Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

Current editor(s): Enrico Moretti

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Volume 37, issue 4, 2023

Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID? pp. 3-22

Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Jorge R. Ledesma

The Evolution of Work from Home pp. 23-50

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes pp. 51-70

Rebecca Jack and Emily Oster

Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War pp. 71-90

Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick

Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly? pp. 91-114

Eric French, John Jones and Rory McGee

Where Does Wealth Come From? Measuring Lifetime Resources in Norway pp. 115-36

Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux, Fanny Landaud and Kjell G Salvanes

The Importance of Financial Literacy: Opening a New Field pp. 137-54

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid pp. 155-80

Lucas Davis, Catherine Hausman and Nancy Rose

The Economics of Electricity Reliability pp. 181-206

Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell and Erin Mansur

The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem pp. 207-30

Anna Stansbury and Robert Schultz

Early Career Paths of Economists inside and outside of Academia pp. 231-50

Lucia Foster, Erika McEntarfer and Danielle Sandler

Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income pp. 251-64

Evelyn L. Forget

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 265-72

Timothy Taylor

Volume 37, issue 3, 2023

How Far Goods Travel: Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965–2020 pp. 3-30

Sharat Ganapati and Woan Foong Wong

The Changing Firm and Country Boundaries of US Manufacturers in Global Value Chains pp. 31-58

Teresa C. Fort

Global Value Chains in Developing Countries: A Relational Perspective from Coffee and Garments pp. 59-86

Laura Boudreau, Julia Cajal-Grossi and Rocco Macchiavello

Are Developed Countries Outsourcing Pollution? pp. 87-110

Arik Levinson

Think Globally, Act Globally: Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 111-36

Rachel Glennerster and Seema Jayachandran

Carbon Border Adjustments, Climate Clubs, and Subsidy Races When Climate Policies Vary pp. 137-62

Kimberly Clausing and Catherine Wolfram

Global Transportation Decarbonization pp. 163-88

David Rapson and Erich Muehlegger

Compensating Wage Differentials in Labor Markets: Empirical Challenges and Applications pp. 189-212

Kurt Lavetti

What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students? pp. 213-32

Gregory Price and Angelino Viceisza

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 233-40

Timothy Taylor

Volume 37, issue 2, 2023

Economic Activity across Space: A Supply and Demand Approach pp. 3-28

Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis

Neighborhood Change, Gentrification, and the Urbanization of College Graduates pp. 29-52

Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury

Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply pp. 53-74

Nathaniel Baum-Snow

Quantitative Urban Models: From Theory to Data pp. 75-98

Stephen Redding

Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? pp. 99-122

Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard

The Prices in the Crises: What We Are Learning from 20 Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 123-52

Jishnu Das and Quy-Toan Do

America's Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations pp. 153-78

Richard G. Frank and Sherry A. Glied

Depression and Loneliness among the Elderly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pp. 179-202

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Erin Grela, Madeline McKelway, Frank Schilbach, Garima Sharma and Girija Vaidyanathan

An Introductory Guide to Event Study Models pp. 203-30

Douglas Miller

Retrospectives: Edgar Sydenstricker: Household Equivalence Scales and the Causes of Pellagra pp. 231-46

Philip Clarke and Guido Erreygers

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 247-54

Timothy Taylor

Volume 37, issue 1, 2023

Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges pp. 3-30

T. Clifton Morgan, Constantinos Syropoulos and Yoto Yotov

Financial Sanctions, SWIFT, and the Architecture of the International Payment System pp. 31-52

Marco Cipriani, Linda Goldberg and Gabriele La Spada

Monetary Policy When the Central Bank Shapes Financial-Market Sentiment pp. 53-76

Anil K Kashyap and Jeremy C. Stein

Risk Appetite and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy pp. 77-100

Michael Bauer, Ben Bernanke and Eric Milstein

Landings, Soft and Hard: The Federal Reserve, 1965–2022 pp. 101-20

Alan Blinder

Monetary Policy and Inequality pp. 121-44

Alisdair McKay and Christian Wolf

Unraveling the Hispanic Health Paradox pp. 145-68

José Fernandez, Mónica García-Pérez and Sandra Orozco-Aleman

Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations pp. 169-98

Francisca Antman, Brian Duncan and Stephen Trejo

US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective pp. 199-222

Gordon Hanson, Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

Oleg Itskhoki: 2022 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 223-40

Andrew Atkeson and Gita Gopinath

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 241-48

Timothy Taylor

Volume 36, issue 4, 2022

Is There Any Future for a US Labor Movement? pp. 3-28

Suresh Naidu

Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining pp. 29-52

Manudeep Bhuller, Karl Ove Moene, Magne Mogstad and Ola Vestad

The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action pp. 53-80

Simon Jäger, Shakked Noy and Benjamin Schoefer

Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties pp. 81-102

Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Michael Svarer

Debt Revenue and the Sustainability of Public Debt pp. 103-24

Ricardo Reis

Fiscal Histories pp. 125-46

John H. Cochrane

Emerging Market Sovereign Debt in the Aftermath of the Pandemic pp. 147-66

Kenneth Rogoff

Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors pp. 167-92

James Choi

A Linear Panel Model with Heterogeneous Coefficients and Variation in Exposure pp. 193-204

Liyang Sun and Jesse Shapiro

Sadie T. M. Alexander: Black Women and a "Taste of Freedom in the Economic World" pp. 205-20

Nina Banks

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 221-28

Timothy Taylor

Volume 36, issue 3, 2022

Intangible Capital and Modern Economies pp. 3-28

Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Cecilia Jona-Lasinio and Massimiliano Iommi

The Economics of Intangible Capital pp. 29-52

Nicolas Crouzet, Janice Eberly, Andrea L. Eisfeldt and Dimitris Papanikolaou

Marketing Investment and Intangible Brand Capital pp. 53-74

Bart J. Bronnenberg, Jean-Pierre Dubé and Chad Syverson

Four Facts about Human Capital pp. 75-102

David Deming

Measuring Human Capital pp. 103-30

Katharine Abraham and Justine Mallatt

Expected and Realized Inflation in Historical Perspective pp. 131-56

Carola Binder and Rupal Kamdar

The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications pp. 157-84

Michael Weber, Francesco D'Acunto, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Olivier Coibion

Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey pp. 185-210

Dave Donaldson

Principles for Combining Descriptive and Model-Based Analysis in Applied Microeconomics Research pp. 211-22

Neale Mahoney

Overreaction and Diagnostic Expectations in Macroeconomics pp. 223-44

Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

Retrospectives: On the Evolution of the Rules versus Discretion Debate in Monetary Policy pp. 245-60

Harris Dellas and George Tavlas

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 261-68

Timothy Taylor

Volume 36, issue 2, 2022

A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay pp. 3-28

Christina D. Romer and David Romer

Should We Insure Workers or Jobs during Recessions? pp. 29-54

Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais and Alice Lapeyre

The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did It Go There? pp. 55-80

David Autor, David Cho, Leland Crane, Mita Goldar, Byron Lutz, Joshua Montes, William Peterman, David Ratner, Daniel Villar and Ahu Yildirmaz

American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History pp. 81-98

Trevon Logan

The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations pp. 99-122

William Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen and Marvin Slaughter

Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy pp. 123-48

Gavin Wright

Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children pp. 149-74

Anna Aizer, Hilary Hoynes and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries pp. 175-98

Miriam Wüst

Inequality in Early Care Experienced by US Children pp. 199-222

Sarah Flood, Joel McMurry, Aaron Sojourner and Matthew Wiswall

Economics of Foster Care pp. 223-46

Anthony Bald, Joseph J. Doyle, Max Gross and Brian A. Jacob

Joan Robinson on Karl Marx: "His Sense of Reality Is Far Stronger" pp. 247-64

Carolina Alves

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 265-72

Timothy Taylor

Volume 36, issue 1, 2022

Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa pp. 3-32

Margaret McMillan and Albert Zeufack

Agricultural Technology in Africa pp. 33-56

Tavneet Suri and Christopher Udry

Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation pp. 57-80

Taryn Dinkelman and L. Rachel Ngai

Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa pp. 81-100

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Andrea Smurra and Celine Zipfel

Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa pp. 101-24

Nathan Canen and Leonard Wantchekon

The Price of Nails since 1695: A Window into Economic Change pp. 125-50

Daniel Sichel

The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession pp. 151-76

Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip Levine and Luke Pardue

Isaiah Andrews, 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 177-90

Anna Mikusheva and Jesse Shapiro

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 191-98

Timothy Taylor