The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Volume 137, issue 4, 2023

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers pp. 1963-2036

Patrick Kline, Evan K Rose and Christopher Walters

Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits pp. 2037-2105

Tamma Carleton, Amir Jina, Michael Delgado, Michael Greenstone, Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Andrew Hultgren, Robert E Kopp, Kelly E McCusker, Ishan Nath, James Rising, Ashwin Rode, Hee Kwon Seo, Arvid Viaene, Jiacan Yuan and Alice Tianbo Zhang

Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures pp. 2107-2161

Chenzi Xu

Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market pp. 2163-2212

Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne

The Quality and Efficiency of Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services pp. 2213-2262

Daniel Knutsson and Björn Tyrefors

Does Welfare Prevent Crime? the Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from Ssi pp. 2263-2307

Manasi Deshpande and Michael Mueller-Smith

Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence pp. 2309-2361

Santiago Hermo, Miika Päällysaho, David Seim and Jesse M Shapiro

Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era pp. 2363-2418

Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, Corbin Miller and Richard Patterson

Competing Models pp. 2419-2457

José Luis Montiel Olea, Pietro Ortoleva, Mallesh M Pai and Andrea Prat

Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing pp. 2459-2497

Jing Cai and Shing-Yi Wang

Price Discrimination by Negotiation: a Field Experiment in Retail Electricity pp. 2499-2537

David P Byrne, Leslie A Martin and Jia Sheen Nah

Investing in Infants: the Lasting Effects of Cash Transfers to New Families pp. 2539-2583

Andrew Barr, Jonathan Eggleston and Alexander A Smith

Volume 137, issue 3, 2022

The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States pp. 1299-1344

Jonathon Hazell, Juan Herreño, Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion pp. 1345-1381

Christine L Exley and Judd B Kessler

The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation pp. 1383-1434

Carlos F Avenancio-León and Troup Howard

Dominant Currencies: How Firms Choose Currency Invoicing and Why it Matters pp. 1435-1493

Mary Amiti, Oleg Itskhoki and Jozef Konings

The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages pp. 1495-1552

Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Isabela Manelici and Jose Vasquez

Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence pp. 1553-1614

Rodrigo Adão, Paul Carrillo, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and Dina Pomeranz

Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo pp. 1615-1680

Josefin Meyer, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

Multinational Banks and Financial Stability pp. 1681-1736

Christopher Clayton and Andreas Schaab

On the Effects of the Availability of Means of Payments: The Case of Uber pp. 1737-1789

Fernando Alvarez and David Argente

Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice pp. 1791-1848

Felipe Arteaga, Adam J Kapor, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

Predictable Effects of Visual Salience in Experimental Decisions and Games pp. 1849-1900

Xiaomin Li and Colin Camerer

Hours and Wages pp. 1901-1962

Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin and Richard Rogerson

Volume 137, issue 2, 2023

Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care pp. 679-727

Sendhil Mullainathan and Ziad Obermeyer

Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists pp. 729-783

David C Chan, Matthew Gentzkow and Chuan Yu

Why Do People Stay Poor? pp. 785-844

Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil

Old Boys’ Clubs and Upward Mobility Among the Educational Elite pp. 845-909

Valerie Michelman, Joseph Price and Seth Zimmerman

The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson pp. 911-958

Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu

Correlation Made Simple: Applications to Salience and Regret Theory pp. 959-987

Giacomo Lanzani

The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions pp. 989-1038

Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi and Aleksei Oskolkov

Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students pp. 1039-1090

Joshua Angrist, David Autor and Amanda Pallais

Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments pp. 1091-1138

Anna Gumpert, Henrike Steimer and Manfred Antoni

Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts pp. 1139-1179

Abby Alpert, William Evans, Ethan Lieber and David Powell

Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany pp. 1181-1232

Stefano Della, Jörg Heining, Johannes Schmieder and Simon Trenkle

War, Socialism, and the Rise of Fascism: an Empirical Exploration pp. 1233-1296

Daron Acemoglu, Giuseppe De Feo, Giacomo De Luca and Gianluca Russo

Volume 137, issue 1, 2022

Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948–2020 pp. 1-48

Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty

Would Eliminating Racial Disparities in Motor Vehicle Searches have Efficiency Costs? pp. 49-113

Benjamin Feigenberg and Conrad Miller

Affirmative Action, Mismatch, and Economic Mobility after California’s Proposition 209 pp. 115-160

Zachary Bleemer

Efficient Coding and Risky Choice pp. 161-213

Cary Frydman and Lawrence J Jin

Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap pp. 215-266

Barbara Biasi and Heather Sarsons

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage pp. 267-328

Christian Dustmann, Attila Lindner, Uta Schönberg, Matthias Umkehrer and Philipp vom Berge

Taxation and Innovation in the Twentieth Century pp. 329-385

Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva

The Investment Network, Sectoral Comovement, and the Changing U.S. Business Cycle pp. 387-433

Christian vom Lehn and Thomas Winberry

Monetary Independence and Rollover Crises pp. 435-491

Javier Bianchi and Jorge Mondragon

Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading “Arms Race” pp. 493-564

Matteo Aquilina, Eric Budish and Peter O’Neill

Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform pp. 565-618

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji and Neale Mahoney

How to Sell Hard Information pp. 619-678

S Nageeb Ali, Nima Haghpanah, Xiao Lin and Ron Siegel

Volume 136, issue 4, 2021

Folklore pp. 1993-2046

Stelios Michalopoulos and Melanie Meng Xue

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State* pp. 2047-2091

Sara Lowes and Eduardo Montero

The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries* pp. 2093-2145

Leander Heldring, James A Robinson and Sebastian Vollmer

Building Social Cohesion in Ethnically Mixed Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking* pp. 2147-2194

Sule Alan, Ceren Baysan, Mert Gumren and Elif Kubilay

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats* pp. 2195-2242

Oriana Bandiera, Michael Best, Adnan Qadir Khan and Andrea Prat

Indebted Demand* pp. 2243-2307

Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub and Amir Sufi

Understanding Tax Policy: How do People Reason?* pp. 2309-2369

Stefanie Stantcheva

Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict* pp. 2371-2411

Giampaolo Bonomi, Nicola Gennaioli and Guido Tabellini

Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy* pp. 2413-2465

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman, Brad Hackinen and Francesco Trebbi

Managing Expectations: Instruments Versus Targets* pp. 2467-2532

George-Marios Angeletos and Karthik A Sastry

3G Internet and Confidence in Government* pp. 2533-2613

Sergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Strict Id Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2018* pp. 2615-2660

Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons

Volume 136, issue 3, 2021

Unions and Inequality over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data* pp. 1325-1385

Henry S Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu

Do You Know that I Know that You Know…? Higher-Order Beliefs in Survey Data* pp. 1387-1446

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Saten Kumar and Jane Ryngaert

Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis* pp. 1447-1497

Emily Breza and Cynthia Kinnan

Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens* pp. 1499-1556

Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, Brent Neiman and Jesse Schreger

Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans* pp. 1557-1610

Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull and Amanda Starc

What do Consumers Consider Before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses* pp. 1611-1663

Jason Abaluck and Abi Adams-Prassl

Ownership, Learning, and Beliefs* pp. 1665-1717

Samuel M Hartzmark, Samuel D Hirshman and Alex Imas

Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates* pp. 1719-1781

Samuel G Hanson, David O Lucca and Jonathan Wright

Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence From Linked Survey and Administrative Data* pp. 1783-1829

Sarah Miller, Norman Johnson and Laura Wherry

O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries* pp. 1831-1886

Adam Altmejd, Andres Barrios-Fernández, Marin Drlje, Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz, Dejan Kovac, Christine Mulhern, Christopher Neilson and Jonathan Smith

The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor* pp. 1887-1941

Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield and Mattie Toma

The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States* pp. 1943-1991

Bradley Setzler and Felix Tintelnot

Volume 136, issue 2, 2021

Labor in the Boardroom* pp. 669-725

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer and Jörg Heining

Sweat Equity in U.S. Private Business* pp. 727-781

Anmol Bhandari and Ellen R McGrattan

Banking, Trade, and the Making of a Dominant Currency* pp. 783-830

Gita Gopinath and Jeremy C Stein

The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy* pp. 831-886

Joseph S Shapiro

Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Behavior* pp. 887-931

Ioana Marinescu and Daphné Skandalis

Belief Movement, Uncertainty Reduction, and Rational Updating* pp. 933-985

Ned Augenblick and Matthew Rabin

Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams* pp. 987-1030

Gordon Dahl, Andreas Kotsadam and Dan-Olof Rooth

The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Labor Share Decline* pp. 1031-1087

Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent

Competition and Relational Contracts in the Rwanda Coffee Chain* pp. 1089-1143

Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria

Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and The 2014 Ebola Outbreak* pp. 1145-1198

Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi and Maarten Voors

Who Gets a Second Chance? Effectiveness and Equity in Supervision of Criminal Offenders* pp. 1199-1253

Evan K Rose

Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake* pp. 1255-1321

Vasco Carvalho, Makoto Nirei, Yukiko Saito and Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

Volume 136, issue 1, 2021

Health Insurance and Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Taxpayer Outreach pp. 1-49

Jacob Goldin, Ithai Z Lurie and Janet McCubbin

Banking Crises Without Panics* pp. 51-113

Matthew Baron, Emil Verner and Wei Xiong

The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students* pp. 115-168

Desmond Ang

Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality* pp. 169-228

Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux

Anatomy of Corporate Borrowing Constraints* pp. 229-291

Chen Lian and Yueran Ma

Randomizing Religion: the Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes* pp. 293-380

Gharad Bryan, James Choi and Dean Karlan

Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute against Wage* pp. 381-426

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Roland Rathelot and Alexandra Roulet

Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work* pp. 427-469

Lisa Cameron, Jennifer Seager and Manisha Shah

The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments* pp. 471-504

Daniel Barron and Yingni Guo

Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity* pp. 505-561

Julieta Caunedo and Elisa Keller

The Effect of the Credit Crunch on Output Price Dynamics: The Corporate Inventory and Liquidity Management Channel* pp. 563-619

Ryan Kim

Rational Groupthink* pp. 621-668

Matan Harel, Elchanan Mossel, Philipp Strack and Omer Tamuz