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72: The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada: David Jaeger, Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari and M. Daniele Paserman
71: The Debate on Right-to-Carry Concealed Weapons Laws: Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell
70: On the Regional Incidence of Public Investment in Highways in the USA: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz
69: The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States: Randall Akee, David Jaeger and Konstantinos Tatsiramos
68: The Economics of Roadside Bombs: Matthew A. Hanson
67: The Speed of Structural Convergence in the Manufacturing Industries of Newly Industrializing Economies: Berhanu Abegaz
66: Substance Abuse Treatment and Motor Vehicle Fatalities: Beth Freeborn and Brian McManus
65: International Financial Volatility and Commodity Exports: Evidence from the Thai Agricultural Sector: Justin May
64: Trade and Migration in an Enlarged European Union: A Spatial Analysis: Justin May
63: Revisiting the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand: Alfredo Romero
62: A Note on the Use of R-squared in Model Selection: Alfredo Romero
61: Testing the Sticky Information Phillips Curve: Olivier Coibion
60: A Characterization of Strategy-Proof Rules over the Condorcet Domain with an Even Number of Individuals: Lauren Merrill
59: Predicting Health Behaviors with an Experimental Measure of Risk Preference: Lisa Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor
58: One for Some or One for All? Taylor Rules and Interregional Heterogeneity: Olivier Coibion and Daniel Goldstein
57: Voting with the Crowd: Do Single Issues Drive Partisanship?: Martin B. Schmidt
56: The Impact of Coalition Offensive Operations on the Iraqi Insurgency: Matthew A. Hanson and Martin B. Schmidt
55: Structural Breaks in Public Infrastructure Investment in the U.S: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Martin B. Schmidt
54: The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings: David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman
53: Avoiding Tunnel Vision in the Study of Higher Education Costs: Robert Archibald and David H Feldman
52: Competition and Crowding-Out among Public, Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment: Andrew Cohen, Beth A. Freeborn and Brian McManus
51: Organ Transplants, Hiring Committees, and Early Rounds of the Kappell Piano Competition: Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly
50: Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration: David Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde
49: Uniformly Bounded Information and Social Choice: Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly
48: Structural Policies and Growth: Time Series Evidence from a Natural Experiment: Theo Eicher and Till Schreiber
47: Institutional Change and Factor Movement: A Test of the Coase Theorem's Invariance Principle: Martin B. Schmidt
46: Public Infrastructures and Regional Asymmetries in Spain: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Oriol Roca Sagales
45: Public Investment in Transportation Infrastructures and Industry Performance in Portugal: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz
44: Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model: Lisa Anderson, Beth A. Freeborn, Jessica Holmes, Mark Jeffreys, Dan Lass and Jack Soper
43: Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality: Countable Many Alternatives: Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly
42: Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs: Robert Archibald and David H Feldman
41: Public Investment and Budgetary Consolidation in Portugal: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Fatima Pinho
40: Public Investment, Economic Performance and Budgetary Consolidation: VAR Evidence for the 12 Euro Countries: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Fatima Pinho
39: Pareto, Anonymity, and Independence: Four Alternatives: Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly
38: Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality, but not IIA: Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly
37: Should the Portuguese Toll-Free Highways Remain Toll Free?: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz
36: Controlling the Public Wage Bill in Portugal: The Case of University Professors: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Rui Pereira
35: On the Effects of Fiscal Policies in Portugal: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Oriol Roca Sagales
34: When I'm 104: The Determinants Of Healthy Longevity among the Oldest-Old in China: Dennis Ahlburg, Eric R. Jensen and Ruyan Liao
33: On the Economic and Fiscal Effects of Investment in Road Infrastructure in Portugal: Alfredo Marvao Pereira and Jorge Miguel Andraz
32: On Migrant Selectivity: Eric R. Jensen, Sarah Gale and Paul Charpentier
31: Monetary Policy, the Bond Market, and Changes in FOMC Communication Policy: Troy Davig and Jeffrey Gerlach
30: Arrest Avoidance: Law Enforcement and Price of Cocaine: Beth A. Freeborn
29: Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000: David Jaeger
28: The Effects of Joint Taxation of Married Couples on Labor Supply and Non-wage Income: Sara LaLumia
27: Should You Turn Yourself In? The Consequences of Environmental Self-Policing: Sarah Stafford
26: Self-Policing in a Targeted Enforcement Regime: Sarah Stafford
25: A Spatial Model of Dolphin Avoidance in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean: Robert L. Hicks and Kurt Schnier
24: Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions versus Production Frontiers: Robert Archibald and David H Feldman
23: Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence: David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman
22: The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman
21: Does Banning Affirmative Action Affect Racial SAT Score Gaps? An Empirical Analysis: Eric Furstenberg
20: Did the Devil Make Them Do It? The Effect of Religion in Public Goods and Trust Games: Lisa Anderson and Jennifer M. Mellor (Jeffrey Milyo)
19: Can Consumers Enforce Environmental Regulations? The Role of the Market in Hazardous Waste Compliance: Sarah Stafford
18: Dynamic Discrete Choice Modeling: Monte Carlo Analysis: Robert L. Hicks and Kurt Schnier
17: Does Crime Pay? A Classroom Demonstration of Monitoring and Enforcement: Lisa Anderson and Sarah Stafford
16: Production and Gains from Trade: Lisa Anderson, Emily J. Blanchard, Kelly Chaston, Charles A. Holt, Laura Razzolini and Robert Singleton
15: Yes, Wall Street, There Is a January Effect! Evidence from Laboratory Auctions: Lisa Anderson, Jeffrey Gerlach and Francis DiTraglia
14: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Inequality and Relative Deprivation on Trusting Behavior: Lisa Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo
13: The Diversified Business Group as an Innovative Organizational Model for Large State-Enterprise Reform in China and Vietnam: Berhanu Abegaz
12: Inequality and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis: Lisa Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo
11: Illustrating Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets with a Classroom Game: Jennifer M. Mellor
10: State Higher Education Spending and the Tax Revolt: Robert Archibald and David H Feldman
9: Why Executive Power Centralizes Government: Samuel Baker
8: Revealed Preference for Car Tax Cuts: An Empirical Study of Perceived Fiscal Incidence: Samuel Baker and David H Feldman
7: Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games: Lisa Anderson, Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo
6: Poverty Trap in a Tributary Mode of Production: The Peasant Economy of Ethiopia: Berhanu Abegaz
5: State Social Capital and Individual Health Status: Jennifer M. Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo
4: A Risk-Based Rationale for Two-way Capital Flows: Why Do Capital Flights and Inward Foreign Direct Investments Co-exist?: Arnab Basu and Nancy H. Chau
3: Affirmative Action, Incentives and the Black-White Test Score Gap: Eric Furstenberg
2: A Test of Benefits Transfer of Random Utility Models of Recreation Demand: Robert L. Hicks
1: Recreational Fishing and the Benefits of Oyster Reef Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay: Robert L. Hicks