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dp-301: Distributional preferences in larger groups: Keeping up with the Joneses and keeping track of the tails

Raymond Fisman, Ilyana Kiziemko and Silvia Vannutelli

dp-299: Demographics and Automation

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

dp-298: Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

dp-297: Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo

dp-282: The distortionary effects of incentives in government: Evidence from China'sdeath ceiling program

Raymond Fisman and Yongxiang Wang

dp-281: Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Sonia Bhalotra, Abhishek Chakravarty, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino

dp-280: Employment Protection and the Labor Informality of the Youth: Evidence from India

Daniel Schwab

dp-279: Delay Cost, Knowledge Hierarchy, and Wages

Cheng Chen and Wing Suen

dp-278: Outward FDI and Domestic Input Distortions: Evidence from Chinese Firms

Cheng Chen, Wei Tian and Miaojie Yu

dp-277: Pathbreakers? Women’s Electoral Success and Future Political Participation

Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

dp-276: Demand-Driven Integration and Divorcement Policy

Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

dp-275: Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore

Huailu Li, Kevin Lang and Kaiwen Leong

dp-274: Simulating Russia’s and Other Large Economies’ Challenging and Interconnected Transitions

Seth Benzell, Eugene Goryunov, Maria Kazakova, Guillermo LaGarda, Kristina Nesterova and Laurence Kotlikoff

dp-273: Do Consumers Benefit from Supply Chain Intermediaries? Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Edible Oils Market in Bangladesh

M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin

dp-272: Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Robert Margo

dp-271: Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict

Samuel Bazzi and Matthew Gudgeon

dp-189: Mis-match, Re-match, and Investment

Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

dp-188: Dynamic Effects of Foreign Direct Investment When Credit Markets are Imperfect

Thomas Gall, Marc Schiffbauer and Julia Kubny

dp-187: Markets and Jungles

Thomas Gall and Paolo Masella

dp-186: The Relation between Temporary Employment and Firm Ownership Nationality: Evidence from Spain

Alejandra A. Traferri

dp-185: The quality of public education and private school enrollment: an assessment using Brazilian data

Fernanda Estevan

dp-184: State-led or Market-led Green Revolution? Role of Private Irrigation Investment vis-a-vis Local Government Programs in West Bengal’s Farm Productivity Growth

Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee and Neha Kumar

dp-183: The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals

Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

dp-182: Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice

Dilip Mookherjee, Stefan Napel and Debraj Ray

dp-181: Corporate Tax Policy and Long-Run Capital Formation: The Role of Irreversibility and Fixed Costs

Jianjun Miao

dp-180: Entrepreneurial Finance and Non-diversifiable Risk

Hui Chen, Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang

dp-179: Dynamic Asset Allocation with Ambiguous Return Predictability

Hui Chen, Nengjiu Ju and Jianjun Miao

dp-178: DID RAILROADS INDUCE OR FOLLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH? URBANIZATION AND POPULATION GROWTH IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, 1850-60

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman, Michael Haines and Robert Margo

dp-177: JOB DECENTRALIZATION AND RESIDENTIAL LOCATION

Leah Boustan and Robert Margo

dp-176: Pro-Poor Targeting and Participatory Governance: Evidence from Central India

Neha Kumar

dp-175: Political Reservations and Rural Public Good Provision in India

Nandini Krishnan

dp-174: Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City

Erica Field, Matthew Levinson, Rohini Pande and Sujata Visaria

dp-173: Competitive Prices and Organizational Choices

Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

dp-172: Trade Liberalization and Organizational Choice

Paola Conconi, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

dp-171: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, CLIENTELISM AND TARGETING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS: Analysis of Survey Results from Rural West Bengal, India

Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Abhirup Sankar

dp-170: A Dynamic Incentive-Based Argument for Conditional Transfers

Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray

dp-169: Forests to the People: Decentralization and Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas

Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das and Dilip Mookherjee

dp-168: Who Is Punishing Corrupt Politicians - Voters or the Central Government? Evidence from the Brazilian Anti-Corruption Program

Fernanda Brollo

dp-167: Are Career Women Good for Marriage?

Zvika Neeman, Andrew Newman and Claudia Olivetti

dp-166: Contingent Government Liabilities against Private Expectations in England, 1743-49

Christophe Chamley

dp-164: Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians

Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni

dp-163: LAND REFORM AND FARM PRODUCTIVITY IN WEST BENGAL

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

dp-162: Risk-Bearing and Entrepreneurship

Andrew Newman

dp-161: MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF GROWTH Forest Degradation in the Indian Mid-Himalayas

Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan, Sanghamitra Das, Dilip Mookherjee and Rinki Sarkar

dp-160: Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-Run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform

Francois Gourio and Jianjun Miao

dp-159: THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL

Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

dp-158: Smithian Growth through Creative Organization

Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman and Eugenio Proto

dp-157: Legal Reform and Loan Repayment: The Microeconomic Impact of Debt Recovery Tribunals in India

Sujata Visaria

dp-156: Complementarities in Information Acquisition with Short-Term Trades

Christophe Chamley

dp-155: Bankruptcy Law, Bonded Labor and Inequality

Dilip Mookherjee and Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal