Summer 2011 Journal of Economic Perspectives

I'm the managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, published by the American Economic Association. It's an academic journal, but it's meant to be a journal that's readable by those who have some background in economics--like those who took several undergraduate courses in college in the subject. The AEA makes all of the articles the journal freely available on-line to all, and the Summer 2011 issue is now available.

I'll comment on the specifics of some of these articles over the next week or so, but here's the table of contents for the issue. Again, all of these articles are available on-line at the JEP website.

Symposium: Field Experiments

“Why Economists Should Conduct Field Experiments and 14 Tips for Pulling One Off,” by John A. List

“Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations,” by Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan

“The Role of Theory in Field Experiments,” by David Card, Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier

“Field Experiments with Firms,” by Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

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Symposium: Emigration

“Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?” by Michael A. Clemens

“Eight Questions about Brain Drain,” by John Gibson and David McKenzie

“ Migrant Remittances,” by Dean Yang

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Other Articles

“Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis,” by Douglas Almond and Janet Currie

“Internal Migration in the United States,” by Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith and Abigail Wozniak

“Esther Duflo: 2010 John Bates Clark Medalist,” by Christopher Udry

“Retrospectives: Hume on Money, Commerce, and the Science of Economics,” by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind

“Recommendations for Further Reading,” by Timothy Taylor