July 10, 2008
 

New Articles

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy

 

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Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the following articles recently published in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.

Frontiers

The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance

Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner

This paper wins the Arrow Prize in Economic Analysis & Policy, for making an outstanding contribution to economics. The award carries a $5,000 honorarium and publication in Frontiers, BEJEAP's most selective tier that accepts less than 1% of all submissions.




Advances

Coping with Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002

Dean Yang

Giving It Away for Free? The Nature of Job-Market Signaling by Open-Source Software Developers

Wafa Hakim Orman

On the Optimal Allocation of Students and Resources in a System of Higher Education

James M. Sallee, Alexandra M. Resch, and Paul N. Courant


Contributions

An Empirical Study of Happiness in Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa and Michela Ponzo

Two BEJEAP papers win Arrow Prizes

2007 Arrow Prize for Junior Economists

Tom Hertz, Tamara Jayasundera, Patrizio Piraino, Sibel Selcuk, Nicole Smith and Alina Verashchagina (2007) The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends.

ABSTRACT: This paper estimates 50-year trends in the intergenerational persistence of educational attainment for a sample of 42 nations around the globe. Large regional differences in educational persistence are documented, with Latin America displaying the highest intergenerational correlations, and the Nordic countries the lowest. We also demonstrate that the global average correlation between parent and child's schooling has held steady at about 0.4 for the past fifty years.

Arrow Prize in Economic Analysis & Policy

Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd R. Stinebrickner (2008) The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance

ABSTRACT: While a substantial amount of recent attention has been paid to understanding the determinants of educational outcomes, little is known about the causal impact of the most fundamental input in the education production function - a student's study effort. In this paper, we examine the causal effect of studying on grade performance by taking advantage of unique, new data that has been collected specifically for this purpose. Important for understanding the potential impact of a wide array of education policies, the results suggest that human capital accumulation is far from predetermined at the time of college entrance.

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About this journal

Among the top-caliber journals in applied microeconomics and policy, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (BEJEAP) is an established alternative to overpriced economics titles. It fills the need for quick publication of cutting-edge research, and is edited by distinguished experts from top institutions around the world. Articles use microeconomics to analyze issues in business, consumer behavior, and public policy, with practical implications for areas such as antitrust policy, pollution, health, education, trade, taxation, labor, and development. Submissions are guaranteed to receive a decision within 10 weeks, and articles are published into four quality-rated tiers, distinguished by breadth of appeal and overall quality.

F.A.C.T. stands for Frontiers, Advances, Contributions, and Topics, the BEJEAP tiers, top to bottom. The section called Symposium includes special issues with papers that are not quality ranked like those in the other tiers.

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy is indexed in AGRICOLA, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, EconLit, IBSS, Intute, PAIS International, RePEc, Scopus, and Social Science Citation Index (Thomson/ISI).

Edited by

Michael Baker
University of Toronto

Thomas Buchmueller
University of Michigan

Antonio Cabrales
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Helmuth Cremer
Toulouse School of Economics

Don Fullerton
University of Illinois

Arik Levinson
Georgetown University

Nuno Limão
University of Maryland

Nolan Miller
University of Illinois

Steven Puller
Texas A&M University

Gary Solon
Michigan State University

Jacob Vigdor
Duke University

Dean Yang
University of Michigan

Eric Zitzewitz
Dartmouth College
BEJTE paper wins 2007 Senior Arrow Prize
The 2007 Arrow Prize for Senior Economists went to Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford) and Brian W. Rogers (Northwestern) for their paper Relating Network Structure to Diffusion Properties through Stochastic Dominance in BEJTE.
 

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