Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Issues

The Agenda for Development Economics

Summer 2010

Understanding the Mechanisms of Economic Development

by Angus Deaton

(pp. 3–16)

Theory, General Equilibrium, and Political Economy in Development Economics

by Daron Acemoglu

(pp. 17–32)

Diagnostics before Prescription

by Dani Rodrik

(pp. 33–44)

Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics

by Debraj Ray

(pp. 45–60)

Giving Credit Where It Is Due

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

(pp. 61–80)

Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth

by Mark R. Rosenzweig

(pp. 81–96)

No Child Left Behind

Summer 2010

Searching for Effective Teachers with Imperfect Information

by Douglas O. Staiger and Jonah E. Rockoff

(pp. 97–118)

Aiming for Efficiency Rather Than Proficiency

by Derek Neal

(pp. 119–32)

The Quality and Distribution of Teachers under the No Child Left Behind Act

by Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin

(pp. 133–50)

Teachers' Views on No Child Left Behind: Support for the Principles, Concerns about the Practices

by Richard J. Murnane and John P. Papay

(pp. 151–66)

Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member

by Kevin Lang

(pp. 167–82)

Con out of Economics

Spring 2010

The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke

(pp. 3–30)

Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia

by Edward E. Leamer

(pp. 31–46)

A Structural Perspective on the Experimentalist School

by Michael P. Keane

(pp. 47–58)

But Economics Is Not an Experimental Science

by Christopher A. Sims

(pp. 59–68)

Taking the Dogma out of Econometrics: Structural Modeling and Credible Inference

by Aviv Nevo and Michael D. Whinston

(pp. 69–82)

The Other Transformation in Econometric Practice: Robust Tools for Inference

by James H. Stock

(pp. 83–94)

Tests and Gender

Spring 2010

Geographic Variation in the Gender Differences in Test Scores

by Devin G. Pope and Justin R. Sydnor

(pp. 95–108)

The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions

by Glenn Ellison and Ashley Swanson

(pp. 109–28)

Explaining the Gender Gap in Math Test Scores: The Role of Competition

by Muriel Niederle and Lise Vesterlund

(pp. 129–44)

Financial Plumbing

Winter 2010

How Debt Markets Have Malfunctioned in the Crisis

by Arvind Krishnamurthy

(pp. 3–28)

When Safe Proved Risky: Commercial Paper during the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

by Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl

(pp. 29–50)

The Failure Mechanics of Dealer Banks

by Darrell Duffie

(pp. 51–72)

Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis

by Rene M. Stulz

(pp. 73–92)

Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?

by Christian Laux and Christian Leuz

(pp. 93–118)

Retirement and Work Choices

Winter 2010

Mental Retirement

by Susann Rohwedder and Robert J. Willis

(pp. 119–38)

How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging

by Nicole Maestas and Julie Zissimopoulos

(pp. 139–60)

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

by Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai

(pp. 161–82)

Household Risks

Fall 2009

The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings

by Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt

(pp. 3–24)

The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk

by Jonathan Gruber and Helen Levy

(pp. 25–48)

Changing Household Financial Opportunities and Economic Security

by Karen E. Dynan

(pp. 49–68)

Job Loss and the Fraying of the Implicit Employment Contract

by Kevin F. Hallock

(pp. 69–93)

College Admissions

Fall 2009

The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

by Caroline M. Hoxby

(pp. 95–118)

Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition

by John Bound, Brad Hershbein, and Bridget Terry Long

(pp. 119–46)

Internet Economics

Summer 2009

The Economics of Online Crime

by Tyler Moore, Richard Clayton, and Ross Anderson

(pp. 3–20)

Priced and Unpriced Online Markets

by Benjamin Edelman

(pp. 21–36)

The Online Advertising Industry: Economics, Evolution, and Privacy

by David S. Evans

(pp. 37–60)

Subsidizing Creativity through Network Design: Zero-Pricing and Net Neutrality

by Robin S. Lee and Tim Wu

(pp. 61–76)

Grade Differences and Inflation

Summer 2009

What Are Grades Made Of?

by Alexandra C. Achen and Paul N. Courant

(pp. 77–92)

Grade Information and Grade Inflation: The Cornell Experiment

by Talia Bar, Vrinda Kadiyali, and Asaf Zussman

(pp. 93–108)

Climate Change

Spring 2009

Market-Based Policy Options to Control U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by Gilbert E. Metcalf

(pp. 5–27)

The Economic Effects of Climate Change

by Richard S. J. Tol

(pp. 29–51)

The Coming Global Climate-Technology Revolution

by Scott Barrett

(pp. 53–75)

Price Variation for Households

Spring 2009

The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor's Living Standards

by Christian Broda, Ephraim Leibtag, and David E. Weinstein

(pp. 77–97)

Consumer Shopping Behavior: How Much Do Consumers Save?

by Rachel Griffith, Ephraim Leibtag, Andrew Leicester, and Aviv Nevo

(pp. 99–120)

Early Stages of the Credit Crunch

Winter 2009

The Economics of Structured Finance

by Joshua Coval, Jakub Jurek, and Erik Stafford

(pp. 3–25)

The Rise in Mortgage Defaults

by Christopher Mayer, Karen Pence, and Shane M. Sherlund

(pp. 27–50)

Crisis and Responses: The Federal Reserve in the Early Stages of the Financial Crisis

by Stephen G. Cecchetti

(pp. 51–75)

Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-2008

by Markus K. Brunnermeier

(pp. 77–100)

Reflections on Northern Rock: The Bank Run That Heralded the Global Financial Crisis

by Hyun Song Shin

(pp. 101–19)

Private Equity

Winter 2009

Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

by Steven N. Kaplan and Per Stromberg

(pp. 121–46)

Beware of Venturing into Private Equity

by Ludovic Phalippou

(pp. 147–66)

Health Care

Fall 2008

Are We Finally Winning the War on Cancer?

by David M. Cutler

(pp. 3–26)

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

by Alan M. Garber and Jonathan Skinner

(pp. 27–50)

Incremental Universalism for the United States: The States Move First?

by Jonathan Gruber

(pp. 51–68)

Providing Prescription Drug Coverage to the Elderly: America's Experiment with Medicare Part D

by Mark Duggan, Patrick Healy, and Fiona Scott Morton

(pp. 69–92)

Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Healthcare System

by Randall D. Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark E. Votruba

(pp. 93–113)

Investment in Children

Summer 2008

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

by James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote, and Ariel Dora Stern

(pp. 3–22)

Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

by Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst, and Melissa Kearney

(pp. 23–46)

Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood

by Elizabeth Cascio, Damon Clark, and Nora Gordon

(pp. 47–70)

The Lengthening of Childhood

by David Deming and Susan Dynarski

(pp. 71–92)

U.S. Trade Deficit

Summer 2008

Global Imbalances: Globalization, Demography, and Sustainability

by Richard N. Cooper

(pp. 93–112)

Resolving the Global Imbalance: The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate

by Martin Feldstein

(pp. 113–25)

Development

Spring 2008

What Is Middle Class about the Middle Classes around the World?

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

(pp. 3–28)

Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid

by William Easterly and Tobias Pfutze

(pp. 29–52)

Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

by Angus Deaton

(pp. 53–72)

What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

by Eric Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmed

(pp. 73–92)

The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

by Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, and Kenneth Leonard

(pp. 93–114)

Economics of Persuasion

Spring 2008

What the Seller Won't Tell You: Persuasion and Disclosure in Markets

by Paul Milgrom

(pp. 115–131)

Competition and Truth in the Market for News

by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro

(pp. 133–154)

Media Freedom, Political Knowledge, and Participation

by Peter T. Leeson

(pp. 155–169)

Productivity

Winter 2008

A Retrospective Look at the U.S. Productivity Growth Resurgence

by Dale W. Jorgenson, Mun S. Ho, and Kevin J. Stiroh

(pp. 3–24)

The Productivity Gap between Europe and the United States: Trends and Causes

by Bart van Ark, Mary O'Mahoney, and Marcel P. Timmer

(pp. 25–44)

Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India

by Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins

(pp. 45–66)

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