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980: Commitment Contracts

Gharad Bryan, Dean Karlan and Scott Nelson

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

Paul Schultz

978: Moral hazard in a mutual health-insurance system: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

977: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

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

Jonathan Zinman and Dean Karlan

975: Economics, Area Studies and Human Development

Gustav Ranis

974: Population and Health Policies

Paul Schultz

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

Dean Karlan

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

Benjamin Chabot and Christopher Kurz

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

Bruce Carruthers, Timothy Guinnane and Yoonseok Lee

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

Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

969: Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score

Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano and Dean Karlan

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

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

967: Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

966: Borders, Market Size and Urban Growth, The Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century

Florian Ploeckl

965: Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocuation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement

Hongbin Li, Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

964: The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig

962: Institutions and Demographic Responses to Shocks: Württemberg, 1634-1870

Timothy Guinnane and Sheilagh Ogilvie

961: Can a Preferential Trade Agreement Benefit Neighbor Countries without Compensating Them?

Masahiro Endoh, Koichi Hamada and Koji Shimomura

960: Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation

Eduardo M.R.A. Engel and Ronald David Fischer

959: Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies

Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi Lamoreaux and Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent

958: Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions

Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Emma Samman

957: The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, Ronald David Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

956: Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

955: Health Economics for Low-Income Countries

Germano Mwabu

954: Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality

T. Paul Schultz

953: Fertility in Developing Countries

T. Paul Schultz

952: Price Stickiness in Ss Models: New Interpretations of Old Results

Ricardo J Caballero and Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

951: Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Shareen Joshi and T. Paul Schultz

950: Migration, Trade, Capital and Development: Substitutes, Complements and Policies

Gustav Ranis

949: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

948: Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa

Cheryl Doss, John McPeak and Christopher B. Barrett

947: The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff Zivin and Markus P. Goldstein

946: Tests of Independence in Separable Econometric Models: Theory and Application

Donald Brown, Rahul Deb and Marten Wegkamp

945: Two Algorithms for Solving the Walrasian Equilibrium Inequalities

Donald Brown and Ravi Kannan

944: Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption

Tavneet Suri

943: Successful Transition towards a Virtuous Cycle of Human Development and Economic Growth: Country Studies

Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart

942: A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Test of the Complementarity Hypothesis in the Mexican Case, 1960-2001

Miguel D. Ramirez

941: Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Martín Valdivia and Dean Karlan

940: Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

939: Household Decision Making and Savings Impacts: Further Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

938: Toward the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

937: Renegotiation Without Holdup: Anticipating Spending and Infrastructure Concessions

Eduardo M.R.A. Engel, Ronald David Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

936: Microfinance Games

Dean Karlan, Xavier Gine, Jonathan Morduch and Pamela Jakiela

935: Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

T. Paul Schultz

934: What Determines Technological Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China

Galina Hale and Cheryl Long

933: Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

932: The Return to Capital in Ghana

Christopher Udry and Santosh Shrikant Anagol

931: On the Conditions that Preclude the Existence of the Lerner Paradox and the Metzler Paradox

Masahiro Endoh and Koichi Hamada

930: Deposit Collectors

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin