Human Capital
Four Facts about Human Capital
(pp. 75–102)
Measuring Human Capital
(pp. 103–30)
Journal of Economic Perspectives
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Inflation Expectations
Expected and Realized Inflation in Historical Perspective
by Carola Binder and Rupal Kamdar
(pp. 131–56)
The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
by Michael Weber, Francesco D'Acunto, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Olivier Coibion
(pp. 157–84)
Methods in Applied Micro
Blending Theory and Data: A Space Odyssey
by Dave Donaldson
(pp. 185–210)
Principles for Combining Descriptive and Model-Based Analysis in Applied Microeconomics Research
by Neale Mahoney
(pp. 211–22)
Macro Policy in the Pandemic
A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay
by Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
(pp. 3–28)
Should We Insure Workers or Jobs during Recessions?
by Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais, and Alice Lapeyre
(pp. 29–54)
The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did It Go There?
by David Autor, David Cho, Leland D. Crane, Mita Goldar, Byron Lutz, Joshua Montes, William B. Peterman, David Ratner, Daniel Villar, and Ahu Yildirmaz
(pp. 55–80)
Economics of Slavery
American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History
by Trevon D. Logan
(pp. 81–98)
The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations
by William Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Marvin Slaughter
(pp. 99–122)
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy
by Gavin Wright
(pp. 123–48)
Childhood Interventions
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
by Anna Aizer, Hilary Hoynes, and Adriana Lleras-Muney
(pp. 149–74)
Universal Early-Life Health Policies in the Nordic Countries
by Miriam Wüst
(pp. 175–98)
Inequality in Early Care Experienced by US Children
by Sarah Flood, Joel McMurry, Aaron Sojourner, and Matthew Wiswall
(pp. 199–222)
Economics of Foster Care
by Anthony Bald, Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Max Gross, and Brian A. Jacob
(pp. 223–46)
Economies of Africa
Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
by Margaret McMillan and Albert Zeufack
(pp. 3–32)
Agricultural Technology in Africa
by Tavneet Suri and Christopher Udry
(pp. 33–56)
Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation
by Taryn Dinkelman and L. Rachel Ngai
(pp. 57–80)
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
by Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Andrea Smurra, and Céline Zipfel
(pp. 81–100)
Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa
by Nathan Canen and Leonard Wantchekon
(pp. 101–24)
Criminal Justice
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
by Emily Owens and Bocar Ba
(pp. 3–28)
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions
by Monica C. Bell
(pp. 29–48)
The US Pretrial System: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Interests
by Will Dobbie and Crystal S. Yang
(pp. 49–70)
Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers: Lessons from the Justice System
by Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
(pp. 71–96)
Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison
by Bruce Western
(pp. 97–122)
Geographic Disparities in Health
Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality
by Benjamin K. Couillard, Christopher L. Foote, Kavish Gandhi, Ellen Meara, and Jonathan Skinner
(pp. 123–46)
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
by Tatyana Deryugina and David Molitor
(pp. 147–70)
COVID-19
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender
by Stefania Albanesi and Jiyeon Kim
(pp. 3–24)
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
by Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra, and Kosali Simon
(pp. 25–46)
Tracking the Pandemic in Real Time: Administrative Micro Data in Business Cycles Enters the Spotlight
by Joseph Vavra
(pp. 47–66)
Washington Consensus Revisited
Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience
by Michael Spence
(pp. 67–82)
The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth
by Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry, and Hector Reyes
(pp. 83–108)
Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man
by Ilan Goldfajn, Lorenza Martínez, and Rodrigo O. Valdés
(pp. 109–32)
Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
by Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
(pp. 133–56)
Statistical Significance
Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty
by Guido W. Imbens
(pp. 157–74)
Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It
by Maximilian Kasy
(pp. 175–92)
Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics
by Edward Miguel
(pp. 193–214)
European Union
The Resilience of the Euro
by Philip R. Lane
(pp. 3–22)
The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms
by Keith Head and Thierry Mayer
(pp. 23–48)
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe
by David Dorn and Josef Zweimüller
(pp. 49–76)
Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization
by Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli, and Roberto Perotti
(pp. 77–100)
Preventive Medicine
An Ounce of Prevention
by Joseph P. Newhouse
(pp. 101–18)
Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?
by Amanda E. Kowalski
(pp. 119–40)
Minimum Wage
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
by Alan Manning
(pp. 3–26)
City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?
by Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner
(pp. 27–50)
How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins
by Jeffrey Clemens
(pp. 51–72)
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968
by Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer
(pp. 73–96)
Polarization in Courts
Estimating Judicial Ideology
by Adam Bonica and Maya Sen
(pp. 97–118)
Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?
by Daniel Hemel
(pp. 119–42)
Economics of Higher Education
Staffing the Higher Education Classroom
by David Figlio and Morton Schapiro
(pp. 143–62)
The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System
by John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner
(pp. 163–84)
Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
by W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola
(pp. 185–206)
How Much Income and Wealth Inequality?
The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts
by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
(pp. 3–26)
Business Incomes at the Top
by Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick
(pp. 27–51)
Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies
by Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee, and Thomas Lemieux
(pp. 52–78)
Economics and Epidemiology
An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease
by Christopher Avery, William Bossert, Adam Clark, Glenn Ellison, and Sara Fisher Ellison
(pp. 79–104)
Epidemiology's Time of Need: COVID-19 Calls for Epidemic-Related Economics
by Eleanor J. Murray
(pp. 105–20)
Productivity Advantages of Cities
The Economics of Urban Density
by Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga
(pp. 3–26)
How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies
by Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange
(pp. 27–49)
Tech Clusters
by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
(pp. 50–76)
Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions
by Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri
(pp. 77–98)