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The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession 大衰退以来美国出生率下降的谜团
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.151
Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, Luke Pardue
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Agricultural Technology in Africa 非洲农业技术
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.33
Tavneet Suri, Christopher Udry
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Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation 结构转型时期非洲的时间利用与性别
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.57
Taryn Dinkelman, L. Rachel Ngai
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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa 非洲劳动生产率增长与工业化
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.3
Margaret McMillan, Albert Zeufack
{"title":"Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa","authors":"Margaret McMillan, Albert Zeufack","doi":"10.1257/jep.36.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa’s large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa’s large manufacturing firms is partly a result of the capital intensity of the manufacturing subsectors in which African countries are most engaged—the processing of resources—and partly a result of rising capital intensity in manufacturing. The potential for manufacturing to raise living standards in Africa depends on indirect job creation by large firms through backward and forward linkages and increasing labor productivity in small firms.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":" 55","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Isaiah Andrews, 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist 以赛亚·安德鲁斯，2021年约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖章获得者
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.177
Anna Mikusheva, Jesse M. Shapiro
{"title":"Isaiah Andrews, 2021 John Bates Clark Medalist","authors":"Anna Mikusheva, Jesse M. Shapiro","doi":"10.1257/jep.36.1.177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.1.177","url":null,"abstract":"Isaiah Andrews is an exceptionally warm and caring person, a remarkable teacher, a collaborator and mentor, an exemplary contributor to his department and profession, and a brilliant econometrician. In this article, we review Isaiah’s contributions to econometric theory in the context of Isaiah’s receipt of the 2021 John Bates Clark Medal.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":" 52","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
The Price of Nails Since 1695: A Window into Economic Change 1695年以来的钉子价格:透视经济变化的窗口
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.125
Daniel E. Sichel
{"title":"The Price of Nails Since 1695: A Window into Economic Change","authors":"Daniel E. Sichel","doi":"10.1257/jep.36.1.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.1.125","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the price of nails since 1695 and the proximate source of changes in those prices. Why nails? They are a basic manufactured product whose form and quality have changed relatively little over the last three centuries, yet the process for producing them has changed dramatically. Accordingly, nails provide a useful prism through which to examine a wide range of economic and technological developments that touch on multiple areas of both micro- and macroeconomics. Several conclusions emerge. First, from the late 1700s to the mid-twentieth century, real nail prices fell by a factor of about 10 relative to overall consumer prices. These declines had important effects on downstream industries, most notably construction. Second, while declining materials prices contribute to reductions in nail prices, the largest proximate source of the decline during this period was multifactor productivity growth in nail manufacturing, highlighting the role of the specialization of labor and reorganization of production processes. Third, the share of nails in GDP dropped back from 0.4 percent of GDP in 1810—comparable to today’s share of household purchases of personal computers—to a de minimis share more recently; accordingly, nails played a bigger role in American life in that earlier period. Finally, real nail prices have increased since the mid-twentieth century, reflecting in part an upturn in materials prices and a shift toward specialty nails in the wake of import competition, though the introduction of nail guns partly offset these increases for the price of installed nails.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":" 51","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa 非洲的政治扭曲、国家控制和经济发展
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.101
Nathan Canen, Leonard Wantchekon
{"title":"Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa","authors":"Nathan Canen, Leonard Wantchekon","doi":"10.1257/jep.36.1.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.1.101","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the role of political distortions in driving economic growth and development in Africa. We first discuss how existing theories based on long-run structural factors (e.g., pre-colonial and colonial institutions, or ethnic diversity) may not capture new data patterns in the region, including changes to political regimes, growth patterns, and their variation across regions with similar historical experiences. We then argue that a framework focused on political distortions (i.e., how political incentives impact resource allocation and economic outcomes) may have multiple benefits: it encapsulates many distortions observed in practice, including patronage, variations in contract enforcement and the role of political connections in firm outcomes; it unifies results in Africa and elsewhere; and it leaves a wide scope for policy analysis. We conclude by overviewing reforms that may curb such distortions, including changes to campaign financing rules, bureaucratic reform, free trade agreements, and technology.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":" 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138494485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa 非洲的年轻人和劳动力市场
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.1257/jep.36.1.81
O. Bandiera, A. Elsayed, A. Smurra, Céline Zipfel
{"title":"Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa","authors":"O. Bandiera, A. Elsayed, A. Smurra, Céline Zipfel","doi":"10.1257/jep.36.1.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.1.81","url":null,"abstract":"Every year, millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper harmonizes surveys and censuses from 68 low- and middle-income countries to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are similar at similar levels of development but that young adults in Africa are less likely to have a salaried job, especially when the size of their cohort is large. Building on existing evidence on the impacts of interventions targeting both the demand and supply sides of the labor market, we discuss policy priorities for boosting the growth of salaried job creation in the region.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47927196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 17
Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children 儿童与美国社会安全网:平衡成人的不利因素与儿童的有利因素
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.3386/w29754
Anna Aizer, Hilary W. Hoynes, A. Lleras-Muney
{"title":"Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children","authors":"Anna Aizer, Hilary W. Hoynes, A. Lleras-Muney","doi":"10.3386/w29754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/w29754","url":null,"abstract":"A hallmark of every developed nation is the provision of a social safety net-a collection of public programs that deliver aid to the poor. Because of their higher rates of poverty, children are often a major beneficiary of safety net programs. Countries vary considerably in both the amount of safety net aid to children and the design of their programs. The United States provides less aid to families with children as a share of GDP (0.6 percent) than most countries: Among 37 OECD countries, only Turkey provides less, as shown in Figure 1. Countries that provide less aid to families with children have higher rates of child poverty. Among these same 37 countries, only Turkey and Costa Rica have higher child poverty rates than the United States. Why does the United States appear to be such an outlier in terms of the amount of aid it provides to families and child poverty rates? While there are likely multiple reasons, in this paper we focus on one possible explanation: Past emphasis on the negative behavioral effects of safety net programs for families over the benefits of such programs for children.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43390144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 21
The Relationship Between Race and Ethnicity, Type of Work, and Covid-19 Infection Rates 种族和民族、工作类型与Covid-19感染率之间的关系
IF 8.4 1区 经济学
Journal of Economic Perspectives Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.21033/ep-2022-2
R. Faberman, D. Hartley
{"title":"The Relationship Between Race and Ethnicity, Type of Work, and Covid-19 Infection Rates","authors":"R. Faberman, D. Hartley","doi":"10.21033/ep-2022-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21033/ep-2022-2","url":null,"abstract":"The initial waves of the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affected minority racial and ethnic population groups in the United States. Both Black and Hispanic Americans experienced higher infection rates, and in many regions Black Americans also experienced higher death rates. One hypothesis put forward during the early stages of the pandemic is that differences in types of work done by different racial and ethnic groups could account for some of the differences in infection rates. Different jobs have different levels of exposure to the disease, and workers from minority racial and ethnic groups disproportionately work in jobs that require being in close proximity to other people.1 In the early stages of the pandemic, lockdown rules delineated certain industries as “essential,” requiring many of their employees to continue working on site, while many workers in “nonessential” industries were able to work from home. Following the initial lockdown period, workers in nonessential industries saw their businesses reopen on site at different times and to differing degrees across the country. States varied considerably in terms of how closely reopening schedules were tied to infection rates.","PeriodicalId":15611,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Perspectives","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87733487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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