American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Vol. 99, No. 2, May 2009

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Richard T. Ely Lecture
US Immigration Issues
The Skill Content of Jobs and the Evolution of the Wage Structure
Data Watch: Implementation of a New Architecture for the US National Accounts
Data Watch: Data Initiatives
Health and Wealth
The Economy and Health
Human Capital Acquisition and Entrepreneurship
The Psychology of Food Consumption
Air Pollution and Health around the World
The Economic Impacts of Climate Change
The Economics of Malaria
Disease and Development: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Macroeconomic Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora
Conflict and Development
Political Economy under Weak Institutions
Polls, Votes, and Elections
Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth in the Long Run
New Empirical Approaches to Decision Making under Uncertainty
Heterogeneity in the Response of Consumption to Income
Household Heterogeneity in Financial Markets
Rationality in the Consumer Credit Market
Online Advertising Markets
Beliefs and Disagreement in Organizations
International Aspects of Financial-Market Imperfections
Trade, Product Turnover and Quality

The Margins of US Trade

by Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott
(pp. 487–93)
Public Policies, Public Funding, and Their Impact
Pensions and Health Care: Fiscal Challenges for State and Local Governments
The Revival of Fiscal Policy
Capital Market Frictions and Liquidity
Liquidity, Macroeconomics, and Asset Prices
Monetary Policy, Liquidity, and Financial Crises
The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education
Completing an Economics PhD in Five Years: Let the Data (Literally) Speak for Themselves
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