Contemporary Economic Policy

1982 - 2026

Current editor(s): Brad R. Humphreys

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Volume 44, issue 2, 2026

Parents' legal status and children's health insurance: Evidence from DACA pp. 234-252

Nhan Tran

Health insurance and labor supply: Evidence from same‐sex couples pp. 253-274

Elisabeth Wurm

Timing of SNAP disbursement and crime incidence in the United States pp. 275-298

Licheng Xu

Heterogeneity of shifts in economic expectations around elections pp. 299-318

Paul Niekamp

Taxing windfall money: A quasi‐experimental study pp. 319-332

Álvaro Muñiz‐Fernández and Levi Pérez

Did the Plaza Accord cause Japan's real estate bubble? pp. 333-366

Jedediah Pida‐Reese

External validity of inferred attribute non‐attendance: Evidence from a laboratory experiment with real and hypothetical payoffs pp. 367-379

Tanga M. Mohr and John Whitehead

From bias to bliss: Racial preferences and worker productivity in tennis pp. 380-393

Carsten Creutzburg, Wolfgang Maennig and Steffen Q. Mueller

The effect of civilian monitoring on fatal encounters pp. 394-407

Matthew Harvey

Should more teams “trust the process” of tanking? pp. 408-425

Eduardo G. Minuci, Alexander Cardazzi and Candon Johnson

Are U.S. states' banks unique? pp. 426-461

Eduardo G. Minuci and Scott Schuh

A human capital theory of who escapes the grasp of the local monopsonist pp. 462-481

Matthew Kahn and Joseph S. Tracy

Volume 44, issue 1, 2026

The effect of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone on violent crime pp. 4-27

Alexander Marsella

Do vertical ID laws curb teenage drinking and tobacco use? pp. 28-69

Russell S. Leonard and Joseph J. Sabia

From movement to prosperity: Examining the link between domestic migration and business dynamics in US metropolitan areas pp. 70-89

Imran Arif

The impacts of shortage area designations on mortality pp. 90-104

Jessica Sauve‐Syed

Plugging gaps in payment systems: Evidence from the take‐up of new Medicare billing codes pp. 105-130

Jeffrey Clemens, Jonathan Leganza and Alex Masucci

A benefit‐cost analysis of child care subsidy expansions: The New York State case pp. 131-151

Robert Paul Hartley, Irwin Garfinkel, Elizabeth Ananat, Sophie Collyer, Buyi Wang and Christopher Wimer

Centralized procurement: Use of framework agreements in Mexico pp. 152-168

Fernando Mendoza López

Neighborhood effects of buy‐to‐rent and build‐to‐rent public housing pp. 169-185

Changsu Ko, Jinsoo Bae and Heepyung Cho

The impact of renter protection policies on rental housing discrimination pp. 186-206

Marina Mileo Gorzig and Deborah Rho

The case for borrowing against future social security wealth pp. 207-214

Steve Swidler and Erin Cottle Hunt

How veteran‐nonveteran wage gaps across the wage distribution have evolved over time pp. 215-230

James Fuller and Kelly Vosters

Volume 43, issue 4, 2025

Liberating the literature: A project on women and economic freedom pp. 568-572

Meg Tuszynski

Economic freedom and legal gender disparity pp. 573-588

Claudia Kramer

Females in top management and perceived obstacles by Indian firms—Does economic freedom help? pp. 589-599

Nabamita Dutta and Adam Stivers

Economic freedom and female entrepreneurship pp. 600-620

Israt Jahan

Women's property rights equality and entrepreneurial activity pp. 621-637

Colin O’Reilly and Kathleen M. Sheehan

Economic freedom for women and fertility pp. 638-651

Kerianne Lawson

The fertility gap and economic freedom pp. 652-668

Clara E. Piano and Lyman R. Stone

Foreign education, gender legal rights, and economic freedom pp. 669-697

Christina Peters, Maria Tackett and Alexandre Padilla

The causal effect of economic freedom on female employment & education pp. 698-713

Robin Grier

Women's international football success and women's economic freedom pp. 714-730

Craig Depken and Tomislav Globan

Volume 43, issue 3, 2025

States of opportunity for youth aging out of foster care pp. 388-410

Alexa Prettyman

Dude, where's my (summer) job? Minimum wages and student employment pp. 411-426

Adam C. Wright, Darius Martin and John M. Krieg

Getting students to stick around: The effects of completing an introductory course on persistence for community college students pp. 427-451

Dora Gicheva, Julie Edmunds, Marie Hull and Beth Thrift

Beyond opioids: The effect of prescription drug monitoring programs on non‐opioid drug prescribing pp. 452-469

David Beheshti and Bokyung Kim

Natural disasters and economic dynamism: Evidence from U.S. entrepreneurial activity pp. 470-494

Omer Bayar, Christopher Boudreaux and Todd Yarbrough

The standard system and corporate labor employment: Empirical evidence from China's comprehensive standardization reform pp. 495-519

Lianchao Yu, Hongji Geng, Feifei Song and Changheng Zhao

Employment adjustments to increased imports: Evidence from a developing country pp. 520-538

Beyza Ural Marchand

The non‐linear impact of corruption investigations on political trust pp. 539-564

Yanjun Li and Hamza Umer

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