Journal of Political Economy

1893 - 2025

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Preface pp. S1-S2: Michael A. Walker
Welfare, Marital Prospects, and Nonmarital Childbearing pp. S3-S32: Mark Rosenzweig
A Theory of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing pp. S33-S64: Robert Willis
Egalitarianism and the Returns to Education during the Great Transformation of American Education pp. S65-S94: Claudia Goldin
Culture and Language pp. S95-S126: Edward Lazear
Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism pp. S127-S157: John R. Lott, Jr.
Determinants of Democracy pp. S158-S183: Robert Barro
Galton versus the Human Capital Approach to Inheritance pp. S184-S224: Casey Mulligan
Why Is There More Crime in Cities? pp. S225-S258: Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote
Why Not Hang Them All: The Virtues of Inefficient Punishment pp. S259-S269: David Friedman
Bureaucratic Corruption and Endogenous Economic Growth pp. S270-S293: Isaac Ehrlich and Francis Lui
Potato Paradoxes pp. S294-S313: Sherwin Rosen

Effort, Wages, and the International Division of Labor pp. 1127-1162: Edward Leamer
Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government? pp. 1163-1198: John R. Lott, Jr. and Lawrence Kenny
Large Electorates and Decisive Minorities pp. 1199-1217: Colin Campbell
Price Discovery and Learning during the Preopening Period in the Paris Bourse pp. 1218-1248: Bruno Biais, Pierre Hillion and Chester Spatt
Public Health Insurance and Private Savings pp. 1249-1274: Jonathan Gruber and Aaron Yelowitz
Son Preference, Sex Rations, and Marriage Patterns pp. 1275-1304: Lena Edlund
Self-Policing and Optimal Law Enforcement When Violator Remediation is Valuable pp. 1305-1325: Robert Innes
Information Sharing and Competition in the Motor Vehicle Industry pp. 1326-1364: Maura P. Doyle and Christopher M. Snyder
A Note on the Causal Factors of China's Famine in 1959-1961 pp. 1365-1372: Shujie Yao

Efficient Unemployment Insurance pp. 893-928: Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer
Private Money and Reserve Management in a Random-Matching Model pp. 929-945: Ricardo de O. Cavalcanti, Andres Erosa and Ted Loch Temzelides
Banking Panics: The Role of the First-Come, First-Served Rule and Information Externalities pp. 946-968: Yehning Chen
What Level of Fixed Costs Can Reconcile Consumption and Stock Returns? pp. 969-997: Erzo Luttmer
Voluntary Compliance with Market-Based Environmental Policy: Evidence from the U.S. Acid Rain Program pp. 998-1033: Juan-Pablo Montero
Rotten Kids, Purity, and Perfection pp. 1034-1040: Richard Cornes and Emilson C. D. Silva
The Dynamics of Franchise Contracting: Evidence from Panel Data pp. 1041-1080: Francine Lafontaine and Kathryn L. Shaw
Age Discrimination Laws and Labor Market Efficiency pp. 1081-1110: David Neumark and Wendy A. Stock

Estimating Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions pp. 645-681: Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg
Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth pp. 682-714: Jere Behrman, Andrew Foster, Mark Rosenzweig and Prem Vashishtha
Steady Endogenous Growth with Population and R & D Inputs Growing pp. 715-730: Peter Howitt
Early Starters versus Late Beginners pp. 731-760: Pierre Chiappori, Bernard Salanié and Julie Valentin
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage pp. 761-785: Russell S. Sobel
Dowry and Wife's Welfare: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis pp. 786-808: Junsen Zhang and William Chan
Defense Procurement Fraud, Penalties, and Contractor Influence pp. 809-842: Jonathan Karpoff, D. Scott Lee and Valaria P. Vendrzyk
When Is the Standard Analysis of Common Property Extraction under Free Access Correct? A Game-Theoretic Justification for Non-Game-Theoretic Analyses pp. 843-858: Robin Brooks, Michael Murray, Stephen Salant and Jill C. Weise
First-Author Conditions pp. 859-883: Maxim Engers, Joshua Gans, Simon Grant and Stephen King
Wages, Implicit Contracts, and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data pp. 884-913: James McDonald and Christopher Worswick

Toeholds and Takeovers pp. 427-454: Jeremy Bulow, Ming Huang and Paul Klemperer
The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto pp. 455-506: David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor
Accounting for U.S. Real Exchange Rate Changes pp. 507-538: Charles Engel
The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training pp. 539-572: Daron Acemoglu and Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Auctioning Entry into Tournaments pp. 573-605: Richard L. Fullerton and Randolph McAfee
The Effects of Sex Education on Teen Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy pp. 606-635: Gerald Oettinger

Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior pp. 205-251: John Campbell and John Cochrane
A Theory of Urban Growth pp. 252-284: Duncan Black and Vernon Henderson
Technological Change and Wages: An Interindustry Analysis pp. 285-325: Ann P. Bartel and Nachum Sicherman
Estimating Life Cycle Labor Supply Tax Effects pp. 326-359: James Ziliak and Thomas Kniesner
An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Labor Supply of Stadium Vendors pp. 360-392: Gerald Oettinger
Individual versus Joint Taxation in Models with Household Production pp. 393-403: Patricia Apps and Ray Rees
The Tax Unit and Household Production: Comment pp. 404-409: Peter Gottfried and Wolfram Richter
Reply to Apps/Rees and Gottfried/Richter pp. 410-418: John Piggott and John Whalley
Alan S. Blinder, Central Banking in Theory and Practice: Lionel Robbins Lectures pp. 419-448: Central Banking in Theory and Practice: Lionel Robbins Lectures

Advocates pp. 1-39: Mathias Dewatripont and Jean Tirole
Rigidity of Social Systems pp. 40-64: Joseph E. Harrington and Jr.
The Other Side of the Trade-off: The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation pp. 65-105: Rajesh Aggarwal and Andrew Samwick
Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market pp. 106-134: Ernst Fehr and Armin Falk
A Positive Theory of Social Security Based on Reputation pp. 135-160: Thomas Cooley and Jorge Soares
Taxes and the Timing of Birth pp. 161-177: Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Amitabh Chandra
The Defining Moment: A Review Essay pp. 178-185: Lee Ohanian
Are Hypothetical Referenda Incentive Compatible? A Comment pp. 186-196: Tim Haab, Ju-Chin Huang and John Whitehead
Of Birds and Books: More on Hypothetical Referenda pp. 197-200: V. Kerry Smith
Antoin E. Murphy, John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker pp. 201-230: John Law: Economic Theorist and Policy-Maker