Aeaweb: e-AER: Archive: May 2005


 

American Economic Review
Vol. 95, No. 2, May 2005

Contents

Richard T. Ely Lecture

The Economics of Governance
Oliver E. Williamson       
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International Intrafirm Production Decisions

Complementarities between Outsourcing and Foreign Sourcing
Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, and Adam Szeidl
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Property Rights and the International Organization of Production
Pol Antrás
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Domestic Capital Stock
Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines, Jr.
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The Democratic Transition and Economic Growth

Federalism and the Democratic Transition: Lessons from South Africa
Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
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From Education to Democracy?
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, and Pierre Yared
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Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?
Dani Rodrik and Romain Wacziarg
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Foreign-Born Domestic Supply of Science and Engineering Workforce

The Labor-Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration
George Borjas
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Fellowship Stipend Support and the Supply of Science and Engineering Students: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Richard B. Freeman
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Skill-Sorting, Self-Selectivity, and Immigration Policy Regime Change: Two Surveys of Chinese Graduate Students’ Intention to Study Abroad
Yiu Por Chen
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The Increased Frequency and Duration of the Postdoctorate Career Stage
Paula E. Stephan and Jennifer Ma
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Skills, Policy, and Labor-Market Outcomes across Demographic Groups

Does Monetary Policy Affect Relative Educational Unemployment Rates?
Philip N. Jefferson
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Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?
Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Elena Rouse
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Tax-Transfer Policy and Labor-Market Outcomes
Nada Eissa and Austin Nichols
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New Approaches to Discrimination

Implicit Discrimination
Marianne Bertrand, Dolly Chugh, and Sendhil Mullainathan
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Tracing the Economic Impact of Cumulative Discrimination
Rebecca M. Blank
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“Dysfunctional Identities” Can Be Rational
Hanming Fang and Glenn C. Loury
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Employer Learning, Statistical Discrimination, and Occupational Attainment
Joseph G. Altonji
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Profiling: Normative, Theoretical, and Empirical Issues

Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Lawrence E. Blume
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Optimal Search Profiling with Linear Deterrence
Charles F. Manski
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Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security
Nicola Persico and Petra E. Todd
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Racial Profiling as a Public Policy Question: Efficiency, Equity, and Ambiguity
Steven N. Durlauf
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Are Concerns about Relative Income Relevant for Public Policy?

Positional Externalities Cause Large and Preventable Welfare Losses
Robert H. Frank
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Value of a Statistical Life: Relative Position vs. Relative Age
Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi
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Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others?
Sara J. Solnick and David Hemenway
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Understanding Teacher Quality

Do Faculty Serve as Role Models? The Impact of Instructor Gender on Female Students
Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long
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A Teacher Like Me: Does Race, Ethnicity, or Gender Matter?
Thomas S. Dee
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Explaining the Short Careers of High-Achieving Teachers in Schools with Low-Performing Students
Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff
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Perspectives on Research and Teaching in Economics

Does Teaching Enhance Research in Economics?
William E. Becker and Peter E. Kennedy
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Views of Teaching and Research in Economics and Other Disciplines
William B. Walstad and Sam Allgood
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Involving Undergraduates in Research To Encourage Them To Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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Education and Health of Women and Children

Vanishing Children: From High Unemployment to Low Fertility in Developed Countries
Alicia Adsera
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Parental Child Care in Single-Parent, Cohabiting, and Married-Couple Families: Time-Diary Evidence from the United Kingdom
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, David C. Ribar, and Leslie S. Stratton
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Resource and Peer Impacts on Girls’ Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Diane Whitmore
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Infertility Insurance Mandates and Fertility
Lucie Schmidt
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Insurance Markets and Health Care

Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance
Michael Chernew, David Cutler, and Patricia Seliger Keenan
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The Consequences of the Growth of Health Insurance Premiums
Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
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Effects of Insurance Coverage on Use of Care and Health Outcomes for Nonpoor Young Women
Mark V. Pauly
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Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance
Amy Finkelstein, Kathleen McGarry, and Amir Sufi
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SES Gradients in Health

Health and Wealth among the Poor: India and South Africa Compared
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
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Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies
Dana Goldman and James P. Smith
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What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Other Health-Related Behaviors?
David M. Cutler and Edward Glaeser
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Recent Developments in Health Economics

The Volume–Outcome Effect, Scale Economies, and Learning-by-Doing
Martin Gaynor, Harald Seider, and William B. Vogt
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Access to Care, Provider Choice, and the Infant Health Gradient
Anna Aizer, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Mark Stabile
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Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity
Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson, and Jay Bhattacharya
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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data
Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder
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Alcohol Taxation and Control

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors
Sara Markowitz, Robert Kaestner, and Michael Grossman
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Heavy Alcohol Use and the Commission of Nuisance Crime: Evidence from Underage Drunk Driving Laws
Christopher S. Carpenter
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Are Alcohol Tax Hikes Fully Passed Through to Prices? Evidence from Alaska
Donald S. Kenkel
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The Net Effect of an Alcohol Tax Increases on Death Rates in Middle Age
Philip J. Cook, Jan Ostermann, and Frank A. Sloan
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Cars, Gas, and Pollution Policies

Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Gasoline Taxes: An Econometrically Based Multi-market Study
Antonio M. Bento, Lawrence H. Goulder, Emeric Henry, Mark R. Jacobsen, and Roger H. von Haefen
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Is Pay-as-You-Drive Insurance a Better Way to Reduce Gasoline than Gasoline Taxes?
Ian W. H. Parry
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The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption
Sarah E. West and Roberton C. Williams III
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Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Don Fullerton and Li Gan
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Technology, Trade, and Investment

Moore’s Law, Competition, and Intel’s Productivity in the Mid-1990s
Ana Aizcorbe
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The Influence of Technology on Foreign Direct Investment
Jane Ihrig
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Returning to the Returns to Computer Use
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia and Cindy Zoghi
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Implications of Intellectual Property Rights for Dynamic Gains from Trade
Michelle Connolly and Diego Valderrama
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Regulation and the High Cost of Housing

Regulation and the High Cost of Housing in California
John M. Quigley and Steven Raphael
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Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Raven E. Saks
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Metropolitan-Specific Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Supply of Housing and Their Sources
Richard K. Green, Stephen Malpezzi, and Stephen K. Mayo
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Neuroscientific Foundations of Economic Decision-Making

The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy
Tania Singer and Ernst Fehr
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Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences: Initial Evidence
Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, and Michael Kosfeld
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Cognitive Neuroscientific Foundations of Economic Behavior

Fear and Greed in Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders
Andrew W. Lo, Dmitry V. Repin, and Brett N. Steenbarger
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The Neuroeconomics of Distrust: Sex Differences in Behavior and Physiology
Paul J. Zak, Karla Borja, William T. Matzner, and Robert Kurzban
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Practical Market Design: Four Matches

The New York City High School Match
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth
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The Boston Public School Match
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Tayfun Sönmez
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The Gastroenterology Fellowship Market: Should There Be a Match?
Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
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A Kidney Exchange Clearinghouse in New England
Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, and M. Utku Ünver
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New Perspectives on Reputation and Debt

Sudden Stops and Output Drops
V. V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan
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Coordinating Creditors
Mark L. J. Wright
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Grants versus Loans for Development Banks
Jeremy Bulow and Kenneth Rogoff
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Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics: The Interface

A Framework for Exploring the Macroeconomic Determinants of Systematic Risk
Torben G. Andersen, Tim Bollereslev, Francis X. Diebold, and Jin (Ginger) Wu
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Meese-Rogoff Redux: Micro-Based Exchange-Rate Forecasting
Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons
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Modeling Bond Yields in Finance and Macroeconomics
Francis X. Diebold, Monika Piazzesi, and Glenn D. Rudebusch
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Dynamic Scoring

Dynamic Scoring: An Introduction to the Issues
Alan J. Auerbach
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What Does the Taxable Income Elasticity Say About Dynamic Responses to Tax Changes?
Robert Carroll and Warren Hrung
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The Role of Dynamic Scoring in the Federal Budget Process: Closing the Gap between Theory and Practice
Rosanne Altshuler, Nicholas Bull, John Diamond, Tim Dowd, and Pamela Moomau
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CBO’s Analysis of the Macroeconomic Effects of the President’s Budget
Benjamin R. Page
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Competition Policy for Journals

The Bundling of Academic Journals
Aaron S. Edlin and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
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Academic Journal Pricing and the Demand of Libraries
Aviv Nevo, Daniel L. Rubinfeld, and Mark McCabe
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Open Access and Academic Journal Quality
Mark J. McCabe and Christopher M. Snyder
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Proceedings

Information on the Association       460
Minutes of the Annual Meeting      461
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings      463
Reports:
      Secretary      475
      Treasurer      479
      Finance Committee      483
      Editor, American Economic Review      485
      Editor, Journal of Economic Literature      497
      Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives      501
      Director, Job Openings for Economists      503
      Committee on Economic Education      506
      Committee on the Status of Women
             in the Economics Profession      509
      Search Committee for an Editor of the AER       519
      Representative to the International Economic
      Association       520
      Universal Academic Questionnaire
             Summary Statistics       521


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