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Volume 64, issue 1, 2019

Minimum Wages, Employment, and College Enrollment pp. 3-18

Lance Wescher, Travis Hutchinson and Anna Rannou

Industrial Effects on Male and Female Unemployment Over the Great Recession: An Interurban Analysis pp. 19-30

Thomas Van Gent, Farida C. Khan and Norman Cloutier

The Earnings Disadvantage of 21st Century Immigrants in the United States pp. 31-44

Fahad Gill and Waseem Ahmad

The Impact of New-Product R&D on the Circular Flow pp. 45-59

James E. McClure and David Chandler Thomas

Knowledge Spillovers and Local Industry Growth: A Patent Citation Approach pp. 60-72

Kejun Song, Gerald Simons and Wei Sun

Detection and Analysis of Small-Amplitude Seasonal Variation in a Short Time Series pp. 73-81

Osvaldo Marrero

Constant Full Employment Growth: The Economic Analysis and Policies of Leon Hirsch Keyserling, Council of Economic Advisors – The Truman Era and Beyond pp. 82-94

W. Robert Brazelton

Maximizing Versus Satisficing: Negative Correlation Between Maximizing Attitude and School Domain Satisfaction pp. 95-101

Edsel L. Beja

Drafting for Success: How Good Are NFL Teams at Identifying Future Productivity at Offensive-Skill Positions in the Draft? pp. 102-122

Joshua D. Pitts and Brent Evans

Leisure and the Production Possibility Frontier: A Two-Step Pedagogy pp. 123-130

Gary M. Galles, Philip E. Graves and Robert L. Sexton

Economic Sanctions and North Korea pp. 131-141

Bob Carbaugh and Koushik Ghosh

Resolving Revenue Allocation Challenges in Nigeria: Implications for Sustainable National Development pp. 142-153

Sylvester Ohiomu and Sunday Ade Oluyemi

Book Review: Cents and sensibility: What economics can learn from the humanities, by Morson, G. S., & Morton, S pp. 154-157

J. J. Arias

Book Review: The Euro and the battle of ideas, by Brunnermeier, M. K., James, H., & Landau, J. P pp. 157-159

David L. Cleeton

Book Review: Beeronomics: How beer explains the world, by Swinnen, J. & Briski, D pp. 159-160

W. Ken Farr

Reviewer List pp. 161-162

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The Irving Fisher Research Paper Award for Economics Graduate Students pp. 163-163

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The Frank W. Taussig Research Paper Award for Economics Undergraduates pp. 164-164

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Volume 63, issue 2, 2018

The John R. Commons Award pp. 131-131

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The Scope and Method of Applied Policy Economics pp. 132-146

David Colander

The Impact of Public and Private Research on Premature Cancer Mortality and Hospitalization in the United States, 1999-2013 pp. 147-165

Frank Lichtenberg

Evaluating the Spatial Consequence of Interest Rate Ceiling Using a Spatial Regime Change Approach pp. 166-186

Onyumbe E. Lukongo and Thomas Miller

Investigating Gender Differences in Real Estate Trading Sentiments pp. 187-214

I-Chun Tsai

Competitive Balance in the NBA Playoffs pp. 215-227

Ira Horowitz

A Pedagogical Note on Multitier Pricing Scheme pp. 228-244

Winston Chang and Tai-Liang Chen

Yours, Mine, and the Truth: Using a Structured Minimum Wage Debate in the Economics Classroom pp. 245-259

Scott Wolla

Do Multiple Homework Attempts Increase Student Learning? A Quantitative Study pp. 260-269

Kathy K. Archer

Book Review: The myth of independence: How Congress governs the federal reserve by Binder, S., & Spindel, M pp. 270-272

David Wheelock

Book Review: The infidel and the professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the friendship that shaped modern thought by Rasmussen, D. C pp. 272-274

Jonathan Wight

Driving Economic Growth in the 2020s and Beyond: A Special Issue of The American Economist pp. 275-275

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The Irving Fisher Research Paper Award for Economics Graduate Students pp. 276-276

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The Frank W. Taussig Research Paper Award for Economics Undergraduates pp. 277-277

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Volume 63, issue 1, 2018

An Introduction to Institutional Economics: Tools for Understanding Evolving Economies pp. 3-17

Anne Mayhew

The Hare Question in Assurance Games: Practical Problems and Insights From Robotic Surgery pp. 18-30

Roger Lee Mendoza

How We Contradict Ourselves: The Case of John Cochrane—Gliding and Behavioral Economics pp. 31-40

Daniel Sazhin and Matthew Morey

Investigating Spatial Dependence and Spatial Spillovers in African Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth pp. 41-58

Onyumbe E. Lukongo and Jon Rezek

Do Restrictions Beget Responsibility? The Case of U.S. Abortion Legislation pp. 59-70

Amanda J. Felkey and Kristina M. Lybecker

eBay Memorabilia Auctions vis-Ã -vis Predictions for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election pp. 71-78

Jannett Highfill and Kevin M. O’Brien

The Roots of STEM Achievement: An Analysis of Persistence and Attainment in STEM Majors pp. 79-93

Alan Green and Danielle Sanderson

Patterns in Economics Journal Acceptances and Rejections pp. 94-109

Suzanne Clain and Karen Leppel

An Analysis of Mathematics Requirements and Recommendations for Admission to PhD Programs in Economics pp. 110-114

Martin Milkman and Riza Marjadi

A Note on the Law and Economics of Stolen Valor pp. 115-119

Dennis L. Weisman

Book Review: The innovation illusion: How so little is created by so many working so hard, by Erixon, F., & Weigel, B pp. 120-123

Ionica Oncioiu

Book Review: WTF?! An economic tour of the weird, by Leeson, P. T pp. 123-125

John Swinton

Driving Economic Growth in the 2020s and Beyond: A Special Issue of The American Economist pp. 126-126

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The Michael Szenberg Prize for the Best Article Published by The American Economist pp. 127-127

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The Frank W. Taussig Research Paper Award for Economics Undergraduates pp. 128-128

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Volume 62, issue 2, 2017

Negative Interest pp. 139-148

Thorvaldur Gylfason

Jürg Niehans and the Cashless Economy pp. 149-164

Joshua Hendrickson

Defining Productivity in Education: Issues and Illustrations pp. 165-183

Eric Hanushek and Elizabeth Ettema

Not All Education Is Created Equal: How Choice of Academic Major Affects the Racial Salary Gap pp. 184-205

David McClough and Mary Ellen Benedict

Poverty and Student Achievement in Chicago Public Schools pp. 206-216

Lisa Breger

Optimal Public Policy Against Identity Theft pp. 217-221

Philip Graves and Robert L. Sexton

American Exceptionalism: An Appraisal—Political, Economic, Qualitative, and Quantitative pp. 222-246

Lall B. Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg

High-Impact Teaching in Economics: A Flexible Paradigm Utilizing Introductory Econometrics for Promoting Undergraduate Research and Publishing pp. 247-257

Richard Cebula

Elasticity as Relative Slopes: A Graphical Approach to Linking the Concepts of Elasticity and Slope pp. 258-267

Xudong Chen

Book Review: Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, by Goetzmann, W. N pp. 268-269

Michael J. Highfield

Book Review: International handbook of financial literacy, by Aprea, C., Wuttke, E., Breuer, K., Koh, N.K., Davies, P., Greimel-Fuhrmann, B., & Lopus, J.S. (Eds.) pp. 270-272

Jamie Wagner

Book Review: Ethics in Economics: An Introduction to Moral Frameworks, by Wight, J pp. 272-275

Ramzi Mabsout

Reviewer List pp. 276-277

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Volume 62, issue 1, 2017

Coauthors and Collaborations pp. 3-18

Ronald Ehrenberg

Financial Depth and Exchange Rate Volatility pp. 19-30

Massomeh Hajilee and Omar M. Al Nasser

Fiscal Deficit and Economic Growth in Bangladesh pp. 31-42

Ebney Ayaj Rana and Abu N. M. Wahid

Shutdown Decision of Firms Based on Variable Costs and Demand pp. 43-65

Hakan Uslu and Larry Teeter

Copper Theft in the United States pp. 66-76

Craig Depken and E. Frank Stephenson

An Efficiency Evaluation of Men’s College Basketball Coaches pp. 77-98

Ira Horowitz

Football Point Spreads pp. 99-101

Ladd Kochman, Ken Gilliam and Randy Goodwin

Economic Education Retrospective pp. 102-117

Carlos Asarta, Austin S. Jennings and Paul Grimes

Undergraduate Mathematics Courses Required and Recommended for Admission to Economics PhD Programs in the United States pp. 118-125

Martin Milkman and Riza Marjadi

Book Review: Fortune tellers: The story of America’s first economic forecasters, by Friedman, W. A pp. 126-128

Alexander E. Cassuto

Book Review: Peru: Staying the course of economic success, by Santos, A., & Werner, A. (Eds.) pp. 128-131

Claudia Sícoli Pósleman

Book Review: Game theory in action: An introduction to classical and evolutionary models, by Schecter, S., & Gintis, H pp. 131-133

Alan P. Grant