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Volume 131, issue 640, 2021

Property Right Acquisition and Path Dependence: Nineteenth-Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes (The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation) pp. 3073-3102

Douglas W Allen and Bryan Leonard

Spending Political Capital (Formal and real authority in organizations) pp. 3103-3121

Arthur Campbell

Upstream Bundling and Leverage of Market Power (Commodity bundling and the burden of monopoly) pp. 3122-3144

Alexandre de Cornière and Greg Taylor

Relative Performance Feedback in Education: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial* (Teachers and student achievement in the Chicago public high schools) pp. 3145-3181

Loretti Dobrescu, M Faravelli, Rigissa Megalokonomou and A Motta

Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College (Gender, competitiveness, and socialization at a young age: evidence from a matrilineal and a patriarchal society) pp. 3182-3206

Benjamin Elsner, Ingo E Isphording and Ulf Zölitz

The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation (Distributive politics and economic growth) pp. 3207-3240

Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva and Gerald Willmann

Air Pollution and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Nationwide Estimates for China (Management and shocks to worker productivity) pp. 3241-3273

Shihe Fu, V. Viard and Peng Zhang

Class Altruism and Redistribution (Institutions, factor pricing, and taxation: virtues of strong states?) pp. 3274-3295

Christian Ghiglino, David Juárez-Luna and Andreas Müller

Does Democratisation Promote Competition? Evidence from Indonesia* (Democracy and firm productivity: evidence from Indonesia’) pp. 3296-3321

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Anna Kochanova and Bob Rijkers

The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A Quantitative Assessment of the Repeal of the Corn Laws (Pessimism preserved: real wages in the British Industrial Revolution) pp. 3322-3337

Douglas A Irwin and Maksym G Chepeliev

R&D Heterogeneity and the Impact of R&D Subsidies* (Innovation, reallocation and growth) pp. 3338-3364

Sigurd Mølster Galaasen and Alfonso Irarrazaba

The Elasticity of Taxable Income: A Meta-Regression Analysis (The top 1% in international and historical perspective) pp. 3365-3391

Carina Neisser

Cyclical Government Spending: Theory and Empirics (Mafia and public spending: evidence on the fiscal multiplier from a quasi-experiment) pp. 3392-3416

Jordan Roulleau-Pasdeloup

Erratum to: Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences pp. 3417-3417

Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Ian Levely

Volume 131, issue 639, 2021

Differences Attract: An Experimental Study of Focusing in Economic Choice pp. 2671-2692

Ola Andersson, Jim Ingebretsen Carlson and Erik Wengström

Multilateral Contracting with Manipulation pp. 2693-2725

Yair Antler

Digging Into the Channels of Bunching: Evidence from the Uruguayan Income Tax pp. 2726-2762

Marcelo Bergolo, Gabriel Burdín, Mauricio De Rosa, Matias Giaccobasso and Martin Leites

Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes: Costs of Political Misalignment pp. 2763-2796

Çağatay Bircan and Orkun Saka

Uncertainty, Wages and the Business Cycle pp. 2797-2823

Matteo Cacciatore and Federico Ravenna

Political Activism and the Provision of Dynamic Incentives: Growing the Pie in the Battle for Redistribution pp. 2824-2855

Antoine Camous and Russell Cooper

Labour Share and Productivity Dynamics pp. 2856-2886

Sekyu Choi and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

Casting Doubt: Image Concerns and the Communication of Social Impact pp. 2887-2919

Manuel Foerster and Joël J van der Weele

Time Preferences Across Language Groups: Evidence on Intertemporal Choices from the Swiss Language Border pp. 2920-2954

Holger Herz, Martin Huber, Tjaša Maillard-Bjedov and Svitlana Tyahlo

Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition pp. 2955-2983

David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur and Hitoshi Shigeoka

Optimal Taxation of Families: Mirrlees Meets Becker pp. 2984-3011

Musab Kurnaz

Bureaucrat Allocation in the Public Sector: Evidence from the World Bank pp. 3012-3040

Nicola Limodio

Prices of Peers: Identifying Endogenous Price Effects in the Housing Market pp. 3041-3070

Nikodem Szumilo

Volume 131, issue 638, 2021

Nation-Building and Education pp. 2273-2303

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Bryony Reich

Gender Differences in Negotiation: Evidence from Real Estate Transactions pp. 2304-2332

Steffen Andersen, Julie Marx, Kasper Meisner Nielsen and Lise Vesterlund

Double Counting of Investment pp. 2333-2356

Robert Barro

Psychological Effects of Poverty on Time Preferences pp. 2357-2382

Vojtěch Bartoš, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Ian Levely

Caught in the Cycle: Economic Conditions at Enrolment and Labour Market Outcomes of College Graduates pp. 2383-2412

Alena Bičáková, Guido Matias Cortes and Jacopo Mazza

The Standard Portfolio Choice Problem in Germany pp. 2413-2446

Christoph Breunig, Steffen Huck, Tobias Schmidt and Georg Weizsäcker

A Composite Likelihood Approach for Dynamic Structural Models pp. 2447-2477

Fabio Canova and Christian Matthes

Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition pp. 2478-2507

Diane Coffey and Dean Spears

Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty pp. 2508-2528

Fabio Galeotti, Valeria Maggian and Marie Claire Villeval

Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms pp. 2529-2552

Gunes Gokmen, Tommaso Nannicini, Massimiliano Onorato and Chris Papageorgiou

Robots and Firms pp. 2553-2584

Michael Koch, Ilya Manuylov and Marcel Smolka

Voter Mobilisation and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya pp. 2585-2612

Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri

Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the United States During the Age of Mass Migration pp. 2613-2628

Santiago Perez

Holding a Group Together: Non-Game Theory Versus Game Theory pp. 2629-2641

Michael Richter and Ariel Rubinstein

Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes and Personality Traits pp. 2642-2670

Maria Zumbuehl, Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann

Volume 131, issue 637, 2021

Arms Races and Conflict: Experimental Evidence pp. 1883-1904

Klaus Abbink, Lu Dong and Lingbo Huang

Optimal Contracts with Randomly Arriving Tasks pp. 1905-1918

Daniel Bird and Alexander Frug

Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Reward Better Governance? A Paradox of Aid Allocation pp. 1919-1946

François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau

Climate Risk, Cooperation and the Co-Evolution of Culture and Institutions pp. 1947-1987

Johannes Buggle and Ruben Durante

Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The Negative Effects of Prosocial Incentives pp. 1988-2017

Lea Cassar and Stephan Meier

A Characterisation of ‘Phelpsian’ Statistical Discrimination pp. 2018-2032

Christopher Chambers and Federico Echenique

Social Connectivity, Media Bias, and Correlation Neglect pp. 2033-2057

Philipp Denter, Martin Dumav and Boris Ginzburg

The Cultural Divide pp. 2058-2088

Klaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg

Childless Aristocrats: Inheritance and the Extensive Margin of Fertility pp. 2089-2118

Paula Gobbi and Marc Goñi

The Last Will be First, and the First Last: Segregation in Societies with Relative Pay-off Concerns pp. 2119-2143

P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Riccardo D Saulle and Christian Seel

Daughters and Divorce pp. 2144-2170

Jan Kabátek and David Ribar

Disease and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in Africa pp. 2171-2202

Maria Kuecken, Josselin Thuilliez and Marie-Anne Valfort

Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment pp. 2203-2232

Paolo Martellini, Guido Menzio and Ludo Visschers

The Economic Legacy of Expulsion: Lessons from Post-War Czechoslovakia pp. 2233-2271

Patrick Testa

Volume 131, issue 636, 2021

A Theory of Equality Before the Law pp. 1429-1465

Daron Acemoglu and Alexander Wolitzky

The Geography of Unconventional Innovation pp. 1466-1514

Enrico Berkes and Ruben Gaetani

Family, Community and Long-Term Socio-Economic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers pp. 1515-1554

Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

From Inefficient Behind-the-Border Policies to Inefficient Trade Agreements: A Two-Tier Asymmetric Information Model pp. 1555-1592

Antoine Bouët, David Laborde Debucquet and David Martimort

Focality and Asymmetry in Multi-Battle Contests pp. 1593-1619

Subhasish Chowdhury, Dan Kovenock, David Rojo Arjona and Nathaniel Wilcox

A Financial Accelerator through Coordination Failure pp. 1620-1642

Oliver de Groot

Multi-Task Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors pp. 1643-1681

Marta De Philippis

Elections in Non-Democracies pp. 1682-1716

Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

Tariffs and Politics: Evidence from Trump’s Trade Wars pp. 1717-1741

Thiemo Fetzer and Carlo Schwarz

Household Debt and Monetary Policy: Revealing the Cash-Flow Channel pp. 1742-1771

Martin Flodén, Matilda Kilström, Jósef Sigurdsson and Roine Vestman

Fake Reviews pp. 1772-1787

Jacob Glazer, Helios Herrera and Motty Perry

Meta-Analysis of Present-Bias Estimation using Convex Time Budgets pp. 1788-1814

Taisuke Imai, Tom A Rutter and Colin Camerer

House Prices and Growth with Fixed Land Supply pp. 1815-1848

David Miles and James Sefton

Vote Trading in Power-Sharing Systems: A Laboratory Investigation pp. 1849-1882

Nikolas Tsakas, Dimitrios Xefteris and Nicholas Ziros

Volume 131, issue 635, 2021

Intergenerational Mobility and Unequal School Opportunity pp. 1027-1050

Andreu Arenas and Jean Hindriks

Do you have time to take a walk together? Private and joint time within the household pp. 1051-1080

Martin Browning, Olivier Donni and Mette Gørtz

School Choice Design, Risk Aversion and Cardinal Segregation pp. 1081-1104

Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora and Antonio Miralles

Buying Informed Voters: New Effects of Information on Voters and Candidates pp. 1105-1134

Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer and Julien Labonne

Coal and the European Industrial Revolution pp. 1135-1149

Alan Fernihough and Kevin Hjortshøj

Brexit Uncertainty and Trade Disintegration pp. 1150-1185

Alejandro Graziano, Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão

Linguistic Diversity in the very Long Run pp. 1186-1214

Andrew John and Onur Ozgur

Fragmented Ownership and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken pp. 1215-1249

Bryan Leonard and Dominic P Parker

Alphabetical Author Order, Intellectual Collaboration and High-Skilled Migration pp. 1250-1268

Wenchao Li and Junjian Yi

Better Together? Heterogeneous Effects of Tracking on Student Achievement pp. 1269-1307

Sönke Hendrik Matthewes

Simultaneous Search for Differentiated Products: The Impact of Search Costs and Firm Prominence pp. 1308-1330

Jose Moraga-Gonzalez, Zsolt Sándor and Matthijs Wildenbeest

Job Creation and Wages in Least Developed Countries: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1331-1364

Juan Pablo Rud and Ija Trapeznikova

From Quantity to Quality: Delivering a Home-Based Parenting Intervention Through China’s Family Planning Cadres pp. 1365-1400

Sean Sylvia, Nele Warrinnier, Renfu Luo, Ai Yue, Orazio Attanasio, Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle

Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks and Exclusion from International Capital Markets pp. 1401-1427

Dominik Thaler

Volume 131, issue 634, 2021

Assessing the Impact of Central Bank Digital Currency on Private Banks pp. 525-540

David Andolfatto

Is Fertility a Leading Economic Indicator? pp. 541-565

Kasey Buckles, Daniel Hungerman and Steven Lugauer

Agricultural Policy and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Mussolini's Battle for Grain pp. 566-597

Mario Carillo

Firm-Level Shocks and Labour Flows pp. 598-623

Mikael Carlsson, Julian Messina and Oskar Skans

Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use pp. 624-657

Tiago Cavalcanti, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos

New Monetarism in Continuous Time: Methods and Applications pp. 658-696

Michael Choi and Guillaume Rocheteau

Austerity pp. 697-712

Harris Dellas and Dirk Niepelt

Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences Using Choice from Insurance Menus: Theory and Evidence pp. 713-744

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Philipp Kircher, Johannes Spinnewijn and Amanda Starc

Biased Aspirations and Social Inequality at School: Evidence from French Teenagers pp. 745-796

Nina Guyon and Elise Huillery

The Long-term Impact of Preventative Public Health Programs pp. 797-826

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

The Cost of Human Capital Depreciation During Unemployment pp. 827-850

Lien Laureys

Network Structure and Performance pp. 851-898

Ilse Lindenlaub and Anja Prummer

Do Multinationals Transplant their Business Model? pp. 899-945

Dalia Marin, Linda Rousová and Thierry Verdier

Welfare Costs of Catastrophes: Lost Consumption and Lost Lives pp. 946-969

Ian Martin and Robert Pindyck

The Colour of a Free Ride pp. 970-999

Redzo Mujcic and Paul Frijters

Consumption Inequality Among Children: Evidence from Child Fostering in Malawi pp. 1000-1025

Jacob Penglase

Volume 131, issue 633, 2021

The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries (Semiparametric instrumental variables estimation of treatment response models) pp. 1-32

Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii and Karl Schulze

Education, Birth Order and Family Size (Family size and children’s education in Vietnam) pp. 33-69

Jesper Bagger, Javier Birchenall, Hani Mansour and Sergio Urzua

Adjustment Costs and Factor Demand: New Evidence from Firms’ Real Estate (The heterogeneous impact of market size on innovation: evidence from French firm-level exports) pp. 70-100

Antonin Bergeaud and Simon Ray

Sibling Spillovers (Endowments at birth and parents’ investment in children) pp. 101-128

Sandra Black, Sanni Breining, David Figlio, Jonathan Guryan, Krzysztof Karbownik, Helena Nielsen, Jeffrey Roth and Marianne Simonsen

Wealth in Spain 1900–2017 A Country of Two Lands (The real estate and credit bubble: evidence from Spain) pp. 129-155

Miguel Artola Blanco, Luis Bauluz and Clara Martínez-Toledano

Trapped Factors and China’s Impact on Global Growth (Competition and innovation: an inverted-U relationship) pp. 156-191

Nicholas Bloom, Paul Romer, Stephen Terry and John van Reenen

‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice Technology Adoption Diffusion and Sustainability (Dial “a” for agriculture: using ICTs for agricultural extension in development countries) pp. 192-219

Shawn A Cole and A. Nilesh Fernando

Social Status Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods (Housing markets and structural policies in OECD countries) pp. 220-246

Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König and Tobias Lausen

Jobs, News and Reoffending after Incarceration (Examining the generality of the unemployment–crime association) pp. 247-270

Roberto Galbiati, Aurélie Ouss and Arnaud Philippe

Referral Networks and Inequality (Statistical theories of discrimination in labor markets) pp. 271-301

Manolis Galenianos

The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labour Productivity (Why have business cycle fluctuations become less volatile?) pp. 302-326

Jordi Galí and Thijs van Rens

It Sucks to Be Single! Marital Status and Redistribution of Social Security (Female labor supply as insurance against idiosyncratic risk) pp. 327-371

Max Groneck and Johanna Wallenius

Pseudo-wealth and Consumption Fluctuations (Emerging market business cycles: the cycle is the trend) pp. 372-391

Martin Guzman and Joseph Stiglitz

Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers (Sequential decision making in production models) pp. 392-419

Maulik Jagnani, Christopher Barrett, Yanyan Liu and Liangzhi You

Social Capital and Large-Scale Agricultural Investments: An Experimental Investigation (Implications of the presence of large scale commercial farmers on small scale farming in Nigeria: the case of Zimbabwean farmers in Kwara State) pp. 420-449

Menusch Khadjavi, Kacana Sipangule and Rainer Thiele

Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I (Modeling and forecasting realized volatility) pp. 450-475

Jose Lopez and Kris James Mitchener

Wealth Inequality in the Long Run: A Schumpeterian Growth Perspective (The race between man and machine: implications of technology for growth, factor shares, and employment) pp. 476-497

Jakob Madsen, Antonio Minniti and Francesco Venturini

Sources of Borrowing and Fiscal Multipliers (Emerging market business cycles: the cycle is the trend) pp. 498-519

Romanos Priftis and Srec̆ko Zimic

Corrigendum to: China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioural Change or Financial Necessity? pp. 520-523

Lisa Cameron, Xin Meng and Dandan Zhang