Economic Inquiry

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Volume 48, issue 4, 2010

THE EFFECT OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY ON INCOME REDISTRIBUTION: EVIDENCE FOR SWITZERLAND pp. 817-840

Lars Feld, Justina A. V. Fischer and Gebhard Kirchgässner

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: THE FRENCH CASE pp. 841-859

Raphael Franck

WHY CHINA INDUSTRIALIZED AFTER ENGLAND pp. 860-863

Barry S. Kahn

STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION OF THE OUTPUT GAP: A BAYESIAN DSGE APPROACH pp. 864-879

Yasuo Hirose and Saori Naganuma

DOES OFFSHORING PAY? FIRM‐LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM JAPAN pp. 880-895

Alexander Hijzen, Tomohiko Inui and Yasuyuki Todo

POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES IN THE NEW KEYNESIAN MODEL pp. 896-915

Fabio Milani

SEIGNIORAGE, LEGAL TENDER, AND THE DEMAND NOTES OF 1861 pp. 916-932

William A. Bomberger and Gail E. Makinen

MONETARY POLICY REGIME SHIFTS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM TIME‐VARYING INTEREST RATE RULES pp. 933-950

Carmine Trecroci and Matilde Vassalli

ACROSS TIME AND REGIMES: 212 YEARS OF THE US‐UK REAL EXCHANGE RATE pp. 951-964

William Craighead

FINANCIAL FRICTIONS AND THE CHOICE OF EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES pp. 965-982

Ester Faia

REAL COSTS OF NOMINAL GRADE INFLATION? NEW EVIDENCE FROM STUDENT COURSE EVALUATIONS pp. 983-996

Philip Babcock

SKILLED‐UNSKILLED WAGE INEQUALITY AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT pp. 997-1007

Hamid Beladi, Avik Chakrabarti and Sugata Marjit

EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS AND MILITARY SERVICE: AN ANALYSIS OF ENLISTMENT, REENLISTMENT, AND VETERANS' BENEFIT USAGE 1991–2005 pp. 1008-1031

Curtis Simon, Sebastian Negrusa and John Warner

WORKFORCE COMPOSITION AND FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM TAIWAN pp. 1032-1047

Jin-Tan Liu, Meng-Wen Tsou and Ping Wang

WELFARE IMPACT OF A BAN ON CHILD LABOR pp. 1048-1064

Jorge Soares

TAXING LEISURE COMPLEMENTS pp. 1065-1071

Louis Kaplow

FINANCIAL CONTAGION ON THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE NETWORK pp. 1072-1101

Raja Kali and Javier Reyes

THE IMPACT OF GENDER ON VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY EXECUTIVE DEPARTURE pp. 1102-1118

John R. Becker‐blease, Susan Elkinawy and Mark Stater

THE THEORY OF INTERSTELLAR TRADE pp. 1119-1123

Paul Krugman

2009 Editor's Report pp. 1124-1129

Randolph McAfee

Volume 48, issue 3, 2010

EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY pp. 521-536

Joseph J. Doyle and Steven Levitt

DOES THE RIVER SPILL OVER? ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC RETURNS TO ATTENDING A RACIALLY DIVERSE COLLEGE pp. 537-557

Peter Arcidiacono and Jacob Vigdor

QUALITY OF AVAILABLE MATES, EDUCATION, AND HOUSEHOLD LABOR SUPPLY pp. 558-574

Brighita Negrusa and Sonia Oreffice

PIECE‐RATE CONTRACTS FOR OTHER‐REGARDING WORKERS pp. 575-586

William Neilson and C. Stowe

INVESTING IN HEALTH: THE LONG‐TERM IMPACT OF HEAD START ON SMOKING pp. 587-602

Kathryn Anderson, James Foster and David Frisvold

COMPETITION AND TEACHER PAY pp. 603-620

Lori Taylor

PEER EFFECTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: DOES THE FIELD OF STUDY MATTER? pp. 621-634

Giorgio Brunello, Maria De Paola and Vincenzo Scoppa

THE EFFECT OF HOUSE PRICE ON FERTILITY: EVIDENCE FROM HONG KONG pp. 635-650

Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang

LEARNING BUT NOT EARNING? THE IMPACT OF JOB CORPS TRAINING ON HISPANIC YOUTH pp. 651-667

Alfonso Flores‐lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez and Todd Neumann

THE ROLE OF HOSPITAL COMPETITION ON TREATMENT EXPENDITURE AND OUTCOME: EVIDENCE FROM STROKE AND CARDIAC TREATMENT IN TAIWAN pp. 668-689

Hsienming Lien, Shin‐yi Chou and Jin-Tan Liu

THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM? BIRTH ORDER EFFECTS IN A DYNAMIC FAMILY MODEL pp. 690-703

Elisabeth Gugl and Linda Welling

DOES RAIDING EXPLAIN THE NEGATIVE RETURNS TO FACULTY SENIORITY? pp. 704-721

Bernt Bratsberg, James F. Ragan and John T. Warren

MALE MARITAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS: TRAINING, PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND FIXED EFFECTS pp. 722-742

William M. Rodgers and Leslie Stratton

IQ IN THE PRODUCTION FUNCTION: EVIDENCE FROM IMMIGRANT EARNINGS pp. 743-755

Garett Jones and W. Joel Schneider

DEAD ON ARRIVAL: ZERO TOLERANCE LAWS DON'T WORK pp. 756-770

Darren Grant

HOME COMPUTERS AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM THE NLSY97 and CPS* pp. 771-792

Robert Fairlie, Daniel Beltran and Kuntal Das

EMPLOYMENT AND DEADWEIGHT LOSS EFFECTS OF OBSERVED NONWAGE LABOR COSTS pp. 793-809

Giovanna Aguilar Andía and Silvio Rendon

THE ECONOMIC ROOTS OF THE AMERICAN “ZIGZAG”: KNIVES, FORKS, AND BRITISH MERCANTILISM pp. 810-815

Travis Lybbert

Volume 48, issue 2, 2010

THE BEHAVIOR OF INEXPERIENCED BIDDERS IN INTERNET AUCTIONS pp. 237-253

Jeffrey Livingston

CENTRALIZED AND DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF LOCAL COMMON POOL RESOURCES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM FISHING COMMUNITIES IN COLOMBIA pp. 254-265

Maria Vélez, James Murphy and John Stranlund

ON THE PREFERENCES OF PRINCIPALS AND AGENTS pp. 266-273

Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie and Maximo Torero

ENTRY COORDINATION AND AUCTION DESIGN WITH PRIVATE COSTS OF INFORMATION ACQUISITION pp. 274-289

Jingfeng Lu

CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED INFORMATION: WHICH IS BETTER FOR PROVIDING INCENTIVES? pp. 290-305

Silvia Sonderegger

THE EFFECT OF DIRECT TO CONSUMER TELEVISION ADVERTISING ON THE TIMING OF TREATMENT pp. 306-322

W. David Bradford, Andrew N. Kleit, Paul J. Nietert and Steven Ornstein

DO SUNK COSTS MATTER? pp. 323-336

Randolph McAfee, Hugo Mialon and Sue Mialon

CODE CREATION IN ENDOGENOUS MERGER EXPERIMENTS pp. 337-352

Lauren Feiler and Colin Camerer

PRICING ANOMALIES IN THE MARKET FOR DIAMONDS: EVIDENCE OF CONFORMIST BEHAVIOR pp. 353-368

Frank Scott and Aaron Yelowitz

NOT ALL RIVALS LOOK ALIKE: ESTIMATING AN EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF THE RELEASE DATE TIMING GAME pp. 369-390

Liran Einav

A THEORY OF BILATERAL OLIGOPOLY pp. 391-414

Kenneth Hendricks and Randolph McAfee

TECHNOLOGICAL ASYMMETRY AMONG FOREIGN INVESTORS AND MODE OF ENTRY pp. 415-433

Beata Javorcik and Kamal Saggi

GUNS AND OIL: AN ANALYSIS OF CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TRADE IN THE POST‐COLD WAR ERA pp. 434-459

Neha Khanna and Duane Chapman

OUTSOURCING AND UNIONIZATION: A TALE OF MISALLOCATED (RESISTANCE) RESOURCES pp. 460-482

Elisabetta Magnani and David Prentice

INFORMATION DISCLOSURE POLICIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY pp. 483-498

Magali Delmas, Maria J. Montes‐sancho and Jay Shimshack

DESPERATION OR DESIRE? THE ROLE OF RISK AVERSION IN MARRIAGE pp. 499-516

Christy Spivey

MONOPOLY® PRICING pp. 517-520

John Cawley and Donald Kenkel

Volume 48, issue 1, 2010

THE ECONOMICS OF TERRORISM pp. 1-13

Michael Intriligator

POINT SHAVING IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL: A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR FORENSIC ECONOMICS pp. 14-25

Dan Bernhardt and Steven Heston

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BETTING AND LOTTERY PLAY pp. 26-38

David Forrest, O Gulley and Robert Simmons

A WINNING PROPOSITION: THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE FRANCHISES pp. 39-50

Michael Davis and Christian M. End

THE LAW OF GENIUS AND HOME RUNS REFUTED pp. 51-64

John DiNardo and Jason Winfree

INCENTIVES AND OUTCOMES IN A STRATEGIC SETTING: THE 3‐POINTS‐FOR‐A‐WIN SYSTEM IN SOCCER pp. 65-79

GianCarlo Moschini

CONTEST DESIGN AND OPTIMAL ENDOGENOUS ENTRY pp. 80-88

Qiang Fu and Jingfeng Lu

CONTESTS WITH STOCHASTIC ABILITIES pp. 89-103

Kai Konrad and Dan Kovenock

THAT’S NEWS TO ME! INFORMATION REVELATION IN PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION MARKETS pp. 104-122

Ginger Zhe Jin, Andrew Kato and John List

MUTUAL ADMIRATION CLUBS pp. 123-132

Wing Suen

PORTFOLIO CHOICE AND RISK ATTITUDES: AN EXPERIMENT pp. 133-146

Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy

GENDER‐BASED RISK AVERSION AND RETIREMENT ASSET ALLOCATION pp. 147-155

Kathleen Arano, Carl Parker and Rory Terry

BEQUEST RECEIPT AND FAMILY SIZE EFFECTS pp. 156-162

Nathan Grawe

COLLECTION SALES: GOOD OR BAD FOR JOURNALS? pp. 163-176

Mark Armstrong

ADAM SMITH’S CONCEPT OF SELF‐COMMAND AS A SOLUTION TO DYNAMIC INCONSISTENCY AND THE COMMITMENT PROBLEM pp. 177-191

Elias Khalil

THE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FUNCTION FOR UNIVERSITY PATENTING pp. 192-213

Shiferaw Gurmu, Grant Black and Paula Stephan

WHAT’S IN A NAME? pp. 214-227

Saku Aura and Gregory Hess

ESTIMATION AND IMPACT OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN RISK TOLERANCE pp. 228-233

Urvi Neelakantan

THE EFFECT OF PRAYER ON GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARD MANKIND pp. 234-235

James Heckman