The Quarterly Journal of Economics

1886 - 2025

Current editor(s): Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva

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Volume 140, issue 1, 2025

Trust at Scale: The Economic Limits of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains* pp. 1-62

Eric Budish

A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution* pp. 63-112

William C Boning, Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser and Ellen Stuart

Measuring and Mitigating Racial Disparities in Tax Audits* pp. 113-163

Hadi Elzayn, Evelyn Smith, Thomas Hertz, Cameron Guage, Arun Ramesh, Robin Fisher, Daniel E Ho and Jacob Goldin

The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth* pp. 165-238

Marta Prato

Reserves Were Not So Ample After All* pp. 239-281

Adam Copeland, Darrell Duffie and Yilin (David) Yang

LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation* pp. 283-334

Yulia Evsyukova, Felix Rusche and Wladislaw Mill

Overinference from Weak Signals and Underinference from Strong Signals* pp. 335-401

Ned Augenblick, Eben Lazarus and Michael Thaler

Believed Gender Differences in Social Preferences* pp. 403-458

Christine L Exley, Oliver P Hauser, Molly Moore and John-Henry Pezzuto

The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility: Evidence from World War II* pp. 459-520

Andrew Garin and Jonathan Rothbaum

War Reparations, Structural Change, and Intergenerational Mobility* pp. 521-584

Matti Mitrunen

Mandatory Notice of Layoff, Job Search, and Efficiency* pp. 585-633

Jonas Cederlöf, Peter Fredriksson, Arash Nekoei and David Seim

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?* pp. 635-689

Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh and Frank Schilbach

Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy* pp. 691-743

Peter Maxted, David Laibson and Benjamin Moll

A Cognitive View of Policing* pp. 745-791

Oeindrila Dube, Sandy Jo MacArthur and Anuj K Shah

Costs of Financing U.S. Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933* pp. 793-833

Jonathan Payne, Bálint Szőke, George Hall and Thomas Sargent

Volume 139, issue 4, 2024

The Health Costs of Cost Sharing* pp. 2037-2082

Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer

Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone* pp. 2083-2133

Anne Karing

The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships* pp. 2135-2180

Abi Adams, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix and Ning Zhang

Stories, Statistics, and Memory* pp. 2181-2225

Thomas Graeber, Christopher Roth and Florian Zimmermann

Perceptions About Monetary Policy* pp. 2227-2278

Michael Bauer, Carolin E Pflueger and Adi Sunderam

Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress after Slavery* pp. 2279-2330

Lukas Althoff and Hugo Reichardt

Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education* pp. 2331-2375

Benjamin W Arold

Optimal Resilience in Multitier Supply Chains* pp. 2377-2425

Gene M Grossman, Elhanan Helpman and Alejandro Sabal

Global Firms in Large Devaluations pp. 2427-2474

Joaquin Blaum

Using Divide-and-Conquer to Improve Tax Collection pp. 2475-2523

Samuel Kapon, Lucia Del Carpio and Sylvain Chassang

Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education* pp. 2525-2577

Tahir Andrabi, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Naureen Karachiwalla and Asim Ijaz Khwaja

The Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal's Youth Employment Program pp. 2579-2635

Anna Aizer, Nancy Early, Shari Eli, Guido Imbens, Keyoung Lee, Adriana Lleras-Muney and Alexander Strand

Volume 139, issue 3, 2024

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018* pp. 1399-1465

David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons and Bryan Seegmiller

The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture* pp. 1467-1504

Andrea Matranga

Worker Beliefs About Outside Options* pp. 1505-1556

Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille and Benjamin Schoefer

The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality pp. 1557-1610

Nina Roussille

Discrimination in Multiphase Systems: Evidence from Child Protection* pp. 1611-1664

E Jason Baron, Joseph J DoyleJr, Natalia Emanuel, Peter Hull and Joseph Ryan

Identifying Prediction Mistakes in Observational Data* pp. 1665-1711

Ashesh Rambachan

Digital Collateral* pp. 1713-1766

Paul Gertler, Brett Green and Catherine Wolfram

The Mortgage Piggy Bank: Building Wealth Through Amortization* pp. 1767-1825

Asaf Bernstein and Peter Koudijs

How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the Gender Gap in Pay* pp. 1827-1878

Martha Bailey, Thomas Helgerman and Bryan A Stuart

Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation* pp. 1879-1939

James Feigenbaum and Daniel Gross

Land Security and Mobility Frictions* pp. 1941-1987

Tasso Adam, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia and Xiaoyun Wei

Understanding Markets with Socially Responsible Consumers* pp. 1989-2035

Marc Kaufmann, Peter Andre and Botond Kőszegi

Volume 139, issue 2, 2024

Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020* pp. 693-750

Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn and Moritz Schularick

Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation* pp. 751-827

Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data* pp. 829-889

Raj Chetty, John N Friedman, Michael Stepner, Opportunity Insights Team, Camille Baker, Harvey Barnhard, Matt Bell, Gregory Bruich, Tina Chelidze, Lucas Chu, Westley Cineus, Sebi Devlin-Foltz, Michael Droste, Dhruv Gaur, Federico Gonzalez, Rayshauna Gray, Abigail Hiller, Matthew Jacob, Tyler Jacobson, Margaret Kallus, Fiona Kastel, Laura Kincaide, Caitlin Kupsc, Sarah LaBauve, Lucía Lamas, Maddie Marino, Kai Matheson, Jared Miller, Christian Mott, Kate Musen, Danny Onorato, Sarah Oppenheimer, Trina Ott, Lynn Overmann, Max Pienkny, Jeremiah Prince, Sebastian Puerta, Daniel Reuter, Peter Ruhm, Tom Rutter, Emanuel Schertz, Shannon Felton Spence, Krista Stapleford, Kamelia Stavreva, Ceci Steyn, James Stratton, Clare Suter, Elizabeth Thach, Nicolaj Thor, Amanda Wahlers, Kristen Watkins, Alanna Williams, David Williams, Chase Williamson, Shady Yassin, Ruby Zhang and Austin Zheng

Logs with Zeros? Some Problems and Solutions* pp. 891-936

Jiafeng Chen and Jonathan Roth

Violence against Women at Work* pp. 937-991

Abi Adams-Prassl, Kristiina Huttunen, Emily Nix and Ning Zhang

Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits* pp. 993-1049

Maggie Shi

The Impact of Public School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’s Zones of Choice* pp. 1051-1093

Christopher Campos and Caitlin Kearns

A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions* pp. 1095-1147

Jessica A Wachter and Michael Jacob Kahana

Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline★ pp. 1149-1199

Ali Hortaçsu, Olivia R Natan, Hayden Parsley, Timothy Schwieg and Kevin R Williams

The Evolution of Market Power in the U.S. Automobile Industry* pp. 1201-1253

Paul L E Grieco, Charles Murry and Ali Yurukoglu

Grantmaking, Grading on a Curve, and the Paradox of Relative Evaluation in Nonmarkets* pp. 1255-1319

Jérôme Adda and Marco Ottaviani

How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income* pp. 1321-1395

Mikhail Golosov, Michael Graber, Magne Mogstad and David Novgorodsky

Volume 139, issue 1, 2024

Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago* pp. 1-56

Monica P Bhatt, Sara B Heller, Max Kapustin, Marianne Bertrand and Christopher Blattman

Eviction and Poverty in American Cities* pp. 57-120

Robert Collinson, John Humphries, Nicholas Mader, Davin Reed, Daniel Tannenbaum and Winnie van Dijk

New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?* pp. 121-186

Adrien Auclert, Rodolfo Rigato, Matthew Rognlie and Ludwig Straub

A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away* pp. 187-233

Abe Dunn, Joshua Gottlieb, Adam Hale Shapiro, Daniel J Sonnenstuhl and Pietro Tebaldi

Trading Nontradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job-Posting Policy* pp. 235-304

Mathilde Muñoz

Inference on Winners* pp. 305-358

Isaiah Andrews, Toru Kitagawa and Adam McCloskey

An Economic Framework for Vaccine Prioritization* pp. 359-417

Mohammad Akbarpour, Eric Budish, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers

Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information* pp. 419-475

David Atkin, Benjamin Faber, Thibault Fally and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the United States* pp. 477-532

Xavier Jaravel and Danial Lashkari

Measuring Welfare by Matching Households across Time* pp. 533-573

David Baqaee, Ariel T Burstein and Yasutaka Koike-Mori

Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials* pp. 575-635

Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi Williams

Does Taxing Business Owners Affect Employees? Evidence From A Change in the Top Marginal Tax Rate* pp. 637-692

Max Risch