Front Matter
(pp. i–vii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 99, No. 2, May 2009
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Editors' Introduction
(p. viii)
Foreword
(p. ix)
Immigration and Inequality
(pp. 1–21)
The Demography of Mexican Migration to the United States
(pp. 22–27)
Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives?
(pp. 28–34)
The Labor Supply of Immigrants in the United States: The Role of Changing Source Country Characteristics
(pp. 35–40)
Immigration and Poverty in the United States
(pp. 41–44)
This Job Is "Getting Old": Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
(pp. 45–51)
New Evidence on the Returns to Job Skills
(pp. 52–57)
Job Polarization in Europe
(pp. 58–63)
Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts
(pp. 64–68)
Perspectives on the New Architecture for the US National Accounts
(pp. 69–73)
Integrated GDP-Productivity Accounts
(pp. 74–79)
The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does It Presage the Financial Crisis?
(pp. 80–86)
Expectations and Perceptions in Developing Countries: Their Measurement and Their Use
(pp. 87–92)
Egalitarianism and Competitiveness
(pp. 93–98)
Are Two Cheap, Noisy Measures Better Than One Expensive, Accurate One?
(pp. 99–103)
Early Life Health and Cognitive Function in Old Age
(pp. 104–09)
Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings
(pp. 110–15)
Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function
(pp. 116–21)
Why Are Recessions Good for Your Health?
(pp. 122–27)
Child Benefits, Maternal Employment, and Children's Health: Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions
(pp. 128–32)
Average Earnings and Long-Term Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data
(pp. 133–38)
Time-Use Patterns and Women Entrepreneurs
(pp. 139–44)
How Do Remittances Affect Human Capital Formation of School-Age Boys and Girls?
(pp. 145–48)
The Impact of Unexpected Maternal Death on Education: First Evidence from Three National Administrative Data Links
(pp. 149–53)
Motherhood Delay and the Human Capital of the Next Generation
(pp. 154–58)
Strategies for Promoting Healthier Food Choices
(pp. 159–64)
Mindless Eating and Healthy Heuristics for the Irrational
(pp. 165–69)
Time Use and Food Consumption
(pp. 170–76)
Fetal Exposures to Toxic Releases and Infant Health
(pp. 177–83)
Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy
(pp. 184–90)
Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico
(pp. 191–97)
Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
(pp. 198–204)
Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Thailand
(pp. 205–10)
Climate Change and Birth Weight
(pp. 211–17)
Economic Effects of Childhood Exposure to Tropical Disease
(pp. 218–23)
What Matters (and What Does Not) in Households' Decision to Invest in Malaria Prevention?
(pp. 224–30)
Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-Protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa, India
(pp. 231–35)
Intrahousehold Allocation of Free and Purchased Mosquito Nets
(pp. 236–41)
Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England
(pp. 242–47)
Malthusian Dynamism and the Rise of Europe: Make War, Not Love
(pp. 248–54)
How Relevant Is Malthus for Economic Development Today?
(pp. 255–60)
Institutions versus Policies: A Tale of Two Islands
(pp. 261–67)
Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Economic Growth Performance
(pp. 268–74)
South Africa's Post-apartheid Two-Step: Social Demands versus Macro Stability
(pp. 275–81)
Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances
(pp. 282–86)
Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-conflict Liberia
(pp. 287–91)
Repression or Civil War?
(pp. 292–97)
Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule?
(pp. 298–303)
Consolidation of New Democracy, Mass Attitudes, and Clientelism
(pp. 304–09)
The Real Swing Voter's Curse
(pp. 310–15)
Lies, Damn Lies, and Pre-election Polling
(pp. 316–22)
Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election
(pp. 323–29)
Bayesian Learning and the Pricing of New Information: Evidence from Prediction Markets
(pp. 330–36)
A Model of Discovery
(pp. 337–42)
The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues
(pp. 343–48)
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth
(pp. 349–55)
Identifying Preferences under Risk from Discrete Choices
(pp. 356–62)
Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation
(pp. 363–68)
Endogenous Effective Discounting, Credit Constraints, and Wealth Inequality
(pp. 369–73)
Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?
(pp. 374–79)
The Effects of Population Aging on the Relationship among Aggregate Consumption, Saving, and Income
(pp. 380–86)
Disentangling Insurance and Information in Intertemporal Consumption Choices
(pp. 387–92)
Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households
(pp. 393–98)
Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How?
(pp. 399–405)
Momentum Traders in the Housing Market: Survey Evidence and a Search Model
(pp. 406–11)
Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?
(pp. 412–17)
What Do High-Interest Borrowers Do with Their Tax Rebate?
(pp. 418–23)
What Do Consumers Really Pay on Their Checking and Credit Card Accounts? Explicit, Implicit, and Avoidable Costs
(pp. 424–29)
Online Ad Auctions
(pp. 430–34)
The Quest for QWERTY
(pp. 435–40)
Skewed Bidding in Pay-per-Action Auctions for Online Advertising
(pp. 441–47)
Authority versus Persuasion
(pp. 448–53)
Financial Risk Management: When Does Independence Fail?
(pp. 454–58)
Over My Dead Body: Bargaining and the Price of Dignity
(pp. 459–65)
The Aftermath of Financial Crises
(pp. 466–72)
Expropriation Dynamics
(pp. 473–79)
Financial Instability, Reserves, and Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008
(pp. 480–86)
The Margins of US Trade
(pp. 487–93)
Trade Liberalization and New Imported Inputs
(pp. 494–500)
Plants and Imported Inputs: New Facts and an Interpretation
(pp. 501–07)
Another Look at the Impacts of Health Reform in Massachusetts: Evidence Using New Data and a Stronger Model
(pp. 508–11)
Disability Screening and Labor Supply: Evidence from South Africa
(pp. 512–16)
A Theory of Brain Drain and Public Funding for Higher Education in the United States
(pp. 517–21)
Public Policy and the Dynamics of Children's Health Insurance, 1986-1999
(pp. 522–26)
How Should Public Pension Plans Invest?
(pp. 527–32)
Will Public Sector Retiree Health Benefit Plans Survive? Economic and Policy Implications of Unfunded Liabilities
(pp. 533–37)
Discounting State and Local Pension Liabilities
(pp. 538–42)
Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism
(pp. 543–49)
The Lack of an Empirical Rationale for a Revival of Discretionary Fiscal Policy
(pp. 550–55)
Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy
(pp. 556–59)
Capital Reallocation and Growth
(pp. 560–66)
Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007
(pp. 567–72)
Is Monetary Policy Effective during Financial Crises?
(pp. 573–77)
A Note on Liquidity Risk Management
(pp. 578–83)
Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility
(pp. 584–88)
Leverage and the Central Banker's Put
(pp. 589–93)
Market and Public Liquidity
(pp. 594–99)
Money, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy
(pp. 600–605)
The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies
(pp. 606–10)
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report
(pp. 611–18)
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment
(pp. 618–20)
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment
(pp. 620–21)
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education: The Teagle Report: Comment
(pp. 621–23)
Completing an Economics PhD in Five Years
(pp. 624–29)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, January 4, 2009
(pp. 631–32)
Report of the Secretary for 2008
(pp. 633–36)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 637–40)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 641–45)
List of Online Reports
(pp. 646–46)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 647–59)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Review
(pp. 660–70)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 671–73)
Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 674–75)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
(pp. 676–78)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
(pp. 679–80)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
(pp. 681–82)
Report of the Editor: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
(pp. 683–84)
Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 685–87)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 688–91)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession 2008
(pp. 692–99)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
(pp. 700–709)
Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics
(p. 710)
AEJ: Macroeconomics: Search Committee Recommendation
(p. 711)