NBER Papers in JEL Code D6: Microeconomics - Welfare Economics

2022
w29846 Richard T. Holden
Anup Malani
Chris Teh

Allocating Scarce Information
w29820 J. Aislinn Bohren
Peter Hull
Alex Imas

Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement
w29796 Debraj Ray
Garance Genicot

Measuring Upward Mobility
w29752 Daniel J. Agness
Travis Baseler
Sylvain Chassang
Pascaline Dupas
Erik Snowberg

Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
w29744 Eduardo Dávila
Daniel D. Graves
Cecilia Parlatore

The Value of Arbitrage
w29656 Zi Yang Kang
Shoshana Vasserman

Robust Bounds for Welfare Analysis
w29630 Christine L. Exley
Nils H. Lehr
Stephen J. Terry

Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times
2021
w29582 Antoine Ferey
Benjamin Lockwood
Dmitry Taubinsky

Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-Income Heterogeneity
w29375 Johanna Mollerstrom
Avner Strulov-Shlain
Dmitry Taubinsky

Preferences for Giving Versus Preferences for Redistribution
w29331 Jonathan Meer
Hedieh Tajali

Charitable Giving Responses to Education Budgets
w29160 Eduardo Dávila
Ansgar Walther

Corrective Regulation with Imperfect Instruments
w29108 Kenneth Gillingham
Pei Huang

Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution: Evidence from Ports
w28975 Benjamin Lockwood
Hunt Allcott
Dmitry Taubinsky
Afras Y. Sial

What Drives Demand for State-Run Lotteries? Evidence and Welfare Implications
w28957 Kirill Borusyak
Xavier Jaravel

The Distributional Effects of Trade: Theory and Evidence from the United States
w28936 Hunt Allcott
Matthew Gentzkow
Lena Song

Digital Addiction
w28890 Martin Ravallion
Missing Top Income Recipients
w28870 Haelim Anderson
Kinda Cheryl Hachem
Simpson Zhang

Reallocating Liquidity to Resolve a Crisis: Evidence from the Panic of 1873
w28799 Hunt Allcott
Joshua J. Kim
Dmitry Taubinsky
Jonathan Zinman

Are High-Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending
w28653 Antony Millner
Geoffrey Heal

Choosing the Future: Markets, Ethics, and Rapprochement in Social Discounting
w28601 Maddalena Ferranna
JP Sevilla
David E. Bloom

Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparing Alternative Value Frameworks
w28554 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke

A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem
w28489 Gaetano Gaballo
Guillermo Ordoñez

The Two Faces of Information
w28482 Louis Kaplow
Competition Policy in a Simple General Equilibrium Model
w28438 Daniel J. Benjamin
Jakina Debnam Guzman
Marc Fleurbaey
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball

What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence
w28371 Robert W. Hahn
Robert D. Metcalfe

Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Energy Subsidies
2020
w28295 Jessamyn Schaller
Chase S. Eck

Family Support in Hard Times: Dynamics of Intergenerational Exchange after Adverse Events
w28159 Jean-Etienne de Bettignies
Hua Fang Liu
David T. Robinson

Corporate Social Responsibility and Imperfect Regulatory Oversight: Theory and Evidence from Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosures
w28121 Hanming Fang
Zenan Wu

Consumer Vulnerability and Behavioral Biases
w28099 Kristoffer B. Hvidberg
Claus Kreiner
Stefanie Stantcheva

Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequality
w28093 Eric Budish
Maximize Utility subject to R≤1: A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy
w28007 Daniel J. Benjamin
Mark Alan Fontana
Miles S. Kimball

Reconsidering Risk Aversion
w27869 Charles Yuji Horioka
Is the Selfish Life-Cycle Model More Applicable in Japan and, If So, Why? A Literature Survey
w27835 Pablo Mitnik
Anne-Line Helsø
Victoria L. Bryant

Inequality of Opportunity for Income in Denmark and the United States: A Comparison Based on Administrative Data
w27826 Eduardo Dávila
Optimal Financial Transaction Taxes
w27823 Orazio Attanasio
Áureo de Paula
Alessandro Toppeta

The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills: Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence
w27743 Alessandra Casella
Antonin Macé

Does Vote Trading Improve Welfare?
w27710 Eleonora Broccardo
Oliver D. Hart
Luigi Zingales

Exit vs. Voice
w27685 Xiaoxue Sherry Gao
Glenn W. Harrison
Rusty Tchernis

Behavioral Welfare Economics and Risk Preferences: A Bayesian Approach
w27653 Zhuang Liu
Michael Sockin
Wei Xiong

Data Privacy and Temptation
w27603 Joseph E. Aldy
Matthew Kotchen
Mary F. Evans
Meredith Fowlie
Arik Levinson
Karen Palmer

Co-Benefits and Regulatory Impact Analysis: Theory and Evidence from Federal Air Quality Regulations
w27595 Marina Azzimonti
Gabriel P. Mihalache
Laura Karpuska

Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements
w27483 Daron Acemoglu
Ali Makhdoumi
Azarakhsh Malekian
Asuman Ozdaglar

Testing, Voluntary Social Distancing and the Spread of an Infection
w27413 Niko Jaakkola
Antony Millner

Nondogmatic Climate Policy
w27393 Wenzhi Ding
Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Wensi Xie

Social Distancing and Social Capital: Why U.S. Counties Respond Differently to COVID-19
w27285 Stephen P. Holland
Erin T. Mansur
Nicholas Z. Muller
Andrew J. Yates

The Environmental Benefits from Transportation Electrification: Urban Buses
w27277 Georgy Egorov
Ruben Enikolopov
Alexey Makarin
Maria Petrova

Divided We Stay Home: Social Distancing and Ethnic Diversity
w27265 Andrew Caplin
Daniel J. Martin

Framing, Information, and Welfare
w27242 Henrik Kleven
Sufficient Statistics Revisited
w27238 Paola Giuliano
Marco Tabellini

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
w27134 Laura Alfaro
Ester Faia
Nora Lamersdorf
Farzad Saidi

Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
w27111 Ashesh Rambachan
Jon Kleinberg
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jens Ludwig

An Economic Approach to Regulating Algorithms
w27078 Tatyana Deryugina
Benjamin M. Marx

Is the Supply of Charitable Donations Fixed? Evidence from Deadly Tornadoes
w27076 Jonathan Meer
Benjamin A. Priday

Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions
w27016 Gastón Illanes
Sarah Moshary

Market Structure and Product Assortment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Liquor Licensure
w27000 Hunt Allcott
Charlie Rafkin

Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence
w26986 Luigi Ventura
Charles Yuji Horioka

The Wealth Decumulation Behavior of the Retired Elderly in Italy: The Importance of Bequest Motives and Precautionary Saving
w26956 Antonio Bento
Kevin Roth
Andrew R. Waxman

Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency
w26921 Philippe Aghion
Roland Bénabou
Ralf Martin
Alexandra Roulet

Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?
w26849 Jason Abaluck
Giovanni Compiani

A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
w26804 Stephen P. Holland
Erin T. Mansur
Andrew J. Yates

The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
w26771 Benjamin M. Hébert
Jennifer La'O

Information Acquisition, Efficiency, and Non-Fundamental Volatility
w26767 Parag A. Pathak
Alex Rees-Jones
Tayfun Sönmez

Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms
w26683 Louis Kaplow
A Unified Perspective on Efficiency, Redistribution, and Public Policy
w26682 Catherine Hausman
Samuel Stolper

Inequality, Information Failures, and Air Pollution
w26621 Charles Yuji Horioka
Emin Gahramanov
Aziz Hayat
Xueli Tang

The Impact of Bequest Motives on Retirement Behavior in Japan: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
w26616 Pinar Yildirim
Andrei Simonov
Maria Petrova
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Are Political and Charitable Giving Substitutes? Evidence from the United States
w26604 Kyle F. Herkenhoff
Gajendran Raveendranathan

Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry
2019
w26595 Christine L. Exley
Judd B. Kessler

Motivated Errors
w26559 John A. List
James J. Murphy
Michael K. Price
Alexander G. James

Do Appeals to Donor Benefits Raise More Money than Appeals to Recipient Benefits? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment with Pick.Click.Give.
w26555 Dietmar Fehr
Johanna Mollerstrom
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality
w26529 John F. Helliwell
Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies
w26502 Joshua Goodman
Michael Hurwitz
Christine Mulhern
Jonathan Smith

O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment
w26452 Jonathan Meer
Benjamin A. Priday

Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
w26447 Bilge Erten
Anton Korinek
José Antonio Ocampo

Capital Controls: Theory and Evidence
w26413 George-Marios Angeletos
Karthik Sastry

Inattentive Economies
w26380 Bharat Chandar
Uri Gneezy
John A. List
Ian Muir

The Drivers of Social Preferences: Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment
w26296 Daron Acemoglu
Ali Makhdoumi
Azarakhsh Malekian
Asuman Ozdaglar

Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets
w26284 Fatih Guvenen
Gueorgui Kambourov
Burhanettin Kuruscu
Sergio Ocampo-Diaz
Daphne Chen

Use It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
w26221 Hugo Hopenhayn
Maryam Saeedi

Optimal Ratings and Market Outcomes
w26143 Alessandra Fogli
Veronica Guerrieri

The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities
w26043 Toyin Samuel Olowogbon
Raphael Olanrewaju Babatunde
Edward Asiedu

How Can Inclusive Agricultural Health Policy Intervention Promote Shared Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from Randomized Control Trial
w26001 Germán Gutiérrez
Thomas Philippon

The Failure of Free Entry
w25938 Laura K. Gee
Jonathan Meer

The Altruism Budget: Measuring and Encouraging Charitable Giving
w25842 Hunt Allcott
Benjamin Lockwood
Dmitry Taubinsky

Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence
w25813 Peter Koczanski
Harvey S. Rosen

Are Millennials Really So Selfish? Preliminary Evidence from the Philanthropy Panel Study
w25791 Justine S. Hastings
Mark Howison
Sarah E. Inman

Predicting High-Risk Opioid Prescriptions Before they are Given
w25735 Marie Connolly
Miles Corak
Catherine Haeck

Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States
w25695 Erik Brynjolfsson
Avinash Collis
W. Erwin Diewert
Felix Eggers
Kevin J. Fox

GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy
w25666 Erin T. Mansur
Glenn Sheriff

Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program
w25622 Ricardo Perez-Truglia
The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
w25586 Itzik Fadlon
Shanthi P. Ramnath
Patricia K. Tong

Market Inefficiency and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Social Security's Survivors Benefits
w25581 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis

Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment
w25578 Louis Kaplow
Market Power and Income Taxation
w25562 Alberto Alesina
Elie Murard
Hillel Rapoport

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
w25540 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

We are all Behavioral, More or Less: Measuring and Using Consumer-level Behavioral Sufficient Statistics
2018
w25415 James J. Heckman
The Race Between Demand and Supply: Tinbergen's Pioneering Studies of Earnings Inequality
w25413 Qingran Li
William A. Pizer

The Discount Rate for Public Policy over the Distant Future
w25395 Joshua Gans
Andrew Leigh
Martin Schmalz
Adam Triggs

Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption
w25358 Keith Marzilli Ericson
David Laibson

Intertemporal Choice
w25339 Stephen P. Holland
Erin T. Mansur
Nicholas Muller
Andrew J. Yates

Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
w25326 Christine L. Exley
Judd B. Kessler

Equity Concerns are Narrowly Framed
w25290 Mackenzie Alston
Catherine Eckel
Jonathan Meer
Wei Zhan

High-Capacity Donors' Preferences for Charitable Giving
w25257 James Andreoni
Deniz Aydin
Blake Barton
B. Douglas Bernheim
Jeffrey Naecker

When Fair Isn't Fair: Understanding Choice Reversals Involving Social Preferences
w25235 Garth Heutel
Bankable Prices
w25224 Andrew Caplin
Dániel Csaba
John Leahy
Oded Nov

Rational Inattention, Competitive Supply, and Psychometrics
w25199 Jeehoon Han
Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Inequality in the Joint Distribution of Consumption and Time Use
w25183 Matthew Grennan
Charu Gupta
Mara Lederman

Firm Scope and Spillovers from New Product Innovation: Evidence from Medical Devices
w25139 Jacob Goldin
Daniel Reck

Revealed Preference Analysis with Framing Effects
w25034 Sandro Ambuehl
B. Douglas Bernheim
Fulya Ersoy
Donna Harris

Peer Advice on Financial Decisions: A case of the blind leading the blind?
w25033 Renee Bowen
Vincent Anesi

Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules
w25014 Ben Gilbert
Joshua S. Graff Zivin

Dynamic Corrective Taxes with Time-Varying Salience
w24940 Daniel M. Hungerman
Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm

Impure Impact Giving: Theory and Evidence
w24931 Jonathan Chapman
Mark Dean
Pietro Ortoleva
Erik Snowberg
Colin Camerer

Econographics
w24908 Cátia Batista
Marcel Fafchamps
Pedro C. Vicente

Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks
w24879 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Nicholas Y. Li
Laura Schechter

Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay
w24853 Timothy N. Bond
Kevin Lang

The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results
w24851 Anup Malani
Sonia P. Jaffe

The Welfare Implications of Health Insurance
w24798 Roland Bénabou
Armin Falk
Jean Tirole

Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Reasoning
w24752 Pablo Kurlat
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fire Sales
w24667 Erik Lindqvist
Robert Östling
David Cesarini

Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being
w24664 Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
Nicholas Muller
Yen-Chia Hsu

Livestreaming Pollution: A New Form of Public Disclosure and a Catalyst for Citizen Engagement?
w24608 Francisco Costa
François Gerard

Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies: Theory and Evidence from an Energy-Saving Program
w24535 Christian Leuz
Evidence-Based Policymaking: Promise, Challenges and Opportunities for Accounting and Financial Markets Research
w24361 Chiara Farronato
Andrey Fradkin

The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb
w24327 Samantha Horn
Dean Karlan

Intuitive Donating: Testing One-Line Solicitations for $1 Donations in a Large Online Experiment
w24199 John Haltiwanger
Robert Kulick
Chad Syverson

Misallocation Measures: The Distortion That Ate the Residual
2017
w24177 Martin Ravallion
Global Inequality when Unequal Countries Create Unequal People
w24175 Ugo Troiano
Do Taxes Increase Economic Inequality? A Comparative Study Based on the State Personal Income Tax
w24174 Anton Korinek
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment
w24166 Job Boerma
Loukas Karabarbounis

Inferring Inequality with Home Production
w24124 Eugenio J. Miravete
Katja Seim
Jeff Thurk

One Markup to Rule Them All: Taxation by Liquor Pricing Regulation
w24033 Carolyn Fischer
William A. Pizer

Horizontal Equity Effects in Energy Regulation
w24007 David Rezza Baqaee
Emmanuel Farhi

Productivity and Misallocation in General Equilibrium
w23980 Alex Rees-Jones
Dmitry Taubinsky

Taxing Humans: Pitfalls of the Mechanism Design Approach and Potential Resolutions
w23969 Juin-Jen Chang
Ching-Chong Lai
Ping Wang

A Tale of Two Cities: Cross-Border Casino Competition Between Detroit and Windsor
w23914 David H. Autor
Christopher J. Palmer
Parag A. Pathak

Gentrification and the Amenity Value of Crime Reductions: Evidence from Rent Deregulation
w23907 Raymond Fisman
Keith Gladstone
Ilyana Kuziemko
Suresh Naidu

Do Americans Want to Tax Capital? Evidence from Online Surveys
w23887 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Regulation with Exemptions
w23868 Martin Guzman
José Antonio Ocampo
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Real Exchange Rate Policies for Economic Development
w23860 Jeffrey T. Denning
Benjamin M. Marx
Lesley J. Turner

ProPelled: The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare
w23733 Randall Akee
Maggie R. Jones
Sonya R. Porter

Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races
w23682 Adam I. Biener
John Cawley
Chad Meyerhoefer

The Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach
w23678 Panle Jia Barwick
Shengmao Cao
Shanjun Li

Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China's Automobile Market
w23659 Andres Drenik
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Sympathy for the Diligent and the Demand for Workfare
w23620 Itzik Fadlon
David Laibson

Paternalism and Pseudo-Rationality
w23615 Nicolas L. Bottan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income
w23587 Matthew Weinzierl
A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An example with envy
w23535 Daniel McFadden
Foundations of Welfare Economics and Product Market Applications
w23488 Susan Athey
Christian Catalini
Catherine Tucker

The Digital Privacy Paradox: Small Money, Small Costs, Small Talk
w23357 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Dmitri Koustas

Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases
w23349 K.E. McConnell
Juha V. Siikamäki
V. Kerry Smith

A Strategy for Evaluating the Opportunity Cost of Time Estimates from New Choice Margins
w23335 Luigi Butera
John A. List

An Economic Approach to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science: With an Application to the Public Goods Game
w23292 Bruce Sacerdote
Fifty Years Of Growth In American Consumption, Income, And Wages
w23229 James Andreoni
Nikos Nikiforakis
Jan Stoop

Are the Rich More Selfish than the Poor, or Do They Just Have More Money? A Natural Field Experiment
w23057 Victor Stango
Joanne Yoong
Jonathan Zinman

The Quest for Parsimony in Behavioral Economics: New Methods and Evidence on Three Fronts
w23053 Steve Cicala
Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation
2016
w23004 Anton Korinek
Currency Wars or Efficient Spillovers? A General Theory of International Policy Cooperation
w22975 Rafael Di Tella
Julio J. Rotemberg

Populism and the Return of the "Paranoid Style": Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal
w22902 Jonathan Meer
David H. Miller
Elisa Wulfsberg

The Great Recession and Charitable Giving
w22867 Catherine C. Eckel
David H. Herberich
Jonathan Meer

It's Not the Thought that Counts: A Field Experiment on Gift Exchange and Giving at a Public University
w22838 Martin Guzman
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Pseudo-wealth and Consumption Fluctuations
w22824 James Andreoni
Marta Serra-Garcia

Time-Inconsistent Charitable Giving
w22769 V. Kerry Smith
Min Qiang Zhao

Evaluating Economy-Wide Benefit Cost Analyses
w22732 Jonathan D. Ketcham
Nicolai V. Kuminoff
Christopher A. Powers

Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market
w22687 Yoko Niimi
Charles Yuji Horioka

The Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on Household Wealth Inequality in Japan and the United States
w22676 Pol Antràs
Alonso de Gortari
Oleg Itskhoki

Globalization, Inequality and Welfare
w22673 Nicola Lacetera
Incentives and Ethics in the Economics of Body Parts
w22644 Maureen Cropper
Alan Krupnick
William Raich

Preferences for Equality in Environmental Outcomes
w22632 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis

Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
w22524 Antony Millner
Geoffrey Heal

Collective Intertemporal Choice: the Possibility of Time Consistency
w22471 Helen Levy
Edward C. Norton
Jeffrey A. Smith

Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
w22462 Matthew Weinzierl
Popular Acceptance of Inequality due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation
w22457 T. Renee Bowen
Ying Chen
Hülya K. Eraslan
Jan Zápal

Efficiency of Flexible Budgetary Institutions
w22444 Eduardo Dávila
Anton Korinek

Pecuniary Externalities in Economies with Financial Frictions
w22424 Alan Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: Income Versus Wealth
w22401 Ş. Pelin Akyol
James Key
Kala Krishna

Hit or Miss? Test Taking Behavior in Multiple Choice Exams
w22379 William A. Pizer
Brian Prest

Prices versus Quantities with Policy Updating
w22339 James J. Heckman
Chase O. Corbin

Capabilities and Skills
w22308 Kai Yeung
Anirban Basu
Ryan N. Hansen
Sean D. Sullivan

Price Elasticities of Pharmaceuticals in a Value-Based-Formulary Setting
w22245 Charles Yuji Horioka
Emin Gahramanov
Aziz Hayat
Xueli Tang

Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?
w22211 John Komlos
Growth of income and welfare in the U.S, 1979-2011
w22203 S. Nageeb Ali
Roland Bénabou

Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
w22200 Petri Böckerman
John Cawley
Jutta Viinikainen
Terho Lehtimäki
Suvi Rovio
Ilkka Seppälä
Jaakko Pehkonen
Olli Raitakari

The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: an Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
w22076 Florian Scheuer
Iván Werning

Mirrlees meets Diamond-Mirrlees
w22056 Weerachart T. Kilenthong
Robert M. Townsend

A Market Based Solution for Fire Sales and Other Pecuniary Externalities
w22055 Brian Knight
Ana Tribin

The Limits of Propaganda: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela
w22043 Stefano DellaVigna
John A. List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
w22033 Jonathan Meer
Does Fundraising Create New Giving?
w22032 Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Darryl R. Koehler

U.S. Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting
w21934 James Andreoni
Michael A. Kuhn
Larry Samuelson

Starting Small: Endogenous Stakes and Rational Cooperation
w21927 Benjamin B. Lockwood
Matthew C. Weinzierl

Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions
w21916 David Albouy
Mike Zabek

Housing Inequality
w21900 Leonard Goff
John F. Helliwell
Guy Mayraz

Inequality of Subjective Well-Being as a Comprehensive Measure of Inequality
2015
w21529 Vivekinan Ashok
Ilyana Kuziemko
Ebonya Washington

Support for Redistribution in an Age of Rising Inequality: New Stylized Facts and Some Tentative Explanations
w21485 H. Spencer Banzhaf
Panel Data Hedonics: Rosen's First Stage as a "Sufficient Statistic"
w21406 Jay Bhattacharya
Alan M. Garber
Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

Nudges in Exercise Commitment Contracts: A Randomized Trial
w21394 Martin Ravallion
Inequality when Effort Matters
w21365 Miles Kimball
Ryan Nunn
Dan Silverman

Accounting for Adaptation in the Economics of Happiness
w21309 Garance Genicot
Two-sided Altruism and Signaling
w21291 Stephen P. Holland
Erin T. Mansur
Nicholas Z. Muller
Andrew J. Yates

Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?
w21247 Philippe Aghion
Ufuk Akcigit
Antonin Bergeaud
Richard Blundell
David Hémous

Innovation and Top Income Inequality
w21187 Hunt Allcott
Cass R. Sunstein

Regulating Internalities
w21174 Vladimir Gimpelson
Daniel Treisman

Misperceiving Inequality
w21053 Gary Solon
What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility?
w21046 Atila Abdulkadiroğlu
Nikhil Agarwal
Parag A. Pathak

The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment: Evidence from the NYC HS Match
w21041 Arthur Alik-Lagrange
Martin Ravallion

Inconsistent Policy Evaluation: A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program
w21009 Jimmy Charité
Raymond Fisman
Ilyana Kuziemko

Reference Points and Redistributive Preferences: Experimental Evidence
w20886 Howard Kunreuther
Mark Pauly

Insurance Decision-Making For Rare Events: The Role Of Emotions
w20883 Christopher Phelan
Aldo Rustichini

Pareto Efficiency and Identity
w20870 Michael Price
Using Field Experiments to Address Environmental Externalities and Resource Scarcity: Major Lessons Learned and New Directions for Future Research
w20866 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis

Sacred Values? The Effect of Information on Attitudes toward Payments for Human Organs
w20834 Miles S. Kimball
Cognitive Economics
2014
w20735 Matthew Weinzierl
Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation
w20696 Lara B. Aknin
Guy Mayraz
John F. Helliwell

The Emotional Consequences of Donation Opportunities
w20691 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Alp Simsek
Wei Xiong

A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs
w20669 Attila Ambrus
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Matt Elliott

Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality
w20629 Prasad Krishnamurthy
Aaron Edlin

Affirmative Action and Stereotypes in Higher Education Admissions
w20605 Catia Batista
Dan Silverman
Dean Yang

Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
w20546 Alan Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis
w20424 Chunding Li
John Whalley

How Close is Asia to Already Being A Trade Bloc?
w20385 Hannah Trachtman
Andrew Steinkruger
Mackenzie Wood
Adam Wooster
James Andreoni
James J. Murphy
Justin M. Rao

Fair Weather Avoidance: Unpacking Costs and Benefits in Replication of 'Avoiding the Ask'
w20376 Anirban Basu
Welfare Implications of Learning Through Solicitation versus Diversification in Health Care
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Predation, Efficiency, and Inequality
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"Make Us a King": Anarchy, Predation, and the State
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Steven Shavell

On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation
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Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
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On the Uses of Benefit-Cost Reasoning in Choosing Policy Toward Global Climate Change
1996
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Inequality, Predation and Welfare
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Dallas Burtraw

Revenue-Raising vs. Other Approaches to Environmental Protection: The Critical Significance of Pre-Existing Tax Distortions
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Perceptions of Equity and the Distribution of Income
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Policies for Green Design
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Shaun P. McDermott
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Sulfur Dioxide Compliance of a Regulated Utility
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Advances in the Economics of Aging
1995
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Discrete Choice with Social Interactions I: Theory
1994
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A Theory of the Welfare State
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Thomas C. Kinnaman

"Household Responses for Pricing Garbage by the Bag,"
1993
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Health Insurance Provision and Labor Market Efficiency in the United States
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Heterogeneity, Stratification, and Growth
1992
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Thomas M. Selden

Stoking the Fires? Co2 Emissions and Economic Growth
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Topics in the Economics of Aging
1991
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Short and Long Run Externalities
1930
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Corporation Contributions to Organized Community Welfare Services

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