The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Volume 125, issue 4, 2010

What Comes to Mind pp. 1399-1433

Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

Gaming Performance Fees By Portfolio Managers pp. 1435-1458

Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young

Does Terrorism Work? pp. 1459-1510

Eric Gould and Esteban Klor

Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments pp. 1511-1575

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty pp. 1577-1625

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality pp. 1627-1682

Louis Putterman and David Weil

Competition and Bias pp. 1683-1725

Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk

Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India pp. 1727-1767

Pinelopi Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova

Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives pp. 1769-1820

Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi

Conflict and Deterrence Under Strategic Risk pp. 1821-1858

Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padró I Miquel

Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees pp. 1859-1887

Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers

Volume 125, issue 3, 2010

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices pp. 877-921

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Mark R. Cullen

Measuring Beliefs and Rewards: A Neuroeconomic Approach pp. 923-960

Andrew Caplin, Mark Dean, Paul W. Glimcher and Robb B. Rutledge

Monetary Non-neutrality in a Multisector Menu Cost Model pp. 961-1013

Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson

Regulation and Distrust pp. 1015-1049

Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Andrei Shleifer

Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-level Productivity…For Some Plants pp. 1051-1099

Alla Lileeva and Daniel Trefler

Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap pp. 1101-1144

Scott Carrell, Marianne Page and James West

Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices? pp. 1145-1194

Yu-Chin Chen, Kenneth Rogoff and Barbara Rossi

Counterparty Risk in Financial Contracts: Should the Insured Worry About the Insurer? pp. 1195-1252

James Thompson

The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply pp. 1253-1296

Albert Saiz

School Choice with Consent pp. 1297-1348

Onur Kesten

Muslim Family Law, Prenuptial Agreements, and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh pp. 1349-1397

Attila Ambrus, Erica Field and Maximo Torero

Volume 125, issue 2, 2010

A Theory of Firm Scope pp. 483-513

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom

The (Perceived) Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling pp. 515-548

Robert Jensen

Superstar Extinction pp. 549-589

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Jialan Wang

Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns pp. 591-634

Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Amanda Kowalski and Heidi Williams

Progressive Estate Taxation pp. 635-673

Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning

Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-Through pp. 675-727

Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki

Price Stickiness and Customer Antagonism pp. 729-765

Eric T. Anderson and Duncan I. Simester

Barbed Wire: Property Rights and Agricultural Development pp. 767-810

Richard Hornbeck

Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries pp. 811-828

Iris Bohnet, Benedikt Herrmann and Richard Zeckhauser

External Economies and International Trade Redux pp. 829-858

Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Shrouded Attributes and Information Suppression: Evidence from the Field pp. 859-876

Jennifer Brown, Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan

Volume 125, issue 1, 2010

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment pp. 1-45

Jessica Cohen and Pascaline Dupas

Sophisticated Monetary Policies pp. 47-89

Andrew Atkeson, Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937 pp. 91-128

Wojciech Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez and Jae Song

The Role of the Structural Transformation in Aggregate Productivity pp. 129-173

Margarida Duarte and Diego Restuccia

Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement pp. 175-214

Jesse Rothstein

The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design pp. 215-261

Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Fernando Ferreira and Jesse Rothstein

What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment pp. 263-306

Marianne Bertrand, Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman

Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence from Subprime Loans pp. 307-362

Benjamin Keys, Tanmoy Mukherjee, Amit Seru and Vikrant Vig

Monetary Policy by Committee: Consensus, Chairman Dominance, or Simple Majority? pp. 363-416

Alessandro Riboni and Francisco Ruge-Murcia

Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration pp. 417-443

Leah Boustan

Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools pp. 445-482

Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis and Sarah Reber

Volume 124, issue 4, 2009

Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India pp. 1403-1448

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis pp. 1449-1496

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? pp. 1497-1540

Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova

Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men? pp. 1541-1591

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

Superstar CEOs pp. 1593-1638

Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate

Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions pp. 1639-1674

Gabriel D. Carroll, James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Andrew Metrick

Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America pp. 1675-1727

Joseph H. Davis, Christopher Hanes and Paul Rhode

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden pp. 1729-1772

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund and Mårten Palme

How Robust is the Folk Theorem? pp. 1773-1814

Johannes Hörner and Wojciech Olszewski

Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks pp. 1815-1851

Stephen Leider, Markus M. Möbius, Tanya Rosenblat and Quoc-Anh Do

Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward-Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks pp. 1853-1884

Judith Chevalier and Austan Goolsbee

Volume 124, issue 3, 2009

Sluggish Responses of Prices and Inflation to Monetary Shocks in an Inventory Model of Money Demand pp. 911-967

Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson and Chris Edmond

E-ztax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates pp. 969-1010

Amy Finkelstein

The Bond Market's q pp. 1011-1056

Thomas Philippon

The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India pp. 1057-1094

Robert Jensen and Emily Oster

Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange? pp. 1095-1131

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

Estimating the Impact of The Hajj: Religion and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering pp. 1133-1170

David Clingingsmith, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Michael Kremer

Multinational Firms, FDI Flows, and Imperfect Capital Markets pp. 1171-1219

Pol Antras, Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley

Price Setting during Low and High Inflation: Evidence from Mexico pp. 1221-1263

Etienne Gagnon

Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis Using Administrative Data pp. 1265-1306

Daniel Sullivan and Till von Wachter

Trust and Social Collateral pp. 1307-1361

Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat and Adam Szeidl

How Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return to Work? Evidence from Two Natural Experiments pp. 1363-1402

Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller

Volume 124, issue 2, 2009

Conspicuous Consumption and Race pp. 425-467

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Nikolai Roussanov

The Diffusion of Development pp. 469-529

Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History pp. 531-596

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

Does Medicare Save Lives? pp. 597-636

David Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

Do Higher Prices for New Goods Reflect Quality Growth or Inflation? pp. 637-675

Mark Bils

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime? pp. 677-734

Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna

Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda pp. 735-769

Martina Björkman and Jakob Svensson

Explaining International Fertility Differences pp. 771-807

Rodolfo Manuelli and Ananth Seshadri

Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk Taking pp. 809-842

David Cesarini, Christopher T. Dawes, Magnus Johannesson, Paul Lichtenstein and Björn Wallace

Revisiting the German Wage Structure pp. 843-881

Christian Dustmann, Johannes Ludsteck and Uta Schönberg

The Vulnerability of Auctions to Bidder Collusion pp. 883-910

Robert C. Marshall and Leslie Marx

Volume 124, issue 1, 2009

Performance Pay and Wage Inequality pp. 1-49

Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley Macleod and Daniel Parent

Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics pp. 51-104

B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections pp. 105-147

Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson and David Pozen

Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries pp. 149-195

Ariel T. Burstein and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Learning and Visceral Temptation in Dynamic Saving Experiments pp. 197-231

Alexander Brown, Zhikang Eric Chua and Colin Camerer

Repeated Games with Frequent Signals pp. 233-265

Drew Fudenberg and David Levine

Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points pp. 267-300

Oliver Hart

Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors pp. 301-348

Laurent Calvet, John Campbell and Paolo Sodini

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines pp. 349-397

Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney

Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities pp. 399-422

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 423-423

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff