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The Journal of The Journal of Economic Perspectives Economic Perspectives The Journal of Winter 2021, Volume 35, Number 1 Economic Perspectives Symposia Minimum Wage Alan Manning, “The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage” Arindrajit Dube and Attila Lindner, “City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?” Jeffrey Clemens, “How Do Firms Respond to Minimum Wage Increases? Understanding the Relevance of Non-Employment Margins” Price V. Fishback and Andrew J. Seltzer, “The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968” A journal of the Polarization in Courts American Economic Association Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, “Estimating Judicial Ideology” Daniel Hemel, “Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?” Economics of Higher Education 35, Number 1 Winter 2021 Volume David Figlio and Morton Schapiro, “Stafng the Higher Education Classroom” John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner, “The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System” W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola, “Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles” Articles Florian Scheuer and Joel Slemrod, “Taxing Our Wealth” Daron Acemoglu, “Melissa Dell: Winner of the 2020 Clark Medal” Recommendations for Further Reading Winter 2021 The American Economic Association The Journal of Correspondence relating to advertising, busi- Founded in 1885 ness matters, permission to quote, or change Economic Perspectives of address should be sent to the AEA business EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE office: [email protected]. Street ad- Elected Officers and Members A journal of the American Economic Association dress: American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203. For President membership, subscriptions, or complimentary DAVID CARD, University of California, Berkeley Editor access to JEP articles, go to the AEA website: President-elect Heidi Williams, Stanford University http://www.aeaweb.org. Annual dues for regu- lar membership are $24.00, $34.00, or $44.00, CHRISTINA D. 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Seltzer, “The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968” . 73 Polarization in Courts Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, “Estimating Judicial Ideology” . 97 Daniel Hemel, “Can Structural Changes Fix the Supreme Court?” . 119 Economics of Higher Education David Figlio and Morton Schapiro, “Staffing the Higher Education Classroom” . 143 John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner, “The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System” . 163 W . Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola, “Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles” . 185 Articles Florian Scheuer and Joel Slemrod, “Taxing Our Wealth” . 207 Daron Acemoglu, “Melissa Dell: Winner of the 2020 Clark Medal” . 231 Feature Timothy Taylor, “Recommendations for Further Reading” . 249 Statement of Purpose The Journal of Economic Perspectives attempts to fill a gap between the general interest press and most other academic economics journals . The journal aims to publish articles that will serve several goals: to synthesize and integrate lessons learned from active lines of economic research; to provide economic analysis of public policy issues; to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the fields of economics; to offer readers an accessible source for state-of-the-art economic thinking; to suggest directions for future research; to provide insights and read- ings for classroom use; and to address issues relating to the economics profession . Articles appearing in the journal are normally solicited by the editors and associate editors . Proposals for topics and authors should be directed to the journal office, at the address inside the front cover . Policy on Data Availability It is the policy of the Journal of Economic Perspectives to publish papers only if the data used in the analysis are clearly and precisely documented and are readily available to any researcher for purposes of replication . Details of the computations sufficient to permit replication must be provided . The Editor should be notified at the time of submission if the data used in a paper are proprietary or if, for some other reason, the above requirements cannot be