NBER Working papers 2009

Week of December 21, 2009

• Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
  Petra Moser and Alessandra Voena #15598 (DAE, LE, PR)
  
• The Welfare State and the Skill Mix of Migration: Dynamic Policy Formation
  Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka, and Benjarong Suwankiri #15597 (IFM)
  
• Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States
  John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel #15596 (DAE)
  
• Utility from Accumulation
  Louis Kaplow #15595 (PE)
  
• Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith and the Crisis of 1772
  Hugh Rockoff #15594 (DAE)
  
• Measuring the Gains from Trade under Monopolistic Competition
  Robert C. Feenstra #15593 (ITI)
  
• Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth
  Robert C. Feenstra, Benjamin R. Mandel, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, and Matthew J. Slaughter #15592 (ITI)
  
• Momentum Cycles and Limits to Arbitrage Evidence from Victorian England and Post-Depression US Stock Markets
  Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels, and Ravi Jagannathan #15591 (AP)
  
• Pain at the Pump: The Differential Effect of Gasoline Prices on New and Used Automobile Markets
  Meghan R. Busse, Christopher R. Knittel, and Florian Zettelmeyer #15590 (EEE, IO)
  
• Is a WIC Start a Better Start? Evaluating WIC’s Impact on Infant Health Using Program Introduction
  Hilary W. Hoynes, Marianne E. Page, and Ann Huff Stevens #15589 (CH, HC, LS, PE)
  
• Risk-Adjusted Gamma Discounting
  Martin L. Weitzman #15588 (EEE)
  
• The Evolution of Ideology, Fairness and Redistribution
  Alberto F. Alesina, Guido Cozzi, and Noemi Mantovan #15587 (POL)
  
• Testing for Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets
  Alma Cohen and Peter Siegelman #15586 (LE, LS, PE)
  

Week of December 14, 2009

• Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits
  W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber, Jason Bell, and Caroline Cecot #15585 (LE, EEE)
  
• The Great Depression Analogy
  Michael D. Bordo and Harold James #15584 (DAE, ME)
  
• Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women
  Alexander M. Gelber and Joshua W. Mitchell #15583 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Public versus Private Risk Sharing
  Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri #15582 (EFG, PE)
  
• The Economics of Labor Coercion
  Daron Acemoglu and Alexander Wolitzky #15581 (LS)
  
• The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices
  Martin Berka and Mario J. Crucini #15580 (IFM)
  
• Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence
  Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Luis Serven #15579 (EFG, PR)
  
• The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia
  Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Rafael Santos #15578 (IFM, POL)
  
• Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
  Gilbert Cette, Yusuf Kocoglu, and Jacques Mairesse #15577 (PR)
  
• The Global Networks of Multinational Firms
  Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen #15576 (IO, ITI)
  
• Banking System Control, Capital Allocation, and Economy Performance
  Randall Morck, M. Deniz Yavuz, and Bernard Yeung #15575 (CF)
  
• An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer
  Eric C. Sun, Anupam B. Jena, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Carolina M. Reyes, Tomas J. Philipson, and Dana P. Goldman #15574 (HC, HE)
  
• Employers' Preferences for Gender, Age, Height and Beauty: Direct Evidence
  Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen #15564 (LS)
  

Week of December 6, 2009

• Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s
  Eugene N. White #15573 (DAE)
  
• Profiting from Regulation: An Event Study of the EU Carbon Market
  James B. Bushnell, Howard Chong, and Erin T. Mansur #15572 (EEE)
  
• The Changing Landscape of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards
  Alison F. Del Rossi and W. Kip Viscusi #15571 (LE)
  
• Investment Shocks and Business Cycles
  Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti #15570 (EFG, ME)
  
• Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking
  Viral V. Acharya, Yakov Amihud, and Lubomir Litov #15569 (CF, LE)
  
• The Internal Governance of Firms
  Viral V. Acharya, Stewart C. Myers, and Raghuram Rajan #15568 (CF)
  
• Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
  Viral V. Acharya, Hyun Song Shin, and Tanju Yorulmazer #15567 (CF)
  
• Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources
  John Bound, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner #15566 (ED, LS)
  
• Quantitative Easing: A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan
  Volker Wieland #15565 (ME)
  
• What Ties Return Volatilities to Price Valuations and Fundamentals?
  Alexander David and Pietro Veronesi #15563 (AP)
  
• Using Inflation to Erode the U.S. Public Debt
  Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion #15562 (ITI)
  
• Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Co-movement
  Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston #15561 (EFG)
  
• National Borders, Conflict and Peace
  Enrico Spolaore #15560 (POL)
  
• "Do the Right Thing:" The Effects of Moral Suasion on Cooperation
  Ernesto Dal Bó and Pedro Dal Bó #15559 (POL)
  
• Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Experience in the Western United States
  Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe #15558 (DAE, EEE)
  
• Distance, Trade, and Income – The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment
  James Feyrer #15557 (EFG, ITI)
  
• Exports and Financial Shocks
  Mary Amiti and David E. Weinstein #15556 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Testing Theories of Scarcity Pricing in the Airline Industry
  Steven L. Puller, Anirban Sengupta, and Steven N. Wiggins #15555 (IO)
  
• Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists
  Dirk Krueger, Fabrizio Perri, Luigi Pistaferri, and Giovanni L. Violante #15554 (EFG, PE)
  
• How Much Consumption Insurance Beyond Self-Insurance?
  Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante #15553 (EFG)
  
• The Real Effects of Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Financial Crisis
  Murillo Campello, John Graham, and Campbell R. Harvey #15552 (CF, IFM)
  
• A Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions
  Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler #15551 (CF)
  
• Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
  Francesco Caselli and Guy Michaels #15550 (EFG, PE, POL)
  

Week of November 30, 2009

• Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, and Parag Pathak #15549 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• A Concordance Between Ten-Digit U.S. Harmonized System Codes and SIC/NAICS Product Classes and Industries
  Justin R. Pierce and Peter K. Schott #15548 (ITI)
  
• Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines
  Eli Berman, Joseph Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro #15547 (LS, POL)
  
• A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
  John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, and Ian Schmutte #15546 (LS)
  
• Tractability in Incentive Contracting
  Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix #15545 (AP, CF, EFG, LS)
  
• The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics
  Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson #15544 (DAE, IO, POL)
  
• Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
  Nicholas E. Burger and Charles D. Kolstad #15543 (EEE)
  
• How Debt Markets have Malfunctioned in the Crisis
  Arvind Krishnamurthy #15542 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• International Trade and Domestic Regulation
  Robert W. Staiger and Alan O. Sykes #15541 (ITI)
  

Week of November 23, 2009

• Bayesian Persuasion
  Emir Kamenica and Matthew Gentzkow #15540 (IO, POL)
  
• Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program
  Daniel L. Millimet and Rusty Tchernis #15539 (HE)
  
• When Safe Proved Risky: Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
  Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl #15538 (AP, CF)
  
• The State of Corporate Governance Research
  Lucian A. Bebchuk and Michael S. Weisbach #15537 (CF, LE)
  
• Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform
  Richard T. Boylan and Naci H. Mocan #15535 (HE, LE)
  
• Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long Run View
  Michael D. Bordo, Christopher M. Meissner, and David Stuckler #15534 (IFM, ME)
  
• Jump-Robust Volatility Estimation using Nearest Neighbor Truncation
  Torben G. Andersen, Dobrislav Dobrev, and Ernst Schaumburg #15533 (AP)
  
• Cash-out or flame-out! Opportunity cost and entrepreneurial strategy: Theory, and evidence from the information security industry
  Ashish Arora and Anand Nandkumar #15532 (PR)
  
• The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement
  Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob #15531 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry
  James R. Markusen and Frank Stähler #15530 (ITI)
  
• Trust and Delegation
  Stephen Brown, William Goetzmann, Bing Liang, and Christopher Schwarz #15529 (LE)
  
• Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade
  Katheryn N. Russ and Diego Valderrama #15528 (ITI)
  
• Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Gerard A. Pfann #15527 (LS)
  
• Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
  Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu, and Serdar Ozkan #15526 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Current Account Fact and Fiction
  David Backus, Espen Henriksen, Frederic Lambert, and Christopher Telmer #15525 (IFM)
  
• From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons
  Miguel Almunia, Agustín S. Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Gisela Rua #15524 (DAE, IFM)
  
• Currency Carry Trade Regimes: Beyond the Fama Regression
  Richard Clarida, Josh Davis, and Niels Pedersen #15523 (IFM)
  
• Discovering One's Talent: Learning from Academic Specialization
  Ofer Malamud #15522 (ED)

Week of November 16, 2009

• Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities
  David Card, Christian Dustmann, and Ian Preston #15521 (LS)
  
• Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860
  Jeremy Atack and Robert A. Margo #15520 (DAE)
  
• The Feldstein-Horioka fact
  Domenico Giannone and Michele Lenza #15519 (EFG)
  
• The Carry Trade and Fundamentals: Nothing to Fear But FEER Itself
  Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor #15518 (IFM)
  
• A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment
  Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom, and Salal Humair #15517 (HC, HE)
  
• Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
  Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey A. Frankel #15516 (EEE, IFM)
  
• Did Fair-Value Accounting Contribute to the Financial Crisis?
  Christian Laux and Christian Leuz #15515 (CF)
  
• Anchors Away: How Fiscal Policy Can Undermine the Taylor Principle
  Eric M. Leeper #15514 (EFG)
  
• Decentralized Trading with Private Information
  Mikhail Golosov, Guido Lorenzoni, and Aleh Tsyvinski #15513 (AP, EFG)
  
• Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870–2008
  Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor #15512 (DAE, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Innovators: Songwriters
  David Galenson #15511 (LS)
  
• Heterogeneity in the effect of regulation on entrepreneurship and entry size
  Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi #15510 (AG)
  
• Gravity in the Weightless Economy
  Wolfgang Keller and Stephen R. Yeaple #15509 (EFG, ITI, PR)
  
• The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth
  James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony B. Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff #15508 (PR)
  
• The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States
  Giovanni Peri #15507 (ITI, LS, PR)
  
• Risk Price Dynamics
  Jaroslav Borovi�?ka, Lars Peter Hansen, Mark Hendricks, and José A. Scheinkman #15506 (AP)
  
• On Quality Bias and Inflation Targets
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe #15505 (ME)
  
• An Empirical Evaluation of the Long-Run Risks Model for Asset Prices
  Ravi Bansal, Dana Kiku, and Amir Yaron #15504 (AP, CF)
  
• Competition and Quality Upgrading
  Mary Amiti and Amit K. Khandelwal #15503 (ITI)
  
• Art and Money
  William N. Goetzmann, Luc Renneboog, and Christophe Spaenjers #15502 (EFG)
  
• The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
  William Kerr #15501 (PR)
  
• Human Capital In China
  Haizheng Li, Barbara M. Fraumeni, Zhiqiang Liu, and Xiaojun Wang #15500 (LS, PR)
  
• Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size
  William Kerr and Ramana Nanda #15499 (PR)
  
• Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship
  William Kerr and Ramana Nanda #15498 (PR)
  
• Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
  David Card and Gordon Dahl #15497 (LS)
  
• By How Much Does GDP Rise if the Government Buys More Output?
  Robert E. Hall #15496 (EFG)
  
• Regulation, Allocation, and Leakage in Cap-and-Trade Markets for CO2
  James B. Bushnell and Yihsu Chen #15495 (EEE)
  
• Foreign Demand for Domestic Currency and the Optimal Rate of Inflation
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe #15494 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  

Week of November 9, 2009

• Family Bonding with Universities
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #15493 (PE)
  
• The Economics of Trade Agreements in the Linear Cournot Delocation Model
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #15492 (ITI)
  
• Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance
  Peter H. Lindert #15491 (DAE, ED)
  
• Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
  Eric J. Bartelsman, John C. Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta #15490 (EFG, PR)
  
• The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions
  James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons #15489 (PR)
  
• Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support
  Robert A. Moffitt and John Karl Scholz #15488 (CH, PE)
  
• A Preferred-Habitat Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
  Dimitri Vayanos and Jean-Luc Vila #15487 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
  Carol McAusland and Peter J. Kuhn #15486 (ITI, LS, PR)
  
• The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States
  David O. Meltzer and Zhuo Chen #15485 (HC, HE)
  
• Hoarding International Reserves Versus a Pigovian Tax-Cum-Subsidy Scheme: Reflections on the Deleveraging Crisis of 2008-9, and a Cost Benefit Analysis
  Joshua Aizenman #15484 (ITI)
  
• Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006
  Jonathan Heathcote, Fabrizio Perri, and Giovanni L. Violante #15483 (EFG)
  
• Dynamic Debt Runs
  Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong #15482 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• The Chinese Warrants Bubble
  Wei Xiong and Jialin Yu #15481 (AP, ME)
  
• Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Children's Academic Achievement
  Ann Huff Stevens and Jessamyn Schaller #15480 (CH, LS)
  
• Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Alp Simsek #15479 (AP, CF, EFG, IFM)
  
• Thirty Years of Currency Crises in Argentina: External Shocks or Domestic Fragility?
  Graciela Kaminsky, Amine Mati, and Nada Choueiri #15478 (IFM)
  
• Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
  Alejandrina Salcedo, Todd Schoellman, and Michèle Tertilt #15477 (EFG)
  
• The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale
  Phillip Leslie and Alan Sorensen #15476 (IO)
  
• The Global 1970s and the Echo of the Great Depression
  Alan M. Taylor #15475 (DAE, ITI, POL)
  
• The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality
  James Feyrer #15474 (EFG, LS, PR)
  
• Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr #15473 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Mortgage Default, Foreclosure, and Bankruptcy
  Wenli Li and Michelle J. White #15472 (LE)
  
• The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
  James J. Heckman, Seong Hyeok Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, and Adam Yavitz #15471 (CH, ED)
  
• Micro, Macro, and Strategic Forces in International Trade Invoicing
  Linda S. Goldberg and Cédric Tille #15470 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication Among Older Americans
  Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Vilsa Curto #15469 (AG)
  

Week of November 2, 2009

• Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
  Margaret Kyle and Anita McGahan #15468 (HE, ITI, PR)
  
• Why are the 2000s so different from the 1970s? A structural interpretation of changes in the macroeconomic effects of oil prices
  Olivier J. Blanchard and Marianna Riggi #15467 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Gustavo Manso #15466 (PR)
  
• The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
  Efraim Benmelech, Claude Berrebi, and Esteban F. Klor #15465 (LS, PE, POL)
  
• Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing
  Valerie A. Ramey #15464 (EFG, ME)
  
• Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
  James J. Heckman, Daniel A. Schmierer, and Sergio S. Urzua #15463 (TWP)
  
• Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?
  Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles #15462 (AP, EFG, ME, PE)
  
• Cheaper By the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance
  Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber, and Danielle Li #15461 (CH, ED, PE)
  
• Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements
  Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger #15460 (ITI)
  
• Can Learnability Save New-Keynesian Models?
  John H. Cochrane #15459 (EFG)
  
• Paulson's Gift
  Pietro Veronesi and Luigi Zingales #15458 (AP, CF)
  
• The Demographics of Innovation and Asset Returns
  Nicolae Gârleanu, Leonid Kogan, and Stavros Panageas #15457 (AP, EFG)
  
• High-Powered Incentives in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado
  Grant Miller, Diana M. Pinto, and Marcos Vera-Hernández #15456 (CH, HC, HE)
  

Week of October 26, 2009

• Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates
  Simon Johnson, William Larson, Chris Papageorgiou, and Arvind Subramanian #15455 (EFG, IFM)
  
• A Theory of Banks, Bonds, and the Distribution of Firm Size
  Katheryn N. Russ and Diego Valderrama #15454 (ITI)
  
• Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?
  John List and Charles Mason #15453 (EEE, PE)
  
• Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters
  Eduardo Borensztein, Olivier Jeanne, and Damiano Sandri #15452 (IFM)
  
• The Environment and Directed Technical Change
  Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn, and David Hemous #15451 (EEE, EFG, PE)
  
• Attention Allocation Over the Business Cycle
  Marcin Kacperczyk, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Laura Veldkamp #15450 (AP, EFG)
  
• Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting on Compensation Plans: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation
  Martijn Cremers and Roberta Romano #15449 (CF)
  
• India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005
  Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari #15448 (CF, IFM, ITI, POL, EFG)
  
• Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU
  Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward J. Kane, and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez #15447 (LE)
  
• The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges
  Caroline M. Hoxby #15446 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• The WTO: Theory and Practice
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #15445 (ITI)
  
• Delocation and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #15444 (ITI)
  
• Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
  William R. Kerr #15443 (PR)
  
• International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
  Wolfgang Keller #15442 (EFG, IO, ITI, PR)
  
• Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
  Shurojit Chatterji, Sayantan Ghosal, Sean Walsh, and John Whalley #15441 (EEE)
  
• The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
  Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal #15440 (DAE)
  
• Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities
  Robert Kaestner and Benjamin Yarnoff #15439 (HE)
  
• Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending
  Alberto F. Alesina and Silvia Ardagna #15438 (POL)
  
• Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns
  Ajay K. Agrawal, Iain M. Cockburn, and Carlos Rosell #15437 (PR)
  
• Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity
  Zhenxiang Zhao and Robert Kaestner #15436 (HE)
  
• What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population
  Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai #15435 (AG, LS)
  
• Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry
  Leemore Dafny, Mark Duggan, and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan #15434 (HC, IO, PE)

Week of October 19, 2009

• Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income
  Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin #15433 (EFG, PR)
  
• Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vincenzo Quadrini #15432 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Gun Control after Heller: Litigating against Regulation
  Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Adam Samaha #15431 (LE)
  
• An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr and Steven D. Levitt #15430 (ED, LS)
  
• Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #15429 (EEE, PE)
  
• Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
  Diego A. Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven #15428 (EFG, IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• Adaptive Consumption Behavior
  Peter Howitt and Ömer Özak #15427 (EFG)
  
• Executive Compensation: Facts
  Gian Luca Clementi and Thomas F. Cooley #15426 (CF)
  
• FINANCIAL CRISES AND LIQUIDITY SHOCKS: A Bank-Run Perspective
  Guillermo A. Calvo #15425 (IFM)
  
• Inflation targeting and private sector forecasts
  Stephen G. Cecchetti and Craig Hakkio #15424 (ME)
  
• Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D
  David Popp and Richard G. Newell #15423 (EEE, PR)
  
• Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement
  W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch #15422 (LE)
  
• Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
  Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel B. Slemrod #15421 (EFG, ME, PE)
  
• The Economics of Open Air Markets
  John A. List #15420 (IO, PE)
  
• Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #15419 (IFM)
  
• One TV, One Price?
  Jean Imbs, Haroon Mumtaz, Morten O. Ravn, and Hélène Rey #15418 (IFM, IO, ITI)
  
• Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
  Francesco Giavazzi, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Michel Serafinelli #15417 (IFM, POL)
  
• Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation
  Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and �?kos Valentinyi #15416 (EFG)
  

Week of October 12, 2009

• Family Ties and Political Participation
  Alberto F. Alesina and Paola Giuliano #15415 (POL)
  
• Crises and Liquidity in Over-the-Counter Markets
  Ricardo Lagos, Guillaume Rocheteau, and Pierre-Olivier Weill #15414 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass
  Janet Currie and Reed Walker #15413 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability
  Daniel Carvell, Janet Currie, and W. Bentley MacLeod #15412 (HE, LE)
  
• Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
  André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio #15411 (DAE)
  
• Moral Hazard Matters: Measuring Relative Rates of Underinsurance Using Threshold Measures
  Jean Marie Abraham, Thomas DeLeire, and Anne Beeson Royalty #15410 (HE)
  
• The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities
  Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski, Xavier Gabaix, and Hernán A. Makse #15409 (EFG)
  
• Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
  Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez #15408 (DAE, LS, PE)
  
• Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity
  Alan J. Auerbach and William G. Gale #15407 (EFG, PE)
  
• Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States
  George J. Borjas and Rachel M. Friedberg #15406 (LS)
  
• Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts
  Stavros Panageas #15405 (AP, EFG, PE)
  
• Why are we in a recession? The Financial Crisis is the Symptom not the Disease!
  Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor, and Ernst Schaumburg #15404 (EFG)
  

Week of October 5, 2009

• Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game
  Charles Calomiris #15403 (CF, DAE, POL)
  
• Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals
  Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli #15402 (POL)
  
• Are Hard Pegs Ever Credible in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
  Kris James Mitchener and Marc D. Weidenmier #15401 (DAE, IFM)
  
• Power Fluctuations and Political Economy
  Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov, and Aleh Tsyvinski #15400 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• Disasters Risk and Business Cycles
  François Gourio #15399 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States
  Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, and David Neumark #15398 (LS)
  
• U.S. Trade Policy Since 1934: An Uneven Path Toward Greater Trade Liberalization
  Robert E. Baldwin #15397 (ITI, POL)
  
• Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
  Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang, and Li-An Zhou #15396 (PE)
  
• The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement
  Courtney Coile and Phillip B. Levine #15395 (AG, LS)
  
• When is the government spending multiplier large?
  Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #15394 (EFG)
  
• Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
  Lee Branstetter and Kamal Saggi #15393 (ITI, PR)
  
• Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D
  Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter #15392 (AG, HE)
  
• Son Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada
  Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, and Kevin Milligan #15391 (CH)
  
• Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and its Alternatives
  Ben Shiller and Joel Waldfogel #15390 (IO)

Week of September 28, 2009

• Credit Crises, Money and Contractions: an historical view
  Michael D. Bordo and Joseph G. Haubrich #15389 (DAE, IFM)
  
• The formation of inflation expectations: an empirical analysis for the UK
  David G. Blanchflower and Conall MacCoille #15388 (ME)
  
• Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor
  David Deming and Susan Dynarski #15387 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage
  Ian Ayres, Sophie Raseman, and Alice Shih #15386 (EEE)
  
• Evaluating Monetary Policy
  Lars E.O. Svensson #15385 (EFG, ME)
  
• Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
  René M. Stulz #15384 (CF)
  
• The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability
  Darius N. Lakdawalla and Seth A. Seabury #15383 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Is the Volatility of the Market Price of Risk due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-balancing?
  Yi-Li Chien, Harold L. Cole, and Hanno Lustig #15382 (AP, EFG)
  
• On the Scholes Liquidation Problem
  David B. Brown, Bruce Ian Carlin, and Miguel Sousa Lobo #15381 (AP)
  
• The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
  David A. Weiner, Byron F. Lutz, and Jens Ludwig #15380 (CH, HE)
  
• Financial Crises and Economic Activity
  Stephen G. Cecchetti, Marion Kohler, and Christian Upper #15379 (ME)
  
• Persistence of Civil Wars
  Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni #15378 (POL)
  
• Clusters of Entrepreneurship
  Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto #15377 (EFG)
  
• The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from US cities
  Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner #15376 (EEE)
  
• Methods versus Substance: Measuring the Effects of Technology Shocks on Hours
  José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Frank Schorfheide, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Maxym Kryshko, and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis #15375 (EFG, ME)
  
• Riding the Wave of Trade: Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
  Michael Huberman and Christopher M. Meissner #15374 (DAE)
  
• The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes
  Robert S. Pindyck and Neng Wang #15373 (EEE, EFG, PE)
  
• Measuring How Risk Tradeoffs Adjust With Income
  Mary F. Evans and V. Kerry Smith #15372 (EEE)
  
• The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
  Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny, and Max M. Schanzenbach #15371 (HC, LE)
  
• Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
  Huifang Tian and John Whalley #15370 (EEE)

Week of September 21, 2009

• Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes
  Robert J. Barro and Charles J. Redlick #15369 (EFG, ME, PE)
  
• Do Leaders Affect Government Spending Priorities?
  Adi Brender and Allan Drazen #15368 (EFG, POL)
  
• Measuring Central Bank Communication: An Automated Approach with Application to FOMC Statements
  David O. Lucca and Francesco Trebbi #15367 (ME)
  
• Who Counts in Evaluating the Effects of Air Pollution Policies on Households? Non-Market Valuation in the Presence of Dependencies
  Mary F. Evans, Christine Poulos, and V. Kerry Smith #15366 (EEE)
  
• Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs: A Field Experiment
  Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, and Ebonya Washington #15365 (POL)
  
• Inheritances, Health and Death
  Beomsoo Kim and Christopher J. Ruhm #15364 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Model Structure and the Combined Welfare and Trade Effects of China's Trade Related Policies
  Yan Dong and John Whalley #15363 (ITI)
  
• Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
  Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton #15362 (AP, EFG)
  
• The Political Economy of Ethnolinguistic Cleavages
  Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, and Romain Wacziarg #15360 (POL)
  
• Lost in Transit: Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market
  Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson #15359 (EFG, IFM, ME, PR)
  
• Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Crisis: International Linkages and American Exposure
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #15358 (IFM)
  
• Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Crisis: Early Warning
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #15357 (IFM)
  
• Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth
  Stelios Michalopoulos, Luc Laeven, and Ross Levine #15356 (CF, EFG, IFM)
  
• Women's Rights and Development
  Raquel Fernández #15355 (DAE, EFG, LE, POL)
  
• A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends
  Dave E. Marcotte and Sara Markowitz #15354 (HE, LE, PE)
  
• Towards a Common European Monetary Union Risk Free Rate
  Sergio Mayordomo, Juan Ignacio Peña, and Eduardo S. Schwartz #15353 (AP, IFM)
  
• Financial Literacy among the Young: Evidence and Implications for Consumer Policy
  Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Vilsa Curto #15352 (AG)
  
• Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality
  Robert J. Gordon #15351 (EFG, LS, PR)
  

Week of September 14, 2009

• How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #15350 (AG)
  
• Spatial Development
  Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #15349 (EFG, ITI, PR)
  
• Mom-and-Pop Meet Big-Box: Complements or Substitutes?
  John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, and C. J. Krizan #15348 (EFG)
  
• Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League
  Kenneth Kovash and Steven D. Levitt #15347 (LE, PE)
  
• Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption
  Tavneet Suri #15346 (PR)
  
• Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
  Eric V. Edmonds and Norbert Schady #15345 (CH)
  
• The Right Amount of Trust
  Jeffrey Butler, Paola Giuliano, and Luigi Guiso #15344 (POL)
  
• How Far Are We From The Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited
  Mathias Trabandt and Harald Uhlig #15343 (EFG, PE)
  
• Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models
  Kalina Manova and Zhiwei Zhang #15342 (ITI)
  
• Growth Accounting
  Charles R. Hulten #15341 (PR)
  
• Technological Growth and Asset Pricing
  Nicolae B. Gârleanu, Stavros Panageas, and Jianfeng Yu #15340 (AP, EFG)
  
• How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything
  Philip Oreopoulos and Kjell G. Salvanes #15339 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Shocks
  Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini #15338 (EFG)
  
• Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations: The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits
  Lawrence H. Goulder, Mark R. Jacobsen, and Arthur A. van Benthem #15337 (EEE, LE, PE)
  
• Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the Lehman Bankruptcy
  George O. Aragon and Philip E. Strahan #15336 (AP)
  
• Risk and Expected Returns of Private Equity Investments: Evidence Based on Market Prices
  Narasimhan Jegadeesh, Roman Kräussl, and Joshua Pollet #15335 (AP)
  
• The Subprime Crisis and House Price Appreciation
  William N. Goetzmann, Liang Peng, and Jacqueline Yen #15334 (EFG)
  
• Risk Aversion and Clientele Effects
  Douglas W. Blackburn, William N. Goetzmann, and Andrey D. Ukhov #15333 (AP)
  
• New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
  Rik G.P. Frehen, William N. Goetzmann, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst #15332 (IFM)
  
• Multiple Ratings and Credit Spreads
  Dion Bongaerts, K.J. Martijn Cremers, and William N. Goetzmann #15331 (CF)
  
• Insurer Bargaining and Negotiated Drug Prices in Medicare Part D
  Darius Lakdawalla and Wesley Yin #15330 (HC, HE)
  
• Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade
  Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Gene M. Grossman, and Elhanan Helpman #15329 (ITI)
  
• Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy
  William Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan #15328 (PE)
  

Week of September 7, 2009

• Mutual Fund Tax Clienteles
  Clemens Sialm and Laura Starks #15327 (AP, PE)
  
• Genetic Adverse Selection: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease
  Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson, Kimberly Quaid, and E. Ray Dorsey #15326 (HC, HE, LS, PE)
  
• The Financing of R&D and Innovation
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner #15325 (CF, IO, PR)
  
• Dynamic Incentive Accounts
  Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabaix, Tomasz Sadzik, and Yuliy Sannikov #15324 (AG, CF, EFG)
  
• Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India
  Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman #15323 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
  Jeremy T. Fox #15322 (LS)
  
• Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy
  Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo #15321 (POL)
  
• Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, and Jeff Larrimore #15320 (LS, PE, TWP)
  
• The CHAT Dataset
  Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn #15319 (CF, DAE, EFG, ITI, LS, POL, PR)
  
• Measuring the Timing Ability and Performance of Bond Mutual Funds
  Yong Chen, Wayne Ferson, and Helen Peters #15318 (AP)
  
• The Efficiency of Sponsor and Participant Portfolio Choices in 401(k) Plans
  Ning Tang, Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola, and Stephen Utkus #15317 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care
  David M. Cutler, Ellen Meara, and Seth Richards #15316 (HC)
  
• Specific and General Information Sharing Among Academic Scientists
  Carolin Haeussler, Lin Jiang, Jerry Thursby, and Marie C. Thursby #15315 (PR)
  
• The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development
  Richard G. Frank and Ellen Meara #15314 (HC, HE)
  
• Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure
  Timothy Dunne, Shawn D. Klimek, Mark J. Roberts, and Daniel Yi Xu #15313 (IO)
  
• News Shocks
  Robert B. Barsky and Eric R. Sims #15312 (AP, EFG, ME, PR)
  
• The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt
  William N. Evans and Timothy J. Moore #15311 (HC, HE)
  
• Liquidity, Activity, Mortality
  William N. Evans and Timothy J. Moore #15310 (HC, HE)
  
• Estimating Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Medical Treatment Intensity
  William N. Evans and Craig L. Garthwaite #15309 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets
  Motohiro Yogo #15307 (AG, AP, HE)
  
• Nature of Oil Price Shocks and Monetary Policy
  Junhee Lee and Joonhyuk Song #15306 (ME)
  

Week of August 31, 2009

• Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
  Jeffrey G. Williamson #15305 (DAE)
  
• Intracompany Governance and Innovation
  Sharon Belenzon, Tomer Berkovitz, and Patrick Bolton #15304 (CF, IO, LE)
  
• How large are the effects of tax changes?
  Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi #15303 (IFM)
  
• Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation
  Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov, and Aleh Tsyvinski #15302 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• Matching on the Estimated Propensity Score
  Alberto Abadie and Guido W. Imbens #15301 (LS)
  
• Soft Budgets and Renegotiations in Public-Private Partnerships
  Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer, and Alexander Galetovic #15300 (IO, PE)
  
• Do Universities Generate Agglomeration Spillovers? Evidence from Endowment Value Shocks
  Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley #15299 (ED, EFG)
  
• Persuasion: Empirical Evidence
  Stefano DellaVigna and Matthew Gentzkow #15298 (AP, IO, LS, PE, POL)
  
• When Everyone Runs for the Exit
  Lasse Heje Pedersen #15297 (AP, ME)
  
• Numerically Stable Stochastic Simulation Approaches for Solving Dynamic Economic Models
  Kenneth Judd, Lilia Maliar, and Serguei Maliar #15296 (EFG, TWP)
  
• Professor Zipf goes to Wall Street
  Yannick Malevergne, Pedro Santa-Clara, and Didier Sornette #15295 (AP)
  
• Explaining the Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets
  Marc N. Conte and Matthew J. Kotchen #15294 (EEE, PE)
  
• Impacts of Alternative Emissions Allowance Allocation Methods under a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program
  Lawrence H. Goulder, Marc A. C. Hafstead, and Michael S. Dworsky #15293 (EEE, PE)
  
• Low-Frequency Robust Cointegration Testing
  Ulrich Müller and Mark W. Watson #15292 (TWP)
  
• Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees
  Scott Imberman, Adriana D. Kugler, and Bruce Sacerdote #15291 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Economic Conditions and U.S. National Security in the 1930s and Today
  Martin S. Feldstein #15290 (DAE, EFG, PE)
  
• Credit Spreads and Monetary Policy
  Vasco Cúrdia and Michael Woodford #15289 (ME)
  
• What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?
  Lee E. Ohanian #15258 (EFG)

Week of August 24, 2009

• Variance in Death and Its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality
  Shripad Tuljapurkar and Ryan D. Edwards #15288 (AG, HE)
  
• Alternative Measures of Offshorability: A Survey Approach
  Alan S. Blinder and Alan B. Krueger #15287 (EFG, ITI, LS)
  
• The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
  Xavier Gabaix #15286 (EFG)
  
• The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns
  Waverly W. Ding, Sharon G. Levin, Paula E. Stephan, and Anne E. Winkler #15285 (LS, PR)
  
• The Rug Rat Race
  Garey Ramey and Valerie A. Ramey #15284 (CH, LS)
  
• House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
  Atif R. Mian and Amir Sufi #15283 (AP, CF, DAE, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Labor-Market Matching with Precautionary Savings and Aggregate Fluctuations
  Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, and Aysegul Sahin #15282 (EFG)
  
• Means-Tested Mortgage Modification: Homes Saved or Income Destroyed?
  Casey B. Mulligan #15281 (EFG, PE)
  
• Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions
  Michael Kremer, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix Peterson Zwane #15280 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• The Trouble with Cases
  Frederick Schauer and Richard Zeckhauser #15279 (, POL)
  
• The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #15278 (PR)
  
• Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects
  Daniel S. Hamermesh #15277 (LS)
  
• Nonparametric Identification of Multinomial Choice Demand Models with Heterogeneous Consumers
  Steven T. Berry and Philip A. Haile #15276 (IO, TWP)
  
• Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence
  Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine #15275 (EFG, IFM, POL)
  
• Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007: a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach
  Joshua Aizenman and Nan Geng #15274 (ITI)
  
• Haircuts
  Gary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick #15273 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition
  John Bound, Brad Hershbein, and Bridget Terry Long #15272 (ED, LS)
  
• Aging, religion, and health
  Angus S. Deaton #15271 (AG, HC)
  
• Monetary Policy Shifts and the Term Structure
  Andrew Ang, Jean Boivin, Sen Dong, and Rudy Loo-Kung #15270 (AP, ME)
  
• Anchoring Fiscal Expectations
  Eric M. Leeper #15269 (EFG)
  
• Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
  Francisco J. Buera and Yongseok Shin #15268 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
  David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner, and Dennis Novy #15267 (DAE)
  
• Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
  John J. McArdle, James P. Smith, and Robert Willis #15266 (AG)
  
• A Tractable Model of Buffer Stock Saving
  Christopher D. Carroll and Patrick Toche #15265 (AP)
  
• Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States
  R. Alison Felix and James R. Hines, Jr. #15263 (PE)
  
• Taxes and Trading versus Intensity Standards: Second-Best Environmental Policies with Incomplete Regulation (Leakage) or Market Power
  Stephen P. Holland #15262 (EEE, PE)
  
• Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
  Ann Harrison and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare #15261 (ITI)
  

Week of August 17, 2009

• The Determinants of Stock and Bond Return Comovements
  Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, and Koen Inghelbrecht #15260 (AP)
  
• Uncertain Outcomes and Climate Change Policy
  Robert S. Pindyck #15259 (EEE, IO, PE)
  
• Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework
  Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, and Giovanni L. Violante #15257 (EFG, LS)
  
• Estimating Causal Effects of Early Occupational Choice on Later Health: Evidence Using the PSID
  Jason M. Fletcher and Jody L. Sindelar #15256 (HE)
  
• Accounting for Incomplete Pass-Through
  Emi Nakamura and Dawit Zerom #15255 (EFG, IFM, IO, ME)
  
• Aggregate Implications of Micro Asset Market Segmentation
  Chris Edmond and Pierre-Olivier Weill #15254 (AP)
  
• Position Auctions with Consumer Search
  Susan Athey and Glenn Ellison #15253 (IO)
  
• Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance
  Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson, and Aysegul Sahin #15252 (EFG)
  
• A Three State Model of Worker Flows in General Equilibrium
  Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson, and Aysegul Sahin #15251 (EFG)
  
• On the Death of Distance and Borders: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century
  David S. Jacks #15250 (DAE)
  
• China's Exporters and Importers: Firms, Products and Trade Partners
  Kalina Manova and Zhiwei Zhang #15249 (ITI)
  
• Investment and Capital Constraints: Repatriations Under the American Jobs Creation Act
  Michael Faulkender and Mitchell Petersen #15248 (CF)
  
• On the Size Distribution of Macroeconomic Disasters
  Robert J. Barro and Tao Jin #15247 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• The Simple Economics of Salience and Taxation
  Raj Chetty #15246 (LE, PE)
  
• Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
  Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest #15245 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Trending Current Accounts
  Horag Choi and Nelson C. Mark #15244 (IFM)
  
• A Parsimonious Macroeconomic Model for Asset Pricing
  Fatih Guvenen #15243 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?
  Rajkamal Iyer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Kelly Shue #15242 (CF, IO, PE)
  
• Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets
  Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Jonathan Levin #15241 (AG, HC, IO, PE)
  
• Disasters implied by equity index options
  David Backus, Mikhail Chernov, and Ian Martin #15240 (AP, EFG)
  
• Who Pays a Price on Carbon?
  Corbett A. Grainger and Charles D. Kolstad #15239 (EEE)
  
• A Search Cost Model of Obfuscation
  Glenn Ellison and Alexander Wolitzky #15237 (IO)
  
• School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE
  Rashmi Barua and Kevin Lang #15236 (ED, LS)
  
• International Differences in Longevity and Health and their Economic Consequences
  Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Adam Gailey, and Yuhui Zheng #15235 (HE)
  
• Causality, Structure, and the Uniqueness of Rational Expectations Equilibria
  Bennett T. McCallum #15234 (EFG, ME)
  
• Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?
  James D. Adams #15233 (ED, PR)
  
• The Impact of Job Stress on Smoking and Quitting: Evidence from the HRS
  Padmaja Ayyagari and Jody L. Sindelar #15232 (HE)
  
• Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health
  Pierre-Carl Michaud, Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Yuhui Zheng, and Adam Gailey #15231 (HE)
  
• Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
  Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin #15230 (EFG, POL)
  
• Effects of Venue-Specific State Clean Indoor Air Laws on Smoking-Related Outcomes
  Marianne P. Bitler, Christopher Carpenter, and Madeline Zavodny #15229 (HE)
  
• A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds
  Christopher D. Carroll and Olivier Jeanne #15228 (AP, IFM)
  
• Costly Portfolio Adjustment
  Yosef Bonaparte and Russell Cooper #15227 (EFG, AP)
  
• Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Nonadditive Hedonic Models
  James J. Heckman, Rosa L. Matzkin, and Lars Nesheim #15226 (TWP)
  
• Risk, Volatility, and the Global Cross-Section of Growth Rates
  Craig Burnside and Alexandra Tabova #15225 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
  David Albouy #15224 (PE, POL)
  
• Securitized Banking and the Run on Repo
  Gary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick #15223 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Asset Return Dynamics under Bad Environment Good Environment Fundamentals
  Geert Bekaert and Eric Engstrom #15222 (AP)
  
• Informal Taxation
  Benjamin A. Olken and Monica Singhal #15221 (PE, POL)
  
• What is the probability your vote will make a difference?
  Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver, and Aaron Edlin #15220 (LE, PE)
  
• The stock market and aggregate employment
  Long Chen and Lu Zhang #15219 (AP, EFG, LS)
  
• Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries
  Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, and Emmanuel Saez #15218 (PE)
  
• The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
  Lex Borghans and Frank Cörvers #15217 (ED)
  
• Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education
  Douglas A. Webber and Ronald G. Ehrenberg #15216 (ED, LS)
  
• Liquidity and Asset Prices: A Unified Framework
  Dimitri Vayanos and Jiang Wang #15215 (AP)
  
• Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
  David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and Jonathan T. Kolstad #15214 (HC, IO, PR)
  

Week of August 10, 2009

• Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?
  Samuel H. Preston and Jessica Y. Ho #15213 (AG, HC)
  
• Bank CEO Incentives and the Credit Crisis
  Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz #15212 (CF)
  
• Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin
  Pedro Carneiro, James J. Heckman, and Edward J. Vytlacil #15211 (TWP)
  
• A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients
  Patrick Bajari, Jeremy T. Fox, Kyoo il Kim, and Stephen P. Ryan #15210 (ED, IO, LS, PR, TWP)
  
• Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
  Lee J. Alston and Andrés A. Gallo #15209 (DAE, LE, POL)
  
• A New Data Set on Monetary Policy: The Economic Forecasts of Individual Members of the FOMC
  David H. Romer #15208 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Composition Matters: Capital Inflows and Liquidity Crunch during a Global Economic Crisis
  Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei #15207 (CF, IFM)
  
• Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?
  Jed Kolko and David Neumark #15206 (LS)
  
• Dynamic Trading with Predictable Returns and Transaction Costs
  Nicolae B. Garleanu and Lasse H. Pedersen #15205 (AP)
  
• Capital Market Integration and Wages
  Peter Blair Henry and Diego Sasson #15204 (EFG, IFM, ITI, LS, ME)
  
• The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
  Yu-Chu Shen, Jeremy Arkes, Boon Wah Kwan, Lai Yee Tan, and Thomas V. Williams #15203 (HC)
  
• Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers
  C. Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann #15202 (ED, LS)
  
• Anger and Regulation
  Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra #15201 (POL)

Week of August 3, 2009

• Estimating Treatment Effects from Contaminated Multi-Period Education Experiments: The Dynamic Impacts of Class Size Reductions
  Weili Ding and Steven F. Lehrer #15200 (CH, ED, TWP)
  
• Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
  J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, and David N. Weil #15199 (EFG)
  
• Markups and firm-level export status
  Jan De Loecker and Frederic Warzynski #15198 (IO, PR)
  
• Illiquidity and Interest Rate Policy
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan #15197 (CF, ME)
  
• International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages
  Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, and James R. Markusen #15196 (ITI)
  
• Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan
  Kris James Mitchener, Masato Shizume, and Marc D. Weidenmier #15195 (DAE, IFM)
  
• Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation
  Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador #15194 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Firm Dynamics and Financial Development
  Cristina Arellano, Yan Bai, and Jing Zhang #15193 (EFG, IFM)
  
• A Theory of Firm Decline
  Gian Luca Clementi, Thomas F. Cooley, and Sonia Di Giannatale #15192 (CF, EFG)
  
• Dynamic Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditures: Panel Data Analysis Using a Copula-based Hurdle Model
  Partha Deb, Pravin K. Trivedi, and David M. Zimmer #15191 (HE)
  
• FORTY YEARS OF LATIN AMERICA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: From the Alliance for Progress to the Washington Consensus
  Sebastian Edwards #15190 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Market Selection
  Leonid Kogan, Stephen Ross, Jiang Wang, and Mark M. Westerfield #15189 (AP)
  
• Why Did Some Banks Perform Better During the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation
  Andrea Beltratti and René M. Stulz #15180 (CF, IFM)
  
• Changing Research Perspectives on the Global Health Workforce
  Till Bärnighausen and David E. Bloom #15168 (HE)
  

Week of July 27, 2009

• A Factor Analysis of Bond Risk Premia
  Sydney C. Ludvigson and Serena Ng #15188 (AP)
  
• Estimation of DSGE Models When the Data are Persistent
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Serena Ng #15187 (EFG, IFM, ME, TWP)
  
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  Deepti Goel and Kevin Lang #15186 (LS)
  
• Income Misattribution under Formula Apportionment
  James R. Hines, Jr. #15185 (PE)
  
• Capital Budgeting vs. Market Timing: An Evaluation Using Demographics
  Stefano DellaVigna and Joshua M. Pollet #15184 (AP, CF)
  
• Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls
  Seth M. Freedman, Melissa Schettini Kearney, and Mara Lederman #15183 (CH, IO, LE, PE)
  
• Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity
  Miles S. Kimball, Colter M. Mitchell, Arland D. Thornton, and Linda C. Young-Demarco #15182 (ED)
  
• The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences
  Bruce D. Meyer, Wallace K. C. Mok, and James X. Sullivan #15181 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples
  James J. Heckman and Petra E. Todd #15179 (TWP)
  
• The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders
  Amit Khandelwal #15178 (ITI)
  
• The Effects of the Length of the Tax-Loss Carryback Period on Tax Receipts and Corporate Marginal Tax Rates
  John R. Graham and Hyunseob Kim #15177 (CF, PE)
  
• Insulation Impossible: Fiscal Spillovers in a Monetary Union
  Russell Cooper, Hubert Kempf, and Dan Peled #15176 (EFG)
  
• Local Dividend Clienteles
  Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott Weisbenner #15175 (CF)
  
• A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs
  Claudio Lucarelli and Sean Nicholson #15174 (HC, IO)
  
• Policy Responses to Exchange-Rate Movements
  Laurence M. Ball #15173 (IFM, ME)
  

Week of July 20, 2009

• WHEN CONSENSUS CHOICE DOMINATES INDIVIDUALISM: Jensen's Inequality and Collective Decisions under Uncertainty
  Charles F. Manski #15172 (PE, POL)
  
• Latin America's Decline: A Long Historical View
  Sebastian Edwards #15171 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Market Valuation of Accrued Social Security Benefits
  John Geanakoplos and Stephen P. Zeldes #15170 (AG, AP, EFG, ME, PE)
  
• Rebalancing Growth in Asia
  Eswar S. Prasad #15169 (IFM)
  
• Subgame Perfect Implementation with Almost Perfect Information and the Hold-Up Problem
  Philippe Aghion, Drew Fudenberg, and Richard T. Holden #15167 (EFG)
  
• Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment
  Mark Bils, Yongsung Chang, and Sun-Bin Kim #15166 (EFG)
  
• Some Unpleasant General Equilibrium Implications of Executive Incentive Compensation Contracts
  John B. Donaldson, Natalia Gershun, and Marc P. Giannoni #15165 (EFG, ME)
  
• Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans
  David M. Cutler, Bryan Lincoln, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #15164 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?
  Jay Bhattacharya, Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood #15163 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector
  Christopher R. Knittel #15162 (EEE, IO, PR)
  
• Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements
  Kasey S. Buckles, Melanie E. Guldi, and Joseph Price #15161 (CH, LS)
  
• Dynamics of Fiscal Financing in the United States
  Eric M. Leeper, Michael Plante, and Nora Traum #15160 (EFG)
  
• Why Don't Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization
  Manuel Adelino, Kristopher Gerardi, and Paul S. Willen #15159 (EFG)
  
• The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds
  Nuno Cassola, Ali Hortacsu, and Jakub Kastl #15158 (AP, EFG, IFM, IO, ME)
  
• The End of Gatekeeping: Underwriters and the Quality of Sovereign Bond Markets, 1815-2007
  Marc Flandreau, Juan H. Flores, Norbert Gaillard, and Sebastian Nieto-Parra #15128 (IFM)
  

Week of July 13, 2009

• The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
  Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian #15157 (CH, DAE, POL)
  
• Valuing Public Goods Using Happiness Data: The Case of Air Quality
  Arik Levinson #15156 (EEE, PE)
  
• Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
  Daron Acemoglu and Melissa Dell #15155 (IFM, EFG, POL)
  
• Hedging Price Volatility Using Fast Transport
  David L. Hummels and Georg Schaur #15154 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus in the Short and Long Runs
  Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker, and Shu-Chun Susan Yang #15153 (EFG)
  
• Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing
  Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, and Yifan Zhang #15152 (PR)
  
• Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women
  John C. Ham, Xianghong Li, and Lara Shore-Sheppard #15151 (CH, LS, TWP)
  
• Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
  David H. Autor and David Dorn #15150 (LS)
  
• Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses
  Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and John Bailey Jones #15149 (AG, HE, PE)
  
• Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement
  Jason M. Fletcher and Steven F. Lehrer #15148 (ED, HE)
  
• Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models
  Jeremy T. Fox and Amit Gandhi #15147 (IO, LS, PR, TWP)
  
• Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D
  Margaret E. Blume-Kohout, Krishna B. Kumar, and Neeraj Sood #15146 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Default on Mortgages
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #15145 (AP, CF)
  
• Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy
  Douglas A. Irwin #15144 (DAE, ITI)
  
• The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting
  Cindy R. Alexander, Mark A. Chen, Duane J. Seppi, and Chester S. Spatt #15143 (AP, CF)
  
• The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?
  Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin #15142 (DAE, IFM, ITI)
  
• The Impact of Credit Protection on Stock Prices in the Presence of Credit Crunches
  Galina Hale, Assaf Razin, and Hui Tong #15141 (IFM)
  
• Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis
  Marc T. Law and Zeynep K. Hansen #15140 (HC, HE, POL)
  
• When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?
  Bruce Ian Carlin, Simon Gervais, and Gustavo Manso #15139 (CF, LE, PE, POL)
  
• Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic Bailouts
  Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole #15138 (EFG, ME)
  
• Disease and Development Revisited
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Günther Fink #15137 (HE)
  
• Investment Tournaments: When Should a Rational Agent Put All Eggs in One Basket?
  Michael Schwarz and Sergei Severinov #15136 (LS)
  
• Splendid Associations of Favored Individuals: Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era
  Howard Bodenhorn #15135 (DAE)
  
• A Bargain at Twice the Price? California Hospital Prices in the New Millennium
  Yaa Akosa Antwi, Martin Gaynor, and William B. Vogt #15134 (HC)
  
• Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Fiscal Stimulus
  Troy Davig and Eric M. Leeper #15133 (EFG)
  
• World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions
  Isil Erel, Rose C. Liao, and Michael S. Weisbach #15132 (CF)
  
• Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
  Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Jonathan Robinson #15131 (IFM)
  
• Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence
  Jason M. Fletcher, Partha Deb, and Jody L. Sindelar #15130 (AG, HE)
  
• The organization of firms across countries
  Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen #15129 (EFG, IO, LE, LS, PR)
  
• He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election
  Isa?as N. Chaves, Leopoldo Fergusson, and James A. Robinson #15127 (POL)
  
• Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment
  Thomas Dee #15126 (CH, ED)
  
• Cost Containment in Climate Change Policy: Alternative Approaches to Mitigating Price Volatility
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #15125 (EEE, PE)
  
• Sin Taxes: Do Heterogeneous Responses Undercut Their Value?
  Padmaja Ayyagari, Partha Deb, Jason Fletcher, William T. Gallo, and Jody L. Sindelar #15124 (HE)
  
• The High Cross-Country Correlations of Prices and Interest Rates
  Espen Henriksen, Finn E. Kydland, and Roman Sustek #15123 (ME)
  
• Job Loss: Eat, drink and try to be merry?
  Partha Deb, William T. Gallo, Padmaja Ayyagari, Jason M. Fletcher, and Jody L. Sindelar #15122 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints
  Orazio Attanasio and Katja Kaufmann #15087 (EFG)
  

Week of July 6, 2009

• Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health
  Jason M. Fletcher, Jody L. Sindelar, and Shintaro Yamaguchi #15121 (AG, HE)
  
• Transmission of the U.S. Subprime Crisis to Emerging Markets: Evidence on the Decoupling-Recoupling Hypothesis
  Michael P. Dooley and Michael M. Hutchison #15120 (IFM)
  
• Credit Constraints, Cyclical Fiscal Policy and Industry Growth
  Philippe Aghion, David Hemous, and Enisse Kharroubi #15119 (EFG)
  
• Negative Nominal Interest Rates: Three ways to overcome the zero lower bound
  Willem H. Buiter #15118 (IFM, ME)
  
• Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment
  Michael W. L. Elsby and Matthew D. Shapiro #15117 (EFG, LS, ME, PR)
  
• Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages
  David H. Autor and Michael J. Handel #15116 (LS)
  
• Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates
  Peter A. Diamond and Johannes Spinnewijn #15115 (PE)
  
• Public Policy, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood
  Phillip B. Levine, Robin McKnight, and Samantha Heep #15114 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Global Savings and Global Investment: The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks
  James Feyrer and Jay C. Shambaugh #15113 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality
  W. Bentley MacLeod and Miguel Urquiola #15112 (ED, LS)
  

Week of June 29, 2009

• Risk Sharing, Inequality and Fertility
  Roozbeh Hosseini, Larry E. Jones, and Ali Shourideh #15111 (EFG, PE)
  
• Risk Allocation, Debt Fueled Expansion and Financial Crisis
  Paul Beaudry and Amartya Lahiri #15110 (EFG)
  
• Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms
  Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo #15109 (ITI)
  
• Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans
  Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola, Stephen P. Utkus, and Takeshi Yamaguchi #15108 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys
  Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan, and Shannon Phillips #15107 (EEE, ITI)
  
• The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Health Care Spending
  Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Lorens A. Helmchen, and Robert Kaestner #15106 (HE)
  
• The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality: Estimates from the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery
  Dalton Conley and Jennifer A. Heerwig #15105 (HE)
  
• Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago
  Filipe Campante and Edward L. Glaeser #15104 (PE)
  
• The Complementarity between Cities and Skills
  Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew G. Resseger #15103 (PE)
  
• Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion
  Henry Chen, Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, and Josh Lerner #15102 (CF, PR)

Week of June 22, 2009

• Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages
  Naci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin #15101 (HE)
  
• Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?
  Haitao Yin, Howard Kunreuther, and Matthew Whte #15100 (EEE, IO, LE, PE)
  
• Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
  Howard Bodenhorn and Gregory Price #15099 (DAE, LS)
  
• Abortion and Crime: A Review
  Theodore J. Joyce #15098 (CH, HE)
  
• Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows
  Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli, and German Pupato #15097 (ITI)
  
• Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight
  Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Yuhui Zheng #15096 (HE)
  
• War and Relatedness
  Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg #15095 (POL)
  
• The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital
  Charles I. Jones and Paul M. Romer #15094 (EFG, ITI, PR)
  
• The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China
  Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang #15093 (IFM, ME)
  
• Identification in Matching Games
  Jeremy T. Fox #15092 (IO, LS, TWP)
  
• Do Multinationals or Domestic Firms Face Higher Effective Tax Rates?
  Kevin S. Markle and Douglas Shackelford #15091 (PE)
  
• Life at the top: the benefits of height
  Angus S. Deaton and Raksha Arora #15090 (AG, HC)
  
• Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs
  Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Kimberly V. Smith #15089 (DAE, HC, HE)
  
• State Capacity, Conflict and Development
  Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson #15088 (POL)
  
• A Free Lunch in the Commons
  Matthew J. Kotchen and Stephen W. Salant #15086 (EEE, PE)
  
• Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care
  Amanda E. Kowalski #15085 (AG, HC)
  
• What Comes to Mind
  Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer #15084 (AP, CF)
  
• Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #15083 (CF, DAE, ME, PE, POL)
  
• What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program
  Meredith Fowlie, Stephen P. Holland, and Erin T. Mansur #15082 (EEE, IO)
  

Week of June 15, 2009

• The Economics of Renewable Energy
  Geoffrey Heal #15081 (EEE)
  
• Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, and Dmitriy Stolyarov #15080 (ED, EFG, LS)
  
• Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts
  Jingjing Chai, Wolfram Horneff, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell #15079 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth
  Kenneth Y. Chay, Jonathan Guryan, and Bhashkar Mazumder #15078 (CH, ED, HC, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Decomposing the U.S. External Returns Differential
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock #15077 (IFM)
  
• The Equality Multiplier
  Erling Barth and Karl O. Moene #15076 (LS)
  
• The (Mythical?) Housing Wealth Effect
  Charles Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer, and William Miles #15075 (EFG)
  
• Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women
  Qingyan Shang and Bruce A. Weinberg #15074 (CH, LS)
  
• Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art
  David Galenson #15073 (ED, LS)
  
• A Model of a Systemic Bank Run
  Harald Uhlig #15072 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
  N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan #15071 (ME, PE)
  
• Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Julia Lynn Coronado, and Don Fullerton #15070 (AG, PE)
  
• Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point
  William Easterly #15069 (POL)
  
• The Quality of Medical Care, Behavioral Risk Factors, and Longevity Growth
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #15068 (EFG, HC)
  
• China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption
  Hongbin Cai, J. Vernon Henderson, and Qinghua Zhang #15067 (PE)
  
• Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
  Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann #15066 (ED, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Adoption Curves and Social Interactions
  William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf #15065 (EFG, TWP)
  
• Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment
  Christina M. Fong and Erzo F.P. Luttmer #15064 (LS, PE, POL)
  
• Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers
  Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Paul Willen #15063 (EFG)

Week of May 31, 2009

• Crash Risk in Currency Markets
  Emmanuel Farhi, Samuel Paul Fraiberger, Xavier Gabaix, Romain Ranciere, and Adrien Verdelhan #15062 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
  Ryan L. Lampe and Petra Moser #15061 (DAE, LE, PR)
  
• Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch
  Ryan Kellogg #15060 (EEE, IO, PR)
  
• Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades: A Tale of Two Countries
  Nicola Fuchs-Sch?ndeln, Dirk Krueger, and Mathias Sommer #15059 (EFG)
  
• Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises
  Stavros Panageas #15058 (AP, CF)
  
• Measuring Discrimination in Education
  Rema Hanna and Leigh Linden #15057 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists
  Katherine Ho and Matthew Neidell #15056 (HC, HE, IO, LS, PE)
  
• Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History
  Joshua L. Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom #15055 (DAE)
  
• Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #15054 (EEE, PE)
  
• Integrated Political Strategy
  John M. de Figueiredo #15053 (LE, POL)
  
• The Japanese Bubble: A 'Heterogeneous' Approach
  Robert B. Barsky #15052 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Generalized Agency Problems
  Randall Morck #15051 (CF)
  
• Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence
  Robert B. Barsky and Eric R. Sims #15049 (EFG, ME)
  
• Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake
  Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren #15048 (ITI)
  
• Pricing Model Performance and the Two-Pass Cross-Sectional Regression Methodology
  Raymond Kan, Cesare Robotti, and Jay Shanken #15047 (AP)
  
• Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index
  Lisa M. Powell and Frank J. Chaloupka #15046 (HE)
  
• The Credit Rating Crisis
  Efraim Benmelech and Jennifer Dlugosz #15045 (AP, CF, LE, ME)
  
• Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform
  Francois Gourio and Jianjun Miao #15044 (CF, EFG, PE)
  
• Can a Focus on Breakthrough Technologies Improve the Performance of International Environmental Agreements?
  Michael Hoel and Aart de Zeeuw #15043 (EEE)
  
• Never Waste a Good Crisis: An Historical Perspective on Comparative Corporate Governance
  Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung #15042 (CF)
  
• Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
  Seema Jayachandran and Ilyana Kuziemko #15041 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Amplification Mechanisms in Liquidity Crises
  Arvind Krishnamurthy #15040 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Physical Activity: Economic and Policy Factors
  Melayne M. McInnes and Judith A. Shinogle #15039 (HE)
  
• Is Investor Rationality Time Varying? Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry
  Vincent Glode, Burton Hollifield, Marcin Kacperczyk, and Shimon Kogan #15038 (AP, CF)
  
• The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #15037 (ED, PE)
  
• Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
  Philip Oreopoulos #15036 (LS)
  
• Co-optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration
  Andrew Leach, Charles F. Mason, and Klaas van't Veld #15035 (EEE)
  
• What Lies Beneath the Euro's Effect on Financial Integration: Currency Risk, Legal Harmonization, or Trade?
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Elias Papaioannou, and Jose-Luis Peydro #15034 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Wage Dispersion in the Search and Matching Model with Intra-Firm Bargaining
  Dale T. Mortensen #15033 (EFG)
  
• Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption
  Anupam Jena and Tomas Philipson #15032 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy
  Kenneth Gillingham, Richard G. Newell, and Karen Palmer #15031 (EEE)
  
• Comparative Advantage and Unemployment
  Mark Bils, Yongsung Chang, and Sun-Bin Kim #15030 (EFG)
  
• Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations
  Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu #15029 (AP, EFG, ME, PR)
  
• Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802
  Farley Grubb #15028 (DAE)
  
• Direct and Indirect Effects of Teenage Body Weight on Adult Wages
  Euna Han, Edward C. Norton, and Lisa M. Powell #15027 (HE)
  
• Computing DSGE Models with Recursive Preferences
  Dario Caldara, Jes?s Fern?ndez-Villaverde, Juan F. Rubio-Ram?rez, and Wen Yao #15026 (EFG)
• Debt, Deficits and Finite Horizons: The Stochastic Case
  Roger Farmer, Carine Nourry, and Alain Venditti #15025 (EFG)
  
• Inflation and the Stock Market:Understanding the "Fed Model"
  Geert Bekaert and Eric Engstrom #15024 (AP)
  
• Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
  Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes #15023 (CF, IFM, ITI, PE)
  
• Designing Climate Mitigation Policy
  Joseph E. Aldy, Alan J. Krupnick, Richard G. Newell, Ian W.H. Parry, and William A. Pizer #15022 (EEE)
  

Week of May 24, 2009

• Fiscal Policy Can Reduce Unemployment: But There is a Less Costly and More Effective Alternative
  Roger E. A. Farmer #15021 (EFG)
  
• Effects of Japanese Macroeconomic Announcements on the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate: High-Resolution Picture
  Yuko Hashimoto and Takatoshi Ito #15020 (IFM, ME)
  
• A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market
  Kathryn Graddy and George Hall #15019 (IO)
  
• Financial Crisis and the Paradox of Under- and Over-Regulation
  Joshua Aizenman #15018 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land
  Hilary Sigman #15017 (EEE, LE, PE)
  
• Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
  Steven D. Levitt and John A. List #15016 (DAE, IO, LS)
  
• News, Noise, and Fluctuations: An Empirical Exploration
  Olivier J. Blanchard, Jean-Paul L'Huillier, and Guido Lorenzoni #15015 (EFG, ME)
  
• Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets
  John Y. Campbell, Robert J. Shiller, and Luis M. Viceira #15014 (AP, IFM, ME)
  
• Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security: Political-Economy Effect
  Assaf Razin and Edith Sand #15013 (IFM, PE)
  
• The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review
  Emmanuel Saez, Joel B. Slemrod, and Seth H. Giertz #15012 (PE)
  
• Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions
  Bulent Guler, Fatih Guvenen, and Giovanni L. Violante #15011 (EFG, LS)
  
• Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs
  Andrew B. Abel, Janice C. Eberly, and Stavros Panageas #15010 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics
  Bruno Biais and Pierre-Olivier Weill #15009 (AP)
  
• On the Unstable Relationship between Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Fundamentals
  Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop #15008 (AP, IFM)
  
• Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
  Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin #15007 (CH, HE)
  
• Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
  Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver #15006 (LS)
  
• Differences in the U.S. Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Based on Body Mass Index and Skinfold Thickness
  Richard V. Burkhauser, John Cawley, and Maximilian D. Schmeiser #15005 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Crowding Out and Crowding In of Private Donations and Government Grants
  Garth Heutel #15004 (PE)
  
• Incomplete Information, Higher-Order Beliefs and Price Inertia
  George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O #15003 (EFG, ME)
  
• Causes and Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007-08
  James D. Hamilton #15002 (EEE, EFG, ME)
  

Week of May 17, 2009

• The Impact of State-Level Nutrition-Education Program Funding on BMI: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  Kerry Anne McGeary #15001 (HE)
  
• The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
  Anne Case and Christina Paxson #15000 (AG, CH, HC)
  
• Subsidies to Industry and the Environment
  David Kelly #14999 (EEE, AP)
  
• Requiescat in Pace? The Consequences of High Priced Funerals in South Africa
  Anne Case and Alicia Menendez #14998 (AG)
  
• Complexity and Financial Panics
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Alp Simsek #14997 (AP, CF, EFG, IFM)
  
• Monetary policy in Europe vs the US: what explains the difference?
  Harald Uhlig #14996 (EFG, ME)
  
• Impact of "Seguro Popular" on Prenatal Visits in Mexico, 2002-2005: Latent Class Model of Count Data with a Discrete Endogenous Variable
  Jeffrey E. Harris and Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi #14995 (HC, HE)
  
• Effects of Weight on Adolescent Educational Attainment
  Robert Kaestner, Michael Grossman, and Benjamin Yarnoff #14994 (HE)
  
• Monetary Policy and the Dollar
  Peter L. Rousseau #14993 (DAE, ME)
  
• International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
  Pravin Krishna and Mine Zeynep Senses #14992 (ITI)
  
• Improving the Numerical Performance of BLP Static and Dynamic Discrete Choice Random Coefficients Demand Estimation
  Jean-Pierre H. Dub?, Jeremy T. Fox, and Che-Lin Su #14991 (IO)
  
• Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis
  Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello, Bruno Laranjeira, and Scott Weisbenner #14990 (CF)
  
• Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic With Natural Experiments
  Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeffrey Wilson, and O.T. Ford #14989 (HE)
  
• Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices
  Neeraj Kaushal and Qin Gao #14988 (HC, HE)
  
• Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss
  John Cawley and Joshua A. Price #14987 (HC, HE, LS)
  
• Short Run Constraints and the Increasing Marginal Value of Time in Recreation
  Raymond B. Palmquist, Daniel J. Phaneuf, and V. Kerry Smith #14986 (EEE)
  
• The Relationship Between Neighborhood Quality and Obesity Among Children
  Bisakha Sen, Stephen Mennemeyer, and Lisa C. Gary #14985 (HE)
  
• Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite?
  Christian A. Gregory and Christopher J. Ruhm #14984 (HE)
  
• The Structure and Formation of Business Groups: Evidence from Korean Chaebols
  Heitor Almeida, Sang Yong Park, Marti Subrahmanyam, and Daniel Wolfenzon #14983 (CF)
  
• Noisy Business Cycles
  George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O #14982 (EFG, ME)
  
• What Are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Capitalization of Amenity Values
  David Albouy #14981 (EEE, PE)
  
• A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs
  Manolis Galenianos, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, and Nicola Persico #14980 (LE)
  
• Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
  Morris M. Kleiner and Alan B. Krueger #14979 (LS)
  
• Spatial Price Discrimination with Heterogeneous Firms
  Jonathan Vogel #14978 (ITI, IO)
  
• Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes
  Nikhil Agarwal, Chanont Banternghansa, and Linda Bui #14977 (EEE)
  
• The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
  N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl #14976 (ME)
  
• The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization
  Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen #14975 (IO, LS, PR)
  
• Why do Institutions of Higher Education Reward Research While Selling Education?
  Dahlia K. Remler and Elda Pema #14974 (ED)
  
• Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy:The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
  Nancy Qian #14973 (CH)
  
• Legal Protection in Retail Financial Markets
  Bruce I. Carlin and Simon Gervais #14972 (CF)
  

Week of May 10, 2009

• When are Analyst Recommendation Changes Influential?
  Roger K. Loh and René M. Stulz #14971 (CF)
  
• Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era
  Adrian Stoian and Price V. Fishback #14970 (DAE)
  
• The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #14969 (EFG, LE, LS, PE)
  
• The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth
  Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta #14968 (IFM)
  
• The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
  Robert W. Fogel #14967 (IFM)
  
• Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
  Jesse Rothstein #14966 (LS, PE)
  
• Comparative Advantage, Complexity and Volatility
  Pravin Krishna and Andrei A. Levchenko #14965 (ITI)
  
• Education and the Prevalence of Pain
  Steven J. Atlas and Jonathan S. Skinner #14964 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production
  Michael I. Cragg and Matthew E. Kahn #14963 (EEE, PE, POL)
  
• What Does Global Expansion of Higher Education Mean for the US?
  Richard B. Freeman #14962 (LS)
  
• Patterns of International Capital Raisings
  Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine, and Sergio L. Schmukler #14961 (CF, IFM, ITI)
  
• Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle
  Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau #14960 (EFG, DAE, PR)
  
• Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
  Scott E. Carrell, Marianne E. Page, and James E. West #14959 (ED, LS)
  
• Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
  Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Jeanne Lafortune #14958 (CH)
  
• Evaluating Rubin’s Causal Model for Measuring the Capitalization of Environmental Amenities
  H. Allen Klaiber and V. Kerry Smith #14957 (EEE)
  
• Measuring the Benefits of Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set
  Bruce A. Blonigen and Anson Soderbery #14956 (ITI)
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Evidence from Blackjack Tables
  Bruce Ian Carlin and David T. Robinson #14955 (CF)
  
• Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evolution of Investor Sophistication
  Bruce Ian Carlin and Gustavo Manso #14954 (CF)
  
• What Governments Maximize and Why: The View from Trade
  Kishore Gawande, Pravin Krishna, and Marcelo Olarreaga #14953 (ITI, POL)
  
• Market Conditions and the Structure of Securities
  Isil Erel, Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim, and Michael Weisbach #14952 (CF)
  
• Do Investments in Universal Early Education Pay Off? Long-term Effects of Introducing Kindergartens into Public Schools
  Elizabeth U. Cascio #14951 (CH, DAE, ED)
  

Week of May 3, 2009

• Letting Different Views about Business Cycles Compete
  Paul Beaudry and Bernd Lucke #14950 (EFG)
  
• Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
  Manuela Angelucci, Giacomo DeGiorgi, Marcos A. Rangel, and Imran Rasul #14949 (CH, ED)
  
• Be as Careful of the Company You Keep as of the Books You Read: Peer Effects in Education and on the Labor Market
  Giacomo DeGiorgi, Michele Pellizzari, and Silvia Redaelli #14948 (ED)
  
• A Model of Casino Gambling
  Nicholas C. Barberis #14947 (AP)
  
• Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
  Michael Schwarz and Yuri Takhteyev #14946 (IO, PE, PR)
  
• Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?
  Carlos Dobkin and Fernando Ferreira #14945 (ED, LS)
  
• The Limitations of Stock Market Efficiency: Price Informativeness and CEO Turnover
  Gary B. Gorton, Lixin Huang, and Qiang Kang #14944 (AP, CF)
  
• Unstable Banking
  Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny #14943 (CF, EFG)
  
• The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions
  Gary D. Libecap and Dean Lueck #14942 (DAE, EEE, ITI, LS)
  
• Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment
  Andreas Lange and Andrew Stocking #14941 (EEE, PE)
  
• Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it
  Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer #14940 (IO, LE)
  
• Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from the Ports of Los Angeles
  Enrico Moretti and Matthew Neidell #14939 (EEE, HE)

Week of April 26, 2009

• Estimating the Border Effect: Some New Evidence
  Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Nicholas Li #14938 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments
  Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan #14937 (POL)
  
• Pollution and International Trade in Services
  Arik Levinson #14936 (EEE)
  
• Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
  Marcela Eslava, John C. Haltiwanger, Adriana D. Kugler, and Maurice Kugler #14935 (EFG, IO, ITI, PR)
  
• The Random Coefficients Logit Model Is Identified
  Patrick Bajari, Jeremy Fox, Kyoo il Kim, and Stephen P. Ryan #14934 (IO, TWP)
  
• Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret
  Julio J. Rotemberg #14933 (EFG, ME)
  
• What’s the “Interest�? in FDA Drug Advisory Committee Conflicts of Interest?
  Joseph Golec and John Vernon #14932 (HE)
  
• Why Do Foreign Firms Have Less Idiosyncratic Risk than U.S. Firms?
  Söhnke M. Bartram, Gregory Brown, and René M. Stulz #14931 (CF)
• On the Self-interested Use of Equity in International Climate Negotiations
  Andreas Lange, Andreas Löschel, Carsten Vogt, and Andreas Ziegler #14930 (EEE)
  
• Efficient Recapitalization
  Thomas Philippon and Philipp Schnabl #14929 (AP, CF, EFG, LE, ME, PE)
  
• Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints
  Juan Carlos Hallak and Jagadeesh Sivadasan #14928 (ITI)
  
• Three Epochs of Oil
  Eyal Dvir and Kenneth S. Rogoff #14927 (IFM, ME)
  

Week of April 19, 2009

• Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-invent or First-to-file? Lessons From Canada
  Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal #14926 (DAE)
  
• Fear of Fire Sales and the Credit Freeze
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan #14925 (CF, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Adolescent Cognitive and Non-cognitive Correlates of Adult Health
  Robert Kaestner #14924 (CH, HE)
  
• The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
  Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, Daniel Ortega, and Francisco Rodriguez #14923 (EFG, LS, PE, POL)
  
• Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets
  Robin S. Lee and Michael Schwarz #14922 (LS)
  
• Experts and Their Records
  Alexander Frankel and Michael Schwarz #14921 (LS)
  
• Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
  Jennifer Hunt #14920 (LS, PR)
  
• Reply to "Generalizing the Taylor Principle: A Comment"
  Troy Davig and Eric M. Leeper #14919 (EFG)
  
• Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
  Nathan Nunn and Diego Puga #14918 (POL)
  
• The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment using China's Great Famine
  Xin Meng and Nancy Qian #14917 (CH)
  
• Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
  M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar S. Prasad, and Ashley D. Taylor #14916 (IFM)
  
• Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium
  Veronica Guerrieri, Robert Shimer, and Randall Wright #14915 (EFG, LS)
  
• Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors
  Francisco J. Buera, Joseph Kaboski, and Yongseok Shin #14914 (EFG)
  
• U.S. Stock Market Crash Risk, 1926-2006
  David S. Bates #14913 (AP)
  
• State Dependence and Alternative Explanations for Consumer Inertia
  Jean-Pierre Dube, G?enter J. Hitsch, and Peter E. Rossi #14912 (IO)
  
• Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments
  C. Kirabo Jackson #14911 (ED, LS)
  
• Trade and Income -- Exploiting Time Series in Geography
  James Feyrer #14910 (EFG, ITI)
  
• The Long or Short of it: Determinants of Foreign Currency Exposure in External Balance Sheets
  Philip R. Lane and Jay C. Shambaugh #14909 (IFM)
  
• Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income In American Neighborhoods
  Tara Watson #14908 (HE, LS)
  
• Block Recursive Equilibria for Stochastic Models of Search on the Job
  Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi #14907 (TWP)
  
• Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle
  Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi #14905 (EFG)
  

Week of April 12, 2009

• Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
  Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan #14906 (POL)
  
• How the Subprime Crisis Went Global: Evidence from Bank Credit Default Swap Spreads
  Barry Eichengreen, Ashoka Mody, Milan Nedeljkovic, and Lucio Sarno #14904 (IFM, ITI, ME)
  
• Risk Shifting and Mutual Fund Performance
  Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm, and Hanjiang Zhang #14903 (AP, CF)
  
• Anticipated Alternative Instrument-Rate Paths in Policy Simulations
  Stefan Laséen and Lars E.O. Svensson #14902 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle
  Hamish Low, Costas Meghir, and Luigi Pistaferri #14901 (EFG)
  
• Beyond Wages: The Effects of Immigration on the Scale and Composition of Output
  Francesca Mazzolari and David Neumark #14900 (LS)
  
• The Importance of History for Economic Development
  Nathan Nunn #14899 (POL)
  
• Fund Managers, Career Concerns, and Asset Price Volatility
  Veronica Guerrieri and Péter Kondor #14898 (AP, EFG, CF)
  
• Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms’ Responses to the Enron Shock
  Christian Leuz and Catherine Schrand #14897 (CF)
  
• Better LATE Than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009)
  Guido W. Imbens #14896 (LS)
  
• The Great Inflation in the United States and the United Kingdom: Reconciling Policy Decisions and Data Outcomes
  Riccardo DiCecio and Edward Nelson #14895 (ME)
  
• Euro Membership as a U.K. Monetary Policy Option: Results from a Structural Model
  Riccardo DiCecio and Edward Nelson #14894 (ME)
  
• Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
  Stefano Gagliarducci and M. Daniele Paserman #14893 (LS, POL)
  
• Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis: The Panic of 1826
  Eric Hilt #14892 (CF, DAE, LE)
  
• Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies
  Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley #14891 (ITI)
  
• Do Regulations Based on Credit Ratings Affect a Firms Cost of Capital?
  Darren J. Kisgen and Philip E. Strahan #14890 (CF)
  
• CAPM for Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital: Interpreting the Empirical Evidence
  Zhi Da, Re-Jin Guo, and Ravi Jagannathan #14889 (AP)
  
• Global Financial Structure and Climate Change
  John Whalley and Yufei Yuan #14888 (EEE)
  
• Financial Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Elias Papaioannou, and José Luis Peydró #14887 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers
  Kathleen J. Mullen, Richard G. Frank, and Meredith B. Rosenthal #14886 (HC, HE)
  
• Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence
  Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo, Hanming Fang, and Kenneth I. Spenner #14885 (ED, LE, LS, PE)
  
• Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes
  Eric D. Gould, Victor Lavy, and M. Daniele Paserman #14884 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Sophisticated Monetary Policies
  Andrew Atkeson, V. V. Chari, and Patrick Kehoe #14883 (EFG)
  
• Bayesian and Frequentist Inference in Partially Identified Models
  Hyungsik Roger Moon and Frank Schorfheide #14882 (EFG, ME)
  
• Information Asymmetry, Information Precision, and the Cost of Capital
  Richard A. Lambert, Christian Leuz, and Robert E. Verrecchia #14881 (AP, CF)
  
• Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements: Analytics and Simulations
  Yan Dong and John Whalley #14880 (EEE)
  
• A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education
  Meta Brown, John Karl Scholz, and Ananth Seshadri #14879 (CH, ED, PE)
  
• The Alchemy of CDO Credit Ratings
  Efraim Benmelech and Jennifer Dlugosz #14878 (CF)
  
• Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?
  Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller #14877 (CF)
  
• An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets for All Countries in All Decades
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #14876 (EEE)
  
• Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match
  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth #14864 (ED, PE)

Week of April 5, 2009

• Listing of Working PapersRisk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, Juan Rubio-Ramírez, and Martín Uribe #14875 (EFG)
  
• The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Enrique G. Mendoza, and Linda L. Tesar #14874 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Gender Roles and Medical Progress
  Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti #14873 (DAE, EFG)
  
• DSGE Model-Based Forecasting of Non-modelled Variables
  Frank Schorfheide, Keith Sill, and Maxym Kryshko #14872 (EFG, ME)
  
• Valuing Toxic Assets: An Analysis of CDO Equity
  Francis A. Longstaff and Brett Myers #14871 (AP)
  
• Sticky Prices Versus Monetary Frictions: An Estimation of Policy Trade-offs
  S. Boragan Aruoba and Frank Schorfheide #14870 (EFG, ME)
  
• Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools
  Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber #14869 (CH, DAE, ED, PE)
  
• Business and Financial Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy
  Bronwyn H. Hall #14868 (IO, PR)
  
• Outside and Inside Liquidity
  Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos, and Jose A. Scheinkman #14867 (AP, CF)
  
• Forced Sales and House Prices
  John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Parag Pathak #14866 (AP, PE)
  
• Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
  Jonathan Skinner and Douglas Staiger #14865 (AG, HC, PR)
  
• Credit Market Shocks and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence from Corporate Bond and Stock Markets
  Simon Gilchrist, Vladimir Yankov, and Egon Zakrajsek #14863 (ME)
  
• The Great Inflation Drift
  Marvin Goodfriend and Robert G. King #14862 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
  Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar #14861 (CF)
  
• Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching: A Nonparametric Analysis
  Bryan S. Graham, Guido W. Imbens, and Geert Ridder #14860 (LS)
  
• How does simplified disclosure affect individuals' mutual fund choices?
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #14859 (AG, AP, PE)
  
• The Riddle of the Great Pyramids
  Randall Morck #14858 (CF)
  
• Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities
  Stephen Coate and Brian Knight #14857 (PE, POL)
  
• A Theory of Outsourcing and Wage Decline
  Thomas J. Holmes and Julia Thornton Snider #14856 (PR)
  
• Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence
  Patrick Bajari and Gregory Lewis #14855 (IO)
  
• The Olympic Effect
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #14854 (IFM, ITI, PE)
  
• Menstruation and Education in Nepal
  Emily Oster and Rebecca Thornton #14853 (HE, LS)
  
• Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement
  Caroline M. Hoxby and Sonali Murarka #14852 (CH, ED, LS, PE, TWP)
  
• The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.
  Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Caroline M. Hoxby, Andreu Mas-Colell, and André Sapir #14851 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• Face Value: Information and Signaling in an Illegal Market
  Trevon Logan and Manisha Shah #14841 (LE)
  

Week of March 29, 2009

• Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
  Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig #14850 (EFG)
  
• Surprising Comparative Properties of Monetary Models: Results from a New Data Base
  John B. Taylor and Volker Wieland #14849 (ME)
  
• Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk
  Hui Chen, Jianjun Miao, and Neng Wang #14848 (AP, CF, EFG)
  
• Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000
  Brandon Dupont, Alka Gandhi, and Thomas Weiss #14847 (DAE)
  
• Confidence, Crashes and Animal Spirits
  Roger E.A. Farmer #14846 (EFG, ME)
  
• A Unified Theory of Tobin's q, Corporate Investment, Financing, and Risk Management
  Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen, and Neng Wang #14845 (AP, CF)
  
• Early Admissions at Selective Colleges
  Christopher Avery and Jonathan D. Levin #14844 (ED, IO)
  
• Financial Openness and Productivity
  Geert Bekaert, Campbell R. Harvey, and Christian Lundblad #14843 (AP, IFM)
  
• Estimation of Causal Effects in Experiments with Multiple Sources of Noncompliance
  John Engberg, Dennis Epple, Jason Imbrogno, Holger Sieg, and Ron Zimmer #14842 (CH, ED, PE)
  
• Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences
  Muriel Niederle and Leeat Yariv #14840 (IO, LS)
  
• Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform
  Thomas C. Buchmueller and Alan C. Monheit #14839 (HC, HE)
  
• Can A Rational Choice Framework Make Sense of Anorexia Nervosa?
  Robert S. Goldfarb, Thomas C. Leonard, Sara Markowitz, and Steven Suranovic #14838 (CH, HE)
  
• Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time
  Justin R. Pierce and Peter K. Schott #14837 (ITI)
  
• Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients
  Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez #14836 (LS, PE)
  
• The Law of One Price Without the Border: The Role of Distance Versus Sticky Prices
  Mario J. Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga #14835 (IFM)
  
• A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates
  Mario J. Crucini and Hakan Yilmazkuday #14834 (IFM)
  
• The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005
  Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri #14833 (EFG, ITI, LS)
  
• Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change
  David Popp, Richard G. Newell, and Adam B. Jaffe #14832 (EEE, PR)
  
• The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution
  Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson #14831 (POL)
  
• Show Me the Money: Does Shared Capitalism Share the Wealth?
  Robert Buchele, Douglas Kruse, Loren Rodgers, and Adria Scharf #14830 (LS)
  
• Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Reexamination
  Charles Engel #14829 (IFM, ME)

Week of March 22, 2009

• Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up
  Emily Oster and Rebecca Thornton #14828 (HE, LS)
  
• Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty
  Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan #14827 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Financial Instability, Reserves, and Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008
  Maurice Obstfeld, Jay C. Shambaugh, and Alan M. Taylor #14826 (IFM)
  
• Preferences for Redistribution
  Alberto F. Alesina and Paola Giuliano #14825 (LE, POL)
  
• New-Keynesian Economics: An AS-AD View
  Pierpaolo Benigno #14824 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Needle Sharing and HIV Transmission: A Model with Markets and Purposive Behavior
  Ajay Mahal, Brendan O'Flaherty, and David E. Bloom #14823 (HE, LE)
  
• The Rise of the Service Economy
  Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski #14822 (EFG)
  
• Selective Swap Arrangements and the Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Interpretation
  Joshua Aizenman and Gurnain Kaur Pasricha #14821 (IFM, ITI)
  
• The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, G�nther Fink, and Jocelyn E. Finlay #14820 (AG)
  
• Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
  Fiona Murray, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Julian Kolev, and Scott Stern #14819 (EFG)
  
• Hysteresis in Unemployment: Old and New Evidence
  Laurence M. Ball #14818 (EFG, ME)
  
• Do Newspapers Matter? Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post
  Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Miguel Garrido #14817 (PE)
  
• Time of Troubles: The Yen and Japan's Economy, 1985-2008
  Maurice Obstfeld #14816 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Confidence Risk and Asset Prices
  Ravi Bansal and Ivan Shaliastovich #14815 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Learning and Asset-Price Jumps
  Ravi Bansal and Ivan Shaliastovich #14814 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?
  Ulrike Malmendier and Stefan Nagel #14813 (AP, CF, LS)
  
• Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements and Private Information
  Kyle Bagwell #14812 (ITI)
  
• Coping with Chronic Disease? Chronic Disease and Disability in Elderly American Population 1982-1999
  Gabriel Aranovich, Jay Bhattacharya, Alan M. Garber, and Thomas E. MaCurdy #14811 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Learning about academic ability and the college drop-out decision
  Todd R. Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner #14810 (ED)
  
• When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?
  Daron Acemoglu #14809 (LS)
  

Week of March 15, 2009

• Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness
  Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano #14808 (AG)
  
• Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Increasing Productivity
  David Neumark #14807 (LS)
  
• The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
  Edward L. Glaeser and Joshua D. Gottlieb #14806 (LS)
  
• Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data
  Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky, and James Spletzer #14805 (EFG, LS)
  
• Maxing Out: Stocks as Lotteries and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
  Turan G. Bali, Nusret Cakici, and Robert F. Whitelaw #14804 (AP)
  
• Profit Shifting and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #14803 (ITI)
  
• What Segments Equity Markets?
  Geert Bekaert, Campbell R. Harvey, Christian Lundblad, and Stephan Siegel #14802 (AP, IFM)
  
• Civil War
  Christopher Blattman and Edward Miguel #14801 (ED, LS, PE, POL)
  
• Labor Force Participation of Older Males in Korea: 1955-2005
  Chulhee Lee #14800 (AG)
  
• The Real Swing Voter's Curse
  James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik #14799 (POL)
  
• Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement
  Orley C. Ashenfelter, Daniel Hosken, and Matthew Weinberg #14798 (LE, PE)
  
• Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge: The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs
  Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm #14797 (HC, HE, IO, PR)
  
• The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
  George J. Borjas #14796 (LS)
  
• Consumption and Real Exchange Rates in Professional Forecasts
  Michael B. Devereux, Gregor W. Smith, and James Yetman #14795 (IFM)
  
• Valuation Effects and the Dynamics of Net External Assets
  Michael B. Devereux and Alan Sutherland #14794 (IFM)
  
• The Effect of Property Taxes on Location Decisions:Evidence From the Market for Vacation Homes
  Erik B. Johnson and Randall Walsh #14793 (PE)
  
• Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education
  John Bound, Sarah Turner, and Patrick Walsh #14792 (ED, LS)
  
• Central Bank Transparency: Causes, Consequences and Updates
  Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen #14791 (IFM)
  

Week of March 8, 2009

• Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans
  Kanaka D. Shetty, Thomas DeLeire, Chapin White, and Jayanta Bhattacharya #14790 (HC, HE)
  
• Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries: Market distortions or Efficient Institutions?
  Richard B. Freeman #14789 (LS)
  
• The Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment
  Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell #14788 (AP)
  
• Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks
  Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow, and Benjamin A. Malin #14787 (EFG, ME)
  
• Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
  Anusha Chari, Wenjie Chen, and Kathryn M.E. Dominguez #14786 (IFM)
  
• Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
  Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson #14785 (DAE)
  
• Migration and the welfare state: Dynamic Political-Economy Theory
  Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka, and Benjarong Suwankiri #14784 (IFM)
  
• The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
  Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon #14783 (ITI)
  
• New Keynesian versus Old Keynesian Government Spending Multipliers
  John F. Cogan, Tobias Cwik, John B. Taylor, and Volker Wieland #14782 (EFG)
  
• Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
  Joshua D. Angrist, Stacey H. Chen, and Brigham R. Frandsen #14781 (HC, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California
  Jennifer L. Steele, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #14780 (ED, LS)
  
• On the Paradox of Prudential Regulations in the Globalized Economy: International Reserves and the Crisis a Reassessment
  Joshua Aizenman #14779 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation
  Cory Koedel and Julian Betts #14778 (ED)
  
• REDUCED-CLASS DISTINCTIONS: EFFORT, ABILITY, AND THE EDUCATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION
  Philip Babcock and Julian R. Betts #14777 (ED)
  
• Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
  Marc-Andreas Muendler and Sascha O. Becker #14776 (ITI, LS)
  
• Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?
  Marigee Bacolod, John DiNardo, and Mireille Jacobson #14775 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• Commodity Market Disintegration in the Interwar Period
  William Hynes, David S. Jacks, and Kevin H. O'Rourke #14767 (DAE, ITI)
  

Week of March 1, 2009

• The Myth of the Frontier
  Camilo Garcia-Jimeno and James A. Robinson #14774 (DAE)
  
• Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status
  Tara Watson and Sara McLanahan #14773 (HE, LS)
  
• Optimal Endowment Destruction under Campbell-Cochrane Habit Formation
  Lars Ljungqvist and Harald Uhlig #14772 (AP, EFG, TWP)
  
• Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?
  Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi #14771 (ITI, POL)
  
• A Note on Regime Switching, Monetary Policy, and Multiple Equilibria
  Jess Benhabib #14770 (EFG, ME)
  
• Innovation and Institutional Ownership
  Philippe Aghion, John Van Reenen, and Luigi Zingales #14769 (CF, PR)
  
• Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households
  Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, and Giovanni L. Violante #14768 (EFG)
  
• History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491
  Jeffrey G. Williamson #14766 (DAE)
  
• Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions
  Jeremy Bulow, Jonathan Levin, and Paul Milgrom #14765 (IO)
  
• Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets
  Roland Benabou #14764 (AP, EFG, IO)
  
• Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response
  Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson #14763 (DAE)
  
• Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy
  Ruben Durante and Brian Knight #14762 (PE, POL)
  

Week of February 22, 2009

• Ratings Shopping and Asset Complexity: A Theory of Ratings Inflation
  Vasiliki Skreta and Laura Veldkamp #14761 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Stock-Market Crashes and Depressions
  Robert J. Barro and Jose Ursua #14760 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program
  Jason T. Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber #14759 (AG, HC, HE, PE)
  
• The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP
  Shane Greenstein and Ryan C. McDevitt #14758 (IO, PR)
  
• Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?
  Lubos Pastor and Robert F. Stambaugh #14757 (AP)
  
• A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators
  Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens #14756 (TWP)
  
• Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry
  Robert S. Pindyck #14755 (IO)
  
• Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation
  Miles S. Kimball, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro #14754 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?
  Matthew D. Shapiro and Joel B. Slemrod #14753 (EFG, ME, PE)
  
• Litigation and Regulation
  Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer #14752 (LE)
  
• Towards a System of Open Cities in China: Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air Quality in 35 Major Cities
  Siqi Zheng, Matthew E. Kahn, and Hongyu Liu #14751 (EEE, ITI)
  
• The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?
  Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein #14750 (PR)
  

Week of February 15, 2009

• Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBA
  Joseph Price, Lars Lefgren, and Henry Tappen #14749 (LS)
  
• Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
  David S. Jacks, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Jeffrey G. Williamson #14748 (DAE, ITI)
  
• Where does regulation hurt? Evidence from new businesses across countries
  Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi #14747 (AG)
  
• Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America
  Chulhee Lee #14746 (AG, DAE)
  
• Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers
  Chulhee Lee #14745 (DAE)
  
• Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks
  Daron Acemoglu, Amy Finkelstein, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo #14744 (AG, EFG, HC, LS, PE)
  
• Modeling Earnings Dynamics
  Joseph G. Altonji, Anthony Smith, and Ivan Vidangos #14743 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?
  Jonathan Guryan and Melissa Schettini Kearney #14742 (HE, LS, PE)
  
• Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence From U.S. Law Firms
  Luis Garicano and Thomas Hubbard #14741 (IO, LS)
  
• Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
  Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay #14740 (EFG)
  
• The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram Rajan #14739 (AP, CF, IFM, ME)
  
• The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State
  Alon Cohen, Assaf Razin, and Efraim Sadka #14738 (IFM, ITI, PE)
  
• Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods
  Gautam Gowrisankaran and Marc Rysman #14737 (IO, PR)
  
• The Contribution of Highways to GDP Growth
  Barbara M. Fraumeni #14736 (PR)
  
• A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe
  Reint Gropp and Anil Kashyap #14735 (CF, ME)
  
• International Portfolio Allocation under Model Uncertainty
  Pierpaolo Benigno and Salvatore Nisticý #14734 (AP, IFM, ME)
  
• Characteristics of Observed Limit Order Demand and Supply Schedules for Individual Stocks
  Jung-Wook Kim, Jason Lee, and Randall Morck #14733 (CF)
  
• A Sticky-Information General-Equilibrium Model for Policy Analysis
  Ricardo Reis #14732 (EFG, ME)
  
• Bretton Woods II Still Defines the International Monetary System
  Michael P. Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter M. Garber #14731 (IFM)
  
• The distribution of wealth and fiscal policy in economies with finitely lived agents
  Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin #14730 (EFG)
  

Week of February 8, 2009

• What Caused the Recession of 2008? Hints from Labor Productivity
  Casey Mulligan #14729 (EFG, PE)
  
• Maternal Smoking and the Timing of WIC Enrollment
  Theodore J. Joyce, Andrew D. Racine, and Cristina Yunzal-Butler #14728 (HE)
  
• A Note on Liquidity Risk Management
  Markus K. Brunnermeier and Motohiro Yogo #14727 (AP, CF)
  
• Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
  Guido Imbens and Karthik Kalyanaraman #14726 (LS, TWP)
  
• Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism
  Alan J. Auerbach #14725 (PE)
  
• Do Target CEOs Sell Out Their Shareholders to Keep Their Job in a Merger?
  Leonce L. Bargeron, Frederik P. Schlingemann, Ren� M. Stulz, and Chad J. Zutter #14724 (CF)
  
• Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics
  David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux #14723 (ED, LS)
  
• The Euro and Fiscal Policy
  Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov #14722 (ME, PE)
  
• The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity
  Janet Currie, Stefano DellaVigna, Enrico Moretti, and Vikram Pathania #14721 (CH, HE, LS, PE)
  
• International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
  John F. Helliwell, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Anthony Harris, and Haifang Huang #14720 (HE, IFM, LS, PE)
  
• Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It
  Dennis W. Carlton #14719 (IO)
  
• Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement
  Kyna Fong and Michael Schwarz #14718 (HE)
  
• "Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths: Selection Versus Work Environment
  Jane Leber Herr and Catherine Wolfram #14717 (LS)
  
• Introduction to �China�s Growing Role in World Trade�
  Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei #14716 (ITI)
  
• New Ways to Make People Save: A Social Marketing Approach
  Annamaria Lusardi, Punam Anand Keller, and Adam M. Keller #14715 (AG)
  
• Financial Patenting in Europe
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Grid Thoma, and Salvatore Torrisi #14714 (IO, PR)
  
• Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
  Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, and Huub Meijers #14713 (LS)
  
• The Credit Ratings Game
  Patrick Bolton, Xavier Freixas, and Joel Shapiro #14712 (CF, IO)
  
• International Trade and the Negotiability of Global Climate Change Agreements
  John Whalley, Yuezhou Cai, and Raymond Riezman #14711 (EEE)
  

Week of February 1, 2009

• Understanding Markov-Switching Rational Expectations Models
  Roger E.A. Farmer, Tao Zha, and Daniel F. Waggoner #14710 (EFG, ME)
  
• Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999
  David Lee and Alexandre Mas #14709 (LS)
  
• Understanding Commercial Real Estate: Just How Different from Housing Is It?
  Joseph Gyourko #14708 (PE)
  
• Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
  Pascaline Dupas #14707 (CH)
  
• Comparing IV With Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
  James J. Heckman and Sergio Urzua #14706 (TWP)
  
• Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
  Thomas S. Dee #14705 (ED)
  
• Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty
  Thomas J. Holmes and Sanghoon Lee #14704 (PR)
  
• Disclosure by Politicians
  Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #14703 (LE, POL)
  
• Government Transfers and Political Support
  Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, and Andrea Vigorito #14702 (PE, POL)
  
• Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds
  John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira #14701 (AP, IFM, ME)
  
• New Estimation of China�s Exchange Rate Regime
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #14700 (IFM)
  
• Measuring the Financial Sophistication of Households
  Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini #14699 (AP)
  
• Risk Bearing, Implicit Financial Services and Specialization in the Financial Industry
  J. Christina Wang and Susanto Basu #14614 (PR)
  

Week of January 25, 2009

• The Term Structures of Equity and Interest Rates
  Martin Lettau and Jessica A. Wachter #14698 (AP)
  
• The Demand for Youth: Implications for the Hours Volatility Puzzle
  Nir Jaimovich, Seth Pruitt, and Henry E. Siu #14697 (EFG)
  
• Reflections on Americans' Views of the Euro Ex Ante
  Martin S. Feldstein #14696 (IFM)
  
• The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
  Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman #14695 (CH, ED, HC, HE, PE)
  
• Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
  Sambit Bhattacharyya and Jeffrey G. Williamson #14694 (DAE)
  
• Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
  Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson #14693 (CH)
  
• Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study
  Helen Levy and David Weir #14692 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• International Finance and Growth in Developing Countries: What Have We Learned?
  Maurice Obstfeld #14691 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development
  Angus S. Deaton #14690 (AG, EFG, HC)
  
• Median Stable Matching
  Michael Schwarz and M. Bumin Yenmez #14689 (LS)
  
• Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy #14688 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Municipal Debt and Marginal Tax Rates: Is there a Tax Premium in Asset Prices?
  Francis A. Longstaff #14687 (AP)
  
• Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America
  Joseph H. Davis, Christopher Hanes, and Paul W. Rhode #14686 (DAE)
  
• Estimating the Effect of a Gasoline Tax on Carbon Emissions
  Lucas W. Davis and Lutz Kilian #14685 (EEE, PE)
  
• Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy
  Martin S. Feldstein #14684 (EFG, PE)
  
• Immigration and Inequality
  David Card #14683 (LS)
  
• Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems
  Alan J. Auerbach and Ronald Lee #14682 (AG, PE)
  
• Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors
  Marianne Bertrand, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz #14681 (DAE, LS)
  
• Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
  Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken #14680 (EEE, EFG)
  
• Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap
  Nicole Maestas, Mathis Schroeder, and Dana Goldman #14679 (HC)
  
• Is Monetary Policy Effective During Financial Crises?
  Frederic S. Mishkin #14678 (EFG, ME)
  

Week of January 18, 2009

• The Econometrics of DSGE Models
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde #14677 (EFG)
  
• Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
  Michael Burda and Daniel S. Hamermesh #14676 (EFG, LS)
  
• "Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing
  Martha J. Bailey #14675 (DAE)
  
• Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics
  Jaap H. Abbring and Jeffrey R. Campbell #14674 (EFG)
  
• China's Current Account and Exchange Rate
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and Eiji Fujii #14673 (IFM)
  
• Matching and Inequality in the World Economy
  Arnaud Costinot and Jonathan Vogel #14672 (ITI)
  
• The Impact of Children’s Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes
  Phillip B. Levine and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #14671 (CF, ED, HC, HE)
  
• R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics
  Bee Yan Aw, Mark J. Roberts, and Daniel Yi Xu #14670 (ITI, PR)
  
• Momentum traders in the housing market: survey evidence and a search model
  Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider #14669 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms
  Arnaud Costinot, Lindsay Oldenski, and James E. Rauch #14668 (ITI)
  
• Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada
  Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin S. Milligan #14667 (AG)
  
• Student sorting and bias in value added estimation: Selection on observables and unobservables
  Jesse Rothstein #14666 (ED, LS)
  
• Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How?
  Jonathan A. Parker and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen #14665 (AP, EFG, LS, ME)
  
• How Globalization Affects Tax Design
  James R. Hines, Jr. and Lawrence H. Summers #14664 (PE)
  
• The Integrated Financial and Real System of National Accounts for the United States: Does It Presage the Financial Crisis?
  Michael G. Palumbo and Jonathan A. Parker #14663 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• The Margins of U.S. Trade (Long Version)
  Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott #14662 (ITI)
  
• Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation
  Hanno Lustig, Chad Syverson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #14661 (CF, EFG, PR)
  
• Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing
  Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook #14660 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?
  Sumit Agarwal, Paige M. Skiba, and Jeremy Tobacman #14659 (IO, ME)
  
• Some New Perspectives on India’s Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
  Eswar S. Prasad #14658 (IFM)
  
• Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows
  Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker, and Shu-Chun Susan Yang #14630 (EFG)
  

Week of January 11, 2009

• Sterling in crisis: 1964-1967
  Michael D. Bordo, Ronald MacDonald, and Michael J. Oliver #14657 (ME)
  
• The Aftermath of Financial Crises
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #14656 (IFM)
  
• Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements
  Nuno Limão and Patricia Tovar #14655 (ITI, LE, PE)
  
• Satisficing Contracts
  Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud #14654 (CF, IO, LE)
  
• Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings
  Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and John Bailey Jones #14653 (AG, HE, PE)
  
• This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
  David Autor and David Dorn #14652 (LS)
  
• Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models
  Oleksiy Kryvtsov and Virgiliu Midrigan #14651 (ME)
  
• Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact: Evidence from China
  Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #14650 (CF)
  
• Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007
  Gary B. Gorton #14649 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Regulation and Distrust
  Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andrei Shleifer #14648 (CF, POL)
  
• Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary
  Jonathan Gruber, Kevin Milligan, and David A. Wise #14647 (AG, PE, LS)
  
• Learning in Financial Markets
  Luboš Pástor and Pietro Veronesi #14646 (AP, CF)
  
• An Elementary Theory of Comparative Advantage
  Arnaud Costinot #14645 (ITI)
  
• Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006
  Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef #14644 (AP, CF, EFG, LS)
  
• A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
  John William Hatfield and Gerard Padro i Miquel #14628 (PE, POL)

Week of January 4, 2009

• Globalization and Income Distribution: A Specific Factors Continuum Approach
  James E. Anderson #14643 (ITI)
  
• Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade
  James E. Anderson #14642 (ITI)
  
• Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish
  Martha J. Bailey and William J. Collins #14641 (DAE)
  
• Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
  Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman, Michael Haines, and Robert A. Margo #14640 (DAE)
  
• Do Bequests Increase or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?
  Charles Yuji Horioka #14639 (AG, EFG, PE)
  
• The Perils of the Learning Model For Modeling Endogenous Technological Change
  William D. Nordhaus #14638 (EEE, EFG, IO, PR)
  
• Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa
  Angus Deaton, Jane Fortson, and Robert Tortora #14637 (AG, HC, HE, PE)
  
• How Big are the Gains from International Financial Integration?
  Indrit Hoxha, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Dietrich Vollrath #14636 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the US in Relation to Levels of Income
  John Komlos #14635 (DAE, HE)
  
• The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation
  Guy David, Sara Markowitz, and Seth Richards #14634 (HC, HE, LE)
  
• Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
  Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann #14633 (ED, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis
  Albert Park, Dean Yang, Xinzheng Shi, and Yuan Jiang #14632 (ITI)
  
• The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong
  John B. Taylor #14631 (EFG, IFM, ME)