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Journal of Economic Perspectives
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Cities in Developing Countries
Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?
by J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew A. Turner
(pp. 150–73)
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?
by David Lagakos
(pp. 174–92)
One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage
Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement
by Carolyn M. Moehling and Melissa A. Thomasson
(pp. 3–23)
A Century of the American Woman Voter: Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship since Women's Enfranchisement
by Elizabeth U. Cascio and Na'ama Shenhav
(pp. 24–48)
Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination
by Mario L. Small and Devah Pager
(pp. 49–67)
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective
by Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer
(pp. 68–89)
How Taxes Affect Location Choices
Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives
by Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar
(pp. 90–118)
Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications
by Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Mathilde Muñoz, and Stefanie Stantcheva
(pp. 119–42)
The Departure of Communism
The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
by Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, and Ludger Woessmann
(pp. 143–71)
The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe
by Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln
(pp. 172–91)
Economics of India
Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model
by Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian
(pp. 3–30)
Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?
by Devesh Kapur
(pp. 31–54)
The Great Indian Demonetization
by Amartya Lahiri
(pp. 55–74)
Assimilation of Refugees
Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy
by Timothy J. Hatton
(pp. 75–93)
The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
by Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann, and Ian Preston
(pp. 94–121)
Electricity in Developing Countries
Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
by Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel, and Catherine Wolfram
(pp. 122–44)
The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right
by Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan
(pp. 145–69)
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Clean Air and Water Acts
What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency?
by Janet Currie and Reed Walker
(pp. 3–26)
Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act
by Richard Schmalensee and Robert N. Stavins
(pp. 27–50)
US Water Pollution Regulation over the Past Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs?
by David A. Keiser and Joseph S. Shapiro
(pp. 51–75)
Modern Populism
On Latin American Populism, and Its Echoes around the World
by Sebastian Edwards
(pp. 76–99)
Informational Autocrats
by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
(pp. 100–127)
The Surge of Economic Nationalism in Western Europe
by Italo Colantone and Piero Stanig
(pp. 128–51)
Economic Insecurity and the Causes of Populism, Reconsidered
by Yotam Margalit
(pp. 152–70)
Markups
Are Price-Cost Markups Rising in the United States? A Discussion of the Evidence
by Susanto Basu
(pp. 3–22)
Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions
by Chad Syverson
(pp. 23–43)
Do Increasing Markups Matter? Lessons from Empirical Industrial Organization
by Steven Berry, Martin Gaynor, and Fiona Scott Morton
(pp. 44–68)
Issues in Antitrust
Protecting Competition in the American Economy: Merger Control, Tech Titans, Labor Markets
by Carl Shapiro
(pp. 69–93)
The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google
by Naomi R. Lamoreaux
(pp. 94–117)
Automation and Employment
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo
(pp. 3–30)
Artificial Intelligence: The Ambiguous Labor Market Impact of Automating Prediction
by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua S. Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
(pp. 31–50)
"Automation" of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study
by Jeremy Atack, Robert A. Margo, and Paul W. Rhode
(pp. 51–70)
The Rise of Robots in China
by Hong Cheng, Ruixue Jia, Dandan Li, and Hongbin Li
(pp. 71–88)
Fiscal Policy
Ten Years after the Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?
by Valerie A. Ramey
(pp. 89–114)
Rising Government Debt: Causes and Solutions for a Decades-Old Trend
by Pierre Yared
(pp. 115–40)
Effects of Austerity: Expenditure- and Tax-Based Approaches
by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, and Francesco Giavazzi
(pp. 141–62)
The Problems of Men
The Declining Labor Market Prospects of Less-Educated Men
by Ariel J. Binder and John Bound
(pp. 163–90)
When Labor's Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Low-Skilled Men
by Courtney C. Coile and Mark G. Duggan
(pp. 191–210)
The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
by Kathryn Edin, Timothy Nelson, Andrew Cherlin, and Robert Francis
(pp. 211–28)
Women in Economics
Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
by Shelly Lundberg and Jenna Stearns
(pp. 3–22)
Variation in Women's Success across PhD Programs in Economics
by Leah Boustan and Andrew Langan
(pp. 23–42)
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Strategies for Making Economics Work for Women at Every Stage
by Kasey Buckles
(pp. 43–60)
Financial Stability Regulation
Financial Regulation: Still Unsettled a Decade after the Crisis
by Daniel K. Tarullo
(pp. 61–80)
Prone to Fail: The Pre-crisis Financial System
by Darrell Duffie
(pp. 81–106)
Would Macroprudential Regulation Have Prevented the Last Crisis?
by David Aikman, Jonathan Bridges, Anil Kashyap, and Caspar Siegert
(pp. 107–30)
Public Provision of Economic Data
The Value of US Government Data to US Business Decisions
by Ellen Hughes-Cromwick and Julia Coronado
(pp. 131–46)
On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics
by Hugh Rockoff
(pp. 147–64)
Evolving Measurement for an Evolving Economy: Thoughts on 21st Century US Economic Statistics
by Ron S. Jarmin
(pp. 165–84)
Climate Change
An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science
by Solomon Hsiang and Robert E. Kopp
(pp. 3–32)
Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change
by Maximilian Auffhammer
(pp. 33–52)
The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Kenneth Gillingham and James H. Stock
(pp. 53–72)