Editors' Introduction
(p. viii)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 96, No. 2, May 2006
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Foreword
(p. ix)
The Quiet Revolution That Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family
(pp. 1–21)
Climate Treaties and "Breakthrough" Technologies
(pp. 22–25)
The Evolution of a Global Climate Change Agreement
(pp. 26–30)
After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control Global Warming
(pp. 31–34)
An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era
(pp. 35–38)
The Government's Valuation of Military Life-Saving in War: A Cost Minimization Approach
(pp. 39–44)
Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
(pp. 45–49)
Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
(pp. 50–56)
When to Exit a Product: Evidence from the U. S. Motion-Picture Exhibition Market
(pp. 57–61)
Regulation under Asymmetric Information in Water Utilities
(pp. 62–66)
The Effects of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance
(pp. 67–71)
"Build-or-Buy" Strategies in the Local Loop
(pp. 72–76)
Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
(pp. 77–81)
Simultaneous Model of Innovation, Secrecy, and Patent Policy
(pp. 82–86)
When Do More Patents Reduce R&D?
(pp. 87–91)
Prior User Rights
(pp. 92–96)
Vertical Integration and Competition
(pp. 97–102)
Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?
(pp. 103–107)
Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet
(pp. 108–113)
The Dynamics of Open-Source Contributors
(pp. 114–118)
Dividend Taxes and Firm Valuation: New Evidence
(pp. 119–123)
The Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut on Corporate Behavior: Interpreting the Evidence
(pp. 124–129)
Putting Firms into Optimal Tax Theory
(pp. 130–134)
Housing, Credit Constraints, and Macro Stability: The Secondary Mortgage Market and Reduced Cyclicality of Residential Investment
(pp. 135–140)
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations of Trade Policies for Developing Countries
(pp. 141–146)
Investor Sentiment and Corporate Finance: Micro and Macro
(pp. 147–151)
Inertia of Forward-Looking Expectations
(pp. 152–157)
Rational Inattention: Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case
(pp. 158–163)
Pervasive Stickiness
(pp. 164–169)
The Regulatory Record of the Greenspan Fed
(pp. 170–173)
The Greenspan Era: Discretion, Rather than Rules
(pp. 174–177)
The Road to Price Stability
(pp. 178–181)
A Letter to Ben Bernanke
(pp. 182–184)
From Inflation to More Inflation, Disinflation, and Low Inflation
(pp. 185–188)
The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
(pp. 189–194)
Postsecondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality
(pp. 195–199)
The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective
(pp. 200–205)
Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities
(pp. 206–211)
The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
(pp. 212–216)
Group Affiliation and Altruistic Norm Enforcement
(pp. 217–221)
Migration, Remittances, and Male and Female Employment Patterns
(pp. 222–226)
Migration and Imperfect Monitoring: Implications for Intra-Household Allocation
(pp. 227–231)
Gender and Performance: Evidence from School Assignment by Randomized Lottery
(pp. 232–236)
The Impact of State Licensing Regulations on Low-Skilled Immigrants: The Case of Vietnamese Manicurists
(pp. 237–241)
Shades of Discrimination: Skin Tone and Wages
(pp. 242–245)
Crime and Punishment: And Skin Hue Too?
(pp. 246–250)
Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality
(pp. 251–255)
Colorism, Complexion Homogamy, and Household Wealth: Some Historical Evidence
(pp. 256–260)
Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought
(pp. 261–264)
Is School Segregation Good or Bad?
(pp. 265–269)
Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
(pp. 270–274)
All in the Extended Family: Effects of Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles on Educational Attainment
(pp. 275–278)
Point Shaving: Corruption in NCAA Basketball
(pp. 279–283)
How Widespread Was Late Trading in Mutual Funds?
(pp. 284–289)
White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System
(pp. 290–294)
Marriage Laws and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 295–298)
Trade and the Great Divergence: The Family Connection
(pp. 299–303)
Individual versus Parental Consent in Marriage: Implications for Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Growth
(pp. 304–307)
Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations
(pp. 308–312)
Health and Democracy
(pp. 313–318)
Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details
(pp. 319–324)
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence
(pp. 325–330)
Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm
(pp. 331–336)
Has Government Investment Crowded Out Private Investment in India?
(pp. 337–341)
Why Is Russian GDP Growth Slowing?
(pp. 342–347)
Who Are China's Entrepreneurs?
(pp. 348–352)
The Multitask Theory of State Enterprise Reform: Empirical Evidence from China
(pp. 353–357)
Institutional Entrepreneurs
(pp. 358–362)
Executive Turnover and Firm Performance in China
(pp. 363–367)
Factor Reallocation in Eastern Germany after Reunification
(pp. 368–374)
The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market after Reunification
(pp. 375–382)
Regional Labor Markets, Network Externalities and Migration: The Case of German Reunification
(pp. 383–387)
The Return to Capital in Ghana
(pp. 388–393)
War and Institutions: New Evidence from Sierra Leone
(pp. 394–399)
Asian Growth and African Development
(pp. 400–404)
Sudden Stops and Phoenix Miracles in Emerging Markets
(pp. 405–410)
Lessons from the Debt-Deflation Theory of Sudden Stops
(pp. 411–416)
On Overborrowing
(pp. 417–421)
China's Exchange Rate Policy Dilemma
(pp. 422–426)
China's Exchange Rate Trap: Japan Redux?
(pp. 427–431)
The Parallel-Currency Approach to Asian Monetary Integration
(pp. 432–436)
Requiring a Math Skills Unit: Results of a Randomized Experiment
(pp. 437–441)
Technology Improves Learning in Large Principles of Economics Classes: Using Our WITS
(pp. 442–446)
Incentives and Student Learning: A Natural Experiment with Economics Problem Sets
(pp. 447–452)
Matriculation in U.S. Economics Ph.D. Programs: How Many Accepted Americans Do Not Enroll?
(pp. 453–457)
Attrition in Economics Ph.D. Programs
(pp. 458–466)
Time-to-Degree for the Economics Ph.D. Class of 2001-2002
(pp. 467–474)
Minutes of the Annual Meeting
(pp. 477–478)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings
(pp. 479–489)
Report of the Secretary for 2005
(pp. 490–492)
Report of the Treasurer
(pp. 493–496)
Report of the Editor, American Economic Review
(pp. 497–509)
Report of the Editor, Journal of Economic Literature
(pp. 510–511)
Report of the Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives
(pp. 512–513)
Report of the Director, Job Openings for Economists
(pp. 514–515)
Report of the Committee on Economic Education
(pp. 516–518)
Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
(pp. 519–526)
American Economic Association Universal Academic Questionnaire Summary Statistics
(pp. 527–530)
General Information on the Association
(pp. 531–532)
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws
(pp. 533–536)
Past Officers
(pp. 537–538)
Honors and Awards
(pp. 539–541)