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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of June 18 - June 25, 2007

• Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
  Daron Acemoglu, María Angélica Bautista, Pablo Querubín, and James A. Robinson #13208 (DAE, POL)
  
• Banking and Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Analysis: A Quantitative Exploration
  Marvin Goodfriend and Bennett T. McCallum #13207 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
  Joseph Price and Justin Wolfers #13206 (LE, LS)
  
• Random Walk Expectations and the Forward Discount Puzzle
  Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop #13205 (IFM)
  
• Liquidity and Trading Dynamics
  Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni #13204 (EFG, ME)
  
• Offshoring in a Ricardian World
  Andrés Rodríguez-Clare #13203 (ITI)
  
• Managerial Ownership Dynamics and Firm Value
  Rüdiger Fahlenbrach and René M. Stulz #13202 (CF)
  
• Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors' Common Stock Purchases Covet Thy Neighbors' Investment Choices
  Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner #13201 (AP)
  
• Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact
  Marco Bassetto and Vadym Lepetyuk #13200 (EFG)
  
• Monetary Policy and Business Cycles with Endogenous Entry and Product Variety
  Florin O. Bilbiie, Fabio Ghironi, and Marc J. Melitz #13199 (EFG, ME)
  
• Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas
  Satyajit Chatterjee and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #13198 (EFG, IO)
  
• The Two Crises of International Economics
  Michael P. Dooley, Peter M. Garber, and David Folkerts-Landau #13197 (IFM)
  
• Long-Run Risks and Financial Markets
  Ravi Bansal #13196 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation
  James J. Heckman #13195 (HE, ED, LS)
  
• Latin America's Access to International Capital Markets: Good Behavior or Global Liquidity?
  Ana Fostel and Graciela Laura Kaminsky #13194 (IFM)
  
• School Desegregation and Educational Attainment for Blacks
  Sarah J. Reber #13193 (ED)
  
• From Separate and Unequal to Integrated and Equal? School Desegregation and School Finance in Louisiana
  Sarah J. Reber #13192 (ED)
  
• The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle
  Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David Laibson #13191 (AG, AP, EFG)
  
• Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age: Lessons from the Impressionists
  David W. Galenson #13190 (LS)
  
• Investor Sentiment in the Stock Market
  Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler #13189 (AP, CF)
  
• Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates
  Michael Baker and Kevin S. Milligan #13188 (CH, HE, LS)
  
• Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
  Olivier Deschênes and Michael Greenstone #13178 (CH, EEE, HC, HE, LS, PE)
  

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Week of June 4 - June 11, 2007

• An Analysis of the Performance of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel
  Radha Iyengar #13187 (LS)
  
• Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws
  Radha Iyengar #13186 (LS)
  
• Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations
  Alexander Ludwig, Dirk Krueger, and Axel H. Boersch-Supan #13185 (AG, PE, IFM)
  
• Capitalism and Democracy in 2040: Forecasts and Speculations
  Robert W. Fogel #13184 (ED, EFG, DAE)
  
• A Framework for Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability with an Empirical Application
  Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Rebecca Hellerstein #13183 (IFM, IO, ITI)
  
• A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement
  Florian Hoffman and Philip Oreopoulos #13182 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States
  Christopher J. Ruhm #13181 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Democracy, Technology, and Growth
  Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina, and Francesco Trebbi #13180 (POL, EFG)
  
• Gender Roles and Technological Progress
  Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti #13179 (DAE, EFG, LS)
  
• Interest Rate Rules, Inflation Stabilization, and Imperfect Credibility: The Small Open Economy Case
  Guillermo A. Calvo #13177 (IFM, ME)
  
• Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals
  Sergey Paltsev, John M. Reilly, Henry D. Jacoby, Angelo C. Gurgel, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Andrei P. Sokolov , and Jennifer F. Holak #13176 (PE, EEE)
  
• Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities
  Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, and Jesenka Mrdjenovic #13175 (ED, LS)
  
• Investment and the Cost of Capital: New Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market
  Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajsek #13174 (EFG, ME)
  
• Portfolio Choices with Near Rational Agents: A Solution to Some International-Finance Puzzles
  Pierpaolo Benigno #13173 (AP, IFM)
  
• Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence
  Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Marshall Van Alstyne #13172 (IO, PR)
  
• Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
  Randall Morck and Masao Nakamura #13171 (CF, IO, EFG)
  
• Development Through Synergistic Reform
  James E. Rauch #13170 (ITI)
  
• Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Nellie Liang, and Scott Weisbenner #13169 (AG, PE, AP)
  
• Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Zoran Ivkovich, Paul A. Smith, and Scott Weisbenner #13168 (AG, AP, PE)
  
• Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa
  Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoë McLaren, and Ingrid Woolard #13167 (ITI, LS)
  
• How Structural Are Structural Parameters?
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez #13166 (EFG)
  
• Predictable Returns and Asset Allocation: Should a Skeptical Investor Time the Market?
  Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana #13165 (AP)
  
• Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
  Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch #13164 (PE, POL)
  
• Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device
  Rafael Di Tella and Federico Weinschelbaum #13163 (PE, POL)
  

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Week of May 28 - June 4, 2007

• Women, Wealth and Mobility
  Lena Edlund and Wojciech Kopczuk #13162 (DAE, EFG, LS, PE, PR)
  
• Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
  Judith K. Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Melissa McInerney #13161 (LS)
  
• Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth
  Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi #13160 (PE)
  
• Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel
  Rafael Di Tella, John Haisken-De New, and Robert MacCulloch #13159 (POL)
  
• Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
  Shane Greenstein #13158 (PR)
  
• Investment Spikes: New Facts and a General Equilibrium Exploration
  Francois Gourio and Anil K Kashyap #13157 (IFM, EFG)
  
• The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy
  Lisa M. Lynch #13156 (LS, PR)
  
• Product Differentiation, Multi-product Firms and Estimating the Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity
  Jan De Loecker #13155 (PR, ITI)
  
• Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal Exchange Rate Regimes
  Amartya Lahiri, Rajesh Singh, and Carlos A. Vegh #13154 (IFM)
  
• Pioneers, Submariners, or Thicket-builders: Which Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?
  Deepak Hegde, David C. Mowery, and Stuart Graham #13153 (PR, IO)
  
• Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Giving
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #13152 (ED, PE)
  
• Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow
  Martin D. D. Evans and Richard K. Lyons #13151 (AP, IFM)
  
• The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?
  Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini #13150 (IFM, POL, EFG)
  
• Offshoring and Unemployment
  Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan #13149 (ITI)
  
• Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
  Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei #13148 (IFM, CF)
  
• Inflation Dynamics
  Frederic S. Mishkin #13147 (EFG, ME)
  
• Patents and the Survival of Internet-related IPOs
  Iain M. Cockburn and Stefan Wagner #13146 (IO, PR)
  
• The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
  Benjamin A. Olken and Patrick Barron #13145 (IO, PE, POL)
  
• Outsourcing and Volatility
  Paul R. Bergin, Robert C. Feenstra, and Gordon H. Hanson #13144 (ITI)
  
• In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy
  Roberto Perotti #13143 (IFM, EFG, PE
  

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Week of May 21 - May 28, 2007

• Instrumental Variables Estimation of Heteroskedastic Linear Models Using All Lags of Instruments
  Kenneth D. West, Ka-fu Wong, and Stanislav Anatolyev #t0338 (TWP)
  
• Bargaining Around the Hearth
  Robert A. Pollak #13142 (LE, LS)
  
• Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution
  Carl Shapiro #13141 (LE, IO)
  
• "The Best Price You'll Ever Get" The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry
  Meghan R. Busse, Duncan Simester, and Florian Zettelmeyer #13140 (IO)
  
• Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization
  Donald R. Davis and James Harrigan #13139 (ITI, LS)
  
• Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market
  Alexandre Mas #13138 (LS)
  
• Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length
  Carole Roan Gresenz, Jeannette Rogowski, and José J. Escarce #13137 (HC)
  
• Revisiting the Supply-Side Effects of Government Spending Under Incomplete Markets
  George-Marios Angeletos and Vasia Panousi #13136 (EFG, PE)
  
• Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks: How Much is A Friend Worth?
  Stephen Leider, Markus M. Möbius, Tanya Rosenblat, and Quoc-Anh Do #13135 (LS)
  
• Instrumental Variables Estimation of Heteroskedastic Linear Models Using All Lags of Instruments
  Kenneth D. West, Ka-fu Wong, and Stanislav Anatolyev #13134 (AP, EFG, ME)
  

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Week of May 14 - May 21, 2007

• How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada
  Christopher Carpenter #13133 (HE)
  
• Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities
  Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala #13132 (CF, IFM, ITI, PE)
  
• Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race
  Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk #13131 (IFM, ME, PE)
  
• Sub-national Differentiation and the Role of the Firm in Optimal International Pricing
  Edward J. Balistreri and James R. Markusen #13130 (ITI, IO)
  
• The Cross-Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and Consumption Growth Risk: A Comment
  Craig Burnside #13129 (AP, IFM)
  
• Performance Pay and Wage Inequality
  Thomas Lemieux, W. Bentley MacLeod, and Daniel Parent #13128 (LS)
  
• The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Stephen Donald #13127 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Trust and Social Collateral
  Markus Mobius and Adam Szeidl #13126 (LS)
  
• End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing
  Avi Dor, Mark V. Pauly, Margaret A. Eichleay, and Philip J. Held #13125 (HC, HE)
  
• Do Security Analysts Speak in Two Tongues?
  Ulrike Malmendier and Devin Shanthikumar #13124 (AP, CF)
  
• Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies: An Assessment of the New Merchantilism
  Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Enrique G. Mendoza, and Marco E. Terrones #13123 (IFM)
  
• Political Dynasties
  Ernesto Dal Bó, Pedro Dal Bó, and Jason Snyder #13122 (POL, DAE)
  
• The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
  Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher Malloy #13121 (AP)
  
• The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints
  Simon Johnson, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Arvind Subramanian #13120 (CF, IFM, POL)
  
• Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?
  Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk #13119 (IFM, PE)
  
• International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
  Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton #13118 (IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices
  Jesse Rothstein and Cecilia Elena Rouse #13117 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
  Sandra E. Black and Alexandra Spitz-Oener #13116 (LS, PR)
  
• Implications of Search Frictions: Matching Aggregate and Establishment-level Observations
  Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger, and Jonathan L. Willis #13115 (EFG)
  
• Why is the Dollar So High?
  Martin Feldstein #13114 (IFM, ITI)
  

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Week of May 7 - May 14, 2007

• Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance
  Inas Rashad and Sara Markowitz #13113 (HE)
  
• Daily Changes in Fed Funds Futures Prices
  James D. Hamilton #13112 (ME)
  
• Are Shocks to the Terms of Trade Shocks to Productivity?
  Timothy J. Kehoe and Kim J. Ruhl #13111 (EFG)
  
• Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers
  Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, and Sita Nataraj Slavov #13110 (AG)
  
• Putting the Corporation in its Place
  Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal #13109 (DAE, LE, CF)
  
• Cointegration and Consumption Risks in Asset Returns
  Ravi Bansal, Robert Dittmar, and Dana Kiku #13108 (AP, EFG)
  
• Rational Pessimism, Rational Exuberance, and Asset Pricing Models
  Ravi Bansal, A. Ronald Gallant, and George Tauchen #13107 (AP)
  
• Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
  Frank Levy and Peter Temin #13106 (DAE, LS, POL)
  
• The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives
  John Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, Steven Laufer, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #13105 (AG, AP, CH, EFG, HC, LS, PE)
  
• Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs
  Jeremy Greenwood, Juan M. Sanchez, and Cheng Wang #13104 (EFG, CF)
  
• Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
  David Dollar and Shang-Jin Wei #13103 (IFM, CF)
  
• Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
  Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken #13102 (EFG, POL)
  
• Do Markets Care Who Chairs the Central Bank?
  Kenneth N. Kuttner and Adam S. Posen #13101 (ME)
  
• Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime
  Jeffrey A. Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei #13100 (IFM)
  

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Week of April 30 - May 7, 2007

• Monetary Policy Analysis with Potentially Misspecified Models
  Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide #13099 (EFG, ME)
  
• Decentralization and Environmental Quality: An International Analysis of Water Pollution
  Hilary Sigman #13098 (PE)
  
• Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime
  Jessica Wolpaw Reyes #13097 (CH, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Understanding the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: A Theoretical Analysis
  Fatih Guvenen and Burhanettin Kuruscu #13096 (EFG, LS)
  
• A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970-2000
  Fatih Guvenen and Burhanettin Kuruscu #13095 (EFG, LS)
  
• Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI
  Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka #13094 (IFM, ITI)
  
• When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century
  Eric Hilt #13093 (CF, DAE, LE)
  
• Financial Frictions, Investment and Tobin's q
  Guido Lorenzoni and Karl Walentin #13092 (CF, EFG)
  
• Rise of 401(k) Plans, Lifetime Earnings, and Wealth at Retirement
  James Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise #13091 (AG)
  
• The Earnings Announcement Premium and Trading Volume
  Owen Lamont and Andrea Frazzini #13090 (AP)
  
• Credit Constraints and Stock Price Volatility
  Galina Hale, Assaf Razin, and Hui Tong #13089 (IFM)
  
• Global Currency Hedging
  John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira #13088 (AP, IFM)
  
• Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
  Rodrigo R. Soares #13087 (HE)
  
• Technology Transfer through Imports
  Ram C. Acharya and Wolfgang Keller #13086 (EFG, ITI, PR)
  
• Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
  Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen #13085 (LS, PR, EFG, ITI, IO)
  
• Takeoffs
  Joshua Aizenman and Mark Spiegel #13084 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(k) Assets
  James Poterba, Steven Venti, and David A. Wise #13083 (AG)
  
• When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States
  David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Jacob L. Vigdor #13082 (LS)
  
• Markets and Housing Finance
  Veronica Cacdac Warnock and Francis E. Warnock #13081 (IFM, CF)
  
• Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
  Judith Hellerstein, David Neumark, and Melissa McInerney #13080 (LS)
  
• Has New York Become Less Competitive in Global Markets? Evaluating Foreign Listing Choices Over Time
  Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, and Rene M. Stulz #13079 (CF)
  
• Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?
  Michael C. Christensen and Dahlia Remler #13078 (HC, HE)
  
• Persistent Appreciations and Overshooting: A Normative Analysis
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Guido Lorenzoni #13077 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Why Do Emerging Economies Borrow Short Term?
  Fernando A. Broner, Guido Lorenzoni, and Sergio L. Schmukler #13076 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Price Dispersion under Costly Capacity and Demand Uncertainty
  Diego Escobari and Li Gan #13075 (IO)
  
• The Stability of Large External Imbalances: The Role of Returns Differentials
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock #13074 (IFM)
  
• Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries
  Ariel Burstein and Alexander Monge-Naranjo #13073 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  

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Week of April 16 - April 23, 2007

• Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse
  Glenn W. Harrison and John A. List #13072 (IO, PE)
  
• The Rise of the Sunbelt
  Edward L. Glaeser and Kristina Tobio #13071 (PE)
  
• Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria
  Una Okonkwo Osili and Bridget Terry Long #13070 (ED)
  
• Strategic Entry Deterrence and the Behavior of Pharmaceutical Incumbents Prior to Patent Expiration
  Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison #13069 (IO)
  
• What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns
  Glenn Ellison, Edward L. Glaeser, and William Kerr #13068 (PE)
  
• Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
  William Adams, Liran Einav, and Jonathan Levin #13067 (EFG, IO, LE, LS, PE)
  
• Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
  Kevin Lang and Hong Kang #13066 (HE, LS)
  
• From Farming to International Business: The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy
  Kaivan Munshi #13065 (IO)
  
• Wage and Labor Mobility in Denmark, 1980-2000
  Tor Eriksson and Niels Westergaard-Nielsen #13064 (LS)
  
• Determinants of Firm Boundaries: Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Auto Industry from 1984 to 2002
  Sadao Nagaoka, Akira Takeishi, and Yoshihisa Noro #13063 (IO)
  
• Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage
  Alejandro Cuñat and Marc J. Melitz #13062 (ITI, LS)
  
• Why Do Private Acquirers Pay So Little Compared to Public Acquirers?
  Leonce Bargeron, Frederik Schlingemann, Rene M. Stulz, and Chad Zutter #13061 (CF, AP)
  
• Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry
  Nick Bloom, Mark Schankerman, and John Van Reenen #13060 (IO, PR)
  
• Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security
  Andrew A. Samwick #13059 (AG, PE)
  
• An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing
  Arghya Ghosh and Hodaka Morita #13058 (IO)
  

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Week of April 9 - April 16, 2007

• Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
  Kevin H. O'Rourke, Ahmed S. Rahman, and Alan M. Taylor #13057 (DAE, IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital
  Robert E. Hall and Susan E. Woodward #13056 (EFG, IO, CF, AP)
  
• Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913
  Joan R. Rosés, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Jeffrey G. Williamson #13055 (DAE, EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Firms in International Trade
  Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott #13054 (ITI)
  
• Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs
  William A. Pizer and David Popp #13053 (PR)
  
• Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
  David Card, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein #13052 (LS, PE)
  
• The Power of the Family
  Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano #13051 (LS, PE, POL)
  
• On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate
  Jeffrey Frankel #13050 (IFM)
  
• HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?
  Emily Oster #13049 (HE, LS)
  
• Market Access, Openness and Growth
  John Romalis #13048 (ITI)
  
• The Continental Dollar: How Much was Issued and What Happened to It?
  Farley Grubb #13047 (DAE, ME)
  
• Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys
  Christopher Carpenter and Philip J. Cook #13046 (HE)
  
• Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior
  Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine #13045 (CH, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design
  Mark V. Pauly and Fredric E. Blavin #13044 (HC, HE, PE)
  

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Week of April 2 - April 9, 2006

• Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice
  Guido Imbens and Thomas Lemieux #t0337 (TWP)
  
• Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
  John M. Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, Kevin L. McKinney, and Kristin Sandusky #13043 (EFG, LS, PR)
  
• Return Persistence and Fund Flows in the Worst Performing Mutual Funds
  Jonathan B. Berk and Ian Tonks #13042 (AP)
  
• Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications
  Christian Broda and David E. Weinstein #13041 (EFG, ITI, ME)
  
• Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders: Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?
  Kala Krishna and Ling H. Tan #13040 (ITI)
  
• Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice
  Guido Imbens and Thomas Lemieux #13039 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations
  Bruce A. Weinberg #13038 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence
  Anna Maria Mayda, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Richard Sinnott #13037 (ITI)
  
• The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  Roland G. Fryer and Michael Greenstone #13036 (ED, LS)
  
• Unbalanced Trade
  Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton, and Samuel Kortum #13035 (IFM, ITI, PR)
  
• Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
  Jennifer Hunt #13034 (LS, PE, HC)
  
• Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence
  Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi #13033 (ITI, PR)
  
• Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
  Alan B. Krueger and David Schkade #13032 (LS)
  
• Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs
  Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote #13031 (PE, POL)
  
• Rent Rigidity, Asymmetric Information, and Volatility Bounds in Labor Markets
  Bjoern Bruegemann and Giuseppe Moscarini #13030 (EFG)
  
• Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's
  Bruno Contini, Roberto Leombruni, Lia Pacelli, and Claudia Villosio #13029 (LS)
  
• The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
  Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson #13028 (IFM, POL, PE)
  
• The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
  Alan B. Krueger and David A. Schkade #13027 (LS)
  
• Replication in Economics
  Daniel S. Hamermesh #13026 (LS)
  
• Consumption Reponses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program
  Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach #13025 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Regularities
  Laura X. L. Liu, Toni Whited, and Lu Zhang #13024 (AP, CF, EFG)
  
• Regionalization, Changes in Home Bias, and the Growth of World Trade
  John Whalley and Xian Xin #13023 (ITI)
  
• The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?
  Jacob L. Vigdor #13022 (ED, LS)
  
• Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000
  Oskar Nordström Skans, Per-Anders Edin, and Bertil Holmlund #13021 (LS)
  
• Collateral Damage: Exchange Controls and International Trade
  Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang #13020 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Crises and Growth: A Latin American Perspective
  Sebastian Edwards #13019 (IFM)
  
• Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
  Diego Restuccia and Richard Rogerson #13018 (EFG, PR)
  
• Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes
  Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius #13017 (EFG, LS, PE)
  

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Week of March 26 - April 2, 2007

• The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children
  James J. Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov #13016 (CH, ED, PE, PR)
  
• International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes
  Susan Helper and Morris M. Kleiner #13015 (IO, LS, PR)
  
• Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure
  Jonathan B. Berk, Richard Stanton, and Josef Zechner #13014 (AP, CF)
  
• Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?
  David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, and Allison B. Rosen #13013 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?
  Erzo F.P. Luttmer #13012 (LS, PE)
  
• Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity
  Hyunbae Chun, Jung-Wook Kim, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #13011 (CF)
  
• Is Bad News About Inflation Good News for the Exchange Rate?
  Richard Clarida and Daniel Waldman #13010 (AP, IFM, ME)
  
• No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes
  Justine S. Hastings and Jeffrey M. Weinstein #13009 (CH, ED, PE)
  
• Factions and Political Competition
  Nicola Persico, José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita, and Dan Silverman #13008 (PE, POL)
  
• Policy Analysis in a Matching Model with Intensive and Extensive Margins
  Lei Fang and Richard Rogerson #13007 (EFG)
  
• Spill-Overs from Good Jobs
  Paul Beaudry, David A. Green, and Benjamin Sand #13006 (LS)
  
• Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan
  Hirofumi Uchida, Gregory F.Udell, and Wako Watanabe #13005 (CF, IO)
  
• Liquidity Risk Aversion, Debt Maturity, and Current Account Surpluses: A Theory and Evidence from East Asia
  Shin-ichi Fukuda and Yoshifumi Kon #13004 (IFM)
  
• Central Bank Transparency: Where, Why, and with What Effects?
  N. Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen #13003 (IFM)
  

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