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125: Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli and Michela Redoano

124: Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

123: Wholesale Funding, Coordination, and Credit Risk

Lei Zhang, Lin Zhang and Yong Zheng

122: Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Micro Finance

Maitreesh Ghatak, Jonathan de Quidt and Thiemo René Fetzer

121: Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?

Maitreesh Ghatak, Madhav S Aney and Massimo Morelli

120: Land Acquisition and Compensation in Singur: What Really Happened?

Maitreesh Ghatak, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath

119: Contractual Structure in Agriculture with Endogenous Matching

Maitreesh Ghatak and Alexander K. Karaivanov

118: War and Inquisition: Repression in Early Modern Spain

Jordi Vidal-Robert

117: Does “Skin in the Game” Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability and the Long-Run Consequences of New Deal Financial Reforms

Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson

116: From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China’s Economic Boom

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas George Rawski

115: What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

114: A Theory of Cooperation through Social Division, with Evidence from Nepal

James Peter Choy

113: Unfavorable Land Endowment, Cooperation, and Reversal of Fortune

Anastasia Litina

112: The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

111: Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Nicholas Crafts and Alexander Klein

110: Discrimination or Social Networks? Industrial Investment in Colonial India

Bishnupriya Gupta

109: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Woessmann

108: Do entrepreneurs matter?

Sascha O. Becker and Hans V Hvide

107: Happiness and Productivity

Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

106: Characterizing Behavioral Decisions with Choice Data

Sayantan Ghosal and Patricio Santiago Dalton

105: Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Was There a ‘Free Lunch’ in 1930s’ Britain?

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills

104: Hickson, Kerry

The Untold Standards of Living Story: The GDP value of Twentieth Century Health Improvements in Developed Economies

103: UK Defence News, 1920-1938: Estimates Based on Contemporary Sources

Nicholas Crafts

102: Rearmament to the Rescue? New Estimates of the Impact of ‘Keynesian’ Policies in 1930s’ Britain

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills

101: Fiscal Interactions Among European Countries: Does the EU Matter?

Michela Redoano

100: International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

Dennis Novy

99: Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

Jan Emmanueal De Neve and Andrew J. Oswald

98: Reciprocity towards groups: a laboratory experiment on the causes

David Hugh-Jones and Martin Alois Leroch

97: Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

96: Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Sascha O. Becker, Karolina Ekholm and Marc-Andreas Muendler

95: iPEHD - The ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung and Ludger Woessmann

94: Expanding School Resources and Increasing Time on Task: Effects of a Policy Experiment in Israel on Student Academic Achievement and Behaviour

Victor Chaim Lavy

93: A Reassessment of the Relationship Between GDP and Life Satisfaction

Eugenio Proto and Rustichini

92: Everyone Wants a Chance: Initial Positions and Fairness in Ultimatum Games

Gianluca Grimalday, Anirban Karz and Eugenio Proto

91: Communism and Economic Modernization

Mark Harrison

90: Creating Competitive Advantage: Policy Lessons from History

Nicholas Crafts

89: Employee referral, social proximity and worker discipline

Amrita Dhillon, Vegard Iversen and Gaute Torsvik

88: Absorptive Capacity and the Growth and Investment Effects of Regional Transfers: Regression Discontinuity Design with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

Sascha O. Becker, Peter H. Egger and Maximilian Von Ehrlich

87: Productivity and Growth in UK Industries: An Intangible Investment Approach

Mariela Dal Borgo, Peter Goodridge and Annarosa Pesole

86: Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections: a Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data

Emanuele Bracco, Michela Redoano and Francesco Porcelli

85: Life Satisfaction, Household Income and Personality Traits

Eugenio Proto and Aldo Rustichini

84: Strategic Budgeteering and Debt Allocation

Vera Troeger and Christina J. Schneider

83: De Facto Capital Mobility, Equality, and Tax Policy in Open Economies

Vera Troeger

82: Tax Competition and Income Inequality: Why did the Welfare State Survive?

Vera Troeger and Thomas Plumper

81: Monetary Policy Flixibility in floating Exchange Rate Regimes: Currency Denomination and Import Shares

Vera Troeger

80: INDIA AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE: AN ANGLO-INDIAN COMPARISON OF GDP PER CAPITA, 1600-1871

Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta

79: Railroads and Micro-regional Growth in Prussia

Erik Hornung

78: Whither Capitalism? Financial Externalities and Crisis

Marcus H Miller and Lei Zhang

77: Bombs, Brains, and Science: The Role of Human and Physical Capital for the Creation of Scientific Knowledge

Fabian Waldinger

76: Smithian Growth Through Creative Organization

Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman and Eugenio Proto