Based on several years of editing papers for the Research Section of the <italic>Journal of Economic Education</italic>, four suggestions are made for increasing the likelihood that a submitted manuscript is accepted for publication. The primary theme is that the hypotheses investigated should be based on...

The effect of status on aggregate welfare is ambiguous for marginal reforms that redistribute income. If average consumption falls, the change in relative consumption increases household utility but reinforces the decrease in household labor supply, raising welfare cost. For parameterizations of...