New This Week Archive

NBER Working Papers released in the past, by week.

Week of Sep 19, 2011 - Sep 26, 2011

• School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment
  David J. Deming, Justine S. Hastings, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger #17438 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• When the Music Stopped: Transatlantic Contagion During the Financial Crisis of 1931
  Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn #17437 (DAE)
  
• Competition in Persuasion
  Matthew Gentzkow and Emir Kamenica #17436 (IO   LE   POL)
  
• Credit Constraints in Education
  Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo #17435 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates
  Nicholas J. Sanders and Charles F. Stoecker #17434 (CH   EEE   HE   PE)
  
• Firm Heterogeneity, Endogenous Entry, and the Business Cycle
  Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano #17433 (EFG)
  
• The Democratic Transition
  Fabrice Murtin and Romain Wacziarg #17432 (POL)
  
• Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking
  Gilles St. Paul #17431 (ME   POL)
  
• Reconciling Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: A Structural Perspective
  Michael P. Keane and Richard Rogerson #17430 (EFG)
  
• The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the US and Europe
  Alejandro Justiniano and Claudio Michelacci #17429 (EFG)
  
• Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity
  David T. Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy #17428 (AP   CF)
  
• The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10: Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment
  Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak #17427 (IFM   ITI)
  
• The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital
  Susan Busch, Ezra Golberstein, and Ellen Meara #17426 (CH   HC   HE)
  
• The Federal Reserve as an Informed Foreign Exchange Trader: 1973 – 1995
  Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz #17425 (DAE   ME)
  
• Estimators for Persistent and Possibly Non-Stationary Data with Classical Properties
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Anna Mikusheva, and Serena Ng #17424 (AP   EFG   IFM   ME   TWP)
  
• The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity
  Charles L. Baum and Shin-Yi Chou #17423 (HE)
  
• Crashes and Collateralized Lending
  Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford #17422 (AP   CF)
  
• Improving GDP Measurement: A Forecast Combination Perspective
  S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, Jeremy Nalewaik, Frank Schorfheide, and Dongho Song #17421 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries: New Measurement and Implications for Business Cycles
  Lee E. Ohanian and Andrea Raffo #17420 (EFG   LS)
  
• Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care
  Guy David, Evan Rawley, and Daniel Polsky #17419 (HC   HE   IO)
  
• The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics
  Robin Burgess, Matthew Hansen, Benjamin A. Olken, Peter Potapov, and Stefanie Sieber #17417 (EEE   POL)
  
• Equity Yields
  Jules H. van Binsbergen, Wouter Hueskes, Ralph Koijen, and Evert B. Vrugt #17416 (AP   CF   EFG)
  

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Week of Sep 12, 2011 - Sep 19, 2011

• Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market
  Christoph Moser and Andrew K. Rose #17415 (IFM   ITI)
  
• The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity: Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #17414 (HC   HE   PR)
  
• Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity
  Henry Saffer, Dhaval M. Dave, and Michael Grossman #17413 (HE)
  
• Educational "Goodwill": Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities
  Peter Nurnberg, Morton Schapiro, and David Zimmerman #17412 (ED)
  
• Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
  Frederico Finan and Laura A. Schechter #17411 (POL)
  
• Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans
  Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee Vermeulen, and Marian Wrobel #17410 (AG   HC   HE   IO   PE)
  
• The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
  Bård Harstad #17409 (EEE   LE   PE   POL)
  
• Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs
  Alan I. Barreca, Jason M. Lindo, and Glen R. Waddell #17408 (ED   HE   LS   TWP)
  
• What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk
  Joshua Aizenman, Michael M. Hutchison, and Yothin Jinjarak #17407 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle
  Gregory J. Colman and Dhaval M. Dave #17406 (EFG   HE   LS   PE)
  
• Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update
  Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy #17405 (PE)
  
• Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
  Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby, and Jason Fong #17404 (PR)
  
• The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr #17402 (ED   LS)
  

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Week of Sep 5, 2011 - Sep 12, 2011

• Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks
  Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Paul Raschky, and Howard Kunreuther #17403 (   PE)
  
• Who Should Supervise? The Structure of Bank Supervision and the Performance of the Financial System
  Barry Eichengreen and Nergiz Dincer #17401 (IFM)
  
• The Future of Economic Convergence
  Dani Rodrik #17400 (EFG   ITI   PR)
  
• Private Equity and Employment
  Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda #17399 (CF   EFG   LS   PR)
  
• Corruption in Developing Countries
  Benjamin A. Olken and Rohini Pande #17398 (EFG   PE   POL)
  
• Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections
  Marco Faravelli and Randall Walsh #17397 (LE   PE   POL)
  
• Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances
  Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych #17396 (IFM)
  
• Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change
  Chris Edmond #17395 (POL)
  
• Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms
  John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist #17394 (CF)
  
• Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument
  Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach #17393 (CF)
  
• Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
  Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina #17392 (CF)
  
• Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions
  Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson #17391 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation
  Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler #17390 (EEE   HE   IO   PE)
  
• Financial Markets and Unemployment
  Tommaso Monacelli, Vincenzo Quadrini, and Antonella Trigari #17389 (EFG)
  
• Financial Distress in the Great Depression
  John R. Graham, Sonali Hazarika, and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan #17388 (TWP)
  
• Corporate Governance, Debt, and Investment Policy during the Great Depression
  John R. Graham, Sonali Hazarika, and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan #17387 (TWP)
  
• Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
  Stephen P. Holland, Jonathan E. Hughes, Christopher R. Knittel, and Nathan C. Parker #17386 (EEE   IO   POL)
  
• Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
  Liran Einav, Theresa Kuchler, Jonathan D. Levin, and Neel Sundaresan #17385 (IO   PR)
  
• An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems: Donations, Elections and Policy Choices
  Hanming Fang, Dmitry A. Shapiro, and Arthur Zillante #17384 (LE   PE   POL)
  
• Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency: The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector
  Maureen L. Cropper, Alexander Limonov, Kabir Malik, and Anoop Singh #17383 (EEE)
  
• Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
  Dora Costa #17382 (DAE)
  
• A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
  Robert Fairlie, Florian Hoffmann, and Philip Oreopoulos #17381 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History
  Michael D. Bordo, Agnieszka Markiewicz, and Lars Jonung #17380 (DAE   ME)
  
• International Liquidity: The Fiscal Dimension
  Maurice Obstfeld #17379 (IFM   ME)
  

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Week of Aug 29, 2011 - Sep 5, 2011

• Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
  James J. Heckman #17378 (CH   ED)
  
• The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
  Quamrul H. Ashraf, David N. Weil, and Joshua Wilde #17377 (EFG)
  
• Embodied Carbon Tariffs
  Christoph Böhringer, Jared C. Carbone, and Thomas F. Rutherford #17376 (EEE)
  
• Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test
  Daniel M. Hungerman #17375 (CH   HE   PE)
  
• Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009
  Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko #17374 (PE)
  
• Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs
  Amil Petrin and Jagadeesh Sivadasan #17373 (IO   LS   PR)
  
• Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform
  Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho and Marc-Andreas Muendler #17372 (LS)
  
• Comparative Effectiveness Research, COURAGE, and Technological Abandonment
  David H. Howard and Yu-Chu Shen #17371 (HC)
  
• Capital Allocation and Delegation of Decision-Making Authority within Firms
  John R. Graham, Campbell R. Harvey, and Manju Puri #17370 (TWP)
  
• The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality
  Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas L. Miller #17369 (CH   HE   PE)
  
• Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
  John R. Graham, Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu #17368 (TWP)
  
• Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights
  Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman, and Carlos J. Serrano #17367 (IO   LE   PR)
  
• Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation
  Yan Dong and John Whalley #17366 (ITI)
  
• The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and Its Impacts on Trade
  Hejing Chen and John Whalley #17365 (ITI)
  
• Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification
  Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan #17364 (ED   PE)
  
• Managing Capital Inflows: The Role of Capital Controls and Prudential Policies
  Mahvash S. Qureshi, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Marcos Chamon #17363 (IFM)
  
• International Reserves and the Global Financial Crisis
  Kathryn M.E. Dominguez, Yuko Hashimoto, and Takatoshi Ito #17362 (IFM)
  
• International Financial Crises and the Multilateral Response: What the Historical Record Shows
  Bergljot Barkbu, Barry Eichengreen, and Ashoka Mody #17361 (IFM)
  
• From the Financial Crisis to the Real Economy: Using Firm-level Data to Identify Transmission Channels
  Stijn Claessens, Hui Tong, and Shang-Jin Wei #17360 (IFM)
  
• Dollar Illiquidity and Central Bank Swap Arrangements During the Global Financial Crisis
  Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #17359 (IFM)
  
• On the International Transmission of Shocks: Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios
  Claudio Raddatz and Sergio L. Schmukler #17358 (IFM)
  
• Capital Flows, Push versus Pull Factors and the Global Financial Crisis
  Marcel Fratzscher #17357 (IFM)
  
• Bank Relationships, Business Cycles, and Financial Crises
  Galina Hale #17356 (IFM)
  
• Liquidity management of U.S. global banks: Internal capital markets in the great recession
  Nicola Cetorelli and Linda S. Goldberg #17355 (IFM)
  
• Leverage Across Firms, Banks, and Countries
  Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen, and Sevcan Yesiltas #17354 (IFM)
  
• The Financial Crisis and The Geography of Wealth Transfers
  Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Hélène Rey, and Kai Truempler #17353 (AP   IFM   ME)
  
• External Adjustment and the Global Crisis
  Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi Ferretti #17352 (IFM)
  
• Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight, and Retrenchment
  Kristin J. Forbes and Francis E. Warnock #17351 (CF   IFM   ITI)
  
• ABS Inflows to the United States and the Global Financial Crisis
  Carol Bertaut, Laurie Pounder DeMarco, Steven B. Kamin, and Ralph W. Tryon #17350 (IFM)
  
• Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
  Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo #17349 (LS)
  
• Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium
  Mikhail Golosov, John Hassler, Per Krusell, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17348 (EEE   EFG   PE)
  
• Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data
  Ralph Ossa #17347 (EFG   ITI)
  
• Partial Identification of Heterogeneity in Preference Orderings Over Discrete Choices
  Itai Sher, Jeremy T. Fox, Kyoo il Kim, and Patrick Bajari #17346 (IO   TWP)
  
• The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions
  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman #17345 (AG   LS)
  
• Managing a Liquidity Trap: Monetary and Fiscal Policy
  Ivan Werning #17344 (   EFG   ME)
  

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Week of Aug 22, 2011 - Aug 29, 2011

• Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
  Martha J. Bailey #17343 (CH   DAE   LS)
  
• Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom
  James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger #17342 (PE)
  
• Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
  Lucas W. Davis and Catherine Wolfram #17341 (EEE   IO   PR)
  
• Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets
  Soohyung Lee, Muriel Niederle, Hye-Rim Kim, and Woo-Keum Kim #17340 (LS)
  
• Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning, and Household Wealth
  Maarten van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi, and Rob J. Alessie #17339 (AG)
  
• A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments
  Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante #17338 (EFG   PE)
  
• Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior
  Elisabetta Gentile and Scott A. Imberman #17337 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
  C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr #17336 (ITI   LS   PR)
  
• Country Size, International Trade, and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economies
  Julian di Giovanni and Andrei A. Levchenko #17335 (IFM   ITI)
  
• What is the Chance that the Equity Premium Varies over Time? Evidence from Predictive Regressions
  Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana #17334 (AP)
  
• Behavioral Corporate Finance: An Updated Survey
  Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler #17333 (CF)
  
• Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
  Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak, and Christopher R. Walters #17332 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Asset Liquidity and International Portfolio Choice
  Athanasios Geromichalos and Ina Simonovska #17331 (IFM)
  
• Information Aggregation, Investment, and Managerial Incentives
  Elias Albagli, Christian Hellwig, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17330 (AP   CF   EFG)
  
• Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
  Naci H. Mocan and Duha Tore Altindag #17329 (HE   LE)
  
• Rare Macroeconomic Disasters
  Robert J. Barro and José F. Ursua #17328 (AP   EFG   ME   PE)
  
• "Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
  Daniel S. Hamermesh and Jason Abrevaya #17327 (LS)
  
• Cycles of Wage Discrimination
  Jeff Biddle and Daniel S. Hamermesh #17326 (LS)
  
• Health and Mortality Delta: Assessing the Welfare Cost of Household Insurance Choice
  Ralph Koijen, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Motohiro Yogo #17325 (AG   AP   HE)
  
• Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate
  Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth #17324 (HE)
  
• The Recovery Theorem
  Stephen A. Ross #17323 (AP   ME)
  
• Was What Ail'd Ya' What Kill'd Ya'?
  Robert W. Fogel, Louis Cain, Joseph Burton, and Brian Bettenhausen #17322 (AG)
  
• Implicit Guarantees and Risk Taking: Evidence from Money Market Funds
  Marcin Kacperczyk and Philipp Schnabl #17321 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions
  Dayanand S. Manoli and Andrea Weber #17320 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• Optimal Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Product Variety
  Sanjay K. Chugh and Fabio Ghironi #17319 (EFG   PE)
  
• How Reliable are De Facto Exchange Rate Regime Classifications?
  Barry Eichengreen and Raul Razo-Garcia #17318 (IFM)
  
• Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity
  Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, Keith Kuester, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez #17317 (EFG)
  
• Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy
  Christopher Afendulis and Daniel Kessler #17316 (HC   IO   LE)
  
• Complex Mortgages
  Gene Amromin, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm, and Edward Zhong #17315 (AP   CF   PE)
  
• How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
  Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth #17314 (DAE   POL)
  
• Labor Market Dysfunction During the Great Recession
  Kyle F. Herkenhoff and Lee E. Ohanian #17313 (EFG   LS)
  
• Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or ...)?
  Michael D. Bordo, Angela Redish, and Hugh Rockoff #17312 (DAE)
  
• Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity
  Aubhik Khan and Julia K. Thomas #17311 (EFG   PR)
  
• Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?
  Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin #17310 (HE   LS   PE)
  
• Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
  Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra #17309 (LE   PE)
  
• The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
  Lorenzo Caliendo and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg #17308 (EFG   ITI)
  
• Internal Migration in the United States
  Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail K. Wozniak #17307 (   LS)
  
• A Political Theory of Populism
  Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin #17306 (POL)
  
• Japanese Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy
  Takero Doi, Takeo Hoshi, and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto #17305 (CF   ME   PE)
  
• Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents
  Carlos J. Serrano #17304 (IO   PR)
  
• Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s
  Carola Frydman and Raven Molloy #17303 (CF   DAE   LS)
  
• The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City
  Rema Hanna and Paulina Oliva #17302 (EEE)
  
• Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing Andreas Fuster, Benjamin Hebert, and David Laibson #17301 (AG   AP   IFM)
  
• Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?
  Guy David, Richard Lindrooth, Lorens A. Helmchen, and Lawton R. Burns #17300 (HC   HE)
  
• Inefficient Provision of Liquidity
  Oliver D. Hart and Luigi Zingales #17299 (CF)
  
• The "CAPS" Prediction System and Stock Market Returns
  Christopher Avery, Judith A. Chevalier, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #17298 (AP)
  
• Building Peace: The Impact of Aid on the Labor Market for Insurgents
  Radha Iyengar, Jonathan Monten, and Matthew Hanson #17297 (LS)
  

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Week of Aug 15, 2011 - Aug 22, 2011

• Capital Mobility and Asset Pricing
  Darrell Duffie and Bruno Strulovici #17296 (AP)
  
• Information Percolation in Segmented Markets
  Darrell Duffie, Semyon Malamud, and Gustavo Manso #17295 (AP)
  
• Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time
  Steven J. Davis, Jason Faberman, and John C. Haltiwanger #17294 (EFG   LS)
  
• Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
  Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Ragnar Torvik #17293 (POL)
  
• Spillover Effects in Mutual Fund Companies
  Clemens Sialm and T. Mandy Tham #17292 (AP   CF)
  
• A Gains from Trade Perspective on Macroeconomic Fluctuations
  Paul Beaudry and Franck Portier #17291 (EFG)
  
• Are Corporate Default Probabilities Consistent with the Static Tradeoff Theory?
  Armen Hovakimian, Ayla Kayhan, and Sheridan Titman #17290 (CF)
  
• The Extensive Margin, Sectoral Shares and International Business Cycles
  Michael B. Devereux and Viktoria Hnatkovska #17289 (IFM)
  
• Consumption Risk-Sharing and the Real Exchange Rate: Why does the Nominal Exchange Rate Make Such a Difference?
  Michael B. Devereux and Viktoria Hnatkovska #17288 (IFM)
  
• Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment
  Jeffrey B. Liebman and Erzo F.P. Luttmer #17287 (AG   LS   PE)
  
• Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. #17286 (CH   ED   LS)
  
• Covariances versus Characteristics in General Equilibrium
  Xiaoji Lin and Lu Zhang #17285 (AP   CF)
  
• Equilibrium Wage and Employment Dynamics in a Model of Wage Posting without Commitment
  Melvyn G. Coles and Dale T. Mortensen #17284 (EFG)
  
• A Simple Nonparametric Approach to Estimating the Distribution of Random Coefficients in Structural Models
  Jeremy T. Fox and Kyoo il Kim #17283 (IO   TWP)
  
• Foreign Firms and Local Communities
  Bruce Blonigen and Cheyney O'Fallon #17282 (ITI)
  
• Systemic Risk Exposures: A 10-by-10-by-10 Approach
  Darrell Duffie #17281 (AP)
  
• The Exact Law of Large Numbers for Independent Random Matching
  Darrell Duffie and Yeneng Sun #17280 (AP)
  

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Week of Aug 8, 2011 - Aug 15, 2011

• The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of "Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Sean Lyons, and Kosali I. Simon #17279 (HC   HE)
  
• Carry Trades and Risk
  Craig Burnside #17278 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• International Risk Cycles
  Francois Gourio, Michael Siemer, and Adrien Verdelhan #17277 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment
  Farley Grubb #17276 (DAE)
  
• Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
  Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn #17275 (LS)
  
• Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Laurence M. Ball, Nicolas De Roux, and Marc Hofstetter #17274 (EFG   IFM   LS   ME)
  
• "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health
  Till Stowasser, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter #17273 (AG   HE)
  
• Country Heterogeneity and the International Evidence on the Effects of Fiscal Policy
  Carlo Favero, Francesco Giavazzi, and Jacopo Perego #17272 (IFM   ME)
  
• Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
  Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg #17271 (IFM   POL)
  
• Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout
  Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens Jr. #17270 (LS   POL)
  
• Why Did U.S. Banks Invest in Highly-Rated Securitization Tranches?
  Isil Erel, Taylor D. Nadauld, and Rene M. Stulz #17269 (CF)
  
• Tax Expenditures, the Size and Efficiency of Government, and Implications for Budget Reform
  Leonard E. Burman and Marvin Phaup #17268 (PE)
  
• The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics
  Michael D. Bordo and Hugh Rockoff #17267 (DAE)
  
• Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #17266 (CF   DAE   POL)
  
• The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm
  Serguey Braguinsky, Lee G. Branstetter, and Andre Regateiro #17265 (PR)
  

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Week of Aug 1, 2011 - Aug 8, 2011

• The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools
  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua D. Angrist, and Parag A. Pathak #17264 (ED   LS)
  
• The Balanced U.S. Press
  Riccardo Puglisi and James M. Snyder, Jr. #17263 (IO   POL)
  
• Trade Policy Making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining
  Levent Celik, Bilgehan Karabay, and John McLaren #17262 (ITI   POL)
  
• Global Asset Pricing
  Karen K. Lewis #17261 (AP   IFM)
  
• What's Next for the Dollar?
  Martin S. Feldstein #17260 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Time Use During Recessions
  Mark A. Aguiar, Erik Hurst, and Loukas Karabarbounis #17259 (AG   EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Capital flows: Catalyst or Hindrance to economic takeoffs?
  Joshua Aizenman and Vladyslav Sushko #17258 (ITI)
  
• Trade and Inequality in India
  Pravin Krishna and Guru Sethupathy #17257 (ITI)
  
• Wage Effects of Trade Reform with Endogenous Worker Mobility
  Pravin Krishna, Jennifer P. Poole, and Mine Zeynep Senses #17256 (ITI)
  
• Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments
  Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson #17255 (CH   HE)
  
• Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility
  Matthew J. Kotchen and Jon Jungbien Moon #17254 (EEE   PE)
  
• Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
  Stephen P. Ryan and Catherine Tucker #17253 (IO)
  
• Stories of the Twentieth Century for the Twenty-First
  Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Maurice Obstfeld #17252 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition
  Stephen Calabrese, Dennis N. Epple, and Richard Romano #17251 (PE)
  
• A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods
  Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan, Alvin Murphy, and Christopher Timmins #17250 (EEE   IO   PE)
  
• China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
  Tamara Hafner and David Popp #17249 (PR)
  

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Week of Jul 25, 2011 - Aug 1, 2011

• Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
  James A. Levinsohn and Todd Pugatch #17248 (LS)
  
• The Value of Honesty: Empirical Estimates from the Case of the Missing Children
  Sara LaLumia and James M. Sallee #17247 (PE)
  
• Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption
  Catherine Tucker #17246 (PR)
  
• Chemical Fertilizer and Migration in China
  Avraham Ebenstein, Jian Zhang, Margaret S. McMillan, and Kevin Chen #17245 (EEE   ITI)
  
• How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes
  Anneke Exterkate and Robin L. Lumsdaine #17244 (AG   HC   HE)
  
• Stepping Stones: Principal Career Paths and School Outcomes
  Tara Béteille, Demetra Kalogrides, and Susanna Loeb #17243 (ED)
  
• Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
  David S. Jacks #17242 (DAE)
  
• The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
  Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn #17241 (LS)
  
• On Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy in Recessions
  Jonathan A. Parker #17240 (EFG   ME   PE)
  
• Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications
  Jeffrey A. Frankel #17239 (IFM)
  
• Are All Ratings Created Equal? The Impact of Issuer Size on the Pricing of Mortgage-backed Securities
  Jie (Jack) He, Jun 'QJ' Qian, and Philip E. Strahan #17238 (CF)
  
• Corporate and Personal Bankruptcy Law
  Michelle J. White #17237 (LE)
  
• Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates
  Mark Duggan and Tamara Hayford #17236 (HC   HE   PE)
  
• Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?
  Ilyana Kuziemko #17235 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• "Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications
  Ilyana Kuziemko, Ryan W. Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael I. Norton #17234 (LS   PE   POL)
  
• How Do Firm Financial Conditions Affect Product Quality and Pricing?
  Gordon M. Phillips and Giorgo Sertsios #17233 (CF   IO)
  
• Gauging the Generosity of Employer-Sponsored Insurance: Differences Between Households With and Without a Chronic Condition
  Jean M. Abraham, Anne Beeson Royalty, and Thomas DeLeire #17232 (HE)
  
• The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
  Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger, and John Van Reenen #17231 (EFG   LE   LS   PR)
  
• Public Consumption Over the Business Cycle
  Ruediger Bachmann and Jinhui Bai #17230 (EFG   PE   POL)
  
• Competition in Health Care Markets
  Martin Gaynor and Robert J. Town #17208 (HC)
  

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Week of Jul 18, 2011 - Jul 25, 2011

• Cycles, Gaps, and the Social Value of Information
  George-Marios Angeletos, Luigi Iovino, and Jennifer La'O #17229 (EFG   ME)
  
• Capital Flow Types, External Financing Needs, and Industrial Growth: 99 countries, 1991-2007
  Joshua Aizenman and Vladyslav Sushko #17228 (ITI)
  
• The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston
  Panle Jia Barwick and Parag A. Pathak #17227 (IO   PE)
  
• Cross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs. Physician-Driven Markets
  Patricia M. Danzon and Michael F. Furukawa #17226 (HC   HE)
  
• School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina
  C. Kirabo Jackson #17225 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• House Price Booms and the Current Account
  Klaus Adam, Pei Kuang, and Albert Marcet #17224 (AP   IFM)
  
• The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance: The Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance
  Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, and Meryl I. Motika #17223 (AG   HE   LS)
  
• Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health
  Christopher R. Knittel, Douglas L. Miller, and Nicholas J. Sanders #17222 (CH   EEE   HE   PE)
  
• Conglomerate Industry Spanning
  Gerard Hoberg and Gordon M. Phillips #17221 (CF   IO)
  
• Competing with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices
  Charles J. Courtemanche and Art Carden #17220 (HE   IO)
  
• Sources of Entropy in Representative Agent Models
  David Backus, Mikhail Chernov, and Stanley E. Zin #17219 (AP)
  
• Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
  Philippe Belley, Marc Frenette, and Lance Lochner #17218 (ED   LS   PE)
  
• Understanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment Exports to the United States
  Aparna Sawhney and Matthew E. Kahn #17217 (EEE   ITI)
  
• The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
  Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor #17216 (EFG)
  
• Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
  Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and Thomas J. Weiss #17215 (DAE)
  
• An Optimal Tax System
  Louis Kaplow #17214 (PE)
  
• Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?
  David Neumark, Hans P. Johnson, and Marisol Cuellar Mejia #17213 (AG   LS)
  
• Early Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing
  Pinka Chatterji, Sara Markowitz, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn #17212 (HE)
  

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Week of Jul 11, 2011 - Jul 18, 2011

• American Incomes before and after the Revolution
  Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson #17211 (DAE)
  
• Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
  Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna #17210 (CH   EEE   HE   LE   PE)
  
• State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790
  Farley Grubb #17209 (DAE)
  
• When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
  Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon R. Quinn, and Christopher Woodruff #17207 (PR)
  
• What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?
  Steven C.A. Pincus and James A. Robinson #17206 (DAE   POL)
  
• Vaccine Supply: Effects Of Regulation And Competition
  Patricia M. Danzon and Nuno S. Pereira #17205 (HC   HE)
  
• Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico
  Leonardo Iacovone, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller, and James R. Tybout #17204 (IO   ITI   PR)
  
• Economic Preparation for Retirement
  Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder #17203 (AG)
  
• Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
  Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. #17202 (CF   ITI   PE)
  
• International Recessions
  Fabrizio Perri and Vincenzo Quadrini #17201 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and “Green” Social Status
  Samuel Dastrup, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Dora L. Costa, and Matthew E. Kahn #17200 (EEE)
  
• The Behavior of Savings and Asset Prices When Preferences and Beliefs are Heterogeneous
  Ngoc-Khanh Tran and Richard J. Zeckhauser #17199 (AP   CF)
  
• The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance
  Carrie H. Colla, William H. Dow, and Arindrajit Dube #17198 (HC   HE   LS)
  
• Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle
  Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson #17197 (AP   CF   ME)
  
• The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions
  Alberto Bisin, Andrea Moro, and Giorgio Topa #17196 (CH   HE)
  
• Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action
  Georgiy Bobashev, Maureen L. Cropper, Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke, Stephen Hutton, and Mead Over #17195 (EEE)
  
• Pay for Percentile
  Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal #17194 (ED   LS)
  
• Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand
  Steven T. Berry, Amit Gandhi, and Philip Haile #17193 (IO   TWP)
  
• Negotiating with Labor Under Financial Distress
  Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman, and Ricardo Enriquez #17192 (CF   LS)
  
• Customer Capital
  Francois Gourio and Leena Rudanko #17191 (CF   EFG   IO   ME)
  
• The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year
  vAmy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, and The Oregon Health Study Group #17190 (AG   HC   PE)
  
• Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment
  Paul J. Ferraro and Michael K. Price #17189 (EEE   PE)
  
• Weekends and Subjective Well-Being
  John F. Helliwell and Shun Wang #17180 (LS   PE)
  
• The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
  Neeraj Sood, Peter J. Huckfeldt, David C. Grabowski, Joseph P. Newhouse, and José J. Escarce #17125 (HC)
  

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Week of Jul 4, 2011 - Jul 11, 2011

• Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
  Lee G. Branstetter, Chirantan Chatterjee, and Matthew Higgins #17188 (PR   IO)
  
• What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
  Michael C. Burda and Jennifer Hunt #17187 (EFG   LS)
  
• The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
  Konrad B. Burchardi and Tarek Alexander Hassan #17186 (CF   DAE   ITI)
  
• Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
  Ama Baafra Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler, and Leigh L. Linden #17185 (CH   ED   LS   PE)
  
• Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
  Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou #17184 (IFM   POL)
  
• Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates
  Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian #17183 (HC   HE)
  
• Regime Changes and Financial Markets
  Andrew Ang and Allan Timmermann #17182 (AP)
  
• Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
  Thomas Åstebro and Carlos J. Serrano #17181 (CF   PR)
  
• Clashing Theories of Unemployment
  Robert E. Hall #17179 (EFG)
  
• Innovation and Productivity
  Bronwyn H. Hall #17178 (PR)
  
• Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention
  Susanna Loeb, Demetra Kalogrides, and Tara Béteille #17177 (ED)
  
• How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement
  Matthew Ronfeldt, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #17176 (ED)
  
• Productivity Volatility and the Misallocation of Resources in Developing Economies
  Allan Collard-Wexler, John Asker, and Jan De Loecker #17175 (PR)
  
• Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement
  Patricia M. Danzon, Andrew W. Mulcahy, and Adrian K. Towse #17174 (HC   HE   IO)
  
• Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence
  Kory Kroft and Matthew J. Notowidigdo #17173 (LS   PE)
  
• Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets
  Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kühn, and John Van Reenen #17172 (IO   PR)
  

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Week of Jun 27, 2011 - Jul 4, 2011

• Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes
  John M. de Figueiredo #17171 (LE   PE   POL)
  
• Pounds that Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight
  Michael Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer #17170 (EEE   PE)
  
• Does Financial Constraint Affect Shareholder Taxes and the Cost of Equity Capital?
  Chongyang Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Douglas Shackelford, and Harold Zhang #17169 (AP   CF   PE)
  
• The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?
  Jonathan Gruber #17168 (HC   HE   PE)
  
• The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks
  Matthew J. Notowidigdo #17167 (LS)
  
• How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-century GI Bills
  Daniel K. Fetter #17166 (DAE)
  
• Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor
  Richard Akresh and Eric V. Edmonds #17165 (CH   ED)
  
• A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class
  Richard V. Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore, and Kosali I. Simon #17164 (HC   HE   LS   PE)
  
• A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception
  Andrew Caplin and Daniel Martin #17163 (TWP)
  
• Side Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets
  Guy David and Sara Markowitz #17162 (HC   HE   LE)
  
• Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees
  Joseph P. Ferrie, Karen Rolf, and Werner Troesken #17161 (DAE   HE)
  
• Smoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era
  Sara Markowitz, E. Kathleen Adams, Patricia M. Dietz, Viji Kannan, and Van Tong #17160 (CH   HC   HE)
  
• Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
  Stacy Dale and Alan B. Krueger #17159 (ED   LS)
  
• Human Capital and Regional Development
  Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer #17158 (EFG   POL)
  
• Early Non-marital Childbearing and the "Culture of Despair"
  Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip B. Levine #17157 (CH   LS)
  
• How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes
  John P. Papay, Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett #17120 (ED)
  

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