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TABLE of CONTENTS–January 2020 NITI AAYOG TABLE OF CONTENTS–January 2020 Compiled By: Mr. Kumar Sanjay, CLDO Mrs. Indira, ALIO NITI AAYOG LIBRARY 1 CONTENTS Pg.No. A. ECONOMICS 3-9 A. 1. American Economic Review 3 A. 2. American Economic Journal Applied Economics 5 A. 5. Journal of Economic Literature 7 A. 6. Journal of Political Economy 8 2 A. 1. American Economic Review: Vol. 109 No. 12,December 2019 Table of Contents Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland/ Marcella Alsan, Owen Garrick and Grant Graziani. Page No.4071 Predicting and Understanding Initial Play/Drew Fudenberg and Annie Liang. Page No.4112 The Term Structure of Currency Carry Trade Risk Premia/Hanno Lustig, Andreas Stathopoulos and Adrien Verdelhan. Page No.4142 The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction/ Tatyana Deryugina, Garth Heutel, Nolan H. Miller, David Molitor and Julian Reif. Page No.4178 Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms/Andreas Müller, Kjetil Storesletten and Fabrizio Zilibotti. Page No.4220 Occupations and Import Competition: Evidence from Denmark/Sharon Traiberman. Page No.4260 Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets/Ali Hortaçsu, Fernando Luco, Steven L. Puller and Dongni Zhu. Page No.4302 3 Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises: A Quantitative Analysis/Luigi Bocola and Alessandro Dovis. Page No.4343 The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland/Mathieu Couttenier, Veronica Petrencu, Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig. Page no. 4378 4 A. 2. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics: Vol. 12 No. 1, January 2020 Table of Contents Estimating Adjustment Frictions Using Nonlinear Budget Sets: Method and Evidence from the Earnings Test/Alexander M. Gelber, Damon Jones and Daniel W. Sacks. Page No. 1 Early Voting Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio/Ethan Kaplan and Haishan Yuan. Page No. 32 A Precinct Too Far: Turnout and Voting Costs/Enrico Cantoni. Page No. 61 The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation/Tatyana Deryugina, Alexander MacKay and Julian Reif. Page No. 86 Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?/Judson Boomhower and Lucas Davis. Page No. 115 Crafting Intellectual Property Rights: Implications for Patent Assertion Entities, Litigation, and Innovation/Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel. Page No. 140 Un-Fortunate Sons: Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on the Next Generation's Labor Market/Sarena Goodman and Adam Isen. Page No. 182 5 Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa/Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman. Page No. 210 All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage/Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne. Page No. 260 Race to the Bottom? Local Tax Break Competition and Business Location/Evan Mast. Page No. 288 Tipping and the Effects of Segregation/Anders Böhlmark and Alexander Willén. Page No. 318 Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction/Anjali Adukia, Sam Asher and Paul Novosad. Page No. 348 6 A. 3. Journal of Economic Literature: Vol. LVII, No. 4, December 2019 Table of Contents Caste and the Indian Economy/Kaivan Munshi. Page No. 781 The Identification Zoo: Meanings of Identification in Econometrics/Arthur Lewbel. Page No. 835 Tax Compliance and Enforcement/Joel Slemrod. Page No. 904 Review of Walter Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century/William Easterly. Page No. 955 A Review Essay: David Kynaston's Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England, 1694–2013/Charles R. Bean. Page No. 972 Rationalizing Choice: A Review Essay on Peter Leeson's WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird/Rajiv Sethi. Page No. 988 7 A. 4. Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 127 No. 6, December 2019 Table of Contents Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium/Brant Abbott, Giovanni Gallipoli, Costas Meghir, and Giovanni L. Violante. Page No. 2569 Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy/Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein. Page No. 2625 The Social Cost of Carbon with Economic and Climate Risks/Yongyang Cai and Thomas S. Lontzek. Page No. 2684 The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers/M. Keith Chen, Judith A. Chevalier, Peter E. Rossi, and Emily Oehlsen. Page No. 2735 Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality/Lasse Eika, Magne Mogstad, and Basit Zafar. Page No. 2795 The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment/Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendren, and Erzo F. P. Luttmer. Page No. 2836 Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility/Alfred Galichon, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber. Page No. 2875 8 Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy/Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and John Moore. Page No. 2926 Merger Review for Markets with Buyer Power/Simon Loertscher and Leslie M. Marx. Page No. 2967 Price Caps as Welfare-Enhancing Coopetition/Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole. Page No. 3018 Marginal Treatment Effects from a Propensity Score Perspective/Xiang Zhou and Yu Xie. Page No. 3070 9 .
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