New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Week of Jun 20, 2011 - Jun 27, 2011

• Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress
  Kerwin Charles and Jonathan Guryan #17156 (LS)
  
• Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South
  Elizabeth U. Cascio, Nora E. Gordon, and Sarah J. Reber #17155 (CH   DAE   ED   PE)
  
• What does Monetary Policy do to Long-Term Interest Rates at the Zero Lower Bound?
  Jonathan H. Wright #17154 (ME)
  
• Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups
  Arthur van Soest, Tatiana Andreyeva, Arie Kapteyn, and James P. Smith #17153 (AG   HE)
  
• A Functional Filtering and Neighborhood Truncation Approach to Integrated Quarticity Estimation
  Torben G. Andersen, Dobrislav Dobrev, and Ernst Schaumburg #17152 (AP)
  
• A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vivian Z. Yue #17151 (IFM)
  
• Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies
  Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor #17150 (AP   IFM   TWP)
  
• Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees
  Bryan T. Kelly, Hanno Lustig, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #17149 (AP   EFG)
  
• Dimensions of Health in the Elderly Population
  David M. Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum #17148 (AG   HC)
  
• Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth and Politics in New York, 1791-1826
  Eric Hilt and Jacqueline Valentine #17147 (DAE   LE)
  
• Trade Credit Contracts
  Leora F. Klapper, Luc Laeven, and Raghuram Rajan #17146 (CF)
  
• Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis
  Stephen Coate #17145 (PE   POL)
  
• Financing Labor
  Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman, and Amit Seru #17144 (CF   EFG   LS   ME)
  
• Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
  Margaret S. McMillan and Dani Rodrik #17143 (ITI)
  
• Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity
  Lawrence Christiano and Daisuke Ikeda #17142 (EFG)
  
• Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
  Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen #17141 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Inference for VARs Identified with Sign Restrictions
  Hyungsik Roger Moon, Frank Schorfheide, Eleonora Granziera, and Mihye Lee #17140 (EFG   ME)
  
• Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
  Francesco D'Amuri and Giovanni Peri #17139 (LS)
  
• Disability Programs, Health and Retirement in Denmark since 1960
  Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta, and Peder J. Pedersen #17138 (AG   HE)
  
• Animal Spirits, Rational Bubbles and Unemployment in an Old-Keynesian Model
  Roger Farmer #17137 (EFG)
  
• A Pyrrhic Victory? - Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk
  Viral V. Acharya, Itamar Drechsler, and Philipp Schnabl #17136 (AP   CF   IFM)
  
• Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009
  Liana E. Fox, Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel #17135 (CH   LS   PE)
  
• Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply
  Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #17134 (AG   LS)
  
• Risk, Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate
  Gianluca Benigno, Pierpaolo Benigno, and Salvatore Nisticò #17133 (AP   EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason
  Daniel Treisman #17132 (POL)
  
• Sharing the Burden: Monetary and Fiscal Responses to a World Liquidity Trap
  David Cook and Michael B. Devereux #17131 (IFM)
  
• An Estimation of Economic Models with Recursive Preferences
  Xiaohong Chen, Jack Favilukis, and Sydney C. Ludvigson #17130 (AP   EFG)
  
• Mobile Banking: The Impact of M-Pesa in Kenya
  Isaac Mbiti and David N. Weil #17129 (ME)
  
• Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments
  Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang #17127 (CF   LE)
  
• Price Setting in a Leading Swiss Online Supermarket
  Martin Berka, Michael B. Devereux, and Thomas Rudolph #17126 (IFM)
  
• Privacy and Innovation
  Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker #17124 (PR)
  
• Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?
  Richard C.K. Burdekin, Kris James Mitchener, and Marc D. Weidenmier #17123 (DAE   ME)
  
• Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments
  Yael V. Hochberg and Joshua D. Rauh #17122 (AP   CF)
  
• Global Crises and Equity Market Contagion
  Geert Bekaert, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, and Arnaud J. Mehl #17121 (AP   IFM)
  
• Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam
  Eric P. Bettinger, Brent J. Evans, and Devin G. Pope #17119 (ED   LS)
  

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Week of June 13, 2011 - June 20, 2011

• The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #17118 (   AG)
  
• Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport
  Anca D. Cristea, David Hummels, Laura Puzzello, and Misak G. Avetisyan #17117 (   ITI)
  
• The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium
  Charles Engel #17116 (   AP   IFM)
  
• A Model of Shadow Banking
  Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny #17115 (   AP   CF)
  
• Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye
  Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, and Sergio Perelman #17114 (   AG   PE)
  
• Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
  Nico Voigtlaender and Hans-Joachim Voth #17113 (   POL)
  
• High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis
  John P. Papay, John B. Willett, and Richard J. Murnane #17112 (   ED)
  
• Fiscal Stimulus and Distortionary Taxation
  Thorsten Drautzburg and Harald Uhlig #17111 (   EFG)
  
• Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany
  Tabea Bucher-Koenen and Annamaria Lusardi #17110 (   AG)
  

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Week of June 6, 2011 - June 13, 2011

• Financial Literacy, Retirement Preparation and Pension Expectations in the Netherlands
  Rob J. Alessie, Maarten van Rooij, and Annamaria Lusardi #17109 (   AG)
  
• Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17108 (   AG)
  
• Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17107 (   AG)
  
• Institutional Comparative Statics
  James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik #17106 (   POL)
  
• Maternity Leave and Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Development
  Michael Baker and Kevin S. Milligan #17105 (   CH)
  
• Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement
  Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Dania V. Francis, and Christina M. Gibson-Davis #17104 (   CH)
  
• Americans' Financial Capability
  Annamaria Lusardi #17103 (   AG)
  
• Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
  Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman, and Peter Howitt #17102 (   EFG)
  
• Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data
  Emanuele Massetti and Robert Mendelsohn #17101 (   EEE)
  

Week of May 30, 2011 - Jun 6, 2011

• International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?
  Nune Hovhannisyan and Wolfgang Keller #17100 (EFG   ITI   LS   PR)
  
• Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks’ Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting
  Ebonya L. Washington #17099 (LE   POL)
  
• On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
  Alberto F. Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn #17098 (CH   DAE   EFG   LS   POL)
  
• Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
  John D. Griffin, David Nickerson, and Abigail K. Wozniak #17097 (LS)
  
• Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States
  James Banks, Zoe Oldfield, and James P. Smith #17096 (AG   HE)
  
• Empirical Implementation of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models
  Daniel J. Henderson, John A. List, Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter, and Michael K. Price #17095 (EEE   IO)
  
• Life and Growth
  Charles I. Jones #17094 (EFG   HE   PR)
  
• How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns? Evidence from an Unusual Pay Reform in Israel's Kibbutzim
  Ran Abramitzky and Victor Lavy #17093 (CH   DAE   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. and African Agriculture
  Marshall Burke, John Dykema, David Lobell, Edward Miguel, and Shanker Satyanath #17092 (EEE)
  
• Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
  Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley #17091 (CF   ITI)
  
• Macroeconomic Regimes
  Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, Seonghoon Cho, Koen Inghelbrecht, and Antonio Moreno #17090 (AP      ME   IFM)
  
• Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement
  Sa A. Bui, Steven G. Craig, and Scott A. Imberman #17089 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends
  David Card and Laura Giuliano #17088 (CH   LS)
  
• Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households
  Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and John M. Reilly #17087 (EEE   PE)
  
• Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy
  Gautam Gowrisankaran, Stanley S. Reynolds, and Mario Samano #17086 (EEE   IO   PR)
  
• The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education: Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment
  Philip DeCicca and Justin D. Smith #17085 (ED)
  
• Unemployment in an Estimated New Keynesian Model
  Jordi Galí, Frank Smets, and Rafael Wouters #17084 (EFG   ME)
  
• Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency
  Garth Heutel #17083 (EEE   PE)
  
• Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence
  Eduard Ponds, Clara Severinson, and Juan Yermo #17082 (PE)
  
• The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
  John Cawley and Christopher Ruhm #17081 (CH   ED   HC   HE   LE   LS   PE)
  
• Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany
  Axel H. Boersch-Supan and Hendrik Juerges #17079 (AG   LS)
  
• History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Cooperation
  Daron Acemoglu and Matthew O. Jackson #17066 (POL)
  

Week of May 23, 2011 - May 30, 2011

• Monetary Policy Mistakes and the Evolution of Inflation Expectations
  Athanasios Orphanides and John Williams #17080 (POL)
  
• Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17078 (AG)
  
• The Outlook for Financial Literacy
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #17077 (AG)
  
• A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
  Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel #17076 (ME   POL)
  
• Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
  Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos #17075 (EFG)
  
• Exchange Rates in Emerging Countries: Eleven Empirical Regularities from Latin America and East Asia
  Sebastian Edwards #17074 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Financial Protectionism: the First Tests
  Andrew K. Rose and Tomasz Wieladek #17073 (IFM)
  
• Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications
  Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider, and Peter Tufano #17072 (AG)
  
• Is there a trade-off between inflation and output stabilization?
  Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti #17071 (EFG   ME)
  
• The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions
  Craig L. Garthwaite #17070 (CH   HC   HE   PE)
  
• Is Universal Health Care in Brazil Really Universal?
  Guido Cataife and Charles J. Courtemanche #17069 (HE)
  
• Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias
  Dhaval M. Dave, Jennifer Tennant, and Gregory J. Colman #17068 (HE)
  
• Is New Economic Geography Right? Evidence from Price Data
  Jessie Handbury and David E. Weinstein #17067 (ITI)
  
• Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide
  Christopher J. Mayer, Edward Morrison, Tomasz Piskorski, and Arpit Gupta #17065 (CF   PE)
  
• Recursive Contracts, Lotteries and Weakly Concave Pareto Sets
  Harold L. Cole and Felix Kubler #17064 (AP   CF   EFG)
  
• Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks
  Rüdiger Bachmann and Eric R. Sims #17063 (EFG   ME)
  
• Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations
  Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan #17062 (POL)
  
• Are the Seeds of Bad Governance Sown in Good Times?
  Antoinette Schoar and Ebonya L. Washington #17061 (CF)
  
• Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations
  George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O #17060 (EFG   ME)
  
• Theft and Deterrence
  William T. Harbaugh, Naci H. Mocan, and Michael S. Visser #17059 (CH   HE   LE)
  
• Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
  Oded Galor #17058 (EFG)
  
• Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
  Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman #17051 (DAE   LE   LS   POL)
  
• An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
  N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl #17029 (ME)
  
• The Organization of R&D in American Corporations: The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization
  Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, and Luis A. Rios #17013 (PR)
  

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Week of May 16, 2011 - May 23, 2011

• The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
  Oded Galor #17057 (EFG)
  
• Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure
  Jörn-Steffen Pischke #17056 (LS)
  
• Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case
  Luc Behaghel, Didier Blanchet, Thierry Debrand, and Muriel Roger #17055 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden
  Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme, and Ingemar Svensson #17054 (AG)
  
• Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands
  Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn, and Adriaan Kalwij #17053 (AG   LS)
  
• Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan: A Historical Perspective
  Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani #17052 (AG   PE)
  
• Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups
  Annamaria Conti, Marie C. Thursby, and Frank Rothaermel #17050 (PR)
  
• Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom
  James Banks, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio, and Carl Emmerson #17049 (AG   HE   PE)
  
• Health, Disability and Pathways to Retirement in Spain
  Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall Castelló #17048 (AG)
  
• The Role of Theory in Field Experiments
  David Card, Stefano DellaVigna, and Ulrike Malmendier #17047 (CH   ED   EEE   HC   HE   IO   LE   LS   PE   POL)
  
• Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less
  Peter J. Huckfeldt and Christopher R. Knittel #17046 (HC   HE   IO   PR)
  
• Land-price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations
  Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang, and Tao Zha #17045 (EFG   ME)
  
• Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession
  Laurence M. Ball and Sandeep Mazumder #17044 (EFG   ME)
  
• Incentives and the Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics
  John P. Conley, Mario J. Crucini, Robert A. Driskill, and Ali Sina Onder #17043 (LS   PR)
  
• An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States
  Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert A. Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz #17042 (LS   PE)
  
• Understanding Small Business Heterogeneity
  Erik Hurst and Benjamin Wild Pugsley #17041 (CF   EFG   IO   LS   PE   PR)
  
• Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historial Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010
  Henry S. Farber #17040 (LS)
  
• Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables
  Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti #17039 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis
  Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Robert Prilmeier, and René M. Stulz #17038 (CF   ME)
  
• Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch
  Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor #17037 (EFG)
  
• Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?
  Anup Malani and Scott A. Baker #17036 (LE)
  

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Week of May 9, 2011 - May 16, 2011

• Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking
  Casey Rothschild and Florian Scheuer #17035 (PE)
  
• Are the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks Big or Small?
  Olivier Coibion #17034 (EFG   ME)
  
• Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?
  James Andreoni and Laura K. Gee #17033 (PE)
  
• The Hired Gun Mechanism
  James Andreoni and Laura K. Gee #17032 (PE)
  
• Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision
  Nicola Lacetera and Lorenzo Zirulia #17031 (PR)
  
• Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market
  Nicola Lacetera, Devin G. Pope, and Justin R. Sydnor #17030 (IO   PR)
  
• Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees
  Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman #17028 (LE)
  
• The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment
  Tarek A. Hassan and Thomas M. Mertens #17027 (AP   EFG)
  
• Credit Risk and Disaster Risk
  Francois Gourio #17026 (AP   CF   EFG   ME)
  
• Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security
  Jialun Li and Kent Smetters #17025 (AG   AP   PE)
  
• Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus
  Michael D. Bordo and Peter L. Rousseau #17024 (DAE   IFM   ME)
  
• The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker
  Steven D. Levitt and Thomas J. Miles #17023 (LE)
  
• The Quantification of Systemic Risk and Stability: New Methods and Measures
  Romney B. Duffey #17022 (PR)
  
• Credit Spreads and Business Cycle Fluctuations
  Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajšek #17021 (AP   EFG   ME)
  
• Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
  Ximena Cadena and Antoinette Schoar #17020 (IO)
  
• The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries
  Corbett A. Grainger and Christopher Costello #17019 (EEE)
  
• Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, and Olivia S. Mitchell #17018 (AG   PE)
  
• Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences
  Charles D. Kolstad #17017 (EEE   PE)
  
• Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70: A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005
  Joseph P. Ferrie and Karen Rolf #17016 (CH   DAE   LS)
  
• A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions
  Kent Smetters and Walter E. Theseira #17015 (AG   PE   POL)
  
• Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence
  Markus M. Mobius, Muriel Niederle, Paul Niehaus, and Tanya S. Rosenblat #17014 (LS)
  
• Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on External Aid and Local Collective Action
  Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, and Edward Miguel #17012 (LE   PE   POL)
  
• Can Medical Progress be Sustained? Implications of the Link Between Development and Output Markets
  Anup Malani and Tomas J. Philipson #17011 (HC   HE)
  
• Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers
  Mike Burkart, Denis Gromb, Holger M. Mueller, and Fausto Panunzi #17010 (CF)
  
• Estimates of Crowd-Out from a Public Health Insurance Expansion Using Administrative Data
  Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, Donna Friedsam, Daphne Kuo, Lindsey Leininger, Sarah Meier, and Kristen Voskuil #17009 (HE)
  
• Sustainability and its Measurement
  Geoffrey Heal #17008 (EEE   PE)
  
• Continuous Workout Mortgages
  Robert J. Shiller, Rafal M. Wojakowski, M. Shahid Ebrahim, and Mark B. Shackleton #17007 (AP)
  
• Durable Financial Regulation: Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions
  Leonard Nakamura #17006 (PE)
  
• Should Central Banks Raise their Inflation Targets? Some Relevant Issues
  Bennett T. McCallum #17005 (EFG   ME)
  

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Week of May 2, 2011 - May 9, 2011

• The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity
  Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Matthew J. Neidell #17004 (EEE   HE   LS   PR)
  
• Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov #17003 (ITI)
  
• Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
  Siqi Zheng and Matthew E. Kahn #17002 (EEE   PE)
  
• Negative Leakage
  Don Fullerton, Daniel Karney, and Kathy Baylis #17001 (EEE   PE)
  
• Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-the-counter Markets
  Viral V. Acharya and Alberto Bisin #17000 (AP)
  
• Household Debt and Saving During the 2007 Recession
  Rajashri Chakrabarti, Donghoon Lee, Wilbert van der Klaauw, and Basit Zafar #16999 (DAE)
  
• Systemic Risks and the Macroeconomy
  Gianni De Nicolò and Marcella Lucchetta #16998 (IFM)
  
• Quantile Regression with Censoring and Endogeneity
  Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Fernández-Val, and Amanda E. Kowalski #16997 (PE   TWP)
  
• Shocks and Crashes
  Martin Lettau and Sydney C. Ludvigson #16996 (AP   EFG   ME)
  
• Cash Holdings and Credit Risk
  Viral V. Acharya, Sergei A. Davydenko, and Ilya A. Strebulaev #16995 (AP   CF)
  
• Illiquid Banks, Financial Stability, and Interest Rate Policy
  Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram Rajan #16994 (IFM   ME)
  
• The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions
  Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr #16993 (PR)
  
• China's Rising Demand for "Green Cities": Evidence from Cross-City Real Estate Price Hedonics
  Siqi Zheng, Jing Cao, and Matthew E. Kahn #16992 (EEE)
  
• Pensions in the 2000s: the Lost Decade?
  Edward N. Wolff #16991 (AG   PR)
  
• The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
  Amitabh Chandra, Anupam B. Jena, and Jonathan S. Skinner #16990 (HC   HE   PR)
  
• Unintended Media Effects in a Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism
  Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya #16989 (LS   PE   POL)
  
• Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Storable Goods Markets
  Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo #16988 (EFG   IO   ME   PR)
  
• The Cost of Fuel Economy in the Indian Passenger Vehicle Market
  Randy Chugh, Maureen L. Cropper, and Urvashi Narain #16987 (EEE)
  
• Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets: Problems and Solutions
  Judith K. Hellerstein and David Neumark #16986 (LS)
  
• Drowning or Weathering the Storm? Changes in Family Finances from 2007 to 2009
  Jesse Bricker, Brian K. Bucks, Arthur Kennickell, Traci L. Mach, and Kevin Moore #16985 (PE)
  
• Diversity and Technological Progress
  Daron Acemoglu #16984 (EFG)
  
• Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
  Petra Moser and Paul W. Rhode #16983 (DAE   PR)
  
• Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe
  Andrew Ang and Francis A. Longstaff #16982 (AP)
  
• A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
  Alberto F. Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara #16981 (LE)
  
• Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio
  Joshua Gans and Fiona E. Murray #16980 (PR)
  

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Week of Apr 25, 2011 - May 2, 2011

• Bank Finance Versus Bond Finance
  Fiorella De Fiore and Harald Uhlig #16979 (EFG   CF   ME)
  
• The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy
  Alan B. Krueger and Ilyana Kuziemko #16978 (HC   PE)
  
• How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
  Jason Brown, Mark Duggan, Ilyana Kuziemko, and William Woolston #16977 (AG   HC   PE)
  
• Stock Volatility During the Recent Financial Crisis
  G. William Schwert #16976 (AP)
  
• Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data
  Daniel Paravisini, Veronica Rappoport, Philipp Schnabl, and Daniel Wolfenzon #16975 (CF   IFM   ITI)
  
• What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices?
  Soren T. Anderson, Ryan Kellogg, and James M. Sallee #16974 (EEE   IO   PE)
  
• The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws
  Daniel M. Hungerman #16973 (CH   ED   PE)
  
• Discount Rates
  John H. Cochrane #16972 (AP   EFG)
  
• Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges
  Maureen L. Cropper, James K. Hammitt, and Lisa A. Robinson #16971 (EEE)
  
• On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States
  Marco Bassetto and Leslie McGranahan #16970 (EFG)
  
• Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
  Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Stephen P. Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark R. Cullen #16969 (AG   HC   HE   IO   LS   PE)
  
• Public Policy, State Business Climates, and Economic Growth
  Jed Kolko, David Neumark, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia #16968 (EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Global retail lending in the aftermath of the US financial crisis: Distinguishing between supply and demand effects
  Manju Puri, Jörg Rocholl, and Sascha Steffen #16967 (CF   EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"
  Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson #16966 (DAE   EFG   LS   POL)
  
• Household Leverage and the Recession
  Thomas Philippon and Virgiliu Midrigan #16965 (AP   EFG   ME)
  
• Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations
  Gordon H. Hanson and Chong Xiang #16964 (ITI)
  
• Contracting for Impure Public Goods: Carbon Offsets and Additionality
  Charles Mason and Andrew Plantinga #16963 (EEE)
  

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Week of Apr 18, 2011 - Apr 25, 2011

• Market-specific and Currency-specific Risk During the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Interbank Markets in Tokyo and London
  Shin-ichi Fukuda #16962 (IFM)
  
• Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
  Shawn D. Bushway, Emily G. Owens, and Anne Morrison Piehl #16961 (LE)
  
• Trade Liberalization and Firm Dynamics
  Ariel Burstein and Marc J. Melitz #16960 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters
  Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz, and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano #16959 (ITI)
  
• Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises
  Gita Gopinath and Brent Neiman #16958 (EFG   IFM   ITI   PR)
  
• Consumption Smoothing and Portfolio Rebalancing: The Effects of Adjustment Costs
  Yosef Bonaparte, Russell Cooper, and Guozhong Zhu #16957 (EFG)
  
• The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a Zero Lower Bound Environment
  James D. Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu #16956 (AP   ME   PE)
  
• Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan
  Daniel Bennett, Chun-Fang Chiang, and Anup Malani #16955 (HE   PE)
  
• Tipping Climate Negotiations
  Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther #16954 (EEE)
  
• Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
  Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan S. Skinner #16953 (AG   HC   HE   PR)
  
• Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
  Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu #16952 (AP   DAE   POL)
  
• Foresight and Information Flows
  Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker, and Shu-Chun Susan Yang #16951 (EFG)
  
• Why Surplus Consumption in the Habit Model May be Less Persistent than You Think
  Anthony W. Lynch and Oliver Randall #16950 (AP)
  
• How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
  Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitzewitz #16949 (AP   LE   LS   POL)
  
• Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China
  Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao #16948 (PE   POL)
  
• Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide
  Alejandro Artopoulos, Daniel Friel, and Juan Carlos Hallak #16947 (ITI)
  
• U.S. Intervention During the Bretton Woods Era: 1962-1973
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #16946 (DAE   ME)
  
• Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program
  James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Azeem M. Shaikh, and Adam Yavitz #16935 (CH   TWP)
  

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Week of Apr 11, 2011 - Apr 18, 2011

• A Solution to Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #16945 (EFG   IFM   PE)
  
• Fighting Procrastination in the Workplace: An Experiment
  Ximena Cadena, Antoinette Schoar, Alexandra Cristea, and Héber M. Delgado-Medrano #16944 (IO)
  
• The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
  Thomas F. Hellmann and Enrico C. Perotti #16943 (PR)
  
• Carry Trade and Momentum in Currency Markets
  Craig Burnside, Martin S. Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #16942 (AP   EFG)
  
• Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising
  Isil Erel, Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim, and Michael S. Weisbach #16941 (AP   CF   IFM   ME)
  
• Exports and Credit Constraints Under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China
  Robert C. Feenstra, Zhiyuan Li, and Miaojie Yu #16940 (ITI)
  
• Education as Liberation?
  Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton #16939 (ED   POL)
  
• An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700
  Robert W. Fogel and Nathaniel Grotte #16938 (DAE   HE)
  
• Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
  Jonathan R. Clark and Robert Huckman #16937 (HC   PR)
  
• An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains
  Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel, and Su Wang #16936 (ITI)
  
• Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
  Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, and Kristina Tobio #16934 (EFG)
  
• Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
  Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente, and Vincent Pons #16933 (CH)
  
• Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing?
  Daria Burnes, David Neumark, and Michelle J. White #16932 (LS   PE)
  
• Testable Implications of Affine Term Structure Models
  James D. Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu #16931 (AP   ME)
  
• Information Shocks and Social Networks
  David N. Figlio, Sarah Hamersma, and Jeffrey Roth #16930 (CH)
  
• Noncontractible Investments and Reference Points
  Oliver D. Hart #16929 (CF   LE)
  
• Efficient Estimation of Data Combination Models by the Method of Auxiliary-to-Study Tilting (AST)
  Bryan S. Graham, Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto, and Daniel Egel #16928 (LS   TWP)
  
• The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
  Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia, and Erdal Tekin #16927 (HC   HE)
  
• Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects
  Jill R. Horwitz and Austin Nichols #16926 (HC   HE)
  
• Trade, Exchange Rate Regimes and Output Co-Movement: Evidence from the Great Depression
  Gabriel P. Mathy and Christopher M. Meissner #16925 (DAE   IFM   ME)
  
• Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession
  Andrew Glover, Jonathan Heathcote, Dirk Krueger, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull #16924 (EFG)
  
• The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital
  Laura Bottazzi, Marco Da Rin, and Thomas F. Hellmann #16923 (CF)
  
• The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
  Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman #16922 (CF)
  
• Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits
  Martin Feldstein, Daniel Feenberg, and Maya MacGuineas #16921 (PE)
  

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Week of Apr 4, 2011 - Apr 11, 2011

• Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Christian Helmers #16920 (EEE   PR)
  
• When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence and Implications for China
  Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, and Kwanho Shin #16919 (IFM)
  
• With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship
  Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier #16918 (CF   LS   PR)
  
• Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
  Lex Borghans, Bart H.H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, and John Eric Humphries #16917 (CH)
  
• The U.S. Left Behind: The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World
  Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, and René M. Stulz #16916 (CF   IFM)
  
• The Effects of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Entry Rates and Time Spent in Foster Care
  Sara Markowitz, Alison Evans Cuellar, Ryan M. Conrad, and Michael Grossman #16915 (CH   HC   HE)
  
• School Tracking and Access to Higher Education Among Disadvantaged Groups
  Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches #16914 (ED)
  
• Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings: A Summary and Interpretation
  Michael Greenstone, Elizabeth Kopits, and Ann Wolverton #16913 (EEE   PE)
  
• The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
  J. William Ambrosini, Karin Mayr, Giovanni Peri, and Dragos Radu #16912 (ITI   LS)
  
• A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality
  Xavier Gabaix #16911 (AP   EFG   LE   ME)
  
• Personality Psychology and Economics
  Mathilde Almlund, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, and Tim D. Kautz #16822 (CH   ED)
  

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