Front Matter
(pp. i–vi)
American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Vol. 99, No. 1, March 2009
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Governance Institutions and Economic Activity
(pp. 5–24)
Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea after All!
(pp. 25–48)
Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
(pp. 49–84)
Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth
(pp. 85–111)
Peers at Work
(pp. 112–45)
Women, Wealth, and Mobility
(pp. 146–78)
Class-Size Caps, Sorting, and the Regression-Discontinuity Design
(pp. 179–215)
Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs
(pp. 216–42)
Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs
(pp. 243–64)
Cognition and Incomplete Contracts
(pp. 265–94)
The Value of Groups
(pp. 295–323)
The War on Drugs: Methamphetamine, Public Health, and Crime
(pp. 324–49)
Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data
(pp. 350–84)
Risk, Ambiguity, and the Rank-Dependence Axioms
(pp. 385–92)
Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market
(pp. 393–430)
Group Identity and Social Preferences
(pp. 431–57)
Excise Taxes with Multiproduct Transactions
(pp. 458–71)
Diversity in the Workplace
(pp. 472–85)
Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How Do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles' Consumption?
(pp. 486–508)
Political Economy at Any Speed: What Determines Traffic Citations?
(pp. 509–27)
Democracy and Foreign Education
(pp. 528–43)
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
(pp. 544–55)