Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2026

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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 Strange

Tech Clusters pp. 50-76

William 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 von 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

Volume 33, issue 4, 2019

What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency? pp. 3-26

Janet Currie and Reed Walker

Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act pp. 27-50

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? pp. 51-75

David A. Keiser and Joseph Shapiro

On Latin American Populism, and Its Echoes around the World pp. 76-99

Sebastian Edwards

Informational Autocrats pp. 100-127

Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

The Surge of Economic Nationalism in Western Europe pp. 128-51

Italo Colantone and Piero Stanig

Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered pp. 152-70

Yotam Margalit

What They Were Thinking Then: The Consequences for Macroeconomics during the Past 60 Years pp. 171-86

George Akerlof

The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare pp. 187-210

Mary Amiti, Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years pp. 211-28

Brett M. Frischmann, Alain Marciano and Giovanni Ramello

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 229-36

Timothy Taylor

Volume 33, issue 3, 2019

Are Price-Cost Markups Rising in the United States? A Discussion of the Evidence pp. 3-22

Susanto Basu

Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions pp. 23-43

Chad Syverson

Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization pp. 44-68

Steven Berry, Martin Gaynor and Fiona Scott Morton

Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets pp. 69-93

Carl Shapiro

The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google pp. 94-117

Naomi R. Lamoreaux

How Market Design Emerged from Game Theory: A Mutual Interview pp. 118-43

Alvin Roth and Robert Wilson

A Bridge from Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice pp. 144-62

Joshua B. Miller and Adam Sanjurjo

A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation pp. 163-84

Nicholas Bloom, John van Reenen and Heidi Williams

How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips pp. 185-201

Michael Elsby and Gary Solon

Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence pp. 202-27

Hunt Allcott, Benjamin Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky

Retrospectives: Lord Keynes and Mr. Say: A Proximity of Ideas pp. 228-42

Alain Beraud and Guy Numa

Some Journal of Economic Perspectives Articles Recommended for Classroom Use pp. 243-48

Timothy Taylor

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 249-56

Timothy Taylor

Volume 33, issue 2, 2019

Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor pp. 3-30

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction pp. 31-50

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb

"Automation" of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study pp. 51-70

Jeremy Atack, Robert Margo and Paul Rhode

The Rise of Robots in China pp. 71-88

Hong Cheng, Ruixue Jia, Dandan Li and Hongbin Li

Ten Years after the Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research? pp. 89-114

Valerie Ramey

Rising Government Debt: Causes and Solutions for a Decades-Old Trend pp. 115-40

Pierre Yared

Effects of Austerity: Expenditure- and Tax-Based Approaches pp. 141-62

Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men pp. 163-90

Ariel Binder and John Bound

When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men pp. 191-210

Courtney Coile and Mark Duggan

The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men pp. 211-28

Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin and Robert Francis

Retrospectives: Ricardo on Machinery pp. 229-42

Samuel Hollander

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 243-50

Timothy Taylor

Volume 33, issue 1, 2019

Women in Economics: Stalled Progress pp. 3-22

Shelly Lundberg and Jenna Stearns

Variation in Women's Success across PhD Programs in Economics pp. 23-42

Leah Boustan and Andrew Langan

Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Strategies for Making Economics Work for Women at Every Stage pp. 43-60

Kasey Buckles

Financial Regulation: Still Unsettled a Decade after the Crisis pp. 61-80

Daniel K. Tarullo

Prone to Fail: The Pre-crisis Financial System pp. 81-106

Darrell Duffie

Would Macroprudential Regulation Have Prevented the Last Crisis? pp. 107-30

David Aikman, Jonathan Bridges, Anil Kashyap and Caspar Siegert

The Value of US Government Data to US Business Decisions pp. 131-46

Ellen Hughes-Cromwick and Julia Coronado

On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics pp. 147-64

Hugh Rockoff

Evolving Measurement for an Evolving Economy: Thoughts on 21st Century US Economic Statistics pp. 165-84

Ron Jarmin

Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution pp. 185-208

Spencer Banzhaf, Lala Ma and Christopher Timmins

Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies pp. 209-30

Susan Athey and Michael Luca

Parag Pathak: Winner of the 2018 Clark Medal pp. 231-46

Ariel Pakes and Joel Sobel

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 247-54

Timothy Taylor