The Quarterly Journal of Economics

1886 - 2025

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Volume 135, issue 4, 2020

God Insures those Who Pay? Formal Insurance and Religious Offerings in Ghana* pp. 1799-1848

Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassébie, Amma Panin, Eva Raiber and Paul Seabright

The Participation Dividend of Taxation: How Citizens in Congo Engage More with the State When it Tries to Tax Them* pp. 1849-1903

Jonathan L Weigel

Wages and the Value of Nonemployment* pp. 1905-1963

Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Samuel Young and Josef Zweimüller

Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* pp. 1965-2005

David Deming and Kadeem Noray

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production* pp. 2007-2058

Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield

The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London* pp. 2059-2133

Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding and Daniel M Sturm

Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China* pp. 2135-2185

Guojun He, Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang

Distortions in Production Networks* pp. 2187-2253

Saki Bigio and Jennifer La’O

Identifying Modern Macro Equations with Old Shocks* pp. 2255-2298

Régis Barnichon and Geert Mesters

Quantifying the Gap Between Equilibrium and Optimum under Monopolistic Competition* pp. 2299-2360

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Suedekum

Volume 135, issue 3, 2020

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* pp. 1209-1318

Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser

Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions* pp. 1319-1361

Matthew Backus, Thomas Blakee, Bradley Larsen and Steven Tadelis

What You See Is All There Is* pp. 1363-1398

Benjamin Enke

Memory, Attention, and Choice* pp. 1399-1442

Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy* pp. 1443-1491

Carolin Pflueger, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam

A Risk-Centric Model of Demand Recessions and Speculation* pp. 1493-1566

Ricardo Caballero and Alp Simsek

Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* pp. 1567-1633

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner and Danny Yagan

Workplace Knowledge Flows* pp. 1635-1680

Jason J Sandvik, Richard E Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher T Stanton

Rational Inattention, Competitive Supply, and Psychometrics* pp. 1681-1724

Andrew Caplin, Dániel CsabaQuantCo, John Leahy and Oded Nov

Optimal Timing of Policy Announcements in Dynamic Election Campaigns* pp. 1725-1797

Yuichiro Kamada and Takuo Sugaya

Volume 135, issue 2, 2020

The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications* (Econometric Tools for Analyzing Market Outcomes) pp. 561-644

Jan De Loecker, Jan Eeckhout and Gabriel Unger

The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms* (Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor) pp. 645-709

David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence Katz, Christina Patterson and John van Reenen

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective* (Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US Over Two Centuries) pp. 711-783

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R Jones and Sonya R Porter

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare* (The Determinants of Productivity in Medical Testing: Intensity and Allocation of Care) pp. 785-843

Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O Staiger

The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia* (The Classical Islamic Law of Waqf: A Concise Introduction) pp. 845-911

Samuel Bazzi, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick and Benjamin Marx

Combining Life and Health Insurance* (Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry) pp. 913-958

Ralph S J Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography, and Sorting* (Theories of Systems of Cities) pp. 959-1036

Pablo D Fajgelbaum and Cecile Gaubert

Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation* (Capital Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth) pp. 1037-1094

Paula Bustos, Gabriel Garber and Jacopo Ponticelli

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment* (Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit) pp. 1095-1151

Nava Ashraf, NatalieBau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn

Choice Simplification: A Theory of Mental Budgeting and Naive Diversification* (Fungibility, Labels, and Consumption) pp. 1153-1207

Botond Koszegi and Filip Matejka

Volume 135, issue 1, 2020

The Return to Protectionism pp. 1-55

Pablo D Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi Goldberg, Patrick J Kennedy and Amit Khandelwal

Cash and the Economy: Evidence from India’s Demonetization pp. 57-103

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Gita Gopinath, Prachi Mishra and Abhinav Narayanan

Productivity and Misallocation in General Equilibrium pp. 105-163

David Baqaee and Emmanuel Farhi

Inflation Expectations and Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence pp. 165-219

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Tiziano Ropele

How Acquisitions Affect Firm Behavior and Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry pp. 221-267

Paul J Eliason, Benjamin Heebsh, Ryan McDevitt and James W Roberts

Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral? pp. 269-327

David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, Patricia Funk and Nagore Iriberri

Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence From Denmark pp. 329-388

Katrine Jakobsen, Kristian Jakobsen, Henrik Kleven and Gabriel Zucman

Complementary Information and Learning Traps pp. 389-448

Annie Liang and Xiaosheng Mu

Diversification Through Trade pp. 449-502

Francesco Caselli, Miklós Koren, Milan Lisicky and Silvana Tenreyro

Measuring Aggregate Price Indices with Taste Shocks: Theory and Evidence for CES Preferences pp. 503-560

Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

Volume 134, issue 4, 2019

Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century pp. 1675-1745

Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick

What do Workplace Wellness Programs do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study pp. 1747-1791

Damon Jones, David Molitor and Julian Reif

Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality pp. 1793-1844

Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky and Molly Schnell

How Wide Is the Firm Border? pp. 1845-1882

Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortaçsu, Mary Jialin Li and Chad Syverson

Industrial Policies in Production Networks pp. 1883-1948

Ernest Liu

Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference pp. 1949-2010

Rodrigo Adão, Michal Kolesár and Eduardo Morales

Uniform Pricing in U.S. Retail Chains pp. 2011-2084

Stefano DellaVigna and Matthew Gentzkow

Promotions and the Peter Principle pp. 2085-2134

Alan Benson, Danielle Li and Kelly Shue

Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects pp. 2135-2202

Tarek A Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent and Ahmed Tahoun

Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach for America pp. 2203-2236

Lucas Coffman, John J Conlon, Clayton Featherstone and Judd B Kessler

Volume 134, issue 3, 2019

Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit pp. 1121-1162

Sule Alan, Teodora Boneva and Seda Ertac

Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias pp. 1163-1224

Michela Carlana

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 pp. 1225-1298

Oscar Jorda, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

Industry Input in Policy Making: Evidence from Medicare pp. 1299-1342

David C Chan and Michael J Dickstein

Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms pp. 1343-1404

Patrick Kline, Neviana Petkova, Heidi Williams and Owen Zidar

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs pp. 1405-1454

Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner and Ben Zipperer

Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age pp. 1455-1503

Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, A. Kerem Coşar and Ali Hortaçsu

Take-Up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP pp. 1505-1556

Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo

Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax pp. 1557-1626

Hunt Allcott, Benjamin Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky

Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania pp. 1627-1673

Isaac Mbiti, Karthik Muralidharan, Mauricio Romero, Youdi Schipper, Constantine Manda and Rakesh Rajani

Volume 134, issue 2, 2019

Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results pp. 557-598

Alwyn Young

Exchange Arrangements Entering the Twenty-First Century: Which Anchor will Hold? pp. 599-646

Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation pp. 647-713

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John van Reenen

The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations: Evidence from the U.S. Retail Sector pp. 715-783

Xavier Jaravel

Sell Low and Buy High: Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets pp. 785-842

Marshall Burke, Lauren Falcao Bergquist and Edward Miguel

The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect pp. 843-894

Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Margaret Kyle and Heidi Williams

Strategic Default in the International Coffee Market pp. 895-951

Arthur Blouin and Rocco Macchiavello

Kinship, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Moral Systems pp. 953-1019

Benjamin Enke

Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Antiauthoritarian Movement pp. 1021-1077

Davide Cantoni, David Yang, Noam Yuchtman and Y. Jane Zhang

Household Time Use among Older Couples: Evidence and Implications for Labor Supply Parameters pp. 1079-1120

Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius

Volume 134, issue 1, 2019

Firming Up Inequality pp. 1-50

Jae Song, David Price, Fatih Guvenen, Nicholas Bloom and Till von Wachter

The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured pp. 51-107

Zack Cooper, Stuart V Craig, Martin Gaynor and John van Reenen

Regional Heterogeneity and the Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy pp. 109-183

Martin Beraja, Andreas Fuster, Erik Hurst and Joseph Vavra

Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market pp. 185-226

Ting Chen and James Kung

The Macro Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions: a Measurement Error Approach pp. 227-279

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, John Coglianese and Loukas Karabarbounis

Moral Hazard: Experimental Evidence from Tenancy Contracts pp. 281-347

Konrad Burchardi, Selim Gulesci, Benedetta Lerva and Munshi Sulaiman

Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality pp. 349-396

David A Keiser and Joseph S Shapiro

Forward and Spot Exchange Rates in a Multi-Currency World pp. 397-450

Tarek A Hassan and Rui Mano

From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina’s Evidence on Menu Cost Models pp. 451-505

Fernando Alvarez, Martin Beraja, Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Pablo Neumeyer

The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America pp. 507-556

Felipe Valencia Caicedo