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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of June 26-July 3, 2006

• Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded versus Privately Held Firms
  Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda #12354 (CF, EFG)
  
• Assessing Structural VARs
  Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson #12353 (PE)
  
• Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence
  David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney #12352 (ED, HC)
  
• The Dissaving of the Aged Revisited: The Case of Japan
  Charles Yuji Horioka #12351 (AG, EFG)
  
• Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman
  Daniel S. Hamermesh, Caitlin Knowles Myers and Mark L. Pocock #12350 (LS)
  
• The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer
  N. Gregory Mankiw #12349 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Catastrophic Effects of Natural Disasters on Insurance Markets
  W. Kip Viscusi and Patricia Born #12348 (HC, LE)
  
• Globalization and Poverty
  Ann Harrison #12347 (ITI)
  
• The Performance of International Equity Portfolios
  Charles P. Thomas, Francis E. Warnock and Jon Wongswan #12346 (AP, IFM)
  

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Week of June 19-June 26, 2006

• On the Failure of the Bootstrap for Matching Estimators
  Alberto Abadie and Guido W. Imbens #T325 (TWP)
  
• Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
  Richard K. Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido W. Imbens and Oscar A. Mitnik #T324 (TWP)
  
• Heteroskedasticity-Robust Standard Errors for Fixed Effects Panel Data Regression
  James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson #T0323 (TWP)
  
• Liquidity Insurance in a Financially Dollarized Economy
  Eduardo Levy Yeyati #12345 (CF, ME)
  
• On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
  Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jerry Green #12344 (PE)
  
• Competing With the NYSE
  William O. Brown, Jr., J. Harold Mulherin and Marc D. Weidenmier #12343 (AP, CF, DAE)
  
• Capital Gains Taxes and Asset Prices: Capitalization or Lock-In?
  Zhonglan Dai, Edward Maydew, Douglas A. Shackelford and Harold H. Zhang #12342 (PE)
  
• Consumption Over the Life Cycle: The Role of Annuities
  Gary D. Hansen and Selahattin Imrohoroglu #12341 (EFG)
  
• The Lending Channel in Emerging Economics: Are Foreign Banks Different?
  Marco Arena, Carmen Reinhart and Francisco Vázquez #12340 (IFM, ME)
  
• Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation
  Louis Kaplow #12339 (LE, PE)
  
• Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment
  Dean Karlan and John A. List #12338 (PE)
  
• A General Stochastic Volatility Model for the Pricing and Forecasting of Interest Rate Derivatives
  Anders B. Trolle and Eduardo S. Schwartz #12337 (AP)
  
• Lumpy Investment in Dynamic General Equilibrium
  Ruediger Bachmann, Ricardo J. Caballero and Eduardo M.R.A. Engel #12336 (EFG, PR)
  
• Hospital Competition, Managed Care and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence From Three States
  José J. Escarce, Arvind K. Jain and Jeannette Rogowski #12335 (HC)
  
• Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts
  Muriel Niederle #12334 (LS)
  
• Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves: The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar
  Elias Papaioannou, Richard Portes and Gregorios Siourounis #12333 (IFM)
  
• Separation of Powers and the Budget Process
  Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman #12332 (PE, POL)
  
• Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability
  Janna L. Matlack and Jacob L. Vigdor #12331 (AP, EFG)
  
• Do Borrowing Constraints Matter? An Analysis of Why the Permanent Income Hypothesis Does Not Apply in Japan
  Miki Kohara and Charles Yuji Horioka #12330 (EFG)
  
• The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth
  Justin McCrary and Heather Royer #12329 (ED, LS)
  
• Artificial States
  Alberto Alesina, William Easterly and Janina Matuszeski #12328 (POL)
  
• A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States
  Abdurrahman Aydemir and George J. Borjas #12327 (ITI, LS)
  
• Trade and Growth with Heterogenous Firms
  Richard E. Baldwin and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud #12326 (ITI)
  
• International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
  Dean Yang #12325 (IFM, ITI, LS)
  
• Why Has U.S. Inflation Become Harder to Forecast?
  James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson #12324 (EFG, ME)
  
• Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Program
  Mark Duggan, Robert Rosenheck and Perry Singleton #12323 (HC, PE)
  
• Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope
  Volker Nocke and Stephen Yeaple #12322 (ITI)
  
• New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
  Francine D. Blau and Jed DeVaro #12321 (LS)
  
• Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Jacques Mairesse #12320 (PR)
  
• Inflation as a Redistribution Shock: Effects on Aggregates and Welfare
  Matthias Doepke and Martin Schneider #12319 (EFG)
  
• Contributions of Zvi Griliches
  James Heckman #12318 (ED, LS, PR)
  
• Australian Government Balance Sheet Management
  Wilson Au-Yeung, Jason McDonald and Amanda Sayegh #12302 (PE)
  

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Week of June 19, 2006

• Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Espanol Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
  Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel #12317 (POL)
  
• Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
  Rafael Dobado Gonzalez, Aurora Gomez Galvarriato, Jeffrey G. Williamson #12316 (DAE, ITI)
  
• People Flows in Globalization
  Richard B. Freeman #12315 (ITI, LS)
  
• An Exploration of Technology Diffusion
  Diego Comin, Bart Hobiijn #12314 (EFG, PR)
  
• Socially Optimal Districting: An Empirical Investigation
  Stephen Coate, Brian Knight #12313 (PE, POL)
  
• Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets
  Raymond Fisman, Edward Miguel #12312 (LE)
  
• The Boskin Commission Report: A Retrospective One Decade Later
  Robert J. Gordon #12311 (EFG)
  
• Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK
  Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman #12310 (LS)
  
• Collateralized Borrowing and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice
  Paul Willen, Felix Kubler #12309 (EFG)
  
• Financial Innovations and Macroeconomic Volatility
  Urban Jermann, Vincenzo Quadrini #12308 (EFG)
  
• The Choice Between Income and Consumption Taxes: A Primer
  Alan J. Auerbach #12307 (PE)
  
• Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model
  Richard B. Freeman #12306 (LS, POL)
  
• Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?
  Weili Ding, Steven F. Lehrer #12305 (ED)
  
• The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers
  Weili Ding, Steven F. Lehrer, J. Niels Rosenquist, Janet Audrain-McGovern #12304 (ED, HC, HE)
  
• Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany
  Axel Borsch-Supan, Hendrik Jurges #12303 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?
  Martin Gaynor #12301 (HC)
  

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Week of June 5-June 12, 2006

• Even For Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees: Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints
  Sara Markowitz and John Tauras #12300 (HE)
  
• Currency Mismatches, Default Risk, and Exchange Rate Depreciation: Evidence from the End of Bimetallism
  Michael D. Bordo, Christopher M. Meissner and Marc D. Weidenmier #12299 (DAE, IFM, ME)
  
• Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce
  Eric I. Knudsen, James J. Heckman, Judy L. Cameron and Jack P. Shonkoff #12298 (ED, LS)
  
• The Industry Life Cycle and Acquisitions and Investment: Does Firm Organization Matter?
  Vojislav Maksimovic and Gordon Phillips #12297 (CF, IO)
  
• Baumol-Tobin and the Welfare Costs of National Security Border Delays
  Hui Huang and John Whalley #12296 (ITI)
  
• The Variability of IPO Initial Returns
  Michelle Lowry, Micah S. Officer and G. William Schwert #12295 (AP)
  
• Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis
  W. Kip Viscusi #12294 (HC, LE, PE)
  
• Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching
  Andrew B. Bernard, Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott #12293 (ITI)
  
• Dividends and Taxes
  Roger Gordon and Martin Dietz #12292 (CF, PE)
  
• Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research
  John Cawley and Richard V. Burkhauser #12291 (HC, HE)
  
• Equity Premia with Benchmark Levels of Consumption: Closed-Form Results
  Andrew B. Abel #12290 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market
  Hanming Fang, Michael P. Keane and Dan Silverman #12289 (CH, PE)
  
• The Effect of Dividends on Consumption
  Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler #12288 (CF, EFG)
  
• Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia
  Reuben Gronau #12287 (LS)
  
• Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gaming Under a Performance Accountability System
  Julie Berry Cullen and Randall Reback #12286 (CH, ED)
  
• Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina
  Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor #12285 (ED)
  

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Week of May 29, 2006

• Optimal Income Transfers
  Louis Kaplow #12284 (PE)
  
• Ineffective Controls on Capital Inflows Under Sophisticated Financial Markets: Brazil in the Nineties
  Bernardo S. de M. Carvalho and Márcio G.P. Garcia #12283 (IFM)
  
• Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School
  Erica Field #12282 (LS)
  
• Supermodality and Tipping
  Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther #12281 (PE)
  
• Innovativity: A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
  Pierre Mohnen, Jacques Mairesse amd Marcel Dagenais #12280 (PR)
  
• Balancing the Goals of Health Care Provision
  Martin Feldstein #12279 (HC, PE)
  
• Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges
  Emre Ozdenoren, Stephen Salant and Dan Silverman #12278 (HC, PE)
  
• Stability First: Reflections Inspired by Otmar Issing's Success as the ECB's Chief Economist
  Vitor Gaspar and Anil K. Kashyap #12277 (ME)
  
• Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment
  Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr. #12276 (CF, ITI)
  
• When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
  Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin and Peter Howitt #12275 (EFG)
  
• Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?
  Marianne Bertrand, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan #12274 (CF, LS)
  
• Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples
  Kanika Kapur and Jeannette Rogowski #12273 (AG, HC, HE, LS)
  
• Energy Conservation in the United States: Understanding its Role in Climate Policy
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #12272 (PE)
  
• Measuring International Trade in Services
  Robert E. Lipsey #12271 (ITI)
  
• Resolving Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Stock and Bond Markets
  Alessandro Beber and Michael W. Brandt #12270 (AP)
  
• Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
  Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson #12269 (EFG)
  
• Monetary Policy When Potential Output is Uncertain: Understanding the Growth Gamble of the 1990s
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Matthew D. Shapiro #12268 (EFG, ME, PR)
  

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Week of May 22, 2006

• Socioeconomic Status and Health in Childhood: A Comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews (2006)
  Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Tom Vogl #12267 (CH, HC)
  
• $2.00 Gas! Studying the Effects of a Gas Tax Moratorium
  Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. and Krislert Samphantharak #12266 (PE)
  
• Population Aging, Fiscal Policies, and National Saving: Predictions for Korean Economy
  Young Jun Chun #12265 (AG, PE)
  
• A Century of Work and Leisure
  Valerie A. Ramey and Neville Francis #12264 (EFG, LS)
  
• Information Spillovers in the Market for Recorded Music
  Ken Hendricks and Alan Sorensen #12263 (IO)
  
• New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches
  Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon #12262 (LS)
  
• Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds
  James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian #12261 (AP)
  
• Individual Versus Aggregate Collateral Constraints and the Overborrowing Syndrome
  Martmn Uribe #12260 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax
  Louis Kaplow #12259 (PE)
  
• Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?
  Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna #12258 (ITI)
  
• Education and Labor-Market Discrimination
  Kevin Lang and Michael Manove #12257 (LS)
  
• Noise Traders
  James Dow and Gary Gorton #12256 (AP, CF)
  
• Private Investment and Government Protection
  Carolyn Kousky, Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Richard J. Zeckhauser #12255 (PE)
  
• Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence From the Health Care Sector
  Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein #12254 (HC, LS, PE)
  
• There Goes the Neighborhood? Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values From Megan's Laws
  Leigh L. Linden and Jonah E. Rockoff #12253 (EFG, LS, PE)
  

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Week of May 15, 2006

• Judicial Risk and Credit Market Performance: Micro Evidence from Brazilian Payroll Loans
  Ana Carla A. Costa and Joao M.P. De Mello #12252 (CF)
  
• The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover -- An Experiment in a College Classroom
  Zeynep Hansen, Hideo Owan and Jie Pan #12251 (ED)
  
• Democracy and Protectionism
  Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor #12250 (DAE, ITI)
  
• China's FDI and Non-FDI Economies and the Sustainability of Future High Chinese Growth
  John Whalley and Xian Xin #12249 (ITI)
  
• Risk, Uncertainty and Asset Prices
  Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom and Yuhang Xing #12248 (AP)
  
• Stock and Bond Returns with Moody Investors
  Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom and Steven R. Grenadier #12247 (AP)
  
• Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities: Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880
  Sukkoo Kim #12246 (DAE)
  
• Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
  E. Han Kim, Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales #12245 (CF)
  

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Week of May 8, 2006

• The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers
  Robert Town, Douglas Wholey, Roger Feldman and Lawton R. Burns #12244 (HC)
  
• Intertemporal Disturbances
  Giorgio E. Primiceri, Ernst Schaumburg and Andrea Tambalotti #12243 (EFG)
  
• Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition
  Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison #12242 (ITI)
  
• Hospital Ownership and Quality of Care: What Explains the Different Results?
  Karen Eggleston, Yu-Chu Shen, Joseph Lau, Christopher H. Schmid and Jia Chan #12241 (HC)
  
• Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India
  Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Joel Slemrod #12240 (PE)
  
• Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency
  Louis Kaplow #12239 (LE, PE)
  
• U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations: Religious and Secular PVOs Engaged in International Relief & Development
  Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro #12238 (PE)
  
• Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression
  Rena M. Conti, Ernst R. Berndt and Richard G. Frank #12237 (AG, HC, PE)
  
• Econometric Risk Adjustment, Endogeneity, and Extrapolation Bias
  John Mullahy #12236 (HC)
  
• Sudden Stops and IMF-Supported Programs
  Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Ashoka Mody #12235 (IFM)
  
• Managing Bank Liquidity Risk: How Deposit-Loan Synergies Vary with Market Conditions
  Evan Gatev, Til Schuermann and Philip E. Strahan #12234 (CF, ME)
  
• The International CAPM and a Wavelet-Based Decomposition of Value at Risk
  Viviana Fernandez #12233 (AP)
  
• Medicaid Policy Changes in Mental Health Care and Their Effect on Mental Health Outcomes
  Alison Cuellar and Sara Markowitz #12232 (HE)
  
• Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogenous Producers: An Empirical Test
  Chad Syverson #12231 (EFG, IO, PR)
  
• On the Optimal Timing of Benefits with Heterogenous Workers and Human Capital Depreciation
  Robert Shimer and Iván Werning #12230 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Monetary Unions, External Shocks and Economic Performance: A Latin American Perspective
  Sebastian Edwards #12229 (IFM)
  
• An Elephant in the Garden: The Allies, Spain, and Oil in World War II
  Leonard Caruana and Hugh Rockoff #12228 (DAE)
  
• The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics
  Susan M. Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton #12227 (ED, PE)
  

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Week of May 1, 2006

• Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History
  Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy #12226 (ITI, PR)
  
• Tax Competition and Parasitic Tax Havens
  Joel Slemrod and John D. Wilson #12225 (PE)
  
• Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms
  Daron Acemoglu, Michael Golosov and Aleh Tsyvinski #12224 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• Sensation Seeking, Overconfidence, and Trading Activity
  Mark Grinblatt and Matti Keloharju #12223 (AP)
  
• Do Foreigners Invest Less in Poorly Governed Firms?
  Christian Leuz, Karl V. Lins and Francis E. Warnock #12222 (CF, IFM, ITI)
  
• Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity
  Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna #12221 (LS, PE)
  
• International Diversification at Home and Abroad
  Fang Cai and Francis E. Warnock #12220 (PE)
  
• Are Valuation Effects Desirable from a Global Perspective?
  Pierpaolo Benigno #12219 (IFM, ME)
  
• aumol's Diseases: A Macroeconomic Perspective
  William D. Nordhaus #12218 (EFG, PR)
  
• Multinationals, Technology, and the Introduction of Varieties of Goods
  Irene Brambilla #12217 (ITI, PR)
  
• Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
  Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen #12216 (PR)
  
• Expenditure Switching vs. Real Exchange Rate Stabilization: Competing Objectives for Exchange Rate Policy
  Michael B. Devereux and Charles Engel #12215 (IFM)
  
• Portfolio Choice in a Monetary Open-Economy DSGE Model
  Charles Engel and Akito Matsumoto #12214 (IFM)
  
• Expectations and Exchange Rate Policy
  Michael B. Devereux and Charles Engel #12213 (IFM)
  
• Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations
  Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti #12212 (EFG, LS)
  
• Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application
  Patrick Bayer and Stephen L. Ross #12211 (ED)
  
• An Empirical Analysis of the Pricing of Collateralized Debt Obligations
  Francis A. Longstaff and Arvind Rajan #12210 (AP)
  
• The Effect of Taxes on Efficiency and Growth
  Martin Felstein #12201 (PE)
  

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Week of April 24, 2006

• Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making - A Selective Survey
  Pablo T. Spiller and Sanny Liao #12209 (LE)
  
• The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly
  Lara Gardner and Donna Gilleskie #12208 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8
  Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob L. Vigdor #12207 (ED)
  
• Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
  Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Claire Lelarge, John Van Reenen and Fabrizio Zilibotti #12206 (EFG, LS)
  
• Redistribution by Insurance Market Regulation: Analyzing a Ban on Gender-Based Retirement Annuities
  Amy Finkelstein, James Poterba and Casey Rothschild #12205(AG, AP, CF, HC, PE)
  
• Intergenerational Risksharing and Equilibrium Asset Prices
  John Y. Campbell and Yves Nosbusch #12204 (AG, AP, PE)
  
• Is IPO Underperformance a Peso Problem?
  Andrew Ang, Li Gu and Yael V. Hochberg #12203 (AP)
  
• Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance
  Alexandre Mas #12202 (LS)
  
• Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
  Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz #12200 (AP, EFG)
  
• Do High School Exit Exams Influence Educational Attainment or Labor Market Performance?
  Thomas S. Dee and Brian A. Jacob #12199 (CH, ED)
  
• Stabilization of Effective Exchange Rates Under Common Currency Basket Systems
  Eiji Ogawa and Junko Shimizu #12198 (ITI)
  
• The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families
  Hope Corman, Anne Carroll, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman #12197 (HC, HE)
  
• Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs
  Pol Antràs, Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #12196 (ITI)
  
• The Private Value of Software Patents
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Megan MacGarvie #12195 (PR)
  

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Week of April 17, 2006

• G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability and Adjustment
  Richard H. Clarida #12194 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Are There Thresholds of Current Account Adjustment in the G7?
  Richard H. Clarida, Manuela Goretti, and Mark P. Taylor #12193 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Trade Liberalization with Heterogenous Firms
  Richard E. Baldwin and Rikard Forslid #12192 (ITI)
  
• Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
  Andrew K. Rose #12191 (ITI)
  
• Pork Barrel Cycles
  Allan Drazen and Marcela Eslava #12190 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• One World Money, Then and Now
  Michael Bordo and Harold James #12189 (DAE, ME)
  
• What Determines Bilateral Trade Flows?
  Marianne Baxter and Michael A. Kouparitsas #12188 (ITI)
  
• Debt Relief
  Serkan Arslanalp and Peter Blair Henry #12187 (IFM)
  
• Firm-Specific Information and the Efficiency of Investment
  Anusha Chari and Peter Blair Henry #12186 (CF, IFM)
  
• Analyzing Artistic Innovation: The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century
  David W. Galenson #12185 (LS, PR)
  
• Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions
  David M. Cutler, Mary Beth Landrum and Kate A. Stewart #12184 (AG, HC)
  
• The Expected Value Premium
  Long Chen, Ralitsa Petkova and Lu Zhang #12183 (AP)
  
• The Diffusion of the Internet and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States
  Shane Greenstein and Jeff Prince #12182 (IO, PR)
  
• AIDS, Reversal of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan #12181 (EFG, HC)
  
• Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
  Andreas Ammermueller and Jörn-Steffen Pischke #12180 (AG, PE)
  
• Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools
  Elizabeth Cascio #12179 (CH, LS)
  
• The Post MFA Performance of Developing Asia
  John Whalley #12178 (ITI)
  
• Scarcity Rents in Car Retailing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Dealerships
  Florian Zettelmeyer, Fiona Scott Morton and Jorge Silva-Risso #12177 (IO)
  

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Week of April 10, 2006

• Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales: What Do We Know?
  Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Alan Manning #12176 (ED, LS)
  
• Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
  Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini #12175 (IFM)
  
• Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr. #12174 (LS)
  
• The Relative Sophistication of Chinese Exports
  Peter K. Schott #12173 (ITI)
  
• Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry
  Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby #12172 (PR)
  
• Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
  Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin #12171 (DAE, ITI)
  
• Inadequacy of Nation-Based and VaR-Based Safety Nets in the European Union
  Edward J. Kane #12170 (CF, ME)
  
• The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting
  Stefano Della Vigna and Ethan Kaplan #12169 (PE)
  
• The 2006 Economic Report of the President: Comment on Chapter One (The Year in Review) and Chapter Six (The Capital Account Surplus)
  Martin Feldstein #12168 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  

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Week of April 3, 2006

• The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger #12167 (EFG, LS)
  
• Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems
  Gadi Barlevy and H.N. Nagaraja #12166 (EFG, LS)
  
• Execution Risk
  Robert Engle, Robert Ferstenberg #12165 (AP)
  
• Putting the Lid on Lobbying: Tariff Structure and Long-Term Growth when Protection is for Sale
  Nathan Nunn, Daniel Trefler #12164 (ITI)
  
• The Relationship Between Exchange Rates and Inflation Targeting Revisited
  Sebastian Edwards #12163 (IFM, ME)
  
• Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age
  Douglas A. Irwin #12162 (DAE, ITI)
  
• Antebellum Tariff Politics: Coalition Formation and Shifting Regional Interests
  Douglas A. Irwin #12161 (DAE, ITI)
  
• The Impact of Federation on Australia's Trade Flows
  Douglas A. Irwin #12160 (DAE, ITI)
  
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