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2015: Flooded Cities

Adriana Kocornik-Mina, Thomas K.J. McDermott, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

2015: Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Lorenzo Caliendo, Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2015: Testing Means-Tested Aid

Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

2015: The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured

Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John van Reenen

2015: The youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany

Hannes Schwandt and Amelie Wuppermann

2015: International Technology Transfer and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from the High-Speed Rail Sector in China

Yatang Lin, Yu Qin and Zhuan Zie

2015: Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK

Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Shqiponja Telhaj

2015: Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well-Being?

Marc Fleurbaey and Hannes Schwandt

2015: Information Frictions and Adverse Selection: Policy Interventions in Health Insurance Markets

Benjamin R. Handel, Jonathan T. Kolstad and Johannes Spinnewijn

2015: The Persistence of a Banking Crisis

Kilian Huber

2015: Short and Long-Term Effects of Unemployment on Fertility

Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

2015: Multitask Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors

Marta De Philippis

2015: Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities

Ferdinando Monte, Stephen Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2015: The Unbearable Divergence of Unemployment in Europe

Tito Boeri and Juan F Jimeno

2015: Distaste for Centralization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Switzerland

Sarah Flèche

2015: The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity

Johannes Boehm

2015: Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade

Andrew Bernard and Swati Dhingra

2015: Early Maternal Employment and Non-cognitive Outcomes in Early Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from British Birth Cohort Data

Andrew Clark, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward

2015: Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

2015: Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade

Holger Breinlich, Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz

2015: How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions

Kalina Manova and Zhihong Yu

2015: The Effect of Police Response Time on Crime Detection

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Tom Kirchmaier

2015: Relational Contracts and Supplier Turnover in the Global Economy

Fabrice Defever, Christian Fischer and Jens Suedekum

2015: Crime, Compulsory Schooling Laws and Education

Brian Bell, Rui Costa and Stephen Machin

2015: Loss Aversion on the Phone

Christos Genakos, Costas Roumanias and Tommaso Valletti

2015: The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network

Shaun Larcom, Ferdinand Rauch and Tim Willems

2015: Intrafirm Trade and Vertical Fragmentation in U.S. Multinational Corporations

Natalia Ramondo, Veronica Rappoport and Kim Ruhl

2015: Academies 2: The New Batch

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

2015: Diversification through Trade

Francesco Caselli, Miklós Koren, Milan Lisicky and Silvana Tenreyro

2015: Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Yonas Alem and Jonathan Colmer

2015: The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education

Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

2015: Media, Markets and Institutional Change: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation

Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold

2015: Would You Choose to be Happy? Tradeoffs between Happiness and the Other Dimensions of Life in a Large Population Survey

Matthew D. Adler, Paul Dolan and Georgios Kavetsos

2015: New Media, Competition and Growth: European Cities After Gutenberg

Jeremiah Dittmar

2015: Job Loss at Home: Children's School Performance During the Great Recession in Spain

Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

2015: Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

2015: European Identity and Redistributive Preferences

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

2015: The Optimal Timing of UI Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

2015: Informal Care and the Great Recession

Joan Costa-Font, Martin Karlsson and Henning Oien

2015: ICT and Education: Evidence from Student Home Addresses

Benjamin Faber, Rosa Sanchis-Guarner and Felix Weinhardt

2015: Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Esther Ann Bøler, Beata Javorcik and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

2015: The Persistence of Local Joblessness

Michael Amior and Alan Manning

2015: Do More of those in Misery Suffer From Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Sarah Flèche and Richard Layard

2015: The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis and Stephen Machin

2015: Firming Up Inequality

Nicholas Bloom, Fatih Guvenen, David Price and Jae Song

2015: Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from UK Firms

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg Wright

2015: Universal Pre-School Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision

Joanne Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Sandra McNally and Birgitta Rabe

2015: Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

David Atkin, Benjamin Faber and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

2015: Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance

Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy

2015: Space-Time (In)Consistency in the National Accounts: Causes and Cures

Nicholas Oulton

2015: Large Capital Inflows, Sectoral Allocation and Economic Performance

Gianluca Benigno, Nathan Converse and Luca Fornaro

2015: Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Felix Koenig, Barbara Petrongolo and John van Reenen

2015: Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Mark Bryan and Alex Bryson

2015: When Pressure Sinks Performance: Evidence from Diving Competitions

Eleni Garbi, Christos Genakos and Mario Pagliero

2015: The Future of the German Industrial Relations Model

David Marsden

2015: Is Happiness a Predictor of Election Results?

George Ward

2015: Integrated Estimates of Capital Stocks and Services for the United Kingdom: 1950-2013

Nicholas Oulton and Gavin Wallis

2015: Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement

Camille Terrier

2015: 'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz

2015: Do You Have To Win It To Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Terence Cheng, Joan Costa-Font and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2015: Why are Higher Skilled Workers More Mobile Geographically? The Role of the Job Surplus

Michael Amior

2015: Asymmetric Industrial Energy Prices and International Trade

Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato

2015: Evaluating the Impact of Sunday Trading Deregulation

Svetoslav Danchev and Christos Genakos

2015: Robots at Work

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels

2015: The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

Claudia Steinwender

2015: The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

2015: Teachers and Performance Pay in 2014: First Results of a Survey

David Marsden

2015: Trust and Racial Income Inequality: Evidence from the U.S

Andrea Tesei

2015: Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Andy Feng and Georg Graetz

2015: Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew Clark, Richard Freeman and Colin Green

2015: Schooling, Nation Building and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Esther Hauk and Javier Ortega

2015: All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tingting Zhang

2015: Voting Behaviour and Public Employment in Nazi Germany

Stephan Maurer

2015: Preferences for Fair Prices, Cursed Inferences, and the Nonneutrality of Money

Erik Eyster, Kristof Madarasz and Pascal Michaillat

2015: Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence From English Adoptees

Joan Costa-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Julian Le Grand

2015: Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Homicides in Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Marco Manacorda

2014: Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade

Réka Juhász

2014: Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions

Edward Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton

2014: 'American Idol' - 65 years of Admiration

Alan Manning and Amar Shanghavi

2014: The Value of Bosses

Edward Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher T. Stanton

2014: Financial Constraints in Search Equilibrium: Mortensen and Pissarides Meet Holmstrom and Tirole

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Espen Moen

2014: Landing The First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

Christopher Stanton and Catherine Thomas

2014: Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data

Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Simone Ghislandi

2014: Gender Differences in Response to Big Stakes

Ghazala Azmat, Caterina Calsamiglia and Nagore Iriberri

2014: Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?

Saul Estrin, Ute Stephan and Sunčica Vujić

2014: Does Management Matter In Schools?

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

2014: It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the US

Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James Davis and Richard Freeman

2014: The Impact of Maximum Markup Regulation on Prices

Christos Genakos, Pantelis Koutroumpis and Mario Pagliero

2014: Relaxing Credit Constraints in Emerging Economies: The Impact of Public Loans on the Performance of Brazilian Manufacturers

Filipe Lage de Sousa and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2014: Optimal Contracting and the Organization of Knowledge

William Fuchs, Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

2014: Employee Stock Purchase Plans - Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation

Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman

2014: Economic Growth Evens-Out Happiness: Evidence from Six Surveys

Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche and Claudia Senik

2014: City of Dreams

Jorge De la Roca, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Diego Puga

2014: The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data

Femke De Keulenaer, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Georgios Kavetsos, Michael I. Norton, Bert Van Landeghem and George W. Ward

2014: From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization

Holger Breinlich, Anson Soderbery and Greg Wright

2014: Assessing the Effect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance

Esteban Aucejo and Teresa Foy Romano

2014: European Integration and the Gains from Trade

Gianmarco Ottaviano

2014: Knowledge Spillovers from Clean and Dirty Technologies

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Ralf Martin and Myra Mohnen

2014: Paying Out and Crowding Out? The Globalisation of Higher Education

Stephen Machin and Richard Murphy

2014: Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Iain Cockburn, Jean Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman

2014: Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

David Johnston, Grace Lordan, Michael Shields and Agne Suziedelyte

2014: Consumer Search: Evidence from Path-tracking Data

Fabio Pinna and Stephan Seiler

2014: Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?

Matt Dickson, Paul Gregg and Harriet Robinson

2014: What is 'Firm Heterogeneity' in Trade Models? The Role of Quality, Scope, Markups and Cost

Colin Hottman, Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

2014: Locus of Control and Its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

Francesca Cornaglia, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Nele Warrinnier

2014: Immigration, Diversity and the Labour Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Some Recent Developments

Gianmarco Ottaviano

2014: Benford's Law, Families of Distributions and a Test Basis

John Morrow

2014: The Volatility of Earnings: Evidence from High-Frequency Firm-Level Data

Andreas Georgiadis and Alan Manning

2014: The Latin American Efficiency Gap

Francesco Caselli

2014: Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth

Thomas Sampson

2014: Gone for Good? Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China: 2002-2013

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

2014: Because I'm Worth It: A Lab-Field Experiment on the Spillover Effects of Incentives in Health

Paul Dolan and Matteo Galizzi

2014: Reconciling Observed Tariffs and the Median Voter Model

Swati Dhingra

2014: Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Brian Bell, Anna Bindler and Stephen Machin

2014: What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Alex Bryson and Arnaud Chevalier

2014: Evaluating a Decade of Mobile Termination Rate Regulation

Christos Genakos and Tommaso Valletti

2014: Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations

Hannes Schwandt

2014: Fueling the Gender Gap? Oil and Women's Labor and Marriage Market Outcomes

Stephan Maurer and Andrei Potlogea

2014: Biomarkers and Long-term Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson, Christian Hakulinen, Jaakko Pehkonen, Laura Pulkki-Raback, Olli Raitakari and Jutta Viinikainen

2014: Fracking Growth

Thiemo Fetzer

2014: Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity

Stephen Redding and Matthew Turner

2014: Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: A Computational Linguistics Approach

Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Andrea Prat

2014: Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia

Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler

2014: The Dynamics of Employment Growth: New Evidence from 18 Countries

Chiara Criscuolo, Peter Gal and Carlo Menon

2014: External Integration, Structural Transformation and Economic Development: Evidence From Argentina

Pablo Fajgelbaum and Stephen Redding

2014: Are Firms Paying More For Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

2014: Not So Dissatisfied After All? The Impact of Union Coverage on Job Satisfaction

Alex Bryson and Michael White

2014: Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Cait Lamberton and Michael I. Norton

2014: Winners and Losers from a Commodities-for-Manufactures Trade Boom

Francisco Costa, Jason Garred and João Paulo Pessoa

2014: Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Saul Estrin, Seçil Hülya Danakol, Paul Reynolds and Utz Weitzel

2014: What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom

Nattavudh Powdthavee and Mark Wooden

2014: Trade and Uncertainty

Dennis Novy and Alan Taylor

2014: Video Killed the Radio Star? Online Music Videos and Digital Music Sales

Tobias Kretschmer and Christian Peukert

2014: Immigration and the Access to Social Housing in the UK

Diego Battiston, Richard Dickens, Alan Manning and Jonathan Wadsworth

2014: Political Competition and the Limits of Political Compromise

Alexandre Cunha and Emanuel Ornelas

2014: The Impact of Mandatory Entitlement to Paid Leave on Employment in the UK

Alexander Lembcke

2014: Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Nicholas Bloom, Paul Romer, Stephen Terry and John van Reenen

2014: Home Computers and Married Women's Labor Supply

Alexander Lembcke

2014: The Political Economy of Inclusive Rural Growth

Michael Carter and John Morrow

2014: IT and Management in America

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten and John van Reenen

2014: When Work Disappears: Racial Prejudice and Recession Labour Market Penalties

David Johnston and Grace Lordan

2014: Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'

Arnaud Chevalier and Olivier Marie

2014: Looking Ahead: Subjective Time Perception and Individual Time Discounting

W. David Bradford, Paul Dolan and Matteo Galizzi

2014: Missing Gains from Trade?

Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding