American Economic Review 1998 - Abstracts

American Economic Review 1998
TitleSubjectAuthors
401(k) plans and future patterns of retirement saving.EconomicsJames M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise
Absolute versus relative poverty.EconomicsJames E. Foster
Academic science and technology in the service of the industry: MIT creates a "permeable" engineering school.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)EconomicsChristophe Lecuyer
Adverse selection and adverse retention.EconomicsDavid M. Cutler, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Daniel Altman
Aging and inequality in income and health.EconomicsChristina H. Paxson, Angus S. Deaton
Aging in the early 20th century.EconomicsClayne L. Pope, Larry T. Wimmer
Alternative historical trends in poverty.EconomicsDavid M. Betson, Jennifer L. Warlick
Altruists, egoists, and hooligans in a local interaction model.EconomicsLarry Samuelson, Ilan Eshel, Avner Shaked
Ambiguity aversion and incompleteness of contractual form.EconomicsSujoy Mukerji
Anticompetitive vertical integration by a dominant firm.EconomicsMichael H. Riordan
Applications of option-pricing theory: twenty-five years later.EconomicsRobert C. Merton
Assessing 50 years of African-American economic status, 1940-1990.EconomicsMarcus Alexis
Assortive mating by schooling and the work behavior of wives and husbands.EconomicsJohn Pencavel
A theory of holdouts in wage bargaining.EconomicsPeter Kuhn, Wulong Gu
A vision of the growth process.(analyzing economic growth)EconomicsArnold G. Harberger
Caps on political lobbying.EconomicsIan L. Gale, Yeon-Koo Che
Changes in U.S. tariffs: the role of import prices and commercial policies.EconomicsDouglas A. Irwin
Changing incentives of the Chinese bureaucracy.EconomicsDavid D. Li
Children and their parents' labor supply: evidence from exogenous variation in family size.EconomicsWilliam N. Evans, Joshua D. Angrist
China's state enterprises: public goods, externalities, and Coase.EconomicsGary H. Jefferson
Common agency contracting and the emergence of "open science" institutions.EconomicsPaul A. David
Compensating differentials for gender-specific job injury risks.EconomicsJoni Hersch
Competition between private and public schools, vouchers, and peer-group effects.EconomicsDennis Epple, Richard E. Romano
Competition over more than one prize.EconomicsDerek J. Clark, Christian Riis
Competition, policy burdens, and state-owned enterprise reform.EconomicsZhou Li, Fang Cai, Justin Yifu Lin
Criminal deterrence, geographic spillovers, and the right to carry concealed handguns.EconomicsStephen G. Bronars, John R. Jr. Lott
Currencies and the allocation of risk: the welfare effects of a monetary union.EconomicsPablo Andres Neumeyer
Declining population and sustained economic growth: can they coexist?EconomicsJun Saito, Yutaka Kosai, Naohiro Yashiro
Demographic analysis of aging and longevity.EconomicsJames W. Vaupel
Demographic change, intergenerational linkages, and public education.EconomicsJames M. Poterba
Derivatives in a dynamic environment.EconomicsMyron S. Scholes
Did unilateral divorce raise divorce rates? Evidence from panel data.EconomicsLeora Friedberg
Divorce-law changes, household bargaining, and married women's labor supply.EconomicsJeffrey S. Gray
Does European unemployment prop up American wages? National labor markets and global trade.EconomicsDonald R. Davis
Does government R&D policy mainly benefit scientists and engineers?(research and development)EconomicsAustan Goolsbee
Do the rich get richer and the poor poorer? experimental tests of a model of power.EconomicsYvonne Durham, Vernon L. Smith, Jack Hirshleifer
Economic effects of reducing disability.EconomicsEric Stallard, Kenneth G. Manton, Larry Corder
Education-finance reform and the distribution of education resources.EconomicsWilliam N. Evans, Robert M. Schwab, Sheila E. Murray
Endogenous growth without scale effects.EconomicsPaul S. Segerstrom
Endogenously chosen boards of directors and their monitoring of the CEO.EconomicsBenjamin E. Hermalin, Michael S. Weisbach
Engaging students in quantitative analysis with short case examples from the academic and popular press.EconomicsWilliam E. Becker
Experimental evidence on the evolution of meaning of messages in sender-receiver games.EconomicsAndreas Blume, Douglas V. DeJong, Geoffrey B. Sprinkle, Yong-Gwan Kim
Ex post liability for harm vs. ex ante safety regulation: substitutes or complements? Comment. (response to article by Charles D. Kolstad, et. al., American Economic Review, vol.80, no.4, p.888)EconomicsChristian Ewerhart, Patrick W. Schmitz
Extending the consumption-tax treatment of personal retirement saving.EconomicsDavid A. Wise, John B. Shoven
Federal government initiatives and the foundations of the information technology revolution: lessons from history.EconomicsMarjory S. Blumenthal
Federalism and the soft budget constraint.EconomicsGerard Roland, Yingyi Qian
Financial crises in Asia and Latin America: then and now.EconomicsCarmen M. Reinhart, Graciela L. Kaminsky
Financial dependence and growth.EconomicsRaghuram G. Rajan, Luigi Zingales
Financial intermediation and regime switching in business cycles.EconomicsCostas Azariadis, Bruce Smith
Gains from trae and strategic interaction: equilibrium acid rain abatement in the eastern United States and Canada.(Ga)EconomicsLinda T.M. Bui
Games with procedurally rational players.EconomicsAriel Rubinstein, Martin J. Osborne
Gender differences in the allocation of assets in retirement savings plans.EconomicsAnnika E. Sunden, Brian J. Surette
General-equilibrium treatment effects: a study of tuition policy.EconomicsJames J. Heckman, Christopher Taber, Lance Lochner
Generations and the distribution of economic well-being: a cross-national view.EconomicsDennis H. Sullivan, Timothy M. Smeeding
Growth cycles.EconomicsGeorge W. Evans, Seppo Honkapohja, Paul Romer
Guns, violence and the efficiency of illegal markets.EconomicsSteven D. Levitt, John J. III Donohue
Historical and comparative institutional analysis.EconomicsAvner Greif
How are participants investing their accounts in participant-directed individual retirement account pension plans?EconomicsLeslie E. Papke
How much does school spending depend on family income? (the historical origins of the current school finance dilemma)EconomicsCaroline M. Hoxby
Imagined risks and cost-benefit analysis.EconomicsRobert A. Pollak
Incomplete contracts and strategic ambiguity.EconomicsB. Douglas Bernheim, Michael D. Whinston
Industrial development and the convergence question.EconomicsJohn McDermott, Marvin Goodfriend
Intellectual human capital and the birth of U.S. biotechnology enterprises.EconomicsMarilynn B. Brewer, Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby
Interest-group competition and the organization of Congress: theory and evidence from financial services' political action committees.EconomicsRandall S. Kroszner, Thomas Stratmann
Intergenerational transmission of health.EconomicsDennis Ahlburg
Is there a free-rider problem in lobbying? endogenous tariffs, trigger strategies, and the number of firms.EconomicsPaul Pecorino
Is there a retirement-savings puzzle?EconomicsJames Banks, Richard Blundell, Sarah Tanner
Iterated dominance and iterated best response in experimental 'p-Beauty Contests'.EconomicsColin Camerer, Keith Weigelt, Teck-Hua Ho
Layoffs, top executive pay, and firm performance.EconomicsKevin F. Hallock
Lives saved or lives lost? The effects of concealed-handgun laws on crime.EconomicsHashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin
Married women's retirement expectations: do pensions and social security matter?EconomicsMarjorie Honig
Measuring consumer surplus with unknown Hicksian demands.EconomicsIan J. Irvine, William A. Sims
Measuring prices and quantities of treatment for depression.EconomicsRichard G. Frank, Ernst R. Berndt, Susan H. Busch
Micro rules and macro outcomes: the impact of micro structure on the efficiency of security exchanges, London, New York, and Paris, 1800-1914.EconomicsLawrence Neal, Lance Davis
Monty Hall's three doors: construction and deconstruction of a choice anomaly.EconomicsDaniel Friedman
Motivation and markets.EconomicsJames M. Malcomson, W. Bentley Macleod
Multidimensional uncertainty and herd behavior in financial markets.EconomicsChristopher Avery, Peter Zemsky
Noncooperative bargaining, hostages and optimal asset ownership.EconomicsY. Stephen chiu
Norms and networks in economic and organizational performance.EconomicsVictor Nee
On the importance of the precautionary saving motive.EconomicsAnnamaria Lusardi
Optimal income taxation: an example with a U-shaped pattern of optimal marginal tax rates.EconomicsPeter A. Diamond
Partnerships, corporations, and the Theory of the Firm.EconomicsNaomi R. Lamoreaux
Patent litigation as an information-transmission mechanism.EconomicsJay Pil Choi
Payment heterogeneity, physician practice and access to care.EconomicsSherry Glied
Pensions and labor-market participation in the United Kingdom.EconomicsPaul Johnson, Richard Blundell
Perspectives on the social security crisis and proposed solutions.EconomicsKevin M. Murphy, Finis Welch
Poverty-measurement research using the consumer expenditure survey and the survey of income and program participation.EconomicsDavid Johnson, Thesia I. Garner, Kathleen Short, Martina Shea
Predicting how people play games: reinforcement learning in a experimental game with unique, mixed strategy equilibria.EconomicsAlvin E. Roth, Ido Erev
Private enforcement of public laws: a theory of legal reform.EconomicsJonathan R. Hay, Andrei Schleifer
Public education and income distribution: a dynamic quantitative evaluation of education-finance reform.EconomicsRichard Rogerson, Raquel Fernandez
Public funds, private funds, and medical innovation: how managed care affects public funds for clinical research.EconomicsJudith K. Hellerstein
Quit behavior as a measure of worker opportunity: black workers in the interwar industrial north.EconomicsWarren C. Whatley, Stan Sedo
Race and class in postindustrial employment.EconomicsGerald D. Jaynes
Regulatory discretion and the unofficial economy.EconomicsSimon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann, Pablo Zoido-Lobaton
Relative cohort size and inequality in the United States.EconomicsDiane J. Macunovich
Representative firm analysis and the character of competition: glimpses from the Great Depression.EconomicsDaniel M.G. Raff
Revolution from above: the role of the state in creating the German research system, 1810-1910.EconomicsTimothy Lenoir
Risk, entrepreneurship, and human-capital accumulation.EconomicsAnn L. Owen, Murat F. Iyigun
Secular trends in the determinants of disability benefits.EconomicsSven E. Wilson, Louis L. Nguyen
Self reliance as a poverty criterion: trends in earnings-capacity poverty, 1975-1992.EconomicsRobert Haveman, Andrew Bershadker
Social security and declining labor-force participation in Germany.EconomicsAxel Borsch-Supan, Reinhold Schnabel
Social security and labor force participation in the Netherlands.EconomicsArie Kapteyn, Klaas De Vos
Social security and retirement: an international comparison.EconomicsJonathan Gruber, David Wise
Social security and the real economy: an inquiry into some neglected issues.EconomicsIsaac Ehrlich, Jian-Guo Zhong
Social security: privatization and progressivity.EconomicsLaurence J. Kotlikoff, Jan Walliser, Kent A. Smetters
Socioeconomic status and health.EconomicsJames P. Smith
Source of inefficiency in a representative democracy: a dynamic analysis.EconomicsTimothy Besley, Stephen Coate
Stock markets, banks and economic growth.EconomicsRoss Levine, Sara Zervos
Structural change and Japanese economic history: will the 21st Century be different?EconomicsGary R. Saxonhouse
Sunk costs and firm value variability: theory and evidence.EconomicsVal Eugene Lambson, Farrell E. Jensen
Survival and size mobility among the world's largest 100 industrial corporations, 1912-1995.EconomicsLeslie Hannah
Taxes, uncertainty, and human capital.EconomicsKenneth L. Judd
Tax policy and gifts.EconomicsLouis Kaplow
Tax policy and human-capital formation.EconomicsJames J. Heckman, Christopher Taber, Lance Lochner
Teaching undergraduate econometrics: a suggestion for fundamental change.EconomicsPeter E. Kennedy
Technological change in heart-disease treatment: does high-tech mean low value?EconomicsMark McClellan, Haruko Noguchi
The 1940 system: Japan under the wartime economy.EconomicsYukio Noguchi
The cause of wealth dispersion at retirement: choice or chance?EconomicsSteven F. Venti, David A. Wise
The deadweight loss of Christmas: comment.(articles by Joel Waldfogel and Sara Solnick et al.)EconomicsJason F. Shogren, John A. List
The deadweight loss of Christmas: reply.(response to article by John A. List et al., in this issue, p. 1350)EconomicsDavid Hemenway, Sara J. Solnick
The deadweight loss of Christmas: reply.(response to article by John A. List et al., in this issue, p. 1350)EconomicsJoel Waldfogel
The demand for medical care: what people pay does matter.EconomicsMatthew J. Eichner
The double drain with a cross-border twist: more on the relationship between banking and currency crises.EconomicsVictoria Miller
The economics of child labor.EconomicsKaushik Basu, Pham Hoang Van
The effect of tax-favored retirement accounts on capital accumulation.EconomicsDouglas H. Joines, Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Ayse Imrohoroglu
The evolution of retirement: summary of a research project.EconomicsDora L. Costa
The home market, trade, and industrial structure.EconomicsDonald R. Davis
The impact of educational standards on the level and distribution of earnings.EconomicsJulian R. Betts
The incentive structure of a "managed market economy": can it survive the millenium?EconomicsKoichi Hamada
The institutions of governance.EconomicsOliver E. Williamson
The international ramifications of tax reforms: supply-side economics in a global economy.EconomicsEnrique G. Mendoza, Linda L. Tesar
The market for sulfur dioxide emissions.EconomicsRichard Schmalensee, Paul L. Joskow, Elizabeth M. Bailey
The matching market institution: a laboratory investigation.EconomicsDaniel Friedman, Changhua Sun Rich
The new institutional economics.EconomicsRonald H. Coase
The origins of state-level differences in the public provision of higher education: 1890-1940.EconomicsLawrence F. Katz, claudia Goldin
The peace dividend in historical perspective.EconomicsHugh Rockoff
The prestige motive for making charitable transfers.EconomicsWilliam T. Harbaugh
The rise and fall of bank control in the United States: 1890-1939.EconomicsMiguel Cantillo Simon
The rise of the welfare state and labor-force participation of older males: evidence from the pre-social security era.EconomicsChulhee Lee
The simple economics of Easter Island: a Ricardo-Malthus model of renewable resource use.EconomicsJames A. Brander, M. Scott Taylor
The social selection of flexible and rigid agents.EconomicsJoseph E. Harrington Jr.
The ultimate externality.(childbearing tax)EconomicsJon D. Harford
The unequal work day: a long term view.EconomicsDora L. Costa
The value of health: 1970-1990.EconomicsDavid M. Cutler, Elizabeth Richardson
The value of weather information services for nineteenth-century Great Lakes shipping.EconomicsErik D. Craft
Toward an economic theory of leadership: leading by example.EconomicsBenjamin E. Hermalin
Transfers, empathy formation, and reverse transfers.EconomicsOded Stark, Ita Falk
Turnpikes.(economic theorems)EconomicsLionel W. McKenzie
Uncertain demographic futures and social security finances.EconomicsShripad Tuljapurkar, Ronald Lee
Unemployment and the social safety net during transitions to a market economy: evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics.EconomicsKatherine Terrell, Jan Svejnar, John C. Ham
Unique equilibrium in a model of self-fulfilling currency attacks.EconomicsStephen Morris, Hyun Song Shin
Unraveling in matching markets.EconomicsSherwin Rosen, Hao Li
Valuing the impact of large-scale ecological change in a market: the effect of climate change on U.S. timber.EconomicsRobert Mendelsohn, Brent Sohngen
Village leaders and land rights formation in China.EconomicsScott Rozelle, Guo Li
Voting for protection: does direct foreign investment influence legislator behavior?EconomicsDavid N. Figlio, Bruce A. Blonigen
Wages and labor markets before the Civil War.EconomicsRobert A. Margo
What has increased medical-care spending bought?EconomicsJoseph P. Newhouse, Mark McClellan, David M. Cutler
What price coordination? The efficiency-enhancing effect of auctioning the right to play.EconomicsVincent Crawford, Bruno Broseta
When does it take a Nixon to go to China?(implementation of policy changes)EconomicsAlex Cukierman, Mariano Tommasi
When we work.(the economics of time management)EconomicsDaniel S. Hamermesh
Who owns guns? Criminals, victims, and the culture of violence.EconomicsEdward L. Glaeser, Spencer Glendon
Why referees are not paid (enough).(referees for journals)EconomicsJoshua S. Gans, Maxim Engers
Winners and losers in Russia's economic transition.EconomicsElizabeth Brainerd
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