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July 10, 2008

The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the following new articles recently published in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. To view any of the articles in question, simply click on the links below:

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 microeconomics and policy, with distinguished editors from Boston University, London School of Economics, Michigan State, Paris School of Economics, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and Yale, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy is an established alternative to overpriced economics journals, and fills the need for quick publication of cutting-edge research. Articles use microeconomics to analyze issues in business, consumer behavior, and public policy, with practical implications for areas such as pollution, education, and population growth. Submissions are guaranteed to receive a decision within 10 weeks, and articles are published in four quality-rated tiers distinguished by breadth of appeal and overall quality. Many prominent economists publish their work here, including Elhanan Helpman (Harvard), Torsten Persson (London School of Economics), Eric Rasmusen (Indiana), Roger Hall Gordon (San Diego), Judith Chevalier (Yale), R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia), John List (Chicago), Jon Gruber (Harvard), John Morgan (Berkeley), Katherine Baicker (UCLA), Casey Mulligan (Chicago), Joel Waldfogel (Penn), Harvey Rosen (Princeton), and Daniel Rubinfeld (Berkeley).

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

Oriana Bandiera
London School of Economics

Thomas Buchmueller
University of Michigan

Don Fullerton
University of Illinois

Caroline Hoxby
Stanford University

Ching-to Albert Ma
Boston University

John Morgan
UC Berkeley

Fiona Scott Morton
Yale University

Gary Solon
Michigan State University

Thierry Verdier
Paris School of Economics

Jacob Vigdor
Duke University

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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