American Economic Review

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

Vol. 103, No. 3, May 2013

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Richard T. Ely Lecture
Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of The Federal Reserve
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Friedman and Schwartz’s A Monetary History of the United States
Culture, Institutions, and Historical Persistence
Work and Search in Recessions: Theory, History, and Measurement
Effects of Fiscal Policy in Deep Recessions: Simple and Hopefully Credible Empirical Evidence
Global Macro Policy and the Great Recession
Extreme Wage Inequality: Evidence and Policy Responses
Perspectives on Inequality and Mobility in the US
High Skill Immigration in the US
International Trade and Labor Markets

Sources of Wage Inequality

by Anders Akerman, Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc-Andreas Muendler, and Stephen Redding
(pp. 214–19)
Neighborhood Effects and Place Based Policies
Work on Women's Work is Never Done
The Economics of Gender
Gender and Development
Environmental Policy in Developing Countries
Impacts of Unilateral Climate Change Policy
Forty Years Since the 1973 OPEC Embargo: US Energy Policy and Lessons for the Future
Money Management by Households and Firms in Kenya
Financial Markets and Economic Development
Speculation, Insurance, and Financial Regulation
Topics in Human Capital: Education, Job Training, and Health
HIV and Behavior Change
The Economics of Health
Estate and Gift Taxation
Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance
Economics of National Security
New Challenges for Growth in Historical Perspective
Lessons from Nonparametric Methods in Historical Perspective
Structural Behavioral Economics
Economic Analysis of Subjective Well-being
Advances in Behavioral Economics
What Do Economists Think about Major Public Policy Issues?
Topics in Economic Education
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