New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Weekly papers released by Jun 24, 2013

• Political Economy in a Changing World
  Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin #19158 (POL)
  
• Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices After a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added
  Scott A. Imberman and Michael F. Lovenheim #19157 (ED   PE)
  
• Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity and Mortgage Rates
  David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam #19156 (AP   CF   IO   ME)
  
• Financial-market Equilibrium with Friction
  Adrian Buss and Bernard Dumas #19155 (AP)
  
• Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Price Expectations on Auto-Repair Price Quotes
  Meghan R. Busse, Ayelet Israeli, and Florian Zettelmeyer #19154 (IO)
  
• Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
  Douglas Almond, Hongbin Li, and Shuang Zhang #19153 (CH   DEV   HE   LE   LS   PE   POL)
  
• Sequential Monte Carlo Sampling for DSGE Models
  Edward P. Herbst and Frank Schorfheide #19152 (EFG   ME)
  
• Medicaid Insurance in Old Age
  Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and John Bailey Jones #19151 (AG   HE   PE)
  
• Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms
  Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang #19150 (PR)
  
• Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice
  Martin B. Hackmann, Jonathan T. Kolstad, and Amanda E. Kowalski #19149 (AG   HC   HE   IO   PE)
  
• Inflation Dynamics and Time-Varying Volatility: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation
  Joseph S. Vavra #19148 (ME)
  
• Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem
  Robert A. Margo #19147 (DAE)
  
• Asset Pricing Implications of Macroeconomic Interventions An Application to Climate Policy
  Rajnish Mehra #19146 (AP   CF   EEE   EFG)
  
• Donative Behavior at the End of Life
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #19145 (AG   ED   HE   PE)
  
• Eliciting Maternal Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation
  Flávio Cunha, Irma Elo, and Jennifer Culhane #19144 (CH)
  
• Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths
  Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin, and Roy Wada #19143 (HE)
  
• Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
  Young Kyung Do, Edward C. Norton, Sally Stearns, and Courtney H. Van Houtven #19142 (AG   HE)
  
• Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
  Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti #19141 (DEV   EFG)
  
• Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
  Manisha Shah and Bryce Millett Steinberg #19140 (CH   DEV   ED)
  
• Why High Leverage is Optimal for Banks
  Harry DeAngelo and René M. Stulz #19139 (CF)
  
• Loans for Higher Education: Does the Dream Come True?
  Tomás Rau, Eugenio Rojas, and Sergio Urzúa #19138 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Propagation and Risk Spreading in Alternative Social Security Systems
  Alan Auerbach, Lorenz Kueng, and Ronald Lee #19137 (AG   PE)
  
• How Firms Respond to Business Cycles: The Role of Firm Age and Firm Size
  Teresa C. Fort, John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, and Javier Miranda #19134 (EFG   PR)
  

Weekly papers released by Jun 17, 2013

• The Global Decline of the Labor Share
  Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman #19136 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results
  Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein #19135 (ED   LS)
  
• Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding
  Ajay K. Agrawal, Christian Catalini, and Avi Goldfarb #19133 (PR)
  
• Deposit Insurance and Orderly Liquidation without Commitment: Can we Sleep Well?
  Russell Cooper and Hubert Kempf #19132 (EFG)
  
• The Female Labor Force and Long-run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective
  Claudia Olivetti #19131 (DAE   EFG)
  
• Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior: Evidence from the Lab
  Emel Filiz-Ozbay, Jonathan Guryan, Kyle Hyndman, Melissa Schettini Kearney, and Erkut Y. Ozbay #19130 (LE   PE)
  
• Banking, Liquidity and Bank Runs in an Infinite-Horizon Economy
  Mark Gertler and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki #19129 (EFG   ME)
  
• Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
  Tom Vogl #19128 (CH   DEV   ED   EFG)
  
• Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting: Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
  Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Ririn Purnamasari, and Matthew Wai-Poi #19127 (   DEV   PE)
  
• The Effect of Mergers in Search Market: Evidence from the Canadian Mortgage Industry
  Jason Allen, Robert Clark, and Jean-François Houde #19126 (IO)
  
• Credit Ratings and the Pricing of Sovereign Debt during the Euro Crisis
  Joshua Aizenman, Mahir Binici, and Michael M. Hutchison #19125 (IFM)
  
• Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data
  William J. Collins and Marianne H. Wanamaker #19124 (DAE   LS)
  
• California Energy Efficiency: Lessons for the Rest of the World, or Not?
  Arik Levinson #19123 (EEE)
  
• What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists
  Enrico Spolaore #19122 (IFM   ITI   PE   POL)
  
• Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data: A Cautionary Tale from Australia
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Markus H. Hahn, and Roger Wilkins #19121 (LS   PE   TWP)
  
• Is a VC Partnership Greater than the Sum of its Partners?
  Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf #19120 (CF   IO   PR)
  
• Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
  Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman #19119 (LE   LS   DEV)
  
• Spatial Equilibrium with Unemployment and Wage Bargaining: Theory and Estimation
  Paul Beaudry, David A. Green, and Benjamin M. Sand #19118 (EFG   LS)
  
• Finance and the Preservation of Wealth
  Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny #19117 (AP   CF   EFG)
  

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Weekly papers released by Jun 10, 2013

• The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again
  George J. Borjas #19116 (LS)
  
• Economic Downturns and Substance Abuse Treatment: Evidence from Admissions Data
  Johanna Catherine Maclean, Jonathan H. Cantor, and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula #19115 (HE)
  
• Updating Beliefs with Ambiguous Evidence: Implications for Polarization
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Philipp Harms, and Matthew O. Jackson #19114 (IO   LS   PE)
  
• Information and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Cellular Phone Experiment
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr #19113 (ED   LS)
  
• The European Crisis in the Context of the History of Previous Financial Crises
  Michael D. Bordo and Harold James #19112 (DAE   ME)
  
• Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
  Jesper Bagger, Javier A. Birchenall, Hani Mansour, and Sergio Urzúa #19111 (CH   ED)
  
• Levels and Trends in United States Income and Its Distribution: A Crosswalk from Market Income Towards a Comprehensive Haig-Simons Income Approach
  Philip Armour, Richard V. Burkhauser, and Jeff Larrimore #19110 (LS   PE)
  
• The Supply of Gender Stereotypes and Discriminatory Beliefs
  Edward L. Glaeser and Yueran Ma #19109 (DAE)
  
• Strategic Involuntary Teacher Transfers and Teacher Performance: Examining Equity and Efficiency
  Jason A. Grissom, Susanna Loeb, and Nathaniel Nakashima #19108 (ED)
  
• Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda
  Julian C. Jamison, Dean Karlan, and Pia Raffler #19107 (HE   LS)
  
• Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico
  Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman #19106 (CF   LE   LS)
  
• Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD?
  Janet Currie, Mark Stabile, and Lauren E. Jones #19105 (CH   HC   HE)
  
• Capital-Labor-Energy Substitution in Nested CES Production Functions for China
  Keting Shen and John Whalley #19104 (EEE)
  
• Wall Street vs. Main Street: An Evaluation of Probabilities
  Robin L. Lumsdaine and Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon #19103 (AG   AP   ED   IFM)
  
• Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges
  Anna Aizer and Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. #19102 (CH   ED   LE   LS   PE)
  
• The Effect of Medicare Advantage on Hospital Admissions and Mortality
  Christopher C. Afendulis, Michael E. Chernew, and Daniel P. Kessler #19101 (HC   HE   LE)
  
• Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
  Angus Deaton and Arthur A. Stone #19100 (AG)
  
• The Cyclical Behavior of the Price-Cost Markup
  Christopher J. Nekarda and Valerie A. Ramey #19099 (EFG   ME)
  
• Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes
  Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk #19098 (IFM)
  
• Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
  Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Laure B. de Preux, and Ulrich J. Wagner #19097 (EEE)
  
• Do First Impressions Matter? Improvement in Early Career Teacher Effectiveness
  Allison Atteberry, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #19096 (ED)
  
• Flights to Safety
  Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, Koen Inghelbrecht, and Min Wei #19095 (AP)
  

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Weekly papers released by Jun 3, 2013

• Flights to Safety
  Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, Koen Inghelbrecht, and Min Wei #19095 (AP)
  
• (Q,S,s) Pricing Rules
  Kenneth Burdett and Guido Menzio #19094 (EFG)
  
• Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity
  Franziska Bremus, Claudia Buch, Katheryn Russ, and Monika Schnitzer #19093 (ITI)
  
• How Pro-Poor Growth Affects the Demand for Energy
  Paul Gertler, Orie Shelef, Catherine Wolfram, and Alan Fuchs #19092 (DEV   EEE   IO)
  
• Capital Controls, Global Liquidity Traps and the International Policy Trilemma
  Michael B. Devereux and James Yetman #19091 (IFM)
  
• Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
  Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray #19090 (   DEV   POL)
  
• The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms
  Bronwyn H. Hall, Christian Helmers, Mark Rogers, and Vania Sena #19089 (LE   PR)
  
• How Public Pension affects Elderly Labor Supply and Well-being: Evidence from India
  Neeraj Kaushal #19088 (AG   HE   LS)
  
• Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change
  Maximilian Auffhammer, Solomon M. Hsiang, Wolfram Schlenker, and Adam Sobel #19087 (EEE)
  
• Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth
  Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde #19086 (IO)
  
• Reference-Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations
  Kfir Eliaz and Rani Spiegler #19085 (EFG   LS)
  
• Assessing Macroprudential Policies: Case of Korea
  Valentina Bruno and Hyun Song Shin #19084 (IFM)
  
• Immigrant Assimilation into U.S. Prisons, 1900-1930
  Carolyn M. Moehling and Anne Morrison Piehl #19083 (DAE   LS)
  
• Effects of the Price of Charitable Giving: Evidence from an Online Crowdfunding Platform
  Jonathan Meer #19082 (PE)
  
• Tax Shelters or Efficient Tax Planning? A Theory of The Firm Perspective On the Economic Substance Doctrine
  T. Christopher Borek, Angelo Frattarelli, and Oliver Hart #19081 (CF   LE   PE)
  
• Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics
  John G. Bullock, Alan S. Gerber, Seth J. Hill, and Gregory A. Huber #19080 (PE   POL)
  
• Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?
  David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald #19079 (LS   ME)
  
• CEO Pay and Firm Size: an Update after the Crisis
  Xavier Gabaix, Augustin Landier, and Julien Sauvagnat #19078 (CF   LS)
  
• Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
  James J. Heckman and Lakshmi K. Raut #19077 (CH   ED   TWP)
  

Weekly papers released by May 27, 2013

• Competition for Attention
  Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer #19076 (CF)
  
• The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
  Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez #19075 (PE)
  
• Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
  Wladimir Raymond, Jacques Mairesse, Pierre Mohnen, and Franz Palm #19074 (PR)
  
• The R&D Tax Credit in France: Assessment and Ex-Ante Evaluation of the 2008 Reform
  Benoît Mulkay and Jacques Mairesse #19073 (PR)
  
• Financial Globalization, Financial Crises, and the External Portfolio Structure of Emerging Markets
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Katherine A. Smith #19072 (IFM)
  
• Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier #19071 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care: Medicare Advantage and Hospital Utilization
  Katherine Baicker, Michael Chernew, and Jacob Robbins #19070 (AG   HC)
  
• Borrowing High vs. Borrowing Higher: Sources and Consequences of Dispersion in Individual Borrowing Costs
  Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman #19069 (IO   LE)
  
• 'Lucas' In The Laboratory
  Elena Asparouhova, Peter Bossaerts, Nilanjan Roy, and William Zame #19068 (AP)
  
• Public and Private Saving and the Long Shadow of Macroeconomic Shocks
  Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy #19067 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations
  Alexander L. Brown, Jonathan Meer, and J. Forrest Williams #19066 (PE)
  
• Bubbles, Food Prices, and Speculation: Evidence from the CFTC’s Daily Large Trader Data Files
  Nicole M. Aulerich, Scott H. Irwin, and Philip Garcia #19065 (AP)
  
• Optimal Provision of Loans and Insurance Against Unemployment From A Lifetime Perspective
  Joseph Stiglitz and Jungyoll Yun #19064 (LS   PE)
  
• Framing Lifetime Income
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel #19063 (AG)
  
• The Great Recession: A Self-Fulfilling Global Panic
  Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop #19062 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Making College Worth It: A Review of Research on the Returns to Higher Education
  Philip Oreopoulos and Uros Petronijevic #19053 (CH   ED   LS)
  

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Weekly papers released by May 20, 2013

• Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States
  Maury Gittleman and Morris M. Kleiner #19061 (IO   LE   LS)
  
• Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Home Computers on Academic Achievement among Schoolchildren
  Robert W. Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson #19060 (DEV   ED)
  
• Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
  Sabien Dobbelaere, Kozo Kiyota, and Jacques Mairesse #19059 (PR)
  
• Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?
  Mark L. Egan, Casey B. Mulligan, and Tomas J. Philipson #19058 (EFG   HC   HE)
  
• Foreign Trade and Investment: Firm-Level Perspectives
  Elhanan Helpman #19057 (ITI)
  
• Risk Premia in Crude Oil Futures Prices
  James D. Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu #19056 (AP   EEE   ME)
  
• Vehicle Scrappage and Gasoline Policy
  Mark R. Jacobsen and Arthur A. van Benthem #19055 (EEE)
  
• Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Validation
  Emily Oster #19054 (HC   LS)
  
• Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
  Diego A. Comin and Martí Mestieri #19052 (DAE   DEV   EFG   IFM   ITI   POL   PR)
  
• Loan officer Incentives and the Limits of Hard Information
  Tobias Berg, Manju Puri, and Jorg Rocholl #19051 (CF)
  
• Do Depositors Monitor Banks?
  Rajkamal Iyer, Manju Puri, and Nicholas Ryan #19050 (CF   ME)
  
• High School Graduation in the Context of Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy and Income Inequality: The Last Half Century
  Nora E. Gordon #19049 (ED)
  
• Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
  Henry S. Farber and Robert G. Valletta #19048 (LS)
  
• Post-recession US Employment through the Lens of a Non-linear Okun’s law
  Menzie D. Chinn, Laurent Ferrara, and Valérie Mignon #19047 (EFG)
  
• Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
  Paul Gertler and Christel Vermeersch #19046 (CH   DEV   HC   HE   LS)
  

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Weekly papers released by May 13, 2013

• Racial Residential Segregation in American Cities
  Leah Platt Boustan #19045 (DAE)
  
• A Microeconomic Framework for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Rebound And Some Implications
  Severin Borenstein #19044 (EEE)
  
• Two-Armed Restless Bandits with Imperfect Information: Stochastic Control and Indexability
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Philipp Harms #19043 (IO   LS)
  
• Aggregation and The Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health
  Jason M. Lindo #19042 (HE   LS)
  
• Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
  Leah Platt Boustan, Devin Bunten, and Owen Hearey #19041 (DAE)
  
• The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation
  Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins #19040 (DAE   LS)
  
• The “Greatest” Carry Trade Ever? Understanding Eurozone Bank Risks
  Viral V. Acharya and Sascha Steffen #19039 (AP   CF   IFM   ME)
  
• Capital Flows, Cross-Border Banking and Global Liquidity
  Valentina Bruno and Hyun Song Shin #19038 (CF   IFM)
  
• Bubble Troubles? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion and Runs in Commodity Prices.
  Eugenio S. A. Bobenrieth, Juan R. A. Bobenrieth, and Brian D. Wright #19037 (AP   EFG)
  
• Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants
  Rebekka Christopoulou and Dean R. Lillard #19036 (HE)
  
• The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis
  Liran Einav and Jonathan D. Levin #19035 (AG   ED   EEE   EFG   HC   HE   IO   LS   PE   PR)
  
• Nonlinear Programming Method for Dynamic Programming
  Yongyang Cai, Kenneth L. Judd, Thomas S. Lontzek, Valentina Michelangeli, and Che-Lin Su #19034 (TWP)
  
• Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It's in the Measure
  Alvaro Garcia Marin and Nico Voigtländer #19033 (IO   ITI   PR)
  
• Exchanging Delayed Social Security Benefits for Lump Sums: Could This Incentivize Longer Work Careers?
  Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #19032 (AG   LS)
  
• Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching New Hampshire
  Scott E. Carrell and Bruce Sacerdote #19031 (ED   LS   PE)
  
• Liability Investment with Downside Risk
  Andrew Ang, Bingxu Chen, and Suresh Sundaresan #19030 (AP)
  
• Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
  Filipe R. Campante, Ruben Durante, and Francesco Sobbrio #19029 (POL)
  
• Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence
  Filipe R. Campante, Quoc-Anh Do, and Bernardo V. Guimaraes #19028 (POL)
  
• Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
  Filipe R. Campante and Quoc-Anh Do #19027 (POL)
  
• Putting the "System" in the International Monetary System
  Michael D. Bordo and Angela Redish #19026 (DAE   ME)
  
• Market Deregulation and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union
  Matteo Cacciatore, Giuseppe Fiori, and Fabio Ghironi #19025 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
  Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley #19024 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households
  Marianne Bertrand, Jessica Pan, and Emir Kamenica #19023 (LS)
  
• How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
  Andreas Ravndal Kostøl, and Magne Mogstad #19016 (AG   HE   LS)
  
• The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
  Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia G. Kinnan #18950 (DEV)
  

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Weekly papers, released by May 6, 2013

• Sustainable Shadow Banking
  Guillermo Ordonez #19022 (EFG   LE   ME)
  
• Sales Mechanisms in Online Markets: What Happened to Internet Auctions?
  Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neel Sundaresan #19021 (IO   PR)
  
• The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust
  Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira, and Stephen L. Ross #19020 (LS   PE)
  
• Offshore jurisdictions (including Cyprus), corruption money laundering and Russian round-trip investment
  Svetlana Ledyaeva, Päivi Karhunen, and John Whalley #19019 (ITI)
  
• Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
  Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler #19018 (CF)
  
• R-squared and the Economy
  Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung, and Wayne Yu #19017 (CF)
  
• The Labor Wedge: MRS vs. MPN
  Loukas Karabarbounis #19015 (EFG   ME)
  
• Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment
  Sara Heller, Harold A. Pollack, Roseanna Ander, and Jens Ludwig #19014 (CH   DEV   ED   HE   LE   LS   PE)
  
• Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  Aaron Chatterji, Edward L. Glaeser, and William R. Kerr #19013 (PR)
  
• Exploring Reallocation’s Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth.
  Mitsukuni Nishida, Amil Petrin, and SaÅ¡o Polanec #19012 (IO   PR)
  
• Tests for Price Endogeneity in Differentiated Product Models
  Kyoo il Kim and Amil Petrin #19011 (IO   TWP)
  
• If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?
  Diego A. Comin and Martí Mestieri Ferrer #19010 (DAE   EFG   ME   PR)
  
• Pledgability and Liquidity: A New Monetarist Model of Financial and Macroeconomic Activity
  Venky Venkateswaran and Randall Wright #19009 (ME)
  
• Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars
  George J. Hall and Thomas J. Sargent #19008 (DAE   EFG   ME)
  
• Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
  Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, and Jonathan M. Shaw #19007 (   ED   LS   PE)
  
• China and India: Reforms and the Response: How Differently have the Economies Behaved
  Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley #19006 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Economic Analysis of Risk and Uncertainty induced by Health Shocks: A Review and Extension
  Tomas J. Philipson and George Zanjani #19005 (HE)
  
• Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States’ Implementation of NCLB
  Elizabeth Davidson, Randall Reback, Jonah E. Rockoff, and Heather L. Schwartz #18988 (ED   PE)
  
• Diagnosis and Unnecessary Procedure Use: Evidence from C-Section
  Janet Currie and W. Bentley MacLeod #18977 (CH   HC   HE   LS)
  

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Weekly papers, released by April 29, 2013

• State-controlled Banks and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy
  Randall Morck, M. Deniz Yavuz, and Bernard Yeung #19004 (CF)
  
• Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility
  Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina M. Gibson-Davis #19003 (CH)
  
• Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment
  Costas Meghir, MÃ¥rten Palme, and Emilia Simeonova #19002 (ED   HE   LS)
  
• More is Less: Why Parties May Deliberately Write Incomplete Contracts
  Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka and Oliver D. Hart #19001 (CF   LE)
  
• The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle
  Alisdair McKay and Ricardo Reis #19000 (EFG   ME   PE)
  
• Discounting under Disagreement
  Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner #18999 (EEE   PE)
  
• Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK
  James Andreoni, A. Abigail Payne, and Sarah Smith #18998 (PE)
  
• Keeping it Fresh: Strategic Product Redesigns and Welfare
  Bruce A. Blonigen, Christopher R. Knittel, and Anson Soderbery #18997 (IO   PR)
  
• Growth and Structural Transformation
  Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson, and Ákos Valentinyi #18996 (EFG)
  
• The VIX, the Variance Premium and Stock Market Volatility
  Geert Bekaert and Marie Hoerova #18995 (AP)
  
• Economic Conditions and Child Abuse
  Jason M. Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller, and Benjamin Hansen #18994 (CH   HE   LE   LS)
  
• Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
  Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr #18993 (   IO)
  
• Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #18992 (DEV   EFG   LE   LS)
  
• Social Impact Bonds in Nonprofit Health Care: New Product or New Package?
  Mark Pauly and Ashley Swanson #18991 (HC   HE   PE)
  
• What Drives Aggregate Investment?
  Rüdiger Bachmann and Peter Zorn #18990 (EFG   ME)
  
• Firms' Optimism and Pessimism
  Rüdiger Bachmann and Steffen Elstner #18989 (EFG   ME   PR)
  
• This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout
  Sandra E. Black, Aline Bütikofer, Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes #18987 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
  Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini, and Francesco Trebbi #18986 (POL)
  

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Weekly papers, released by April 22, 2013

• A Bargaining Theory of Trade Invoicing and Pricing
  Linda S. Goldberg and Cédric Tille #18985 (IFM   ITI   ME)
  
• Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure
  Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary B. Billings, Bryan T. Kelly, and Alexander Ljungqvist #18984 (AP   CF)
  
• The Pruned State-Space System for Non-Linear DSGE Models: Theory and Empirical Applications
  Martin M. Andreasen, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez #18983 (EFG)
  
• Patent Trading Flows of Small and Large Firms
  Nicolas Figueroa and Carlos J. Serrano #18982 (IO   PR)
  
• The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice
  Umut M. Dur, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez #18981 (ED   LS   PE)
  
• Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem
  Elliot Anenberg and Patrick Bayer #18980 (EFG   PE)
  
• Women's Emancipation Through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis
  Fatih Guvenen and Michelle Rendall #18979 (ED   EFG   LS   PE)
  
• The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
  Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner #18978 (DEV   EFG   POL)
  
• Shrouded Costs of Government: The Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions
  Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto #18976 (PE)
  
• Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?
  Edward L. Glaeser and Cass R. Sunstein #18975 (LE)
  
• Energy Production and Health Externalities: Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France
  Emmanuelle Lavaine and Matthew J. Neidell #18974 (EEE   HE)
  
• Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry
  Luís Cabral, Zhu Wang, and Daniel Yi Xu #18973 (IO   PR)
  
• Innovation and Production in the Global Economy
  Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Stephen Yeaple #18972 (ITI)
  
• The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
  Peter Boone, Ila Fazzio, Kameshwari Jandhyala, Chitra Jayanty, Gangadhar Jayanty, Simon Johnson, Vimala Ramachandrin, Filipa Silva, and Zhaoguo Zhan #18971 (DEV)
  
• Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
  Brian Greaney, Joseph P. Kaboski, and Eva Van Leemput #18970 (DEV)
  
• Financial Literacy and High-Cost Borrowing in the United States
  Annamaria Lusardi and Carlo de Bassa Scheresberg #18969 (AG)
  
• Testing Macroprudential Stress Tests: The Risk of Regulatory Risk Weights
  Viral V. Acharya, Robert Engle, and Diane Pierret #18968 (CF   ME)
  
• The Global Energy Outlook
  Richard G. Newell and Stuart Iler #18967 (EEE)
  

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Weekly papers, released by April 15, 2013

• Family Ties
  Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano #18966 (POL)
  
• Congressional Influence as a Determinant of Subprime Lending
  Stuart A. Gabriel, Matthew E. Kahn, and Ryan K. Vaughn #18965 (PE   POL)
  
• Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
  Grant Miller and A. Mushfiq Mobarak #18964 (CH   DEV   EEE   HC   HE)
  
• Fundamentals and Sovereign Risk of Emerging Markets
  Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak, and Donghyun Park #18963 (IFM)
  
• Preparing to Export
  Danielken Molina and Marc-Andreas Muendler #18962 (DEV   ITI   LS)
  
• More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-Commerce in China
  Hongbin Cai, Ginger Z. Jin, Chong Liu, and Li-An Zhou #18961 (IO)
  
• The Simple Analytics of Monetary Policy: A Post-Crisis Approach
  Benjamin M. Friedman #18960 (ME)
  
• Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality
  Garth Heutel and Christopher J. Ruhm #18959 (EEE   EFG   HE)
  
• Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work: Collaboration and Scientific Reward
  Michaël Bikard, Fiona E. Murray, and Joshua Gans #18958 (PR)
  
• Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses
  Richard Baldwin and Javier Lopez-Gonzalez #18957 (ITI)
  
• Assessing International Efficiency
  Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri #18956 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Large Block Shareholders, Institutional Investors, Boards of Directors and Bank Value in the Nineteenth Century
  Howard Bodenhorn #18955 (CF   DAE)
  
• Improving GDP Measurement: A Measurement-Error Perspective
  S. Boraǧan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, Jeremy Nalewaik, Frank Schorfheide, and Dongho Song #18954 (AP   EFG)
  
• An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michèle Tertilt #18953 (DEV   EFG)
  
• The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #18952 (AG)
  
• The Simple Economics of Commodity Price Speculation
  Christopher R. Knittel and Robert S. Pindyck #18951 (AP   EEE   EFG   IO)
  

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Weekly papers, released by April 8, 2013

• Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment
  Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo #18949 (EFG   LS   ME   PE)
  
• Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women
  Edward C. Norton, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, and Sean Sheng-Hsiu Huang #18948 (HC   HE)
  
• Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program
  Michael Geruso and Harvey S. Rosen #18947 (HE   PE)
  
• Financial Development in 205 Economies, 1960 to 2010
  Martin Cihák, Asli Demirgüc-Kunt, Erik Feyen, and Ross Levine #18946 (CF   DEV   EFG   IFM)
  
• Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model
  Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner #18945 (ED   LS)
  
• Finance: Function Matters, not Size.
  John H. Cochrane #18944 (AP   EFG)
  
• Procyclical Leverage and Value-at-Risk
  Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin #18943 (CF   ME)
  
• Capital Flows and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy
  Valentina Bruno and Hyun Song Shin #18942 (IFM   ME)
  
• Household Leveraging and Deleveraging
  Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Andrea Tambalotti #18941 (EFG   ME)
  
• The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
  David H. Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson #18940 (ITI   LS)
  
• Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance: Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections
  Ginger Zhe Jin and Jungmin Lee #18939 (IO)
  
• Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
  David H. Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson #18938 (ITI   LS)
  
• Growth in Regions
  Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #18937 (EFG)
  
• Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
  Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole #18936 (CF   IO   PE)
  
• Environment, Health, and Human Capital
  Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell #18935 (CH   EEE   HE)
  
• Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
  Christophe Gouel #18934 (DEV)
  
• Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap
  Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu, and Stephen L. Ross #18933 (CH   LS)
  
• Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs
  Grant Miller and Kimberly Singer Babiarz #18932 (DEV   HC   HE)
  
• A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry
  Kenneth Flamm #18931 (PR)
  

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Weekly papers, released by April 1, 2013

• Local Deficits and Local Jobs: Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?
  Gerald Carlino and Robert P. Inman #18930 (EFG   PE   POL)
  
• Uncertainty and Decision in Climate Change Economics
  Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner #18929 (EEE)
  
• The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits During and After the Great Recession
  David Neumark and Diego Grijalva #18928 (EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices
  Daniel J. Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles S. Kimball, and Alex Rees-Jones #18927 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• How Do Hospitals Respond to Market Entry? Evidence from A Deregulated Market for Cardiac Revascularization
  Suhui Li and Avi Dor #18926 (HC   HE)
  
• Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life
  David Albouy, Walter F. Graf, Ryan Kellogg, and Hendrik Wolff #18925 (EEE   IO   PE)
  
• Incidence and Environmental Effects of Distortionary Subsidies
  Garth Heutel and David L. Kelly #18924 (EEE   PE)
  
• Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?
  Anil K Kashyap and Natalia Kovrijnykh #18923 (CF)
  
• Bond Market Clienteles, the Yield Curve, and the Optimal Maturity Structure of Government Debt
  Stéphane Guibaud, Yves Nosbusch, and Dimitri Vayanos #18922 (AP   IFM   PE)
  
• Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice
  Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson #18921 (POL)
  

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