BEJEAP Advances Articles
"Advances" articles are submissions that make major advances in economic analysis and policy; articles that would be suitable for publication in a top field journal, or an excellent general interest journal. These articles are likely to interest all economists in the field (public finance, for example), and some but not all outside the field. The publication rate is 9%.Volume 10 (2010) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Tax Law Asymmetries and Income Shifting: Evidence from Japanese Capital Keiretsu
Kazuki Onji and David Vera
Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution
Don Fullerton and Sarah E. West
Volume 9 (2009) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Economic Influences on Moral Values
Robert Östling
When Does Teacher Licensure Make Sense?
J. J. Arias and Benjamin Scafidi
Effects of Socio-Economic and Input-Related Factors on Polluting Plants' Location Decisions
Ann Wolverton
Vintage Effects and the Diffusion of Time-Saving Technological Innovations
Nilotpal Das, Evangelos M. Falaris, and James G. Mulligan
Where Should we Submit our Manuscript? An Analysis of Journal Submission Strategies
Martin Heintzelman and Diego Nocetti
Barriers to Competition and Productivity: Evidence from India
Jagadeesh Sivadasan
Volume 8 (2008) - Issue 2 (Advances)
Health Care Economics and Policy
How Did SCHIP Affect the Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?
Thomas C. Buchmueller, Anthony T. Lo Sasso, and Kathleen N. Wong
The Shape of Demand: What Does It Tell Us about Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Antidepressants?
Chad D. Meyerhoefer and Samuel H. Zuvekas
Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility On Health Insurance Coverage
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard
Health Care Economics and Policy: An Introduction
Ching-to Albert Ma
Volume 8 (2008) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Incompatibility, Product Attributes and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from ATMs
Christopher R. Knittel and Victor Stango
Risk Attitude in Real Decision Problems
Fabrizio Botti, Anna Conte, Daniela Teresa Di Cagno, and Carlo D'Ippoliti
The Effect of FDI on Job Security
Sascha O. Becker and Marc-Andreas Muendler
On the Optimal Allocation of Students and Resources in a System of Higher Education
James M. Sallee, Alexandra M. Resch, and Paul N. Courant
Giving It Away for Free? The Nature of Job-Market Signaling by Open-Source Software Developers
Wafa Hakim Orman
Lucky Last? Intra-Sibling Allocation of Child Labor
Tatyana Chesnokova and Rhema Vaithianathan
Technological Proximity and Exclusive Buyer-Supplier Relationships
Chrysovalantou Milliou
The Internet and the Market for Daily Newspapers
Lisa M. George
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
Louis Kaplow
A Representation Index: Measuring the Representation of Minorities in the Income Distribution
Krishna Pendakur, Ravi Pendakur, and Simon D. Woodcock
Starting School at Four: The Effect of Universal Pre-Kindergarten on Children's Academic Achievement
Maria D. Fitzpatrick
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 2 (Advances)
Intergenerational Economic Mobility around the World
Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, and Gary Solon
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, and Robin A. Naylor
The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends
Tom Hertz, Tamara Jayasundera, Patrizio Piraino, Sibel Selcuk, Nicole Smith, and Alina Verashchagina
Recipient of the Arrow Prize for Junior Economists
Volume 7 (2007) - Issue 1 (Advances)
State Graduation Requirements, High School Course Taking, and Choosing a Technical College Major
Maya Federman
The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children
Joseph G. Altonji and Ernesto Villanueva
Entry Deterrence in a Duopoly Market
James D. Dana Jr. and Kathryn E. Spier
Energy Taxes in Three Political Economy Models
Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder, and Firouz Gahvari
Detecting Information Pooling: Evidence from Earnings Forecasts after Brokerage Mergers
Serena Ng and Matt Shum
Gender Specialization of Skill Acquisition
Junichiro Ishida and Hiromi Nosaka
Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Christian Dustmann and Ian P. Preston
The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
Jacob L. Vigdor
Volume 6 (2006) - Issue 2 (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
Volume 6 (2006) - Issue 1 (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
Volume 5 (2005) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Behavioral Biases Meet the Market: The Case of Magazine Subscription Prices
Sharon M. Oster and Fiona M. Scott Morton
Regulatory Incentives and Consolidation: The Case of Commercial Bank Mergers and the Community Reinvestment Act
Raphael Bostic, Anna L. Paulson, Hamid Mehran, and Marc Saidenberg
Slotting Allowances and Optimal Product Variety
Greg Shaffer
Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier
Jonathan H. Gruber and Sendhil Mullainathan
Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?
Jonathan H. Gruber
Optimal Taxation with Cournot Oligopoly
Leslie J. Reinhorn
Risk and Career Choice
Raven E. Saks and Stephen H. Shore
Recipient of the Arrow Prize for Junior Economists
Bounding Treatment Effects with Contaminated and Censored Data: Assessing the Impact of Early Childbearing on Children
Charles H. Mullin
Volume 4 (2004) - Issue 2 (Advances)
The Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Trade Integration and Political Turbulence: Environmental Policy Consequences
Per G. Fredriksson and Muthukumara Mani
The Unintended Disincentive in the Clean Air Act
John A. List, Daniel L. Millimet, and Warren McHone
Unilateral Emission Reductions and Cross-Country Technology Spillovers
Rolf Golombek and Michael Hoel
Testing for Pollution Havens Inside and Outside of Regional Trading Blocs
Matthew E. Kahn and Yutaka Yoshino
Managed Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Local Pollution
Pierre M. Regibeau and Alberto Gallegos
Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens
Josh Ederington, Arik Levinson, and Jenny Minier
Trade Pessimists vs Technology Optimists: Induced Technical Change and Pollution Havens
Corrado Di Maria and Sjak A. Smulders
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
M. Scott Taylor
Volume 4 (2004) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Using Placebo Laws to Test "More Guns, Less Crime"
Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok
Merger Simulation with Brand-Level Margin Data: Extending PCAIDS with Nests
Roy J. Epstein and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Internationally Common Features of Public Old-Age Pensions, and Their Implications for Models of the Public Sector
Casey B. Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Political and Economic Forces Sustaining Social Security
Casey B. Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin
The Budgetary Repercussions Of Capital Convictions
Katherine Baicker
The Value of Information in International Trade: Gains to Outsourcing through Hong Kong
Robert C. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson, and Songhua Lin
Entrepreneurship and Household Saving
William M. Gentry and R. Glenn Hubbard
Volume 3 (2003) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Does Federal Research Funding Increase University Research Output?
A. Abigail Payne and Aloysius Siow
Do Publicly Traded Corporations Act in the Public Interest?
Roger H. Gordon
Protection and the Business Cycle
Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger
Ethnic Ties and the Provision of Credit: Relationship-Level Evidence from African Firms
Raymond J. Fisman
Spillovers from Local Market Human Capital and the Spatial Distribution of Productivity in Malaysia
Timothy G. Conley, Fredrick Flyer, and Grace R. Tsiang
Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records
Ted Joyce, Robert Kaestner, and Sanders Korenman
Volume 2 (2002) - Issue 1 (Advances)
A Laboratory Study of Customer Markets
Timothy N. Cason and Daniel Friedman
Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census
Dirk W. Early and Edgar O. Olsen
Tax Reform and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from an Empirical General Equilibrium Model of Skill Formation
Christopher Taber
Volume 1 (2001) - Issue 1 (Advances)
Home Bias in Portfolios and Taxation of Asset Income
Roger Hall Gordon and Vitor Gaspar
Explaining Incomplete Contracts as the Result of Contract-Reading Costs
Eric Bennett Rasmusen
Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining
Elhanan Helpman and Torsten Persson