Journal of Economic Perspectives

1987 - 2026

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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

Volume 29, issue 4, 2015

On the Verges of Overconfidence pp. 3-8

Ulrike Malmendier and Timothy Taylor

Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace pp. 9-36

Michael Grubb

Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence pp. 37-60

Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate

Overconfident Investors, Predictable Returns, and Excessive Trading pp. 61-88

Kent Daniel and David Hirshleifer

The Ongoing Evolution of US Retail: A Format Tug-of-War pp. 89-112

Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson

Adolescence and the Path to Maturity in Global Retail pp. 113-34

Bart J. Bronnenberg and Paul B. Ellickson

Online Higher Education: Beyond the Hype Cycle pp. 135-54

Michael S. McPherson and Lawrence S. Bacow

How Economics Faculty Can Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) in a Brave New Online World pp. 155-76

Peter Navarro

Rewriting Monetary Policy 101: What's the Fed's Preferred Post-Crisis Approach to Raising Interest Rates? pp. 177-98

Jane E. Ihrig, Ellen Meade and Gretchen Weinbach

Household Surveys in Crisis pp. 199-226

Bruce Meyer, Wallace K C Mok and James Sullivan

Seven Centuries of European Economic Growth and Decline pp. 227-44

Roger Fouquet and Stephen Broadberry

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 245-52

Timothy Taylor

Volume 29, issue 3, 2015

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation pp. 3-30

David Autor

The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different? pp. 31-50

Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers and Nicolas Ziebarth

Is a Cambrian Explosion Coming for Robotics? pp. 51-60

Gill A. Pratt

Promises and Perils of Pre-analysis Plans pp. 61-80

Benjamin Olken

Pre-analysis Plans Have Limited Upside, Especially Where Replications Are Feasible pp. 81-98

Lucas Coffman and Muriel Niederle

Law, Regulation, and the Business Climate: The Nature and Influence of the World Bank Doing Business Project pp. 99-120

Timothy Besley

How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules pp. 121-40

Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Lant Pritchett

The Microeconomic Dimensions of the Eurozone Crisis and Why European Politics Cannot Solve Them pp. 141-64

Christian Thimann

E-Books: A Tale of Digital Disruption pp. 165-84

Richard Gilbert

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Its Effects on American Indian Economic Development pp. 185-208

Randall Akee, Katherine A. Spilde and Jonathan B. Taylor

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 209-16

Timothy Taylor

Volume 29, issue 2, 2015

A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler pp. 3-24

Austan D. Goolsbee and Alan Krueger

The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pp. 25-52

W Frame, Andreas Fuster, Joseph Tracy and James Vickery

An Assessment of TARP Assistance to Financial Institutions pp. 53-80

Charles W. Calomiris and Urooj Khan

AIG in Hindsight pp. 81-106

Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson

Legal, Political, and Institutional Constraints on the Financial Crisis Policy Response pp. 107-22

Phillip Swagel

Understanding the Increase in Disability Insurance Benefit Receipt in the United States pp. 123-50

Jeffrey Liebman

The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands pp. 151-72

Pierre Koning and Maarten Lindeboom

Disability Benefit Receipt and Reform: Reconciling Trends in the United Kingdom pp. 173-90

James Banks, Richard Blundell and Carl Emmerson

Reforming LIBOR and Other Financial Market Benchmarks pp. 191-212

Darrell Duffie and Jeremy C. Stein

Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance pp. 213-38

Rainer Böhme, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman and Tyler Moore

Systematic Bias and Nontransparency in US Social Security Administration Forecasts pp. 239-58

Konstantin Kashin, Gary King and Samir Soneji

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 259-66

Timothy Taylor

Volume 29, issue 1, 2015

The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism pp. 3-28

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality pp. 29-46

Charles Jones

What Do We Know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States? pp. 47-66

Wojciech Kopczuk

Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century pp. 67-88

Thomas Piketty

The Superiority of Economists pp. 89-114

Marion Fourcade, Etienne Ollion and Yann Algan

The Case for Paying College Athletes pp. 115-38

Allen R. Sanderson and John Siegfried

Pricing in the Market for Anticancer Drugs pp. 139-62

David H. Howard, Peter B. Bach, Ernst R. Berndt and Rena Conti

The Window Tax: A Case Study in Excess Burden pp. 163-80

Wallace Oates and Robert M. Schwab

Matthew Gentzkow, Winner of the 2014 Clark Medal pp. 181-92

Andrei Shleifer

Retrospectives: The Marginal Cost Controversy pp. 193-206

Brett M. Frischmann and Christiaan Hogendorn

Recommendations for Further Reading pp. 207-14

Timothy Taylor

Fair Trade Coffee: Correspondence pp. 215-16

Victor Claar and Colleen E. Haight