Content from 2006
Advances
Second-Best Climate Agreements and Technology Policy
Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel
An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communication
Theodore Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Rick Wash
Does the Open Economy Assumption Really Mean That Labor Bears the Burden of a Capital Income Tax?
Jane G. Gravelle and Kent A. Smetters
Auction Bids and Shopping Choices
Jayson L. Lusk and Ted C. Schroeder
Prescription Drug Advertising and Patient Compliance: A Physician Agency Approach
Olivier Armantier and Soiliou Namoro
The Impact of Midwifery-Promoting Public Policies on Medical Interventions and Health Outcomes
Amalia R. Miller
Do Teachers Really Leave for Higher Paying Jobs in Alternative Occupations?
Benjamin Scafidi, David L. Sjoquist, and Todd R. Stinebrickner
The Impact of Driver Cell Phone Use on Accidents
Robert W. Hahn and James E. Prieger
Advances » Field Experiments
An Experimental Investigation of Sexual Discrimination in Hiring in the English Labor Market
Peter A. Riach and Judith Rich
Using Choice Experiments to Value Non-Market Goods and Services: Evidence from Field Experiments
John A. List, Paramita Sinha, and Michael H. Taylor
...Plus Shipping and Handling: Revenue (Non) Equivalence in Field Experiments on eBay
Tanjim Hossain and John Morgan
The Evolution of Cooperative Norms: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, and Imran Rasul
Deposit Collectors
Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin
Public versus Secret Reserve Prices in eBay Auctions: Results from a Pokémon Field Experiment
Rama Katkar and David H. Reiley
Contributions
Indirect Costs and Discounting in Health Care Decision-Making: The Role of Distortionary Taxation
Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving
Can Supply Restrictions Lower Price? Violence, Drug Dealing and Positional Advantage
Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter, and Lowell J. Taylor
Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life
Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, and James P. Ziliak
A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China
Daniel L. Millimet and Le Wang
Gluttony and Sloth: Symptoms of Trouble or Signs of Bliss? A Theory of Choice in the Presence of Behavioral Adjustment Costs
Heather Bednarek, Thomas D. Jeitschko, and Rowena A. Pecchenino
Modeling Addictive Consumption as an Infectious Disease
Benjamin Alamar and Stanton A. Glantz
Public Goods Provision and Well-Being: Empirical Evidence Consistent with the Warm Glow Theory
Julio R. Videras and Ann L. Owen
The Role of Segregation and Pay Structure on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De la Rica
Do Lower Student to Counselor Ratios Reduce School Disciplinary Problems?
Scott E. Carrell and Susan A. Carrell
Estimating Behavioral Response to the AIDS Epidemic
M. Christopher Auld
Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis
Naci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin
Measurement Error in Schooling: Evidence from Samples of Siblings and Identical Twins
Audrey Light and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Disability Insurance Adjudication Criteria and the Incidence of Hard-to-Diagnose Medical Conditions
Michele Campolieti
Managed Care and Physician Incentives: The Effects of Competition on the Cost and Quality of Care
David J. Cooper and James B. Rebitzer
Measuring the Effect of Multimarket Contact on Competition: Evidence from Mergers Following Radio Broadcast Ownership Deregulation
Joel Waldfogel and Julie Wulf
Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs
Jan Guldager Jørgensen and Philipp J. H. Schröder
The Role of Wealth Transformations: An Application to Estimating the Effect of Tax Incentives on Saving
Karen M. Pence
The Effect of Switching Private Insurance Plans on Health Care Utilization
Fei Liu and David M. Zimmer
Consumer Product Labels, Child Labor and Educational Attainment
Drusilla K. Brown
New Approaches to Ranking Economics Journals
Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Pingkang Yu
A Dynamic Analysis of Child Labor with a Variable Rate of Discount: Some Policy Implications
Satya P. Das and Rajat Deb
Efficiency and Sectoral Distributional Impacts of Output-Based Emissions Allowances in Canada
Yazid Dissou
Administrative Delays as Barriers to Trade
Pierre M. Regibeau and Katharine E. Rockett
The Determinants of Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments
Abdulkadir Civan and Michael T. Maloney
Social Interactions and the Digital Divide: Identification and Policy Implications
Raffaele Miniaci and Maria Laura Parisi
Trade and Contract Enforcement
James E. Anderson and Leslie Young
Why Tariffs, Not Subsidies? A Search for Stylized Facts
Josh Ederington and Jenny Minier
Moral Federalism
Eckhard Janeba
Tariff Evasion and Customs Corruption: Does Pre-Shipment Inspection Help?
Jose Anson, Olivier Cadot, and Marcelo Olarreaga
Deposit Insurance Altered the Composition of Bank Suspensions during the 1920s: Evidence from the Archives of the Board of Governors
Ching-Yi Chung and Gary Richardson
Contributions » Field Experiments
Does Framing Matter for Conditional Cooperation? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Stephan Meier
Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community
Jeffrey P. Carpenter and Erika Seki
Instrument-Induced Bias in Donation Mechanisms: Evidence from the Field
Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment
Yan Chen, Xin Li, and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
Topics
Did the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Accurately Assess Economic Losses?
Frank D. Tinari, Kevin E. Cahill, and Elias Grivoyannis
The Firm's Cost of Capital, Its Effective Marginal Tax Rate, and the Value of the Government's Tax Claim
Ramesh K. S. Rao and Eric C. Stevens
Do Plants Overcomply with Water Pollution Regulations? The Role of Discharge Variability
Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and John Horowitz
The Impact of Delivery Synergies on Bidding in the Georgia School Milk Market
Robert C. Marshall, Matthew E. Raiff, Jean-Francois Richard, and Steven P. Schulenberg
Credit Constraints and Contract Enforcement
Dennis Powers
What Did the "Illegitimacy Bonus" Reward?
Sanders Korenman, Ted Joyce, Robert Kaestner, and Jennifer Walper
Does Integrating Economic and Biological Systems Matter for Public Policy? The Case of Yellowstone Lake
Chad Settle and Jason F. Shogren
Capital Movements and the Political Economy of Trade Policy
Delfim Gomes Neto
Searching For Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage
Leora Friedberg, Michael T. Owyang, and Tara M. Sinclair
Consumption Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Two Panel Data Sets
Jonathan D. Fisher and David S. Johnson
Corruption, Environmental Resources, and International Trade
Priya Ranjan and Baishali Bakshi
Relative Performance, Risk and Entry in the Mutual Fund Industry
Gyongyi Loranth and Emanuela Sciubba
Public Complaints and Alberta's Environmental Regulation
Heather L. Eckert
The Effects of Political Action Committee Contributions on Medical Liability Legislation
Amy M. Wolaver and Christopher S. Magee
Absorptive Capacity in R&D Joint Ventures When Basic Research Is Costly
Mark R. Frascatore
Did the Death of Australian Inheritance Taxes Affect Deaths?
Joshua S. Gans and Andrew Leigh
After the Traffic Stops: Officer Characteristics and Enforcement Actions
Billy R. Close and Patrick L. Mason