firms pp. 565-619

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott

Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay pp. 620-42

Martin Ravallion

Medieval Origins: A Review Essay on Campbell's The Great Transition pp. 643-56

Eric Chaney

On Measuring Multidimensional Deprivation pp. 657-72

Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu

Review of Global Tax Fairness, Thomas Pogge and Krishen Mehta, Editors pp. 673-84

Matthew Weinzierl

Volume 56, issue 1, 2018

The Science of Monetary Policy: An Imperfect Knowledge Perspective pp. 3-59

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

On the Determinants of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: A Survey pp. 60-114

Pedro Dal Bó and Guillaume R. Fréchette

Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses, and Impacts pp. 115-56

Daniel S. Hamermesh

Empirical Work on Auctions of Multiple Objects pp. 157-84

Ali Hortaçsu and David McAdams

Markets and Manipulation: Time for a Paradigm Shift? pp. 185-205

Kaushik Basu

A Review Essay on Howard Bodenhorn's The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South pp. 206-16

Allison Shertzer

Morality, Policy, and the Brain pp. 217-33

Aldo Rustichini

A Review Essay on Social Neuroscience: Can Research on the Social Brain and Economics Inform Each Other? pp. 234-64

Carlos Alós-Ferrer

Volume 55, issue 4, 2017

Immigration in American Economic History pp. 1311-45

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

Family Economics Writ Large pp. 1346-1434

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s pp. 1435-85

Price Fishback

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap pp. 1486-1525

Todd Gerarden, Richard Newell and Robert N. Stavins

Ideology, Economic Policy, and Economic History: Cohen and DeLong's Concrete Economics pp. 1526-55

Alexander Field

Public Economics and History: A Review of Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, Edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel pp. 1556-69

Philip T. Hoffman

Group Selection: A Review Essay on Does Altruism Exist? by David Sloan Wilson pp. 1570-82

Arthur Robson

The Great Recession in the Shadow of the Great Depression: A Review Essay on Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses and Misuses of History, by Barry Eichengreen pp. 1583-1601

Lee Ohanian

A Review Essay on Alvin Roth's Who Gets What—And Why pp. 1602-14

Edward L. Glaeser

Volume 55, issue 3, 2017

The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations pp. 789-865

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Progresa/Oportunidades pp. 866-915

Susan Parker and Petra Todd

The Political Economy of Dynamic Elections: Accountability, Commitment, and Responsiveness pp. 916-84

John Duggan and Cesar Martinelli

Static and Intertemporal Household Decisions pp. 985-1045

Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Maurizio Mazzocco

The Economics of the Climate pp. 1046-63

Geoffrey Heal

The Intellectual Legacy of Progressive Economics: A Review Essay of Thomas C. Leonard's Illiberal Reformers pp. 1064-83

Marshall I. Steinbaum and Bernard A. Weisberger

On Economic Interdependence and War pp. 1084-97

Massimo Morelli and Tommaso Sonno

Law, Coercion, and Expression: A Review Essay on Frederick Schauer's The Force of Law and Richard McAdams's The Expressive Powers of Law pp. 1098-1121

Eric Rasmusen

The Evolution of Value Systems: A Review Essay on Ian Morris's Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels pp. 1122-35

Alberto Bisin

Volume 55, issue 2, 2017

Liquidity: A New Monetarist Perspective pp. 371-440

Ricardo Lagos, Guillaume Rocheteau and Randall Wright

School Vouchers: A Survey of the Economics Literature pp. 441-92

Dennis Epple, Richard Romano and Miguel Urquiola

Sorting through Search and Matching Models in Economics pp. 493-544

Hector Chade, Jan Eeckhout and Lones Smith

Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes pp. 545-79

Beatrice Cherrier

Opportunities, Welfare, and Social Justice: A Review of Fishkin's Bottlenecks pp. 580-91

Francois Maniquet

A Review Essay on Isabel Sawhill's Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenting without Marriage and Laurence Steinberg's Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence pp. 592-608

Anna Aizer

Review of Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb by Douglas S. Massey et al pp. 609-20

Yannis Ioannides

The Decentralized Central Bank: A Review Essay on The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve by Peter Conti-Brown pp. 621-36

Narayana Kocherlakota

Review of The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860 by Calvin Schermerhorn and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist pp. 637-43

Stanley L. Engerman

Volume 55, issue 1, 2017

Criminal Deterrence: A Review of the Literature pp. 5-48

Aaron Chalfin and Justin McCrary

The Economic Consequences of Social-Network Structure pp. 49-95

Matthew Jackson, Brian W. Rogers and Yves Zenou

Information Avoidance pp. 96-135

Russell Golman, David Hagmann and George Loewenstein

Parties or Problem Sets: Review Article on How College Works and Paying for the Party pp. 136-47

William Johnson

Game Theory and Cold War Rationality: A Review Essay pp. 148-61

E. Roy Weintraub

Comments on Economic Models, Economics, and Economists: Remarks on Economics Rules by Dani Rodrik pp. 162-72

Ariel Rubinstein

Hansen and Sargent's Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies: A Review Essay pp. 173-81

Kenneth West

A Review of Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Conceptualizing Capitalism: Institutions, Evolution, Future pp. 182-90

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Capitalism and Socialism: A Review of Kornai's Dynamism, Rivalry, and the Surplus Economy pp. 191-208

Chenggang Xu