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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of June 22 - June 28, 2008

• Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice
  M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neale Mahoney #14153 (HC, HE, IO, PE)
• Macroeconomics and ARCH
  James D. Hamilton #14151 (EFG, ME)
• From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood
  David Galenson and Joshua Kotin #14150 (LS)
• Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit
  Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal #14149 (PE)
• Measuring the Risk-Adjusted Performance of US Buyouts
  Alexander Peter Groh and Oliver Gottschalg #14148 (AP)
• Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation
  Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins #14147 (EEE, IO, LE, PE)
• U.S. Defense Contracts During the Tax Expenditure Battles of the 1980s
  Susan Guthrie and James R. Hines, Jr. #14146 (PE)
• Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005
  Carola Frydman and Raven E. Saks #14145 (CF, DAE, LS)
• A New Method to Estimate Risk and Return of Non-Traded Assets from Cash Flows: The Case of Private Equity Funds
  Joost Driessen, Tse-Chun Lin, and Ludovic Phalippou #14144 (AP, CF)
• Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections
  Alberto F. Alesina and Richard T. Holden #14143 (POL)
• Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
  Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode #14142 (DAE)
• Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn
  Richard C. Sutch #14141 (DAE)
• Superstar CEOs
  Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate #14140 (CF, LE, LS)
• Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution
  David S. Jacks and Krishna Pendakur #14139 (DAE, ITI)
• The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
  Benjamin F. Jones #14138 (ED, EFG, PR)
• Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John C. Haltiwanger, and Ian Rucker #14137 (EFG, LS)
• Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities
  Leo Feler and J. Vernon Henderson #14136 (PE)
• Models of Idea Flows
  Fernando E. Alvarez, Francisco J. Buera, and Robert E. Lucas, Jr. #14135 (EFG)
• Crisis and Responses: the Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
  Stephen G. Cecchetti #14134 (ME)
• Ideas and Growth
  Robert E. Lucas, Jr. #14133 (EFG)
• Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
  Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones, and Benjamin A. Olken #14132 (EEE, EFG)
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
  David Y. Albouy #14130 (EFG, POL)
• Foreign Influence and Welfare
  Pol Antr?s and Gerard Padr? i Miquel #14129 (ITI, POL)
• Age, Luck, and Inheritance
  Jess Benhabib and Shenghao Zhu #14128 (EFG)
• Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India
  Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova #14127 (ITI)
• Exchange Rate Regimes and the Extensive Margin of Trade
  Paul R. Bergin and Ching-Yi Lin #14126 (IFM)
• State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?
  Ellen Meara, Meredith Rosenthal, Anna Sinaiko, and Katherine Baicker #14125 (HC, PE)
• Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
  Benjamin A. Olken #14123 (PE, POL)
• Wages, Unemployment and Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers
  Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, and Stephen Redding #14122 (EFG, LS)
• Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade
  Robert E. Lipsey #14121 (IFM, ITI, PR)
• Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression
  Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn #14120 (DAE)
• The Continuing Puzzle of Short Horizon Exchange Rate Forecasting
  Kenneth S. Rogoff and Vania Stavrakeva #14071 (IFM, ME)

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Week of June 15 - June 21, 2008

• Crashes and Recoveries in Illiquid Markets
  Ricardo Lagos, Guillaume Rocheteau, and Pierre-Olivier Weill #14119 (AP)
• Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes
  Tara Watson and Angela Fertig #14118 (CH, HE, PE)
• Theory and Empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets
  Ariel Pakes #14117 (IO, PR)
• Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries
  Eric Bond, James R. Tybout, and Hâle Utar #14116 (PR)
• Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities
  Claudia M. Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier #14115 (LE)
• Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations
  Bruce Sacerdote and James Feyrer #14114 (CH, EFG, LS)
• Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking
  Luc Laeven and Ross Levine #14113 (CF, IFM)
• Financially Constrained Fluctuations in an Evolving Network Economy
  Domenico Delli Gatti, Mauro Gallegati, Bruce C. Greenwald, Alberto Russo, and Joseph E. Stiglitz #14112 (EFG)
• Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles
  Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel #14111 (AP)
• Energy Tax Incentives and the Alternative Minimum Tax
  Curtis Carlson and Gilbert E. Metcalf #14110 (EEE, PE)
• How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive
  Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang, and Shang-Jin Wei #14109 (ITI)
• Intangible Capital and Productivity: An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms
  Maria Elena Bontempi and Jacques Mairesse #14108 (PR)
• Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
  Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson #14107 (DAE, LE, POL)
• Trade, Firms, and Wages: Theory and Evidence
  Mary Amiti and Donald R. Davis #14106 (ITI)
• How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier #14105 (AG, LS, PE)
• The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans
  John Cawley, John R. Moran, and Kosali I. Simon #14104 (AG, HC, HE, LS, PE)
• Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections: A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data
  Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman, and Jie Shen #14103 (, POL)
• Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables
  Daniel F. McCaffrey, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Bing Han, and Phyllis Ellickson #14102 (HE)
• Banking Globalization, Monetary Transmission, and the Lending Channel
  Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg #14101 (IFM, ME)
• Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility: How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?
  Barry Eichengreen #14100 (IFM)
• Price and Real Output Measures for the Education Function of Government: Exploratory Estimates for Primary & Secondary Education
  Barbara M. Fraumeni, Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brooks B. Robinson, and Matthew P. Williams #14099 (ED, PR)
• On the Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand
  Peter N. Ireland #14098 (ME)
• Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation
  Alessandra Fogli and Laura Veldkamp #14097 (EFG, LS)
• Utilisation of Physician Services in the 50+ Population. The Relative Importance of Individual versus Institutional Factors in 10 European Countries
  Kristian Bolin, Anna Lindgren, Bjorn Lindgren, and Petter Lundborg #14096 (HE, HC)
• Is There a Market for Voluntary Health Insurance in Developing Countries?
  Mark Pauly, Fredric E. Blavin, and Sudha Meghan #14095 (HC)
• Life-cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
  Ian Ayres and Barry J. Nalebuff #14094 (PE)
• The Cost of Uncertain Life Span
  Ryan D. Edwards #14093 (AG, EFG, HE)
• Optimal Monetary Policy in an Operational Medium-Sized DSGE Model
  Malin Adolfson, Stefan Laseen, Jesper Linde, and Lars E.O. Svensson #14092 (EFG, IFM, ME)
• Economics and Ideology: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals
  Eric J. Brunner, Stephen L. Ross, and Ebonya L. Washington #14091 (POL)
• Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
  Kris J. Mitchener and Mari Ohnuki #14090 (DAE)
• What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption
  Amy Finkelstein, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo #14089 (AG, HC, LS, PE)
• Capital Market Imperfections and the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas
  Pierre-Richard Agenor and Joshua Aizenman #14088 (IFM, ITI)
• A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice
  Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein #14087 (CF)
• Use of Propensity Scores in Non-Linear Response Models: The Case for Health Care Expenditures
  Anirban Basu, Daniel Polsky, and Willard G. Manning #14086 (HC, TWP)
• Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors
  Sharon Katz #14085 (CF)
• Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?
  Annamaria Lusardi #14084 (AG)
• Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom?
  Christopher J. Mayer and Karen Pence #14083 (AP, CF, PE)
• Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors
  Scott E. Carrell and James E. West #14081 (ED)
• Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings
  Christopher R. Knittel and Konstantinos Metaxoglou #14080 (IO, TWP)

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Week of June 8 - June 14, 2008

• Listing of Working PapersEstimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports
  Ram C. Acharya and Wolfgang Keller #14079 (ITI, PR)
  
• Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges
  Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott, and Cagri Kumru #14078 (AG, PE)
  
• Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
  Gregory Clark, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor #14077 (DAE, IFM, ITI)
  
• How Social Processes Distort Measurement: The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work i
  Katharine G. Abraham, Sara E. Helms, and Stanley Presser #14076 (LS)
  
• Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?
  Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon #14075 (LS)
  
• Welfare Payments and Crime
  C. Fritz Foley #14074 (LE, PE)
  
• Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood
  Elizabeth Cascio, Damon Clark, and Nora Gordon #14073 (ED)
  
• Firm Heterogeneity and the Structure of U.S. Multinational Activity: An Empirical Analysis
  Stephen Yeaple #14072 (ITI)
  
• Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics
  Andrew Epstein, Jonathan D. Ketcham, and Sean Nicholson #14070 (HC, IO, LS)
  

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Week of June 1 - June 7, 2008

• International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
  David T. Coe, Elhanan Helpman, and Alexander W. Hoffmaister #14069 (ITI)
  
• Hedge Fund Contagion and Liquidity
  Nicole M. Boyson, Christof W. Stahel, and Rene M. Stulz #14068 (CF, AP)
  
• On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements
  Giovanni Maggi and Robert W. Staiger #14067 (ITI)
  
• The Back Story of Twentieth-Century Art
  David Galenson #14066 (LS)
  
• The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains
  Brian A. Jacob, Lars Lefgren, and David Sims #14065 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Schools, Skills, and Synapses
  James J. Heckman #14064 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility
  Nir Jaimovich and Henry E. Siu #14063 (EFG)
  
• Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking
  Michael D. Grubb and Paul Oyer #14062 (LE, LS, PE)
  
• Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
  Runjuan Liu and Daniel Trefler #14061 (ITI, LS)
  
• Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
  Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk #14060 (EFG, LS)
  
• Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines
  Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman #14059 (CF, IO, LE)
  
• Market Liquidity, Asset Prices and Welfare
  Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang #14058 (AP)
  
• Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards
  Albert N. Link and Christopher J. Ruhm #14057 (HC, HE, IO, PR)
  
• Big-Think Regionalism: A Critical Survey
  Richard Baldwin #14056 (ITI)
  
• Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts
  Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Michael Z. Stamos #14055 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?
  A. Craig Burnside, Martin S. Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski, and Sergio Rebelo #14054 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans
  Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn #14053 (AG, DAE)
  
• The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States
  Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, and Giovanni L. Violante #14052 (EFG, LS)
  
• A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
  Eswar S. Prasad and Raghuram Rajan #14051 (CF, IFM)
  
• Second-Best Institutions
  Dani Rodrik #14050 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools
  Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff, and James Wyckoff #14021 (ED, LS)
  

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Week of May 25 - May 31, 2008

• An Anatomy Of Credit Booms: Evidence From Macro Aggregates And Micro Data
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Marco E. Terrones #14049 (IFM)
  
• Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels
  Steven J. Davis and James A. Kahn #14048 (EFG)
  
• Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory
  Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate #14047 (PE, POL, EFG)
  
• Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation
  James E. Anderson #14046 (ITI)
  
• Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?
  James E. Anderson #14045 (ITI, LE)
  
• Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
  James J. Heckman, Paul A. LaFontaine, and Pedro L. Rodriguez #14044 (ED)
  
• Crossover Inventions And Knowledge Diffusion Of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence From The Electrical Technology
  Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal #14043 (DAE, PR)
  
• Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking: Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation
  Philip DeCicca, Donald S. Kenkel, and Alan D. Mathios #14042 (HE)
  
• Effects of Regulation on Drug Launch and Pricing in Interdependent Markets
  Patricia M. Danzon and Andrew J. Epstein #14041 (HC, IO, LE)
  
• Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
  Daron Acemoglu, Munther A. Dahleh, Ilan Lobel, and Asuman Ozdaglar #14040 (PE)
  
• Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
  Karin Mayr and Giovanni Peri #14039 (ITI, LS)
  
• The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families
  Jordan D. Matsudaira and Rebecca M. Blank #14038 (LS, PE)
  
• Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910
  Trevon D. Logan #14037 (DAE, HE)
  
• Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?
  Terra McKinnish, Randall Walsh, and Kirk White #14036 (LS, PE)
  
• The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
  Peter J. Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan R. Soetevent, and Arie Kapteyn #14035 (LS, PE)
  
• Globalization, Growth and Crises: The View from Latin America
  Sebastian Edwards #14034 (IFM, ITI)
  
• When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence
  Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Pablo Querubin, and James A. Robinson #14033 (ME, POL)
  
• Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College Achievement
  Scott E. Carrell, Richard L. Fullerton, and James E. West #14032 (ED)
  
• Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
  Sharon L. Maccini and Dean Yang #14031 (CH, ED, HE, LS)
  
• The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas
  Lucas W. Davis and Lutz Kilian #14030 (EEE)
  
• Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments: Old Wine in Green Bottles?
  Ben Lockwood and John Whalley #14025 (EEE, IO, ITI)
  
• Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement
  Donald Boyd, Pam Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #14022 (ED, LS)
  
• Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes
  Erwin Diewert, Saeed Heravi, and Mick Silver #14018 (EFG, PR, TWP)
  

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Week of May 18 - May 24, 2008

• Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence
  James A. Brander, Edward J. Egan, and Thomas F. Hellmann #14029 (CF, PR)
  
• Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics
  Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker, and Shu-Chun Susan Yang #14028 (EFG, PE)
  
• Big Business Stability and Social Welfare
  Kathy Fogel, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #14027 (CF)
  
• Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance Of Balance-Sheet Effects And Financial Integration
  Guillermo A. Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo, and Luis-Fernando Mejia #14026 (IFM)
  
• China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa
  Hany Besada, Yang Wang, and John Whalley #14024 (ITI)
  
• Assessing the Federal Deduction for State and Local Tax Payments
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #14023 (PE)
  
• Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory
  Kam Yu #14020 (PR)
  
• Inflation, Monetary Policy and Stock Market Conditions
  Michael D. Bordo, Michael J. Dueker, and David C. Wheelock #14019 (ME, EFG, AP)
  
• Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data
  Christian Broda and David E. Weinstein #14017 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights
  Jeffrey A. Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei #14016 (IFM)
  
• Private Sunspots and Idiosyncratic Investor Sentiment
  George-Marios Angeletos #14015 (EFG)
  
• Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives
  Anders Bjorklund and Richard Freeman #14014 (LS)
  
• Liquidity and Market Crashes
  Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang #14013 (AP)
  
• Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints
  Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi #14012 (AG)
  
• Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
  Seema Jayachandran #14011 (CH, HC, HE)
  
• Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity
  Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner #14010 (HE)
  
• Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
  John Cawley and C. Katharina Spiess #13997 (CH, ED, HE, LS)
  

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Week of May 11 - May 17, 2008

• Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look
  Frank R. Lichtenberg and Gautier Duflos #14009 (EFG, HC, HE, PR)
  
• Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #14008 (HC, HE, PR)
  
• Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey
  Anne Case, Christina Paxson, and Mahnaz Islam #14007 (AG, CH, LS)
  
• The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone #14006 (ED, LS)
  
• The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #14005 (PR, LS)
  
• Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild.
  Gary Richardson and Michael McBride #14004 (DAE)
  
• An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I
  Petra Moser #14003 (DAE, LS)
  
• Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects
  Jean-Pierre Florens, James J. Heckman, Costas Meghir, and Edward J. Vytlacil #14002 (TWP)
  
• Monetary Non-Neutrality in a Multi-Sector Menu Cost Model
  Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson #14001 (EFG, ME)
  
• When Should Firms Invest in Old Capital?
  Boyan Jovanovic #14000 (PR, TWP, EFG)
  
• Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
  Pedro Dal B?, Andrew Foster, and Louis Putterman #13999 (POL)
  
• Specific Capital and Technological Variety
  Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau #13998 (PR)
  
• Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
  Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, and John Van Reenen #13996 (LS)
  
• The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation
  David Y. Albouy #13995 (POL, PE)
  
• The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size
  Thomas Dee and Martin West #13994 (CH, ED)
  
• Parental Education and Parental Time With Children
  Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst, and Melissa Schettini Kearney #13993 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry
  William Easterly, Shanker Satyanath, and Daniel Berger #13992 (POL)
  
• Indexed Regulation
  Richard G. Newell and William A. Pizer #13991 (EEE)
  
• Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870
  Aurora G?mez Galvarriato and Jeffrey G. Williamson #13990 (DAE, EFG)
  
• Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens
  Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins, and Richard H. K. Vietor #13989 (EEE, IO, LE, PE)
  
• Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #13988 (IFM, ITI)
  

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Week of May 4 - May 10, 2008

• Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
  Janet Currie #13987 (CH, HE, LS, PE)
  
• The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off at Low Inflation
  Pierpaolo Benigno and Luca Antonio Ricci #13986 (EFG, IFM, LS, ME)
  
• Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data
  Valerie A. Ramey #13985 (EFG, ME, LS)
  
• When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?
  Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei #13984 (CF, IFM, ITI)
  
• Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account
  Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott #13983 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey
  Robert J. Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker #13982 (DAE, EFG, LS)
  
• Inverse Probability Tilting and Missing Data Problems
  Daniel Egel, Bryan S. Graham, and Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto #13981 (TWP)
  
• Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals
  Gilbert E. Metcalf, Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly, Henry Jacoby, and Jennifer F. Holak #13980 (EEE, PE)
  
• Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts
  John Geanakoplos and Stephen P. Zeldes #13979 (AG, AP, EFG, ME, PE)
  
• Will Subprime be a Twin Crisis for the United States?
  Michael P. Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau, and Peter M. Garber #13978 (IFM)
  
• The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000
  Brandon Dupont, Alka Gandhi, and Thomas J. Weiss #13977 (DAE)
  
• How are Preferences Revealed?
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #13976 (AG, AP, PE)
  
• Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections
  Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse #13975 (PR)
  
• Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets
  Farley Grubb #13974 (DAE)
  
• Sell Side School Ties
  Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy, and Lauren Cohen #13973 (AP)
  
• Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
  David G. Blanchflower #13972 (LS)
  
• Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China
  Emily Oster and Gang Chen #13971 (LS)
  
• Does Stabilizing Inflation Contribute To Stabilizing Economic Activity?
  Frederic S. Mishkin #13970 (EFG, ME)
  
• Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers
  Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan E. Haskel, and Matthew Slaughter #13959 (IO, ITI, PR)
  
• Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
  Jikun Huang, Yu Liu, Will Martin, and Scott Rozelle #13958 (ITI)
  

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Week of April 19 - April 26, 2008

• Macroeconomic Crises since 1870
  Robert J. Barro and José F. Ursúa #13940 (EFG, ME, PE, AP)
  
• Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade
  Costas Arkolakis, Svetlana Demidova, Peter J. Klenow, and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare #13933 (ITI)
  

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Week of April 13 - April 19, 2008

• Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age
  Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes #13969 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• National Cultures and Soccer Violence
  Edward Miguel, Sebasti?n M. Saiegh, and Shanker Satyanath #13968 (EFG, LE, POL)
  
• Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
  Raj Chetty #13967 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds
  Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira #13966 (AG, AP, PE)
  
• Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale
  Emi Nakamura #13965 (IFM, IO, ME)
  
• Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
  Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel #13964 (POL)
  
• China's Local Comparative Advantage
  James Harrigan and Haiyan Deng #13963 (ITI)
  
• Derivatives Markets for Home Prices
  Robert J. Shiller #13962 (AP)
  
• Institutions and Contract Enforcement
  Armin Falk, David Huffman, and W. Bentley MacLeod #13961 (LE, LS)
  
• Contracting in the Shadow of the Law
  Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley MacLeod #13960 (LE, LS)
  
• The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics
  Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Susumu Imai, and Kala Krishna #13957 (ITI)
  
• The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
  David A. Jaeger, Esteban F. Klor, Sami H. Miaari, and M. Daniele Paserman #13956 (PE, POL)
  
• Competing Liquidities: Corporate Securities, Real Bonds and Bubbles
  Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole #13955 (EFG, PE)
  
• Neuroeconomics: A Sober (but Hopeful) Appraisal
  B. Douglas Bernheim #13954 (PE)
  
• Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?
  Martin S. Feldstein #13953 (EFG, LS, PR)
  
• Resolving the Global Imbalance: The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate
  Martin S. Feldstein #13952 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability
  Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer, and Aurel Hizmo #13951 (ED, LS)
  
• Trevor Swan And The Neoclassical Growth Model
  Robert W. Dimand and Barbara J. Spencer #13950 (EFG)
  
• Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model
  Patrick Bayer, Shakeeb Khan, and Christopher Timmins #13949 (LS, TWP)
  
• Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy
  Frederic S. Mishkin #13948 (EFG, ME, IFM)
  
• Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines
  Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney #13947 (CH, HE, ED)
  
• The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #13946 (IFM, PE)
  
• Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring
  Dalton Conley and Brian J. McCabe #13945 (PE, POL)
  
• Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?
  Andrew Ang, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Rui Zhao #13944 (AP)
  
• A Black Swan in the Money Market
  John B. Taylor and John C. Williams #13943 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices
  David Weinstein and Christian Broda #13942 (ITI)
  
• Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)
  Jeff Larrimore, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, and Laura Zayatz #13941 (LS, PE, TWP)
  
• Portraits of the Artist: Personal Visual Art in the Twentieth Century
  David W. Galenson #13939 (LS)
  
• The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents
  Carlos J. Serrano #13938 (PR)
  
• The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving: An Analysis of Micro Data
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #13937 (ED, PE)
  
• The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis
  Atif Mian and Amir Sufi #13936 (CF)
  
• Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders
  Keith Finlay #13935 (LS)
  
• Econometric Causality
  James J. Heckman #13934 (LS, PE)
  

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Week of April 5 - April 12, 2008

• Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence
  Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob De Haan , and David-Jan Jansen #13932 (ME)
  
• Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
  Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler, and Costas Meghir #13931 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution
  Gary Richardson #13930 (DAE, IO)
  
• The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data
  Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder #13929 (AG)
  
• Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration
  Keith Finlay and David Neumark #13928 (CH, LS)
  
• Climate Economics: A Meta-Review and Some Suggestions
  Geoffrey Heal #13927 (EEE, PE)
  
• Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India
  Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan #13926 (ED, LS)
  

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Week of March 29 - April 5, 2008

• Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale
  Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri, and Carlos A. Vegh #13925 (IFM)
  
• Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run
  Aleksander Berentsen, Guido Menzio, and Randall Wright #13924 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness
  Muriel Niederle, Carmit Segal, and Lise Vesterlund #13923 (LS)
  
• Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions
  Muriel Niederle and Alexandra H. Yestrumskas #13922 (LS)
  
• Current Account Patterns and National Real Estate Markets
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak #13921 (ITI, IFM)
  
• Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulationsv
  John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta, and Helena Schweiger #13920 (EFG, LS)
  
• Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?
  Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt #13919 (DAE, ED, EFG, POL)
  
• The "Thin Film Of Gold": Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries
  Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick #13918 (DAE, ITI, IFM, ME)
  
• The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization
  Mark Duggan and Fiona Scott Morton #13917 (HC, IO, PE)
  
• Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms
  Chenghuan Sean Chu, Phillip Leslie, and Alan Sorensen #13916 (IO)
  
• A Theory of Military Dictatorships
  Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi, and Andrea Vindigni #13915 (EFG, POL)
  
• Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms
  Susan Perkins, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #13914 (CF)
  
• Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets
  Wolfgang Keller and Carol H. Shiue #13913 (DAE, IFM, ITI)
  
• The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital
  Lance J. Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo #13912 (ED, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
  Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon #13911 (IFM, EFG, PE)
  
• The Dynamic Behavior of the Real Exchange Rate in Sticky Price Models
  Jon Steinsson #13910 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Euro May Over the Next 15 Years Surpass the Dollar as Leading International Currency
  Menzie D. Chinn and Jeffrey A. Frankel #13909 (IFM)
  
• Why do Foreigners Invest in the United States?
  Kristin J. Forbes #13908 (CF, IFM, ITI)
  
• Ideology
  Roland B?nabou #13907 (EFG, POL)
  
• Current Account Dynamics and Monetary Policy
  Andrea Ferrero, Mark Gertler, and Lars E.O. Svensson #13906 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  

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