Journal of Economic Perspectives

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Volume 35, issue 1, 2021

The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage pp. 3-26

Alan Manning

City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do? pp. 27-50

Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner

How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins pp. 51-72

Jeffrey Clemens

The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968 pp. 73-96

Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer

Estimating Judicial Ideology pp. 97-118

Adam Bonica and Maya Sen

Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court? pp. 119-42

Daniel Hemel

Staffing the Higher Education Classroom pp. 143-62

David Figlio and Morton Schapiro

The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System pp. 163-84

John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna and Sarah Turner

Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles pp. 185-206

W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola

Taxing Our Wealth pp. 207-30

Florian Scheuer and Joel Slemrod

Melissa Dell: Winner of the 2020 Clark Medal pp. 231-48

Daron Acemoglu

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 249-56

Timothy Taylor

Volume 34, issue 4, 2020

The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts pp. 3-26

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Business Incomes at the Top pp. 27-51

Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick

Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies pp. 52-78

Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease pp. 79-104

Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison

Epidemiology's Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics pp. 105-20

Eleanor J. Murray

A 30-Year Perspective on Property Derivatives: What Can Be Done to Tame Property Price Risk? pp. 121-45

Frank J. Fabozzi, Robert J. Shiller and Radu S. Tunaru

Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference pp. 146-67

Amy Finkelstein and Nathaniel Hendren

The Persistent Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions for Young Adults and Their Sources pp. 168-94

Till von Wachter

Retrospectives: Regulating Banks versus Managing Liquidity: Jeremy Bentham and Henry Thornton in 1802 pp. 195-209

John Berdell and Thomas Mondschean

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 210-17

Timothy Taylor

Volume 34, issue 3, 2020

The Economics of Urban Density pp. 3-26

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies pp. 27-49

Stuart Rosenthal and William C. Strange

Tech Clusters pp. 50-76

William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions pp. 77-98

Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri

Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities pp. 99-127

Timothy Bartik

Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities pp. 128-49

Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry Overman

Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow? pp. 150-73

J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew Turner

Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities? pp. 174-92

David Lagakos

How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx, and Native American People in the Economics Profession pp. 193-219

Amanda Bayer, Gary Hoover and Ebonya Washington

Facts and Myths about Misperceptions pp. 220-36

Brendan Nyhan

Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn pp. 237-61

Josh Lerner and Ramana Nanda

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 262-69

Timothy Taylor

Volume 34, issue 2, 2020

Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement pp. 3-23

Carolyn M. Moehling and Melissa A. Thomasson

A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship since Women's Enfranchisement pp. 24-48

Elizabeth Cascio and Na'ama Shenhav

Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination pp. 49-67

Mario L. Small and Devah Pager

Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective pp. 68-89

Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer

Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives pp. 90-118

Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar

Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications pp. 119-42

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Mathilde Muñoz and Stefanie Stantcheva

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism pp. 143-71

Sascha Becker, Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann

The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe pp. 172-91

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln

The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure pp. 192-214

Shane Greenstein

The Economics of Tipping pp. 215-36

Ofer Azar

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 237-44

Timothy Taylor

Volume 34, issue 1, 2020

Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model pp. 3-30

Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian

Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed? pp. 31-54

Devesh Kapur

The Great Indian Demonetization pp. 55-74

Amartya Lahiri

Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy pp. 75-93

Timothy Hatton

The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries pp. 94-121

Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston

Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development? pp. 122-44

Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel and Catherine Wolfram

The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right pp. 145-69

Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan

Solo Self-Employment and Alternative Work Arrangements: A Cross-Country Perspective on the Changing Composition of Jobs pp. 170-95

Tito Boeri, Giulia Giupponi, Alan Krueger and Stephen Machin

The Economics of Maps pp. 196-221

Abhishek Nagaraj and Scott Stern

Emi Nakamura: 2019 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 222-39

Janice Eberly and Michael Woodford

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 240-47

Timothy Taylor