Journal of Economic Perspectives - Issues
Find articles in this journal
A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay
(pp. 3-28)
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs during Recessions?
(pp. 29-54)
The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did It Go There?
(pp. 55-80)
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History
(pp. 81-98)
The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations
(pp. 99-122)
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy
(pp. 123-48)
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
(pp. 149-74)
Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries
(pp. 175-98)
Inequality in Early Care Experienced by US Children
(pp. 199-222)
Economics of Foster Care
(pp. 223-46)
Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
(pp. 3-32)
Agricultural Technology in Africa
(pp. 33-56)
Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation
(pp. 57-80)
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
(pp. 81-100)
Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa
(pp. 101-24)
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
(pp. 3-28)
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions
(pp. 29-48)
The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests
(pp. 49-70)
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System
(pp. 71-96)
Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison
(pp. 97-122)
Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality
(pp. 123-46)
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
(pp. 147-70)
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender
(pp. 3-24)
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
(pp. 25-46)
Tracking the Pandemic in Real Time: Administrative Micro Data in Business Cycles Enters the Spotlight
(pp. 47-66)
Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience
(pp. 67-82)
The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth
(pp. 83-108)
Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man
(pp. 109-32)
Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
(pp. 133-56)
Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty
(pp. 157-74)
Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It
(pp. 175-92)
Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics
(pp. 193-214)
The Resilience of the Euro
(pp. 3-22)
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms
(pp. 23-48)
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe
(pp. 49-76)
Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization
(pp. 77-100)
An Ounce of Prevention
(pp. 101-18)
Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?
(pp. 119-40)
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
(pp. 3-26)
City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?
(pp. 27-50)
How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins
(pp. 51-72)
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968
(pp. 73-96)
Estimating Judicial Ideology
(pp. 97-118)
Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?
(pp. 119-42)
Staffing the Higher Education Classroom
(pp. 143-62)
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
(pp. 163-84)
Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
(pp. 185-206)
The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts
(pp. 3-26)
Business Incomes at the Top
(pp. 27-51)
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
(pp. 52-78)
An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease
(pp. 79-104)
Epidemiology's Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics
(pp. 105-20)
The Economics of Urban Density
(pp. 3-26)
How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies
(pp. 27-49)
Tech Clusters
(pp. 50-76)
Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions
(pp. 77-98)
Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities
(pp. 99-127)
Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities
(pp. 128-49)
Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?
(pp. 150-73)
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?
(pp. 174-92)
Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement
(pp. 3-23)
A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship since Women's Enfranchisement
(pp. 24-48)