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54533: Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health-Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

54531: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

52600: Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

52333: Economics, Area Studies and Human Development

Gustav Ranis

52224: Population and Health Policies

T. Schultz

51913: Cairo Evaluation Clinic: Thoughts on Randomized Trials for Evaluation of Development

Dean Karlan

50951: Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups

Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

50950: That's Where the Money Was: Foreign Bias and English Investment Abroad, 1866-1907

Benjamin Chabot and Christopher Kurz

50949: Bringing "Honest Capital" to Poor Borrowers: The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law, 1907-1930

Bruce G. Carruthers, Timothy Guinnane and Yoonseok Lee

47107: Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score

Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano and Dean Karlan

47038: What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

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

46516: 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

43524: Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement

Hongbin Li, Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

43523: The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig

28534: Labor Market Dynamics in Russia

Mark C. Foley

28533: Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast

T. Schultz

28532: Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

T. Schultz

28531: Structural Change in Russian Transition

Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev

28530: Measuring the Determinants of School Completion in Pakistan: Analysis of Censoring and Selection Bias

Jessica Holmes

28529: Successes and Failures of Development Experience Since the 1980s

Gustav Ranis

28528: The Evolution of Development Thinking: Theory and Policy

Gustav Ranis

28527: Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America

Ricardo Caballero, Eduardo Engel and Alejandro Micco

28526: Non-Tariff Barriers as a Test of Political Economy Theories

Philip Levy

28525: Chinese Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-2002

Adam Szirmai, Ruoen Ren and Manyin Bai

28524: Inside the 'Black Box' of Project Star: Estimation of Peer Effects Using Experimental Data

Michael A. Boozer and Stephen E. Cacciola

28523: Highway Franchising and Real Estate Values

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

28522: Social Connections and Group Banking

Dean Karlan

28521: Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

28520: Microfinance Games

Xavier Gine, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch

28519: Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

28518: Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies

Robert E. Evenson and Wallace Huffman

28517: Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

28516: Nominal Debt and the Dynamics of Currency Crises

Giancarlo Corsetti and Bartosz Maćkowiak

28515: Wage and Price Control Policies in Socialist Transitional Economies

Mohsen Fardmanesh and Li Tan

28514: Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium

Mohsen Fardmanesh and Seymour Douglas

28513: A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Robert McMillan

28512: Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in the 1990s: Overlooked Intrafirm Factors

Hiroyuki Chuma

28511: Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections

Patrick Bayer, Randi Pintoff and David E. Pozen

28510: Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia

28509: The Effects of Agricultural Extension on Farm Yields in Kenya

Robert E. Evenson and Germano Mwabu

28508: The Fertility Transition in Bavaria

John C. Brown and Timothy Guinnane

28507: Corruption, Black Markets, and the Fiscal Problem in LDC's: Some Recent Findings

John McLaren

28506: Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

T. Schultz and Shareen Joshi

28505: Changes in Returns to Education in India, 1983-94: By Gender, Age-Cohort and Location

P. Duraisamy

28504: GMOs: Prospects for Increased Crop Productivity in Developing Countries

Robert E. Evenson

28503: An Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market: The Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

28502: Deposit Collectors

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

28501: Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

28500: Fertility and Income

T. Schultz

28499: The Micro-Economics of "Surplus Labor"

Gustav Ranis