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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 Böckerman, 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

2013: Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Charlotte Cabane and Andrew Clark

2013: Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS

Andrew Clark and Emanuela D'Angelo

2013: Flex Cars and Competition in Ethanol and Gasoline Retail Markets

Juliano Assunção, João Paulo Pessoa and Leonardo Rezende

2013: Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

2013: The Transmission of Monetary Policy Operations through Redistributions and Durable Purchases

Vincent Sterk and Silvana Tenreyro

2013: Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012

Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

2013: An Urban Legend?! Power Rationing, Fertility and its Effects on Mothers

Thiemo Fetzer, Oliver Pardo and Amar Shanghavi

2013: Decoupling of Wage Growth and Productivity Growth? Myth and Reality

João Paulo Pessoa and John van Reenen

2013: What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being

Andrew Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and James Vernoit

2013: Trade Integration, Market Size and Industrialization: Evidence from China's National Trunk Highway System

Benjamin Faber

2013: Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters as Natural Experiments

Scott Baker and Nicholas Bloom

2013: Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Joanne Blanden, Paul Gregg and Lindsey Macmillan

2013: The Importance of Rank Position

Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt

2013: Risk and Evidence of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics

Peter Boone, Alex Eble and Diana Elbourne

2013: Mental Illness and Unhappiness

Dan Chisholm, Richard Layard, Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena

2013: Crime and Immigration: New Evidence from England and Wales

Laura Jaitman and Stephen Machin

2013: Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay?

Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein

2013: The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Ed Diener, Louis Tay and Cody Xuereb

2013: A Model of Aggregate Demand and Unemployment

Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

2013: The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports

Jeronimo Carballo, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus

2013: A General Method for Valuing Non-Market Goods Using Wellbeing Data: Three-Stage Wellbeing Valuation

Daniel Fujiwara

2013: Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Holger Breinlich, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Jonathan Temple

2013: Are Happier People Less Judgmental of Other People's Selfish Behaviors? Laboratory Evidence from Trust and Gift Exchange Games

Michalis Drouvelis and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2013: Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence

Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer, Jonathan Wadsworth and Tanya Wilson

2013: Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-Shape in Human Wellbeing

Hannes Schwandt

2013: Winning Big But Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health

Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew Clark

2013: Enhancing Recovery Rates: Lessons from Year One of the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme

David M. Clark, Alex Gyani, Richard Layard and Roz Shafran

2013: The Effects of Resources Across School Phases: A Summary of Recent Evidence

Stephen Gibbons and Sandra McNally

2013: Molecular Genetics and Subjective Well-Being

Meike Bartels, Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger, Robert F. Krueger, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Nancy L. Pedersen, Cornelius A. Rietveld and Henning Tiemeier

2013: Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate and V. Joseph Hotz

2013: University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo and V. Joseph Hotz

2013: Neighbors, Knowledge, and Nuggets: Two Natural Field Experiments on the Role of Incentives on Energy Conservation

Paul Dolan and Robert Metcalfe

2013: A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes

Andy Feng and Georg Graetz

2013: Explaining Cross-Racial Differences in the Educational Gender Gap

Esteban Aucejo

2013: Racial Segregation Patterns in Selective Universities

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Andrew Hussey and Kenneth Spenner

2013: Pushing On a String: US Monetary Policy is Less Powerful in Recessions

Silvana Tenreyro and Gregory Thwaites

2013: The Financial Resource Curse

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

2013: Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom and William Kerr

2013: Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents

Michael J. Boehm

2013: The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia

Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Mark Wooden

2013: Mental Health: The New Frontier for Labour Economics

Richard Layard

2013: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner

2013: Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Priors

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

2013: Unemployment in the Great Recession

Christopher Pissarides

2013: Debt and Incomplete Financial Markets: A Case for Nominal GDP Targeting

Kevin Sheedy

2013: Decision–Making and Implementation in Teams

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Marc Möller

2013: Concentration Versus Re-Matching? Evidence About the Locational Effects of Commuting Costs

Michael J. Boehm

2013: Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Selection: Why and How Heterogeneity Matters

Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Matteo Salto

2013: Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

2013: Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

2013: Relational Knowledge Transfers

Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

2013: Smoking, Income and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Smoking Bans

Abel Brodeur

2013: The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau

Peter Boone, Ila Fazzio, Kameshwari Jandhyala, Chitra Jayanty, Gangadhar Jayanty, Simon Johnson, Vimala Ramachandrin, Filipa Silva and Zhaoguo Zhan

2013: Firm Heterogeneity and Aggregate Welfare

Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding

2013: Outsourcing and the Rise in Services

Giuseppe Berlingieri

2013: The Great Stagnation: What Can Policymakers Do?

Sushil B. Wadhwani

2013: Fast-Tracking 'Green' Patent Applications: An Empirical Analysis

Antoine Dechezleprêtre

2013: Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Abel Brodeur and Sarah Flèche

2013: Really Uncertain Business Cycles

Nicholas Bloom, Max Floetotto, Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten and Stephen Terry

2013: Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, John Roberts and Zhichun Jenny Ying

2013: What are the Channels for Technology Sourcing? Panel Data Evidence from German Companies

Dietmar Harhoff, Elisabeth Mueller and John van Reenen

2013: CEO Incentive Contracts in China: Why Does City Location Matter?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

2013: When the Cat is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Lorenzo Rocco

2013: Moving Up and Sliding Down: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing

Paul Dolan and Grace Lordan

2013: A Trapped Factors Model of Innovation

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

2013: Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints

Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender

2013: Are You Happy While You Work?

Alex Bryson and George MacKerron

2013: Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding

2013: Long and Short-Term Effects of the Financial Crisis on Labour Productivity, Capital and Output

Nicholas Oulton and Maria Sebastia-Barriel

2013: Free Trade Aggreements and the Consolidation of Democracy

Xuepeng Liu and Emanuel Ornelas