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2013: A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914

Timothy W. Guinnane and Sheilagh C. Ogilvie

2013: Probability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

2012: Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Dean S. Karlan, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Robert Darko Osei and Christopher R. Udry

2012: Wages and Informality in Developing Countries

Costas Meghir, Renata Narita and Jean-Marc Robin

2012: Labor Surplus Revisited

Gustav Ranis

2012: Vertical and Horizontal Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gustav Ranis

2012: Another Look at Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

2012: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Dean S. Karlan, Ryan Knight and Christopher R. Udry

2012: Incentives That Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884-1914

Timothy W. Guinnane and Jochen Streb

2012: For Every Law, a Loophole: Flexibility in the Menu of Spanish Business Forms, 1886-1936

Timothy W. Guinnane and Susana Martinez Rodriguez

2012: How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Dean S. Karlan and John List

2012: Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Mark R. Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

2012: Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak and Mark R. Rosenzweig

2012: A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment

Dean S. Karlan, Melanie Morten and Jonathan Zinman

2012: The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Dean S. Karlan and Antoinette Schoar

2012: You Can Pick Your Friends, but You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment

Gharad Bryan, Dean S. Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

2012: Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

Dean S. Karlan and Margaret A. McConnell

2012: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Dean S. Karlan

2012: Looking beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O Torres, Dean S. Karlan and Leonard Wantchekon

2011: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

2011: Learning, Misallocation, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from New Malaria Therapy in Tanzania

Achyuta R. Adhvaryu

2011: Equilibrium and Strategic Communication in the Adverse Selection Insurance Model

Gerald D. Jaynes

2011: Social Policy and U.S. Poverty 1960-1999: An Economic History

Gerald D. Jaynes

2011: Is Globalization Inevitable in the Marxian Paradigm?

Miguel D. Ramirez

2011: Healthcare Choices, Information and Health Outcomes

Achyuta R. Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

2010: Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, Class and Gender in Great Britain, 1860-1940

Geoffrey Barnes and Timothy W. Guinnane

2010: Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth

Ryo Horii and Masako Ikefuji

2010: Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?

Andrew Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig

2010: The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists

Timothy W. Guinnane

2010: Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy

Mark M. Pitt, Mark R. Rosenzweig and Nazmul Hassan

2010: Did the Cooperative Start Life as a Joint-Stock Company? Business Law and Cooperatives in Spain, 1869-1931

Timothy W. Guinnane and Susana Martinez-Rodriguez

2010: Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Dean S. Karlan, Margaret McConnell, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman

2010: Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India

David Guy Atkin

2010: Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth

Mark R. Rosenzweig

2010: Microeconomics of Technology Adoption

Andrew Foster and Mark R. Rosenzweig

2010: Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants

Mark R. Rosenzweig

2009: Structural Change in Transition Economies: Does Foreign Aid Matter?

Mohsen Fardmanesh and Li Tan

2009: Insolvency and Biased Standards--The Case for Proportional Liability

Alexander Stremitzer and Avraham Tabbach

2009: Insolvency and Biased Standards--The Case for Proportional Liability

Alexander Stremitzer and Avraham Tabbach

2009: Does Land Abundance Explain African Institutions?

James Fenske

2009: Commitment Contracts

Gharad Bryan, Dean S. Karlan and Scott Nelson

2009: Breach Remedies Inducing Hybrid Investments

Daniel Goller and Alexander Stremitzer

2009: The Gender and Generational Consequences of the Demographic Transition and Population Policy: An Assessment of the Micro and Macro Linkages

T. Paul Schultz

2009: Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health-Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Timothy W. Guinnane and Jochen Streb

2009: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

2009: Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila

Dean S. Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

2009: Economics, Area Studies and Human Development

Gustav Ranis

2009: Population and Health Policies

T. Paul Schultz

2009: Cairo Evaluation Clinic: Thoughts on Randomized Trials for Evaluation of Development

Dean S. Karlan

2009: That's Where the Money Was: Foreign Bias and English Investment Abroad, 1866-1907

Benjamin Chabot and Christopher J. Kurz

2009: Foreign Direct Investment and Its Determinants in the ChileCase: An Error Correction Model Analysis, 1960-2002

Miguel D. Ramirez

2009: Bringing "Honest Capital" to Poor Borrowers: The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law, 1907-1930

Bruce G. Caruthers, Timothy W. Guinnane and Yoonseok Lee

2009: Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups

Dean S. Karlan and Xavier Gine

2009: Choice under Pressure: A Dual Preference Model and Its Application

Tolga Koker

2009: Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score

Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano and Dean S. Karlan

2009: What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Marianne Bertrand, Dean S. Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman

2009: Does Public Investment Enhance Labor Productivity Growth in Argentina? A Cointegration Analysis

Miguel D. Ramirez