New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Week of Jun 25, 2012 - Jul 2, 2012

• A Spatial Knowledge Economy
  Donald R. Davis and Jonathan I. Dingel #18188 (ITI   LS)
  
• Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides
  Chandler B. McClellan and Erdal Tekin #18187 (HE   LE)
  
• Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added over Four Decades
  Robert C. Johnson and Guillermo Noguera #18186 (ITI)
  
• When Educators Are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools
  Silke J. Forbes and Nora E. Gordon #18185 (ED   IO   PE)
  
• Measuring Managerial Skill in the Mutual Fund Industry
  Jonathan B. Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen #18184 (AP)
  
• School Libraries and Language Skills in Indian Primary Schools: A Randomized Evaluation of the Akshara Library Program
  Evan Borkum, Fang He, and Leigh L. Linden #18183 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit
  Marc J. Melitz and Sašo Polanec #18182 (PR)
  
• Continuous-Time Linear Models
  John H. Cochrane #18181 (AP   EFG)
  
• Behavioral Economics and the Demand for Alcohol: Results from the NLSY97
  Henry Saffer, Dhaval Dave, and Michael Grossman #18180 (HE)
  
• Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia: The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
  Henry R. Delcamp and Aija Leiponen #18179 (IO   PR)
  
• Robust Comparative Statics in Large Dynamic Economies
  Daron Acemoglu and Martin Kaae Jensen #18178 (EFG   IO   ME)
  
• Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
  Daron Acemoglu, Camilo García-Jimeno, and James A. Robinson #18177 (EFG   LE   POL)
  
• Income inequality, tax base and sovereign spreads
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak #18176 (IFM)
  
• Overcoming the Fear of Free Falling: Monetary Policy Graduation in Emerging Markets
  Carlos A. Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin #18175 (IFM)
  
• Money Doctors
  Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny #18174 (AP   CF)
  
• Competition Among University Endowments
  William N. Goetzmann and Sharon Oster #18173 (AP)
  
• Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance
  David Autor, Mark Duggan, and Jonathan Gruber #18172 (AG   HE   LS   PE)
  
• An Alternative Framework for Empirically Measuring the Size of Counterfeit Markets
  Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Srikanth Kadiyala, Priscillia Hunt, and Alessandro Malchiodi #18171 (   PE)
  
• Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
  Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Lorenz Kueng, and John Silvia #18170 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Tail Risk in Momentum Strategy Returns
  Kent Daniel, Ravi Jagannathan, and Soohun Kim #18169 (AP)
  
• Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand: The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China
  Janet Currie, Wanchuan Lin, and Juanjuan Meng #18153 (HC   HE)
  

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Week of Jun 18, 2012 - Jun 25, 2012

• Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games
  Jeremy T. Fox and Chenyu Yang #18168 (IO   LS   TWP)
  
• Collective Intelligence and Neutral Point of View: The Case of Wikipedia
  Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu #18167 (IO   PR)
  
• Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data
  Florian Heiss, Adam Leive, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter #18166 (AG   HE)
  
• The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance
  Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, Susanne Neckermann, and Sally Sadoff #18165 (ED   PE)
  
• Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928
  Matthew Gentzkow, Nathan Petek, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Michael Sinkinson #18164 (DAE   POL)
  
• Organizing the Global Value Chain
  Pol Antràs and Davin Chor #18163 (IO   ITI)
  
• The European Origins of Economic Development
  William Easterly and Ross Levine #18162 (EFG   POL)
  
• The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra: Evidence from a District Policy Initiative
  Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor #18161 (ED)
  
• A Theory of Debt Maturity: The Long and Short of Debt Overhang
  Douglas W. Diamond and Zhiguo He #18160 (CF)
  
• Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000
  Paul Beaudry and Ethan Lewis #18159 (LS)
  
• What is the Impact of Financial Advisors on Retirement Portfolio Choices and Outcomes?
  John Chalmers and Jonathan Reuter #18158 (AG)
  
• The Ramsey Discounting Formula for a Hidden-State Stochastic Growth Process
  Martin L. Weitzman #18157 (EEE)
  
• Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service
  Ernesto Dal Bó, Frederico Finan, and Martín Rossi #18156 (LS   PE   POL)
  
• Identification of Potential Games and Demand Models for Bundles
  Jeremy T. Fox and Natalia Lazzati #18155 (IO   LS   TWP)
  
• Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Corporate Savings
  Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman #18154 (CF   EFG   IFM)
  
• The Demand of Liquid Assets with Uncertain Lumpy Expenditures
  Fernando Alvarez and Francesco Lippi #18152 (EFG)
  
• Taxation and Redistribution of Residual Income Inequality
  Mikhail Golosov, Pricila Maziero, and Guido Menzio #18151 (EFG)
  
• Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
  Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan, and Diana B. Moreira #18150 (PE   POL   ED)
  
• Testing for Keynesian Labor Demand
  Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow, and Benjamin A. Malin #18149 (EFG   ME)
  
• Real Options, Taxes and Financial Leverage
  Stewart C. Myers and James A. Read, Jr. #18148 (CF)
  
• Real Assets and Capital Structure
  Murillo Campello and Erasmo Giambona #18147 (CF)
  
• Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities
  Fiona E. Murray #18146 (   PR)
  
• The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
  Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme, and Marieke Schnabel #18145 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• A Precautionary Tale of Uncertain Tail Fattening
  Martin L. Weitzman #18144 (EEE)
  
• The Dollar and its Discontents
  Olivier Jeanne #18143 (IFM)
  
• "Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck in Fiscal Policy"
  Miles S. Kimball #18142 (EFG   IFM   ME   PE)
  
• The Cost of Friendship
  Paul Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan #18141 (CF)
  
• Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems
  Matthew Ranson and Robert N. Stavins #18140 (EEE   PE   POL)
  
• Does Finance Cause Growth? Evidence from the Origins of Banking in Russia
  Daniel Berkowitz, Mark Hoekstra, and Koen Schoors #18139 (EFG   LE)
  
• The Euro and the global crises: finding the balance between short term stabilization and forward looking reforms
  Joshua Aizenman #18138 (IFM)
  
• Does Mutual Fund Performance Vary over the Business Cycle?
  André de Souza and Anthony W. Lynch #18137 (AP)
  
• Managing Catastrophic Risk
  Howard Kunreuther and Geoffrey Heal #18136 (EEE)
  

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Week of June 11, 2012 - June 18, 2012

• Inflation Tracking Portfolios
  Christopher T. Downing, Francis A. Longstaff, and Michael A. Rierson #18135 (   AP)
  
• Does Strengthening Self-Defense Law Deter Crime or Escalate Violence? Evidence from Castle Doctrine
  Cheng Cheng and Mark Hoekstra #18134 (   LE)
  
• The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico
  Chang-Tai Hsieh and Peter J. Klenow #18133 (   EFG   PR)
  
• International Standards and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
  Joseph A. Clougherty and Michal Grajek #18132 (   IO   ITI   PR)
  
• Skill Premium and Trade Puzzles: a Solution Linking Production and Preferences
  Justin Caron, Thibault Fally, and James R. Markusen #18131 (   ITI)
  
• How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?
  Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg #18130 (   DAE   EFG   POL)
  
• Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South
  Suresh Naidu #18129 (   DAE   ED   LE   POL)
  
• Growth-Rate and Uncertainty Shocks in Consumption: Cross-Country Evidence
  Emi Nakamura, Dmitriy Sergeyev, and Jón Steinsson #18128 (   AP   EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• The Incidence of an Oil Glut: Who Benefits from Cheap Crude Oil in the Midwest?
  Severin Borenstein and Ryan Kellogg #18127 (   EEE   IO)
  
• Decentralisation in Africa and the Nature of Local Governments' Competition: Evidence from Benin
  Emilie Caldeira, Martial Foucault, and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi #18126 (   PE)
  
• Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts
  David H. Autor, Christopher J. Palmer, and Parag A. Pathak #18125 (   LS   PE)
  
• Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
  Dana Medianu and John Whalley #18124 (   EEE   EFG)
  

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Week of June 4, 2012 - June 11, 2012

• Tall or Taller, Pretty or Prettier: Is Discrimination Absolute or Relative?
  Daniel S. Hamermesh #18123 (   LS)
  
• Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints.
  Fernando Borraz, Alberto Cavallo, Roberto Rigobon, and Leandro Zipitría #18122 (   IFM   ITI)
  
• Multinationals and the High Cash Holdings Puzzle
  Lee Pinkowitz, René M. Stulz, and Rohan Williamson #18120 (   CF)
  
• Education and the Quality of Government
  Juan Botero, Alejandro Ponce, and Andrei Shleifer #18119 (   PE   POL)
  
• Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin
  Emilie Caldeira, Martial Foucault, and Grégoire Rota-Graziosi #18118 (   PE)
  
• Democracy and Reforms: Evidence from a New Dataset
  Paola Giuliano, Prachi Mishra, and Antonio Spilimbergo #18117 (   POL)
  
• NIH Peer Review: Challenges and Avenues for Reform
  Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Gustavo Manso #18116 (   PR)
  
• Meeting Urban Housing Needs: Do People Really Come to the Nuisance?
  Brooks M. Depro, Christopher Timmins, and Maggie O'Neil #18109 (   EEE)
  
• Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions: A Survey
  Markus K. Brunnermeier, Thomas M. Eisenbach, and Yuliy Sannikov #18102 (   AP   CF   EFG   IFM   ME)
  

Week of May 28, 2012 - Jun 4, 2012

• The Effects of “Girl-Friendly” Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
  Harounan Kazianga, Dan Levy, Leigh L. Linden, and Matt Sloan #18115 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Liquidity Traps and Expectation Dynamics: Fiscal Stimulus or Fiscal Austerity?
  Jess Benhabib, George W. Evans, and Seppo Honkapohja #18114 (EFG)
  
• Why Trade Matters After All
  Ralph Ossa #18113 (ITI)
  
• The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures: Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises
  Edward L. Glaeser #18112 (PE   POL)
  
• When Walmart Comes to Town: Always Low Housing Prices? Always?
  Devin G. Pope and Jaren C. Pope #18111 (LS   PE)
  
• Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity
  David Albouy and Gabriel Ehrlich #18110 (LS   PE)
  
• Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance
  Amanda E. Kowalski #18108 (AG   HC   PE)
  
• Trade Credit and Taxes
  Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. #18107 (CF   ITI   PE)
  
• Men, Women, and Machines: How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality
  Chinhui Juhn, Gergely Ujhelyi, and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez #18106 (ITI   LS)
  
• Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance
  Neale Mahoney #18105 (HC   HE   LE   PE)
  
• Volatility, the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices
  Ravi Bansal, Dana Kiku, Ivan Shaliastovich, and Amir Yaron #18104 (AP   EFG)
  
• Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities
  David Albouy, Fernando Leibovici, and Casey Warman #18103 (LS   PE)
  
• The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China
  Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao #18101 (POL)
  
• Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
  James J. Heckman and Junjian Yi #18100 (CH   ED   LS)
  

Week of May 21, 2012 - May 28, 2012

• Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America
  Farley Grubb #18099 (DAE)
  
• Market Design in Cap and Trade Programs: Permit Validity and Compliance Timing
  Stephen P. Holland and Michael R. Moore #18098 (EEE)
  
• When did the dollar overtake sterling as the leading international currency? Evidence from the bond markets
  Livia Chitu, Barry Eichengreen, and Arnaud J. Mehl #18097 (DAE   IFM)
  
• Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
  Raymond Fisman, Daniel Paravisini, and Vikrant Vig #18096 (CF   LS)
  
• Private Returns to Public Office
  Raymond Fisman, Florian Schulz, and Vikrant Vig #18095 (CF   LE   LS   PE   POL)
  
• Disentangling the Channels of the 2007-2009 Recession
  James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson #18094 (EFG   ME)
  
• Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination
  Marco Castillo, Ragan Petrie, Máximo Torero, and Lise Vesterlund #18093 (LS   PE)
  
• Managing Currency Pegs
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe #18092 (IFM)
  
• Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
  Jess Benhabib, Jesse Perla, and Christopher Tonetti #18091 (EFG)
  
• China and the TPP: A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved
  Chunding Li and John Whalley #18090 (IFM)
  
• Age-Based Heterogeneity and Pricing Regulation on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange
  Keith M. Marzilli Ericson and Amanda Starc #18089 (HC)
  
• Do Welfare Policies Matter for Labor Market Aggregates? Quantifying Safety Net Work Incentives since 2007
  Casey B. Mulligan #18088 (EFG   PE)
  
• The Heterogeneity of the Cigarette Price Effect on Body Mass Index
  George Wehby and Charles J. Courtemanche #18087 (HC   HE)
  
• Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
  Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Katrine V. Løken, and Kjell G. Salvanes #18086 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Slow Recoveries: A Structural Interpretation
  Jordi Galí, Frank Smets, and Rafael Wouters #18085 (EFG   ME)
  
• Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management
  Torben G. Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, Peter F. Christoffersen, and Francis X. Diebold #18084 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• Networked FDI: Sales and Sourcing Patterns of Japanese Foreign Affiliates
  Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo #18083 (ITI)
  
• Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis
  Christopher L. Foote, Kristopher S. Gerardi, and Paul S. Willen #18082 (EFG)
  
• Fixing the Patent Office
  Mark A. Lemley #18081 (LE)
  
• Family Ties, Inheritance Rights, and Successful Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Ghana
  Edward Kutsoati and Randall Morck #18080 (CF)
  

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Week of May 14, 2012 - May 21, 2012

• The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.
  Emin M. Dinlersoz and Jeremy Greenwood #18079 (EFG)
  
• A Markov-Switching Multi-Fractal Inter-Trade Duration Model, with Application to U.S. Equities
  Fei Chen, Francis X. Diebold, and Frank Schorfheide #18078 (AP)
  
• Has the U.S. Finance Industry Become Less Efficient? On the Theory and Measurement of Financial Intermediation
  Thomas Philippon #18077 (AP   CF   EFG   PR)
  
• Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis
  Patrick Hummel and Brian Knight #18076 (PE   POL)
  
• The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom
  Michael F. Lovenheim and C. Lockwood Reynolds #18075 (ED)
  
• Financial Constraints, Endogenous Markups, and Self-fulfilling Equilibria
  Jess Benhabib and Pengfei Wang #18074 (EFG)
  
• Counterfeit or Substandard? The Role of Regulation and Distribution Channel in Drug Safety
  Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Aparna Mathur #18073 (IO)
  
• Monetary Policy, Liquidity, and Growth
  Philippe Aghion, Emmanuel Farhi, and Enisse Kharroubi #18072 (EFG   ME)
  
• The Smart Grid, Entry, and Imperfect Competition in Electricity Markets
  Hunt Allcott #18071 (EEE)
  
• Weathering the Storm: Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes
  Janet Currie and Maya Rossin-Slater #18070 (CH   HC   HE)
  
• Price Discrimination in the Housing Market
  Patrick Bayer, Marcus D. Casey, Fernando Ferreira, and Robert McMillan #18069 (PE)
  
• Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas
  Rodney J. Andrews, Jing Li, and Michael F. Lovenheim #18068 (ED   LS)
  
• Foreign Born Scientists: Mobility Patterns for Sixteen Countries
  Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato, and Paula Stephan #18067 (ED   LS   PR)
  
• The Money Value of a Man
  Mark Huggett and Greg Kaplan #18066 (AP   EFG   LS)
  
• Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
  Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg, Dan Silverman, and Dean Yang #18065 (LS   PE)
  
• Identifying Confirmatory Bias in the Field: Evidence from a Poll of Experts
  Rodney J. Andrews, Trevon D. Logan, and Michael J. Sinkey #18064 (DAE)
  
• Pseudo-Predictability in Conditional Asset Pricing Tests: Explaining Anomaly Performance with Politics, the Weather, Global Warming, Sunspots, and the Stars
  Robert Novy-Marx #18063 (AP   CF)
  
• Protectionism Isn’t Counter‐Cyclic (anymore)
  Andrew K. Rose #18062 (EFG   IFM   ITI)
  
• Comparative Advantage and the Welfare Impact of European Integration
  Andrei A. Levchenko and Jing Zhang #18061 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Does Employer-Provided Health Insurance Constrain Labor Supply Adjustments to Health Shocks? New Evidence on Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
  Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, and Scott Barkowski #18060 (HE   LS)
  
• House Price Moments in Boom-Bust Cycles
  Todd M. Sinai #18059 (EFG   ME   PE)
  
• Nonlinear Adventures at the Zero Lower Bound
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Grey Gordon, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez #18058 (EFG)
  
• Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns
  Tarek Alexander Hassan #18057 (AP   IFM   ITI)
  
• Estimating Person-Centered Treatment (PeT) Effects Using Instrumental Variables
  Anirban Basu #18056 (HC   HE   TWP)
  
• Estimating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using Ex Ante Simulations, Longitudinal Estimates, and New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City
  David Neumark, Matthew Thompson, Francesco Brindisi, Leslie Koyle, and Clayton Reck #18055 (LS)
  
• The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
  David H. Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson #18054 (IFM   LS)
  
• Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Francesca Lotti, and Jacques Mairesse #18053 (PR)
  
• Bubble Thy Neighbor: Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls
  Kristin Forbes, Marcel Fratzscher, Thomas Kostka, and Roland Straub #18052 (CF   IFM)
  
• Macro-Prudential Policy in a Fisherian model of Financial Innovation
  Javier Bianchi, Emine Boz, and Enrique G. Mendoza #18036 (IFM)
  
• The Impact of the 2009 Federal Tobacco Excise Tax Increase on Youth Tobacco Use
  Jidong Huang and Frank J. Chaloupka, IV #18026 (HE)
  

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Week of May 7, 2012 - May 14, 2012

• How is Economic Hardship Avoided by Those Retiring Before the Social Security Entitlement Age?
  Kevin S. Milligan #18051 (AG)
  
• Should Benchmark Indices Have Alpha? Revisiting Performance Evaluation
  Martijn Cremers, Antti Petajisto, and Eric Zitzewitz #18050 (AP   CF)
  
• Education and Military Rivalry
  Philippe Aghion, Torsten Persson, and Dorothee Rouzet #18049 (POL)
  
• Industrial Policy and Competition
  Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Luosha Du, Ann Harrison, and Patrick Legros #18048 (EFG   IO)
  
• The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
  Jennifer Hunt #18047 (LS)
  
• Parametric Inference and Dynamic State Recovery from Option Panels
  Torben G. Andersen, Nicola Fusari, and Viktor Todorov #18046 (AP)
  
• Why do we Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? The principle of equal sacrifice and optimal taxation
  Matthew C. Weinzierl #18045 (PE)
  
• Cash for Coolers
  Lucas W. Davis, Alan Fuchs, and Paul J. Gertler #18044 (EEE)
  
• Variation in Systemic Risk at US Banks During 1974-2010
  Armen Hovakimian, Edward J. Kane, and Luc Laeven #18043 (CF)
  
• Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Public Infrastructure Investment
  Sylvain Leduc and Daniel Wilson #18042 (EFG   PE)
  
• Competition, Markups, and the Gains from International Trade
  Chris Edmond, Virgiliu Midrigan, and Daniel Yi Xu #18041 (EFG   IO   ITI   PR)
  
• On Fiscal Illusion and Ricardian Equivalence in Local Public Finance
  H. Spencer Banzhaf and Wallace E. Oates #18040 (EEE   PE)
  
• The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
  Dana Burde and Leigh L. Linden #18039 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Knowledge, Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions
  Elizabeth U. Cascio and Douglas O. Staiger #18038 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Effective and Equitable Adoption of Opt-In Residential Dynamic Electricity Pricing
  Severin Borenstein #18037 (EEE   IO)
  
• The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
  Fatih Guvenen, Serdar Ozkan, and Jae Song #18035 (AP   EFG   IFM   LS   ME)
  
• Misallocation and Productivity Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  Eric W. Bond, Mario J. Crucini, Tristan Potter, and Joel Rodrigue #18034 (DAE   IFM   ITI)
  
• Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
  Rema Hanna, Esther Duflo, and Michael Greenstone #18033 (EEE   HC   HE   PE)
  
• Comovement in GDP Trends and Cycles Among Trading Partners
  Bruce A. Blonigen, Jeremy Piger, and Nicholas Sly #18032 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Prudential Policy for Peggers
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe #18031 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance: Evidence from Within and Across Africa
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Bent E. Sorensen #18030 (IFM)
  
• Testing Motives for Charitable Giving: A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence
  Rahul Deb, Robert S. Gazzale, and Matthew J. Kotchen #18029 (EEE   PE)
  
• Developing countries’ financial vulnerability to the euro crisis: An event study of equity and bond markets
  Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak, Minsoo Lee, and Donghyun Park #18028 (IFM)
  

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Week of Apr 30, 2012 - May 7, 2012

• The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s.
  Raghuram Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #18027 (CF   DAE   ME)
  
• The Impact of Health Information Technology on Hospital Productivity
  Jinhyung Lee, Jeffery S. McCullough, and Robert J. Town #18025 (HC   PR)
  
• Winning by Losing: Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Mergers
  Ulrike Malmendier, Enrico Moretti, and Florian S. Peters #18024 (AP   CF)
  
• The Impact of Patient Cost-Sharing on the Poor: Evidence from Massachusetts
  Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight #18023 (HC)
  
• Equilibrium Labor Turnover, Firm Growth and Unemployment
  Melvyn G. Coles and Dale T. Mortensen #18022 (EFG)
  
• Banks, Free Banks, and U.S. Economic Growth
  Matthew Jaremski and Peter L. Rousseau #18021 (DAE   ME)
  
• Why Do Firms Own Production Chains?
  Enghin Atalay, Ali Hortacsu, and Chad Syverson #18020 (IO   PR)
  
• The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
  Suresh De Mel, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff #18019 (PR)
  
• Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce
  Liran Einav, Dan Knoepfle, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neel Sundaresan #18018 (IO   ITI   LE   PE)
  
• Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant
  Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, and Chad Syverson #18017 (IO   PR)
  
• Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
  Naci H. Mocan and Colin Cannonier #18016 (CH   ED   HE)
  
• Debt Overhangs: Past and Present
  Carmen M. Reinhart, Vincent R. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff #18015 (IFM   ME)
  
• Riester Pensions in Germany: Design, Dynamics, Targetting Success and Crowding-In
  Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Michela Coppola, and Anette Reil-Held #18014 (AG)
  
• Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya
  Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Robert Cull, Jun Qian, Lemma Senbet, and Patricio Valenzuela #18013 (IFM)
  

Week of Apr 23, 2012 - Apr 30, 2012

• Fuel Economy and Safety: The Influences of Vehicle Class and Driver Behavior
  Mark R. Jacobsen #18012 (EEE)
  
• A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
  Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson #18011 (DAE   LS)
  
• Measuring Test Measurement Error: A General Approach
  Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #18010 (ED)
  
• Entitlement Reforms in Europe: Policy Mixes in the Current Pension Reform Process
  Axel H. Börsch-Supan #18009 (AG   PE)
  
• Goods Trade, Factor Mobility and Welfare
  Stephen J. Redding #18008 (ITI)
  
• The Effect of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy Rules on Inflation Expectations: Theory and Evidence
  Roger E.A. Farmer #18007 (EFG)
  
• Comparing Real Wages
  Orley C. Ashenfelter #18006 (LS)
  
• Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality
  Nicola Lacetera and Justin R. Sydnor #18005 (IO   PR)
  
• The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets
  Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Erik Feyen, and Ross Levine #18004 (CF   EFG   IFM)
  
• Demand for Smokeless Tobacco: Role of Magazine Advertising
  Dhaval M. Dave and Henry Saffer #18003 (HC   HE   IO)
  
• Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity
  Gabriella Conti, Christopher Hansman, James J. Heckman, Matthew F. X. Novak, Angela Ruggiero, and Stephen J. Suomi #18002 (CH   HC   HE)
  
• Executives' "Off-The-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk
  Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie J. Smith #18001 (CF)
  
• Status Competition and Housing Prices
  Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang, and Yin Liu #18000 (AP   IFM)
  

Week of Apr 16, 2012 - Apr 23, 2012

• Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
  Bernhard Ganglmair and Emanuele Tarantino #17999 (IO   LE)
  
• Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?
  Domenico Ferraro, Kenneth S. Rogoff, and Barbara Rossi #17998 (IFM   ME)
  
• Is Paper Money Just Paper Money? Experimentation and Local Variation in the Fiat Paper Monies Issued by the Colonial Governments of British North America, 1690-1775: Part I
  Farley Grubb #17997 (DAE)
  
• Saving Babies: The Contribution of Sheppard-Towner to the Decline in Infant Mortality in the 1920s
  Carolyn M. Moehling and Melissa A. Thomasson #17996 (DAE)
  
• Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts
  Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #17995 (AG   HC   HE)
  
• The World our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
  Daron Acemoglu #17994 (DAE)
  
• Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
  Francine D. Blau, Peter Brummund, and Albert Yung-Hsu Liu #17993 (LS)
  
• Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
  Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr #17992 (PR)
  
• Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation
  Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc-Andreas Muendler, and Stephen J. Redding #17991 (ITI)
  
• School Turnarounds: Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus
  Thomas Dee #17990 (ED)
  
• A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation
  Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez #17989 (PE)
  
• Defaults and Attention: The Drop Out Effect
  Andrew Caplin and Daniel J. Martin #17988 (PE)
  
• Medicare Reimbursements and Shortages of Sterile Injectable Pharmaceuticals
  Ali Yurukoglu #17987 (HC   HE   IO)
  
• On The Political Economy Of Educational Vouchers
  Dennis N. Epple and Richard Romano #17986 (CH   ED   PE)
  
• Heterogeneity in Human Capital Investments: High School Curriculum, College Major, and Careers
  Joseph G. Altonji, Erica Blom, and Costas Meghir #17985 (ED   LS)
  

Week of Apr 9, 2012 - Apr 16, 2012

• Epilogue: Foreign-Exchange-Market Operations in the Twenty-First Century
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #17984 (DAE   ME)
  
• The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property: A Literature Review
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Christian Helmers, Mark Rogers, and Vania Sena #17983 (IO   LE   PR)
  
• The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in The US, 1980-2010
  Orazio Attanasio, Erik Hurst, and Luigi Pistaferri #17982 (EFG)
  
• How much do firms pay as bribes and what benefits do they get? Evidence from corruption cases worldwide
  Yan Leung Cheung, P. Raghavendra Rau, and Aris Stouraitis #17981 (LE)
  
• University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
  Erika Farnstrand Damsgaard and Marie C. Thursby #17980 (PR)
  
• Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
  Davide Cantoni and Noam Yuchtman #17979 (DAE   ED   LE   LS   POL)
  
• Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Variability
  Mario J. Crucini and Christopher I. Telmer #17978 (EFG   IFM   ITI   ME)
  
• Externalities, Internalities, and the Targeting of Energy Policy
  Hunt Allcott, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Dmitry Taubinsky #17977 (EEE   PE)
  
• Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality
  Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel, and Su Wang #17976 (ITI)
  
• A Theory of Firm Characteristics and Stock Returns: The Role of Investment-Specific Shocks
  Leonid Kogan and Dimitris Papanikolaou #17975 (AP)
  
• Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey: Evidence from the American Life Panel
  Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder #17974 (AG)
  
• Stock Price Expectations and Stock Trading
  Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder #17973 (AG)
  
• The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach
  David H. Autor, Susan N. Houseman, and Sari Pekkala Kerr #17972 (LS)
  
• Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
  Susanto Basu, Luigi Pascali, Fabio Schiantarelli, and Luis Serven #17971 (EFG   ITI   PR)
  
• Choice Probability Generating Functions
  Mogens Fosgerau, Daniel L. McFadden, and Michel Bierlaire #17970 (AG)
  
• Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage: Old Idea, New Evidence
  Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson #17969 (ITI)
  
• Corruption
  Abhijit Banerjee, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Rema Hanna #17968 (POL)
  
• Inflation Targeting and Financial Stability
  Michael Woodford #17967 (ME)
  

Week of Apr 2, 2012 - Apr 9, 2012

• The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations
  Jesse Rothstein #17966 (EFG   LS)
  
• Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter?
  Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine #17965 (CH   HE   LS)
  
• Explaining Recent Trends in the U.S. Teen Birth Rate
  Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine #17964 (CH   LS)
  
• Trade, Variety, and Immigration
  Chen Bo and David S. Jacks #17963 (DAE   ITI)
  
• Layoffs, Lemons and Temps
  Christopher L. House and Jing Zhang #17962 (EFG   LS)
  
• The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade
  Gordon H. Hanson #17961 (ITI)
  
• The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results
  Timothy N. Bond and Kevin Lang #17960 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Platform Pricing at Sports Card Conventions
  Ginger Zhe Jin and Marc Rysman #17959 (IO)
  
• Inflation Expectations and Readiness to Spend: Cross-Sectional Evidence
  Rüdiger Bachmann, Tim O. Berg, and Eric R. Sims #17958 (EFG   ME)
  
• On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics
  Omar Al-Ubaydli and John A. List #17957 (PE)
  
• How Frequent Are Small Price Changes?
  Martin S. Eichenbaum, Nir Jaimovich, Sergio Rebelo, and Josephine Smith #17956 (EFG   ME)
  
• Unveiling the Mystery of Online Pharmacies: an Audit Study
  Roger Bate, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Aparna Mathur #17955 (IO)
  
• How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?
  Dean Karlan and John A. List #17954 (PE)
  
• A theory of the perturbed consumer with general budgets
  Daniel L. McFadden and Mogens Fosgerau #17953 (AG)
  
• A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment
  Dean Karlan, Melanie Morten, and Jonathan Zinman #17952 (CF   LS)
  
• Who Suffers During Recessions?
  Hilary W. Hoynes, Douglas L. Miller, and Jessamyn Schaller #17951 (CH   ED   LS   AP)
  
• The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance
  Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim #17950 (CF)
  
• Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior
  Naci H. Mocan and Duha Tore Altindag #17949 (CH   HE)
  
• Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations
  Russell Cooper, Guan Gong, and Ping Yan #17948 (EFG)
  
• Salience and Consumer Choice
  Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer #17947 (CF   IO)
  
• The Mystery of Zero-Leverage Firms
  Ilya A. Strebulaev and Baozhong Yang #17946 (CF)
  
• Investment Busts, Reputation, and the Temptation to Blend in with the Crowd
  Steven Grenadier, Andrey Malenko, and Ilya A. Strebulaev #17945 (CF   PR)
  
• Debt Deleveraging and The Exchange Rate
  Pierpaolo Benigno and Federica Romei #17944 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
  Jessica Cohen, Pascaline Dupas, and Simone G. Schaner #17943 (CH   HE)
  
• Do Private Equity Managers Earn Their Fees? Compensation, Ownership, and Cash Flow Performance
  David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy #17942 (CF   PR)
  
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: Common Sequencing Patterns in Financial Crises
  Carmen M. Reinhart #17941 (ME)
  
• Tailspotting: How Disclosure, Stock Prices and Volatility Change When CEOs Fly to Their Vacation Homes
  David Yermack #17940 (CF   LE)
  
• School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools
  Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, and Michael Kremer #17939 (CH   ED)
  
• Remedies for Sick Insurance
  Daniel L. McFadden, Carlos E. Noton, and Pau Olivella #17938 (AG)
  
• Is There "Too Much" Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?
  Laurence Ales, Roozbeh Hosseini, and Larry E. Jones #17937 (EFG   HE   PE)
  
• Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns
  Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., John A. Graves, Jonathan Gruber, and Samuel Kleiner #17936 (AG   HC   HE)
  
• Debt Financing in Asset Markets
  Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong #17935 (AP   CF)
  
• Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy
  Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and John Moore #17934 (EFG   ME)
  

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