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14-03: Emotions and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

David Dickinson and David Masclet

14-02: Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

David Dickinson, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

14-01: Compensation Discrimination for Defensive Players: Applying Quantile Regression to the National Football League Market for Defensive Linemen, Linebackers and Defensive Backs

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

13-26: Water doesn’t flow up hill: Determinants of Willingness to Pay for Water Conservation Measures in the Mountains of Western North Carolina

Peter Groothuis, Kristan Cockerill and Tanga M. Mohr

13-25: Compensation Discrimination in the NFL: An Analysis of Career Earnings

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

13-24: Efficient tax reporting: The effects of taxpayer information services

Christian Vossler and Michael McKee

13-23: Incentivizing Cooperative Agreements for Sustainable Forest Management: Experimental Tests of Alternative Structures and Institutional Rules

David McEvoy, Michael Jones, Michael McKee and John Talberth

13-22: When You Know Your Neighbor Pays Taxes: Information, Peer Effects, and Tax Compliance

James Alm, Kim M. Bloomquist and Michael McKee

13-21: A Recreation Demand Model of the North Carolina For-Hire Fishery: A Comparison of Primary and Secondary Purpose Anglers

John Whitehead, Christopher F. Dumas, Craig Landry and Jim Herstine

13-20: Observed Punishment Spillover Effects: A Laboratory Investigation of Behavior in a Social Dilemma

David Dickinson, E. Dutcher and Cortney Rodet

13-19: What do Environmental and Resource Economists Think? Results from a Survey of AERE Members

Tim Haab and John Whitehead

13-18: The impact of glucose administration on Bayesian v. heuristic based choice

Todd McElroy, David Dickinson and Nathan Stroh

13-17: Physical Activity and Thinking: An Investigation of their Relationship

Todd McElroy, David Dickinson, Nathan Stroh and Christopher A. Dickinson

13-16: Timing of Prenatal Smoking Cessation or Reduction and Infant Birth Weight: Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study

Ji Yan and Peter Groothuis

13-15: Evaluation of Talent in a Changing World: The Case of Major League Baseball

Peter Groothuis, Kurt W. Rotthoff and Mark A. Strazicich

13-14: Voluntary Contributions to Property Rights

David Bruner and John R. Boyce

13-13: Does Signaling Solve the Lemon’s Problem?

Tim Perri

13-12: Adolescent Risk Perception, Substance Use, and Educational Attainment

Ji Yan and Sally Brocksen

13-11: Measuring the Impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ash Morgan, John Whitehead, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

13-10: Exit Discrimination in the NFL: A Duration Analysis of Career Length

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

13-09: Lemons & Loons

Tim Perri

13-08: The More Abstract the Better? Raising Education Cost for the Less Able when Education is a Signal

Tim Perri

13-07: From Hopeless to Curious? Thoughts on Hausman’s “Dubious to Hopeless” Critique of Contingent Valuation

Tim Haab, Matthew Interis, Daniel Petrolia and John Whitehead

13-06: A Split-Sample Revealed and Stated Preference Demand Model to Examine Homogenous Subgroup Consumer Behavior Responses to Information and Food Safety Technology Treatments

Ash Morgan, John Whitehead, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

13-05: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Behavioral Responses to Health-Risk Information Treatments

Ash Morgan, John Whitehead, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

13-04: Forecasting Exchange Rates Out-of-Sample with Panel Methods and Real-Time Data

Onur Ince

13-03: Real-Time Out-of-Sample Exchange Rate Predictability

Onur Ince and Tanya Molodtsova

13-02: The (Un)Reliability of Real-Time Output Gap Estimates with Revised Data

Onur Ince and David Papell

13-01: Adopting Energy Saving Technology: Inertia or Incentives?

Peter Groothuis and Tanga McDaniel

12-07: Willingness-to-Pay for Oyster Consumption Mortality Risk Reductions

John Whitehead, Ash Morgan, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

12-06: The Effects of Moderate Exercise on Bayesian Choices

David Dickinson and Scott R. Collier

12-05: Criterion and Predictive Validity of Revealed and Stated Preference Data: The Case of Music Concert Demand

John Whitehead, Douglas Noonan and Elizabeth Marquardt

12-04: Cognitive Resource Depletion, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences

Marco Castillo, David Dickinson and Ragan Petrie

12-03: Wages, Employment, and Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from the Laboratory

David Dickinson and Ronald Oaxaca

12-02: Minimum Pay Scale and Career Length in the NBA

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

12-01: Willingness to Pay for Downtown Public Goods Generated by Large, Sports-Anchored Development Projects: The CVM Approach

Bruce Johnson, John Whitehead, Daniel S. Mason and Gordon J. Walker

11-20: Estimating the Value of Medal Success at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Brad Humphreys, Bruce Johnson, Daniel S. Mason and John Whitehead

11-19: Last Settler’s Syndrome and Land Use Change in Southern Appalachia

Kristan Cockerill, Jana D. Groothuis and Peter Groothuis

11-18: Prenatal Smoking Cessation and Infant Health: Evidence from Sibling Births

Ji Yan

11-17: Does the Minimum Cigarette Purchase Age of 21 Protect Young Mothers from Cigarettes, Help Their Babies?

Ji Yan

11-16: Spence Revisited: Signaling and the Allocation of Individuals to Jobs

Tim Perri

11-15: Can A Draft Induce More Human Capital Investment in the Military?

Tim Perri

11-14: Substitution and Superstars

Tim Perri

11-13: Between the Penthouse and the Outhouse: The Sorting of Economics Professors

Tim Perri

11-12: Uncle Sam Wants Whom? The Draft and the Quality of Military Personnel

Tim Perri

11-11: A Competitive Model of (Super)Stars

Tim Perri

11-10: Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous

Daniel Millimet and Jayjit Roy

11-09: Accounting for Taste: Consumer Valuations for Food-Safety Technologies

David Bruner, William L. Huth, David McEvoy and Ash Morgan

11-08: Valuing Bag Limits in the North Carolina Charter Boat Fishery with Combined Revealed and Stated Preference Data

John Whitehead, Christopher F. Dumas, Craig Landry and Jim Herstine

11-07: Influences on Sponsorship Deals in NASCAR: Indirect Evidence from Time on Camera

Kurt W. Rotthoff, Craig Depken and Peter Groothuis