New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Week of Mar 26, 2012 - Apr 2, 2012

• Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment
  Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme, and Emilia Simeonova #17932 (CH   ED   HE)
  
• Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease
  Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson, and E. Ray Dorsey #17931 (AG   LS)
  
• Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis
  Leora F. Klapper, Annamaria Lusardi, and Georgios A. Panos #17930 (AG)
  
• The Market for Financial Advice: An Audit Study
  Sendhil Mullainathan, Markus Noeth, and Antoinette Schoar #17929 (AP   CF)
  
• What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving
  Gopi Shah Goda, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, and Aaron Sojourner #17927 (AG   PE)
  
• The Free Rider Problem: a Dynamic Analysis
  Marco Battaglini, Salvatore Nunnari, and Thomas Palfrey #17926 (PE   POL)
  
• Prices, Markups and Trade Reform
  Jan De Loecker, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Amit K. Khandelwal, and Nina Pavcnik #17925 (IO   ITI   PR)
  
• Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories
  Rüdiger Bachmann and Lin Ma #17924 (EFG   ME)
  
• Price Setting with menu cost for Multi-product firms
  Fernando E. Alvarez and Francesco Lippi #17923 (EFG)
  
• The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages
  Martha J. Bailey, Brad Hershbein, and Amalia R. Miller #17922 (CH   DAE   ED   LS)
  
• Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets
  Ing-Haw Cheng, Andrei Kirilenko, and Wei Xiong #17921 (AP   CF)
  

Week of Mar 19, 2012 - Mar 26, 2012

• Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform
  Jonathan T. Kolstad and Amanda E. Kowalski #17933 (AG   HC   PE)
  
• Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft? High-Value Employee Selection Decisions and Decision-Making Bias
  Casey Ichniowski and Anne E. Preston #17928 (LS)
  
• Debt and Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing Corporate Debt be Optimal?
  Zhiguo He and Gregor Matvos #17920 (CF   IO   PE)
  
• Indirect Tax Initiatives and Global Rebalancing
  Chunding Li and John Whalley #17919 (IFM   ITI   PE)
  
• Estimating the Relationship between Alcohol Policies and Criminal Violence and Victimization
  Sara Markowitz, Erik Nesson, Eileen Poe-Yamagata, Curtis Florence, Partha Deb, Tracy Andrews, and Sarah Beth L. Barnett #17918 (HE   LE)
  
• Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
  Richard W. Evans, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Kerk L. Phillips #17917 (EFG   PE)
  
• Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing
  Robert C. Feenstra and J. Bradford Jensen #17916 (ITI)
  
• You Get a Book! Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements
  Craig L. Garthwaite #17915 (   IO)
  
• Housing Booms and City Centers
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joshua D. Gottlieb, and Kristina Tobio #17914 (PE)
  
• 'Fiscal Devaluation' and Fiscal Consolidation: The VAT in Troubled Times
  Ruud de Mooij and Michael Keen #17913 (IFM   ITI   PE)
  
• Can Institutions be Reformed from Within? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with the Rajasthan Police
  Abhijit Banerjee, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, and Nina Singh #17912 (LE   POL)
  

Week of Mar 12, 2012 - Mar 19, 2012

• Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans
  Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen Utkus #17911 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• Hiring, Churn and the Business Cycle
  Edward P. Lazearand James R. Spletzer #17910 (LS)
  
• Financial Regulation in General Equilibrium
  Charles A.E. Goodhart, Anil K Kashyap, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos, and Alexandros P. Vardoulakis #17909 (ME)
  
• Exit from a Monetary Union through Euroization: Discipline without Chaos
  Russell Cooper #17908 (EFG)
  
• Multilateral Resistance to International Portfolio Diversification
  Paul R. Bergin and Ju Hyun Pyun #17907 (IFM)
  
• Posterior Predictive Analysis for Evaluating DSGE Models
  Jon Faust and Abhishek Gupta #17906 (IFM   ME)
  
• The Macroeconomics of Microfinance
  Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski, and Yongseok Shin #17905 (EFG)
  
• Status, Marriage, and Managers' Attitudes To Risk
  Nikolai Roussanov and Pavel G. Savor #17904 (AP   CF   LE   PR)
  
• Perceptions and Misperceptions of Fiscal Inflation
  Eric M. Leeper and Todd B. Walker #17903 (EFG)
  
• An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
  Diego A. Comin #17902 (CF)
  
• Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities
  Mark R. Cullen, Clint Cummins, and Victor R. Fuchs #17901 (AG   HE)
  
• Ambiguous Business Cycles
  Cosmin Ilut and Martin Schneider #17900 (EFG   ME)
  
• Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks
  Hanming Fang and Edward Kung #17899 (IO   PE)
  
• Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns
  Andrew Atkeson, Christian Hellwig, and Guillermo Ordonez #17898 (EFG   IO)
  

Week of Mar 5, 2012 - Mar 12, 2012

• On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
  Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Nancy Qian #17897 (EFG   PR)
  
• Does Inequality Lead to a Financial Crisis?
  Michael D. Bordo and Christopher M. Meissner #17896 (DAE   ME)
  
• Search Fatigue
  Bruce Ian Carlin and Florian Ederer #17895 (CF   IO   POL)
• Central Banks and Gold Puzzles
  Joshua Aizenman and Kenta Inoue #17894 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
  Charles J. Courtemanche and Daniela Zapata #17893 (HC   HE   PE)
  
• Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
  Benjamin A. Olken, Junko Onishi, and Susan Wong #17892 (CH   ED   HE   PE)
  
• Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior
  Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn, and Erich Muehlegger #17891 (EEE   IO   PE)
  
• Approximating High-Dimensional Dynamic Models: Sieve Value Function Iteration
  Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer, Federico A. Bugni, and Jonathan James #17890 (IO   LS   PE   TWP)
  
• Vertical Integration and Market Structure
  Timothy F. Bresnahan and Jonathan D. Levin #17889 (IO   PR   CF)
• Why Don't Women Patent?
  Jennifer Hunt, Jean-Philippe Garant, Hannah Herman, and David J. Munroe #17888 (LS   PR)
  
• A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes
  Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer, and Randi Hjalmarsson #17887 (AG   LE   LS   PE)
  
• Heterogeneity in Target-Date Funds and the Pension Protection Act of 2006
  Pierluigi Balduzzi and Jonathan Reuter #17886 (AG   IO)
  
• The Barnett Critique After Three Decades: A New Keynesian Analysis
  Michael T. Belongia and Peter N. Ireland #17885 (ME)
  
• Fiscal Rules: Theoretical Issues and Historical Experiences
  Charles Wyplosz #17884 (IFM)
  
• You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment
  Gharad T. Bryan, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman #17883 (CF   LE   LS)
  
• Estimating Loan-to-Value and Foreclosure Behavior
  Arthur Korteweg and Morten Sorensen #17882 (PE)
  
• Can Public Sector Wage Bills Be Reduced?
  Pïerre Cahuc and Stephane Carcillo #17881 (PE)
  
• Business Cycles and Household Formation: The Micro vs the Macro Labor Elasticity
  Sebastian Dyrda, Greg Kaplan, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull #17880 (EFG   LS)
  
• Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare
  Richard H. Steckel and William J. White #17879 (DAE   PR)
• Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities
  Harrison Fell, Ian A. MacKenzie, and William A. Pizer #17878 (EEE)
  
• Does the Current Account Still Matter?
  Maurice Obstfeld #17877 (EFG   IFM   ITI)
  
• Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality
  Veronica Guerrieri and Robert Shimer #17876 (AP   EFG)
  
• Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and XingWang Qian #17875 (IFM)
  

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Week of Feb 27, 2012 - Mar 5, 2012

• Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?
  Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, and Steven N. Kaplan #17874 (AP   CF)
  
• Follow the Money: Quantifying Domestic Effects of Foreign Bank Shocks in the Great Recession
  Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg #17873 (IFM)
  
• International Consumption Risk Is Shared After All: An Asset Return View
  Karen K. Lewis and Edith X. Liu #17872 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression
  Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen, and Kevin H. O'Rourke #17871 (DAE   IFM)
  
• Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems
  Peter J. Huckfeldt, Neeraj Sood, José J Escarce, David C. Grabowski, and Joseph P. Newhouse #17870 (HC   HE)
  
• Culture and the Historical Process
  Nathan Nunn #17869 (DAE   POL)
  
• Crisis-Related Shifts in the Market Valuation of Banking Activities
  Charles W. Calomiris and Doron Nissim #17868 (CF)
  
• Financing-Motivated Acquisitions
  Isil Erel, Yeejin Jang, and Michael S. Weisbach #17867 (CF)
  
• The Decision to Delay Social Security Benefits: Theory and Evidence
  John B. Shoven and Sita Nataraj Slavov #17866 (AG)
  
• Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial
  Damien de Walque, William H. Dow, Carol Medlin, and Rose Nathan #17865 (HE)
  
• International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro
  Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, and Sebastian Sotelo #17864 (ITI   PR)
  
• Financial Sophistication in the Older Population
  Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Vilsa Curto #17863 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• How Do Laffer Curves Differ Across Countries?
  Mathias Trabandt and Harald Uhlig #17862 (EFG)
  
• Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid
  Jonathan Meer and Harvey S. Rosen #17861 (ED   PE)
  
• The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era
  Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer #17860 (DAE   EFG   ME   PE)
  
• Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?
  C. Kirabo Jackson #17859 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Repossession and the Democratization of Credit
  Juliano J. Assunção, Efraim Benmelech, and Fernando S. S. Silva #17858 (CF   LE   ME)
  
• Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care
  Robin McKnight, Jonathan Reuter, and Eric Zitzewitz #17857 (AG   HC   HE)
  
• Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms?
  Jongha Lim, Bernadette A. Minton, and Michael S. Weisbach #17856 (CF)
  
• Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments
  Uri Gneezy, John List, and Michael K. Price #17855 (EEE   IO   LS)
  
• Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming: Some Preliminary Results
  Xavier Gabaix #17783 (AG   EFG   )
  

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Week of Feb 20, 2012 -Feb 27, 2012

• Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Default Crises: A Long-Term Perspective
  Kay Giesecke, Francis A. Longstaff, Stephen Schaefer, and Ilya Strebulaev #17854 (AP   CF   DAE   EFG)
  
• The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?
  Lucia Foster, John C. Haltiwanger, and Chad Syverson #17853 (EFG   IO   PR)
  
• Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
  Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan #17852 (DAE)
  
• Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province
  Pascaline Dupas, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, and Jonathan Robinson #17851 (CH)
  
• Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
  Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen #17850 (EFG   HE   IO   LS   PE   PR)
  
• Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
  Yi Qian #17849 (IO   LE   PR)
  
• The "Out of Sample" Performance of Long-run Risk Models
  Wayne E. Ferson, Suresh K. Nallareddy, and Biqin Xie #17848 (AP)
  
• Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders
  Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey, and Sébastien Turban #17847 (POL)
  
• Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
  Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf #17846 (CF   LS   PR)
  
• The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
  Gabriel Chan, Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe, and Richard Sweeney #17845 (EEE   IO   PE   POL)
  
• Uncertain Fiscal Consolidations
  Huixin Bi, Eric M. Leeper, and Campbell B. Leith #17844 (EFG)
  
• Small Cues Change Savings Choices
  James J. Choi, Emily Haisley, Jennifer Kurkoski, and Cade Massey #17843 (AG   AP   PE)
  
• The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
  Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman, and John Van Reenen #17842 (IO   LS   PE   PR)
  
• From Growth to Green Growth - a Framework
  Stéphane Hallegatte, Geoffrey Heal, Marianne Fay, and David Treguer #17841 (EEE   EFG)
  

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Week of Feb 13, 2012 - Feb 20, 2012

• Preferential Trade Agreements and the World Trade System: A Multilateralist View
  Pravin Krishna #17840 (ITI)
  
• U.S. International Equity Investment
  John Ammer, Sara B. Holland, David C. Smith, and Francis E. Warnock #17839 (IFM)
  
• Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis
  Viral V. Acharya and Nada Mora #17838 (CF   ME)
  
• The Households Effects of Government Consumption
  Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon #17837 (IFM)
  
• Ben Bernanke and the Zero Bound
  Laurence M. Ball #17836 (EFG   ME)
  
• Gold Standard Gravity
  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov #17835 (ITI)
  
• Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
  Susan Dynarski and Mark Wiederspan #17834 (CH   ED   PE)
  
• Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds
  Francesco Caselli, Thomas E. Cunningham, Massimo Morelli, and Inés Moreno de Barreda #17833 (PE   POL)
  
• Credit Supply and House Prices: Evidence from Mortgage Market Segmentation
  Manuel Adelino, Antoinette Schoar, and Felipe Severino #17832 (AP   CF)
  
• Resolving Debt Overhang: Political Constraints in the Aftermath of Financial Crises
  Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi #17831 (CF   EFG   POL)
  
• What explains high unemployment? The aggregate demand channel
  Atif R. Mian and Amir Sufi #17830 (CF   EFG   ME)
  
• Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising?
  Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz #17829 (LE)
  
• China’s Financial System: Opportunities and Challenges
  Franklin Allen, Jun “QJ” Qian, Chenying Zhang, and Mengxin Zhao #17828 (CF)
  
• Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges
  Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudia Goldin #17827 (DAE   ED   PE)
  
• China's Potential Future Growth and Gains from Trade Policy Bargaining: Some Numerical Simulation Results
  Chunding Li and John Whalley #17826 (ITI)
  
• Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
  Emek Basker #17825 (IO   PR)
  
• Were They Prepared for Retirement? Financial Status at Advanced Ages in the HRS and AHEAD Cohorts
  James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise #17824 (AG)
  
• Practical Monetary Policy: Examples from Sweden and the United States
  Lars E.O. Svensson #17823 (ME)
  
• Does Macro-Pru Leak? Evidence from a UK Policy Experiment
  Shekhar Aiyar, Charles W. Calomiris, and Tomasz Wieladek #17822 (CF   EFG   ME)
  
• Numeracy, financial literacy, and financial decision-making
  Annamaria Lusardi #17821 (AG)
  
• What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
  Daron Acemoglu and David Autor #17820 (ED)
  

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Week of Feb 6, 2012 - Feb 13, 2012

• Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows
  Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, Thibault Fally, and Russell Hillberry #17819 (IO   ITI)
  
• Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries
  Jason M. Lindo and Charles F. Stoecker #17818 (   PE)
  
• Optimal Asset Taxes in Financial Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty
  Florian Scheuer #17817 (PE)
  
• Plant-level Productivity and Imputation of Missing Data in U.S. Census Manufacturing Data
  T. Kirk White, Jerome P. Reiter, and Amil Petrin #17816 (PR)
  
• Noisy Information, Distance and Law of One Price Dynamics Across US Cities
  Mario J. Crucini, Mototsugu Shintani, and Takayuki Tsuruga #17815 (IFM)
  
• The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Employment
  Johannes F. Schmieder, Till M. von Wachter, and Stefan Bender #17814 (   EFG   LS   PE)
  
• The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years
  Johannes F. Schmieder, Till M. von Wachter, and Stefan Bender #17813 (   EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Accounting for Real Exchange Rates Using Micro-data
  Mario J. Crucini and Anthony Landry #17812 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy
  Judith Scott-Clayton #17811 (ED)
  
• When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority
  Levent Celik, Bilgehan Karabay, and John McLaren #17810 (ITI   POL)
  
• Interjurisdictional Housing Prices and Spatial Amenities: Which Measures of Housing Prices Reflect Local Public Goods?
  H. Spencer Banzhaf and Omar Farooque #17809 (EEE   PE)
  
• Voting Rights, Share Concentration, and Leverage at Nineteenth-Century US Banks
  Howard Bodenhorn #17808 (DAE)
  
• Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates
  Tal Gross, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, and Jialan Wang #17807 (PE)
  
• Trilemma Policy Convergence Patterns and Output Volatility
  Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito #17806 (IFM   ITI)
  
• The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier
  Murillo Campello and Dirk Hackbarth #17805 (CF)
  
• Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
  Robert W. Fairlie, Dean Karlan, and Jonathan Zinman #17804 (LE   LS   PE)
  
• Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals
  Gregory F. Branch, Eric A. Hanushek, and Steven G. Rivkin #17803 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?
  Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Mark R. Cullen #17802 (AG   HC   IO   PE)
  
• The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level
  Jeremy D. Foltz, Ursula T. Aldana, and Paul Laris #17801 (PR)
  
• The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians
  George J. Borjas and Kirk B. Doran #17800 (LS)
  
• Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa
  Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld #17799 (PE   POL)
  
• Inflation and Individual Equities
  Andrew Ang, Marie Brière, and Ombretta Signori #17798 (AP)
  
• Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge
  Bo Becker, Daniel Bergstresser, and Guhan Subramanian #17797 (CF)
  

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Week of Jan 30, 2012 - Feb 6, 2012

• Nominal Stability and Financial Globalization
  Michael B. Devereux, Alan Sutherland, and Ozge Senay #17796 (IFM)
  
• Growth Opportunities, Technology Shocks, and Asset Prices
  Leonid Kogan and Dimitris Papanikolaou #17795 (AP)
  
• Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
  Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian #17794 (DAE   EFG   ITI   PE   POL)
  
• Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity
  Ajay K. Agrawal, Iain M. Cockburn, Alberto Galasso, and Alexander Oettl #17793 (PR)
  
• Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty: What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?
  David Popp, Nidhi Santen, Karen Fisher-Vanden, and Mort Webster #17792 (EEE   PR)
  
• Confronting Model Misspecification in Macroeconomics
  Daniel F. Waggoner and Tao Zha #17791 (EFG   ME)
  
• Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence
  Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão #17790 (IFM   ITI   POL)
  
• The Double Facetted Nature of Health Investments - Implications for Equilibrium and Stability in a Demand-for-Health Framework
  Kristian Bolin and Bjorn Lindgren #17789 (HE)
  
• Investment and Growth in Rich and Poor Countries
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Michael P. Dooley, and Vladyslav Sushko #17788 (IFM)
  
• Government Spending and Private Activity
  Valerie A. Ramey #17787 (EFG   ME)
  
• Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching
  Michael Waldman, Sean Nicholson, and Nodir Adilov #17786 (HC   HE)
  
• Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
  Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque, and Harounan Kazianga #17785 (HE)
  
• De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Theory and Evidence on Preference Heterogeneity and Redistribution
  Benjamin B. Lockwood and Matthew C. Weinzierl #17784 (PE)
  
• Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, and John C. Haltiwanger #17782 (EFG   LS)
  
• Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?
  Silvia H. Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho, and Adriana Lleras-Muney #17781 (CH   HE   LS)
  
• Macroprudential Policies in Open Emerging Economies
  Joon-Ho Hahm, Frederic S. Mishkin, Hyun Song Shin, and Kwanho Shin #17780 (EFG   ME)
  
• Is Labor Supply Important for Business Cycles?
  Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson, and Ayşegül Şahin #17779 (EFG)
  
• Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch
  Francisco J. Buera and Benjamin Moll #17775 (EFG)
  
• Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade
  Ariel Burstein and Javier Cravino #17767 (EFG   ITI)
  
• The Impact of Foreign Liabilities on Small Firms: Firm-Level Evidence from the Korean Crisis
  Yun Jung Kim, Linda Tesar, and Jing Zhang #17756 (IFM)
  

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Week of Jan 23, 2012 - Jan 30, 2012

• Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide
  Gary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick #17778 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• The Safe-Asset Share
  Gary B. Gorton, Stefan Lewellen, and Andrew Metrick #17777 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965
  Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ebonya L. Washington #17776 (DAE   ED   POL)
  
• Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
  Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin #17774 (CH   HE)
  
• Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
  Bronwyn H. Hall and Dietmar Harhoff #17773 (LE   PR)
  
• Identification and Estimation of Gaussian Affine Term Structure Models
  James D. Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu #17772 (AP   ME)
  
• Collateral Crises
  Gary B. Gorton and Guillermo Ordonez #17771 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States
  Jason M. DeBacker, Bradley T. Heim, and Anh Tran #17770 (CF   ITI   LE   PE   POL)
  
• Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
  Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, and Noah Stoffman #17769 (AP   CF   EFG   ME   PR)
  
• Sizing Up Repo
  Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stefan Nagel, and Dmitry Orlov #17768 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
  Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone #17766 (EEE   PE)
  
• On the Optimal Burden of Proof
  Louis Kaplow #17765 (LE)
  
• Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long Term Analysis
  Sebastian Edwards #17764 (IFM)
  
• How Firms Use Domestic and International Corporate Bond Markets
  Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, and Sergio L. Schmukler #17763 (CF   IFM   ITI)
  
• Do Consumers Exploit Precommitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption
  B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer, and Neva K. Novarro #17762 (PE)
  
• Salience in Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect
  Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer #17761 (AP   CF)
  
• The Corporation in Finance
  Raghuram Rajan #17760 (CF   IO   LE   PR)
  
• Oil Prices, Exhaustible Resources, and Economic Growth
  James D. Hamilton #17759 (EEE   EFG)
  
• Time as a Trade Barrier
  David Hummels and Georg Schaur #17758 (ITI)
  
• Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World
  John Hassler and Per Krusell #17757 (EEE   EFG   PE)
  
• Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy
  Charles F. Manski #17755 (LS   PE)
  
• Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes
  Aaron J. Sojourner, Robert J. Town, David C. Grabowski, and Michelle M. Chen #17733 (HC   LS)
  

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Week of Jan 16, 2012 - Jan 23, 2012

• Shanghai’s Trade, China’s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War
  Wolfgang Keller, Ben Li, and Carol H. Shiue #17754 (DAE   IFM   ITI   POL)
  
• How is Tax Policy Conducted over the Business Cycle?
  Carlos A. Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin #17753 (IFM)
  
• Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr #17752 (ED   LS)
  
• International Capital Flows and House Prices: Theory and Evidence
  Jack Favilukis, David Kohn, Sydney C. Ludvigson, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh #17751 (AP)
  
• The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #17750 (HC   HE   PR)
  
• The Nixon Shock after Forty Years: The Import Surcharge Revisited
  Douglas A. Irwin #17749 (ITI)
  
• Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform
  Martin B. Hackmann, Jonathan T. Kolstad, and Amanda E. Kowalski #17748 (AG   HC   PE)
  
• How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?
  Catherine Wolfram, Orie Shelef, and Paul J. Gertler #17747 (EEE   IO)
  
• Directed Search over the Life Cycle
  Guido Menzio, Irina A. Telyukova, and Ludo Visschers #17746 (EFG)
  
• Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?
  Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi, and Richard B. Freeman #17745 (LS)
  
• What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?
  Judith Scott-Clayton #17744 (ED   LS)
  
• The Diffusion of Microfinance
  Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, and Matthew O. Jackson #17743 (TWP)
  
• An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search
  Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, and Lu Zhang #17742 (AP   EFG   LS)
  
• Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages
  Karen Fisher-Vanden, Erin T. Mansur, and Qiong (Juliana) Wang #17741 (EEE   PR)
  
• The Housing Wealth Effect: The Crucial Roles of Demographics, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Shares
  Charles W. Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer, and William Miles #17740 (DAE)
  
• Demand and Reimbursement Effects of Healthcare Reform: Health Care Utilization and Infant Mortality in Thailand
  Jonathan Gruber, Nathaniel Hendren, and Robert Townsend #17739 (HE)
  
• Estimating Trade Elasticities: Demand Composition and the Trade Collapse of 2008-09
  Matthieu Bussière, Giovanni Callegari, Fabio Ghironi, Giulia Sestieri, and Norihiko Yamano #17712 (IFM   ITI)
  

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Week of Jan 9, 2012 - Jan 16, 2012

• Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons
  David M. Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney #17738 (AG   HC)
  
• Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving
  Dean Karlan and Margaret A. McConnell #17737 (LS   PE)
  
• Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence From Banking
  Sumit Agarwal, David Lucca, Amit Seru, and Francesco Trebbi #17736 (CF   ME   POL)
  
• Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
  Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov, and Cezar Santos #17735 (EFG)
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• Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Internal Migration in the United States
  Shuaizhang Feng, Michael Oppenheimer, and Wolfram Schlenker #17734 (EEE)
  
• Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging
  Eric Zitzewitz #17732 (LE)
  
• Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency: Evidence from Russian Administrative Data
  Serguey Braguinsky and Sergey V. Mityakov #17731 (CF   PE   POL)
  
• Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
  Eric A. Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz #17730 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Who Shrunk China? Puzzles in the Measurement of Real GDP
  Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, J. Peter Neary, and D.S. Prasada Rao #17729 (ITI)
  
• Contractual Versus Non-Contractual Trade: The Role of Institutions in China
  Robert C. Feenstra, Chang Hong, Hong Ma, and Barbara J. Spencer #17728 (ITI)
  
• Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch at IIT-Delhi
  Verónica C. Frisancho Robles and Kala Krishna #17727 (ED   LS)
  
• Labor Supply of Politicians
  Raymond Fisman, Nikolaj A. Harmon, Emir Kamenica, and Inger Munk #17726 (LS   POL)
  
• A Structural Model of Demand, Cost, and Export Market Selection for Chinese Footwear Producers
  Mark J. Roberts, Daniel Yi Xu, Xiaoyan Fan, and Shengxing Zhang #17725 (IO   ITI   PR)
  
• Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
  Christopher R. Knittel #17724 (EEE   IO   PE)
  
• The Housing Market(s) of San Diego
  Tim Landvoigt, Monika Piazzesi, and Martin Schneider #17723 (AP   EFG   ME)
  
• Do High-School Teachers Really Matter?
  C. Kirabo Jackson #17722 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009
  Wei Chi, Richard B. Freeman, and Hongbin Li #17721 (LS)
  
• The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program
  Scott A. Imberman and Adriana D. Kugler #17720 (CH   ED   HE   LS)
  
• The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood
  Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, and Jonah E. Rockoff #17699 (ED   LS   PE   CH)
  

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Week of Jan 2, 2012 - Jan 9, 2012

• The Real Effects of Financial Markets
  Philip Bond, Alex Edmans, and Itay Goldstein #17719 (AP   CF   LE)
  
• Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso
  Margaret S. McMillan, William A. Masters, and Harounan Kazianga #17718 (HE   PE)
  
• Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates
  Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru #17717 (CF   EFG   IO   ME   PR)
  
• Trade And Industrialisation After Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling: How Building And Joining A Supply Chain Are Different And Why It Matters
  Richard Baldwin #17716 (ITI)
  
• The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
  Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel #17715 (CH   LS   PE)
  
• Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy
  Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, and Mark L. J. Wright #17714 (EFG)
  
• Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance
  Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder, and Reyn van Ewijk #17713 (AG   CH   ED   HE)
  
• Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export
  Andrew B. Bernard, Marco Grazzi, and Chiara Tomasi #17711 (ITI)
  
• The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?
  David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz #17710 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• The Virtuous Tax: Lifesaving and Crime-Prevention Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol-Tax Increase
  Philip J. Cook and Christine Piette Durrance #17709 (HE   PE)
  
• Multilateral Economic Cooperation and the International Transmission of Fiscal Policy
  Giancarlo Corsetti and Gernot J. Müller #17708 (IFM)
  
• Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations
  J. Vernon Henderson and Yong Suk Lee #17707 (PE)
  
• Export Prices of U.S. Firms
  James Harrigan, Xiangjun Ma, and Victor Shlychkov #17706 (ITI)
  
• The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
  Joseph E. Aldy and William A. Pizer #17705 (EEE   ITI)
  
• Children's Schooling and Parents' Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study
  Alexander M. Gelber and Adam Isen #17704 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Does Retiree Health Insurance Encourage Early Retirement?
  Steven Nyce, Sylvester Schieber, John B. Shoven, Sita Slavov, and David A. Wise #17703 (AG)
  
• Women Empowerment and Economic Development
  Esther Duflo #17702 (CH)
  

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