Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2026

Current editor(s): Enrico Moretti

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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 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

Volume 35, issue 4, 2021

The Economics of Policing and Public Safety pp. 3-28

Emily Owens and Bocar Ba

Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions pp. 29-48

Monica C. Bell

The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests pp. 49-70

Will Dobbie and Crystal S. Yang

Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System pp. 71-96

Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison pp. 97-122

Bruce Western

Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality pp. 123-46

Benjamin Couillard, Christopher Foote, Kavish Gandhi, Ellen Meara and Jonathan Skinner

The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity pp. 147-70

Tatyana Deryugina and David Molitor

When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic pp. 171-96

David M. Cutler and Edward L. Glaeser

Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects pp. 197-222

Eric Chyn and Lawrence Katz

College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap pp. 223-48

Carolyn M. Sloane, Erik G. Hurst and Dan Black

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 249-55

Timothy Taylor

Volume 35, issue 3, 2021

Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender pp. 3-24

Stefania Albanesi and Jiyeon Kim

The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States pp. 25-46

Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra and Kosali Simon

Tracking the Pandemic in Real Time: Administrative Micro Data in Business Cycles Enters the Spotlight pp. 47-66

Joseph Vavra

Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience pp. 67-82

A. Spence

The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth pp. 83-108

Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry and Hector Reyes

Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man pp. 109-32

Ilan Goldfajn, Lorenza Martínez and Rodrigo Valdés

Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 133-56

Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty pp. 157-74

Guido Imbens

Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It pp. 175-92

Maximilian Kasy

Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics pp. 193-214

Edward Miguel

Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure? pp. 215-42

Noam Angrist, Pinelopi Goldberg and Dean Jolliffe

Retrospectives: James Buchanan: Clubs and Alternative Welfare Economics pp. 243-56

Alain Marciano

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 257-64

Timothy Taylor

Volume 35, issue 2, 2021

The Resilience of the Euro pp. 3-22

Philip R. Lane

The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms pp. 23-48

Keith Head and Thierry Mayer

Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe pp. 49-76

David Dorn and Josef Zweimüller

Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization pp. 77-100

Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti

An Ounce of Prevention pp. 101-18

Joseph Newhouse

Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved? pp. 119-40

Amanda Kowalski

LGBTQ Economics pp. 141-70

M. V. Lee Badgett, Christopher S. Carpenter and Dario Sansone

The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case pp. 171-90

Nicolás Campos, Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

The Rise of Research Teams: Benefits and Costs in Economics pp. 191-216

Benjamin Jones

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 217-23

Timothy Taylor

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 Fishback and Andrew 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