Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): Steven Durlauf

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Designing Climate Mitigation Policy pp. 903-34: Joseph Aldy, Alan J. Krupnick, Richard Newell, Ian Parry and William Pizer
Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice pp. 935-63: David Dranove and Ginger Zhe Jin
Efficiency and Redistribution: An Evaluative Review of Louis Kaplow's The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics pp. 964-79: Robin Boadway
Does Network Theory Connect to the Rest of Us? A Review of Matthew O. Jackson's Social and Economic Networks pp. 980-86: James Rauch
Why Isn't Mexico Rich? pp. 987-1004: Gordon Hanson
Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth? pp. 1005-27: Timothy Kehoe and Kim Ruhl

The Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of the EMU and Other Monetary Unions: An Overview of Recent Research pp. 603-41: Roel Beetsma and Massimo Giuliodori
Services Trade and Policy pp. 642-92: Joseph Francois and Bernard Hoekman
Consumption and Saving: Models of Intertemporal Allocation and Their Implications for Public Policy pp. 693-751: Orazio Attanasio and Guglielmo Weber
A Review of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History pp. 752-56: Robert Bates

Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics pp. 281-355: David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux
Building Bridges between Structural and Program Evaluation Approaches to Evaluating Policy pp. 356-98: James Heckman
Better LATE Than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009) pp. 399-423: Guido Imbens
Instruments, Randomization, and Learning about Development pp. 424-55: Angus Deaton

Civil War pp. 3-57: Christopher Blattman and Edward Miguel
The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey pp. 58-107: Renee Adams, Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach
A Review of Scott E. Page's The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies pp. 108-122: Yannis Ioannides
How Central Should the Central Bank Be? pp. 123-133: Alan Blinder
What Powers for the Federal Reserve? pp. 134-145: Martin Feldstein

The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States pp. 983-1028: Edward L. Glaeser and Joshua Gottlieb
Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare pp. 1029-75: Marc Fleurbaey
Law and Finance "at the Origin" pp. 1076-1108: Ulrike Malmendier
Learning from Schelling's Strategy of Conflict pp. 1109-25: Roger Myerson

The Economics and Law of Sovereign Debt and Default pp. 651-98: Ugo Panizza, Federico Sturzenegger and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
The Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies pp. 699-728: Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evžen Kočenda and Jan Svejnar
Toward a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont's Lead pp. 729-70: Antonio Estache and Liam Wren-Lewis
A Review of Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India pp. 771-80: Lant Pritchett
Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus pp. 781-800: Mark Roe and Jordan I. Siegel

Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field pp. 315-72: Stefano DellaVigna
Can the West Save Africa? pp. 373-447: William Easterly
Gender Differences in Preferences pp. 448-74: Rachel Croson and Uri Gneezy
A Review of Michael Tomz's Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries pp. 475-81: Mark Gersovitz

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation pp. 5-86: Guido Imbens and Jeffrey Wooldridge
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development pp. 87-122: Janet Currie
The Age of Milton Friedman pp. 123-35: Andrei Shleifer
Globalization and the Welfare State: A Review of Hans-Werner Sinn's Can Germany Be Saved? pp. 136-58: Dennis J. Snower, Alessio Brown and Christian Merkl
What Do (and Don't) We Know about the Value Added Tax? A Review of Richard M. Bird and Pierre-Pascal Gendron's The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries pp. 159-70: Michael Keen

The Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks pp. 871-909: Lutz Kilian
Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence pp. 910-45: Alan Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen
A Review of Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World pp. 946-73: Robert Allen
Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Review of Zoltan J. Acs and Alan Lyles's Obesity, Business and Public Policy pp. 974-82: Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner
A Review of Tito Boeri, Lans Bovenberg, Benoît Coeuré, and Andrew Roberts's Dealing with the New Giants and Peter J. Orszag, Mark Iwry, and William G. Gale's Aging Gracefully pp. 983-88: Olivia Mitchell

Covering the Uninsured in the United States pp. 571-606: Jonathan Gruber
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development pp. 607-68: Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann
Real Business Cycle Views of the Great Depression and Recent Events: A Review of Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott's Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century pp. 669-84: Peter Temin
Horizons of Understanding: A Review of Ray Fair's Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works pp. 685-703: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
The Efficacy of Information Policy: A Review of Archon Fung, Mary Graham, and David Weil's Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency pp. 704-17: Clifford Winston

The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins pp. 285-332: Andrei Shleifer, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Rafael La Porta
Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data pp. 333-83: Janet Currie and Firouz Gahvari
Is the U.S. Labor Market Really That Exceptional? A Review of Richard Freeman pp. 384-95: Stephen Nickell
The Enigma of India pp. 396-406: Kaushik Basu
A Review of David Colander's The Making of an Economist, Redux pp. 407-11: Daniel Hamermesh

Economic Forecasting pp. 3-56: Graham Elliott and Allan Timmermann
What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality? pp. 57-94: Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal
Relative Income, Happiness, and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles pp. 95-144: Andrew Clark, Paul Frijters and Michael Shields
A Review of Janos Kornai pp. 145-50: Gérard Roland