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
Contributions
Regional Integration, Subsidy Competition and the Relocation Choice of MNCs
Facundo Albornoz and Gregory Corcos
Academic Journal Prices in a Digital Age: A Two-Sided Market Model
Mark J. McCabe and Christopher M. Snyder
A Model of Dysfunctional Urges and Addiction with an Application to Cigarette Smoking
Jacob Glazer and Andrew M. Weiss
Gasoline Price Differences: Taxes, Pollution Regulations, Mergers, Market Power, and Market Conditions
Hayley H. Chouinard and Jeffrey M. Perloff
Disability Testing and Retirement
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Pierre Pestieau
The Short and Long Run Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Fatal Automobile Crashes
Neeraj Sood and Arkadipta Ghosh
The Effect of Smoking Bans on Bars and Restaurants: An Analysis of Changes in Employment
Scott Adams and Chad D. Cotti
The Pro-collusive Effect of Increasing the Repose Period for Price Fixing Agreements
Jeroen Hinloopen
Does It Pay To Pray? Costly Ritual and Cooperation
Bradley J. Ruffle and Richard Sosis
Vaccination Externalities
Bryan L. Boulier, Tejwant S. Datta, and Robert S. Goldfarb
Animal House: Economics of Pets and the Household
Peter M. Schwarz, Jennifer L. Troyer, and Jennifer Beck Walker
The Informational Value of Affirmative Action in College Admissions
Eric K. Furstenberg
Optimal Contracts for Health Services in the Presence of Waiting Times and Asymmetric Information
Luigi Siciliani
Does Investment Promotion Work?
Andrew Charlton and Nicholas Davis
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
The Unpleasant Effects of Price Deregulation in the European Third-Party Motor Insurance Market: A Theoretical Framework
Domenico Scalera and Alberto Zazzaro
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime
Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Visa Screening and Collateral Import of Terrorism
Satya P. Das and Sajal Lahiri
Are There Treatment Duration Differences in the Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments?
Melvin Stephens Jr.
Optimal Origin-based Commodity Taxation in a Small Open Economy
Giampaolo Arachi
Consumer Food Safety Risk Perceptions and Attitudes: Impacts on Beef Consumption across Countries
Ted C. Schroeder, Glynn T. Tonsor, Joost M.E. Pennings, and James Mintert
Topics
The Timing of Prenatal WIC Participation
Christopher A. Swann
The Role of Distance in Gravity Regressions: Is There Really a Missing Globalisation Puzzle?
Laura Márquez-Ramos, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, and Celestino Suárez-Burguet
How Standards Drive Taxes: The Political Economy of Tailpipe Pollution
Sumeet Gulati and Devesh Roy
The Transactions Demand for Credit Cards
Kathleen W. Johnson
Endogenous Corruption in a Federation
Alexander Plekhanov
Cost Effectiveness of R&D and Strategic Trade Policy
Praveen Kujal and Juan M. Ruiz
Capital Structure and Entry Deterrence with Multiple Incumbents
Jorge Antonio Tarzijan
Alcohol Control Policies and Youth Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from 28 Years of Monitoring the Future
Christopher S. Carpenter, Deborah D. Kloska, Patrick O'Malley, and Lloyd Johnston
Can Stricter Environmental Regulations Increase Export of the Polluting Good?
Monica Das and Sandwip K. Das
Human Capital and Welfare Dynamics in Canada
Jorgen Hansen
Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK
Matthew A. Cole and Rob J. Elliott
Understanding the Internet's Relevance to Media Ownership Policy: A Model of Too Many Choices
Matthew G. Nagler
The Pollution Haven Paradox: Can an Effluent Tax Improve both Profits and Welfare?
Robert Driskill and Andrew W. Horowitz
Life Is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
Family Expenditures on Child Care
Dan T. Rosenbaum and Christopher J. Ruhm
Financial Aid and Student Bargaining Power
David M. Lang
The Ghost of Corruption
Cemile Yavas
Ideology, Inequality and Inequitable Trade Policies
Daron O. Djerdjian
The 1990 Clean Air Act and the Implicit Price of Sulfur in Coal
Ian Lange and Allen S. Bellas
Coordination Failure in Foreign Aid
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
Trade and Development in a Labor Surplus Economy
Edward B. Barbier and Michael Rauscher
Economic Geography and the Effect of Environmental Pollution on Agglomeration
Andreas Lange and Martin F. Quaas
Bank Fragility and Growth Expectations
Eugenio Proto
Firm Regulation and Profit Sharing: A Real Option Approach
Michele Moretto and Paola Valbonesi
Understanding Participation in Social Programs: Why Don't Households Pick up the Lifeline?
Mark Burton, Jeffrey Macher, and John W. Mayo
Cross-Border Shopping and the Sales Tax: An Examination of Food Purchases in West Virginia
Mehmet S. Tosun and Mark L. Skidmore