NBER Working papers 2008

Week of December 28, 2008

• Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree
  Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff #14629 (AP, EFG, IFM, TWP)
  
• New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences
  Bruce Blonigen #14627 (ITI)
  
• Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
  Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple #14626 (ITI, PR)
  
• An Empirical Model of Subprime Mortgage Default from 2000 to 2007
  Patrick Bajari, Sean Chu, and Minjung Park #14625 (IO)
  
• Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions
  Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile #14624 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation
  Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Stromberg #14623 (CF, PR)
  
• Behavioral Welfare Economics
  B. Douglas Bernheim #14622 (PE)
  
• Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation and the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14621 (EFG, ME)
  
• Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing
  Michael Woodford #14620 (EFG, ME)
  
• Hospitals As Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand
  Dana Goldman and John A. Romley #14619 (HC)
  
• Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms: An Experimental Investigation
  Clayton Featherstone and Muriel Niederle #14618 (ED, LS)
  
• Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
  Michael Elsby, Bart Hobijn, and Aysegul Sahin #14617 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output
  J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu, and John G. Fernald #14616 (ME, PR)
  
• The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks
  Susanto Basu, Robert Inklaar, and J. Christina Wang #14615 (PR)
  
• A Theory of Firm Scope
  Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom #14613 (CF, LE)

Week of December 21, 2008

• Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08
  Markus K. Brunnermeier #14612 (AP, CF, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• The Effects of Capacity on Sales Under Alternative Vertical Contracts
  Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Holland Mortimer, and Richard Mortimer #14611 (IO)
  
• An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
  Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, and Francis Kramarz #14610 (IO, ITI, PR)
  
• Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Stock Selection by Mutual Funds
  Zhi Da, Pengjie Gao, and Ravi Jagannathan #14609 (AP)
  
• National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment
  Steven Cantrell, Jon Fullerton, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger #14608 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation
  Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger #14607 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
  Eli Berman, Jacob N. Shapiro, and Joseph H. Felter #14606 (IFM, PE, POL, PR)
  
• Trading Frictions and House Price Dynamics
  Andrew Caplin and John Leahy #14605 (EFG, ME)
  
• Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands
  Peter Blair Henry and Conrad Miller #14604 (EFG, IFM, ITI, LE, LS, ME, PE, POL)
  
• Endogenous Presidentialism
  James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik #14603 (POL)
  
• Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries: Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology
  Matthew J. Higgins, Paula E. Stephan, and Jerry G. Thursby #14602 (LS, PR)
  
• Forecast Evaluation of Small Nested Model Sets
  Kirstin Hubrich and Kenneth D. West #14601 (AP, ME, TWP)
  
• "Currency Manipulation" and World Trade
  Robert W. Staiger and Alan O. Sykes #14600 (ITI)
  
• The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
  Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner #14599 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?
  Loretti I. Dobrescu, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alberto F. Motta #14580 (AG, ME, PE, POL, PR)
  

Week of December 14, 2008

• Media Coverage of Political Scandals
  Riccardo Puglisi and James M. Snyder, Jr. #14598 (POL)
  
• Predictability and 'Good Deals' in Currency Markets
  Richard M. Levich and Valerio Poti #14597 (IFM)
  
• Opting Out of the Great Inflation: German Monetary Policy After the Break Down of Bretton Woods
  Andreas Beyer, Vitor Gaspar, Christina Gerberding, and Otmar Issing #14596 (IFM)
  
• Learning the Wealth of Nations
  Francisco J. Buera, Alexander Monge-Naranjo, and Giorgio E. Primiceri #14595 (EFG)
  
• Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Francesca Lotti, and Jacques Mairesse #14594 (IO, PR)
  
• Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups
  Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh and John F. Helliwell #14593 (PE)
  
• Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation
  Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, and John McHale #14592 (PR)
  
• Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women
  Dhaval M. Dave, Sandra Decker, Robert Kaestner, and Kosali I. Simon #14591 (CH, HC, HE, PE)
  
• Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions
  Susan Athey, Jonathan Levin, and Enrique Seira #14590 (IO)
  
• Well-being and Trust in the Workplace
  John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang #14589 (LS)
  
• Welfare Effects of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry
  Justin Ho , Katherine Ho, and Julie Holland Mortimer #14588 (IO)
  
• Banking Crises: An Equal Opportunity Menace
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #14587 (IFM)
  
• What Can Survey Forecasts Tell Us About Informational Rigidities?
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14586 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
  Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson #14585 (IFM, POL)
  
• Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups
  Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti #14584 (EFG, POL)
  
• Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows
  Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner #14583 (PE)
  
• The Value of Making Commitments Externally: Evidence from WTO Accessions
  Man-Keung Tang and Shang-Jin Wei #14582 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Equity Depletion from Government-Guaranteed Debt
  Robert E. Hall #14581 (EFG)
  
• The Flypaper Effect
  Robert P. Inman #14579 (PE, POL)
  
• The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses
  Justine S. Hastings and Ebonya L. Washington #14578 (IO, PE)
  
• Superstar Extinction
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Jialan Wang #14577 (PR)
  
• Evidence of Improved Monitoring and Insolvency Resolution after FDICIA
  Edward J. Kane, Rosalind Bennett, and Robert Oshinsky #14576 (CF)
  
• What is a Company Really Worth? Intangible Capital and the "Market to Book Value" Puzzle
  Charles R. Hulten and Xiaohui Hao #14548 (PR)
  
• Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
  Jeffrey B. Liebman, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and David G. Seif #14540 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
  Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer #14520 (EFG)
  

Week of December 7, 2008

• The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function
  James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons #14575 (PR)
  
• Multi-market Delegated Asset Management
  Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong #14574 (AP, CF)
  
• Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers
  Kasey Buckles and Daniel M. Hungerman #14573 (CH)
  
• Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?
  Leemore Dafny #14572 (HC, IO)
  
• Forecasting Stock Market Returns: The Sum of the Parts is More than the Whole
  Miguel A. Ferreira and Pedro Santa-Clara #14571 (AP)
  
• The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery
  Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig #14570 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008
  Michael D. Bordo #14569 (ME)
  
• The Cost of Primary Care Doctors
  Sherry A. Glied, Ashwin Prabhu, and Norman H. Edelman #14568 (HC, LS)
  
• Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and Italy
  Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya, and Lorenzo Carbonari #14567 (HC, HE)
  
• The Timing of Labor Demand
  Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Jose Varejao #14566 (LS)
  
• International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
  Lucas W. Davis and Matthew E. Kahn #14565 (EEE, IO, ITI)
  
• Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality
  Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley J. Turner #14564 (ED, PE)
  
• The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited
  Alan S. Blinder and Jeremy B. Rudd #14563 (DAE, EFG)
  
• Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance
  Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick #14562 (IFM, ITI, ME)
  
• Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets
  Joshua Aizenman, Michael Hutchison, and Ilan Noy #14561 (IFM, ITI, ME)
  
• Did Economics Cause World War II?
  Robert J. Gordon #14560 (EFG, PR)
  
• Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision
  Michael A. Spencer, Stephen K. Swallow , Jason F. Shogren, and John A. List #14559 (EEE, PE)
  
• Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
  M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar S. Prasad, and Marco E. Terrones #14558 (EFG, IFM, PR)
  
• The Evolution of Corporate Ownership After IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection
  C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood #14557 (CF, LE)
  
• A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism
  Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch #14556 (POL)
  
• Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age
  Hugh Rockoff #14555 (DAE)
  
• Task Trade between Similar Countries
  Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #14554 (EFG, ITI)
  
• The Slow Decline of East Germany
  Harald Uhlig #14553 (EFG, ITI, LS)
  
• An Exploration of Local R&D Spillovers in France
  Jacques Mairesse and Benoit Mulkay #14552 (PR)
  
• What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?
  Andrew Mountford and Harald Uhlig #14551 (EFG, IFM, PE)
  
• Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children
  Brian Jacob and Jens Ludwig #14550 (CH, ED)
  
• Bankruptcy: Past Puzzles, Recent Reforms, and the Mortgage Crisis
  Michelle J. White #14549 (LE)
  
• Can Structural Small Open Economy Models Account for the Influence of Foreign Disturbances?
  Alejandro Justiniano and Bruce Preston #14547 (EFG)
  
• Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
  Marcos Chamon and Eswar Prasad #14546 (IFM)
  
• Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care
  Sherry A. Glied #14545 (HC)
  
• Mispricing of S&P 500 Index Options
  George M. Constantinides, Jens Carsten Jackwerth , and Stylianos Perrakis #14544 (AP)
  
• Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico
  Justine S. Hastings and Lydia Tejeda-Ashton #14538 (AG, IO, PE)
  
• Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
  Helena Skyt Nielsen, Torben Sorensen, and Christopher R. Taber #14535 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade
  Kalina Manova #14531 (ITI)

Week of November 30, 2008

• Asset Pricing Tests with Long Run Risks in Consumption Growth
  George M. Constantinides and Anisha Ghosh #14543 (AP)
  
• The Estimated Effects of the Euro on Trade: Why Are They Below Historical Effects of Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #14542 (IFM)
  
• More Women Missing, Fewer Girls Dying: The Impact of Abortion on Sex Ratios at Birth and Excess Female Mortality in Taiwan
  Ming-Jen Lin, Nancy Qian, and Jin-Tan Liu #14541 (HE)
  
• Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
  Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch #14539 (PE)
  
• Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico
  Justine S. Hastings and Lydia Ashton #14538 (AG, IO, PE)
  
• Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005
  Chiaki Moriguchi #14537 (LS, PE)
  
• Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions
  Richard H. Steckel #14536 (CH, DAE, HE, LS)
  
• Inflation Determination with Taylor Rules: Is New Keynesian Analysis Critically Flawed?
  Bennett T. McCallum #14534 (EFG, ME)
  
• Assessing the Emerging Global Financial Architecture: Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time
  Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn, and Hiro Ito #14533 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation
  Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen #14532 (DAE, ME)
  
• Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program
  David Neumark and Jed Kolko #14530 (LS, PE)
  
• Business Cycles in the Euro Area
  Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, and Lucrezia Reichlin #14529 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Emerging Market Currency Excess Returns
  Stephen Gilmore and Fumio Hayashi #14528 (IFM)
  
• Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers
  Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff #14527 (AG, DAE, ITI, LE, ME, PE, PR)
  
• Dynamic Merger Review
  Volker Nocke and Michael D. Whinston #14526 (IO)
  
• Impossible Frontiers
  Thomas J. Brennan and Andrew W. Lo #14525 (AP)
  
• High Birth Weight and Cognitive Outcomes
  Resul Cesur and Inas Rashad #14524 (HE)
  
• An Institutional Theory of Momentum and Reversal
  Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley #14523 (AP)
  
• Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
  Douglas Almond, Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Amanda E. Kowalski, and Heidi Williams #14522 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances
  Ricardo J. Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas #14521 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in EMU: Evidence from an Estimated Model
  Ulf Soderstrom #14519 (IFM)
  
• Did Mergers Help Japanese Mega-Banks Avoid Failure? Analysis of the Distance to Default of Banks
  Kimie Harada and Takatoshi Ito #14518 (IFM)
  
• Intermediary Asset Pricing
  Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy #14517 (CF, AP)
  
• The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design
  Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Fernando Ferreira, and Jesse Rothstein #14516 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing
  Yongmin Chen, Ignatius J. Horstmann, and James R. Markusen #14515 (IO, ITI)
  

Week of November 16, 2008

• A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
  Casey B. Mulligan #14514 (EFG, ME, PE)
  
• No Time to Lose? Time Constraints and Physical Activity
  John Mullahy and Stephanie A. Robert #14513 (HE)
  
• Tobit at Fifty: A Brief History of Tobin's Remarkable Estimator, of Related Empirical Methods, and of Limited Dependent Variable Econometrics in Health Economics
  Kohei Enami and John Mullahy #14512 (HC, HE)
  
• Term Length and Political Performance
  Ernesto Dal Bo and Martin Rossi #14511 (POL)
  
• Monetary Policy Trade-Offs in an Estimated Open-Economy DSGE Model
  Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laseen, Jesper Linde, and Lars E.O. Svensson #14510 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
  Diego A. Comin #14509 (EFG, ITI, ME, PR)
  
• Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development
  John F. Helliwell #14507 (IFM)
  
• The Strategic Timing Incentives of Commercial Radio Stations: An Empirical Analysis Using Multiple Equilibria
  Andrew Sweeting #14506 (IO)
  
• Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets: The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets
  Andrew Sweeting #14505 (IO)
  
• Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources
  Meredith Fowlie, Christopher R. Knittel, and Catherine Wolfram #14504 (EEE, IO)
  
• Tracing the Woes: An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry
  Steven Berry and Panle Jia #14503 (IO)
  
• On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
  Pascal Courty and Gerald R. Marschke #14502 (LS)
  
• Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence
  Ernst Fehr, Oliver D. Hart, and Christian Zehnder #14501 (CF, LE)
  
• Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
  Angus Deaton and Alan Heston #14499 (EFG)
  
• The Future of American Fertility
  Samuel H. Preston and Caroline Sten Hartnett #14498 (AG, CH)
  
• China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries
  Gordon H. Hanson and Raymond Robertson #14497 (ITI)
  
• Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds
  Andrew Ang, Vineer Bhansali, and Yuhang Xing #14496 (AP, PE)
  
• Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish
  Irene Brambilla, Guido Porto, and Alessandro Tarozzi #14495 (ITI)
  
• Taxing Corporate Income
  Alan J. Auerbach, Michael P. Devereux, and Helen Simpson #14494 (PE)
  
• The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century
  Sibylle H. Lehmann and Kevin H. O'Rourke #14493 (DAE, ITI)
  

Week of November 9, 2008

• Understanding Crude Oil Prices
  James D. Hamilton #14492 (EEE)
  
• The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization
  Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf #14491 (IO, ITI, LS)
  
• The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
  Gordon H. Hanson #14490 (ITI, LS)
  
• How Central Bankers See It: The First Decade of ECB Policy and Beyond
  Stephen G. Cecchetti and Kermit L. Schoenholtz #14489 (ME)
  
• Capital Structure and Debt Structure
  Joshua D. Rauh and Amir Sufi #14488 (CF)
  
• Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments
  Alessandra Casella #14487 (PE, POL)
  
• The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Famework and Survey
  Renée Adams, Benjamin E. Hermalin, and Michael S. Weisbach #14486 (CF)
  
• Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?
  Jonah E. Rockoff, Brian A. Jacob, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger #14485 (ED)
  
• Luddites and the Demographic Transition
  Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ahmed S. Rahman, and Alan M. Taylor #14484 (DAE)
  
• Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization
  Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky #14483 (POL)
  
• Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes
  Janet Currie, Mark Stabile, Phongsack Manivong, and Leslie L. Roos #14482 (CH, HC, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, and Katherine Terrell #14481 (, ITI, PR)
  
• Self-Enforcing Stochastic Monitoring and the Separation of Debt and Equity Claims
  Harold L. Cole #14480 (EFG)
  
• The Euro and Structural Reforms
  Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna, and Vincenzo Galasso #14479 (POL)
  
• Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy
  Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, and Stephen Redding #14478 (ITI)
  
• Outsourcing when Investments are Specific and Complementary
  Alla Lileeva and Johannes Van Biesebroeck #14477 (IO, PR)
  
• Why the European Securities Market is Not Fully Integrated
  Alberto Giovannini #14476 (IFM)
  
• Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
  Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer #14475 (CH, ED)

Week of November 2, 2008

• Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
  Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin #14474 (CH, ED, HE)
  
• Carry Trades and Currency Crashes
  Markus K. Brunnermeier, Stefan Nagel, and Lasse H. Pedersen #14473 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across Cities
  David Albouy #14472 (LS, PE)
  
• Mental Health Parity Legislation, Cost-Sharing and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions
  Dhaval M. Dave and Swati Mukerjee #14471 (HE)
  
• Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping
  David Card, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein #14470 (LS, PE)
  
• Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models
  Bryan S. Graham and James Powell #14469 (HE, LS, PE, TWP)
  
• The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
  Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi #14468 (POL)
  
• The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo #14467 (ED)
  
• Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women
  Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, and Hope Corman #14466 (HE, LS, ED, PE)
  
• What Happened To The Quants In August 2007?: Evidence from Factors and Transactions Data
  Amir E. Khandani and Andrew W. Lo #14465 (AP)
  
• Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies
  Suzanne Scotchmer #14464 (LE, LS)
  
• An Arbitrage-Free Generalized Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Model
  Jens H.E. Christensen, Francis X. Diebold, and Glenn D. Rudebusch #14463 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects
  Dora L. Costa #14462 (AG, DAE, LS, PE)
  

Week of October 25, 2008

• Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports
  Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang #14461 (ITI)
  
• China’s Participation in Global Environmental Negotiations
  Huifang Tian and John Whalley #14460 (EEE, ITI)
  
• The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State: Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
  Alon Cohen and Assaf Razin #14459 (IFM)
  
• Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Jeff Larrimore #14458 (LS, PE, TWP)
  
• Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency
  Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole #14457 (CF)
  
• Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
  Anne Case, Anu Garrib, Alicia Menendez, and Analia Olgiati #14456 (AG)
  
• Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictionsand the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance
  Randall D. Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark E. Votruba #14455 (HC, LS)
  
• The Euro and Firm Restructuring
  Matteo Bugamelli, Fabiano Schivardi, and Roberta Zizza #14454 (IO, LS, PR)
  
• The US as the "Demander of Last Resort" and its Implications on China's Current Account
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak #14453 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Income Dispersion and Counter-Cyclical Markups
  Chris Edmond and Laura Veldkamp #14452 (EFG, ME)
  
• Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability
  Asher A. Blass, Saul Lach, and Charles F. Manski #14451 (EEE, IO)
  
• How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?
  Shanjun Li, Roger von Haefen, and Christopher Timmins #14450 (EEE, PE)
  
• When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?
  Quamrul H. Ashraf, Ashley Lester, and David N. Weil #14449 (EFG)
  
• Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
  Louis Putterman and David N. Weil #14448 (EFG)
  
• Nonparametric Inference on Efficient Treatment Assignment under Budget Constraints
  Debopam Bhattacharya and Pascaline Dupas #14447 (CH, HE)
  
• Market Responses to the Panic of 2008
  Casey Mulligan and Luke Threinen #14446 (EFG, ME, PE)

Week of October 19, 2008

• Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements
  Brian G. Knight and Chun-Fang Chiang #14445 (PE, POL)
  
• Sudden Stops, Financial Crises and Leverage: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin's Q
  Enrique G. Mendoza #14444 (IFM)
  
• What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
  Henry Sauermann and Wesley M. Cohen #14443 (PR)
  
• Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement
  Jesse Rothstein #14442 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Auction Design and Tacit Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions
  Patrick Bajari and Jungwon Yeo #14441 (IO)
  
• Realization Utility
  Nicholas C. Barberis and Wei Xiong #14440 (AP)
  
• Portfolio Substitution and the Revenue Cost of Exempting State and Local Government Interest Payments from Federal Income Tax
  James M. Poterba and Arturo Ramirez Verdugo #14439 (PE)
  
• Is Poland at Risk of a Boom-and-Bust Cycle in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption?
  Barry Eichengreen and Katharina Steiner #14438 (IFM)
  
• Real Exchange Rate Movements and the Relative Price of Non-traded Goods
  Caroline M. Betts and Timothy J. Kehoe #14437 (EFG)
  
• Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan
  Liran Einav, Ephraim Leibtag, and Aviv Nevo #14436 (IO, LS, ME, PR)
  
• Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
  Tracy A. Falba, William T. Gallo, and Jody L. Sindelar #14435 (AG, HC)
  
• Identification with Imperfect Instruments
  Aviv Nevo and Adam M. Rosen #14434 (IO, PR, TWP)
  
• Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index
  Rachel Griffith, Ephraim Leibtag, Andrew Leicester, and Aviv Nevo #14433 (IO, ME, PR)
  
• Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture
  Judson Jaffe and Robert N. Stavins #14432 (EEE)
  
• Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
  Yan Dong and John Whalley #14431 (ITI)
  
• Are Structural VARs with Long-Run Restrictions Useful in Developing Business Cycle Theory?
  V. V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan #14430 (EFG)
  
• Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana
  Matthew J. Kotchen and Laura E. Grant #14429 (EEE, PE)
  
• The Effects of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan on Birth and Adult Outcomes
  Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder #14428 (AG, CH, HE)
  
• The True Cost of Social Security
  Alexander W. Blocker, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Stephen A. Ross #14427 (PE)
  
• Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy
  David von Below and Torsten Persson #14426 (IFM, PE)
  
• External Economies and International Trade Redux
  Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #14425 (EFG, ITI)
  
• Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: The Inefficient Performance and Persistence of Commodity Trading Advisors
  Geetesh Bhardwaj, Gary B. Gorton, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst #14424 (AP, CF)
  
• The Changing Incidence of Geography
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov #14423 (ITI)
  
• Can a Lender of Last Resort Stabilize Financial Markets? Lessons from the Founding of the Fed
  Asaf Bernstein, Eric Hughson, and Marc D. Weidenmier #14422 (DAE, ME)
  
• Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage
  Meredith Fowlie #14421 (EEE)
  
• A Faith-based Initiative: Does a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime Really Facilitate Current Account Adjustment?
  Menzie D. Chinn and Shang-Jin Wei #14420 (IFM)
  
• Urban Inequality
  Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew G. Resseger, and Kristina Tobio #14419 (PE)
  
• The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
  Maurice Kugler and Eric Verhoogen #14418 (ITI)
  
• Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Pierre Yared #14417 (PE)
  
• Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India
  Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova #14416 (ITI)
  
• Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in Low Achievers in the Classroom
  Victor Lavy, M. Daniele Paserman, and Analia Schlosser #14415 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices
  Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Mark R. Cullen #14414 (AG, HC, IO, PE)
  
• The impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid Dual-eligible Beneficiaries' Prescription Utilization and Expenditures
  Anirban Basu, Wesley Yin, and G. Caleb Alexander #14413 (HC, HE)
  
• The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships without Kinship
  Eric Hilt and Katharine E. O'Banion #14412 (DAE, LE)
  
• Using Samples of Unequal Length in Generalized Method of Moments Estimation
  Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter #14411 (AP, TWP)

Week of October 12, 2008

• Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70
  Jeremy Atack, Michael R. Haines, and Robert A. Margo #14410 (DAE)
  
• Information Disclosure Policy: Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?
  Hyunhoe Bae, Peter Wilcoxen, and David Popp #14409 (EEE)
  
• Experimentation, Patents, and Innovation
  Daron Acemoglu, Kostas Bimpikis, and Asuman Ozdaglar #14408 (CF)
  
• Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
  Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr #14407 (IO)
  
• Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment
  Jessica Cohen and Pascaline Dupas #14406 (CH, HE)
  
• Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses
  Rosanne Altshuler, Alan J. Auerbach, Michael Cooper, and Matthew Knittel #14405 (PE)
  
• Psychiatric Disorders and Employment: New Evidence from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES)
  Pinka Chatterji, Margarita Alegria, and David Takeuchi #14404 (HE)
  
• Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance
  Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez #14403 (EFG, HC, PE)
  
• Fixed Costs and Long-Lived Investments
  Christopher L. House #14402 (EFG, ME)
  

Week of October 5, 2008

• Will the TARP Succeed? Lessons From Japan
  Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap #14401 (CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Market Work, Home Work and Taxes: A Cross Country Analysis
  Richard Rogerson #14400 (EFG)
  
• Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods
  Raj Chetty #14399 (EFG, IO, LS, PE)
  
• The Subprime Panic
  Gary B. Gorton #14398 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Taxing Leisure Complements
  Louis Kaplow #14397 (PE)
  
• Partial Prescriptions For Decisions With Partial Knowledge
  Charles F. Manski #14396 (PE, TWP)
  
• Sudden Stops, Sectoral Reallocations, and the Real Exchange Rate
  Timothy J. Kehoe and Kim J. Ruhl #14395 (EFG)
  
• Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?
  Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, and Raffaella Sadun #14394 (EEE, LS, PR)
  
• Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History
  Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson #14393 (DAE, LE, POL)
  
• Temporary Price Changes and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy
  Patrick J. Kehoe and Virgiliu Midrigan #14392 (EFG)
  
• Stabilizing Expectations under Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination
  Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston #14391 (EFG, ME)
  
• Social Capital and Urban Growth
  Edward L. Glaeser and Charles Redlick #14374 (PE)
  

Week of September 28, 2008

• International Capital Flows under Dispersed Information: Theory and Evidence
  Cedric Tille and Eric van Wincoop #14390 (AP, IFM)
  
• Sectoral vs. Aggregate Shocks: A Structural Factor Analysis of Industrial Production
  Andrew T. Foerster, Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte, and Mark W. Watson #14389 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations
  Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, and Kerry L. Papps #14388 (LS)
  
• Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000
  Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, and Kerry L. Papps #14387 (LS)
  
• Can Time-Varying Risk of Rare Disasters Explain Aggregate Stock Market Volatility?
  Jessica Wachter #14386 (AP, EFG)
  
• When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees
  Bruce Sacerdote #14385 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Sequencing of Reforms, Financial Globalization, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability
  Sebastian Edwards #14384 (IFM)
  
• Monopoly Power and Endogenous Product Variety: Distortions and Remedies
  Florin O. Bilbiie, Fabio Ghironi, and Marc J. Melitz #14383 (EFG)
  
• Estimating Matching Games with Transfers
  Jeremy T. Fox #14382 (IO)
  
• Accounting for Persistence and Volatility of Good-Level Real Exchange Rates: The Role of Sticky Information
  Mario J. Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga #14381 (IFM)
  
• What Are the Driving Forces of International Business Cycles?
  Mario J. Crucini, M. Ayhan Kose, and Christopher Otrok #14380 (IFM)
  
• Inflation-Output Tradeoff as Equilibrium Outcome of Globalization
  Alon Binyamini and Assaf Razin #14379 (IFM)
  
• Competitive Lending with Partial Knowledge of Loan Repayment
  William A. Brock and Charles F. Manski #14378 (AP, ME, PE)
  
• Historical Political Futures Markets: An International Perspective
  Paul W. Rhode and Koleman Strumpf #14377 (DAE)
  
• Efficient Estimation of Missing Data Models Using Moment Conditions and Semiparametric Restrictions
  Bryan S. Graham #14376 (TWP)
  
• Designing A Carbon Tax to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #14375 (EEE, PE)
  
• The Economics of Place-Making Policies
  Edward L. Glaeser and Joshua D. Gottlieb #14373 (PE)
  
• Country Portfolios in Open Economy Macro Models
  Michael B. Devereux and Alan Sutherland #14372 (IFM)
  
• The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas
  Mark Duggan, Randi Hjalmarsson, and Brian A. Jacob #14371 (HE, LE, PE)
  
• Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?
  M. Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok, and Eswar S. Prasad #14292 (EFG, IFM)

Week of September 21, 2008

• Real Wage Inequality
  Enrico Moretti #14370 (LS)
  
• Housing Externalities
  Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre-Daniel Sarte, and Raymond Owens III #14369 (EFG, PE)
  
• An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods
  Timothy Erickson and Ariel Pakes #14368 (IO, PR)
  
• Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?
  Bridget Terry Long and Michal Kurlaender #14367 (ED)
  
• A Model of Capital and Crises
  Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy #14366 (AP, CF)
  
• Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life
  Thomas DeLeire and Christopher Timmins #14364 (EEE, LS)
  
• Can the West Save Africa?
  William Easterly #14363 (EFG, POL)
  
• Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil’s Alternative Energy Program
  Marc D. Weidenmier, Joseph H. Davis, and Roger Aliaga-Diaz #14362 (DAE, EFG, ME)
  
• Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040
  Robert W. Fogel #14361 (HC)
  
• Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
  Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk #14345 (EFG)
  

Week of September 14, 2008

• Media versus Special Interests
  Alexander Dyck, David Moss, and Luigi Zingales #14360 (POL)
  
• Policymaking for Posterity
  Lawrence H. Summers and Richard J. Zeckhauser #14359 (EEE, IFM)
  
• The Panic of 2007
  Gary B. Gorton #14358 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis
  William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf, and Giacomo Rondina #14357 (EFG, ME)
  
• Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future
  Steven D. Levitt and John A. List #14356 (PE)
  
• Trades of the Living Dead: Style Differences, Style Persistence and Performance of Currency Fund Managers
  Momtchil Pojarliev and Richard M. Levich #14355 (IFM)
  
• Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD
  Anna Aizer #14354 (CH, ED, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times
  Christopher F. Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie L. Morris, Jonathon P. Schuldt, and Dmitry Taubinsky #14353 (HE, LS, PE)
  
• Fetal Exposure to Toxic Releases and Infant Health
  Janet Currie and Johannes F. Schmieder #14352 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• Intermediated Quantities and Returns
  Rajnish Mehra, Facundo Piguillem, and Edward C. Prescott #14351 (AP, EFG)
  
• Demanding Customers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care
  Hai Fang, Nolan H. Miller, John A. Rizzo, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #14350 (HC, HE)
  
• Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions
  S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, and Chiara Scotti #14349 (EFG)
  
• The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
  David H. Autor #14348 (LS)
  
• Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #14347 (CF, POL)
  
• Divorce Law and Women’s Labor Supply
  Betsey Stevenson #14346 (DAE, LE, LS)
  
• The Internationalization of Venture Capital and Private Equity
  Joshua Aizenman and Jake Kendall #14344 (ITI)
  
• The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises
  Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh #14343 (AG, AP, CF, PE)
  
• Costly External Equity: Implications for Asset Pricing Anomalies
  Dongmei Li, Erica X. N. Li, and Lu Zhang #14342 (AP, CF, EFG)
  
• Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success
  Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, and Jialan Wang #14341 (CF)

Week of September 7, 2008

• Listing of Working PapersAsset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets
  Isaac Ehrlich, William A. Hamlen Jr., and Yong Yin #14340 (AP, ED, LS)
  
• Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
  Patrick Bolton, Markus K. Brunnermeier, and Laura Veldkamp #14339 (CF)
  
• Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
  Victor Lavy #14338 (ED, LS)
  
• Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
  David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, and Bert Van Landeghem #14337 (HC, HE, LS)
  
• International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #14336 (IFM)
  
• The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
  Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig #14335 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies
  Peter Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom, and Thomas J. Weiss #14334 (DAE)
  
• Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
  David M. Cutler, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Tom Vogl #14333 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints
  Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #14332 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity
  Phillip Leslie and Paul Oyer #14331 (CF, IO, LE, LS)
  
• Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
  Jeffrey Liebman and Richard Zeckhauser #14330 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
  Robert E. Hall and Alan B. Krueger #14329 (EFG, LS)
  
• Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
  Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak, and Barbara S. Schone #14328 (LS)
  
• Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
  Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, and Pierre Cahuc #14327 (LS)
  
• Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization
  Jonathan D. Ketcham and Kosali Simon #14326 (HC, HE)
  
• Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
  V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, and Laurel Clayton #14325 (EEE)
  
• The Litigation of Financial Innovations
  Josh Lerner #14324 (CF, PR)
  
• Strategic Interaction Among Heterogeneous Price-Setters In An Estimated DSGE Model
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14323 (EFG, ME)
  
• Phillips Curve Inflation Forecasts
  James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson #14322 (EFG, ME)
  
• Capital Flow Bonanzas: An Encompassing View of the Past and Present
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent R. Reinhart #14321 (IFM)
  
• Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
  David Lee and Emmanuel Saez #14320 (LS, PE)
  
• Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
  Craig E. Landry, Andreas Lange, John A. List, Michael K. Price, and Nicholas G. Rupp #14319 (EEE, PE)
  
• International evidence on well-being
  David G. Blanchflower #14318 (LS)
  
• The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging
  David Neumark #14317 (AG)
  

Week of August 31, 2008

• Listing of Working PapersDemand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability
  Christopher T. Conlon and Julie Holland Mortimer #14315 (IO)
  
• Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
  Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #14314 (ED, LS)
  
• New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis
  V.V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan #14313 (EFG)
  
• How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
  Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle #14312 (LS)
  
• Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
  Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Stuti Khemani #14311 (CH)
  
• Housing Busts and Household Mobility
  Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy #14310 (PE)
  
• The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance
  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler #14309 (HC)
  
• The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
  Morris M. Kleiner and Alan B. Krueger #14308 (LS)
  
• Redistribution and Tax Expenditures: The Earned Income Tax Credit
  Nada Eissa and Hilary Hoynes #14307 (PE)
  
• Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
  Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #14306 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Reconsidering the Economics of Demand Analysis with Kinked Budget Constraints
  Aaron Strong and V. Kerry Smith #14304 (EEE)
  
• Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
  Alan Gerber, Jonathan Gruber, and Daniel M. Hungerman #14303 (PE)
  
• Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting
  Julio J. Rotemberg #14302 (POL)
  
• Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits
  Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Wojciech Kopczuk #14301 (LS, PE)
  
• Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda #14300 (EFG, LS)
  
• Power Laws in Economics and Finance
  Xavier Gabaix #14299 (AP, EFG)
  
• The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
  Noel Maurer and Lakshmi Iyer #14298 (DAE)
  
• School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
  Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis, and Muna Husain #14297 (HE)
  
• Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans
  Claudio Lucarelli, Jeffrey Prince, and Kosali Simon #14296 (HC)
  
• Current Account Sustainability and Relative Reliability
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Charles P. Thomas, and Francis E. Warnock #14295 (IFM)
  
• The Foreclosure-House Price Nexus: Lessons from the 2007-2008 Housing Turmoil
  Charles W. Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer, and William Miles #14294 (EFG)
  
• Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
  Adriana Kugler and Mutlu Yuksel #14293 (LS)
  

Week of August 24, 2008

• Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm
  Vojislav Maksimovic, Gordon Phillips, and N. R. Prabhala #14291 (CF)
  
• Real and Financial Industry Booms and Busts
  Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips #14290 (AP, CF)
  
• Product Market Synergies and Competition in Mergers and Acquisitions
  Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips #14289 (CF)
  
• Federal Budget Rules: The US Experience
  Alan J. Auerbach #14288 (PE)
  
• Public or Private Production of Food Safety: What Do U.S. Consumers Want?
  V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, and Aaron Strong #14287 (EEE)
  
• Trade, Technology, and the Environment: Why Have Poor Countries Regulated Sooner?
  Mary Lovely and David Popp #14286 (EEE, PR)
  
• Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
  Pol Antras and Robert W. Staiger #14285 (ITI)
  
• Bayesian Averaging, Prediction and Nonnested Model Selection
  Han Hong and Bruce Preston #14284 (TWP)
  
• Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
  Howard Bodenhorn #14283 (DAE, LE)
  
• Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #14282 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market
  Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett #14281 (DAE, LS)
  
• Understanding Bank Runs: The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks
  Rajkamal Iyer and Manju Puri #14280 (CF, ME)
  
• "Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
  Timothy Brezina, Erdal Tekin, and Volkan Topalli #14279 (CH, HE, LE)
  
• Long Term Persistence
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #14278 (POL)
  
• Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education
  Matthew Neidell and Jane Waldfogel #14277 (CH, ED, HE, PE)
  
• Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?
  Jesse Rothstein and Albert H. Yoon #14276 (CH, ED, LE, LS)
  
• Mismatch in Law School
  Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon #14275 (CH, ED, LE, LS)
  
• Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
  Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes #14274 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation
  Jason M. Lindo, Nicholas J. Sanders, and Philip Oreopoulos #14261 (CH, ED, LS)
  

Week of August 17, 2008

• Racial Discrimination and Competition
  Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov, and Yona Rubinstein #14273 (CF, LS)
  
• Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor Market
  Arindrajit Dube and Richard Freeman #14272 (LS)
  
• Days of Haze: Environmental Information Disclosure and Intertemporal Avoidance Behavior
  Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell #14271 (EEE, HE)
  
• Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior
  Christopher F. Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie L. Morris, Jonathon P. Schuldt, and Dmitry Taubinsky #14270 (AG, HE)
  
• Macroeconomic Volatility and Stock Market Volatility, Worldwide
  Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz #14269 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution
  Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal #14268 (PE, POL)
  
• The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance
  Farley Grubb #14267 (DAE)
  
• Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?
  Larry E. Jones, Alice Schoonbroodt, and Michele Tertilt #14266 (EFG)
  
• Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores
  Melissa Clark, Jesse Rothstein, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #14265 (CH, LS)
  
• Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s
  Antoni Estevadeordal and Alan M. Taylor #14264 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Tax Expenditure Estimation and Reporting: A Critical Review
  Rosanne Altshuler and Robert D. Dietz #14263 (PE)
  
• Organizations and Trade
  Pol Antras and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #14262 (EFG, ITI)
  
• On the Need for a New Approach to Analyzing Monetary Policy
  Andrew Atkeson and Patrick J. Kehoe #14260 (EFG)
  
• The State of Macro
  Olivier J. Blanchard #14259 (EFG)
  
• Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade
  Brian C. Murray, Richard G. Newell, and William A. Pizer #14258 (EEE)
  
• The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care
  Yu-Chu Shen and Karen Eggleston #14256 (HC, HE)
  
• Learning from Prices: Public Communication and Welfare
  Manuel Amador and Pierre-Olivier Weill #14255 (EFG, ME)
  
• When to Pollute, When to Abate? Intertemporal Permit Use in the Los Angeles NOx Market
  Stephen P. Holland and Michael Moore #14254 (EEE)
  
• Monetary Aggregates and Liquidity in a Neo-Wicksellian Framework
  Matthew Canzoneri, Robert E. Cumby, Behzad Diba, and David Lopez-Salido #14244 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Macroeconomic Implications of a Key Currency
  Matthew Canzoneri, Robert E. Cumby, Behzad Diba, and David Lopez-Salido #14242 (IFM)

Week of August 10, 2008

• Income Tax Provisions Affecting Owner-Occupied Housing: Revenue Costs and Incentive Effects
  James M. Poterba and Todd M. Sinai #14253 (PE)
  
• Information, Learning, and Drug Diffusion: the Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors
  Pradeep Chintadunta, Renna Jiang, and Ginger Z. Jin #14252 (IO)
  
• Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
  Guido M. Imbens and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge #14251 (LS)
  
• On the Lifecycle Dynamics of Venture-Capital- and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms
  Manju Puri and Rebecca Zarutskie #14250 (CF)
  
• Crises and Sudden Stops: Evidence from International Bond and Syndicated-Loan Markes
  Graciela L. Kaminsky #14249 (IFM)
  
• HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
  Chinhui Juhn, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Belgi Turan #14248 (EFG, HE, LS)
  
• Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, and Jeff Larrimore #14247 (LS, PE, TWP)
  
• Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids
  Scott E. Carrell and Mark L. Hoekstra #14246 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Why Do Foreign Firms Leave U.S. Equity Markets? An Analysis of Deregistrations Under SEC Exchange Act Rule 12h-6
  Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, and Rene M. Stulz #14245 (CF, IFM)
  
• Modeling the Long Run: Valuation in Dynamic Stochastic Economies
  Lars Peter Hansen #14243 (AP, EFG)
  
• Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy: An Introduction
  Don Fullerton #14241 (EEE, PE)
  
• Technology's Edge: The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
  Lisa Barrow, Lisa Markman, and Cecilia E. Rouse #14240 (CH, TWP)
  
• Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
  Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin #14239 (EFG, POL)
  
• The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
  Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew E. Kahn #14238 (EEE)
  
• How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel Estimates Accounting for Predictable Changes in Taxation
  Jon Bakija and Bradley Heim #14237 (PE)
  
• Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?
  John W. Budd #14236 (LS)
  
• How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?
  Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman #14235 (LS)
  
• Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and HR Policies
  Erika Harden, Douglas L. Kruse, and Joseph R. Blasi #14234 (LS)
  
• Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options
  Douglas Kruse, Richard Freeman, and Joseph Blasi #14233 (LS)
  
• Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors
  Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher Malloy #14232 (AP, CF)
  
• Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation
  John B. Shoven and Gopi Shah Goda #14231 (AG, PE)
  
• Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance
  Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Chris Mackin, and Douglas L. Kruse #14230 (LS)
  
• An Economic Model of the Planning Fallacy
  Markus K. Brunnermeier, Filippos Papakonstantinou, and Jonathan A. Parker #14228 (, EFG, AP)
  
• Worker Responses to Shirking under Shared Capitalism
• Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse, and Joseph Blasi #14227 (LS)
  
• Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing: The Role of Contracts
  Emmanuel Dechenaux, Jerry Thursby, and Marie C. Thursby #14226 (PR)
  
• Shared Capitalism in the U.S. Economy? Prevalence, Characteristics, and Employee Views of Financial Participation in Enterprises
  Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi, and Rhokeun Park #14225 (LS)
  
• Why the DEA STRIDE Data are Still Useful for Understanding Drug Markets
  Jeremy Arkes, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Susan M. Paddock, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Peter Reuter #14224 (HE)
  
• Daily Monetary Policy Shocks and the Delayed Response of New Home Sales
  James D. Hamilton #14223 (EFG, ME)
  
• Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations
  Julio J. Rotemberg #14222 (EFG, ME)
  
• What's a Recession, Anyway?
  Edward E. Leamer and Chauncey J. Medberry #14221 (EFG)
  
• Happiness Inequality in the United States
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #14220 (LE, LS, PE)
  
• The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship
  Robert E. Hall and Susan E. Woodward #14219 (EFG, ME)
  
• Securities Laws, Disclosure, and National Capital Markets in the Age of Financial Globalization
  Rene M. Stulz #14218 (CF)
  
• Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves
  Maurice Obstfeld, Jay C. Shambaugh, and Alan M. Taylor #14217 (IFM)
  
• Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
  Rupert Harrison, Jordi Jaumandreu, Jacques Mairesse, and Bettina Peters #14216 (LS, PR)
  
• What's News in Business Cycles
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe #14215 (EFG)
  
• Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
  Costas Arkolakis #14214 (ITI)
  
• Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap:Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps
  Lindsay C. Page, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #14213 (ED)
  
• Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System
  Randall D. Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark Votruba #14212 (HC, LS)
  
• Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
  Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin #14211 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Long Term Insurance (LTI) for Addressing Catastrophe Risk
  Dwight Jaffee, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan #14210 (PE)
  
• An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications
  Pablo T. Spiller #14152 (LE)
  

Week of July 27, 2008

• Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health: The Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations
  Matthew J. Neidell #14209 (CH, EEE, HE)
  
• Labor Supply: Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?
  Miles S. Kimball and Matthew D. Shapiro #14208 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity
  Steven N. Kaplan and Per Str?mberg #14207 (CF)
  
• The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
  Alan Gerber, Daniel Kessler, and Marc Meredith #14206 (PE, POL)
  
• Real Effects of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Is it a Demand or a Finance Shock?
  Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei #14205 (CF, IFM)
  
• Housing Wealth Isn't Wealth
  Willem H. Buiter #14204 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000
  David Albouy #14203 (LS)
  
• Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
  Alberto F. Alesina, Francesca Lotti, and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli #14202 (CF, LS, POL)
  

Week of July 20, 2008

• Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
  Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, and David Neumark #14201 (LS)
  
• Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through
  Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki #14200 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing
  Dennis W. Carlton, Patrick Greenlee, and Michael Waldman #14199 (IO)
  
• Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
  Lori A. Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, and Petia Topalova #14198 (POL)
  
• Environmental Taxes
  Don Fullerton, Andrew Leicester, and Stephen Smith #14197 (EEE, PE)
  
• Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey
  Janet Currie, Matthew J. Neidell, and Johannes Schmieder #14196 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?
  Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov, and Morten Sorensen #14195 (CF)
  
• The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addressing Endogenous Sorting and Noncompliance
  Juan Carlos Calcagno and Bridget Terry Long #14194 (ED)
  
• Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Albert Saiz #14193 (PE)
  
• The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr, Lisa Kahn, Steven D. Levitt, and Jorg L. Spenkuch #14192 (ED, LS)
  

Week of July 13, 2008

• Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction?
  Ethan Ilzetzki and Carlos A. Vegh #14191 (IFM)
  
• How Has the Euro Changed the Monetary Transmission?
  Jean Boivin, Marc P. Giannoni, and Benoit Mojon #14190 (EFG, ME)
  
• Board Interlocks and the Propensity to be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions
  Toby Stuart and Soojin Yim #14189 (CF)
  
• Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
  Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri #14188 (ITI, LS)
  
• Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?
  Shourun Guo, Edie S. Hotchkiss, and Weihong Song #14187 (CF)
  
• The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts
  John P. Papay, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #14186 (CH, ED)
  
• The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers
  C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Hung-Ken Chien, and Ronald D. Lee #14185 (AG)
  
• Endogenous information, menu costs and inflation persistence
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14184 (EFG, ME)
  
• Strategic Judgment Proofing
  Yeon-Koo Che and Kathryn E. Spier #14183 (LE)
  
• The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles
  David Galenson #14182 (LS)
  
• Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuations
  Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston #14181 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Investment Behavior of Buyout Funds: Theory and Evidence
  Alexander Ljungqvist, Matthew Richardson, and Daniel Wolfenzon #14180 (CF)
  
• Saving Your Home in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
  Michelle J. White and Ning Zhu #14179 (LE)
  
• Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
  Ana M. Fernandes and Ariel Pakes #14178 (IO, PR)
  
• Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors
  Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini #14177 (AP)
  
• School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools
  David Card, Martin Dooley, and Abigail Payne #14176 (ED, LS)
  
• Private Information and a Macro Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
  Menzie D. Chinn and Michael J. Moore #14175 (IFM)
  
• Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams
  Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Steven M. Ewer, and Todd H. Wagner #14174 (AG, HC, HE, LS)
  
• Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?
  Janet Currie, Sandra Decker, and Wanchuan Lin #14173 (CH, HC, HE, PE)
  
• Home Bias at the Fund Level
  Harald Hau and Helene Rey #14172 (AP, IFM)
  
• On the Sources of the Great Moderation
  Jordi Gali and Luca Gambetti #14171 (EFG)
  
• Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
  Louis Kaplow #14170 (LE, PE)
  
• Efficient Prediction of Excess Returns
  Jon Faust and Jonathan H. Wright #14169 (AP, ME)
  
• Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment: The Yuan and Other Currencies
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and Eiji Fujii #14168 (IFM)
  
• Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era
  Price V. Fishback, Rebecca Holmes , and Samuel Allen #14167 (DAE, LE, LS)
  
• E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries
  Maris Goldmanis, Ali Hortacsu, Chad Syverson, and Onsel Emre #14166 (IO, PR)
  
• Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope
  Harald Hau and Helene Rey #14165 (AP, IFM)
  
• Determinacy, Learnability, and Plausibility in Monetary Policy Analysis: Additional Results
  Bennett T. McCallum #14164 (EFG, ME)
  
• Reconsideration of the P-Bar Model of Gradual Price Adjustment
  Bennett T. McCallum #14163 (EFG, ME)
  
• Edgeworth Cycles Revisited
  Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Erich Muehlegger, and Krislert Samphantharak #14162 (EEE, IO)
  
• Estimating Derivatives in Nonseparable Models with Limited Dependent Variables
  Joseph G. Altonji, Hidehiko Ichimura, and Taisuke Otsu #14161 (TWP)
  
• Random Walk or A Run: Market Microstructure Analysis of the Foreign Exchange Rate Movements based on Conditional Probability
  Yuko Hashimoto, Takatoshi Ito, Takaaki Ohnishi, Misako Takayasu, Hideki Takayasu, and Tsutomu Watanabe #14160 (IFM, ME)
  
• Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care
  James B. Rebitzer, Mari Rege, and Christopher Shepard #14159 (HC, HE, LS)
  
• Short Sales and Trade Classification Algorithms
  Paul Asquith, Rebecca Oman, and Christopher Safaya #14158 (AP)
  
• The Value of Life in General Equilibrium
  Anupam Jena, Casey Mulligan, Tomas J. Philipson, and Eric Sun #14157 (HC, HE)
  
• Family Leave after Childbirth and the Health of New Mothers
  Pinka Chatterji and Sara Markowitz #14156 (CH, HE, LS)
  
• General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition
  Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches #14155 (ED)
  
• The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading International Currency?
  Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau #14154 (DAE, IFM)
  

Week of July 6, 2008

• Vengeance
  Naci H. Mocan #14131 (CH, HE)
• The Lengthening of Childhood
  David Deming and Susan Dynarski #14124 (CH, ED)
• Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets
  Hanno Lustig, Nikolai Roussanov, and Adrien Verdelhan #14082 (AP, IFM)

Week of June 22, 2008

• Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice
  M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neale Mahoney #14153 (HC, HE, IO, PE)
• Macroeconomics and ARCH
  James D. Hamilton #14151 (EFG, ME)
• From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood
  David Galenson and Joshua Kotin #14150 (LS)
• Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
  Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal #14149 (PE)
• Measuring the Risk-Adjusted Performance of US Buyouts
  Alexander Peter Groh and Oliver Gottschalg #14148 (AP)
• Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation
  Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins #14147 (EEE, IO, LE, PE)
• U.S. Defense Contracts During the Tax Expenditure Battles of the 1980s
  Susan Guthrie and James R. Hines, Jr. #14146 (PE)
• Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005
  Carola Frydman and Raven E. Saks #14145 (CF, DAE, LS)
• A New Method to Estimate Risk and Return of Non-Traded Assets from Cash Flows: The Case of Private Equity Funds
  Joost Driessen, Tse-Chun Lin, and Ludovic Phalippou #14144 (AP, CF)
• Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections
  Alberto F. Alesina and Richard T. Holden #14143 (POL)
• Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
  Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode #14142 (DAE)
• Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn
  Richard C. Sutch #14141 (DAE)
• Superstar CEOs
  Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate #14140 (CF, LE, LS)
• Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
  David S. Jacks and Krishna Pendakur #14139 (DAE, ITI)
• The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
  Benjamin F. Jones #14138 (ED, EFG, PR)
• Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John C. Haltiwanger, and Ian Rucker #14137 (EFG, LS)
• Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities
  Leo Feler and J. Vernon Henderson #14136 (PE)
• Models of Idea Flows
  Fernando E. Alvarez, Francisco J. Buera, and Robert E. Lucas, Jr. #14135 (EFG)
• Crisis and Responses: the Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
  Stephen G. Cecchetti #14134 (ME)
• Ideas and Growth
  Robert E. Lucas, Jr. #14133 (EFG)
• Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
  Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken #14132 (EEE, EFG)
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
  David Y. Albouy #14130 (EFG, POL)
• Foreign Influence and Welfare
  Pol Antràs and Gerard Padro i Miquel #14129 (ITI, POL)
• Age, Luck, and Inheritance
  Jess Benhabib and Shenghao Zhu #14128 (EFG)
• Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India
  Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova #14127 (ITI)
• Exchange Rate Regimes and the Extensive Margin of Trade
  Paul R. Bergin and Ching-Yi Lin #14126 (IFM)
• State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?
  Ellen Meara, Meredith Rosenthal, Anna Sinaiko, and Katherine Baicker #14125 (HC, PE)
• Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
  Benjamin A. Olken #14123 (PE, POL)
• Wages, Unemployment and Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers
  Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, and Stephen Redding #14122 (EFG, LS)
• Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade
  Robert E. Lipsey #14121 (IFM, ITI, PR)
• Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression
  Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn #14120 (DAE)
• The Continuing Puzzle of Short Horizon Exchange Rate Forecasting
  Kenneth S. Rogoff and Vania Stavrakeva #14071 (IFM, ME)

Week of June 15, 2008

• Crashes and Recoveries in Illiquid Markets
  Ricardo Lagos, Guillaume Rocheteau, and Pierre-Olivier Weill #14119 (AP)
• Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes
  Tara Watson and Angela Fertig #14118 (CH, HE, PE)
• Theory and Empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets
  Ariel Pakes #14117 (IO, PR)
• Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries
  Eric Bond, James R. Tybout, and Hâle Utar #14116 (PR)
• Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities
  Claudia M. Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier #14115 (LE)
• Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations
  Bruce Sacerdote and James Feyrer #14114 (CH, EFG, LS)
• Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking
  Luc Laeven and Ross Levine #14113 (CF, IFM)
• Financially Constrained Fluctuations in an Evolving Network Economy
  Domenico Delli Gatti, Mauro Gallegati, Bruce C. Greenwald, Alberto Russo, and Joseph E. Stiglitz #14112 (EFG)
• Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles
  Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel #14111 (AP)
• Energy Tax Incentives and the Alternative Minimum Tax
  Curtis Carlson and Gilbert E. Metcalf #14110 (EEE, PE)
• How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive
  Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang, and Shang-Jin Wei #14109 (ITI)
• Intangible Capital and Productivity: An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms
  Maria Elena Bontempi and Jacques Mairesse #14108 (PR)
• Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
  Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson #14107 (DAE, LE, POL)
• Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
  Mary Amiti and Donald R. Davis #14106 (ITI)
• How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier #14105 (AG, LS, PE)
• The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans
  John Cawley, John R. Moran, and Kosali I. Simon #14104 (AG, HC, HE, LS, PE)
• Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections: A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data
  Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman, and Jie Shen #14103 (, POL)
• Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables
  Daniel F. McCaffrey, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Bing Han, and Phyllis Ellickson #14102 (HE)
• Banking Globalization, Monetary Transmission, and the Lending Channel
  Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg #14101 (IFM, ME)
• Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility: How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?
  Barry Eichengreen #14100 (IFM)
• Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education
  Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson, and Matthew P. Williams #14099 (ED, PR)
• On the Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand
  Peter N. Ireland #14098 (ME)
• Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation
  Alessandra Fogli and Laura Veldkamp #14097 (EFG, LS)
• Utilisation of Physician Services in the 50+ Population. The Relative Importance of Individual versus Institutional Factors in 10 European Countries
  Kristian Bolin, Anna Lindgren, Bjorn Lindgren, and Petter Lundborg #14096 (HE, HC)
• Is There a Market for Voluntary Health Insurance in Developing Countries?
  Mark Pauly, Fredric E. Blavin, and Sudha Meghan #14095 (HC)
• Life-cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
  Ian Ayres and Barry J. Nalebuff #14094 (PE)
• The Cost of Uncertain Life Span
  Ryan D. Edwards #14093 (AG, EFG, HE)
• Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model
  Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laseen, Jesper Linde, and Lars E.O. Svensson #14092 (EFG, IFM, ME)
• Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals
  Eric J. Brunner, Stephen L. Ross, and Ebonya L. Washington #14091 (POL)
• Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
  Kris J. Mitchener and Mari Ohnuki #14090 (DAE)
• What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption
  Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo #14089 (AG, HC, LS, PE)
• Capital Market Imperfections and the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
  Pierre-Richard Agenor and Joshua Aizenman #14088 (IFM, ITI)
• A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice
  Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein #14087 (CF)
• Use of Propensity Scores in Non-Linear Response Models: The Case for Health Care Expenditures
  Anirban Basu, Daniel Polsky, and Willard G. Manning #14086 (HC, TWP)
• Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors
  Sharon Katz #14085 (CF)
• Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?
  Annamaria Lusardi #14084 (AG)
• Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom?
  Christopher J. Mayer and Karen Pence #14083 (AP, CF, PE)
• Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors
  Scott E. Carrell and James E. West #14081 (ED)
• Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings
  Christopher R. Knittel and Konstantinos Metaxoglou #14080 (IO, TWP)

Week of June 8, 2008

• Listing of Working PapersEstimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports
  Ram C. Acharya and Wolfgang Keller #14079 (ITI, PR)
  
• Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges
  Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott, and Cagri Kumru #14078 (AG, PE)
  
• Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
  Gregory Clark, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor #14077 (DAE, IFM, ITI)
  
• How Social Processes Distort Measurement: The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work i
  Katharine G. Abraham, Sara E. Helms, and Stanley Presser #14076 (LS)
  
• Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?
  Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon #14075 (LS)
  
• Welfare Payments and Crime
  C. Fritz Foley #14074 (LE, PE)
  
• Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood
  Elizabeth Cascio, Damon Clark, and Nora Gordon #14073 (ED)
  
• Firm Heterogeneity and the Structure of U.S. Multinational Activity: An Empirical Analysis
  Stephen Yeaple #14072 (ITI)
  
• Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics
  Andrew Epstein, Jonathan D. Ketcham, and Sean Nicholson #14070 (HC, IO, LS)

Week of June 1, 2008

• International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
  David T. Coe, Elhanan Helpman, and Alexander W. Hoffmaister #14069 (ITI)
  
• Hedge Fund Contagion and Liquidity
  Nicole M. Boyson, Christof W. Stahel, and Rene M. Stulz #14068 (CF, AP)
  
• On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
  Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger #14067 (ITI)
  
• The Back Story of Twentieth-Century Art
  David Galenson #14066 (LS)
  
• The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains
  Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren, and David Sims #14065 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Schools, Skills, and Synapses
  James J. Heckman #14064 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility
  Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu #14063 (EFG)
  
• Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking
  Michael D. Grubb and Paul Oyer #14062 (LE, LS, PE)
  
• Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
  Runjuan Liu and Daniel Trefler #14061 (ITI, LS)
  
• Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
  Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk #14060 (EFG, LS)
  
• Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines
  Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman #14059 (CF, IO, LE)
  
• Market Liquidity, Asset Prices and Welfare
  Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang #14058 (AP)
  
• Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards
  Albert N. Link and Christopher J. Ruhm #14057 (HC, HE, IO, PR)
  
• Big-Think Regionalism: A Critical Survey
  Richard Baldwin #14056 (ITI)
  
• Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts
  Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Michael Z. Stamos #14055 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?
  A. Craig Burnside, Martin S. Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski, and Sergio Rebelo #14054 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
  Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn #14053 (AG, DAE)
  
• The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States
  Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, and Giovanni L. Violante #14052 (EFG, LS)
  
• A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
  Eswar S. Prasad and Raghuram Rajan #14051 (CF, IFM)
  
• Second-Best Institutions
  Dani Rodrik #14050 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
  Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff, and James Wyckoff #14021 (ED, LS)
  

Week of May 25, 2008

• An Anatomy Of Credit Booms: Evidence From Macro Aggregates And Micro Data
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Marco E. Terrones #14049 (IFM)
• Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels
  Steven J. Davis and James A. Kahn #14048 (EFG)
• Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory
  Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate #14047 (PE, POL, EFG)
• Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation
  James E. Anderson #14046 (ITI)
• Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?
  James E. Anderson #14045 (ITI, LE)
• Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
  James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine, and Pedro L. Rodriguez #14044 (ED)
• Crossover Inventions And Knowledge Diffusion Of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence From The Electrical Technology
  Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal #14043 (DAE, PR)
• Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking: Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation
  Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel, and Alan D. Mathios #14042 (HE)
• Effects of Regulation on Drug Launch and Pricing in Interdependent Markets
  Patricia M. Danzon and Andrew J. Epstein #14041 (HC, IO, LE)
• Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
  Daron Acemoglu, Munther A. Dahleh, Ilan Lobel, and Asuman Ozdaglar #14040 (PE)
• Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
  Karin Mayr and Giovanni Peri #14039 (ITI, LS)
• The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families
  Jordan D. Matsudaira and Rebecca M. Blank #14038 (LS, PE)
• Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910
  Trevon D. Logan #14037 (DAE, HE)
• Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?
  Terra McKinnish, Randall Walsh, and Kirk White #14036 (LS, PE)
• The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
  Peter J. Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan R. Soetevent, and Arie Kapteyn #14035 (LS, PE)
• Globalization, Growth and Crises: The View from Latin America
  Sebastian Edwards #14034 (IFM, ITI)
• When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence
  Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Pablo Querubin, and James A. Robinson #14033 (ME, POL)
• Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College Achievement
  Scott E. Carrell, Richard L. Fullerton, and James E. West #14032 (ED)
• Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
  Sharon L. Maccini and Dean Yang #14031 (CH, ED, HE, LS)
• The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas
  Lucas W. Davis and Lutz Kilian #14030 (EEE)
• Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments: Old Wine in Green Bottles?
  Ben Lockwood and John Whalley #14025 (EEE, IO, ITI)
• Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement
  Donald Boyd, Pam Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #14022 (ED, LS)
• Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes
  Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, and Mick Silver #14018 (EFG, PR, TWP)

Week of May 18, 2008

• Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence
  James A. Brander, Edward J. Egan, and Thomas F. Hellmann #14029 (CF, PR)
• Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics
  Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker, and Shu-Chun Susan Yang #14028 (EFG, PE)
• Big Business Stability and Social Welfare
  Kathy Fogel, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #14027 (CF)
• Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance Of Balance-Sheet Effects And Financial Integration
  Guillermo A. Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo, and Luis-Fernando Mejia #14026 (IFM)
• China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa
  Hany Besada, Yang Wang, and John Whalley #14024 (ITI)
• Assessing the Federal Deduction for State and Local Tax Payments
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #14023 (PE)
• Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory
  Kam Yu #14020 (PR)
• Inflation, Monetary Policy and Stock Market Conditions
  Michael D. Bordo, Michael J. Dueker, and David C. Wheelock #14019 (ME, EFG, AP)
• Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data
  Christian Broda and David E. Weinstein #14017 (IFM, ITI)
• Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights
  Jeffrey A. Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei #14016 (IFM)
• Private Sunspots and Idiosyncratic Investor Sentiment
  George-Marios Angeletos #14015 (EFG)
• Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives
  Anders Bjorklund and Richard Freeman #14014 (LS)
• Liquidity and Market Crashes
  Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang #14013 (AP)
• Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints
  Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi #14012 (AG)
• Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
  Seema Jayachandran #14011 (CH, HC, HE)
• Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity
  Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner #14010 (HE)
• Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
  John Cawley and C. Katharina Spiess #13997 (CH, ED, HE, LS)
  

Week of May 11, 2008

• Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look
  Frank R. Lichtenberg and Gautier Duflos #14009 (EFG, HC, HE, PR)
• Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #14008 (HC, HE, PR)
• Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey
  Anne Case, Christina Paxson, and Mahnaz Islam #14007 (AG, CH, LS)
• The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone #14006 (ED, LS)
• The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #14005 (PR, LS)
• Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.
  Gary Richardson and Michael McBride #14004 (DAE)
• An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I
  Petra Moser #14003 (DAE, LS)
• Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects
  Jean-Pierre Florens, James J. Heckman, Costas Meghir, and Edward J. Vytlacil #14002 (TWP)
• Monetary Non-Neutrality in a Multi-Sector Menu Cost Model
  Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson #14001 (EFG, ME)
• When Should Firms Invest in Old Capital?
  Boyan Jovanovic #14000 (PR, TWP, EFG)
• Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
  Pedro Dal B?, Andrew Foster, and Louis Putterman #13999 (POL)
• Specific Capital and Technological Variety
  Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau #13998 (PR)
• Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
  Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, and John Van Reenen #13996 (LS)
• The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation
  David Y. Albouy #13995 (POL, PE)
• The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size
  Thomas Dee and Martin West #13994 (CH, ED)
• Parental Education and Parental Time With Children
  Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst, and Melissa Schettini Kearney #13993 (CH, LS, PE)
• Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry
  William Easterly, Shanker Satyanath, and Daniel Berger #13992 (POL)
• Indexed Regulation
  Richard G. Newell and William A. Pizer #13991 (EEE)
• Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870
  Aurora Gomez Galvarriato and Jeffrey G. Williamson #13990 (DAE, EFG)
• Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens
  Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins, and Richard H. K. Vietor #13989 (EEE, IO, LE, PE)
• Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #13988 (IFM, ITI)
  

Week of May 4, 2008

• Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
  Janet Currie #13987 (CH, HE, LS, PE)
• The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off at Low Inflation
  Pierpaolo Benigno and Luca Antonio Ricci #13986 (EFG, IFM, LS, ME)
• Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data
  Valerie A. Ramey #13985 (EFG, ME, LS)
• When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?
  Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei #13984 (CF, IFM, ITI)
• Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account
  Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott #13983 (EFG, IFM)
• Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey
  Robert J. Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker #13982 (DAE, EFG, LS)
• Inverse Probability Tilting and Missing Data Problems
  Daniel Egel, Bryan S. Graham, and Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto #13981 (TWP)
• Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals
  Gilbert E. Metcalf, Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly, Henry Jacoby, and Jennifer F. Holak #13980 (EEE, PE)
• Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts
  John Geanakoplos and Stephen P. Zeldes #13979 (AG, AP, EFG, ME, PE)
• Will Subprime be a Twin Crisis for the United States?
  Michael P. Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter M. Garber #13978 (IFM)
• The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000
  Brandon Dupont, Alka Gandhi, and Thomas J. Weiss #13977 (DAE)
• How are Preferences Revealed?
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #13976 (AG, AP, PE)
• Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections
  Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse #13975 (PR)
• Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets
  Farley Grubb #13974 (DAE)
• Sell Side School Ties
  Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy, and Lauren Cohen #13973 (AP)
• Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
  David G. Blanchflower #13972 (LS)
• Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China
  Emily Oster and Gang Chen #13971 (LS)
• Does Stabilizing Inflation Contribute To Stabilizing Economic Activity?
  Frederic S. Mishkin #13970 (EFG, ME)
• Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers
  Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan E. Haskel, and Matthew Slaughter #13959 (IO, ITI, PR)
• Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
  Jikun Huang, Yu Liu, Will Martin, and Scott Rozelle #13958 (ITI)

Week of April 19, 2008

• Macroeconomic Crises since 1870
  Robert J. Barro and José F. Ursúa #13940 (EFG, ME, PE, AP)
  
• Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade
  Costas Arkolakis, Svetlana Demidova, Peter J. Klenow, and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare #13933 (ITI)
  

Week of April 13, 2008

• Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age
  Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes #13969 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• National Cultures and Soccer Violence
  Edward Miguel, Sebasti?n M. Saiegh, and Shanker Satyanath #13968 (EFG, LE, POL)
  
• Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
  Raj Chetty #13967 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds
  Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira #13966 (AG, AP, PE)
  
• Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale
  Emi Nakamura #13965 (IFM, IO, ME)
  
• Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
  Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel #13964 (POL)
  
• China's Local Comparative Advantage
  James Harrigan and Haiyan Deng #13963 (ITI)
  
• Derivatives Markets for Home Prices
  Robert J. Shiller #13962 (AP)
  
• Institutions and Contract Enforcement
  Armin Falk, David Huffman, and W. Bentley MacLeod #13961 (LE, LS)
  
• Contracting in the Shadow of the Law
  Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley MacLeod #13960 (LE, LS)
  
• The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
  Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Susumu Imai, and Kala Krishna #13957 (ITI)
  
• The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
  David A. Jaeger, Esteban F. Klor, Sami H. Miaari, and M. Daniele Paserman #13956 (PE, POL)
  
• Competing Liquidities: Corporate Securities, Real Bonds and Bubbles
  Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole #13955 (EFG, PE)
  
• Neuroeconomics: A Sober (but Hopeful) Appraisal
  B. Douglas Bernheim #13954 (PE)
  
• Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?
  Martin S. Feldstein #13953 (EFG, LS, PR)
  
• Resolving the Global Imbalance: The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate
  Martin S. Feldstein #13952 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability
  Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer, and Aurel Hizmo #13951 (ED, LS)
  
• Trevor Swan And The Neoclassical Growth Model
  Robert W. Dimand and Barbara J. Spencer #13950 (EFG)
  
• Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model
  Patrick Bayer, Shakeeb Khan, and Christopher Timmins #13949 (LS, TWP)
  
• Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy
  Frederic S. Mishkin #13948 (EFG, ME, IFM)
  
• Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines
  Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney #13947 (CH, HE, ED)
  
• The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #13946 (IFM, PE)
  
• Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring
  Dalton Conley and Brian J. McCabe #13945 (PE, POL)
  
• Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?
  Andrew Ang, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Rui Zhao #13944 (AP)
  
• A Black Swan in the Money Market
  John B. Taylor and John C. Williams #13943 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices
  David Weinstein and Christian Broda #13942 (ITI)
  
• Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)
  Jeff Larrimore, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Laura Zayatz #13941 (LS, PE, TWP)
  
• Portraits of the Artist: Personal Visual Art in the Twentieth Century
  David W. Galenson #13939 (LS)
  
• The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents
  Carlos J. Serrano #13938 (PR)
  
• The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving: An Analysis of Micro Data
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #13937 (ED, PE)
  
• The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis
  Atif Mian and Amir Sufi #13936 (CF)
  
• Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders
  Keith Finlay #13935 (LS)
  
• Econometric Causality
  James J. Heckman #13934 (LS, PE)
  

Week of April 5, 2008

• Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence
  Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob De Haan , and David-Jan Jansen #13932 (ME)
  
• Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
  Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler, and Costas Meghir #13931 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution
  Gary Richardson #13930 (DAE, IO)
  
• The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data
  Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder #13929 (AG)
  
• Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration
  Keith Finlay and David Neumark #13928 (CH, LS)
  
• Climate Economics: A Meta-Review and Some Suggestions
  Geoffrey Heal #13927 (EEE, PE)
  
• Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India
  Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan #13926 (ED, LS)

Week of March 29, 2008

• Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale
  Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri, and Carlos A. Vegh #13925 (IFM)
• Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run
  Aleksander Berentsen, Guido Menzio, and Randall Wright #13924 (EFG, LS, ME)
• How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
  Muriel Niederle, Carmit Segal, and Lise Vesterlund #13923 (LS)
• Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions
  Muriel Niederle and Alexandra H. Yestrumskas #13922 (LS)
• Current Account Patterns and National Real Estate Markets
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak #13921 (ITI, IFM)
• Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
  John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta, and Helena Schweiger #13920 (EFG, LS)
• Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?
  Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt #13919 (DAE, ED, EFG, POL)
• The "Thin Film Of Gold": Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries
  Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick #13918 (DAE, ITI, IFM, ME)
• The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization
  Mark Duggan and Fiona Scott Morton #13917 (HC, IO, PE)
• Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms
  Chenghuan Sean Chu, Phillip Leslie, and Alan Sorensen #13916 (IO)
• A Theory of Military Dictatorships
  Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni #13915 (EFG, POL)
• Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms
  Susan Perkins, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #13914 (CF)
• Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets
  Wolfgang Keller and Carol H. Shiue #13913 (DAE, IFM, ITI)
• The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital
  Lance J. Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo #13912 (ED, EFG, LS, PE)
• Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
  Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon #13911 (IFM, EFG, PE)
• The Dynamic Behavior of the Real Exchange Rate in Sticky Price Models
  Jon Steinsson #13910 (IFM, ME)
• The Euro May Over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency
  Menzie D. Chinn and Jeffrey A. Frankel #13909 (IFM)
• Why do Foreigners Invest in the United States?
  Kristin J. Forbes #13908 (CF, IFM, ITI)
• Ideology
  Roland B?nabou #13907 (EFG, POL)
• Current Account Dynamics and Monetary Policy
  Andrea Ferrero, Mark Gertler, and Lars E.O. Svensson #13906 (EFG, IFM, ME)

Week of March 16, 2008

• Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
  Raj Arunachalam and Trevon Logan #13905 (LS, DAE)
• Information Acquisition and Under-Diversification
  Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp #13904 (AP, EFG, IFM)
• Can Weak Substitution be Rehabilitated?
  V. Kerry Smith, Mary F. Evans, H. Spencer Banzhaf, and Christine Poulos #13903 (EEE)
• Sterilization, Monetary Policy, and Global Financial Integration
  Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick #13902 (IFM)
• Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?
  Yu-Chin Chen, Kenneth Rogoff, and Barbara Rossi #13901 (IFM, EEE)
• A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model
  Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama, and Kala Krishna #13900 (ITI, PE)
• Is Protection Really for Sale? A Survey and Directions for Future Research
  Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama, and Kala Krishna #13899 (ITI)
• The Transition to Post-industrial BMI Values Among US Children
  John Komlos, Ariane Breitfelder, and Marco Sunder #13898 (HE, CH)
• Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment
  Olivier Blanchard and Jordi Gali #13897 (EFG)
• The Wealth-Consumption Ratio
  Hanno Lustig, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Adrien Verdelhan #13896 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
• Regulation and Supervision: An Ethical Perspective
  Edward J. Kane #13895 (LE, ME)
• Persistent Private Information
  Noah Williams #13894 (EFG)
• Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure
  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst #13893 (AG, EFG, LS)
• Optimal Monetary Policy under Uncertainty in DSGE Models: A Markov Jump-Linear-Quadratic Approach
  Lars E.O. Svensson and Noah Williams #13892 (EFG, ME)
• The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
  Joshua Aizenman and Kenneth Kletzer #13891 (ITI)
• Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
  Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh L. Linden, and Francisco Perez-Calle #13890 (CH, ED, LS)
• Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics
  M. Kate Bundorf, Natalie Chun, Gopi Shah Goda, and Daniel P. Kessler #13888 (HC)
• Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal
  George J. Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson #13887 (ITI, LS)
• The Internet and Job Search
  Betsey Stevenson #13886 (LS)
  

Week of March 9, 2008

• Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption
  Sherry A. Glied #13885 (HC, HE, PE)
• Taxes and Mutual Fund Inflows Around Distribution Dates
  Woodrow T. Johnson and James M. Poterba #13884 (AP, PE)
• Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes
  Joseph G. Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj, and Fabian Lange #13883 (CH, LS)
• This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #13882 (IFM)
• Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity
  Sherry A. Glied #13881 (HC)
• Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity
  Peter Blair Henry and Diego Sasson #13880 (CF, EFG, IFM, ITI, LS)
• The Economic Value of Teeth
  Sherry Glied and Matthew Neidell #13879 (HC, HE, LS)
• Press Coverage and Political Accountability
  James M. Snyder, Jr. and David Strömberg #13878 (POL)
• After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays
  Douglas Almond and Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. #13877 (CH, HC, HE, LS)
• International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth
  Christopher D. Carroll, Jiri Slacalek, and Martin Sommer #13876 (EFG, IFM, ME)
• Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment:Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting
  Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Lisa M. Shickle, and Nicholas Farrell #13875 (HC, HE)
• Collateral Pricing
  Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman #13874 (AP, CF)
• An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers
  Li Gan and Roberto Mosquera #13873 (IO)
• Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large
  Richard Rogerson, Lodewijk P. Visschers, and Randall Wright #13872 (EFG)
• Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor, Incomplete Markets, and Labor Market Frictions
  Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson, and Aysegul Sahin #13871 (EFG)
• Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?
  Trevon D. Logan #13870 (DAE, EFG)
• Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past
  Trevon D. Logan #13869 (DAE)
• Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
  Jonah E. Rockoff #13868 (ED, LS)
• Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
  Melissa Bjelland, Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger, and Erika McEntarfer #13867 (EFG, LS)
• Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark
  Janice Eberly, Sergio Rebelo, and Nicolas Vincent #13866 (EFG)
• On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring, Acquiescence, and Selection Biases
  Jay Bhattacharya and Adam Isen #13865 (HC, HE)
• Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions
  Thomas J. Holmes, David K. Levine, and James A. Schmitz, Jr. #13864 (PR)
• The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health
  Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Packalen #13863 (HC, HE)
• Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation
  Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Packalen #13862 (HC, HE)
• A Solution to the Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vivian Z. Yue #13861 (IFM)
• Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment
  Judith M. Dean and Mary E. Lovely #13860 (ITI)
• The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies
  Orley Ashenfelter and Daniel Hosken #13859 (LE, ME, PE, IO)
• Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage
  Anton Korinek and Joseph E. Stiglitz #13858 (PE, POL)
• The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D
  Margaret E. Blume-Kohout and Neeraj Sood #13857 (HC, HE, PR)
• The Evolution of a Legal Rule
  Anthony Niblett, Richard Posner, and Andrei Shleifer #13856 (LE)
• Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia
  Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler #13855 (LS, PE)
• Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Option-Implied State Prices
  Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Michael W. Brandt #13854 (AP, EFG)
• The Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism and the Learning by Doing Externality
  Joshua Aizenman and Jaewoo Lee #13853 (ITI)
• Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915
  Lee Alston, Shannan Mattiace, and Tomas Nonnenmacher #13852 (DAE)
• The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
  Francesco D'Amuri, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, and Giovanni Peri #13851 (ITI, LS)
• The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications
  Yao Li, John Whalley, Shunming Zhang, and Xiliang Zhao #13849 (ED)
• Arbitrage-free Limit Order Books and the Pricing of Order Flow Risk
  Bruce Lehmann #13848 (AP)

Week of March 2, 2008

• Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
  Jason M. Fletcher and Barbara L. Wolfe #13847 (CH, HC)
• Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment
  Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton, and Samuel Kortum #13846 (IFM, ITI)
• Language in Visual Art: The Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #13845 (LS)
• Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance
  Raj Chetty #13844 (LS, PE)
• Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
  Michael Kvasnicka #13843 (LS)
• Capital Inflows and Reserve Accumulation: The Recent Evidence
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent R. Reinhart #13842 (IFM)
• Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
  Jeffrey G. Williamson #13841 (DAE)
• The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
  Ian Dew-Becker and Robert J. Gordon #13840 (EFG, LS, PR)
• Is There an "Emboldenment" Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq
  Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten #13839 (POL)
• The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania
  Erica M. Field, Omar Robles, and Maximo Torero #13838 (HE, LS)
• The Increase in Leisure Inequality
  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst #13837 (EFG, LS, PE)
• Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811
  Farley Grubb #13836 (DAE)
• Evaluating the Impact of Technology Development Funds in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Alessandro Maffioli #13835 (PR)
• Intermediate Goods, Weak Links, and Superstars: A Theory of Economic Development
  Charles I. Jones #13834 (EFG)
• Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
  Michael Greenstone, Richard Hornbeck, and Enrico Moretti #13833 (LS, PR)
• Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption: Evidence from Movie Sales
  Enrico Moretti #13832 (IO, LS)
• International Economic Policy: Was There a Bush Doctrine?
  Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin #13831 (IFM, ITI)
• Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy
  Casey B. Mulligan and Kevin K. Tsui #13830 (IO, PE, POL)
• Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities
  Martin Eichenbaum, Nir Jaimovich, and Sergio Rebelo #13829 (EFG, ME)
• Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
  Tanika Chakraborty and Sukkoo Kim #13828 (DAE)

Week of February 10, 2008

• Toward an Efficiency Rationale for the Public Provision of Private Goods
  Hanming Fang and Peter Norman #13827 (PE)
• Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development
  Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan #13826 (CH, LS)
• High Frequency Market Microstructure Noise Estimates and Liquidity Measures
  Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jialin Yu #13825 (AP)
• Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs
  Annamaria Lusardi #13824 (AG)
• The Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries
  James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons #13823 (PR)
• Learning in the Credit Card Market
  Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David Laibson #13822 (AG, AP, LE)
• Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants
  Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon H. Hanson #13821 (ITI, LS)
• Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar
  Linda S. Goldberg and Cédric Tille #13820 (IFM, ITI, ME)
• Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle
  Giuseppe Moscarini and Francis G. Vella #13819 (EFG)
• Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
  David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang #13818 (IO, LS)
• Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance
  Richard Frank and Karine Lamiraud #13817 (HC)
• Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
  John H. Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom #13816 (ED)
• A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
  Michael D. Bordo and Harold James #13815 (ME, IFM, POL)
• International Trade in Durable Goods: Understanding Volatility, Cyclicality, and Elasticities
  Charles Engel and Jian Wang #13814 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
• Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
  Leah Platt Boustan #13813 (DAE, LS)
• Note on The Cross-Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and Consumption Growth Risk
  Hanno Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan #13812 (AP, IFM)
• Measuring Financial Asset Return and Volatility Spillovers, With Application to Global Equity Markets
  Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz #13811 (AP, IFM)
• The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
  Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, and Bas ter Weel #13810 (CH, ED, LS)
• The Divergence of Legal Procedures
  Aron Balas, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #13809 (LE, POL)
• Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables
  Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Richard J. Zeckhauser #13808 (PE)
• Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality
  Juan Carlos Hallak and Peter K. Schott #13807 (ITI)
• Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns
  Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos #13806 (AP)
• Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates
  Emmanuel Farhi and Xavier Gabaix #13805 (AP, EFG, IFM)
• Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors
  Lubos Pastor and Robert F. Stambaugh #13804 (AP)
• Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure
  Evan Gatev and Philip Strahan #13802 (CF)
• Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis
  Susan Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton #13801 (ED, PE)
• Who Values the Social Security Annuity? New Evidence on the Annuity Puzzle
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Marcus D. Casey, and Olivia S. Mitchell #13800 (AG, PE)
• Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
  Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts #13799 (EEE)
• Liquidity Production in 21st Century Banking
  Philip Strahan #13798 (CF)
• Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods
  Hanming Fang and Peter Norman #13797 (PE)
• How Much Value Do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study
  B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonathan Meer #13796 (PE)
• Varieties and the Transfer Problem: The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Philippe Martin, and Paolo Pesenti #13795 (IFM)
• Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults
  Cristina Arellano and Narayana R. Kocherlakota #13794 (EFG, IFM)
• Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior
  Christopher Ruebeck, Susan Averett, and Howard Bodenhorn #13793 (CH, LS)
• Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment
  Selim Elekdag, Rene Lalonde, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir, and Paolo Pesenti #13792 (IFM, ITI)
• Educating Urban Children
  Richard J. Murnane #13791 (ED)
• Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations
  George Alessandria, Joseph Kaboski, and Virgiliu Midrigan #13790 (IFM, ITI)
• The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle
  Erik Hurst #13789 (AG, EFG, LS, PE)
• On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions
  Matthew Cary , Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman , Ioannis Giotis , Kurtis Heimerl , Anna R. Karlin , Claire Mathieu , and Michael Schwarz #13788 (IO)

Week of February 3, 2008

• A Maximum Likelihood Method for the Incidental Parameter Problem
  Marcelo Moreira #13787 (TWP)
• Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?
  Joseph Chen, Samuel Hanson, Harrison Hong, and Jeremy C. Stein #13786 (CF, PR, AP)
• 50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence
  Radha Iyengar, Lindsay Sabik, Cindy Southworth, Sarah Tucker, and Cynthia Fraser #13785 (HE, LS)
• I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
  Radha Iyengar #13784 (LS)
• The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
  Thomas J. Holmes #13783 (PR, IO)
• Evidence of Differences in the Effectiveness of Safety-Net Management in European Union Countries
  Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward J. Kane, and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez #13782 (IFM)
• Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control: An Overview
  Philip J. Cook #13781 (LE)
• Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
  James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner, and Petra E. Todd #13780 (LS)
• Inflating the Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Pierre Yared #13779 (EFG, IFM, POL)
• Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000
  Steven J. Davis, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Mary Streitwieser #13778 (EEE)
• Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, & Unemployment Flows
  Michael W. L. Elsby and Ryan Michaels #13777 (EFG, LS, ME)
• Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance
  Emma Hall, Carol Propper, and John Van Reenen #13776 (LS, HC)
• The Changing Effect of HMO Market Structure: An Analysis of Penetration, Concentration, and Ownership Between 1994-2005
  Yu-Chu Shen, Vivian Wu, and Glenn Melnick #13775 (HC)
• Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales
  Charles Calomiris, Raymond Fisman, and Yongxiang Wang #13774 (CF, POL)
• Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth
  Anna Aizer #13773 (CH, HE, LS)
• Search and Rest Unemployment
  Fernando Alvarez and Robert Shimer #13772 (EFG, LS)
• What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?
  Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei #13771 (ITI)
• The Continental Dollar: What Happened to It after 1779?
  Farley Grubb #13770 (DAE)
• The Dynamics of City Formation
  J. Vernon Henderson and Anthony Venables #13769 (EFG, PE)
• Cross-Border Returns Differentials
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock #13768 (IFM, AP)
• The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending
  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler #13767 (HC)

Week of January 27, 2008

• Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets
  Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz #13766 (ED, LS)
• Trade and Empire
  Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier #13765 (DAE)
• Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement
  Robert Kaestner and Michael Grossman #13764 (HE)
• To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question
  Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson #13763 (PE)
• Catering Through Nominal Share Prices
  Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler #13762 (AP, CF)
• Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #13761 (IFM, EFG, ME)
• Renewable Energy Policies And Technological Innovation: Evidence Based On Patent Counts
  Nick Johnstone, Ivan Hascic, and David Popp #13760 (EEE, PR)
• What Do Economists Know About Crime?
  Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Garrett Summers #13759 (LE)
• Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.
  Jonathan Gruber #13758 (AG, CH, HC, LS, PE)
• Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
  Gary Richardson and Dan Bogart #13757 (DAE, LE, POL)
• The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
  Simeon Djankov, Tim Ganser, Caralee McLiesh, Rita Ramalho, and Andrei Shleifer #13756 (CF, PE, EFG)
• Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
  Julio J. Rotemberg #13755 (EFG, LS, ME)
• Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications
  Julio J. Rotemberg #13754 (IO)
• Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #13753 (EEE, PE)
• Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows
  Itay Goldstein, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong #13723 (IFM)

Week of January 20, 2008

• Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study
  Alma Cohen #13752 (IO, LE, PE)
• The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?
  Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer #13751 (EFG, ME)
• Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #13750 (AG)
• Inflation-Gap Persistence in the U.S.
  Timothy Cogley, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Thomas J. Sargent #13749 (EFG, ME)
• Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel #13748 (AG, PE)
• Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries
  Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca, and Robert Town #13747 (HC)
• Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance
  David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, and Kathleen McGarry #13746 (AG, HC, PE)
• Effects of Taxes on Economic Behavior
  Martin S. Feldstein #13745 (PE)
• The Rise and (Partial) Fall of Abstract Painting in the Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #13744 (LS)
• The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction
  Henry Saffer and Karine Lamiraud #13743 (HE, LS)
• Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
  Eduardo Engel and Ronald Fischer #13742 (EEE, ITI, PE)
• Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)
  Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide #13741 (EFG, ME)
• Sui Generis EMU
  Barry Eichengreen #13740 (IFM)
• High Idiosyncratic Volatility and Low Returns: International and Further U.S. Evidence
  Andrew Ang, Robert J. Hodrick, Yuhang Xing, and Xiaoyan Zhang #13739 (AP)
• Mixing Family With Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them
  Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak, and Antoinette Schoar #13738 (CF)
• Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
  B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel #13737 (PE)
• Global Forces and Monetary Policy Effectiveness
  Jean Boivin and Marc Giannoni #13736 (EFG, IFM, ME)
• Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism
  Robert P. Inman #13735 (PE, POL)
• Globalization and the Sustainability of Large Current Account Imbalances: Size Matters
  Joshua Aizenman and Yi Sun #13734 (ITI, IFM)
• Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa
  Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld #13733 (LE, PE, POL)

Week of January 6, 2008

• Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives
  Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel, and Pietro Veronesi #13732 (CF, LS)
• Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles
  Ariel Burstein, Christopher Kurz, and Linda Tesar #13731 (IFM, ITI, EFG)
• How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach
  John A. Romley and Dana Goldman #13730 (HC)
• Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
  Martin S. Feldstein #13729 (PE)
• Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
  Daniel Rondeau and John A. List #13728 (PE)
• Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society
  Uri Gneezy, Kenneth L. Leonard, and John A. List #13727 (LE, LS, PE)
• Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values
  Julia Coronado, Olivia S. Mitchell, Steven A. Sharpe, and S. Blake Nesbitt #13726 (AG, AP, LS)
• Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
  Eli Berman and David D. Laitin #13725 (LS, PE, PR)
• Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance
  Xavier Gabaix #13724 (AP, EFG)
• Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects
  Mary F. Evans and V. Kerry Smith #13722 (EEE, LS)
• How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?
  Woochan Kim, Taeyoon Sung, and Shang-Jin Wei #13721 (CF, IFM)
• Optimal Savings Distortions with Recursive Preferences
  Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning #13720 (EFG, PE)
• Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Klara Sabirianova Peter #13719 (LS, PE)
• Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
  Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna #13718 (CH, LE, LS, PE)
• Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
  Kaivan Munshi and Nicholas Wilson #13717 (CH, DAE, LS)
• Procrastination and Impatience
  Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #13713 (AP)
• Social Capital as Good Culture
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #13712 (POL)
• Arbitrage in Housing Markets
  Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko #13704 (EFG)
• Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo #13683 (AG)