Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

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Volume 10, issue 4, 1996

Symposium on Primary and Secondary Education pp. 3-8

Francine Blau

Measuring Investment in Education pp. 9-30

Eric Hanushek

School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina pp. 31-50

David Card and Alan Krueger

Are Efficiency and Equity in School Finance Substitutes or Complements? pp. 51-72

Caroline Hoxby

Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives pp. 73-90

Robert Hubbard and Jonathan S. Skinner

How Retirement Saving Programs Increase Saving pp. 91-112

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving pp. 113-138

Eric M. Engen, William Gale and John Scholz

Bargaining and Distribution in Marriage pp. 139-158

Shelly Lundberg and Robert Pollak

Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What Is the Evidence? pp. 159-177

Brent Moulton

The American Economic Association Dues Structure pp. 179-186

Richard Beil and David Laband

Classroom Games: Information Cascades pp. 187-193

Lisa Anderson and Charles Holt

Volume 10, issue 3, 1996

A Successful Accident: Recollections and Speculations about the CEA pp. 3-21

Herbert Stein

The CEA: An Inside Voice for Mainstream Economics pp. 23-39

Charles L. Schultze

Keynesianism, Pennsylvania Avenue Style: Some Economic Consequences of the Employment Act of 1946 pp. 41-53

J. Bradford De Long

Different Approaches for Dealing with Social Security pp. 55-66

Edward Gramlich

Proposals to Restructure Social Security pp. 67-88

Peter Diamond

Econometrics and Presidential Elections pp. 89-102

Ray Fair

Cheap Talk pp. 103-118

Joseph Farrell and Matthew Rabin

Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts pp. 119-134

W Viscusi

Market Microstructure and Intermediation pp. 135-152

Daniel Spulber

Trends in Multi-authored Papers in Economics pp. 153-158

John Hudson

Policy Watch: Medicare pp. 159-167

Joseph Newhouse

Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey pp. 169-180

Anne E. Polivka

Volume 10, issue 2, 1996

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor pp. 3-24

Mancur Olson

How Far Has the Transition Progressed? pp. 25-44

Peter Murrell

Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies: The Early Experience pp. 45-66

Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay and Carlos Vegh

Privatization Is Transition--Or Is It? pp. 67-86

Josef Brada

The Roles of the State and the Market in Establishing Property Rights pp. 87-103

Andrzej Rapaczynski

The Economics of Convention pp. 105-122

H. Young

Inflows of Capital to Developing Countries in the 1990s pp. 123-139

Guillermo Calvo, Leonardo Leiderman and Carmen Reinhart

Discovering Diversity in Introductory Economics pp. 141-153

Robin L. Bartlett

Data Watch: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics pp. 155-168

Charles Brown, Greg Duncan and Frank Stafford

Retrospectives: The Origins of the Representative Agent pp. 169-177

James E. Hartley

Classroom Games: Understanding Bayes' Rule pp. 179-187

Charles Holt and Lisa Anderson

Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform pp. 189-198

Betsey A. Kuhn

Volume 10, issue 1, 1996

Help Wanted: Economists, Crime and Public Policy pp. 3-24

John J. DiIulio

Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do about It? pp. 25-42

Richard Freeman

Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses pp. 43-67

Isaac Ehrlich

The Computational Experiment: An Econometric Tool pp. 69-85

Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott

The Empirical Foundations of Calibration pp. 87-104

Lars Hansen and James Heckman

Macroeconomics and Methodology pp. 105-120

Christopher Sims

Social Psychology, Unemployment and Macroeconomics pp. 121-140

William Darity and Arthur H. Goldsmith

Dynamic Revenue Estimation pp. 141-157

Alan Auerbach

Analyzing the Airwaves Auction pp. 159-175

Randolph McAfee and John McMillan

Does Studying Economics Discourage Cooperation? Watch What We Do, Not What We Say or How We Play pp. 177-186

Anthony Yezer, Robert Goldfarb and Paul J. Poppen

Do Economists Make Bad Citizens? pp. 187-192

Robert Frank, Thomas D. Gilovich and Dennis T. Regan

Classroom Games: Trading in a Pit Market pp. 193-203

Charles Holt

Volume 9, issue 4, 1995

Symposium on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism pp. 3-10

Frederic Mishkin

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Framework pp. 11-26

John Taylor

Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission pp. 27-48

Ben Bernanke and Mark Gertler

Monetary, Credit and (Other) Transmission Processes: A Monetarist Perspective pp. 49-72

Allan Meltzer

The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates pp. 73-96

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship pp. 97-118

Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde

Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm? pp. 119-132

Karen Palmer, Wallace Oates and Paul R. Portney

Human Capital vs. Signalling Explanations of Wages pp. 133-154

Andrew Weiss

Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy pp. 155-173

Timur Kuran

The Economic Case against Drug Prohibition pp. 175-192

Jeffrey Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel

Women in the Economics Profession pp. 193-206

Shulamit Kahn

Retrospective: The Convergence Debate between David Hume and Josiah Tucker pp. 207-216

Bruce Truitt Elmslie

The Flypaper Effect pp. 217-226

James Hines and Richard Thaler

Volume 9, issue 3, 1995

Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The Economist vs. Madmen in Authority pp. 3-13

Isabel V. Sawhill

Are Your Wages Set in Beijing? pp. 15-32

Richard Freeman

Income Inequality and Trade: How to Think, What to Conclude pp. 33-55

J. David Richardson

How Trade Hurt Unskilled Workers pp. 57-80

Adrian Wood

Symposium on Consumption Smoothing in Developing Countries pp. 81-82

Anne Case

Consumption Insurance: An Evaluation of Risk-Bearing Systems in Low-Income Economies pp. 83-102

Robert Townsend

Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing pp. 103-114

Jonathan Morduch

Nonmarket Institutions for Credit and Risk Sharing in Low-Income Countries pp. 115-127

Timothy Besley

Some Lessons from the Yield Curve pp. 129-152

John Campbell

An Introduction to the Wage Curve pp. 153-167

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

The Stories We Tell: A Reconsideration of AS/AD Analysis pp. 169-188

David Colander

Retrospectives: Schumpeter, David Wells, and Creative Destruction pp. 189-197

Michael Perelman

Policy Watch: Did Nasdaq Market Makers Implicitly Collude? pp. 199-208

William Christie and Paul H. Schultz

Volume 9, issue 2, 1995

The Economic Benefits from Immigration pp. 3-22

George Borjas

The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth pp. 23-44

Rachel Friedberg and Jennifer Hunt

Tackling the European Migration Problems pp. 45-62

Klaus Zimmermann

The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research pp. 63-84

Gary Burtless

Assessing the Case for Social Experiments pp. 85-110

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

Forty Years of Public Economics: A Personal Perspective pp. 111-130

Jacques Dreze

Feminism and Economics pp. 131-148

Julie Nelson

The Promise of Public Sector-Sponsored Training Programs pp. 149-168

Robert LaLonde

The Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises and the Theory of International Trade pp. 169-189

James Markusen

Cliometrics and the Nobel pp. 191-208

Claudia Goldin

Anomalies: Ultimatums, Dictators and Manners pp. 209-219

Colin Camerer and Richard Thaler

The Ethology of Homo Economicus pp. 221-231

Joseph Persky

Unhooking Household Saving and Business Investment pp. 243-44

Frederick Guy

Declining Population Growth as a Cause of the Depression pp. 245-46

Clarence L Barber

Volume 9, issue 1, 1995

An Introduction to Vote-Counting Schemes pp. 3-26

Jonathan Levin and Barry Nalebuff

The Single Transferable Vote pp. 27-38

Nicolaus Tideman

Approval Voting pp. 39-49

Robert Weber

Optimal Voting Rules pp. 51-64

H. Young

Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition pp. 65-75

Douglas W. Rae

Analysis of Democratic Institutions: Structure, Conduct and Performance pp. 77-89

Roger Myerson

How to Judge Voting Schemes pp. 91-98

Amartya Sen

Time for Revisionism on Rent Control? pp. 99-120

Richard Arnott

Value-Added Taxation: A Tax Whose Time Has Come? pp. 121-140

Gilbert Metcalf

Distributed Computation as an Economic System pp. 141-152

Bernardo A. Huberman and Tad Hogg

Who Gets on the AEA Program? pp. 153-163

C. Elton Hinshaw and John Siegfried

In Honor of Lawrence H. Summers, Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal pp. 165-182

James Poterba

Policy Watch: Congressional Campaign Finance Reform pp. 183-193

Steven Levitt

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 195-202

Bernard Saffran

American and European Economists: Correspondence pp. 203-05

Xavier Vives

American and European Economists: Correspondence pp. 205-06

Jens Barmbold, Ulrich Bindseil and Justus Haucap

American and European Economists: Response pp. 207

Reiner Eichenberger and Bruno Frey

The Economic Case against Higher Alcohol Taxes pp. 207-09

Dale Heien

The Economic Case against Higher Alcohol Taxes: Response pp. 210-12

Michael Grossman