The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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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 Hortacsu, 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 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 Hortacsu

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 Shapiro

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

Tarek 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

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