Journal of Economic Literature

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): Steven Durlauf

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Natural "Natural Experiments" in Economics pp. 827-874: Kenneth I. Wolpin and Mark Rosenzweig
Renewable Natural Resource Management and Use without Markets pp. 875-914: Gardner M. Brown
The "New Political Economy": Recent Books by Allen Drazen and by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini pp. 915-925: Gilles Saint-Paul
A Review of O'Rourke and Williamson's Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy pp. 926-935: C. Knick Harley

Assessing Affirmative Action pp. 483-568: David Neumark and Harry Holzer
Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata pp. 569-594: Mark Doms and Eric Bartelsman
The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead pp. 595-613: Oliver Williamson
The Emigration of German-Speaking Economists after 1933 pp. 614-626: F. M. Scherer
A Review of Markets for Clean Air: The U.S. Acid Rain Program by A. Denny Ellerman, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee, Juan-Pablo Montero, and Elizabeth M. Bailey pp. 627-633: Peter Cramton

Preferential Trade Liberalization: The Traditional Theory and New Developments pp. 287-331: Arvind Panagariya
Developments in Non-expected Utility Theory: The Hunt for a Descriptive Theory of Choice under Risk pp. 332-382: Chris Starmer
What Do We Say about Ourselves and What Does It Mean? Yet Another Look at Economics Department Research pp. 383-404: Jerry Thursby
Review of Sargent's The Conquest of American Inflation pp. 405-411: Ramon Marimon

Manufacturing Firms in Developing Countries: How Well Do They Do, and Why? pp. 11-44: James Tybout
The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law pp. 45-76: Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky
Shadow Economies: Size, Causes, and Consequences pp. 77-114: Dominik Enste and Friedrich Schneider

Corrigenda: The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software pp. 1565-1565: Hrishikesh Vinod and B McCullough
The Microfinance Promise pp. 1569-1614: Jonathan Morduch
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories pp. 1615-1660: Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa, Eve Caroli and Philippe Aghion
The Science of Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian Perspective pp. 1661-1707: Mark Gertler, Jordi Galí and Richard Clarida

Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory pp. 1067-1082: Roger Myerson
Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards pp. 1083-1119: Kaushik Basu
An Essay on Fiscal Federalism pp. 1120-1149: Wallace Oates
Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective pp. 1150-1175: Robert J. Flanagan

Corrigendum: The Economics of Wagering Markets pp. 567-567: Raymond D. Sauer
Trying to Explain Home Bias in Equities and Consumption pp. 571-608: Karen Lewis
Adam Smith: Critical Theorist? pp. 609-632: Keith Tribe
The Numerical Reliability of Econometric Software pp. 633-665: Hrishikesh Vinod and B McCullough

The Provision of Incentives in Firms pp. 7-63: Canice Prendergast
Explaining African Economic Performance pp. 64-111: Jan Willem Gunning and Paul Collier
The New Growth Evidence pp. 112-156: Jonathan Temple
The Young Person's Guide to Writing Economic Theory pp. 157-183: William Thomson

Corrigenda [Do People Play Nash Equilibrium? Lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory] pp. 1941-1941: George Mailath
Corrigenda [Introduction to the Economics of Religion] pp. 1941-1941: Laurence Iannaccone
Industrial Organization and New Findings on the Turnover and Mobility of Firms pp. 1947-1982: Richard E. Caves
Whither the World Bank and the IMF? pp. 1983-2020: Anne O. Krueger
The Economics of Wagering Markets pp. 2021-2064: Raymond D. Sauer
Nonrenewable Resource Scarcity pp. 2065-2107: Jeffrey A. Krautkraemer
Empirical Approaches to the Measurement of Welfare pp. 2108-2165: Daniel T. Slesnick

Do People Play Nash Equilibrium? Lessons from Evolutionary Game Theory pp. 1347-1374: George Mailath
How Foundations Came to Be pp. 1375-1386: Paul A. Samuelson
Economists' Views about Parameters, Values, and Policies: Survey Results in Labor and Public Economics pp. 1387-1425: Victor Fuchs, Alan Krueger and James Poterba
Urban Spatial Structure pp. 1426-1464: Alex Anas, Richard Arnott and Kenneth A. Small
Introduction to the Economics of Religion pp. 1465-1495: Laurence Iannaccone
Archiving the History of Economics pp. 1496-1501: E. Roy Weintraub et al.

Nonparametric Regression Techniques in Economics pp. 669-721: Adonis Yatchew
Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century pp. 722-765: Price Fishback
Health, Nutrition, and Economic Development pp. 766-817: John Strauss and Duncan Thomas
Tax Compliance pp. 818-860: James Andreoni, Brian Erard and Jonathan Feinstein
Does Egalitarianism Have a Future? pp. 861-902: Louis Putterman, John Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
A Reconsideration of Import Substitution pp. 903-936: Henry J. Bruton

Psychology and Economics pp. 11-46: Matthew Rabin
Emotions and Economic Theory pp. 47-74: Jon Elster
Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions pp. 75-111: Samuel Bowles
Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970-1995 pp. 112-165: Francine Blau
The Approach of Institutional Economics pp. 166-192: Geoffrey Hodgson
Capital-Market Imperfections and Investment pp. 193-225: R. Glenn Hubbard