Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2025

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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

Volume 30, issue 4, 2016

Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets pp. 3-30

Giovanni Peri

The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results? pp. 31-56

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg and Jan Stuhler

Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande? US and EU Immigration Pressures in the Long Run pp. 57-82

Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh

Global Talent Flows pp. 83-106

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çağlar Özden and Christopher Parsons

Game Theory in Economics and Beyond pp. 107-30

Larry Samuelson

New Directions for Modelling Strategic Behavior: Game-Theoretic Models of Communication, Coordination, and Cooperation in Economic Relationships pp. 131-50

Vincent Crawford

Whither Game Theory? Towards a Theory of Learning in Games pp. 151-70

Drew Fudenberg and David Levine

The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics pp. 171-98

Dave Donaldson and Adam Storeygard

Village and Larger Economies: The Theory and Measurement of the Townsend Thai Project pp. 199-220

Robert M. Townsend

Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem pp. 221-42

Amanda Bayer and Cecilia Elena Rouse

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 243-50

Timothy Taylor

Volume 30, issue 3, 2016

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement pp. 3-32

Ludger Woessmann

Accountability in US Education: Applying Lessons from K-12 Experience to Higher Education pp. 33-56

David Deming and David Figlio

What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries? pp. 57-84

Julia Chabrier, Sarah Cohodes and Philip Oreopoulos

The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems pp. 85-108

Brian Jacob and Jesse Rothstein

The Need for Accountability in Education in Developing Countries pp. 109-32

Isaac Mbiti

The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning pp. 133-40

Nicholas Epley and Thomas Gilovich

Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs pp. 141-64

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

The Preference for Belief Consonance pp. 165-88

Russell Golman, George Loewenstein, Karl Ove Moene and Luca Zarri

Motivated Bayesians: Feeling Moral While Acting Egoistically pp. 189-212

Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton and Roberto Weber

In Defense of the NSF Economics Program pp. 213-34

Robert Moffitt

A Skeptical View of the National Science Foundation's Role in Economic Research pp. 235-48

Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok

Can War Foster Cooperation? pp. 249-74

Michal Bauer, Christopher Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel and Tamar Mitts

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 275-82

Timothy Taylor

Volume 30, issue 2, 2016

Consumption Inequality pp. 3-28

Orazio P. Attanasio and Luigi Pistaferri

Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach pp. 29-52

Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

Health Insurance and Income Inequality pp. 53-78

Robert Kaestner and Darren Lubotsky

Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing pp. 79-102

Shelly Lundberg, Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns

Crime, the Criminal Justice System, and Socioeconomic Inequality pp. 103-26

Magnus Lofstrom and Steven Raphael

Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-Offs pp. 127-50

Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz and Tommaso Valletti

The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research pp. 151-78

Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon

The Masking of the Decline in Manufacturing Employment by the Housing Bubble pp. 179-200

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Matthew Notowidigdo

Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics pp. 201-18

Robert A. Baade and Victor Matheson

Retrospectives: How Economists Came to Accept Expected Utility Theory: The Case of Samuelson and Savage pp. 219-36

Ivan Moscati

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 237-44

Timothy Taylor

Correspondence: Scoring Social Security Proposals pp. 245-46

Peter Diamond, Konstantin Kashin, Gary King and Samir Soneji

Volume 30, issue 1, 2016

The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention pp. 3-28

Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

The IMF's Unmet Challenges pp. 29-52

Barry Eichengreen and Ngaire Woods

The New Role for the World Bank pp. 53-76

Michael Clemens and Michael Kremer

The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints pp. 77-94

Martin Ravallion

The World Trade Organization and the Future of Multilateralism pp. 95-116

Richard Baldwin

Will We Ever Stop Using Fossil Fuels? pp. 117-38

Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone and Christopher Knittel

Forty Years of Oil Price Fluctuations: Why the Price of Oil May Still Surprise Us pp. 139-60

Christiane Baumeister and Lutz Kilian

Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So Difficult? pp. 161-84

Anthony Venables

Power Laws in Economics: An Introduction pp. 185-206

Xavier Gabaix

Roland Fryer: 2015 John Bates Clark Medalist pp. 207-24

Lawrence Katz

Retrospectives: What Did the Ancient Greeks Mean by Oikonomia? pp. 225-38

Dotan Leshem

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 239-46

Timothy Taylor

The Doing Business Project: How It Started: Correspondence pp. 247-48

Simeon Djankov