Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2026

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Volume 32, issue 4, 2018

An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science pp. 3-32

Solomon Hsiang and Robert Kopp

Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change pp. 33-52

Maximilian Auffhammer

The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions pp. 53-72

Kenneth Gillingham and James H. Stock

Is This Tax Reform, or Just Confusion? pp. 73-96

Joel Slemrod

Measuring the Effects of Corporate Tax Cuts pp. 97-120

Alan Auerbach

Outside the Box: Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Great Recession and Beyond pp. 121-46

Kenneth N. Kuttner

Unconventional Monetary Policies in the Euro Area, Japan, and the United Kingdom pp. 147-72

Giovanni Dell'ariccia, Pau Rabanal and Damiano Sandri

Ending Global Poverty: Why Money Isn't Enough pp. 173-200

Lucy Page and Rohini Pande

Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries pp. 201-26

Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken

Retrospectives: On the Genius Behind David Ricardo's 1817 Formulation of Comparative Advantage pp. 227-40

Daniel M. Bernhofen and John C. Brown

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 241-48

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 3, 2018

What Happened: Financial Factors in the Great Recession pp. 3-30

Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist

Finance and Business Cycles: The Credit-Driven Household Demand Channel pp. 31-58

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Identification in Macroeconomics pp. 59-86

Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

The State of New Keynesian Economics: A Partial Assessment pp. 87-112

Jordi Galí

On DSGE Models pp. 113-40

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Mathias Trabandt

Evolution of Modern Business Cycle Models: Accounting for the Great Recession pp. 141-66

Patrick Kehoe, Virgiliu Midrigan and Elena Pastorino

Microeconomic Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Shocks pp. 167-94

Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante

Compensation and Incentives in the Workplace pp. 195-214

Edward P. Lazear

Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning pp. 215-38

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier

The Changing (Dis-)utility of Work pp. 239-58

Greg Kaplan and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects pp. 259-80

Michael Bailey, Rachel Cao, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel and Arlene Wong

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 281-88

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 2, 2018

The US Gains from Trade: Valuation Using the Demand for Foreign Factor Services pp. 3-24

Arnaud Costinot and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

Alternative Sources of the Gains from International Trade: Variety, Creative Destruction, and Markups pp. 25-46

Robert Feenstra

New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment pp. 47-72

Teresa Fort, Justin Pierce and Peter K. Schott

What Do Trade Agreements Really Do? pp. 73-90

Dani Rodrik

Modeling Risk Aversion in Economics pp. 91-114

Ted O'Donoghue and Jason Somerville

On the Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preference pp. 115-34

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Are Risk Preferences Stable? pp. 135-54

Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

Risk Preference: A View from Psychology pp. 155-72

Rui Mata, Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp and Ralph Hertwig

Space, the Final Economic Frontier pp. 173-92

Matthew Weinzierl

Dave Donaldson: Winner of the 2017 Clark Medal pp. 193-208

Daron Acemoglu

Retrospectives: Adam Smith's Discovery of Trade Gravity pp. 209-22

Bruce Elmslie

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 223-30

Timothy Taylor

Volume 32, issue 1, 2018

The Economic Implications of Housing Supply pp. 3-30

Edward Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

Homeownership and the American Dream pp. 31-58

Laurie S. Goodman and Christopher Mayer

Sand Castles before the Tide? Affordable Housing in Expensive Cities pp. 59-80

Gabriel Metcalf

Friedman's Presidential Address in the Evolution of Macroeconomic Thought pp. 81-96

N. Gregory Mankiw and Ricardo Reis

Should We Reject the Natural Rate Hypothesis? pp. 97-120

Olivier Blanchard

Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Milton Friedman's Presidential Address pp. 121-34

Robert Hall and Thomas Sargent

Exchange-Traded Funds 101 for Economists pp. 135-54

Martin Lettau and Ananth Madhavan

Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care? pp. 155-78

Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein

Do Economists Swing for the Fences after Tenure? pp. 179-94

Jonathan Brogaard, Joseph Engelberg and Edward Van Wesep

Retrospectives: Cost-Push and Demand-Pull Inflation: Milton Friedman and the "Cruel Dilemma" pp. 195-210

Johannes Schwarzer

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 211-18

Timothy Taylor

Volume 31, issue 4, 2017

Delivering Public Health Insurance through Private Plan Choice in the United States pp. 3-22

Jonathan Gruber

Selection in Health Insurance Markets and Its Policy Remedies pp. 23-50

Michael Geruso and Timothy Layton

The Questionable Value of Having a Choice of Levels of Health Insurance Coverage pp. 51-72

Keith Ericson and Justin Sydnor

From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application pp. 73-102

Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukerji, Marc Shotland and Michael Walton

Experimentation at Scale pp. 103-24

Karthik Muralidharan and Paul Niehaus

Scaling for Economists: Lessons from the Non-Adherence Problem in the Medical Literature pp. 125-44

Omar Al-Ubaydli, John List, Danielle LoRe and Dana Suskind

How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor pp. 145-62

Canice Prendergast

Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration pp. 163-84

Thomas Sampson

Enrollment without Learning: Teacher Effort, Knowledge, and Skill in Primary Schools in Africa pp. 185-204

Tessa Bold, Deon Filmer, Gayle Martin, Ezequiel Molina, Brian Stacy, Christophe Rockmore, Jakob Svensson and Waly Wane

Population Control Policies and Fertility Convergence pp. 205-28

Tiloka de Silva and Silvana Tenreyro

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 229-36

Timothy Taylor

Volume 31, issue 3, 2017

International Monetary Relations: Taking Finance Seriously pp. 3-28

Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor

The Safe Assets Shortage Conundrum pp. 29-46

Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Dealing with Monetary Paralysis at the Zero Bound pp. 47-66

Kenneth Rogoff

Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble? pp. 67-88

Kathleen M. Kahle and René Stulz

The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors pp. 89-102

Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Scott Hirst

Towards a Political Theory of the Firm pp. 113-30

Luigi Zingales

A Skeptical View of Financialized Corporate Governance pp. 131-50

Anat Admati

The Causes and Costs of Misallocation pp. 151-74

Diego Restuccia and Richard Rogerson

Federal Budget Policy with an Aging Population and Persistently Low Interest Rates pp. 175-94

Douglas Elmendorf and Louise M. Sheiner

How Digitization Has Created a Golden Age of Music, Movies, Books, and Television pp. 195-214

Joel Waldfogel

Retrospectives: Friedrich Hayek and the Market Algorithm pp. 215-30

Samuel Bowles, Alan Kirman and Rajiv Sethi

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 231-38

Timothy Taylor

Volume 31, issue 2, 2017

The State of Applied Econometrics: Causality and Policy Evaluation pp. 3-32

Susan Athey and Guido Imbens

The Use of Structural Models in Econometrics pp. 33-58

Hamish Low and Costas Meghir

Twenty Years of Time Series Econometrics in Ten Pictures pp. 59-86

James H. Stock and Mark Watson

Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach pp. 87-106

Sendhil Mullainathan and Jann Spiess

Identification and Asymptotic Approximations: Three Examples of Progress in Econometric Theory pp. 107-24

James Powell

Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly pp. 125-44

Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Underestimating the Real Growth of GDP, Personal Income, and Productivity pp. 145-64

Martin Feldstein

Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the US Productivity Slowdown pp. 165-86

Chad Syverson

How Government Statistics Adjust for Potential Biases from Quality Change and New Goods in an Age of Digital Technologies: A View from the Trenches pp. 187-210

Erica Groshen, Brian C. Moyer, Ana Aizcorbe, Ralph Bradley and David M. Friedman

Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election pp. 211-36

Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow

Yuliy Sannikov: Winner of the 2016 Clark Medal pp. 237-56

Susan Athey and Andrzej Skrzypacz

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 257-64

Timothy Taylor

Volume 31, issue 1, 2017

Is China Socialist? pp. 3-24

Barry Naughton

Human Capital and China's Future Growth pp. 25-48

Hongbin Li, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle and Binzhen Wu

From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges pp. 49-70

Shang-Jin Wei, Zhuan Xie and Xiaobo Zhang

A New Era of Pollution Progress in Urban China? pp. 71-92

Siqi Zheng and Matthew Kahn

A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics pp. 93-116

Edward Glaeser, Wei Huang, Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer

Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda pp. 117-40

Bei Qin, David Strömberg and Yanhui Wu

The Evolution of China's One-Child Policy and Its Effects on Family Outcomes pp. 141-60

Junsen Zhang

The New Life Cycle of Women's Employment: Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops pp. 161-82

Claudia Goldin and Joshua Mitchell

Specialization Then and Now: Marriage, Children, and the Gender Earnings Gap across Cohorts pp. 183-204

Chinhui Juhn and Kristin McCue

The Economic Consequences of Family Policies: Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries pp. 205-30

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

How to Write an Effective Referee Report and Improve the Scientific Review Process pp. 231-44

Jonathan B. Berk, Campbell Harvey and David Hirshleifer

Retrospectives: Do Productive Recessions Show the Recuperative Powers of Capitalism? Schumpeter's Analysis of the Cleansing Effect pp. 245-56

Muriel Dal Pont Legrand and Harald Hagemann

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 257-64

Timothy Taylor