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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of March 16 - March 22, 2008

• Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
  Raj Arunachalam and Trevon Logan #13905 (LS, DAE)
  
• Information Acquisition and Under-Diversification
  Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp #13904 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Can Weak Substitution be Rehabilitated?
  V. Kerry Smith, Mary F. Evans, H. Spencer Banzhaf, and Christine Poulos #13903 (EEE)
  
• Sterilization, Monetary Policy, and Global Financial Integration
  Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick #13902 (IFM)
  
• Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?
  Yu-Chin Chen, Kenneth Rogoff, and Barbara Rossi #13901 (IFM, EEE)
  
• A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model
  Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama, and Kala Krishna #13900 (ITI, PE)
  
• Is Protection Really for Sale? A Survey and Directions for Future Research
  Susumu Imai, Hajime Katayama, and Kala Krishna #13899 (ITI)
  
• The Transition to Post-industrial BMI Values Among US Children
  John Komlos, Ariane Breitfelder, and Marco Sunder #13898 (HE, CH)
  
• Labor Markets and Monetary Policy: A New-Keynesian Model with Unemployment
  Olivier Blanchard and Jordi Gali #13897 (EFG)
  
• The Wealth-Consumption Ratio
  Hanno Lustig, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Adrien Verdelhan #13896 (AP, EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Regulation and Supervision: An Ethical Perspective
  Edward J. Kane #13895 (LE, ME)
  
• Persistent Private Information
  Noah Williams #13894 (EFG)
  
• Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure
  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst #13893 (AG, EFG, LS)
  
• Optimal Monetary Policy under Uncertainty in DSGE Models: A Markov Jump-Linear-Quadratic Approach
  Lars E.O. Svensson and Noah Williams #13892 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Life Cycle of Scholars and Papers in Economics -- the "Citation Death Tax"
  Joshua Aizenman and Kenneth Kletzer #13891 (ITI)
  
• Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
  Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh L. Linden, and Francisco Perez-Calle #13890 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Exchange Rate Pass-Through And Monetary Policy
  Frederic S. Mishkin #13889 (   EFG   ME   IFM)
  
• Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics
  M. Kate Bundorf, Natalie Chun, Gopi Shah Goda, and Daniel P. Kessler #13888 (HC)
  
• Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal
  George J. Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, and Gordon H. Hanson #13887 (ITI, LS)
  
• The Internet and Job Search
  Betsey Stevenson #13886 (LS)
  

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Week of March 9 - March 15, 2008

• Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption
  Sherry A. Glied #13885 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Taxes and Mutual Fund Inflows Around Distribution Dates
  Woodrow T. Johnson and James M. Poterba #13884 (AP, PE)
  
• Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes
  Joseph G. Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj, and Fabian Lange #13883 (CH, LS)
  
• This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #13882 (IFM)
  
• Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity
  Sherry A. Glied #13881 (HC)
  
• Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity
  Peter Blair Henry and Diego Sasson #13880 (CF, EFG, IFM, ITI, LS)
  
• The Economic Value of Teeth
  Sherry Glied and Matthew Neidell #13879 (HC, HE, LS)
  
• Press Coverage and Political Accountability
  James M. Snyder, Jr. and David Strömberg #13878 (POL)
  
• After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays
  Douglas Almond and Joseph J. Doyle, Jr. #13877 (CH, HC, HE, LS)
  
• International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth
  Christopher D. Carroll, Jiri Slacalek, and Martin Sommer #13876 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment:Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting
  Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Lisa M. Shickle, and Nicholas Farrell #13875 (HC, HE)
  
• Collateral Pricing
  Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman #13874 (AP, CF)
  
• An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers
  Li Gan and Roberto Mosquera #13873 (IO)
  
• Labor Market Fluctuations in the Small and in the Large
  Richard Rogerson, Lodewijk P. Visschers, and Randall Wright #13872 (EFG)
  
• Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor, Incomplete Markets, and Labor Market Frictions
  Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson, and Aysegul Sahin #13871 (EFG)
  
• Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?
  Trevon D. Logan #13870 (DAE, EFG)
  
• Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past
  Trevon D. Logan #13869 (DAE)
  
• Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City
  Jonah E. Rockoff #13868 (ED, LS)
  
• Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
  Melissa Bjelland, Bruce Fallick, John Haltiwanger, and Erika McEntarfer #13867 (EFG, LS)
  
• Investment and Value: A Neoclassical Benchmark
  Janice Eberly, Sergio Rebelo, and Nicolas Vincent #13866 (EFG)
  
• On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring, Acquiescence, and Selection Biases
  Jay Bhattacharya and Adam Isen #13865 (HC, HE)
  
• Monopoly and the Incentive to Innovate When Adoption Involves Switchover Disruptions
  Thomas J. Holmes, David K. Levine, and James A. Schmitz, Jr. #13864 (PR)
  
• The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health
  Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Packalen #13863 (HC, HE)
  
• Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation
  Jay Bhattacharya and Mikko Packalen #13862 (HC, HE)
  
• A Solution to the Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
  Enrique G. Mendoza and Vivian Z. Yue #13861 (IFM)
  
• Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment
  Judith M. Dean and Mary E. Lovely #13860 (ITI)
  
• The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies
  Orley Ashenfelter and Daniel Hosken #13859 (LE, ME, PE, IO)
  
• Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage
  Anton Korinek and Joseph E. Stiglitz #13858 (PE, POL)
  
• The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D
  Margaret E. Blume-Kohout and Neeraj Sood #13857 (HC, HE, PR)
  
• The Evolution of a Legal Rule
  Anthony Niblett, Richard Posner, and Andrei Shleifer #13856 (LE)
  
• Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia
  Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler #13855 (LS, PE)
  
• Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Option-Implied State Prices
  Yacine Aït-Sahalia and Michael W. Brandt #13854 (AP, EFG)
  
• The Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism and the Learning by Doing Externality
  Joshua Aizenman and Jaewoo Lee #13853 (ITI)
  
• Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915
  Lee Alston, Shannan Mattiace, and Tomas Nonnenmacher #13852 (DAE)
  
• The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
  Francesco D'Amuri, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, and Giovanni Peri #13851 (ITI, LS)
  
• Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet
  Richard B. Freeman and M. Marit Rehavi #13850 (   LS)
  
• The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications
  Yao Li, John Whalley, Shunming Zhang, and Xiliang Zhao #13849 (ED)
  
• Arbitrage-free Limit Order Books and the Pricing of Order Flow Risk
  Bruce Lehmann #13848 (AP)
  

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Week of March 2 - March 8, 2008

• Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
  Jason M. Fletcher and Barbara L. Wolfe #13847 (CH, HC)
  
• Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment
  Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton, and Samuel Kortum #13846 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Language in Visual Art: The Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #13845 (LS)
  
• Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance
  Raj Chetty #13844 (LS, PE)
  
• Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
  Michael Kvasnicka #13843 (LS)
  
• Capital Inflows and Reserve Accumulation: The Recent Evidence
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent R. Reinhart #13842 (IFM)
  
• Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
  Jeffrey G. Williamson #13841 (DAE)
  
• The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
  Ian Dew-Becker and Robert J. Gordon #13840 (EFG, LS, PR)
  
• Is There an "Emboldenment" Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq
  Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten #13839 (POL)
  
• The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania
  Erica M. Field, Omar Robles, and Maximo Torero #13838 (HE, LS)
  
• The Increase in Leisure Inequality
  Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst #13837 (EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811
  Farley Grubb #13836 (DAE)
  
• Evaluating the Impact of Technology Development Funds in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Alessandro Maffioli #13835 (PR)
  
• Intermediate Goods, Weak Links, and Superstars: A Theory of Economic Development
  Charles I. Jones #13834 (EFG)
  
• Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
  Michael Greenstone, Richard Hornbeck, and Enrico Moretti #13833 (LS, PR)
  
• Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption: Evidence from Movie Sales
  Enrico Moretti #13832 (IO, LS)
  
• International Economic Policy: Was There a Bush Doctrine?
  Barry Eichengreen and Douglas A. Irwin #13831 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy
  Casey B. Mulligan and Kevin K. Tsui #13830 (IO, PE, POL)
  
• Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities
  Martin Eichenbaum, Nir Jaimovich, and Sergio Rebelo #13829 (EFG, ME)
  
• Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
  Tanika Chakraborty and Sukkoo Kim #13828 (DAE)
  

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Week of February 10 - February 16, 2008

• Toward an Efficiency Rationale for the Public Provision of Private Goods
  Hanming Fang and Peter Norman #13827 (PE)
  
• Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development
  Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan #13826 (CH, LS)
  
• High Frequency Market Microstructure Noise Estimates and Liquidity Measures
  Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jialin Yu #13825 (AP)
  
• Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs
  Annamaria Lusardi #13824 (AG)
  
• The Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries
  James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons #13823 (PR)
  
• Learning in the Credit Card Market
  Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David Laibson #13822 (AG, AP, LE)
  
• Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants
  Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon H. Hanson #13821 (ITI, LS)
  
• Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar
  Linda S. Goldberg and Cédric Tille #13820 (IFM, ITI, ME)
  
• Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle
  Giuseppe Moscarini and Francis G. Vella #13819 (EFG)
  
• Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
  David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang #13818 (IO, LS)
  
• Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance
  Richard Frank and Karine Lamiraud #13817 (HC)
  
• Is the GED an Effective Route to Postsecondary Education for School Dropouts?
  John H. Tyler and Magnus Lofstrom #13816 (ED)
  
• A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
  Michael D. Bordo and Harold James #13815 (ME, IFM, POL)
  
• International Trade in Durable Goods: Understanding Volatility, Cyclicality, and Elasticities
  Charles Engel and Jian Wang #13814 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
  Leah Platt Boustan #13813 (DAE, LS)
  
• Note on The Cross-Section of Foreign Currency Risk Premia and Consumption Growth Risk
  Hanno Lustig and Adrien Verdelhan #13812 (AP, IFM)
  
• Measuring Financial Asset Return and Volatility Spillovers, With Application to Global Equity Markets
  Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz #13811 (AP, IFM)
  
• The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits
  Lex Borghans, Angela Lee Duckworth, James J. Heckman, and Bas ter Weel #13810 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• The Divergence of Legal Procedures
  Aron Balas, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #13809 (LE, POL)
  
• Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables
  Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Richard J. Zeckhauser #13808 (PE)
  
• Estimating Cross-Country Differences in Product Quality
  Juan Carlos Hallak and Peter K. Schott #13807 (ITI)
  
• Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns
  Robin Greenwood and Dimitri Vayanos #13806 (AP)
  
• Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates
  Emmanuel Farhi and Xavier Gabaix #13805 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors
  Lubos Pastor and Robert F. Stambaugh #13804 (AP)
  
• Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?
  J.J. Prescott and Jonah E. Rockoff #13803 (   LE   PE)
  
• Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure
  Evan Gatev and Philip Strahan #13802 (CF)
  
• Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis
  Susan Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton #13801 (ED, PE)
  
• Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
  Wolfram Schlenker and Michael Roberts #13799 (EEE)
  
• Liquidity Production in 21st Century Banking
  Philip Strahan #13798 (CF)
  
• Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods
  Hanming Fang and Peter Norman #13797 (PE)
  
• How Much Value Do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study
  B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonathan Meer #13796 (PE)
  
• Varieties and the Transfer Problem: The Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Philippe Martin, and Paolo Pesenti #13795 (IFM)
  
• Internal Debt Crises and Sovereign Defaults
  Cristina Arellano and Narayana R. Kocherlakota #13794 (EFG, IFM)
  
• Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior
  Christopher Ruebeck, Susan Averett, and Howard Bodenhorn #13793 (CH, LS)
  
• Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment
  Selim Elekdag, Rene Lalonde, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir, and Paolo Pesenti #13792 (IFM, ITI)
  
• Educating Urban Children
  Richard J. Murnane #13791 (ED)
  
• Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations
  George Alessandria, Joseph Kaboski, and Virgiliu Midrigan #13790 (IFM, ITI)
  
• The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle
  Erik Hurst #13789 (AG, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions
  Matthew Cary , Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman , Ioannis Giotis , Kurtis Heimerl , Anna R. Karlin , Claire Mathieu , and Michael Schwarz #13788 (IO)
  

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Week of February 3 - February 9, 2008

• A Maximum Likelihood Method for the Incidental Parameter Problem
  Marcelo Moreira #13787 (TWP)
  
• Do Hedge Funds Profit From Mutual-Fund Distress?
  Joseph Chen, Samuel Hanson, Harrison Hong, and Jeremy C. Stein #13786 (CF, PR, AP)
  
• 50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence
  Radha Iyengar, Lindsay Sabik, Cindy Southworth, Sarah Tucker, and Cynthia Fraser #13785 (HE, LS)
  
• I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
  Radha Iyengar #13784 (LS)
  
• The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
  Thomas J. Holmes #13783 (PR, IO)
  
• Evidence of Differences in the Effectiveness of Safety-Net Management in European Union Countries
  Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Edward J. Kane, and Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez #13782 (IFM)
  
• Assessing Urban Crime And Its Control: An Overview
  Philip J. Cook #13781 (LE)
  
• Earnings Functions and Rates of Return
  James J. Heckman, Lance J. Lochner, and Petra E. Todd #13780 (LS)
  
• Inflating the Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty
  Ricardo J. Caballero and Pierre Yared #13779 (EFG, IFM, POL)
  
• Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000
  Steven J. Davis, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Mary Streitwieser #13778 (EEE)
  
• Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, & Unemployment Flows
  Michael W. L. Elsby and Ryan Michaels #13777 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance
  Emma Hall, Carol Propper, and John Van Reenen #13776 (LS, HC)
  
• The Changing Effect of HMO Market Structure: An Analysis of Penetration, Concentration, and Ownership Between 1994-2005
  Yu-Chu Shen, Vivian Wu, and Glenn Melnick #13775 (HC)
  
• Profiting from Government Stakes in a Command Economy: Evidence from Chinese Asset Sales
  Charles Calomiris, Raymond Fisman, and Yongxiang Wang #13774 (CF, POL)
  
• Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth
  Anna Aizer #13773 (CH, HE, LS)
  
• Search and Rest Unemployment
  Fernando Alvarez and Robert Shimer #13772 (EFG, LS)
  
• What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?
  Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei #13771 (ITI)
  
• The Continental Dollar: What Happened to It after 1779?
  Farley Grubb #13770 (DAE)
  
• The Dynamics of City Formation
  J. Vernon Henderson and Anthony Venables #13769 (EFG, PE)
  
• Cross-Border Returns Differentials
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock #13768 (IFM, AP)
  
• The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending
  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler #13767 (HC)
  

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Week of January 27 - February 2, 2008

• Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets
  Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz #13766 (ED, LS)
  
• Trade and Empire
  Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier #13765 (DAE)
  
• Effects of Weight on Children's Educational Achievement
  Robert Kaestner and Michael Grossman #13764 (HE)
  
• To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question
  Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson #13763 (PE)
  
• Catering Through Nominal Share Prices
  Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler #13762 (AP, CF)
  
• Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff #13761 (IFM, EFG, ME)
  
• Renewable Energy Policies And Technological Innovation: Evidence Based On Patent Counts
  Nick Johnstone, Ivan Hascic, and David Popp #13760 (EEE, PR)
  
• What Do Economists Know About Crime?
  Angela K. Dills, Jeffrey A. Miron, and Garrett Summers #13759 (LE)
  
• Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.
  Jonathan Gruber #13758 (AG, CH, HC, LS, PE)
  
• Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
  Gary Richardson and Dan Bogart #13757 (DAE, LE, POL)
  
• The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship
  Simeon Djankov, Tim Ganser, Caralee McLiesh, Rita Ramalho, and Andrei Shleifer #13756 (CF, PE, EFG)
  
• Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
  Julio J. Rotemberg #13755 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications
  Julio J. Rotemberg #13754 (IO)
  
• Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #13753 (EEE, PE)
  
• Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows
  Itay Goldstein, Assaf Razin, Hui Tong #13723 (IFM)
  

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Week of January 20 - January 26, 2008

• Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study
  Alma Cohen #13752 (IO, LE, PE)
  
• The FOMC versus the Staff: Where Can Monetary Policymakers Add Value?
  Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer #13751 (EFG, ME)
  
• Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?
  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell #13750 (AG)
  
• Inflation-Gap Persistence in the U.S.
  Timothy Cogley, Giorgio E. Primiceri, and Thomas J. Sargent #13749 (EFG, ME)
  
• Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Marian V. Wrobel #13748 (AG, PE)
  
• Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries
  Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca, and Robert Town #13747 (HC)
  
• Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance
  David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein, and Kathleen McGarry #13746 (AG, HC, PE)
  
• Effects of Taxes on Economic Behavior
  Martin S. Feldstein #13745 (PE)
  
• The Rise and (Partial) Fall of Abstract Painting in the Twentieth Century
  David Galenson #13744 (LS)
  
• The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction
  Henry Saffer and Karine Lamiraud #13743 (HE, LS)
  
• Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation
  Eduardo Engel and Ronald Fischer #13742 (EEE, ITI, PE)
  
• Forming Priors for DSGE Models (and How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)
  Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide #13741 (EFG, ME)
  
• Sui Generis EMU
  Barry Eichengreen #13740 (IFM)
  
• High Idiosyncratic Volatility and Low Returns: International and Further U.S. Evidence
  Andrew Ang, Robert J. Hodrick, Yuhang Xing, and Xiaoyan Zhang #13739 (AP)
  
• Mixing Family With Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them
  Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson, Krislert Samphantharak, and Antoinette Schoar #13738 (CF)
  
• Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
  B. Douglas Bernheim and Antonio Rangel #13737 (PE)
  
• Global Forces and Monetary Policy Effectiveness
  Jean Boivin and Marc Giannoni #13736 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism
  Robert P. Inman #13735 (PE, POL)
  
• Globalization and the Sustainability of Large Current Account Imbalances: Size Matters
  Joshua Aizenman and Yi Sun #13734 (ITI, IFM)
  
• Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa
  Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld #13733 (LE, PE, POL)
  

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Week of January 6 - January 12, 2008

• Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives
  Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel, and Pietro Veronesi #13732 (CF, LS)
  
• Trade, Production Sharing, and the International Transmission of Business Cycles
  Ariel Burstein, Christopher Kurz, and Linda Tesar #13731 (IFM, ITI, EFG)
  
• How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach
  John A. Romley and Dana Goldman #13730 (HC)
  
• Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
  Martin S. Feldstein #13729 (PE)
  
• Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments
  Daniel Rondeau and John A. List #13728 (PE)
  
• Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society
  Uri Gneezy, Kenneth L. Leonard, and John A. List #13727 (LE, LS, PE)
  
• Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values
  Julia Coronado, Olivia S. Mitchell, Steven A. Sharpe, and S. Blake Nesbitt #13726 (AG, AP, LS)
  
• Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
  Eli Berman and David D. Laitin #13725 (LS, PE, PR)
  
• Variable Rare Disasters: An Exactly Solved Framework for Ten Puzzles in Macro-Finance
  Xavier Gabaix #13724 (AP, EFG)
  
• Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects
  Mary F. Evans and V. Kerry Smith #13722 (EEE, LS)
  
• How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?
  Woochan Kim, Taeyoon Sung, and Shang-Jin Wei #13721 (CF, IFM)
  
• Optimal Savings Distortions with Recursive Preferences
  Emmanuel Farhi and Iván Werning #13720 (EFG, PE)
  
• Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Klara Sabirianova Peter #13719 (LS, PE)
  
• Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?
  Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna #13718 (CH, LE, LS, PE)
  
• Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
  Kaivan Munshi and Nicholas Wilson #13717 (CH, DAE, LS)
  
• Procrastination and Impatience
  Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #13713 (AP)
  
• Social Capital as Good Culture
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #13712 (POL)
  
• Arbitrage in Housing Markets
  Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko #13704 (EFG)
  
• Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo #13683 (AG)
  

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