NBER Working Papers

Week of December 19, 2011

• Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment
  Janice Compton and Robert A. Pollak #17678 (LS)
• Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?
  Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen, and Glen R. Waddell #17677 (ED   PE)
• From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
  Douglas Almond, Janet Currie, and Mariesa Herrmann #17676 (CH   HE)
• International Trade and Institutional Change
  Andrei A. Levchenko #17675 (IFM   ITI)
• Prospects for Nuclear Power
  Lucas W. Davis #17674 (EEE   IO)
• Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment
  Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Seth J. Hill #17673 (PE   POL)
• The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
  Matthias Doepke, Michele Tertilt, and Alessandra Voena #17672 (EFG   POL)
• Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
  Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko #17671 (LS   PE   POL)
• Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and Credit Booms
  Nicolas E. Magud, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Esteban R. Vesperoni #17670 (IFM   ME)
• Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun
  Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey A. Frankel #17669 (EEE)
• Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates
  Marianne P. Bitler and Lucie Schmidt #17668 (HE)
• Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
  Marianne Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes #17667 (CH   LS   PE)
• Do Borrower Rights Improve Borrower Outcomes? Evidence from the Foreclosure Process
  Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson, and Paul S. Willen #17666 (EFG)
• International Policy Coordination: The Long View
  Barry Eichengreen #17665 (DAE   IFM)
• Regulating Systemic Risk through Transparency: Tradeoffs in Making Data Public
  Augustin Landier and David Thesmar #17664 (PE)
• CEO Preferences and Acquisitions
  Dirk Jenter and Katharina Lewellen #17663 (CF)
• Fiscal Devaluations
  Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath, and Oleg Itskhoki #17662 (EFG   IFM   ITI   ME)
• Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts
  Bo Becker and Per Str�mberg #17661 (CF)
• The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Banks
  Martin Goetz, Luc Laeven, and Ross Levine #17660 (CF)
• Cross-Sectoral Variation in The Volatility of Plant-Level Idiosyncratic Shocks
  Rui Castro, Gian Luca Clementi, and Yoonsoo Lee #17659 (EFG   IO   PR)
• Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children
  Carole Roan Gresenz, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam J. Laugesen, and Jos� J. Escarce #17658 (HE)
• The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality
  Ann Huff Stevens, Douglas L. Miller, Marianne E. Page, and Mateusz Filipski #17657 (AG   HC   LS)
• A Note on Schooling in Development Accounting
  Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone #17656 (EFG)
• Does Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Increase Student Achievement? Early Evidence from the Boston Teacher Residency
  John P. Papay, Martin R. West, Jon B. Fullerton, and Thomas J. Kane #17646 (ED)

Week of December 12, 2011

• The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments
  Alberto F. Alesina, Dorian Carloni, and Giampaolo Lecce #17655 (PE   POL)
• The Expanding Social Safety Net
  Casey B. Mulligan #17654 (EFG   LS   PE)
• Evaporating Liquidity
  Stefan Nagel #17653 (AP)
• Competing on Speed
  Thomas Philippon and Emiliano Pagnotta #17652 (AP   CF   IO)
• Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and is it Rational?
  Paul Beaudry, Deokwoo Nam, and Jian Wang #17651 (EFG)
• Can the Doha Round be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #17650 (ITI)
• Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
  Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi, and Daniel S. Hamermesh #17649 (LS)
• Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
  James Andreoni, Justin M. Rao, and Hannah Trachtman #17648 (PE)
• Incentives and Adaptation: Evidence from Highway Procurement in Minnesota
  Gregory Lewis and Patrick Bajari #17647 (IO   LE   PE)
• Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability before the 2008 Financial Crisis
  John Whalley, Manmohan Agarwal, Jing Wang, Sean Walsh, and Chen Yan #17645 (IFM   ITI)
• The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
  Anna Gumpert, James R. Hines, Jr., and Monika Schnitzer #17644 (ITI   PE)
• Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Endogenous Forcing Variable and an Application to Contracting in Health Care
  Patrick Bajari, Han Hong, Minjung Park, and Robert Town #17643 (HC   IO)

Week of December 5, 2011

• Optimal Dynamic Taxes
  Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17642 (EFG   PE)
• The International Monetary System: Living with Asymmetry
  Maurice Obstfeld #17641 (EFG   IFM)
• Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
  Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor #17640 (EFG)
• Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments
  Jennifer Brown and Dylan B. Minor #17639 (IO)
• Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss
  Steven J. Davis and Till M. von Wachter #17638 (EFG   LS)
• Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
  Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen, and Glen R. Waddell #17637 (ED   LE   PE)
• Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
  Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, and Robert Slonim #17636 (HE   LS   PE)
• Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada: New Knowledge from the North
  James Andreoni and A. Abigail Payne #17635 (PE)
• The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
  Pablo Querubin and James M. Snyder, Jr. #17634 (POL)
• Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
  Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarski #17633 (CH   DAE   ED   LS)
• Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr #17632 (ED   LS)
• Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
  Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei #17631 (CF   ITI)
• The Incidence of Geography on Canada's Services Trade
  James E. Anderson, Catherine A. Milot, and Yoto V. Yotov #17630 (ITI)
• Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease
  Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson, and E. Ray Dorsey #17629 (HC   HE   LS)
• Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
  Francesco Caselli and Andrea Tesei #17601 (EFG   POL)

Week of November 28, 2011

• Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations: Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches
  Matthew Kotchen and Matthew Potoski #17628 (EEE   PE)
• The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
  Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott #17627 (ITI)
• Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows: The ECB’s Rescue Facility
  Hans-Werner Sinn and Timo Wollmershaeuser #17626 (PE)
• The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate
  Richard Hornbeck and Pinar Keskin #17625 (DAE   EEE)
• When Should Sellers Use Auctions?
  James W. Roberts and Andrew Sweeting #17624 (IO)
• A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets
  Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang #17623 (LS)
• Macroeconomics With Heterogeneity: A Practical Guide
  Fatih Guvenen #17622 (AP   EFG   LS   ME   PE)
• When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises
  &iograve;scar Jordà, Moritz HP. Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor #17621 (DAE   IFM   ME)
• The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
  Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou #17620 (EFG   IFM   POL)
• On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
  Jeffrey A. Frankel, Carlos A. Végh, and Guillermo Vuletin #17619 (IFM)
• Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving
  James Andreoni, Abigail Payne, Justin D. Smith, and David Karp #17618 (PE)
• The Euro and European Economic Conditions
  Martin S. Feldstein #17617 (EFG   IFM   ME)
• Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities
  Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva #17616 (PE)
• Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill
  Marcin Kacperczyk, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Laura Veldkamp #17615 (AP   CF)
• Household Stock Market Beliefs and Learning
  Gábor Kézdi and Robert J. Willis #17614 (AG)
• Logical Implications of GASB's Methodology for Valuing Pension Liabilities
  Robert Novy-Marx #17613 (AP   PE)
• Risk Sharing through Capital Gains
  Faruk Balli, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Bent Sorensen #17612 (IFM)

Week of November 21, 2011

• Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products Without Instrumental Variables
  Kelly C. Bishop and Christopher Timmins #17611 (EEE   PE)
• Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap
  Jesse Rothstein and Nathan Wozny #17610 (CH   ED)
• Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability
  Ethan G. Lewis #17609 (LS)
• Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS
  Martin Gaynor, Mauro Laudicella, and Carol Propper #17608 (HC)
• Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius
  Orley C. Ashenfelter #17607 (EFG   LS)
• Contracting With Synergies
  Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein, and John Y. Zhu #17606 (CF   LE   LS)
• Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime
  Naci H. Mocan and Bulent Unel #17605 (CH   HE   LE   LS)
• Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium
  James Harrigan and Ariell Reshef #17604 (ITI   LS)
• Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements
  Nuno Limao and Kamal Saggi #17603 (ITI)
• The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation
  Ufuk Akcigit and Qingmin Liu #17602 (HE   PR   TWP)
• Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
  Francesco Caselli and Andrea Tesei #17601 (EFG   POL)
• The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
  John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya, and Kosali I. Simon #17600 (CH   EFG   HC   HE   LS   PE)
• Should Derivatives be Privileged in Bankruptcy?
  Patrick Bolton and Martin Oehmke #17599 (CF)
• Coping with Shocks and Shifts: The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
  Douglas A. Irwin and Kevin H. O'Rourke #17598 (ITI)
• Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel’s Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard
  Douglas A. Irwin #17597 (DAE   IFM   ME)
• The External Impact of China's Exchange Rate Policy: Evidence from Firm Level Data
  Barry Eichengreen and Hui Tong #17593 (IFM)

Week of November 14, 2011

• Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
  Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell #17596 (LS   PR)
• Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38
  Douglas A. Irwin #17595 (DAE   ME)
• Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008-2009
  Gita Gopinath, Oleg Itskhoki, and Brent Neiman #17594 (EFG   IFM   ITI   ME)
• The Leverage Effect Puzzle: Disentangling Sources of Bias at High Frequency
  Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Jianqing Fan, and Yingying Li #17592 (AP)
• Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
  Eric A. Hanushek, Susanne Link, and Ludger Woessmann #17591 (ED   LS   PE   POL)
• Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Style
  Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo #17590 (CF)
• Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal
  Daniel M. Hungerman #17589 (CH   LS   PE)
• Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models, with Applications in Health Economics
  John Mullahy #17588 (HC   HE   TWP)
• The Welfare Economics of Default Options: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of 401(k) Plans
  B. Douglas Bernheim, Andrey Fradkin, and Igor Popov #17587 (PE)
• Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-area
  Giorgia Palladini and Richard Portes #17586 (AP   IFM)
• Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked
  Julio J. Rotemberg #17585 (PE)
• Rising Labor Productivity during the 2008-9 Recession
  Casey Mulligan #17584 (EFG   PE   PR)
• Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings, and the Liquidity Trap
  Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni #17583 (EFG   ME)
• Feedback Effects and the Limits to Arbitrage
  Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein, and Wei Jiang #17582 (AP   CF)
• The Determinants and Long-term Projections of Saving Rates in Developing Asia
  Charles Yuji Horioka and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara #17581 (AG   IFM)

Week of November 7, 2011

• Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India
  G. Emmanuel Guindon, Arindam Nandi, Frank J. Chaloupka, IV, and Prabhat Jha #17580 (HE)
• Laws and Norms
  Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole #17579 (LE   PE)
• What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?
  Christopher J. Ruhm, Alison Snow Jones, William C. Kerr, Thomas K. Greenfield, Joseph V. Terza, Ravi S. Pandian, and Kerry Anne McGeary #17578 (HC   HE   PE)
• The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
  William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra #17577 (LE   LS   PE   POL   PR)
• How Would EU Corporate Tax Reform Affect US Investment in Europe?
  Michael P. Devereux and Simon Loretz #17576 (PE)
• Temperature, Aggregate Risk, and Expected Returns
  Ravi Bansal and Marcelo Ochoa #17575 (AP   EEE   EFG)
• Welfare Costs of Long-Run Temperature Shifts
  Ravi Bansal and Marcelo Ochoa #17574 (AP   EEE   EFG)
• Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry
  Ryan L. Lampe and Petra Moser #17573 (DAE   IO   PR)
• Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia
  Ruben Durante, Giovanna Labartino, and Roberto Perotti #17572 (ED   PE   POL)
• The "Austerity Myth": Gain Without Pain?
  Roberto Perotti #17571 (EFG   IFM   POL)
• The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition
  Giovanni Peri #17570 (LS   PE)
• The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience
  Joseph E. Aldy and Robert Stavins #17569 (EEE   IO   LE   PE)
• A Model of Private Equity Fund Compensation
  Wonho Wilson Choi, Andrew Metrick, and Ayako Yasuda #17568 (AP   CF)
• The Effect of Liquidity on Governance
  Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang, and Emanuel Zur #17567 (CF   LE)
• Persistent Liquidity Effects and Long Run Money Demand
  Fernando E. Alvarez and Francesco Lippi #17566 (AP   EFG   ME)
• Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China
  Risheng Mao and John Whalley #17565 (ITI   LS)
• The Forward Premium Puzzle in a Two-Country World
  Ian Martin #17564 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• The Lucas Orchard
  Ian Martin #17563 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• Fiscal Policy and Unemployment
  Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate #17562 (EFG   PE   POL)
• Testing Conditional Factor Models
  Andrew Ang and Dennis Kristensen #17561 (AP)
• When Bonds Matter: Home Bias in Goods and Assets
  Nicolas Coeurdacier and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas #17560 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• A Sorted Tale of Globalization: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring
  Runjuan Liu and Daniel Trefler #17559 (ITI)
• A Transparency Standard for Derivatives
  Viral V. Acharya #17558 (AP   CF)
• Identifying Demand with Multidimensional Unobservables: A Random Functions Approach
  Jeremy T. Fox and Amit Gandhi #17557 (IO   TWP)
• Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions
  George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O #17525 (EFG   ME)
  

Week of October 31, 2011

• Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs
  Toshi H. Arimura, Shanjun Li, Richard G. Newell, and Karen Palmer #17556 (   EEE   PE)
• The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates: Channels and Implications for Policy
  Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen #17555 (   AP   EFG   ME)
• School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010
  Paul W. Glewwe, Eric A. Hanushek, Sarah D. Humpage, and Renato Ravina #17554 (   ED   LS   PE)
• A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth
  Costas Arkolakis #17553 (   EFG   IO   ITI)
• The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis
  Guido Sandleris and Mark L.J. Wright #17552 (   EFG   IFM)
• The Stock of External Sovereign Debt: Can We Take the Data At ‘Face Value’?
  Daniel A. Dias, Christine J. Richmond, and Mark L.J. Wright #17551 (   EFG   IFM)
• A Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment
  Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Gene M. Grossman, and Elhanan Helpman #17550 (   ITI)
• On the Connection between Intertemporal and Intra-temporal Trades
  Jiandong Ju, Kang Shi, and Shang-Jin Wei #17549 (   IFM   ITI)
• A Theory of Asset Pricing Based on Heterogeneous Information
  Elias Albagli, Christian Hellwig, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17548 (   AP   CF   EFG)
• How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?
  Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai #17547 (   AG   EFG   LS   PE)
• Unconditional Convergence
  Dani Rodrik #17546 (   EFG   ITI   PR)
• How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?
  Ernst Fehr, Oliver D. Hart, and Christian Zehnder #17545 (   CF   LE)
• The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa’s Pre Crisis Growth Surge
  Aaron Weisbrod and John Whalley #17544 (   EFG   ITI)
• Supply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower Bound
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez #17543 (   EFG)
• Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector
  Viral V. Acharya and Raghuram G. Rajan #17542 (   CF   EFG   IFM)
• The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior
  Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan #17541 (   CH   ED   LS)
• Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon: Background and Results from the RICE-2011 Model
  William D. Nordhaus #17540 (   EEE   PE)
• Policy-Instrument Choice and Benefit Estimates for Climate-Change Policy in the United States
  Matthew J. Kotchen, Kevin J. Boyle, and Anthony A. Leiserowitz #17539 (   EEE)
• Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program
  Kenneth T. Whelan, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Kevin F. Hallock, and Ronald L. Seeber #17538 (   ED   LS)
• Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Role of Bailout Guarantees for Government Sponsored Enterprises
  Karsten Jeske, Dirk Krueger, and Kurt Mitman #17537 (   AP   EFG)
• The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement
  James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise #17536 (   AG   EFG   PE)

Week of October 25, 2011

• Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
  James B. Rebitzer and Mark E. Votruba #17535 (HC   HE   LS)
• Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
  Jesse Rothstein #17534 (EFG   LS   PE)
• Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
  Susan Dynarski, Joshua M. Hyman, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #17533 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• The Value-Added Tax Reform Puzzle
  Jing Cai and Ann Harrison #17532 (ITI)
• The Tax Reform Act of 1986: Comment on the 25th Anniversary
  Martin S. Feldstein #17531 (PE)
• Financial Sector Ups and Downs and the Real Sector: Big Hindrance, Little Help
  Joshua Aizenman, Brian Pinto, and Vladyslav Sushko #17530 (IFM   ITI)
• Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization
  Robert A. Pollak #17529 (LS)
• The Effect of FDA Advisories on Branded Pharmaceutical Firms' Valuations and Promotion Efforts
  Rena M. Conti, Haiden A. Huskamp, and Ernst R. Berndt #17528 (HC   LE)
• Teaching Practices and Social Capital
  Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, and Andrei Shleifer #17527 (ED   PE   POL)
• Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States
  Alan Barreca, Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor #17526 (DAE   HE)
• Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
  Amit K. Khandelwal, Peter K. Schott, and Shang-Jin Wei #17524 (ITI)
• A survey of venture capital research
  Marco Da Rin, Thomas F. Hellmann, and Manju Puri #17523 (CF   PR)
• Government Policy and Ownership of Financial Assets
  Kristian Rydqvist, Joshua Spizman, and Ilya A. Strebulaev #17522 (AP   CF   PE)
• The Simple Analytics of the Melitz Model in a Small Open Economy
  Svetlana Demidova and Andres Rodriguez-Clare #17521 (ITI)
• Sticky Prices: A New Monetarist Approach
  Allen Head, Lucy Qian Liu, Guido Menzio, and Randall Wright #17520 (EFG)
• Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments
  Michal Kolesár, Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Edward L. Glaeser, and Guido W. Imbens #17519 (LS   PE)
• Ending “Too Big To Fail”: Government Promises vs. Investor Perceptions
  Todd A. Gormley, Simon Johnson, and Changyong Rhee #17518 (CF   EFG   IFM   POL)
• Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity
  Assaf Razin and Jackline Wahba #17515 (IFM)

Week of October 17, 2011

• The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism: Productivity, Risk, and Product Market Competition
  Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, and Hyunseob Kim #17517 (CF)
• A Model of Mortgage Default
  John Y. Campbell and Joao F. Cocco #17516 (AP   CF   ME)
• Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
  Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell #17514 (PR)
• A Forensic Analysis of Global Imbalances
  Menzie D. Chinn, Barry Eichengreen, and Hiro Ito #17513 (IFM)
• Innovation and Growth with Financial, and other, Frictions
  Jonathan Chiu, Cesaire Meh, and Randall Wright #17512 (EFG   IO   PR)
• Buyers, Sellers and Middlemen: Variations on Search-Theoretic Themes
  Yuet-Yee Wong and Randall Wright #17511 (EFG   IO)
• Endogenous Credit Cycles
  Chao Gu and Randall Wright #17510 (EFG)
• What do Boards Really Do? Evidence from Minutes of Board Meetings
  Miriam Schwartz-Ziv and Michael Weisbach #17509 (CF   LE)
• The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work
  Raquel Fernandez and Joyce Cheng Wong #17508 (ED   EFG   LS)
• Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
  Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Erdal Tekin #17507 (CH   HE)
• Speculation and Risk Sharing with New Financial Assets
  Alp Simsek #17506 (AP   CF   IFM)
• Lifecycle Portfolio Choice with Systematic Longevity Risk and Variable Investment-Linked Deferred Annuities
  Vasily Kartashov, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #17505 (AG   LS   PE)
• General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
  Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann, and Lei Zhang #17504 (ED   LS   PE)
• Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster
  Joel Waldfogel #17503 (IO   LE)
• Capital Flows and Economic Growth in the Era of Financial Integration and Crisis, 1990-2010
  Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak, and Donghyun Park #17502 (ITI)
• Traded and Nontraded Goods Prices, and International Risk Sharing: an Empirical Investigation.
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola, and Francesca Viani #17501 (IFM)
• Liquidity and the Threat of Fraudulent Assets
  Yiting Li, Guillaume Rocheteau, and Pierre-Olivier Weill #17500 (AP   EFG   ME)
• The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy: An Introduction
  Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram #17499 (EEE   IO   PE)
• What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime
  John Whalley #17498 (EEE)
• Role Reversal in Global Finance
  Eswar S. Prasad #17497 (IFM)
• The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data
  David Hummels, Rasmus Jorgensen, Jakob R. Munch, and Chong Xiang #17496 (ITI   LS)
• Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time
  Robert E. Lucas, Jr. and Benjamin Moll #17495 (EFG)

Week of October 10, 2011

• Creating "No Excuses" (Traditional) Public Schools: Preliminary Evidence from an Experiment in Houston
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr #17494 (ED   LS)
• Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
  Andrew Atkeson and Ariel T. Burstein #17493 (EFG)
• Reserves and Baskets
  Michael D. Bordo and Harold James #17492 (DAE   ME)
• Mutual Fund Performance and the Incentive to Invest in Active Management
  Diane Del Guercio and Jonathan Reuter #17491 (AP)
• On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms
  Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz #17490 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• Optimal Monetary Policy with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety
  Florin O. Bilbiie, Ippei Fujiwara, and Fabio Ghironi #17489 (EFG   ME)
• Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory and Experience
  Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins #17488 (EEE)
• The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach
  Benjamin F. Jones #17487 (ED   EFG   PR)
• If You Build It Will They Come? Teacher Use of Student Performance Data on a Web-Based Tool
  John H. Tyler #17486 (ED)
• House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby
  Lisa J. Dettling and Melissa Schettini Kearney #17485 (CH   LS   PE)
• Long Run Risks & Price/Dividend Ratio Factors
  Ravi Jagannathan and Srikant Marakani #17484 (AP)
• Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity
  Charles J. Courtemanche, Garth Heutel, and Patrick McAlvanah #17483 (EEE   HC   HE)
• Estimating Patients' Preferences for Medical Devices: Does the Number of Profile in Choice Experiments Matter?
  John Bridges, Christine Buttorff, and Karin Groothuis-Oudshoorn #17482 (HE)
• Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment
  Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob #17481 (CF)
• Separating the Opposing Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties
  Bruce A. Blonigen, Lindsay Oldenski, and Nicholas Sly #17480 (ITI)
• The Stock Market Crash of 2008 Caused the Great Recession: Theory and Evidence
  Roger Farmer #17479 (EFG)
• Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
  Harold E. Cuffe, William T. Harbaugh, Jason M. Lindo, Giancarlo Musto, and Glen R. Waddell #17478 (CH   ED   HE)
• Sticking with What (Barely) Worked
  Lars Lefgren, Brennan Platt, and Joseph Price #17477 (LS)
• The Price Effects of a Large Merger of Manufacturers: A Case Study of Maytag-Whirlpool
  Orley C. Ashenfelter, Daniel S. Hosken, and Matthew C. Weinberg #17476 (IO   LE)
• List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds
  Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman #17475 (LE)
• CoVaR
  Tobias Adrian and Markus K. Brunnermeier #17454 (AP   CF   EFG   ME)
• How to Solve Dynamic Stochastic Models Computing Expectations Just Once
  Kenneth L. Judd, Lilia Maliar, and Serguei Maliar #17418 (EFG   TWP)

Week of October 3, 2011

• Human Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector
  Ann P. Bartel, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Nancy Beaulieu, and Patricia Stone #17474 (   HC   LS)
• The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
  Craig E. Landry, Andreas Lange, John A. List, Michael K. Price, and Nicholas G. Rupp #17473 (   EEE   PE)
• Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
  Craig E. Landry, Andreas Lange, John A. List, Michael K. Price, and Nicholas G. Rupp #17472 (   LS   PR)
• The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
  Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin #17471 (   CH   HE)
• Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
  Pol Antras #17470 (   ITI)
• State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing
  Brian G. Knight #17469 (   PE   POL)
• Does Short-Term Debt Increase Vulnerability to Crisis? Evidence from the East Asian Financial Crisis
  Efraim Benmelech and Eyal Dvir #17468 (   CF   EFG   IFM   ITI   ME)
• Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?
  David Neumark and Joanne Song #17467 (   AG   LE   LS   PE)
• Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?
  R. Alison Felix and James R. Hines, Jr. #17466 (   PE)
• Grade Non-Disclosure
  Daniel Gottlieb and Kent Smetters #17465 (   ED   LS   PE)
• Political Uncertainty and Risk Premia
  Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi #17464 (   AP   EFG   POL)
• Corporate Acquisitions, Diversification, and the Firm's Lifecycle
  Asli M. Arikan and Rene M. Stulz #17463 (   CF)
• Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr, Devah Pager, and Jorg L. Spenkuch #17462 (   LS)
• Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups
  George J. Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson #17461 (   ITI   LS)
• Importing Skill-Biased Technology
  Ariel Burstein, Javier Cravino, and Jonathan Vogel #17460 (   ITI)

Week of September 26, 2011

• Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
  Benjamin R. Handel #17459 (HC   IO)
• Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States
  William J. Collins and Katharine L. Shester #17458 (DAE   LE   PE)
• Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies
  Mark A. Aguiar and Manuel Amador #17457 (EFG   IFM)
• The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers
  Jesse M. Cunha, Giacomo De Giorgi, and Seema Jayachandran #17456 (PE)
• Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections
  Charles F. Manski and John V. Pepper #17455 (LE)
• Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
  Peter J. Kuhn and Kailing Shen #17453 (LS)
• Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?
  Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas L. Miller #17452 (CH)
• Insuring Long Term Care In the US
  Jeffrey Brown and Amy Finkelstein #17451 (AG   HC   PE)
• Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics
  Kevin Lang and Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann #17450 (LS)
• Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
  Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg, and Dean Yang #17449 (LS)
• Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit
  Igor Livshits, James MacGee, and Michéle Tertilt #17448 (EFG)
• Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion
  Alan J. Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #17447 (EFG   PE)
• The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata
  Ralf Martin, Laure B. de Preux, and Ulrich J. Wagner #17446 (EEE   PE)
• Means-Tested Subsidies and Economic Performance Since 2007
  Casey B. Mulligan #17445 (EFG   PE)
• Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass
  Eric M. Leeper, Nora Traum, and Todd B. Walker #17444 (EFG)
• A Brief History of Regulations Regarding Financial Markets in the United States: 1789 to 2009
  Alejandro Komai and Gary Richardson #17443 (DAE)
• Robust Inference for Misspecified Models Conditional on Covariates
  Alberto Abadie, Guido W. Imbens, and Fanyin Zheng #17442 (TWP)
• Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
  Albert N. Link and Christopher J. Ruhm #17441 (LS   PR)
• Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?
  Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov #17440 (AG   HC   PE)
• The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula
  Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai #17439 (AG   LS)
• The Financial Crisis and the Well-Being of Americans
  Angus S. Deaton #17128 (AG   EFG   PE)

Week of September 19, 2011

• School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment
  David J. Deming, Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger #17438 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• When the Music Stopped: Transatlantic Contagion During the Financial Crisis of 1931
  Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn #17437 (DAE)
• Competition in Persuasion
  Matthew Gentzkow and Emir Kamenica #17436 (IO   LE   POL)
• Credit Constraints in Education
  Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo #17435 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates
  Nicholas J. Sanders and Charles F. Stoecker #17434 (CH   EEE   HE   PE)
• Firm Heterogeneity, Endogenous Entry, and the Business Cycle
  Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano #17433 (EFG)
• The Democratic Transition
  Fabrice Murtin and Romain Wacziarg #17432 (POL)
• Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking
  Gilles St. Paul #17431 (ME   POL)
• Reconciling Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: A Structural Perspective
  Michael P. Keane and Richard Rogerson #17430 (EFG)
• The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the US and Europe
  Alejandro Justiniano and Claudio Michelacci #17429 (EFG)
• Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity
  David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy #17428 (AP   CF)
• The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10: Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak #17427 (IFM   ITI)
• The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital
  Susan Busch, Ezra Golberstein, and Ellen Meara #17426 (CH   HC   HE)
• The Federal Reserve as an Informed Foreign Exchange Trader: 1973 – 1995
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #17425 (DAE   ME)
• Estimators for Persistent and Possibly Non-Stationary Data with Classical Properties
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Anna Mikusheva, and Serena Ng #17424 (AP   EFG   IFM   ME   TWP)
• The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity
  Charles L. Baum and Shin-Yi Chou #17423 (HE)
• Crashes and Collateralized Lending
  Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford #17422 (AP   CF)
• Improving GDP Measurement: A Forecast Combination Perspective
  S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, Jeremy Nalewaik, Frank Schorfheide, and Dongho Song #17421 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries: New Measurement and Implications for Business Cycles
  Lee E. Ohanian and Andrea Raffo #17420 (EFG   LS)
• Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care
  Guy David, Evan Rawley, and Daniel Polsky #17419 (HC   HE   IO)
• The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
  Robin Burgess, Matthew Hansen, Benjamin A. Olken, Peter Potapov, and Stefanie Sieber #17417 (EEE   POL)
• Equity Yields
  Jules H. van Binsbergen, Wouter Hueskes, Ralph Koijen, and Evert B. Vrugt #17416 (AP   CF   EFG)

Week of September 12, 2011

• Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market
  Christoph Moser and Andrew K. Rose #17415 (IFM   ITI)
• The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity: Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #17414 (HC   HE   PR)
• Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity
  Henry Saffer, Dhaval M. Dave, and Michael Grossman #17413 (HE)
• Educational "Goodwill": Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities
  Peter Nurnberg, Morton Schapiro, and David Zimmerman #17412 (ED)
• Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
  Frederico Finan and Laura A. Schechter #17411 (POL)
• Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans
  Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee Vermeulen, and Marian Wrobel #17410 (AG   HC   HE   IO   PE)
• The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
  Bård Harstad #17409 (EEE   LE   PE   POL)
• Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs
  Alan I. Barreca, Jason M. Lindo, and Glen R. Waddell #17408 (ED   HE   LS   TWP)
• What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk
  Joshua Aizenman, Michael M. Hutchison, and Yothin Jinjarak #17407 (IFM   ITI)
• Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle
  Gregory J. Colman and Dhaval M. Dave #17406 (EFG   HE   LS   PE)
• Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update
  Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy #17405 (PE)
• Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
  Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby, and Jason Fong #17404 (PR)
• The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr #17402 (ED   LS)

Week of September 5, 2011

• Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks
  Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Paul Raschky, and Howard Kunreuther #17403 (   PE)
• Who Should Supervise? The Structure of Bank Supervision and the Performance of the Financial System
  Barry Eichengreen and Nergiz Dincer #17401 (IFM)
• The Future of Economic Convergence
  Dani Rodrik #17400 (EFG   ITI   PR)
• Private Equity and Employment
  Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda #17399 (CF   EFG   LS   PR)
• Corruption in Developing Countries
  Benjamin A. Olken and Rohini Pande #17398 (EFG   PE   POL)
• Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections
  Marco Faravelli and Randall Walsh #17397 (LE   PE   POL)
• Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
  Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych #17396 (IFM)
• Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change
  Chris Edmond #17395 (POL)
• Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms
  John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist #17394 (CF)
• Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument
  Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach #17393 (CF)
• Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
  Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina #17392 (CF)
• Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions
  Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson #17391 (EFG   IFM   ME)
• Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation
  Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler #17390 (EEE   HE   IO   PE)
• Financial Markets and Unemployment
  Tommaso Monacelli, Vincenzo Quadrini, and Antonella Trigari #17389 (EFG)
• Financial Distress in the Great Depression
  John R. Graham, Sonali Hazarika, and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan #17388 (TWP)
• Corporate Governance, Debt, and Investment Policy during the Great Depression
  John R. Graham, Sonali Hazarika, and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan #17387 (TWP)
• Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
  Stephen P. Holland, Jonathan E. Hughes, Christopher R. Knittel, and Nathan C. Parker #17386 (EEE   IO   POL)
• Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
  Liran Einav, Theresa Kuchler, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neel Sundaresan #17385 (IO   PR)
• An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems: Donations, Elections and Policy Choices
  Hanming Fang, Dmitry A. Shapiro, and Arthur Zillante #17384 (LE   PE   POL)
• Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency: The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector
  Maureen L. Cropper, Alexander Limonov, Kabir Malik, and Anoop Singh #17383 (EEE)
• Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
  Dora Costa #17382 (DAE)
• A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
  Robert Fairlie, Florian Hoffmann, and Philip Oreopoulos #17381 (CH   ED   LS)
• A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History
  Michael D. Bordo, Agnieszka Markiewicz, and Lars Jonung #17380 (DAE   ME)
• International Liquidity: The Fiscal Dimension
  Maurice Obstfeld #17379 (IFM   ME)

Week of August 29, 2011

• Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
  James J. Heckman #17378 (CH   ED)
• The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
  Quamrul H. Ashraf, David N. Weil, and Joshua Wilde #17377 (EFG)
• Embodied Carbon Tariffs
  Christoph Böhringer, Jared C. Carbone, and Thomas F. Rutherford #17376 (EEE)
• Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test
  Daniel M. Hungerman #17375 (CH   HE   PE)
• Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009
  Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko #17374 (PE)
• Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs
  Amil Petrin and Jagadeesh Sivadasan #17373 (IO   LS   PR)
• Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
  Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho and Marc-Andreas Muendler #17372 (LS)
• Comparative Effectiveness Research, COURAGE, and Technological Abandonment
  David H. Howard and Yu-Chu Shen #17371 (HC)
• Capital Allocation and Delegation of Decision-Making Authority within Firms
  John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, and Manju Puri #17370 (TWP)
• The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality
  Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas L. Miller #17369 (CH   HE   PE)
• Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
  John R. Graham, Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu #17368 (TWP)
• Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights
  Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman, and Carlos J. Serrano #17367 (IO   LE   PR)
• Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation
  Yan Dong and John Whalley #17366 (ITI)
• The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and Its Impacts on Trade
  Hejing Chen and John Whalley #17365 (ITI)
• Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification
  Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan #17364 (ED   PE)
• Managing Capital Inflows: The Role of Capital Controls and Prudential Policies
  Mahvash S. Qureshi, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Marcos Chamon #17363 (IFM)
• International Reserves and the Global Financial Crisis
  Kathryn M.E. Dominguez, Yuko Hashimoto, and Takatoshi Ito #17362 (IFM)
• International Financial Crises and the Multilateral Response: What the Historical Record Shows
  Bergljot Barkbu, Barry Eichengreen, and Ashoka Mody #17361 (IFM)
• From the Financial Crisis to the Real Economy: Using Firm-level Data to Identify Transmission Channels
  Stijn Claessens, Hui Tong, and Shang-Jin Wei #17360 (IFM)
• Dollar Illiquidity and Central Bank Swap Arrangements During the Global Financial Crisis
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #17359 (IFM)
• On the International Transmission of Shocks: Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios
  Claudio Raddatz and Sergio L. Schmukler #17358 (IFM)
• Capital Flows, Push versus Pull Factors and the Global Financial Crisis
  Marcel Fratzscher #17357 (IFM)
• Bank Relationships, Business Cycles, and Financial Crises
  Galina Hale #17356 (IFM)
• Liquidity management of U.S. global banks: Internal capital markets in the great recession
  Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg #17355 (IFM)
• Leverage Across Firms, Banks, and Countries
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen, and Sevcan Yesiltas #17354 (IFM)
• The Financial Crisis and The Geography of Wealth Transfers
  Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Hélène Rey, and Kai Truempler #17353 (AP   IFM   ME)
• External Adjustment and the Global Crisis
  Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi Ferretti #17352 (IFM)
• Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight, and Retrenchment
  Kristin J. Forbes and Francis E. Warnock #17351 (CF   IFM   ITI)
• ABS Inflows to the United States and the Global Financial Crisis
  Carol Bertaut, Laurie Pounder DeMarco, Steven B. Kamin, and Ralph W. Tryon #17350 (IFM)
• Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
  Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo #17349 (LS)
• Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium
  Mikhail Golosov, John Hassler, Per Krusell, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17348 (EEE   EFG   PE)
• Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data
  Ralph Ossa #17347 (EFG   ITI)
• Partial Identification of Heterogeneity in Preference Orderings Over Discrete Choices
  Itai Sher, Jeremy T. Fox, Kyoo il Kim, and Patrick Bajari #17346 (IO   TWP)
• The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman #17345 (AG   LS)

Week of August 22, 2011

• Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
  Martha J. Bailey #17343 (CH   DAE   LS)
• Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom
  James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger #17342 (PE)
• Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
  Lucas W. Davis and Catherine Wolfram #17341 (EEE   IO   PR)
• Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets
  Soohyung Lee, Muriel Niederle, Hye-Rim Kim, and Woo-Keum Kim #17340 (LS)
• Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning, and Household Wealth
  Maarten van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi, and Rob J. Alessie #17339 (AG)
• A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments
  Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante #17338 (EFG   PE)
• Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior
  Elisabetta Gentile and Scott A. Imberman #17337 (CH   ED   LS)
• Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
  C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr #17336 (ITI   LS   PR)
• Country Size, International Trade, and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economies
  Julian di Giovanni and Andrei A. Levchenko #17335 (IFM   ITI)
• What is the Chance that the Equity Premium Varies over Time? Evidence from Predictive Regressions
  Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana #17334 (AP)
• Behavioral Corporate Finance: An Updated Survey
  Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler #17333 (CF)
• Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
  Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak, and Christopher R. Walters #17332 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Asset Liquidity and International Portfolio Choice
  Athanasios Geromichalos and Ina Simonovska #17331 (IFM)
• Information Aggregation, Investment, and Managerial Incentives
  Elias Albagli, Christian Hellwig, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17330 (AP   CF   EFG)
• Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
  Naci H. Mocan and Duha Tore Altindag #17329 (HE   LE)
• Rare Macroeconomic Disasters
  Robert J. Barro and José F. Ursua #17328 (AP   EFG   ME   PE)
• "Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Jason Abrevaya #17327 (LS)
• Cycles of Wage Discrimination
  Jeff Biddle and Daniel S. Hamermesh #17326 (LS)
• Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice
  Ralph Koijen, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Motohiro Yogo #17325 (AG   AP   HE)
• Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate
  Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth #17324 (HE)
• The Recovery Theorem
  Stephen A. Ross #17323 (AP   ME)
• Was What Ail'd Ya' What Kill'd Ya'?
  Robert W. Fogel, Louis Cain, Joseph Burton, and Brian Bettenhausen #17322 (AG)
• Implicit Guarantees and Risk Taking: Evidence from Money Market Funds
  Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl #17321 (AP   CF   ME)
• Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions
  Dayanand S. Manoli and Andrea Weber #17320 (AG   LS   PE)
• Optimal Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Product Variety
  Sanjay K. Chugh and Fabio Ghironi #17319 (EFG   PE)
• How Reliable are De Facto Exchange Rate Regime Classifications?
  Barry Eichengreen and Raul Razo-Garcia #17318 (IFM)
• Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, Keith Kuester, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez #17317 (EFG)
• Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy
  Christopher Afendulis and Daniel Kessler #17316 (HC   IO   LE)
• Complex Mortgages
  Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm, and Edward Zhong #17315 (AP   CF   PE)
• How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
  Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth #17314 (DAE   POL)
• Labor Market Dysfunction During the Great Recession
  Kyle F. Herkenhoff and Lee E. Ohanian #17313 (EFG   LS)
• Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or ...)?
  Michael D. Bordo, Angela Redish, and Hugh Rockoff #17312 (DAE)
• Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity
  Aubhik Khan and Julia K. Thomas #17311 (EFG   PR)
• Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?
  Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin #17310 (HE   LS   PE)
• Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
  Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra #17309 (LE   PE)
• The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
  Lorenzo Caliendo and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #17308 (EFG   ITI)
• A Political Theory of Populism
  Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin #17306 (POL)
• Japanese Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy
  Takero Doi, Takeo Hoshi, and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto #17305 (CF   ME   PE)
• Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents
  Carlos J. Serrano #17304 (IO   PR)
• Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s
  Carola Frydman and Raven Molloy #17303 (CF   DAE   LS)
• The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City
  Rema Hanna and Paulina Oliva #17302 (EEE)
• Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing
  Andreas Fuster, Benjamin Hebert, and David Laibson #17301 (AG   AP   IFM)
• Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?
  Guy David, Richard Lindrooth, Lorens A. Helmchen, and Lawton R. Burns #17300 (HC   HE)
• Inefficient Provision of Liquidity
  Oliver D. Hart and Luigi Zingales #17299 (CF)
• The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns
  Christopher Avery, Judith A. Chevalier, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #17298 (AP)
• Building Peace: The Impact of Aid on the Labor Market for Insurgents
  Radha Iyengar, Jonathan Monten, and Matthew Hanson #17297 (LS)

Week of August 15, 2011

• Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing
  Darrell Duffie and Bruno Strulovici #17296 (AP)
• Information Percolation in Segmented Markets
  Darrell Duffie, Semyon Malamud, and Gustavo Manso #17295 (AP)
• Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time
  Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman, and John C. Haltiwanger #17294 (EFG   LS)
• Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
  Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Ragnar Torvik #17293 (POL)
• Spillover Effects in Mutual Fund Companies
  Clemens Sialm and T. Mandy Tham #17292 (AP   CF)
• A Gains from Trade Perspective on Macroeconomic Fluctuations
  Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier #17291 (EFG)
• Are Corporate Default Probabilities Consistent with the Static Tradeoff Theory?
  Armen Hovakimian, Ayla Kayhan, and Sheridan Titman #17290 (CF)
• The Extensive Margin, Sectoral Shares and International Business Cycles
  Michael B. Devereux and Viktoria Hnatkovska #17289 (IFM)
• Consumption Risk-Sharing and the Real Exchange Rate: Why does the Nominal Exchange Rate Make Such a Difference?
  Michael B. Devereux and Viktoria Hnatkovska #17288 (IFM)
• Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment
  Jeffrey B. Liebman and Erzo F.P. Luttmer #17287 (AG   LS   PE)
• Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. #17286 (CH   ED   LS)
• Covariances versus Characteristics in General Equilibrium
  Xiaoji Lin and Lu Zhang #17285 (AP   CF)
• Equilibrium Wage and Employment Dynamics in a Model of Wage Posting without Commitment
  Melvyn G. Coles and Dale T. Mortensen #17284 (EFG)
• A Simple Nonparametric Approach to Estimating the Distribution of Random Coefficients in Structural Models
  Jeremy T. Fox and Kyoo il Kim #17283 (IO   TWP)
• Foreign Firms and Local Communities
  Bruce Blonigen and Cheyney O'Fallon #17282 (ITI)
• Systemic Risk Exposures: A 10-by-10-by-10 Approach
  Darrell Duffie #17281 (AP)
• The Exact Law of Large Numbers for Independent Random Matching
  Darrell Duffie and Yeneng Sun #17280 (AP)

Week of August, 8, 2011

• The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Sean Lyons, and Kosali I. Simon #17279 (HC   HE)
• Carry Trades and Risk
  Craig Burnside #17278 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• International Risk Cycles
  Francois Gourio, Michael Siemer, and Adrien Verdelhan #17277 (AP   EFG   IFM)
• The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment
  Farley Grubb #17276 (DAE)
• Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
  Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn #17275 (LS)
• Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Laurence M. Ball, Nicolas De Roux, and Marc Hofstetter #17274 (EFG   IFM   LS   ME)
• "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health
  Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter #17273 (AG   HE)
• Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy
  Carlo Favero, Francesco Giavazzi, and Jacopo Perego #17272 (IFM   ME)
• Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
  Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg #17271 (IFM   POL)
• Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout
  Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens Jr. #17270 (LS   POL)
• Why Did U.S. Banks Invest in Highly-Rated Securitization Tranches?
  Isil Erel, Taylor D. Nadauld, and Rene M. Stulz #17269 (CF)
• Tax Expenditures, the Size and Efficiency of Government, and Implications for Budget Reform
  Leonard E. Burman and Marvin Phaup #17268 (PE)
• The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics
  Michael D. Bordo and Hugh Rockoff #17267 (DAE)
• Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #17266 (CF   DAE   POL)
• The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm
  Serguey Braguinsky, Lee G. Branstetter, and Andre Regateiro #17265 (PR)

Week of July 25, 2011

• Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
  James A. Levinsohn and Todd Pugatch #17248 (LS)
• The Value of Honesty: Empirical Estimates from the Case of the Missing Children
  Sara LaLumia and James M. Sallee #17247 (PE)
• Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption
  Catherine Tucker #17246 (PR)
• Chemical Fertilizer and Migration in China
  Avraham Ebenstein, Jian Zhang, Margaret S. McMillan, and Kevin Chen #17245 (EEE   ITI)
• How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes
  Anneke Exterkate and Robin L. Lumsdaine #17244 (AG   HC   HE)
• Stepping Stones: Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes
  Tara B�teille, Demetra Kalogrides, and Susanna Loeb #17243 (ED)
• Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
  David S. Jacks #17242 (DAE)
• The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
  Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn #17241 (LS)
• On Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy in Recessions
  Jonathan A. Parker #17240 (EFG   ME   PE)
• Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implication
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #17239 (IFM)
• Are All Ratings Created Equal? The Impact of Issuer Size on the Pricing of Mortgage-backed Securities
  Jie (Jack) He, Jun 'QJ' Qian, and Philip E. Strahan #17238 (CF)
• Corporate and Personal Bankruptcy Law
  Michelle J. White #17237 (LE)
• Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates
  Mark Duggan and Tamara Hayford #17236 (HC   HE   PE)
• Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?
  Ilyana Kuziemko #17235 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• "Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications
  Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael I. Norton #17234 (LS   PE   POL)
• How Do Firm Financial Conditions Affect Product Quality and Pricing?
  Gordon M. Phillips and Giorgo Sertsios #17233 (CF   IO)
• Gauging the Generosity of Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Differences Between Households With and Without a Chronic Condition
  Jean M. Abraham, Anne Beeson Royalty, and Thomas DeLeire #17232 (HE)
• The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
  Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger, and John Van Reenen #17231 (EFG   LE   LS   PR)
• Public Consumption Over the Business Cycle
  Ruediger Bachmann and Jinhui Bai #17230 (EFG   PE   POL)
• Competition in Health Care Markets
  Martin Gaynor and Robert J. Town #17208 (HC)

Week of July 18, 2011

• Cycles, Gaps, and the Social Value of Information
  George-Marios Angeletos, Luigi Iovino, and Jennifer La'O #17229 (EFG   ME)
• Capital Flow Types, External Financing Needs, and Industrial Growth: 99 countries, 1991-2007
  Joshua Aizenman and Vladyslav Sushko #17228 (ITI)
• The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston
  Panle Jia Barwick and Parag A. Pathak #17227 (IO   PE)
• Cross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs. Physician-Driven Markets
  Patricia M. Danzon and Michael F. Furukawa #17226 (HC   HE)
• School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina
  C. Kirabo Jackson #17225 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• House Price Booms and the Current Account
  Klaus Adam, Pei Kuang, and Albert Marcet #17224 (AP   IFM)
• The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance: The Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance
  Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, and Meryl I. Motika #17223 (AG   HE   LS)
• Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health
  Christopher R. Knittel, Douglas L. Miller, and Nicholas J. Sanders #17222 (CH   EEE   HE   PE)
• Conglomerate Industry Spanning
  Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips #17221 (CF   IO)
• Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices
  Charles J. Courtemanche and Art Carden #17220 (HE   IO)
• Sources of Entropy in Representative Agent Models
  David Backus, Mikhail Chernov, and Stanley E. Zin #17219 (AP)
• Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
  Philippe Belley, Marc Frenette, and Lance Lochner #17218 (ED   LS   PE)
• Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States
  Aparna Sawhney and Matthew E. Kahn #17217 (EEE   ITI)
• The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
  Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor #17216 (EFG)
• Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
  Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas J. Weiss #17215 (DAE)
• An Optimal Tax System
  Louis Kaplow #17214 (PE)
• Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?
  David Neumark, Hans P. Johnson, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia #17213 (AG   LS)
• Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing
  Pinka Chatterji, Sara Markowitz, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn #17212 (HE)

Week of July 11, 2011

• American Incomes before and after the Revolution
  Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson #17211 (DAE)
• Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
  Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna #17210 (CH   EEE   HE   LE   PE)
• State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790
  Farley Grubb #17209 (DAE)
• When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
  Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon R. Quinn, and Christopher Woodruff #17207 (PR)
• What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?
  Steven C.A. Pincus and James A. Robinson #17206 (DAE   POL)
• Vaccine Supply: Effects Of Regulation And Competition
  Patricia M. Danzon and Nuno S. Pereira #17205 (HC   HE)
• Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico
  Leonardo Iacovone, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller, and James R. Tybout #17204 (IO   ITI   PR)
• Economic Preparation for Retirement
  Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder #17203 (AG)
• Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
  Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. #17202 (CF   ITI   PE)
• International Recessions
  Fabrizio Perri and Vincenzo Quadrini #17201 (EFG   IFM)
• Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and “Green” Social Status
  Samuel Dastrup, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Dora L. Costa, and Matthew E. Kahn #17200 (EEE)
• The Behavior of Savings and Asset Prices When Preferences and Beliefs are Heterogeneous
  Ngoc-Khanh Tran and Richard J. Zeckhauser #17199 (AP   CF)
• The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance
  Carrie H. Colla, William H. Dow, and Arindrajit Dube #17198 (HC   HE   LS)
• Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle
  Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson #17197 (AP   CF   ME)
• The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions
  Alberto Bisin, Andrea Moro, and Giorgio Topa #17196 (CH   HE)
• Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action
  Georgiy Bobashev, Maureen L. Cropper, Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke, Stephen Hutton, and Mead Over #17195 (EEE)
• Pay for Percentile
  Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal #17194 (ED   LS)
• Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand
  Steven T. Berry, Amit Gandhi, and Philip Haile #17193 (IO   TWP)
• Negotiating with Labor Under Financial Distress
  Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman, and Ricardo Enriquez #17192 (CF   LS)
• Customer Capital
  Francois Gourio and Leena Rudanko #17191 (CF   EFG   IO   ME)
• The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year
  Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, and The Oregon Health Study Group #17190 (AG   HC   PE)
• Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment
  Paul J. Ferraro and Michael K. Price #17189 (EEE   PE)
• Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
  John F. Helliwell and Shun Wang #17180 (LS   PE)
• The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
  Neeraj Sood, Peter J. Huckfeldt, David C. Grabowski, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Jos� J. Escarce #17125 (HC)

Week of July 4, 2011

• Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  Lee G. Branstetter, Chirantan Chatterjee, and Matthew Higgins #17188 (PR   IO)
• What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
  Michael C. Burda and Jennifer Hunt #17187 (EFG   LS)
• The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
  Konrad B. Burchardi and Tarek Alexander Hassan #17186 (CF   DAE   ITI)
• Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
  Ama Baafra Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler, and Leigh L. Linden #17185 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
  Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou #17184 (IFM   POL)
• Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates
  Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #17183 (HC   HE)
• Regime Changes and Financial Markets
  Andrew Ang and Allan Timmermann #17182 (AP)
• Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
  Thomas Åstebro and Carlos J. Serrano #17181 (CF   PR)
• Clashing Theories of Unemployment
  Robert E. Hall #17179 (EFG)
• Innovation and Productivity
  Bronwyn H. Hall #17178 (PR)
• Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention
  Susanna Loeb, Demetra Kalogrides, and Tara Béteille #17177 (ED)
• How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement
  Matthew Ronfeldt, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #17176 (ED)
• Productivity Volatility and the Misallocation of Resources in Developing Economies
  Allan Collard-Wexler, John Asker, and Jan De Loecker #17175 (PR)
• Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement
  Patricia M. Danzon, Andrew W. Mulcahy, and Adrian K. Towse #17174 (HC   HE   IO)
• Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence
  Kory Kroft and Matthew J. Notowidigdo #17173 (LS   PE)
• Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets
  Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kühn, and John Van Reenen #17172 (IO   PR)

Week of June 27, 2011

• Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes
  John M. de Figueiredo #17171 (LE   PE   POL)
• Pounds that Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight
  Michael Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer #17170 (EEE   PE)
• Does Financial Constraint Affect Shareholder Taxes and the Cost of Equity Capital?
  Chongyang Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Douglas Shackelford, and Harold Zhang #17169 (AP   CF   PE)
• The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?
  Jonathan Gruber #17168 (HC   HE   PE)
• The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks
  Matthew J. Notowidigdo #17167 (LS)
• How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-century GI Bills
  Daniel K. Fetter #17166 (DAE)
• Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor
  Richard Akresh and Eric V. Edmonds #17165 (CH   ED)
• A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore, and Kosali I. Simon #17164 (HC   HE   LS   PE)
• A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception
  Andrew Caplin and Daniel Martin #17163 (TWP)
• Side Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets
  Guy David and Sara Markowitz #17162 (HC   HE   LE)
• Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees
  Joseph P. Ferrie, Karen Rolf, and Werner Troesken #17161 (DAE   HE)
• Smoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era
  Sara Markowitz, E. Kathleen Adams, Patricia M. Dietz, Viji Kannan, and Van Tong #17160 (CH   HC   HE)
• Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
  Stacy Dale and Alan B. Krueger #17159 (ED   LS)
• Human Capital and Regional Development
  Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #17158 (EFG   POL)
• Early Non-marital Childbearing and the "Culture of Despair"
  Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine #17157 (CH   LS)
• How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes
  John P. Papay, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #17120 (ED)

Week of June 20, 2011

• Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress
  Kerwin Charles and Jonathan Guryan #17156 (LS)
• Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South
  Elizabeth U. Cascio, Nora E. Gordon, and Sarah J. Reber #17155 (CH   DAE   ED   PE)
• What does Monetary Policy do to Long-Term Interest Rates at the Zero Lower Bound?
  Jonathan H. Wright #17154 (ME)
• Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups
  Arthur van Soest, Tatiana Andreyeva, Arie Kapteyn, and James P. Smith #17153 (AG   HE)
• A Functional Filtering and Neighborhood Truncation Approach to Integrated Quarticity Estimation
  Torben G. Andersen, Dobrislav Dobrev, and Ernst Schaumburg #17152 (AP)
• A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vivian Z. Yue #17151 (IFM)
• Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies
  Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor #17150 (AP   IFM   TWP)
• Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees
  Bryan T. Kelly, Hanno Lustig, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #17149 (AP   EFG)
• Dimensions of Health in the Elderly Population
  David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum #17148 (AG   HC)
• Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth and Politics in New York, 1791-1826
  Eric Hilt and Jacqueline Valentine #17147 (DAE   LE)
• Trade Credit Contracts
  Leora F. Klapper, Luc Laeven, and Raghuram Rajan #17146 (CF)
• Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis
  Stephen Coate #17145 (PE   POL)
• Financing Labor
  Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman, and Amit Seru #17144 (CF   EFG   LS   ME)
• Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
  Margaret S. McMillan and Dani Rodrik #17143 (ITI)
• Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity
  Lawrence Christiano and Daisuke Ikeda #17142 (EFG)
• Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
  Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen #17141 (IFM   ITI)
• Inference for VARs Identified with Sign Restrictions
  Hyungsik Roger Moon, Frank Schorfheide, Eleonora Granziera, and Mihye Lee #17140 (EFG   ME)
• Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
  Francesco D'Amuri and Giovanni Peri #17139 (LS)
• Disability Programs, Health and Retirement in Denmark since 1960
  Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen #17138 (AG   HE)
• Animal Spirits, Rational Bubbles and Unemployment in an Old-Keynesian Model
  Roger Farmer #17137 (EFG)
• A Pyrrhic Victory? - Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk
  Viral V. Acharya, Itamar Drechsler, and Philipp Schnabl #17136 (AP   CF   IFM)
• Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009
  Liana E. Fox, Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel #17135 (CH   LS   PE)
• Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply
  Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #17134 (AG   LS)
• Risk, Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate
  Gianluca Benigno, Pierpaolo Benigno, and Salvatore Nisticò #17133 (AP   EFG   IFM   ME)
• Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason
  Daniel Treisman #17132 (POL)
• Sharing the Burden: Monetary and Fiscal Responses to a World Liquidity Trap
  David Cook and Michael B. Devereux #17131 (IFM)
• An Estimation of Economic Models with Recursive Preferences
  Xiaohong Chen, Jack Favilukis, and Sydney C. Ludvigson #17130 (AP   EFG)
• Mobile Banking: The Impact of M-Pesa in Kenya
  Isaac Mbiti and David N. Weil #17129 (ME)
• Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments
  Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang #17127 (CF   LE)
• Price Setting in a Leading Swiss Online Supermarket
  Martin Berka, Michael B. Devereux, and Thomas Rudolph #17126 (IFM)
• Privacy and Innovation
  Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker #17124 (PR)
• Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?
  Richard C.K. Burdekin, Kris James Mitchener, and Marc D. Weidenmier #17123 (DAE   ME)
• Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments
  Yael V. Hochberg and Joshua D. Rauh #17122 (AP   CF)
• Global Crises and Equity Market Contagion
  Geert Bekaert, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, and Arnaud J. Mehl #17121 (AP   IFM)
• Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam
  Eric P. Bettinger, Brent J. Evans, and Devin G. Pope #17119 (ED   LS)

Week of June 13, 2011

• The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #17118 (   AG)
• Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport
  Anca D. Cristea, David Hummels, Laura Puzzello, and Misak G. Avetisyan #17117 (   ITI)
• The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium
  Charles Engel #17116 (   AP   IFM)
• A Model of Shadow Banking
  Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny #17115 (   AP   CF)
• Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye
  Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, and Sergio Perelman #17114 (   AG   PE)
• Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
  Nico Voigtlaender and Hans-Joachim Voth #17113 (   POL)
• High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
  John P. Papay, John B. Willett, and Richard J. Murnane #17112 (   ED)
• Fiscal Stimulus and Distortionary Taxation
  Thorsten Drautzburg and Harald Uhlig #17111 (   EFG)
• Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany
  Tabea Bucher-Koenen and Annamaria Lusardi #17110 (   AG)

Week of June 6, 2011

• Financial Literacy, Retirement Preparation and Pension Expectations in the Netherlands
  Rob J. Alessie, Maarten van Rooij, and Annamaria Lusardi #17109 (   AG)
• Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17108 (   AG)
• Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17107 (   AG)
• Institutional Comparative Statics
  James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik #17106 (   POL)
• Maternity Leave and Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Development
  Michael Baker and Kevin S. Milligan #17105 (   CH)
• Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement
  Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Dania V. Francis, and Christina M. Gibson-Davis #17104 (   CH)
• Americans' Financial Capability
  Annamaria Lusardi #17103 (   AG)
• Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
  Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman, and Peter Howitt #17102 (   EFG)
• Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data
  Emanuele Massetti and Robert Mendelsohn #17101 (   EEE)

Week of May 30, 2011

• International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?
  Nune Hovhannisyan and Wolfgang Keller #17100 (EFG   ITI   LS   PR)
• Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks’ Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting
  Ebonya L. Washington #17099 (LE   POL)
• On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
  Alberto F. Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn #17098 (CH   DAE   EFG   LS   POL)
• Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
  John D. Griffin, David Nickerson, and Abigail K. Wozniak #17097 (LS)
• Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States
  James Banks, Zoe Oldfield, and James P. Smith #17096 (AG   HE)
• Empirical Implementation of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models
  Daniel J. Henderson, John A. List, Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter, and Michael K. Price #17095 (EEE   IO)
• Life and Growth
  Charles I. Jones #17094 (EFG   HE   PR)
• How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns? Evidence from an Unusual Pay Reform in Israel's Kibbutzim
  Ran Abramitzky and Victor Lavy #17093 (CH   DAE   ED   LS   PE)
• Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. and African Agriculture
  Marshall Burke, John Dykema, David Lobell, Edward Miguel, and Shanker Satyanath #17092 (EEE)
• Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
  Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley #17091 (CF   ITI)
• Macroeconomic Regimes
  Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, Seonghoon Cho, Koen Inghelbrecht, and Antonio Moreno #17090 (AP      ME   IFM)
• Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement
  Sa A. Bui, Steven G. Craig, and Scott A. Imberman #17089 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
  David Card and Laura Giuliano #17088 (CH   LS)
• Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households
  Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and John M. Reilly #17087 (EEE   PE)
• Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy
  Gautam Gowrisankaran, Stanley S. Reynolds, and Mario Samano #17086 (EEE   IO   PR)
• The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education: Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment
  Philip DeCicca and Justin D. Smith #17085 (ED)
• Unemployment in an Estimated New Keynesian Model
  Jordi Galí, Frank Smets, and Rafael Wouters #17084 (EFG   ME)
• Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency
  Garth Heutel #17083 (EEE   PE)
• Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence
  Eduard Ponds, Clara Severinson, and Juan Yermo #17082 (PE)
• The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
  John Cawley and Christopher Ruhm #17081 (CH   ED   HC   HE   LE   LS   PE)
• Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany
  Axel H. Boersch-Supan and Hendrik Juerges #17079 (AG   LS)
• History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Cooperation
  Daron Acemoglu and Matthew O. Jackson #17066 (POL)

Week of May 23, 2011

• Monetary Policy Mistakes and the Evolution of Inflation Expectations
  Athanasios Orphanides and John Williams #17080 (POL)
• Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17078 (AG)
• The Outlook for Financial Literacy
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17077 (AG)
• A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
  Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel #17076 (ME   POL)
• Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
  Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos #17075 (EFG)
• Exchange Rates in Emerging Countries: Eleven Empirical Regularities from Latin America and East Asia
  Sebastian Edwards #17074 (IFM   ITI)
• Financial Protectionism: the First Tests
  Andrew K. Rose and Tomasz Wieladek #17073 (IFM)
• Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications
  Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, and Peter Tufano #17072 (AG)
• Is there a trade-off between inflation and output stabilization?
  Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti #17071 (EFG   ME)
• The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions
  Craig L. Garthwaite #17070 (CH   HC   HE   PE)
• Is Universal Health Care in Brazil Really Universal?
  Guido Cataife and Charles J. Courtemanche #17069 (HE)
• Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias
  Dhaval M. Dave, Jennifer Tennant, and Gregory J. Colman #17068 (HE)
• Is New Economic Geography Right? Evidence from Price Data
  Jessie Handbury and David E. Weinstein #17067 (ITI)
• Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide
  Christopher J. Mayer, Edward Morrison, Tomasz Piskorski, and Arpit Gupta #17065 (CF   PE)
• Recursive Contracts, Lotteries and Weakly Concave Pareto Sets
  Harold L. Cole and Felix Kubler #17064 (AP   CF   EFG)
• Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks
  R�diger Bachmann and Eric R. Sims #17063 (EFG   ME)
• Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
  Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan #17062 (POL)
• Are the Seeds of Bad Governance Sown in Good Times?
  Antoinette Schoar and Ebonya L. Washington #17061 (CF)
• Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations
  George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O #17060 (EFG   ME)
• Theft and Deterrence
  William T. Harbaugh, Naci H. Mocan, and Michael S. Visser #17059 (CH   HE   LE)
• Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
  Oded Galor #17058 (EFG)
• Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
  Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman #17051 (DAE   LE   LS   POL)
• An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
  N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl #17029 (ME)
• The Organization of R&D in American Corporations: The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization
  Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, and Luis A. Rios #17013 (PR)

Week of May 16, 2011

• The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
  Oded Galor #17057 (EFG)
• Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure
  Jörn-Steffen Pischke #17056 (LS)
• Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case
  Luc Behaghel, Didier Blanchet, Thierry Debrand, and Muriel Roger #17055 (AG   LS   PE)
• Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden
  Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme, and Ingemar Svensson #17054 (AG)
• Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands
  Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn, and Adriaan Kalwij #17053 (AG   LS)
• Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan: A Historical Perspective
  Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani #17052 (AG   PE)
• Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups
  Annamaria Conti, Marie C. Thursby, and Frank Rothaermel #17050 (PR)
• Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom
  James Banks, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio, and Carl Emmerson #17049 (AG   HE   PE)
• Health, Disability and Pathways to Retirement in Spain
  Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall Castelló #17048 (AG)
• The Role of Theory in Field Experiments
  David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, and Ulrike Malmendier #17047 (CH   ED   EEE   HC   HE   IO   LE   LS   PE   POL)
• Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less
  Peter J. Huckfeldt and Christopher R. Knittel #17046 (HC   HE   IO   PR)
• Land-price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations
  Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha #17045 (EFG   ME)
• Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession
  Laurence M. Ball and Sandeep Mazumder #17044 (EFG   ME)
• Incentives and the Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics
  John P. Conley, Mario J. Crucini, Robert A. Driskill, and Ali Sina Onder #17043 (LS   PR)
• An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States
  Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert A. Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz #17042 (LS   PE)
• Understanding Small Business Heterogeneity
  Erik Hurst and Benjamin Wild Pugsley #17041 (CF   EFG   IO   LS   PE   PR)
• Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historial Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010
  Henry S. Farber #17040 (LS)
• Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables
  Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti #17039 (CH   ED   LS)
• This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis
  Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Robert Prilmeier, and René M. Stulz #17038 (CF   ME)
• Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch
  Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor #17037 (EFG)
• Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?
  Anup Malani and Scott A. Baker #17036 (LE)

Week of May 9, 2011

• Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking
  Casey Rothschild and Florian Scheuer #17035 (PE)
• Are the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks Big or Small?
  Olivier Coibion #17034 (EFG   ME)
• Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods
  James Andreoni and Laura K. Gee #17033 (PE)
• The Hired Gun Mechanism
  James Andreoni and Laura K. Gee #17032 (PE)
• Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision
  Nicola Lacetera and Lorenzo Zirulia #17031 (PR)
• Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market
  Nicola Lacetera, Devin G. Pope, and Justin R. Sydnor #17030 (IO   PR)
• Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees
  Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman #17028 (LE)
• The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment
  Tarek A. Hassan and Thomas M. Mertens #17027 (AP   EFG)
• Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
  Francois Gourio #17026 (AP   CF   EFG   ME)
• Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security
  Jialun Li and Kent Smetters #17025 (AG   AP   PE)
• Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus
  Michael D. Bordo and Peter L. Rousseau #17024 (DAE   IFM   ME)
• The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker
  Steven D. Levitt and Thomas J. Miles #17023 (LE)
• The Quantification of Systemic Risk and Stability: New Methods and Measures
  Romney B. Duffey #17022 (PR)
• Credit Spreads and Business Cycle Fluctuations
  Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajšek #17021 (AP   EFG   ME)
• Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
  Ximena Cadena and Antoinette Schoar #17020 (IO)
• The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries
  Corbett A. Grainger and Christopher Costello #17019 (EEE)
• Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, and Olivia S. Mitchell #17018 (AG   PE)
• Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences
  Charles D. Kolstad #17017 (EEE   PE)
• Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70: A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005
  Joseph P. Ferrie and Karen Rolf #17016 (CH   DAE   LS)
• A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions
  Kent Smetters and Walter E. Theseira #17015 (AG   PE   POL)
• Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence
  Markus M. Mobius, Muriel Niederle, Paul Niehaus, and Tanya S. Rosenblat #17014 (LS)
• Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on External Aid and Local Collective Action
  Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, and Edward Miguel #17012 (LE   PE   POL)
• Can Medical Progress be Sustained? Implications of the Link Between Development and Output Markets
  Anup Malani and Tomas J. Philipson #17011 (HC   HE)
• Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers
  Mike Burkart, Denis Gromb, Holger M. Mueller, and Fausto Panunzi #17010 (CF)
• Estimates of Crowd-Out from a Public Health Insurance Expansion Using Administrative Data
  Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, Donna Friedsam, Daphne Kuo, Lindsey Leininger, Sarah Meier, and Kristen Voskuil #17009 (HE)
• Sustainability and its Measurement
  Geoffrey Heal #17008 (EEE   PE)
• Continuous Workout Mortgages
  Robert J. Shiller, Rafal M. Wojakowski, M. Shahid Ebrahim, and Mark B. Shackleton #17007 (AP)
• Durable Financial Regulation: Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions
  Leonard Nakamura #17006 (PE)
• Should Central Banks Raise their Inflation Targets? Some Relevant Issues
  Bennett T. McCallum #17005 (EFG   ME)

Week of May 2, 2011

• The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity
  Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Matthew J. Neidell #17004 (EEE   HE   LS   PR)
• Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov #17003 (ITI)
• Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
  Siqi Zheng and Matthew E. Kahn #17002 (EEE   PE)
• Negative Leakage
  Don Fullerton, Daniel Karney, and Kathy Baylis #17001 (EEE   PE)
• Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-the-counter Markets
  Viral V. Acharya and Alberto Bisin #17000 (AP)
• Household Debt and Saving During the 2007 Recession
  Rajashri Chakrabarti, Donghoon Lee, Wilbert van der Klaauw, and Basit Zafar #16999 (DAE)
• Systemic Risks and the Macroeconomy
  Gianni De Nicolò and Marcella Lucchetta #16998 (IFM)
• Quantile Regression with Censoring and Endogeneity
  Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, and Amanda E. Kowalski #16997 (PE   TWP)
• Shocks and Crashes
  Martin Lettau and Sydney C. Ludvigson #16996 (AP   EFG   ME)
• Cash Holdings and Credit Risk
  Viral V. Acharya, Sergei A. Davydenko, and Ilya A. Strebulaev #16995 (AP   CF)
• Illiquid Banks, Financial Stability, and Interest Rate Policy
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram Rajan #16994 (IFM   ME)
• The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions
  Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr #16993 (PR)
• China's Rising Demand for "Green Cities": Evidence from Cross-City Real Estate Price Hedonics
  Siqi Zheng, Jing Cao, and Matthew E. Kahn #16992 (EEE)
• Pensions in the 2000s: the Lost Decade?
  Edward N. Wolff #16991 (AG   PR)
• The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
  Amitabh Chandra, Anupam B. Jena, and Jonathan S. Skinner #16990 (HC   HE   PR)
• Unintended Media Effects in a Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism
  Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya #16989 (LS   PE   POL)
• Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Storable Goods Markets
  Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo #16988 (EFG   IO   ME   PR)
• The Cost of Fuel Economy in the Indian Passenger Vehicle Market
  Randy Chugh, Maureen L. Cropper, and Urvashi Narain #16987 (EEE)
• Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets: Problems and Solutions
  Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark #16986 (LS)
• Drowning or Weathering the Storm? Changes in Family Finances from 2007 to 2009
  Jesse Bricker, Brian K. Bucks, Arthur Kennickell, Traci L. Mach, and Kevin Moore #16985 (PE)
• Diversity and Technological Progress
  Daron Acemoglu #16984 (EFG)
• Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
  Petra Moser and Paul W. Rhode #16983 (DAE   PR)
• Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe
  Andrew Ang and Francis A. Longstaff #16982 (AP)
• A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
  Alberto F. Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara #16981 (LE)
• Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio
  Joshua Gans and Fiona E. Murray #16980 (PR)

Week of April 25, 2011

• Bank Finance Versus Bond Finance
  Fiorella De Fiore and Harald Uhlig #16979 (EFG   CF   ME)
• The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy
  Alan B. Krueger and Ilyana Kuziemko #16978 (HC   PE)
• How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
  Jason Brown, Mark Duggan, Ilyana Kuziemko, and William Woolston #16977 (AG   HC   PE)
• Stock Volatility During the Recent Financial Crisis
  G. William Schwert #16976 (AP)
• Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data
  Daniel Paravisini, Veronica Rappoport, Philipp Schnabl, and Daniel Wolfenzon #16975 (CF   IFM   ITI)
• What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices?
  Soren T. Anderson, Ryan Kellogg, and James M. Sallee #16974 (EEE   IO   PE)
• The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
  Daniel M. Hungerman #16973 (CH   ED   PE)
• Discount Rates
  John H. Cochrane #16972 (AP   EFG)
• Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges
  Maureen L. Cropper, James K. Hammitt, and Lisa A. Robinson #16971 (EEE)
• On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States
  Marco Bassetto and Leslie McGranahan #16970 (EFG)
• Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
  Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Stephen P. Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark R. Cullen #16969 (AG   HC   HE   IO   LS   PE)
• Public Policy, State Business Climates, and Economic Growth
  Jed Kolko, David Neumark, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia #16968 (EFG   LS   PE)
• Global retail lending in the aftermath of the US financial crisis: Distinguishing between supply and demand effects
  Manju Puri, Jörg Rocholl, and Sascha Steffen #16967 (CF   EFG   IFM   ME)
• Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"
  Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson #16966 (DAE   EFG   LS   POL)
• Household Leverage and the Recession
  Thomas Philippon and Virgiliu Midrigan #16965 (AP   EFG   ME)
• Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations
  Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang #16964 (ITI)
• Contracting for Impure Public Goods: Carbon Offsets and Additionality
  Charles Mason and Andrew Plantinga #16963 (EEE)

Week of April 18, 2011

• Market-specific and Currency-specific Risk During the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Interbank Markets in Tokyo and London
  Shin-ichi Fukuda #16962 (IFM)
• Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
  Shawn D. Bushway, Emily G. Owens, and Anne Morrison Piehl #16961 (LE)
• Trade Liberalization and Firm Dynamics
  Ariel Burstein and Marc J. Melitz #16960 (IFM   ITI)
• Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters
  Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz, and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano #16959 (ITI)
• Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises
  Gita Gopinath and Brent Neiman #16958 (EFG   IFM   ITI   PR)
• Consumption Smoothing and Portfolio Rebalancing: The Effects of Adjustment Costs
  Yosef Bonaparte, Russell Cooper, and Guozhong Zhu #16957 (EFG)
• The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a Zero Lower Bound Environment
  James D. Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu #16956 (AP   ME   PE)
• Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan
  Daniel Bennett, Chun-Fang Chiang, and Anup Malani #16955 (HE   PE)
• Tipping Climate Negotiations
  Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther #16954 (EEE)
• Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
  Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan S. Skinner #16953 (AG   HC   HE   PR)
• Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
  Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu #16952 (AP   DAE   POL)
• Foresight and Information Flows
  Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker, and Shu-Chun Susan Yang #16951 (EFG)
• Why Surplus Consumption in the Habit Model May be Less Persistent than You Think
  Anthony W. Lynch and Oliver Randall #16950 (AP)
• How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
  Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitzewitz #16949 (AP   LE   LS   POL)
• Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China
  Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao #16948 (PE   POL)
• Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide
  Alejandro Artopoulos, Daniel Friel, and Juan Carlos Hallak #16947 (ITI)
• U.S. Intervention During the Bretton Woods Era: 1962-1973
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #16946 (DAE   ME)
• Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program
  James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh, and Adam Yavitz #16935 (CH   TWP)

Week of April 11, 2011

• A Solution to Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #16945 (EFG   IFM   PE)
• Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace: An Experiment
  Ximena Cadena, Antoinette Schoar, Alexandra Cristea, and Héber M. Delgado-Medrano #16944 (IO)
• The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
  Thomas F. Hellmann and Enrico C. Perotti #16943 (PR)
• Carry Trade and Momentum in Currency Markets
  Craig Burnside, Martin S. Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #16942 (AP   EFG)
• Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising
  Isil Erel, Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim, and Michael S. Weisbach #16941 (AP   CF   IFM   ME)
• Exports and Credit Constraints Under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China
  Robert C. Feenstra, Zhiyuan Li, and Miaojie Yu #16940 (ITI)
• Education as Liberation?
  Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton #16939 (ED   POL)
• An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700
  Robert W. Fogel and Nathaniel Grotte #16938 (DAE   HE)
• Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
  Jonathan R. Clark and Robert Huckman #16937 (HC   PR)
• An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains
  Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel, and Su Wang #16936 (ITI)
• Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
  Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, and Kristina Tobio #16934 (EFG)
• Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
  Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente, and Vincent Pons #16933 (CH)
• Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing?
  Daria Burnes, David Neumark, and Michelle J. White #16932 (LS   PE)
• Testable Implications of Affine Term Structure Models
  James D. Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu #16931 (AP   ME)
• Information Shocks and Social Networks
  David N. Figlio, Sarah Hamersma, and Jeffrey Roth #16930 (CH)
• Noncontractible Investments and Reference Points
  Oliver D. Hart #16929 (CF   LE)
• Efficient Estimation of Data Combination Models by the Method of Auxiliary-to-Study Tilting (AST)
  Bryan S. Graham, Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto, and Daniel Egel #16928 (LS   TWP)
• The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
  Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia, and Erdal Tekin #16927 (HC   HE)
• Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effect
  Jill R. Horwitz and Austin Nichols #16926 (HC   HE)
• Trade, Exchange Rate Regimes and Output Co-Movement: Evidence from the Great Depression
  Gabriel P. Mathy and Christopher M. Meissner #16925 (DAE   IFM   ME)
• Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession
  Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote, Dirk Krueger, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull #16924 (EFG)
• The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital
  Laura Bottazzi, Marco Da Rin, and Thomas F. Hellmann #16923 (CF)
• The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
  Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman #16922 (CF)
• Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits
  Martin Feldstein, Daniel Feenberg, and Maya MacGuineas #16921 (PE)

Week of April 4, 2011

• Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Christian Helmers #16920 (EEE   PR)
• When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence and Implications for China
  Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, and Kwanho Shin #16919 (IFM)
• With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
  Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier #16918 (CF   LS   PR)
• Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
  Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, and John Eric Humphries #16917 (CH)
• The U.S. Left Behind: The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World
  Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, and René M. Stulz #16916 (CF   IFM)
• The Effects of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Entry Rates and Time Spent in Foster Care
  Sara Markowitz, Alison Evans Cuellar, Ryan M. Conrad, and Michael Grossman #16915 (CH   HC   HE)
• School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups
  Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches #16914 (ED)
• Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings: A Summary and Interpretation
  Michael Greenstone, Elizabeth Kopits, and Ann Wolverton #16913 (EEE   PE)
• The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
  J. William Ambrosini, Karin Mayr, Giovanni Peri, and Dragos Radu #16912 (ITI   LS)
• A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
  Xavier Gabaix #16911 (AP   EFG   LE   ME)
• Personality Psychology and Economics
  Mathilde Almlund, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, and Tim D. Kautz #16822 (CH   ED)

Week of March 28, 2011

• The Great Inflation: Did the Shadow Know Better?
  William Poole, Robert H. Rasche, and David C. Wheelock #16910 (ME)
• Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Jinhu Li, Jeremiah Hurley, Philip DeCicca, and Gioia Buckley #16909 (HC   HE)
• Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience
  John A. List #16908 (EEE   PE)
• The Promise of Beijing: Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
  Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin, Naresh Kumar, and Guang Shi #16907 (IO)
• Generalized Transform Analysis of Affine Processes and Applications in Finance
  Hui Chen and Scott Joslin #16906 (AP)
• Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints
  Kalina Manova, Shang-Jin Wei, and Zhiwei Zhang #16905 (IFM   ITI)
• Factor Prices and International Trade: A Unifying Perspective
  Ariel Burstein and Jonathan Vogel #16904 (EFG   IFM   ITI)
• Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis
  Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira #16903 (AP   ME)
• Discussion Sessions Coupled with Microfinancing May Enhance the Role of Women in Household Decision-Making in Burundi
  Radha Iyengar and Giulia Ferrari #16902 (LS)
• HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa
  James A. Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren, Olive Shisana, and Khangelani Zuma #16901 (HE   LS)
• Economics of Individualization in Comparative Effectiveness Research and a Basis for a Patient-Centered Health Care
  Anirban Basu #16900 (HC   HE)
• Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies
  Patrick Bolton and Olivier Jeanne #16899 (CF   IFM   PE)
• The Short of It: Investor Sentiment and Anomalies
  Robert F. Stambaugh, Jianfeng Yu, and Yu Yuan #16898 (AP)
• Workday, Holiday and Calendar Adjustment with 21st Century Data: Monthly Aggregates from Daily Diesel Fuel Purchases
  Edward E. Leamer #16897 (TWP)

Week of March 21, 2011

• Dividends and Bank Capital in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
  Viral V. Acharya, Irvind Gujral, Nirupama Kulkarni, and Hyun Song Shin #16896 (CF)
• Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices
  Barbara M. Fraumeni #16895 (LS   PR)
• Identification and Estimation in Discrete Choice Demand Models when Endogenous Variables Interact with the Error
  Amit Gandhi, Kyoo il Kim, and Amil Petrin #16894 (IO   TWP)
• The Liquidation of Government Debt
  Carmen M. Reinhart and M. Belen Sbrancia #16893 (IFM   ME)
• An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Government Bonds
  Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira #16892 (AP   ME)
• Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #16891 (EFG   LS   PE   POL)
• Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 A Success ... And for the Poor?
  Lisa Cook #16890 (ME)
• What Explains the Lagged Investment Effect?
  Janice C. Eberly, Sergio Rebelo, and Nicolas Vincent #16889 (EFG)
• Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates
  Shamena Anwar and Hanming Fang #16888 (HC   HE   LE   LS   PE)
• When a Nudge Isn't Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers
  Erin Todd Bronchetti, Thomas S. Dee, David B. Huffman, and Ellen Magenheim #16887 (PE)
• Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses
  Cristian Pop-Eleches and Miguel Urquiola #16886 (CH   ED)
• What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
  Victor Lavy #16885 (CH   ED   LS)
• Simple Variance Swaps
  Ian Martin #16884 (AP)
• Monetary Policy as Financial-Stability Regulation
  Jeremy C. Stein #16883 (CF   ME)
• Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster
  Joel Waldfogel #16882 (IO   LE)
• A Primer on the Economics of Prescription Pharmaceutical Pricing in Health Insurance Markets
  Ernst R. Berndt, Thomas G. McGuire, and Joseph P. Newhouse #16879 (HE   IO)
• Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939: A Statistical History.
  Gary Richardson and Michael Gou #16872 (DAE)

Week of March 14, 2011

• The Effects of Student Coaching in College: An Evaluation of a Randomized Experiment in Student Mentoring
  Eric Bettinger and Rachel Baker #16881 (ED)
• A Roy Model of Social Interactions
  Steve Cicala, Roland G. Fryer, Jr., and Jörg L. Spenkuch #16880 (CH   ED   LS)
• The Possibilities For Global Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing
  James B. Davies, Xiaojun Shi, and John Whalley #16878 (EEE)
• The Effect of Evaluation on Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Achievement Data of Mid-career Teachers
  Eric S. Taylor and John H. Tyler #16877 (ED)
• Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
  Wehn-Jyuan Tsai, Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou, and Michael Grossman #16876 (CH   ED   LS)
• Limits to Arbitrage and Hedging: Evidence from Commodity Markets
  Viral V. Acharya, Lars A. Lochstoer, and Tarun Ramadorai #16875 (AP   CF)
• Adoptive Expectations: Rising Sons in Japanese Family Firms
  Vikas Mehrotra, Randall Morck, Jungwook Shim, and Yupana Wiwattanakantang #16874 (CF)
• Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity
  Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #16873 (CH   ED   HE)
• Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939: A Statistical History.
  Gary Richardson and Michael Gou #16872 (DAE)
• Monetary and Fiscal Stimuli, Ownership Structure, and China's Housing Market
  Yongheng Deng, Randall Morck, Jing Wu, and Bernard Yeung #16871 (CF)
• Finance and Governance in Developing Economies
  Randall Morck #16870 (CF)
• Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major
  Todd R. Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner #16869 (ED)
• Can Psychological Aggregation Manipulations Affect Portfolio Risk-Taking? Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #16868 (AG   AP)
• Global Liquidity Trap
  Ippei Fujiwara, Tomoyuki Nakajima, Nao Sudo, and Yuki Teranishi #16867 (EFG)
• Policies to Encourage Job Creation: Hiring Credits vs. Worker Subsidies
  David Neumark #16866 (LS)
• Asset Prices, Credit Growth, Monetary and Other Policies: An Australian Case Study
  Paul Bloxham, Christopher Kent, and Michael Robson #16845 (ME)

Week of March 7, 2011

• From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects
  Scott E. Carrell, Bruce I. Sacerdote, and James E. West #16865 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the US Economy, 1958 to 2007
  Edward N. Wolff #16864 (PR)
• Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions
  Justin Marion and Erich Muehlegger #16863 (EEE   PE)
• Uncertainty Business Cycles - Really?
  Rüdiger Bachmann and Christian Bayer #16862 (EFG)
• Investment Dispersion and the Business Cycle
  Rüdiger Bachmann and Christian Bayer #16861 (EFG)
• The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets With Imperfect Enforcement
  Hilary Sigman and Howard F. Chang #16860 (EEE   LE)
• The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes
  Vivian Y. Wu and Yu-Chu Shen #16859 (HC)
• Exposure to Food Advertising On Television: Associations With Children’s Fast Food and Soft Drink Consumption and Obesity
  Tatiana Andreyeva, Inas Rashad Kelly, and Jennifer L. Harris #16858 (HE)
• Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth: Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects
  Dalton Conley and Jason Alan Thompson #16857 (AG   HC   HE)
• Mother's Schooling, Fertility, and Children's Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Victor Lavy and Alexander Zablotsky #16856 (CH   ED   LS)
• Learning by Doing with Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Prosper.com
  Seth M. Freedman and Ginger Zhe Jin #16855 (IO)
• Does Price Reveal Poor-Quality Drugs? Evidence from 17 Countries
  Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Aparna Mathur #16854 (IO)
• Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity
  Jeremy T. Fox and Valérie Smeets #16853 (IO   LS   PR)
• The Economics of Internet Markets
  Jonathan D. Levin #16852 (IO)
• Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions
  Susan Athey, Dominic Coey, and Jonathan Levin #16851 (IO   PE)
• Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools
  Roland G. Fryer #16850 (ED   LS)
• Did Securitization Affect the Cost of Corporate Debt?
  Taylor D. Nadauld and Michael S. Weisbach #16849 (CF)
• Wealth Effects Revisited 1978-2009
  Karl E. Case, John M. Quigley, and Robert J. Shiller #16848 (EFG)
• Pegs and Pain
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe #16847 (EFG   IFM   ME)
• Industrial Actions in Schools: Strikes and Student Achievement
  Michael Baker #16846 (ED   LS)
• Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
  Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, and Enrico Moretti #16844 (CH   EEE   HC   HE   PE)
• Dynamics of Entrepreneurship under Incomplete Markets
  Chong Wang, Neng Wang, and Jinqiang Yang #16843 (AP   CF   EFG)
• The Economics of Hedge Funds: Alpha, Fees, Leverage, and Valuation
  Yingcong Lan, Neng Wang, and Jinqiang Yang #16842 (AP   CF)
• The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality
  James J. Heckman #16841 (CH   ED)

Week of February 28, 2011

• Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? Results from the SCF and PSID
  Edward N. Wolff and Maury Gittleman #16840 (PR)
• Cross-Country Comparisons of Corporate Income Taxes
  Kevin S. Markle and Douglas A. Shackelford #16839 (PE)
• The Geography of Fear
  Daniel Treisman #16838 (POL)
• Procyclicality and Monetary Aggregates
  Hyun Song Shin and Kwanho Shin #16836 (EFG)
• Does Less Income Mean Less Representation?
  Eric J. Brunner, Stephen Ross, and Ebonya L. Washington #16835 (POL)
• Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth and Trade
  John Sutton and Daniel Trefler #16834 (ITI)
• Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004
  Robert A. Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk #16833 (PE)
• Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus
  Jess Benhabib, Alejandro Corvalan, and Mark M. Spiegel #16832 (EFG   POL)
• Free vs. Controlled Migration: Bilateral Country Study
  Assaf Razin and Jackline Wahba #16831 (IFM)
• School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
  Jishnu Das, Stefan Dercon, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan, Karthik Muralidharan, and Venkatesh Sundararaman #16830 (CH   ED   PE)
• New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment: Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 2.3 Million Americans
  John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang #16829 (EFG   LS   PE)
• Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
  Chadwick C. Curtis, Steven Lugauer, and Nelson C. Mark #16828 (IFM)
• A Decade of Debt
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #16827 (IFM   ME)
• Life Shocks and Homelessness
  Marah A. Curtis, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, and Nancy Reichman #16826 (HE)
• "To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking": How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision
  Eugene N. White #16825 (DAE   ME)
• Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel Era: An Examination of the Linkage Between Energy and Agricultural Markets
  Thomas W. Hertel and Jayson Beckman #16824 (EEE)
• The Diversity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: An Application to Antipsychotics
  Anna A. Levine Taub, Anton Kolotilin, Robert S. Gibbons, and Ernst R. Berndt #16823 (HC   HE   PR)
• The Unofficial Economy in Africa
  Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer #16821 (POL)
• The Geography of Crowdfunding
  Ajay K. Agrawal, Christian Catalini, and Avi Goldfarb #16820 (PR)
• Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies
  Eric M. Leeper and Todd B. Walker #16819 (EFG)
• Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process
  Aaron Edlin and Joseph Farrell #16818 (IO   LE)
• Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago
  C. Kirabo Jackson #16817 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Learning, Large Deviations and Rare Events
  Jess Benhabib and Chetan Dave #16816 (EFG)
• Pride Goes Before a Fall: Federal Reserve Policy and Asset Markets
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart #16815 (IFM   ME)

Week of February 21, 2011

• Stock Option Exercise and Gift Exchange Relationships: Evidence for a Large US Company
  Peter Cappelli and Martin J. Conyon #16814 (   LS)
• The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Computations Using Data from Ghana
  Yaw Nyarko #16813 (   LS)
• Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms
  Carola Frydman and Raven S. Molloy #16812 (   CF   DAE   LS   PE)
• The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan
  Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, and Jin-Tan Liu #16811 (   HE)
• Advances in Consumption-Based Asset Pricing: Empirical Tests
  Sydney C. Ludvigson #16810 (   AP   EFG)
• Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
  Jeffrey G. Williamson #16809 (   DAE)
• Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management
  Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen, and Neng Wang #16808 (   AP   CF)
• Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?
  Mark A. Aguiar and Mark Bils #16807 (   EFG)
• The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Welfare Implications
  Andrei A. Levchenko and Jing Zhang #16806 (   IFM   ITI   PR)
• Capital Controls: Myth and Reality - A Portfolio Balance Approach
  Nicolas E. Magud, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff #16805 (   IFM   ME)
• Cream Skimming in Financial Markets
  Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos, and Jose A. Scheinkman #16804 (   CF)
• The Impact of Early Occupational Choice On Health Behaviors
  Inas Rashad Kelly, Dhaval M. Dave, Jody L. Sindelar, and William T. Gallo #16803 (   HE)
• New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply
  Mimi Engel and Brian A. Jacob #16802 (   CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Hedge Fund Leverage
  Andrew Ang, Sergiy Gorovyy, and Gregory B. van Inwegen #16801 (   AP)
• Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People�s Republic of China
  Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang #16800 (   EFG   IFM   LS)
• Temporarily Unstable Government Debt and Inflation
  Troy Davig and Eric M. Leeper #16799 (   EFG)
• Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences
  Janet Currie #16798 (   CH   EEE   HE   LS   PE)
• Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers
  Jan K. Brueckner and David Neumark #16797 (   LS)
• The Elasticity of Trade: Estimates and Evidence
  Ina Simonovska and Michael E. Waugh #16796 (   ITI)
• Why Do Some People Want to Legalize Cannabis Use?
  Jenny Williams, Jan C. van Ours, and Michael Grossman #16795 (   HE)
• Occupational Status and Health Transitions
  G. Brant Morefield, David C. Ribar, and Christopher J. Ruhm #16794 (   HC   HE   LS   PE)
• Higher Order Properties of the Wild Bootstrap Under Misspecification
  Patrick M. Kline and Andres Santos #16793 (   TWP)
• The Economics of State and Local Public Pensions
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Robert Clark, and Joshua Rauh #16792 (   AG   PE)
• Who Is (More) Rational?
  Syngjoo Choi, Shachar Kariv, Wieland M�ller, and Dan Silverman #16791 (   PE)
• Historical Oil Shocks
  James D. Hamilton #16790 (   EEE   EFG)
• International Risk Sharing in the Short Run and in the Long Run
  Marianne Baxter #16789 (   IFM)

Week of February 14, 2011

• Sex Ratios and Exchange Rates
  Qingyuan Du and Shang-Jin Wei #16788 (AP   IFM)
• Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession
  Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward J. Kane, and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez #16787 (CF   IFM   ME   PE   POL)
• The Effects of Tax Shocks on Output: Not So Large, But Not Small Either
  Roberto Perotti #16786 (EFG   PE)
• Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends?
  Yi Qian #16785 (IO   PR)
• Speculators and Middlemen: The Role of Flippers in the Housing Market
  Patrick Bayer, Christopher Geissler, and James W. Roberts #16784 (EFG   PE)
• School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation
  Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez #16783 (ED   LS   PE)
• Fiscal Fatigue, Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability in Advanced Economies
  Atish R. Ghosh, Jun I. Kim, Enrique G. Mendoza, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Mahvash S. Qureshi #16782 (IFM)
• Estimation and Evaluation of DSGE Models: Progress and Challenges
  Frank Schorfheide #16781 (EFG   ME)
• The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda
  Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano #16780 (CF   PR)
• Net Fiscal Stimulus During the Great Recession
  Joshua Aizenman and Gurnain Kaur Pasricha #16779 (IFM   PE)
• A Global View of Productivity Growth in China
  Chang-Tai Hsieh and Ralph Ossa #16778 (IFM   ITI   PR)
• Margin-Based Asset Pricing and Deviations from the Law of One Price
  Nicolae Gârleanu and Lasse Heje Pedersen #16777 (AP   EFG   ME)
• Rethinking America's Illegal Drug Policy
  John J. Donohue III, Benjamin Ewing, and David Peloquin #16776 (LE)
• Targeted Transfers and the Fiscal Response to the Great Recession
  Hyunseung Oh and Ricardo Reis #16775 (EFG   ME   PE)
• Transition to FDI Openness: Reconciling Theory and Evidence
  Ellen R. McGrattan #16774 (AP   EFG)
• The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates
  Jin Young Lee and Gary Solon #16773 (LE   LS)
• Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
  Katherine Baicker and Jonathan S. Skinner #16772 (HC   HE   PE)
• Why Are Saving Rates so High in China?
  Dennis Tao Yang, Junsen Zhang, and Shaojie Zhou #16771 (EFG

Week of February 7, 2011

• The Cross-Section of Hurdle Rates for Capital Budgeting: An Empirical Analysis of Survey Data
  Ravi Jagannathan, Iwan Meier, and Vefa Tarhan #16770 (AP   CF)
• Saints Marching In, 1590-2009
  Robert J. Barro and Rachel M. McCleary #16769 (EFG   LS   PE)
• Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?
  Don Fullerton, Garth Heutel, and Gilbert E. Metcalf #16768 (EEE   PE)
• Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The Implications of China's "Special Characteristics"
  Luosha Du, Ann Harrison, and Gary Jefferson #16767 (EEE   ITI)
• Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs
  Efraim Benmelech, Jennifer Dlugosz, and Victoria Ivashina #16766 (CF)
• Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process
  Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi #16765 (POL)
• Investor and Central Bank Uncertainty and Fear Measures Embedded in Index Options
  Alexander David and Pietro Veronesi #16764 (AP   EFG   ME)
• The Promise and Performance of the Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort 1914-1933
  Michael D. Bordo and David C. Wheelock #16763 (DAE   ME)
• The Value of Terroir: Hedonic Estimation of Vineyard Sale Prices
  Robin Cross, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Robert N. Stavins #16762 (EEE)
• Financial Integration, Entrepreneurial Risk and Global Imbalances
  George-Marios Angeletos and Vasia Panousi #16761 (IFM)
• The Distribution of the Size of Price Changes
  Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon #16760 (IFM)
• Did the Stimulus Stimulate? Real Time Estimates of the Effects of the American Readjustment and Recovery Act
  James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote #16759 (EFG   ME)
• Unconventional Fiscal Policy at the Zero Bound
  Isabel Correia, Emmanuel Farhi, Juan Pablo Nicolini, and Pedro Teles #16758 (EFG   ME)
• The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
  Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta #16757 (IFM)
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
  Lee J. Alston and Krister Andersson #16756 (EEE   LE   PE   POL)
• Monetary Policy Strategy: Lessons from the Crisis
  Frederic S. Mishkin #16755 (EFG   ME)
• Currency and Financial Crises of the 1990s and 2000s
  Assaf Razin and Steven Rosefielde #16754 (IFM)

Week of January 31, 2011

• The Network Structure of International Trade
  Thomas Chaney #16753 (ITI)
• Deposit Insurance Without Commitment: Wall St. Versus Main St
  Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf #16752 (EFG)
• Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle
  Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan #16751 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Bubbly Liquidity
  Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole #16750 (EFG   ME)
• Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle
  Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning #16749 (EFG   PE)
• Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
  Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Alexandra Killewald #16748 (AG   EFG   LS   PE)
• Investment-Based Momentum Profits
  Laura Xiaolei Liu and Lu Zhang #16747 (AP   CF   EFG)
• Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED
  Vilsa E. Curto and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. #16746 (ED   LS)
• Under Pressure: Job Security, Resource Allocation, and Productivity in Schools Under NCLB
  Randall Reback, Jonah Rockoff, and Heather L. Schwartz #16745 (ED)
• On the Persistent Financial Losses of U.S. Airlines: A Preliminary Exploration
  Severin Borenstein #16744 (IO   EFG)
• Sale Rates and Price Movements in Art Auctions
  Orley C. Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy #16743 (IO)
• Misallocation, Economic Growth, and Input-Output Economics
  Charles I. Jones #16742 (EFG   PR)
• The Long Slump
  Robert E. Hall #16741 (EFG)
• How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors
  Justine S. Hastings and Olivia S. Mitchell #16740 (AG   LS)
• Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry
  Li Gan and Manuel A. Hernandez #16739 (IO   LE)
• A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Insurance Demand
  Li Gan, Feng Huang, and Adalbert Mayer #16738 (AG   HC   HE)
• Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: The Role of Implementation and Enforcement
  Hans B. Christensen, Luzi Hail, and Christian Leuz #16737 (AP   CF   LE   POL)
• Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
  Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr #16736 (LS   PR)
• Transaction Cost Regulation
  Pablo T. Spiller #16735 (LE   POL)
• Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets
  Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #16734 (AP   EFG)
• Learning Versus Stealing: How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
  Ann E. Harrison, Leslie A. Martin, and Shanthi Nataraj #16733 (EEE   ITI)
• Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects
  Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn #16732 (EEE)
• Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
  Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver #16730 (LS)
• Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference Between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities
  Raj Chetty, Adam Guren, Dayanand S. Manoli, and Andrea Weber #16729 (EFG   LS   PE)
• Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #16728 (AG)
• Informational Rents, Macroeconomic Rents, and Efficient Bailouts
  Thomas Philippon and Philipp Schnabl #16727 (CF   EFG   ME   PE)
• Credit Spreads as Predictors of Real-Time Economic Activity: A Bayesian Model-Averaging Approach
  Jon Faust, Simon Gilchrist, Jonathan H. Wright, and Egon Zakrajsek #16725 (ME)
• Liquidity Mergers
  Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello, and Dirk Hackbarth #16724 (CF)
• Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures
  Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein #16723 (AG   HC   IO   PE)
• Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship
  Lance Lochner #16722 (CH   ED   HE   LS   PE   POL)
• Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA
  William Jack and Tavneet Suri #16721 (PR)
• Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange
  Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth #16720 (HC)
• Social Security and Retirement around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summary
  Kevin S. Milligan and David A. Wise #16719 (AG)

Week of January 24, 2011

• Fertility and the Plough
  Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn #16718 (POL)
• Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
  Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca, and John Van Reenen #16717 (EFG   IO   ITI   LS   PR)
• Risk Response in Agriculture
  Jeffrey LaFrance, Rulon Pope, and Jesse Tack #16716 (AP   PR   TWP)
• Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?
  Ori Heffetz and John A. List #16715 (EEE   PE)
• Forecasts in a Slightly Misspecified Finite Order VAR
  Ulrich K. Müller and James H. Stock #16714 (TWP)
• Assessing China's Top-Down Securities Markets
  William T. Allen and Han Shen #16713 (LE)
• What Does Futures Market Interest Tell Us about the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices?
  Harrison Hong and Motohiro Yogo #16712 (AP   IFM)
• The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models
  Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher #16711 (CH   ED   HE)
• The Design of Performance Pay in Education
  Derek Neal #16710 (ED   LS)
• Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance
  Ethan Ligon #16709 (PR)
• One-node Quadrature Beats Monte Carlo: A Generalized Stochastic Simulation Algorithm
  Kenneth Judd, Lilia Maliar, and Serguei Maliar #16708 (EFG   TWP)
• Why Are Target Interest Rate Changes So Persistent?
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #16707 (EFG   IFM   ME)
• Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy: A Non-parametric Approach
  Rachael E. Goodhue and Carlo Russo #16706 (EEE   IO)
• Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment
  Bruce A. Blonigen and Jeremy Piger #16704 (ITI)
• Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy
  Don Fullerton #16703 (EEE   PE)
• White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
  Leah Platt Boustan and Robert A. Margo #16702 (DAE)
• Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners' Mobility
  Sam Schulhofer-Wohl #16701 (EFG   PE)
• The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
  Amil Petrin, T. Kirk White, and Jerome P. Reiter #16700 (IO   PR)

Week of January 17, 2011

• How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
  Steven Sexton and David Zilberman #16699 (EEE)
• Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature
  Patrick L. Hill, Brent W. Roberts, Jeffrey T. Grogger, Jonathan Guryan, and Karen Sixkiller #16698 (LE)
• Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices
  Xiaoguang Chen, Haixiao Huang, Madhu Khanna, and Hayri Önal #16697 (EEE)
• Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies
  Pierre-André Chiappori, Krislert Samphantharak, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, and Robert M. Townsend #16696 (AP   EFG)
• Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption
  Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, and Wolfram Schlenker #16695 (EEE   HE)
• Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior
  Roger H. Gordon and Wei Li #16694 (PE)
• The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies
  Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra, and François Ortalo-Magné #16693 (PE   POL)
• Investigating the Dynamic Effects of Counterfeits with a Random Changepoint Simultaneous Equation Model
  Yi Qian and Hui Xie #16692 (PR)
• Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
  Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Luigi Guiso, and Raffaella Sadun #16691 (PR)
• Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of AMI Population 1996-2005
  Yu-Chu Shen and Renee Y. Hsia #16690 (HC)
• Partnership Law and Credit Availability
  Howard Bodenhorn #16689 (DAE)
• Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach
  Charles W. Calomiris, Joseph Mason, and David Wheelock #16688 (DAE   EFG   ME)
• Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives
  Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard, Gary Charness, John Hartman, and Heather Royer #16687 (HC   HE)
• Rebalancing and the Chinese VAT: Some Numerical Simulation Results
  Chunding Li and John Whalley #16686 (ITI)
• Foreclosures, House Prices, and the Real Economy
  Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi #16685 (EFG)
• Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
  Jonathan A. Parker, Nicholas S. Souleles, David S. Johnson, and Robert McClelland #16684 (EFG   ME   PE)
• The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Bhaven N. Sampat #16683 (PR)
• A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars
  Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Pierre Yared #16682 (EFG   POL)
• Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area
  Peter N. Ireland #16681 (ME)
• Best Prices
  Judith A. Chevalier and Anil K Kashyap #16680 (EFG   IO   ME)
• Revisiting Instrumental Variables and the Classic Control Function Approach, with Implications for Parametric and Non-Parametric Regressions
  Kyoo il Kim and Amil Petrin #16679 (TWP)
• Economics, History, and Causation
  Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung #16678 (CF)
• U.S. International Equity Investment and Past and Prospective Returns
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Charles P. Thomas, Francis E. Warnock, and Jon Wongswan #16677 (IFM)

Week of January 10, 2011

• Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
  Jesse Ellis, Sara B. Moeller, Frederik P. Schlingemann, and René M. Stulz #16676 (CF)
• The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets
  James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise #16675 (AG)
• The Role of Currency Realignments in Eliminating the US and China Current Account Imbalances
  Martin S. Feldstein #16674 (IFM)
• Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous
  Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin F. Butcher, Elizabeth U. Cascio, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #16673 (CH   HE)
• Gravity Chains: Estimating Bilateral Trade Flows When Parts And Components Trade Is Important
  Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni #16672 (ITI)
• The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
  Dalton Conley and Jennifer Heerwig #16671 (   CH   LS   PE)
• Tax Competition and Migration: The Race-to-the-Bottom Hypothesis Revisited
  Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka #16670 (IFM)
• Insurance Mandates and Mammography
  Marianne P. Bitler and Christopher S. Carpenter #16669 (HC   HE)
• International Happiness
  David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald #16668 (HE   LS)
• Kosher Pork
  Allan Drazen and Ethan Ilzetzki #16667 (IFM   POL)
• Trade and the Global Recession
  Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, Brent Neiman, and John Romalis #16666 (EFG   IFM   ITI   PR)
• Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present
  William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo #16665 (DAE)
• Long-run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments
  Rucker C. Johnson #16664 (CH   LS)
• Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan
  Julie Berry Cullen, Mark C. Long, and Randall Reback #16663 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Trade and Labor Market Outcomes
  Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, and Stephen Redding #16662 (ITI)
• Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa
  Murray Leibbrandt and James Levinsohn #16661 (ITI)
• International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms
  Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo #16660 (ITI)
• Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training
  Dhaval M. Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, and Dhiman Das #16659 (ED   HE   PE)
• Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
  Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, and John Roberts #16658 (EFG   IO   LS   PR)
• The Propagation of Regional Recessions
  James D. Hamilton and Michael T. Owyang #16657 (EFG)
• A Structural Approach to Market Definition With an Application to the Hospital Industry
  Martin Gaynor, Samuel A. Kleiner, and William B. Vogt #16656 (HC)
• Valuing the Benefits of Superfund Site Remediation: Three Approaches to Measuring Localized Externalities
  Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Ralph Mastromonaco, and Christopher Timmins #16655 (EEE)

Week of January 3, 2011

• Inflation Targeting
  Lars E.O. Svensson #16654 (IFM   ME)
• The Equity and Efficiency of Two-Part Tariffs in U.S. Natural Gas Markets
  Severin Borenstein and Lucas W. Davis #16653 (EEE   IO)
• Venture Capital and Other Private Equity: A Survey
  Andrew Metrick and Ayako Yasuda #16652 (AP   CF)
• Equity Prices and Equity Flows: Testing Theory of the Information-Efficiency Tradeoff
  Assaf Razin and Anuk Serechetapongse #16651 (IFM)
• Entry and Selection in Auctions
  James W. Roberts and Andrew Sweeting #16650 (IO)
• Dynamic Incentive Contracts Under Parameter Uncertainty
  Julien Prat and Boyan Jovanovic #16649 (IO)
• Predictability of Returns and Cash Flows
  Ralph S.J. Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #16648 (AP   EFG)
• U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention and the Early Dollar Float: 1973 – 1981
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #16647 (ME)
• The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
  Frédéric Docquier, Çağlar Özden, and Giovanni Peri #16646 (EFG   ITI   LS)
• Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others
  Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Pérez-Truglia #16645 (POL)
• Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited
  Roger E.A. Farmer and Dmitry Plotnikov #16644 (EFG)
• When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
  Joshua Angrist, Philip Oreopoulos, and Tyler Williams #16643 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
• Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics
  Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny #16642 (CF   EFG)
• The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis
  Costas Arkolakis and Marc-Andreas Muendler #16641 (ITI)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money After 75 Years: The Importance of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time
  Matthew N. Luzzetti and Lee E. Ohanian #16631 (EFG)