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 3, 2025

Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea* pp. 1683-1741

Nathan Lane

Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement* pp. 1743-1799

J Aislinn Bohren, Peter Hull and Alex Imas

Structural Estimation Under Misspecification: Theory and Implications for Practice* pp. 1801-1855

Isaiah Andrews, Nano Barahona, Matthew Gentzkow, Ashesh Rambachan and Jesse M Shapiro

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage* pp. 1857-1899

Jonathan Vogel

Voluntary Minimum Wages: The Local Labor Market Effects of National Retailer Policies* pp. 1901-1958

Ellora Derenoncourt and David Weil

A Monetary-Fiscal Theory of Sudden Inflations* pp. 1959-2000

Marco Bassetto and David S Miller

Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates* pp. 2001-2052

Jacob D Orchard, Valerie Ramey and Johannes F Wieland

Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs* pp. 2053-2105

Viola Corradini, Lorenzo Lagos and Garima Sharma

Revealed Beliefs and the Marriage Market Return to Education* pp. 2107-2162

Alison Andrew and Abi Adams

The Optimal Taxation of Couples* pp. 2163-2211

Mikhail Golosov and Ilia Krasikov

The Long-Run Effects of America’s Largest Residential Racial Desegregation Program: Gautreaux* pp. 2213-2267

Eric Chyn, Robert Collinson and Danielle H Sandler

Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare* pp. 2269-2328

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew J Notowidigdo, Frank Schilbach and Jonathan Zhang

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across the U.S.* pp. 2329-2379

Barbara Biasi, Julien Lafortune and David Schönholzer

“Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists”: How Family History Shapes Immigration Policy Making* pp. 2381-2457

James Feigenbaum, Maxwell Palmer and Benjamin Schneer

The Evolutionary Stability of Moral Foundations* pp. 2459-2506

Michelle Avataneo, Thomas Norman and Nicola Persico

Volume 140, issue 2, 2025

When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870* pp. 835-888

Paul Bouscasse, Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

Generative AI at Work* pp. 889-942

Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li and Lindsey Raymond

Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital* pp. 943-1002

Christina Brown, Supreet Kaur, Geeta Kingdon and Heather Schofield

Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India* pp. 1003-1060

Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan

The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children* pp. 1061-1110

Juliana Londoño-Vélez and Estefanía Saravia

Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science* pp. 1111-1185

Ryan Hill and Carolyn Stein

The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments* pp. 1187-1241

Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin

The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians* pp. 1243-1298

Joshua Gottlieb, Maria Polyakova, Kevin Rinz, Hugh Shiplett and Victoria Udalova

The Diffusion of New Technologies* pp. 1299-1365

Aakash Kalyani, Nicholas Bloom, Marcela Carvalho, Tarek Hassan, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun

“Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program* pp. 1367-1415

Marcella Alsan, Arkey Barnett, Peter Hull and Crystal S Yang

Teacher Labor Market Policy and the Theory of the Second Best* pp. 1417-1469

Michael Bates, Michael Dinerstein, Andrew C Johnston and Isaac Sorkin

Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to the U.S.-China Trade War* pp. 1471-1524

Rodrigo Adão, Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson

Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings* pp. 1525-1580

Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Aurélie Ouss, Patrick Bayer and Bocar A Ba

Exploitation Through Racialization* pp. 1581-1631

Dan McGee

Wage Hysteresis and Entitlement Effects: The Persistent Impacts of a Temporary Overtime Policy* pp. 1633-1680

Simon Quach

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 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 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 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 Hortacsu, 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 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