American Economic Association

Symposium: COVID-19

Summer 2021

Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender

Stefania Albanesi and Jiyeon Kim

(pp. 3-24)

The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States

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

Joseph Vavra

(pp. 47-66)

Symposium: Washington Consensus Revisited

Summer 2021

Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience

Michael Spence

(pp. 67-82)

The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth

Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry and Hector Reyes

(pp. 83-108)

Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man

Ilan Goldfajn, Lorenza Martínez and Rodrigo O. Valdés

(pp. 109-32)

Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

(pp. 133-56)

Symposium: Statistical Significance

Summer 2021

Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty

Guido W. Imbens

(pp. 157-74)

Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It

Maximilian Kasy

(pp. 175-92)

Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics

Edward Miguel

(pp. 193-214)

Symposium: European Union

Spring 2021

The Resilience of the Euro

Philip R. Lane

(pp. 3-22)

The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms

Keith Head and Thierry Mayer

(pp. 23-48)

Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe

David Dorn and Josef Zweimüller

(pp. 49-76)

Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization

Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti

(pp. 77-100)

Symposium: Preventive Medicine

Spring 2021

An Ounce of Prevention

Joseph P. Newhouse

(pp. 101-18)

Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?

Amanda E. Kowalski

(pp. 119-40)

Symposium: Minimum Wage

Winter 2021

The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage

Alan Manning

(pp. 3-26)

City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?

Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner

(pp. 27-50)

How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins

Jeffrey Clemens

(pp. 51-72)

The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968

Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer

(pp. 73-96)

Symposium: Polarization in Courts

Winter 2021

Estimating Judicial Ideology

Adam Bonica and Maya Sen

(pp. 97-118)

Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?

Daniel Hemel

(pp. 119-42)

Symposium: Economics of Higher Education

Winter 2021

Staffing the Higher Education Classroom

David Figlio and Morton Schapiro

(pp. 143-62)

The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System

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

W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola

(pp. 185-206)

Symposium: How Much Income and Wealth Inequality?

Fall 2020

The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

(pp. 3-26)

Business Incomes at the Top

Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick

(pp. 27-51)

Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies

Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux

(pp. 52-78)

Symposium: Economics and Epidemiology

Fall 2020

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease

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

Eleanor J. Murray

(pp. 105-20)

Symposium: Productivity Advantages of Cities

Summer 2020

The Economics of Urban Density

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

(pp. 3-26)

How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies

Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange

(pp. 27-49)

Tech Clusters

William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

(pp. 50-76)

Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions

Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri

(pp. 77-98)

Symposium: Place-Based Policies

Summer 2020

Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities

Timothy J. Bartik

(pp. 99-127)

Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities

Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry G. Overman

(pp. 128-49)

Symposium: Cities in Developing Countries

Summer 2020

Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?

J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew A. Turner

(pp. 150-73)

Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?

David Lagakos

(pp. 174-92)

Symposium: One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage

Spring 2020

Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement

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

Elizabeth U. Cascio and Na'ama Shenhav

(pp. 24-48)

Symposium: Perspectives on Racial Discrimination

Spring 2020

Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination

Mario L. Small and Devah Pager

(pp. 49-67)

Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective

Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer

(pp. 68-89)

Symposium: How Taxes Affect Location Choices

Spring 2020

Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives

Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar

(pp. 90-118)

Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Mathilde Muñoz and Stefanie Stantcheva

(pp. 119-42)

Symposium: The Departure of Communism

Spring 2020

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann

(pp. 143-71)

The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln

(pp. 172-91)

Symposium: Economics of India

Winter 2020

Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model

Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian

(pp. 3-30)

Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?

Devesh Kapur

(pp. 31-54)

The Great Indian Demonetization

Amartya Lahiri

(pp. 55-74)

Symposium: Assimilation of Refugees

Winter 2020

Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy

Timothy J. Hatton

(pp. 75-93)

The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries

Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston

(pp. 94-121)

Symposium: Electricity in Developing Countries

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Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender Stefania Albanesi and Jiyeon Kim (pp. 3-24)

The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States 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 Joseph Vavra (pp. 47-66)

Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience Michael Spence (pp. 67-82)

The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry and Hector Reyes (pp. 83-108)

Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man Ilan Goldfajn, Lorenza Martínez and Rodrigo O. Valdés (pp. 109-32)

Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (pp. 133-56)

Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty Guido W. Imbens (pp. 157-74)

Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It Maximilian Kasy (pp. 175-92)

Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics Edward Miguel (pp. 193-214)

The Resilience of the Euro Philip R. Lane (pp. 3-22)

The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms Keith Head and Thierry Mayer (pp. 23-48)

Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe David Dorn and Josef Zweimüller (pp. 49-76)

Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti (pp. 77-100)

An Ounce of Prevention Joseph P. Newhouse (pp. 101-18)

Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved? Amanda E. Kowalski (pp. 119-40)

The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage Alan Manning (pp. 3-26)

City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do? Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner (pp. 27-50)

How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins Jeffrey Clemens (pp. 51-72)

The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968 Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer (pp. 73-96)

Estimating Judicial Ideology Adam Bonica and Maya Sen (pp. 97-118)

Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court? Daniel Hemel (pp. 119-42)

Staffing the Higher Education Classroom David Figlio and Morton Schapiro (pp. 143-62)

The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System 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 W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola (pp. 185-206)

The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman (pp. 3-26)

Business Incomes at the Top Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick (pp. 27-51)

Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux (pp. 52-78)

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease 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 Eleanor J. Murray (pp. 105-20)

The Economics of Urban Density Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga (pp. 3-26)

How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange (pp. 27-49)

Tech Clusters William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud (pp. 50-76)

Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri (pp. 77-98)

Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities Timothy J. Bartik (pp. 99-127)

Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry G. Overman (pp. 128-49)

Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow? J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew A. Turner (pp. 150-73)

Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities? David Lagakos (pp. 174-92)

Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement 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 Elizabeth U. Cascio and Na'ama Shenhav (pp. 24-48)

Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination Mario L. Small and Devah Pager (pp. 49-67)

Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer (pp. 68-89)

Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar (pp. 90-118)

Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Mathilde Muñoz and Stefanie Stantcheva (pp. 119-42)

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann (pp. 143-71)

The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln (pp. 172-91)

Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian (pp. 3-30)

Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed? Devesh Kapur (pp. 31-54)

The Great Indian Demonetization Amartya Lahiri (pp. 55-74)

Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy Timothy J. Hatton (pp. 75-93)

The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston (pp. 94-121)

Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development? Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel and Catherine Wolfram (pp. 122-44)

The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan (pp. 145-69)

Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender

Stefania Albanesi and Jiyeon Kim

(pp. 3-24)

The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States

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

Joseph Vavra

(pp. 47-66)

Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global Development Experience

Michael Spence

(pp. 67-82)

The Baker Hypothesis: Stabilization, Structural Reforms, and Economic Growth

Anusha Chari, Peter Blair Henry and Hector Reyes

(pp. 83-108)

Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man

Ilan Goldfajn, Lorenza Martínez and Rodrigo O. Valdés

(pp. 109-32)

Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

(pp. 133-56)

Statistical Significance, p-Values, and the Reporting of Uncertainty

Guido W. Imbens

(pp. 157-74)

Of Forking Paths and Tied Hands: Selective Publication of Findings, and What Economists Should Do about It

Maximilian Kasy

(pp. 175-92)

Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics

Edward Miguel

(pp. 193-214)

The Resilience of the Euro

Philip R. Lane

(pp. 3-22)

The United States of Europe: A Gravity Model Evaluation of the Four Freedoms

Keith Head and Thierry Mayer

(pp. 23-48)

Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe

David Dorn and Josef Zweimüller

(pp. 49-76)

Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization

Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti

(pp. 77-100)

An Ounce of Prevention

Joseph P. Newhouse

(pp. 101-18)

Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved?

Amanda E. Kowalski

(pp. 119-40)

The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage

Alan Manning

(pp. 3-26)

City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?

Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner

(pp. 27-50)

How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-employment Margins

Jeffrey Clemens

(pp. 51-72)

The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968

Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer

(pp. 73-96)

Estimating Judicial Ideology

Adam Bonica and Maya Sen

(pp. 97-118)

Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?

Daniel Hemel

(pp. 119-42)

Staffing the Higher Education Classroom

David Figlio and Morton Schapiro

(pp. 143-62)

The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System

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

W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola

(pp. 185-206)

The Rise of Income and Wealth Inequality in America: Evidence from Distributional Macroeconomic Accounts

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

(pp. 3-26)

Business Incomes at the Top

Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick

(pp. 27-51)

Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies

Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux

(pp. 52-78)

An Economist's Guide to Epidemiology Models of Infectious Disease

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

Eleanor J. Murray

(pp. 105-20)

The Economics of Urban Density

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

(pp. 3-26)

How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies

Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange

(pp. 27-49)

Tech Clusters

William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

(pp. 50-76)

Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions

Gaetano Basso and Giovanni Peri

(pp. 77-98)

Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities

Timothy J. Bartik

(pp. 99-127)

Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities

Maximilian v. Ehrlich and Henry G. Overman

(pp. 128-49)

Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?

J. Vernon Henderson and Matthew A. Turner

(pp. 150-73)

Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?

David Lagakos

(pp. 174-92)

Votes for Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement

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

Elizabeth U. Cascio and Na'ama Shenhav

(pp. 24-48)

Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination

Mario L. Small and Devah Pager

(pp. 49-67)

Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective

Kevin Lang and Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer

(pp. 68-89)

Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives

Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar

(pp. 90-118)

Taxation and Migration: Evidence and Policy Implications

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Mathilde Muñoz and Stefanie Stantcheva

(pp. 119-42)

The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism

Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann

(pp. 143-71)

The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln

(pp. 172-91)

Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model

Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian

(pp. 3-30)

Why Does the Indian State Both Fail and Succeed?

Devesh Kapur

(pp. 31-54)

The Great Indian Demonetization

Amartya Lahiri

(pp. 55-74)

Asylum Migration to the Developed World: Persecution, Incentives, and Policy

Timothy J. Hatton

(pp. 75-93)

The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries

Courtney Brell, Christian Dustmann and Ian Preston

(pp. 94-121)

Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?

Kenneth Lee, Edward Miguel and Catherine Wolfram

(pp. 122-44)

The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right

Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan

(pp. 145-69)