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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of March 19 - March 26, 2007

• Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms
  Jedidiah Brewer, Robert Glennon, Alan Ker, and Gary D. Libecap #13002 (PE, IO)
  
• Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages
  Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, James R. Markusen, and Bertel Schjerning #13001 (ITI)
  
• Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
  Michael Burda, Daniel S. Hamermesh, and Philippe Weil #13000 (EFG, LS)
  
• Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth
  John A. List and Haiwen Zhou #12999 (EFG)
  
• Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition
  Guido Friebel and Elena Panova #12998 (LS)
  
• Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003
  John S. Earle and Álmos Telegdy #12997 (LS)
  
• Defining and Measuring the Location of FDI Output
  Robert E. Lipsey #12996 (ITI)
  
• Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice
  Justine S. Hastings, Richard Van Weelden, and Jeffrey Weinstein #12995 (CH, ED, IO, PE)
  

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Week of March 12 - March 19, 2007

• Risk Sharing in Private Information Models with Asset Accumulation: Explaining the Excess Smoothness of Consumption
  Orazio Attanasio and Nicola Pavoni #12994 (EFG)
  
• Growing Up to Financial Stability
  Michael D. Bordo #12993 (ME, IFM)
  
• Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data
  John A. List #12992 (PE)
  
• Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade
  Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud #12991 (ITI)
  
• Real Options With Uncertain Maturity and Competition
  Kristian R. Miltersen and Eduardo S. Schwartz #12990 (AP, IFM)
  
• Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
  Paul Oyer #12989 (LS)
  
• Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap
  Jacob Vigdor and Jens Ludwig #12988 (CH, ED)
  
• What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
  Alix Peterson Zwane and Michael Kremer #12987 (PE, HC)
  
• Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns
  Joao F. Gomes, Leonid Kogan, and Motohiro Yogo #12986 (AP, EFG)
  
• Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
  Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti, and Gary Solon #12985 (CH, LS, ED)
  
• The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz #12984 (DAE, LS)
  
• Fetters of Debt, Deposit, or Gold during the Great Depression? The International Propagation of the Banking Crisis of 1931
  Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn #12983 (DAE, IFM, ME)
  
• Three Great American Disinflations
  Michael D. Bordo, Christopher Erceg, Andrew Levin, and Ryan Michaels #12982 (ME, DAE)
  
• Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?
  Jonathan Skinner #12981 (AG, HC, PE)
  
• Trade and Workforce Changeover in Brazil
  Marc-Andreas Muendler #12980 (ITI, LS)
  
• Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview: Empirical evidence from France
  Marc-Arthur Diaye, Nathalie Greenan, and Michal Urdanivia #12979 (LS)
  
• Wage Structure and Firm Productivity in Belgium
  Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman, and Francois Rycx #12978 (LS)
  
• Adjusting Imperfect Data: Overview and Case Studies
  Lars Vilhuber #12977 (LS)
  
• Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
  Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Goette, Kristen Monaco, Aldo Rustichini, and Kay Porter #12976 (LS)
  
• The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover: A Case Study Analysis
  Colleen N. Flaherty #12975 (ED, LS)
  
• Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980–1997
  Arngrim Hunnes, Jarle Møen, and Kjell G. Salvanes #12974 (LS)
  

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Week of March 5 - March 12, 2007

• The Benefits and Costs of Head Start
  Jens Ludwig and Deborah A. Phillips #12973 (CH)
  
• Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly
  Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight #12972 (HC)
  
• Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?
  Mary Amiti and John Romalis #12971 (ITI)
  
• Optimal Asset Allocation in Asset Liability Management
  Jules H. van Binsbergen and Michael W. Brandt #12970 (AP)
  
• Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
  M. Scott Taylor #12969 (ITI, DAE)
  
• Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade
  Margaret K. Kyle #12968 (PR, ITI)
  
• Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market
  Kristopher Gerardi, Harvey S. Rosen, and Paul Willen #12967 (PE)
  
• Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height
  Carlos Bozzoli, Angus S. Deaton, and Climent Quintana-Domeque #12966 (AG, CH, HE)
  
• Understanding the New-Keynesian Model when Monetary Policy Switches Regimes
  Roger E.A. Farmer, Daniel F. Waggoner, and Tao Zha #12965 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Advertising on Youth Smoking
  Henry Saffer, Melanie Wakefield, and Yvonne Terry-McElrath #12964 (HE)
  
• No-Arbitrage Semi-Martingale Restrictions for Continuous-Time Volatility Models subject to Leverage Effects, Jumps and i.i.d. Noise: Theory and Testable Distributional Implications
  Torben G. Andersen, Tim Bollerslev, and Dobrislav Dobrev #12963 (AP)
  
• Do Bonds Span Volatility Risk in the U.S. Treasury Market? A Specification test for Affine Term Structure Models
  Torben G. Andersen and Luca Benzoni #12962 (AP)
  
• Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits
  Morten Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, and Martin Uribe #12961 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Schools and Location: Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy
  Eric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz #12960 (ED, PE)
  
• A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation
  Emmanuel Farhi, Mikhail Golosov, and Aleh Tsyvinski #12959 (EFG, ME, AP)
  
• Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies
  Alan L. Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier #12958 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Inflation Illusion, Credit, and Asset Pricing
  Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider #12957 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California
  Giovanni Peri #12956 (ITI, LS)
  
• Is Urban Decay Bad? Is Urban Revitalization Bad Too?
  Jacob L. Vigdor #12955 (ED, PE)
  
• Why Is The Developed World Obese?
  Sara Bleich, David Cutler, Christopher Murray, and Alyce Adams #12954 (HC, HE)
  

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Week of February 26 - March 5, 2007

• The Influence of Actual and Unrequited Interventions
  Kathryn M.E. Dominguez and Freyan Panthaki #12953 (IFM)
  
• A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
  Yael V. Hochberg, Paola Sapienza, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen #12952 (CF, LE, POL)
  
• Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance: Evidence from Displaced Workers
  Steven F. Lehrer and Nuno Sousa Pereira #12951 (HE, LS)
  
• Firm Heterogeneity and Firm Behavior with Conditional Policies
  Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna #12950 (ITI)
  
• Trade and Trade Policy with Differentiated Products: A Chamberlinian-Ricardian Model: A Comment
  Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna #12949 (ITI)
  
• Beliefs, Doubts and Learning: Valuing Economic Risk
  Lars Peter Hansen #12948 (AP, EFG)
  
• International Evidence on Fiscal Solvency: Is Fiscal Policy "Responsible"?
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Jonathan D. Ostry #12947 (IFM)
  
• The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
  Hans-Werner Sinn #12946 (PE)
  
• Price Stickiness in Ss Models: New Interpretations of Old Results
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Eduardo M.R.A. Engel #12945 (EFG, IFM, IO, ME)
  
• Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #12944 (AG, CH, DAE, LE, LS)
  

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Week of February 12 - February 19, 2007

• Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India
  Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins #12943 (IFM)
  
• Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement
  Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Michael Z. Stamos #12942 (AG)
  
• The Power of Information: How Do U.S. News Rankings Affect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?
  Ginger Zhe Jin and Alex Whalley #12941 (IO)
  
• Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns
  Markus K. Brunnermeier, Christian Gollier, and Jonathan A. Parker #12940 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity
  Markus K. Brunnermeier and Lasse Heje Pedersen #12939 (AP, CF)
  
• Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship During the Great Depression
  Mark Carlson and Kris James Mitchener #12938 (DAE, ME)
  
• The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
  Fabio Ghironi, Jaewoo Lee, and Alessandro Rebucci #12937 (IFM)
  
• Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices
  Nicholas Barberis and Ming Huang #12936 (AP)
  
• Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?
  David G. Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald #12935 (HE, LS)
  
• Hypertension and Happiness across Nations
  David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald #12934 (HE, LS)
  
• The Crash of 1882, Counterparty Risk, and the Bailout of the Paris Bourse
  Eugene N. White #12933 (DAE)
  
• Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections
  Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson, and David Pozen #12932 (CH, ED, LE, LS, PE)
  
• Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments
  Jeffrey R. Kling #12931 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• The Term Structure of Real Rates and Expected Inflation
  Andrew Ang, Geert Bekaert, and Min Wei #12930 (AP, ME)
  
• Cycling: An Increasingly Untouched Source of Physical and Mental Health
  Inas Rashad #12929 (HE)
  
• Who Were the Greatest Women Artists of the Twentieth Century? A Quantitative Investigation
  David W. Galenson #12928 (LS)
  
• Estimating Trade Flows: Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
  Elhanan Helpman, Marc Melitz, and Yona Rubinstein #12927 (ITI)
  
• Child Labor
  Eric V. Edmonds #12926 (CH, LS)
  
• Current Account Deficits in Rich Countries
  Olivier Blanchard #12925 (EFG, IFM)
  
• E-ZTax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates
  Amy Finkelstein #12924 (PE)
  
• The Significance and Composition of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities
  James Poterba, Nirupama Rao, and Jeri Seidman #12923 (CF, PE)
  
• Do Voters Vote Sincerely?
  Arianna Degan and Antonio Merlo #12922 (POL)
  
• Political Careers or Career Politicians?
  Andrea Mattozzi and Antonio Merlo #12921 (POL, LS)
  
• Mediocracy
  Andrea Mattozzi and Antonio Merlo #12920 (POL, LS)
  
• Seigniorage
  Willem H. Buiter #12919 (IFM, ME)
  
• Activity-Based Valuation of Bank Holding Companies
  Charles W. Calomiris and Doron Nissim #12918 (AP, CF)
  
• Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
  Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti #12917 (EFG, DAE)
  
• The Returns to Currency Speculation in Emerging Markets
  Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo #12916 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era
  David Neumark and William Wascher #12915 (LS, PE)
  
• The Trade Reducing Effects of Market Power in International Shipping
  David Hummels, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, and Alexandre Skiba #12914 (ITI)
  
• Overruling and the Instability of Law
  Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer #12913 (LE)
  

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Week of February 5 - February 12, 2007

• Investor Information, Long-Run Risk, and the Duration of Risky Cash-Flows
  Mariano M. Croce, Martin Lettau, and Sydney C. Ludvigson #12912 (AP)
  
• Public Action for Public Goods
  Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan #12911 (EFG)
  
• Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers
  Efraim Benmelech and Claude Berrebi #12910 (LS, POL)
  
• Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances
  Enrique G. Mendoza, Vincenzo Quadrini, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull #12909 (EFG, IFM)
  
• The American Family and Family Economics
  Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak #12908 (LS)
  
• Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States
  Thomas DeLeire, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Kosali I. Simon #12907 (HC, HE)
  
• Anti-depressants and Suicide
  Jens Ludwig, Dave E. Marcotte, and Karen Norberg #12906 (CH)
  
• Diabetes and the Rise of the SES Health Gradient
  James Smith #12905 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• On Current Account Surpluses and the Correction of Global Imbalances
  Sebastian Edwards #12904 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Criminal Prosecution and HIV-related Risky Behavior
  Adeline Delavande, Dana Goldman, and Neeraj Sood #12903 (HC)
  
• Antitrust and Regulation
  Dennis W. Carlton and Randal C. Picker #12902 (IO, LE)
  
• Sources of Growth in the Indian Economy
  Barry Bosworth, Susan M. Collins, and Arvind Virmani #12901 (   IFM)
  
• Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920: Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography
  Sukkoo Kim #12900 (DAE)
  
• The Unified Enterprise Tax and SOEs in China
  John Whalley and Li Wang #12899 (PE)
  
• News Shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy
  Guido Lorenzoni #12898 (EFG, ME)
  
• Gender and Job Performance: Evidence from Wall Street
  T. Clifton Green, Narasimhan Jegadeesh, and Yue Tang #12897 (AP, LS)
  
• Collective Risk Management in a Flight to Quality Episode
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy #12896 (CF, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France
  Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Timothy M. Watts #12895 (CH, DAE)
  
• Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices
  Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson #12894 (IO, PR)
  

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Week of January 29 - February 5, 2007

• The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
  David Card, Raj Chetty, and Andrea Weber #12893 (LS, PE)
  
• Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology
  Dalton Conley, Gordon C. McCord, and Jeffrey D. Sachs #12892 (CH, HE)
  
• Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis
  Lei Fang and Richard Rogerson #12891 (EFG, LS)
  
• Taxation and Market Work: Is Scandinavia an Outlier?
  Richard Rogerson #12890 (EFG, PE)
  
• Structural Transformation and the Deterioration of European Labor Market Outcomes
  Richard Rogerson #12889 (EFG)
  
• Women, Work, and Culture
  Raquel Fernandez #12888 (EFG, LS)
  
• Liquidity and Risk Management
  Nicolae B. Garleanu and Lasse H. Pedersen #12887 (AP)
  
• Implementing Technology
  Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn #12886 (EFG, PR)
  
• Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries
  Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik #12885 (ITI, LS)
  
• Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
  Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova #12884 (CH, ITI, LS)
  
• The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
  David Card, Pablo Ibarraran, Ferdinando Regalia, David Rosas, and Yuri Soares #12883 (LS)
  
• Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
  Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, and Luigi Zingales #12882 (CF)
  

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Week of January 22 - January 29, 2007

• The Demand for Treasury Debt
  Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen #12881 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!
  Juan Carlos Conesa, Sagiri Kitao, and Dirk Krueger #12880 (EFG, PE)
  
• Behavioral Law and Economics
  Christine Jolls #12879 (LE)
  
• Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs
  Wei Chi, Richard B. Freeman, and Morris M. Kleiner #12878 (IO, LS, PR)
  
• Slow Moving Capital
  Mark Mitchell, Lasse Heje Pedersen, and Todd Pulvino #12877 (AP)
  
• Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference?
  Frederic S. Mishkin and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel #12876 (EFG, ME)
  
• Transparency and Corporate Governance
  Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael S. Weisbach #12875 (CF, LE, LS)
  
• On the Return to Venture Capital
  Boyan Jovanovic and Balàzs Szentes #12874 (PR, CF)
  
• A Unifying Model of How the Tax System and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Affect Corporate Behavior
  Douglas A. Shackelford, Joel Slemrod, and James M. Sallee #12873 (PE, CF)
  
• Teaching Locals New Tricks: Foreign Experts as a Channel of Knowledge Transfers
  James R. Markusen and Natalia Trofimenko #12872 (ITI)
  
• Optimal Migration: A World Perspective
  Jess Benhabib and Boyan Jovanovic #12871 (LS, POL, PR)
  
• Integrated Insurance Design in the Presence of Multiple Medical Technologies
  Dana Goldman and Tomas Philipson #12870 (HC, HE, PE, AG)
  
• Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis
  Isaac Ehrlich and Jinyoung Kim #12869 (HE, PE, LS, AG)
  
• The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century
  Isaac Ehrlich #12868 (HE)
  
• Antitrust
  Louis Kaplow and Carl Shapiro #12867 (IO, LE)
  

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Week of January 15 - January 22, 2007

• Do Analysts Herd? An Analysis of Recommendations and Market Reactions
  Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Woojin Kim #12866(AP)
  
• Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State
  Bruce D. Meyer and Wallace K. C. Mok #12865 (LS, PE)
  
• Health Information and Subjective Survival Probability: Evidence from Taiwan
  Jin-Tan Liu, Meng-Wen Tsou, and James Hammitt #12864 (HE)
  
• College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
  Pietro Garibaldi, Francesco Giavazzi, Andrea Ichino, and Enrico Rettore #12863 (ED, PE)
  
• Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design
  Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Edward J. Kane, and Luc Laeven #12862 (CF)
  
• Pricing-to-Market in a Ricardian Model of International Trade
  Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein #12861 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
  David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler #12860 (LE, LS, PR)
  
• The Excess Burden of Government Indecision
  Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira #12859 (AG, AP, HC, PE, POL)
  
• Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?
  Jonathan Gruber and Kosali Simon #12858 (HE, PE, HC)
  
• As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note.
  Ming-Jen Lin, Jin-Tan Liu, and Shin-Yi Chou #12857 (HE)
  
• Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets
  Pol Antras, Mihir A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley #12855 (CF, ITI, IFM)
  
• The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security
  Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Thomas F. Cooley, and Nezih Guner #12854 (EFG, DAE, AG)
  
• The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment
  Michael W. Elsby, Ryan Michaels, and Gary Solon #12853 (ED, PE)
  
• Capital Controls, Capital Flows Contractions, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability
  Sebastian Edwards #12852 (IFM)
  
• The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century
  Efraim Benmelech and Tobias J. Moskowitz #12851 (DAE, CF)
  
• The Overvaluation of Renminbi Undervaluation
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and Eiji Fujii #12850 (IFM)
  

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Week of January 8 - January 15, 2007

• Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program
  Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller #t0335 (TWP)
  
• Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience
  Neeraj Kaushal #12849 (PE, HE)
  
• Prescription Drug Insurance and Its Effect on Utilization and Health of the Elderly
  Nasreen Khan, Robert Kaestner, and Swu Jane Lin #12848 (AG, HE)
  
• Does Firm Value Move Too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Cash Flow?
  Borja Larrain and Motohiro Yogo #12847(AP, CF)
  
• Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
  Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel, and Bruce A. Weinberg #12846 (LS)
  
• Idiosyncratic Shocks and the Role of Nonconvexities in Plant and Aggregate Investment Dynamics
  Aubhik Khan and Julia Thomas #12845 (EFG)
  
• Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education
  Bruce A. Weinberg, Belton M. Fleisher, and Masanori Hashimoto #12844 (ED, LS)
  
• Risk, Return and Dividends
  Andrew Ang and Jun Liu #12843 (AP)
  
• Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?
  Jeffrey R. Brown and Scott J. Weisbenner #12842 (AG)
  
• Uncertainty and the Dynamics of R&D
  Nick Bloom #12841 (EFG, PR)
  
• The Technology of Skill Formation
  Flavio Cunha and James Heckman #12840 (CH, ED, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Is Numerairology the Future of Monetary Economics? Unbundling numeraire and medium of exchange through a virtual currency and a shadow exchange rate
  Willem H. Buiter #12839 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor
  Bruno L. S. Falcao and Rodrigo R. Soares #12838 (HE, LE)
  
• On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World
  Rodrigo R. Soares #12837 (HE)
  
• Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
  Javier A. Birchenall and Rodrigo R. Soares #12836 (HE)
  
• Backing, the Quantity Theory, and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar, 1723-1850
  Peter L. Rousseau #12835 (DAE, ME)
  
• The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows
  James Poterba, Steven Venti, and David A. Wise #12834 (AG, AP)
  
• Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms
  Francesco Caselli and Nicola Gennaioli #12833 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
  Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann #12832 (CH, ED, EFG, ITI, LS, PE)
  
• Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program
  Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond, and Jens Hainmueller #12831 (HE, LE, LS, PE)
  

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Week of January 1 - January 8, 2007

• Manipulation of the Running Variable in the Regression Discontinuity Design: A Density Test
  Justin McCrary #t0334 (TWP)
  
• Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model
  Li Gan and Guan Gong #12830 (AG, CH, HE, LS)
  
• International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP Make a Difference?
  Sean M. Dougherty, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Bart van Ark #12829 (PR)
  
• How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?
  Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor #12828 (ED, PE)
  
• Self-Protection and Insurance with Interdependencies
  Alexander Muermann and Howard Kunreuther #12827 (PE)
  
• Why are Buyouts Levered: The Financial Structure of Private Equity Funds
  Ulf Axelson, Per Stromberg, and Michael S. Weisbach #12826 (CF)
  
• Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression
  Ryan S. Johnson, Shawn Kantor, and Price V. Fishback #12825 (DAE, PE)
  
• Sticky Prices and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Disaggregated U.S. Data
  Jean Boivin, Marc Giannoni, and Ilian Mihov #12824 (EFG, ME)
  
• Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors
  Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur, and John McHale #12823 (PR)
  
• Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
  Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi #12822 (IFM, PE, EFG)
  
• Climate Change, Insurability of Large-scale Disasters and the Emerging Liability Challenge
  Howard C. Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan #12821 (LE)
  
• Mandated Health Insurance Benefits and the Utilization and Outcomes of Infertility Treatments
  M. Kate Bundorf, Melinda Henne, and Laurence Baker #12820 (HC)
  
• Do U.S. Firms Have the Best Corporate Governance? A Cross-Country Examination of the Relation between Corporate Governance and Shareholder Wealth
  Reena Aggarwal, Isil Erel, Rene M. Stulz, and Rohan Williamson #12819 (CF)
  
• Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade
  Raymond Fisman, Peter Moustakerski, and Shang-Jin Wei #12818 (ITI, LE, POL)
  
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• Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
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• The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
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• Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors
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• Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences
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