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New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

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Week of September 21 - September 27, 2008

• Real Wage Inequality
  Enrico Moretti #14370 (LS)
  
• Housing Externalities
  Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre-Daniel Sarte, and Raymond Owens III #14369 (EFG, PE)
  
• An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods
  Timothy Erickson and Ariel Pakes #14368 (IO, PR)
  
• Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?
  Bridget Terry Long and Michal Kurlaender #14367 (ED)
  
• A Model of Capital and Crises
  Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy #14366 (AP, CF)
  
• The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach
  Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Shakeeb Khan, and Christopher Timmins #14365 (   EEE)
  
• Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life
  Thomas DeLeire and Christopher Timmins #14364 (EEE, LS)
  
• Can the West Save Africa?
  William Easterly #14363 (EFG, POL)
  
• Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil’s Alternative Energy Program
  Marc D. Weidenmier, Joseph H. Davis, and Roger Aliaga-Diaz #14362 (DAE, EFG, ME)
  
• Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040
  Robert W. Fogel #14361 (HC)
  
• Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
  Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk #14345 (EFG)
  

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Week of September 14 - September 20, 2008

• Media versus Special Interests
  Alexander Dyck, David Moss, and Luigi Zingales #14360 (POL)
  
• Policymaking for Posterity
  Lawrence H. Summers and Richard J. Zeckhauser #14359 (EEE, IFM)
  
• The Panic of 2007
  Gary B. Gorton #14358 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
  
• Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis
  William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf, and Giacomo Rondina #14357 (EFG, ME)
  
• Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future
  Steven D. Levitt and John A. List #14356 (PE)
  
• Trades of the Living Dead: Style Differences, Style Persistence and Performance of Currency Fund Managers
  Momtchil Pojarliev and Richard M. Levich #14355 (IFM)
  
• Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD
  Anna Aizer #14354 (CH, ED, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times
  Christopher F. Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie L. Morris, Jonathon P. Schuldt, and Dmitry Taubinsky #14353 (HE, LS, PE)
  
• Fetal Exposure to Toxic Releases and Infant Health
  Janet Currie and Johannes F. Schmieder #14352 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• Intermediated Quantities and Returns
  Rajnish Mehra, Facundo Piguillem, and Edward C. Prescott #14351 (AP, EFG)
  
• Demanding Customers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care
  Hai Fang, Nolan H. Miller, John A. Rizzo, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #14350 (HC, HE)
  
• Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions
  S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, and Chiara Scotti #14349 (EFG)
  
• The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
  David H. Autor #14348 (LS)
  
• Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #14347 (CF, POL)
  
• Divorce Law and Women’s Labor Supply
  Betsey Stevenson #14346 (DAE, LE, LS)
  
• The Internationalization of Venture Capital and Private Equity
  Joshua Aizenman and Jake Kendall #14344 (ITI)
  
• The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises
  Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh #14343 (AG, AP, CF, PE)
  
• Costly External Equity: Implications for Asset Pricing Anomalies
  Dongmei Li, Erica X. N. Li, and Lu Zhang #14342 (AP, CF, EFG)
  
• Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success
  Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, and Jialan Wang #14341 (CF)
  

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Week of September 7 - September 13, 2008

• Listing of Working PapersAsset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets
  Isaac Ehrlich, William A. Hamlen Jr., and Yong Yin #14340 (AP, ED, LS)
  
• Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
  Patrick Bolton, Markus K. Brunnermeier, and Laura Veldkamp #14339 (CF)
  
• Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
  Victor Lavy #14338 (ED, LS)
  
• Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
  David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, and Bert Van Landeghem #14337 (HC, HE, LS)
  
• International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #14336 (IFM)
  
• The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
  Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig #14335 (EFG, PE, POL)
  
• The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies
  Peter Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom, and Thomas J. Weiss #14334 (DAE)
  
• Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
  David M. Cutler, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Tom Vogl #14333 (AG, HC, HE)
  
• Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints
  Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #14332 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity
  Phillip Leslie and Paul Oyer #14331 (CF, IO, LE, LS)
  
• Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
  Jeffrey Liebman and Richard Zeckhauser #14330 (HC, HE, PE)
  
• Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
  Robert E. Hall and Alan B. Krueger #14329 (EFG, LS)
  
• Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
  Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak, and Barbara S. Schone #14328 (LS)
  
• Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
  Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, and Pierre Cahuc #14327 (LS)
  
• Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization
  Jonathan D. Ketcham and Kosali Simon #14326 (HC, HE)
  
• Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
  V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, and Laurel Clayton #14325 (EEE)
  
• The Litigation of Financial Innovations
  Josh Lerner #14324 (CF, PR)
  
• Strategic Interaction Among Heterogeneous Price-Setters In An Estimated DSGE Model
  Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14323 (EFG, ME)
  
• Phillips Curve Inflation Forecasts
  James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson #14322 (EFG, ME)
  
• Capital Flow Bonanzas: An Encompassing View of the Past and Present
  Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent R. Reinhart #14321 (IFM)
  
• Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
  David Lee and Emmanuel Saez #14320 (LS, PE)
  
• Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
  Craig E. Landry, Andreas Lange, John A. List, Michael K. Price, and Nicholas G. Rupp #14319 (EEE, PE)
  
• International evidence on well-being
  David G. Blanchflower #14318 (LS)
  
• The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging
  David Neumark #14317 (AG)
  

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Week of August 31 - September 6, 2008

• Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries
  Alberto Alesina and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya #14316 (   PE)
  
• Listing of Working PapersDemand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability
  Christopher T. Conlon and Julie Holland Mortimer #14315 (IO)
  
• Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
  Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #14314 (ED, LS)
  
• New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis
  V.V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan #14313 (EFG)
  
• How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
  Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle #14312 (LS)
  
• Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
  Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Stuti Khemani #14311 (CH)
  
• Housing Busts and Household Mobility
  Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy #14310 (PE)
  
• The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance
  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler #14309 (HC)
  
• The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
  Morris M. Kleiner and Alan B. Krueger #14308 (LS)
  
• Redistribution and Tax Expenditures: The Earned Income Tax Credit
  Nada Eissa and Hilary Hoynes #14307 (PE)
  
• Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
  Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #14306 (CH, LS, PE)
  
• Quality competition versus price competition goods: An empirical classification
  Richard E. Baldwin and Tadashi Ito #14305 (   ITI)
  
• Reconsidering the Economics of Demand Analysis with Kinked Budget Constraints
  Aaron Strong and V. Kerry Smith #14304 (EEE)
  
• Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
  Alan Gerber, Jonathan Gruber, and Daniel M. Hungerman #14303 (PE)
  
• Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting
  Julio J. Rotemberg #14302 (POL)
  
• Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits
  Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Wojciech Kopczuk #14301 (LS, PE)
  
• Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment
  Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda #14300 (EFG, LS)
  
• Power Laws in Economics and Finance
  Xavier Gabaix #14299 (AP, EFG)
  
• The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
  Noel Maurer and Lakshmi Iyer #14298 (DAE)
  
• School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
  Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis, and Muna Husain #14297 (HE)
  
• Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans
  Claudio Lucarelli, Jeffrey Prince, and Kosali Simon #14296 (HC)
  
• Current Account Sustainability and Relative Reliability
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Charles P. Thomas, and Francis E. Warnock #14295 (IFM)
  
• The Foreclosure-House Price Nexus: Lessons from the 2007-2008 Housing Turmoil
  Charles W. Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer, and William Miles #14294 (EFG)
  
• Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
  Adriana Kugler and Mutlu Yuksel #14293 (LS)
  

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Week of August 24 - August 30, 2008

• Post-Merger Restructuring and the Boundaries of the Firm
  Vojislav Maksimovic, Gordon Phillips, and N. R. Prabhala #14291 (CF)
  
• Real and Financial Industry Booms and Busts
  Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips #14290 (AP, CF)
  
• Product Market Synergies and Competition in Mergers and Acquisitions
  Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips #14289 (CF)
  
• Federal Budget Rules: The US Experience
  Alan J. Auerbach #14288 (PE)
  
• Public or Private Production of Food Safety: What Do U.S. Consumers Want?
  V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, and Aaron Strong #14287 (EEE)
  
• Trade, Technology, and the Environment: Why Have Poor Countries Regulated Sooner?
  Mary Lovely and David Popp #14286 (EEE, PR)
  
• Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
  Pol Antras and Robert W. Staiger #14285 (ITI)
  
• Bayesian Averaging, Prediction and Nonnested Model Selection
  Han Hong and Bruce Preston #14284 (TWP)
  
• Criminal Sentencing in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania
  Howard Bodenhorn #14283 (DAE, LE)
  
• Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #14282 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market
  Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett #14281 (DAE, LS)
  
• Understanding Bank Runs: The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks
  Rajkamal Iyer and Manju Puri #14280 (CF, ME)
  
• "Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
  Timothy Brezina, Erdal Tekin, and Volkan Topalli #14279 (CH, HE, LE)
  
• Long Term Persistence
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales #14278 (POL)
  
• Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education
  Matthew Neidell and Jane Waldfogel #14277 (CH, ED, HE, PE)
  
• Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?
  Jesse Rothstein and Albert H. Yoon #14276 (CH, ED, LE, LS)
  
• Mismatch in Law School
  Jesse Rothstein and Albert Yoon #14275 (CH, ED, LE, LS)
  
• Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
  Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, and Kjell G. Salvanes #14274 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation
  Jason M. Lindo, Nicholas J. Sanders, and Philip Oreopoulos #14261 (CH, ED, LS)
  

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Week of August 17 - August 23, 2008

• Racial Discrimination and Competition
  Ross Levine, Alexey Levkov, and Yona Rubinstein #14273 (CF, LS)
  
• Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor Market
  Arindrajit Dube and Richard Freeman #14272 (LS)
  
• Days of Haze: Environmental Information Disclosure and Intertemporal Avoidance Behavior
  Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell #14271 (EEE, HE)
  
• Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior
  Christopher F. Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie L. Morris, Jonathon P. Schuldt, and Dmitry Taubinsky #14270 (AG, HE)
  
• Macroeconomic Volatility and Stock Market Volatility, Worldwide
  Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz #14269 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution
  Erzo F.P. Luttmer and Monica Singhal #14268 (PE, POL)
  
• The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance
  Farley Grubb #14267 (DAE)
  
• Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?
  Larry E. Jones, Alice Schoonbroodt, and Michele Tertilt #14266 (EFG)
  
• Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores
  Melissa Clark, Jesse Rothstein, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #14265 (CH, LS)
  
• Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s
  Antoni Estevadeordal and Alan M. Taylor #14264 (EFG, IFM, ITI)
  
• Tax Expenditure Estimation and Reporting: A Critical Review
  Rosanne Altshuler and Robert D. Dietz #14263 (PE)
  
• Organizations and Trade
  Pol Antras and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #14262 (EFG, ITI)
  
• On the Need for a New Approach to Analyzing Monetary Policy
  Andrew Atkeson and Patrick J. Kehoe #14260 (EFG)
  
• The State of Macro
  Olivier J. Blanchard #14259 (EFG)
  
• Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade
  Brian C. Murray, Richard G. Newell, and William A. Pizer #14258 (EEE)
  
• Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
  Alan M. Garber and Jonathan Skinner #14257 (   AG   HC   HE   PE   PR)
  
• The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care
  Yu-Chu Shen and Karen Eggleston #14256 (HC, HE)
  
• Learning from Prices: Public Communication and Welfare
  Manuel Amador and Pierre-Olivier Weill #14255 (EFG, ME)
  
• When to Pollute, When to Abate? Intertemporal Permit Use in the Los Angeles NOx Market
  Stephen P. Holland and Michael Moore #14254 (EEE)
  
• Monetary Aggregates and Liquidity in a Neo-Wicksellian Framework
  Matthew Canzoneri, Robert E. Cumby, Behzad Diba, and David Lopez-Salido #14244 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Macroeconomic Implications of a Key Currency
  Matthew Canzoneri, Robert E. Cumby, Behzad Diba, and David Lopez-Salido #14242 (IFM)
  

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Week of August 10 - August 16, 2008

• Income Tax Provisions Affecting Owner-Occupied Housing: Revenue Costs and Incentive Effects
  James M. Poterba and Todd M. Sinai #14253 (PE)
  
• Information, Learning, and Drug Diffusion: the Case of Cox-2 Inhibitors
  Pradeep Chintadunta, Renna Jiang, and Ginger Z. Jin #14252 (IO)
  
• Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation
  Guido M. Imbens and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge #14251 (LS)
  
• On the Lifecycle Dynamics of Venture-Capital- and Non-Venture-Capital-Financed Firms
  Manju Puri and Rebecca Zarutskie #14250 (CF)
  
• Crises and Sudden Stops: Evidence from International Bond and Syndicated-Loan Markets
  Graciela L. Kaminsky #14249 (IFM)
  
• HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
  Chinhui Juhn, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Belgi Turan #14248 (EFG, HE, LS)
  
• Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins, and Jeff Larrimore #14247 (LS, PE, TWP)
  
• Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids
  Scott E. Carrell and Mark L. Hoekstra #14246 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Why Do Foreign Firms Leave U.S. Equity Markets? An Analysis of Deregistrations Under SEC Exchange Act Rule 12h-6
  Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, and Rene M. Stulz #14245 (CF, IFM)
  
• Modeling the Long Run: Valuation in Dynamic Stochastic Economies
  Lars Peter Hansen #14243 (AP, EFG)
  
• Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy: An Introduction
  Don Fullerton #14241 (EEE, PE)
  
• Technology's Edge: The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
  Lisa Barrow, Lisa Markman, and Cecilia E. Rouse #14240 (CH, TWP)
  
• Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
  Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin #14239 (EFG, POL)
  
• The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
  Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew E. Kahn #14238 (EEE)
  
• How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel Estimates Accounting for Predictable Changes in Taxation
  Jon Bakija and Bradley Heim #14237 (PE)
  
• Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?
  John W. Budd #14236 (LS)
  
• How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?
  Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman #14235 (LS)
  
• Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and HR Policies
  Erika Harden, Douglas L. Kruse, and Joseph R. Blasi #14234 (LS)
  
• Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options
  Douglas Kruse, Richard Freeman, and Joseph Blasi #14233 (LS)
  
• Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors
  Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher Malloy #14232 (AP, CF)
  
• Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation
  John B. Shoven and Gopi Shah Goda #14231 (AG, PE)
  
• Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance
  Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Chris Mackin, and Douglas L. Kruse #14230 (LS)
  
• Risk and Lack of Diversification under Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism
  Joseph R. Blasi, Douglas L. Kruse, and Harry M. Markowitz #14229 (   LS)
  
• An Economic Model of the Planning Fallacy
  Markus K. Brunnermeier, Filippos Papakonstantinou, and Jonathan A. Parker #14228 (, EFG, AP)
  
• WORKER RESPONSES TO SHIRKING UNDER SHARED CAPITALISM
  Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse, and Joseph Blasi #14227 (LS)
  
• Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing: The Role of Contracts
  Emmanuel Dechenaux, Jerry Thursby, and Marie C. Thursby #14226 (PR)
  
• Shared Capitalism in the U.S. Economy? Prevalence, Characteristics, and Employee Views of Financial Participation in Enterprises
  Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi, and Rhokeun Park #14225 (LS)
  
• Why the DEA STRIDE Data are Still Useful for Understanding Drug Markets
  Jeremy Arkes, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Susan M. Paddock, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Peter Reuter #14224 (HE)
  
• Daily Monetary Policy Shocks and the Delayed Response of New Home Sales
  James D. Hamilton #14223 (EFG, ME)
  
• Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations
  Julio J. Rotemberg #14222 (EFG, ME)
  
• What's a Recession, Anyway?
  Edward E. Leamer and Chauncey J. Medberry #14221 (EFG)
  
• Happiness Inequality in the United States
  Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers #14220 (LE, LS, PE)
  
• The Burden of the Nondiversifiable Risk of Entrepreneurship
  Robert E. Hall and Susan E. Woodward #14219 (EFG, ME)
  
• Securities Laws, Disclosure, and National Capital Markets in the Age of Financial Globalization
  Rene M. Stulz #14218 (CF)
  
• Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves
  Maurice Obstfeld, Jay C. Shambaugh, and Alan M. Taylor #14217 (IFM)
  
• Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
  Rupert Harrison, Jordi Jaumandreu, Jacques Mairesse, and Bettina Peters #14216 (LS, PR)
  
• What's News in Business Cycles
  Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martin Uribe #14215 (EFG)
  
• Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
  Costas Arkolakis #14214 (ITI)
  
• Trends in the Black-White Achievement Gap:Clarifying the Meaning of Within- and Between-School Achievement Gaps
  Lindsay C. Page, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #14213 (ED)
  
• Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System
  Randall D. Cebul, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark Votruba #14212 (HC, LS)
  
• Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
  Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin #14211 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  
• Long Term Insurance (LTI) for Addressing Catastrophe Risk
  Dwight Jaffee, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan #14210 (PE)
  
• An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications
  Pablo T. Spiller #14152 (LE)
  

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Week of July 27 - August 2, 2008

• Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health: The Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations
  Matthew J. Neidell #14209 (CH, EEE, HE)
  
• Labor Supply: Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?
  Miles S. Kimball and Matthew D. Shapiro #14208 (EFG, LS, ME)
  
• Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity
  Steven N. Kaplan and Per Str?mberg #14207 (CF)
  
• The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
  Alan Gerber, Daniel Kessler, and Marc Meredith #14206 (PE, POL)
  
• Real Effects of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Is it a Demand or a Finance Shock?
  Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei #14205 (CF, IFM)
  
• Housing Wealth Isn't Wealth
  Willem H. Buiter #14204 (IFM, ME)
  
• The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000
  David Albouy #14203 (LS)
  
• Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
  Alberto F. Alesina, Francesca Lotti, and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli #14202 (CF, LS, POL)
  

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Week of July 20 - July 26, 2008

• Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
  Judith K. Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney, and David Neumark #14201 (LS)
  
• Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through
  Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki #14200 (EFG, IFM, ME)
  
• Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing
  Dennis W. Carlton, Patrick Greenlee, and Michael Waldman #14199 (IO)
  
• Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
  Lori A. Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, and Petia Topalova #14198 (POL)
  
• Environmental Taxes
  Don Fullerton, Andrew Leicester, and Stephen Smith #14197 (EEE, PE)
  
• Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey
  Janet Currie, Matthew J. Neidell, and Johannes Schmieder #14196 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
  
• Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?
  Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov, and Morten Sorensen #14195 (CF)
  
• The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addressing Endogenous Sorting and Noncompliance
  Juan Carlos Calcagno and Bridget Terry Long #14194 (ED)
  
• Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles
  Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Albert Saiz #14193 (PE)
  
• The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents
  Roland G. Fryer, Jr, Lisa Kahn, Steven D. Levitt, and Jorg L. Spenkuch #14192 (ED, LS)
  

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Week of July 13 - July 19, 2008

• Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction?
  Ethan Ilzetzki and Carlos A. Vegh #14191 (IFM)
  
• How Has the Euro Changed the Monetary Transmission?
  Jean Boivin, Marc P. Giannoni, and Benoit Mojon #14190 (EFG, ME)
  
• Board Interlocks and the Propensity to be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions
  Toby Stuart and Soojin Yim #14189 (CF)
  
• Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
  Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri #14188 (ITI, LS)
  
• Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?
  Shourun Guo, Edie S. Hotchkiss, and Weihong Song #14187 (CF)
  
• The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts
  John P. Papay, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #14186 (CH, ED)
  
• The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers
  C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Hung-Ken Chien, and Ronald D. Lee #14185 (AG)
  
• Endogenous information, menu costs and inflation persistence
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14184 (EFG, ME)
  
• Strategic Judgment Proofing
  Yeon-Koo Che and Kathryn E. Spier #14183 (LE)
  
• The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles
  David Galenson #14182 (LS)
  
• Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuations
  Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston #14181 (EFG, ME)
  
• The Investment Behavior of Buyout Funds: Theory and Evidence
  Alexander Ljungqvist, Matthew Richardson, and Daniel Wolfenzon #14180 (CF)
  
• Saving Your Home in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
  Michelle J. White and Ning Zhu #14179 (LE)
  
• Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data
  Ana M. Fernandes and Ariel Pakes #14178 (IO, PR)
  
• Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors
  Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini #14177 (AP)
  
• School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools
  David Card, Martin Dooley, and Abigail Payne #14176 (ED, LS)
  
• Private Information and a Macro Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set
  Menzie D. Chinn and Michael J. Moore #14175 (IFM)
  
• Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams
  Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Steven M. Ewer, and Todd H. Wagner #14174 (AG, HC, HE, LS)
  
• Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?
  Janet Currie, Sandra Decker, and Wanchuan Lin #14173 (CH, HC, HE, PE)
  
• Home Bias at the Fund Level
  Harald Hau and Helene Rey #14172 (AP, IFM)
  
• On the Sources of the Great Moderation
  Jordi Gali and Luca Gambetti #14171 (EFG)
  
• Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences
  Louis Kaplow #14170 (LE, PE)
  
• Efficient Prediction of Excess Returns
  Jon Faust and Jonathan H. Wright #14169 (AP, ME)
  
• Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment: The Yuan and Other Currencies
  Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie D. Chinn, and Eiji Fujii #14168 (IFM)
  
• Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era
  Price V. Fishback, Rebecca Holmes , and Samuel Allen #14167 (DAE, LE, LS)
  
• E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries
  Maris Goldmanis, Ali Hortacsu, Chad Syverson, and Onsel Emre #14166 (IO, PR)
  
• Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope
  Harald Hau and Helene Rey #14165 (AP, IFM)
  
• Determinacy, Learnability, and Plausibility in Monetary Policy Analysis: Additional Results
  Bennett T. McCallum #14164 (EFG, ME)
  
• Reconsideration of the P-Bar Model of Gradual Price Adjustment
  Bennett T. McCallum #14163 (EFG, ME)
  
• Edgeworth Cycles Revisited
  Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Erich Muehlegger, and Krislert Samphantharak #14162 (EEE, IO)
  
• Estimating Derivatives in Nonseparable Models with Limited Dependent Variables
  Joseph G. Altonji, Hidehiko Ichimura, and Taisuke Otsu #14161 (TWP)
  
• Random Walk or A Run: Market Microstructure Analysis of the Foreign Exchange Rate Movements based on Conditional Probability
  Yuko Hashimoto, Takatoshi Ito, Takaaki Ohnishi, Misako Takayasu, Hideki Takayasu, and Tsutomu Watanabe #14160 (IFM, ME)
  
• Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care
  James B. Rebitzer, Mari Rege, and Christopher Shepard #14159 (HC, HE, LS)
  
• Short Sales and Trade Classification Algorithms
  Paul Asquith, Rebecca Oman, and Christopher Safaya #14158 (AP)
  
• The Value of Life in General Equilibrium
  Anupam Jena, Casey Mulligan, Tomas J. Philipson, and Eric Sun #14157 (HC, HE)
  
• Family Leave after Childbirth and the Health of New Mothers
  Pinka Chatterji and Sara Markowitz #14156 (CH, HE, LS)
  
• General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition
  Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches #14155 (ED)
  
• The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading International Currency?
  Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau #14154 (DAE, IFM)
  

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Week of July 6 - July 12, 2008

• Vengeance
  Naci H. Mocan #14131 (CH, HE)
• The Lengthening of Childhood
  David Deming and Susan Dynarski #14124 (CH, ED)
• Common Risk Factors in Currency Markets
  Hanno Lustig, Nikolai Roussanov, and Adrien Verdelhan #14082 (AP, IFM)

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