Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2025

Current editor(s): Brad R. Humphreys

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Volume 43, issue 2, 2025

Mental health and financial risk attitudes: Panel data evidence from Australia pp. 178-198

Dusanee Kesavayuth and Vasileios Zikos

Self‐reported mental health and the Dobbs decision: Variation by State abortion laws pp. 199-225

J. Michael Collins and Vivekananda Das

The economic effect of discrimination: Evidence from the restaurant sector pp. 226-259

Guanting Yi

Cristiano of Arabia: Did Ronaldo increase Saudi Pro League attendances? pp. 260-270

Dominik Schreyer and Carl Singleton

Exploring the nexus of occupational licensing and the shadow economy: Evidence from U.S. states pp. 271-291

Daniel A. Gyimah and James W. Saunoris

Hurdles to hops: How self‐distribution laws affect craft brewery output pp. 292-318

James M. Harrison and Darrell J. Glaser

Unions and workplace safety investment in Chinese private enterprises pp. 319-342

Yinxiao Chu, Xiaoyu Huang and Jianxing Wei

Shall we blame health IT for Medicare overpayments? New evidence from Medicare recovery audit program pp. 343-361

Keith A. Joiner and Jianjing Lin

Bride kidnapping and informal governance institutions pp. 362-383

Zachary Porreca

Volume 43, issue 1, 2025

Scope of practice: A discussion of non‐physician providers in care management pp. 4-8

Alicia Plemmons

Scope‐of‐practice laws and the practice patterns of nurse practitioners and physician assistants pp. 9-30

Benjamin J. McMichael

New evidence on the labor market effects of scope of practice laws for physicians and nurse practitioners pp. 31-51

Moiz Bhai and David T. Mitchell

Nurse practitioner oversight ratios and labor market outcomes pp. 52-78

Andrew J. D. Smith and Sara Markowitz

The effect of expansion of nurse practitioner scope of practice on early COVID‐19 deaths pp. 79-92

Bobby W. Chung and Noah J. Trudeau

The effects of nurse practitioner scope of practice laws on diabetic health care costs pp. 93-115

Alexandra Wallace, Moiz Bhai and Danny Hughes

Supply of mental health practices after prescriptive authority expansion for psychologists pp. 116-134

Angela Shoulders and Alicia Plemmons

Seeing is believing: The effects of optometrist scope of practice expansion pp. 135-160

Kihwan Bae, Edward Timmons and Protik Nandy

The pharmacist will see you now: Pharmacist prescriptive authority and access to care pp. 161-174

Shishir Shakya, Alicia Plemmons, Kihwan Bae and Edward Timmons

Volume 42, issue 4, 2024

The evolution of structural gravity: The workhorse model of trade pp. 578-603

Yoto Yotov

How much would it cost to guarantee debt for all publicly traded U.S. corporations? pp. 604-622

Stephen Matteo Miller

Business as usual? Unraveling the impact of Brexit on UK‐EU business links pp. 623-641

Zovanga Kone, Feicheng Wang, Zheng Wang and Zhuo Zhou

Central bank communication: Inflation target transparency with fiscal policy pp. 642-659

Montserrat Ferré, Òscar Macaya and Carolina Manzano

COVID vaccination and social norms pp. 660-682

Jonathan Cook, Noah Newberger and Sami Smalling

A SALT on real estate? Housing market and migration responses to the limit on the state and local tax deduction pp. 683-704

Lawrence M. Kessler and Donald Bruce

The effects of Title IX enforcement on sexual assaults on college campuses pp. 705-721

Patrick Reilly, Kamilah Williams and Monica Das

Volume 42, issue 3, 2024

Household carbon dioxide emissions Engel Curve dynamics pp. 396-415

Robert Huang and Matthew Kahn

Does membership of the EMU matter for economic and financial outcomes? pp. 416-447

Omid M. Ardakani, N Kishor and Suyong Song

Gender equity and male and female smoking behavior pp. 448-473

William Jergins

The role of football win percentage on college applications for Power Five and Group of Five schools pp. 474-482

Craig McFarland, Peter A. Groothuis and Dennis Guignet

Strategic behavior, artistic integrity, and tradeoffs in popular music pp. 483-497

Andrew Weinbach, Phillip Kamau Njoroge, Robert Salvino and Arch Woodside

The effectiveness of government incentives for outward investment: The case of China's Belt and Road Initiative pp. 498-523

Hangtian Xu, Fuqiang Yang and Wenzhuo Zheng

Does a requirement to offer retirement plans help low‐income workers save for retirement? Early evidence from the OregonSaves program pp. 524-543

Ngoc Dao

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and food expenditures: Evaluating California's cash‐out policy pp. 544-573

Erik Hembre, Katherine McElroy and Shogher Ohannessian

Volume 42, issue 2, 2024

Gender differences in graduate student views on the professional climate in economics pp. 206-222

Ann Mari May, Mary G. McGarvey and Muazzam Toshmatova

Spillover between Medicare and Medicaid: Evidence from decreasing physician reimbursements pp. 223-236

Kole Reddig

College applications and enrollment effects of the Common Application pp. 237-258

Darren Page

Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications pp. 259-277

Christopher D. Blake, Danna Kang Thomas and Joshua Hess

Why college majors and selectivity matter: Major groupings, occupation specificity, and job skills pp. 278-304

Deborah M. Weiss, Matthew L. Spitzer, Colton Cronin and Neil Chin

Making the grade: The effect of teacher grading standards on student outcomes pp. 305-318

Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt and Adam Tyner

Do payday lending bans protect or constrain regional economies? Evidence from the Military Lending Act's final rule pp. 319-335

Craig Carpenter, Kristopher Deming, John Anders, Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Charles M. Tolbert and Adam Ingrao

Political systems, regime memory, and economic freedom pp. 336-354

Peter Calcagno, Beatriz Maldonado, Todd Nesbit and Mary Frances Zeager

Income inequality and party alternation: State‐level evidence from the United States pp. 355-374

Peter Calcagno, Alexander Marsella and Yang Zhou

Leveling the playing field: The distributional impact of maximum‐ and minimum‐level contracts on player compensation pp. 375-391

Scott M. Kaplan

Volume 42, issue 1, 2024

Do Democracy Vouchers help democracy? pp. 4-24

Sarah Papich

The impact of state Medicaid eligibility and benefits policy on neonatal abstinence syndrome hospitalizations pp. 25-40

Aparna Soni, Lindsey Bullinger, Christina Andrews, Amanda Abraham and Kosali Simon

Surgeons' response to reimbursement changes for alternative procedures: Evidence from spine fusion in the U.S pp. 41-55

Nicholas Benson and Jose Joaquin Lopez

The effects of COVID‐19 policies on consumer spending in Norway pp. 56-67

Fenella Carpena, Laurens Swinkels and Dan Zhang

Does broadband affect local economic outcomes less than we thought? Micro evidence from Louisiana pp. 68-93

Gary A. Wagner and Hyun Ji Lee

Do tax credits benefit charities? Evidence from two states pp. 94-109

Anubhav Gupta and Thomas Luke Spreen

Alaska's ban on sentence bargaining pp. 110-119

Bryan C. McCannon

Banking concentration, financial openness, and financial development pp. 120-159

Edgar A. Ghossoub, Andre Harrison and Robert R. Reed

Macroprudential policy leakage: Evidence from shadow banking activities of Chinese enterprises pp. 160-182

Guiting Lin and Alice Y. Ouyang

Tax incentives and corporate innovation: Evidence from China's value‐added tax reform pp. 183-202

Jun Wang, Congcong Liu, Zhuan Xie and Guangjun Shen