The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Volume 133, issue 4, 2018

Global Evidence on Economic Preferences* pp. 1645-1692

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Excess Sensitivity of High-Income Consumers* pp. 1693-1751

Lorenz Kueng

What do Exporters Know?* pp. 1753-1801

Michael J Dickstein and Eduardo Morales

Marginal Tax Rates and Income: New Time Series Evidence* pp. 1803-1884

Karel Mertens and José Luis Montiel Olea

Racial Bias in Bail Decisions* pp. 1885-1932

David Arnold, Will Dobbie and Crystal S Yang

The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation* pp. 1933-1980

Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson, Patrick Sun and Daniel Villar

Political Advertising and Election Results* pp. 1981-2036

Jörg Spenkuch and David Toniatti

Religious Competition and Reallocation: the Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation* pp. 2037-2096

Davide Cantoni, Jeremiah Dittmar and Noam Yuchtman

Missed Sales and the Pricing of Ancillary Goods* pp. 2097-2169

Renato Gomes and Jean Tirole

Should Buyers or Sellers Organize Trade in a Frictional Market?* pp. 2171-2214

Shouyong Shi and Alain Delacroix

Volume 133, issue 3, 2018

The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects pp. 1107-1162

Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren

The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility II: County-Level Estimates pp. 1163-1228

Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren

Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance pp. 1229-1282

Jing Cai and Adam Szeidl

High-Frequency Identification of Monetary Non-Neutrality: The Information Effect pp. 1283-1330

Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference pp. 1331-1393

Isaac Sorkin

Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links pp. 1395-1458

Filipe Campante and David Yanagizawa-Drott

Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences Between Black and White Men Since 1940 pp. 1459-1501

Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles

The Macroeconomic Effects of Government Asset Purchases: Evidence from Postwar U.S. Housing Credit Policy pp. 1503-1560

Andrew Fieldhouse, Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn

Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards pp. 1561-1595

Leonardo Bursztyn, Bruno Ferman, Stefano Fiorin, Martin Kanz and Gautam Rao

Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program pp. 1597-1644

Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram

Volume 133, issue 2, 2018

Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States pp. 553-609

Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality pp. 611-663

Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur and Yogita Shamdasani

Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration pp. 665-700

Lutz Hendricks and Todd Schoellman

Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies pp. 701-764

Melissa Dell and Pablo Querubin

Discretion in Hiring pp. 765-800

Mitchell Hoffman, Lisa Kahn and Danielle Li

Transparency and Deliberation Within the FOMC: A Computational Linguistics Approach pp. 801-870

Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Andrea Prat

Recommender Systems as Mechanisms for Social Learning pp. 871-925

Yeon-Koo Che and Johannes Hörner

Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science pp. 927-991

Alessandro Iaria, Carlo Schwarz and Fabian Waldinger

Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia pp. 993-1039

Joppe de Ree, Karthik Muralidharan, Menno Pradhan and Frederic Rogers

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville pp. 1041-1105

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

Volume 133, issue 1, 2018

Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy pp. 1-70

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr

Excess Volatility: Beyond Discount Rates pp. 71-127

Stefano Giglio and Bryan Kelly

Do Banks Pass through Credit Expansions to Consumers Who want to Borrow? pp. 129-190

Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Neale Mahoney and Johannes Stroebel

Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment pp. 191-235

Amanda Agan and Sonja Starr

Human Decisions and Machine Predictions pp. 237-293

Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

A Model of the International Monetary System pp. 295-355

Emmanuel Farhi and Matteo Maggiori

The Global Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade1 pp. 357-406

J Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires, Adam Storeygard and David Weil

Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men pp. 407-455

Marcella Alsan and Marianne Wanamaker

Preference for the Workplace, Investment in Human Capital, and Gender pp. 457-507

Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar

Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma pp. 509-551

Matthew Embrey, Guillaume R Fréchette and Sevgi Yuksel

Volume 132, issue 4, 2017

Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Estimation Moments pp. 1553-1592

Isaiah Andrews, Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro

The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market pp. 1593-1640

David Deming

Uncertainty Traps pp. 1641-1692

Pablo Fajgelbaum, Edouard Schaal and Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel

Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework pp. 1693-1754

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni L. Violante

Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide pp. 1755-1817

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Emil Verner

The Deposits Channel of Monetary Policy pp. 1819-1876

Itamar Drechsler, Alexi Savov and Philipp Schnabl

Who Becomes A Politician? pp. 1877-1914

Ernesto Dal Bó, Frederico Finan, Olle Folke, Torsten Persson and Johanna Rickne

Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe pp. 1915-1967

Gita Gopinath, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Loukas Karabarbounis and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez

Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary pp. 1969-2018

Stefano DellaVigna, Attila Lindner, Balazs Reizer and Johannes Schmieder

The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network pp. 2019-2055

Shaun Larcom, Ferdinand Rauch and Tim Willems

Erratum to “The Short-Term Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers to the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Kenya” pp. 2057-2060

Johannes Haushofer and Jeremy Shapiro

Erratum to “Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation” pp. 2061-2062

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

Volume 132, issue 3, 2017

Lemon Technologies and Adoption: Measurement, Theory and Evidence from Agricultural Markets in Uganda pp. 1055-1100

Tessa Bold, Kayuki C. Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott

Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan pp. 1101-1164

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal and Eric Verhoogen

The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure pp. 1165-1217

Deborah Goldschmidt and Johannes Schmieder

Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery Stores pp. 1219-1260

Dylan Glover, Amanda Pallais and William Parienté

What does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics pp. 1261-1318

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Choose to Lose: Health Plan Choices from a Menu with Dominated Option pp. 1319-1372

Saurabh Bhargava, George Loewenstein and Justin Sydnor

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle pp. 1373-1426

David López-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajšek

Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings, and the Liquidity Trap pp. 1427-1467

Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni

Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity pp. 1469-1508

Claire Celerier and Boris Vallee

Party Polarization in Legislatures with Office-Motivated Candidates pp. 1509-1550

Mattias K Polborn and James M. SnyderJr.

Erratum to “Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection” pp. 1551-1552

Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven and Magne Mogstad

Volume 132, issue 2, 2017

Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment pp. 551-615

David Atkin, Amit Khandelwal and Adam Osman

Fiscal Policy and Debt Management with Incomplete Markets pp. 617-663

Anmol Bhandari, David Evans, Mikhail Golosov and Thomas Sargent

Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth pp. 665-712

Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru and Noah Stoffman

Credit Expansion and Neglected Crash Risk pp. 713-764

Matthew Baron and Wei Xiong

Financial Crises and Risk Premia pp. 765-809

Tyler Muir

Labor Markets and Poverty in Village Economies pp. 811-870

Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Narayan Das, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman

Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added: Testing and Estimation pp. 871-919

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

Multinational Firms and International Business Cycle Transmission pp. 921-962

Javier Cravino and Andrei Levchenko

Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More? pp. 963-1018

Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein

Naïveté-Based Discrimination pp. 1019-1054

Paul Heidhues and Botond Koszegi

Volume 132, issue 1, 2017

Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago pp. 1-54

Sara B. Heller, Anuj K. Shah, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Harold A. Pollack

Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity pp. 55-102

Davide Debortoli, Ricardo Nunes and Pierre Yared

News Shocks in Open Economies: Evidence from Giant Oil Discoveries pp. 103-155

Rabah Arezki, Valerie Ramey and Liugang Sheng

Global Production with Export Platforms pp. 157-209

Felix Tintelnot

The Taxation of Superstars pp. 211-270

Florian Scheuer and Iván Werning

Firm Leverage, Consumer Demand, and Employment Losses During the Great Recession pp. 271-316

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

The Real Effects of Liquidity During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Automobiles pp. 317-365

Efraim Benmelech, Ralf R. Meisenzahl and Rodney Ramcharan

What is the Expected Return on the Market? pp. 367-433

Ian Martin

Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment pp. 435-483

Christian Dustmann, Uta Schönberg and Jan Stuhler

Public Protests and Policy Making pp. 485-549

Marco Battaglini