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NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of December 17, 1999

• The Sources of Cost Difference in Health Insurance Plans: A Decomposition Analysis
  Matthew Eichner, Mark McClellan and David A. Wise #7443 (HC)
  
• The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession
  Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone #7442 (LS, PE)
  
• Indian Manufacturing Industry: Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
  Charles Hulten and Sylaja Srinivasan #7441 (P)
  
• Predictors of Mortality among the Elderly
  Michael D. Hurd, Daniel McFadden and Angela Merrill #7440 (A)
  
• A Heuristic Method for Extracting Smooth Trends from Economic Time Series
  Julio J. Rotemberg #7439 (EFG)
  
• Making the French Pay: The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations
  Eugene N. White #7438 (DAE)
  
• Firm-Level Investment in France and the United States: An Exploration of What We Have Learned in Twenty Years
  Jacques Mairesse, Bronwyn Hall and Benoît Mulkay #7437 (P)
  
• The Choice of Organizational Form in Gasoline Retailing and the Costs of Laws Limiting that Choice
  Dennis W. Carlton and Asher A. Blass #7435 (IO)
  
• G3 Exchange Rate Relationships
  Richard H. Clarida #7434 (IFM)
  
• Do Taxes Affect Corporate Debt Policy? Evidence from U.S. Corporate Tax Return Data
  Roger H. Gordon and Young Lee #7433 (CF, PE)
  
• One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
  Andrew K. Rose #7432 (IFM, ITI)
  
• A Theory of Bank Capital
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan #7431 (CF, ME)
  
• Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation and Financial Fragility: A Theory of Banking
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan #7430 (CF, ME)
  
• Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA
  Anne O. Krueger #7429 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Investor Protection: Origins, Consequences and Reform
  Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny #7428 (CF)
  
• The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States
  Marcello Estevao and Saul Lach #7427 (LS, P)
  
• Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes
  Stephen G. Cecchetti and Michael Ehrmann #7426 (ME)
  
• Optimal Monetary Impulse-Response Functions in a Matching Model
  Brett Katzman, John Kennan and Neil Wallace #7425 (EFG)
  
• New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
  Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy #7424 (C, LS)
  
• The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change
  Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner #7423 (HE)
  
• Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion
  Susan M. Dynarski #7422 (C, PE)
  
• Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing
  Marcello M. Estevão and Saul Lach #7421 (LS, P)
  
• The Future of Monetary Policy: The Central Bank as an Army With Only a Signal Corps
  Benjamin M. Friedman #7420 (EFG, ME)
  

Week of November 18, 1999

• Output-based Pay: Incentives or Sorting?
  Edward P. Lazear #7419 (LS)
  
• Exchange Rates and Financial Fragility
  Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann #7418 (IFM)
  
• Macroeconomic Implications of the Beliefs and Behavior of Foreign Exchange Traders
  Yin-Wong Cheung and Menzie D. Chinn #7417 (IFM)
  
• Traders, Market Microstructure and Exchange Rate Dynamics
  Yin-Wong Cheung and Menzie D. Chinn #7416 (IFM)
  
• Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm
  Andrea Ichino and Giovanni Maggi #7415 (LS)
  
• Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance?: The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing
  Morris M. Kleiner, Jonathan S. Leonard and Adam M. Pilarski #7414 (LS,P)
  
• How Effective are Capital Controls?
  Sebastian Edwards #7413 (IFM)
  
• The Transition to Smoking Cessation: Evidence from Multiple Failure Duration Analysis
  John A. Tauras #7412 (HE)
  
• The Heckscher-Ohlin Model Between 1400 and 2000: When It Explained Factor Price Convergence, When It Did Not, and Why
  Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson #7411 (DAE, ITI)
  
• A Note on Longitudinally Matching Current Population Survey (CPS) Respondents
  Brigitte C. Madrian and Lars John Lefgren #T0247 (TWP)
  
• Estimating Log Models: To Transform or Not to Transform?
  Willard G. Manning and John Mullahy #T0246 (TWP)
  
• Interaction Effects and Difference-in-Difference Estimation in Loglinear Models
  John Mullahy #T0245 (TWP)
  

Week of November 5, 1999

• Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?
  Scott Stern #7410 (LS, P)
  
• Optimal Portfolio Choice for Long-Horizon Investors with Nontradable Labor Income
  Luis M. Viceira #7409 (AP)
  
• Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Eiji Fujii #7408 (IFM)
  
• Quantifying Artistic Success: Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism
  David Galenson #7407 (LS)
  
• Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Consumers and Limited Participation: Empirical Evidence
  Alon Brav, George M. Constantinides and Christopher C. Geczy #7406 (AP)
  
• Economic Conditions, Deterrence and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from Micro Data
  H. Naci Mocan and Daniel I. Rees #7405 ©
  
• On the Spread and Impact of Antidumping
  Thomas J. Prusa #7404 (ITI)
  
• Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
  Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny #7403 (AP, CF)
  
• Tax Competition and Trade Protection
  Eckhard Janeba and John D. Wilson #7402 (ITI, PE)
  
• How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
  Anne Case, I-Fen Lin and Sara McLanahan #7401 ©
  
• Excessive FDI Flows Under Asymmetric Information
  Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Chi-Wa Yuen #7400 (IFM)
  
• Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa
  Anne Case and Motohiro Yogo #7399 (C, PE)
  
• Capital Controls and Financial Crises
  Joshua Aizenman #7398 (ITI)
  
• Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment
  V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy and Seth G. Sanders #7397 ©
  
• The Diversification Discount: Cash Flows vs. Returns
  Owen A. Lamont and Christopher Polk #7396 (AP, CF, ME)
  
• Analysis of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Methodological Issues
  Bennett T. McCallum #7395 (ME)
  
• Latin America and Foreign Capital in the Twentieth Century: Economics, Politics, and Institutional Change
  Alan M. Taylor #7394 (DAE,IFM,ITI)
  
• Theoretical Issues Pertaining to Monetary Unions
  Bennett T. McCallum #7393 (EFG,IFM,ME)
  
• Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition: U.S. Evidence from the 1980's and 1990's
  James M. Poterba and Andrew A. Samwick #7392 (A,AP,,PE)
  
• Preference Externalities: An Empirical Study of Who Benefits Whom in Differentiated Products Markets
  Joel Waldfogel #7391 (IO,LE)
  
• The Technology of Birth: Is it Worth it?
  David M. Cutler and Ellen Meara #7390 (HC)
  
• Uncertainty and the Disappearance of International Credit
  Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion #7389 (IFM)
  
• On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization
  Oliver Hart and John Moore #7388 (CF)
  
• Redistribution Through Public Employment: The Case of Italy
  Alberto Alesina, Stephen Danninger and Massimo V. Rostagno #7387 (PE)
  
• Internal Versus External Convertibility and Developing-Country Financial Crises: Lessons from the Argentine Bank Bailout of the 1930s
  Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor #7386 (DAE, IFM, ME)
  
• Enter at Your Own Risk: HMO Participation and Enrollment in the Medicare Risk Market
  Jean Abraham, Ashish Arora, Martin Gaynor, and Douglas Wholey #7385 (HC)
  
• Capital Account Liberalization, Financial Depth, and Economic Growth
  Michael Klein and Giovanni Olivei #7384 (IFM)
  
• The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does "Zero Tolerance" Work?
  Stephen L. Mehay and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula #7383 (C, HE)
  
• Exchange Rate Pass-Through and the Welfare Effects of the Euro
  Michael B. Devereux, Charles Engel and Cedric Tille #7382 (IFM)
  
• New Trends in Pension Benefit and Retirement Provisions
  Olivia S. Mitchell #7381 (A, LS)
  
• Anticipated and Actual Bequests
  Michael D. Hurd and James P. Smith #7380 (A)
  

Week of October 29, 1999

• The Future of Health Economics
  Victor Fuchs #7379 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties
  Bruce A. Blonigen and Stephen E. Haynes #7378 (ITI)
  
• Dynamic Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Stochastic Volatility in Incomplete Markets
  George Chacko and Luis M. Viceira #7377 (AP)
  
• Differences of Opinion, Rational Arbitrage and Market Crashes
  Harriman Hong and Jeremy C. Stein #7376 (AP, CF)
  
• Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
  Charles I. Jones #7375 (EFG)
  
• Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?
  David Neumark and Peter Cappelli #7374 (LS, P)
  
• Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence
  Paul A. David, Bronwyn H. Hall and Andrew A. Toole #7373 (P)
  
• The Adequacy of Life Insurance: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
  B. Douglas Bernheim, Lorenzo Forni, Jagadeesh Gokhale, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff #7372 (A, PE)
  

Week of October 1, 1999

• Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988
  Michael Baker and Nicole M. Fortin #7371 (LS)
  
• Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976-1992: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records
  Michael Baker and Gary Solon #7370 (LS)
  
• Environmental Compliance Costs and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to U.S. States
  Wolfgang Keller and Arik Levinson #7369 (ITI, PE)
  
• What People Don't Know About Their Pensions and Social Security: An Analysis Using Linked Data From The Health and Retirement Study
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier #7368 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Income: A Panel Study of 'Bracket Creep'
  Emmanuel Saez #7367 (PE)
  
• Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?
  Emmanuel Saez #7366 (PE)
  
• The Future of EMU: What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?
  Michael D. Bordo and Lars Jonung #7365 (ME, DAE)
  
• Short-Term Capital Flows
  Dani Rodrik and Andrés Velasco #7364 (IFM)
  
• Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
  Bruce D. Meyer and Dan T. Rosenbaum #7363 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can It Get?
  Jagadeesh Gokhale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff #7362 (AG, PE)
  
• Banks, the IMF, and the Asian Crisis
  Bong-Chan Kho and René M. Stulz #7361 (IFM)
  
• Estate Taxes, Life Insurance, and Small Business
  Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John W. Phillips, and Harvey S. Rosen #7360 (PE)
  
• The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery: Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research
  Iain Cockburn, Rebecca Henderson, and Scott Stern #7359 (PR, IO)
  
• Marshall's Economies
  Vernon Henderson #7358 (PE, EFG)
  
• Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment
  Robert E. Lipsey #7357 (ITI)
  
• Competition and the Cost of Capital Revisited: Special Authorities and Underwriters in the Market for Tax-exempt Hospital Bonds
  Alec Ian Gershberg, Michael Grossman, and Fred Goldman #7356 (HE)
  
• The Cost of Recessions Revisited: A Reverse-Liquidationist View
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour #7355 (EFG)
  
• On the Measurement of the International Propagation of Shocks
  Roberto Rigobon #7354 (IFM)
  
• Welfare Dynamics under Time Limits
  Jeff Grogger and Charles Michalopoulos #7353 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Productivity Gains From Unemployment Insurance
  Daron Acemoglu and Robert Shimer #7352 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Causes of the Long Stagnation of Japan during the 1990's: Financial or Real?
  Taizo Motonishi and Hiroshi Yoshikawa #7351 (EFG)
  
• The Morning After: Explaining the Slowdown in Japanese Growth in the 1990s
  Tamim Bayoumi #7350 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Educational Production
  Edward P. Lazear #7349 (LS, PE)
  
• The Wealth of the Unemployed: Adequacy and Implications for Unemployment Insurance
  Jonathan Gruber #7348 (LS, PE)
  
• How Wide Is the Scope of Hold–Up-Based Theories? Contractual Form and Market Thickness in Trucking
  Thomas N. Hubbard #7347 (IO)
  
• Stock and Bond Pricing in an Affine Economy
  Geert Bekaert and Steven R. Grenadier #7346 (AP)
  

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