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68: The Economics of Roadside Bombs

Matthew Hanson

67: The Speed of Structural Convergence in the Manufacturing Industries of Newly Industrializing Economies

Berhanu Abegaz

66: Substance Abuse Treatment and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

Beth Freeborn and Brian McManus

65: International Financial Volatility and Commodity Exports: Evidence from the Thai Agricultural Sector

Justin May

64: Trade and Migration in an Enlarged European Union: A Spatial Analysis

Justin May

63: Revisiting the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

Alfredo Romero

62: A Note on the Use of R-squared in Model Selection

Alfredo Romero

61: Testing the Sticky Information Phillips Curve

Olivier Coibion

60: A Characterization of Strategy-Proof Rules over the Condorcet Domain with an Even Number of Individuals

Lauren Merrill

59: Predicting Health Behaviors with an Experimental Measure of Risk Preference

Lisa Anderson and Jennifer Mellor

58: One for Some or One for All? Taylor Rules and Interregional Heterogeneity

Olivier Coibion and Daniel Goldstein

57: Voting with the Crowd: Do Single Issues Drive Partisanship?

Martin Schmidt

56: The Impact of Coalition Offensive Operations on the Iraqi Insurgency

Matthew Hanson and Martin Schmidt

55: Structural Breaks in Public Infrastructure Investment in the U.S

Alfredo Pereira and Martin Schmidt

54: The Shape of Things to Come? Assessing the Effectiveness of Suicide Attacks and Targeted Killings

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

53: Avoiding Tunnel Vision in the Study of Higher Education Costs

Robert Archibald and David Feldman

52: Competition and Crowding-Out among Public, Non-Profit and For-Profit Organizations: Evidence from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment

Andrew Cohen, Beth Freeborn and Brian McManus

51: Organ Transplants, Hiring Committees, and Early Rounds of the Kappell Piano Competition

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

50: Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

David Jaeger, Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

49: Uniformly Bounded Information and Social Choice

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

48: Structural Policies and Growth: Time Series Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Theo Eicher and Till Schreiber

47: Institutional Change and Factor Movement: A Test of the Coase Theorem's Invariance Principle

Martin Schmidt

46: Public Infrastructures and Regional Asymmetries in Spain

Alfredo Pereira and Oriol Roca Sagales

45: Public Investment in Transportation Infrastructures and Industry Performance in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

44: Location, Location, Location! A Classroom Demonstration of the Hotelling Model

Lisa Anderson, Beth Freeborn, Jessica Holmes, Mark Jeffreys, Dan Lass and Jack Soper

43: Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality: Countable Many Alternatives

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

42: Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs

Robert Archibald and David Feldman

41: Public Investment and Budgetary Consolidation in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Fatima Pinho

40: Public Investment, Economic Performance and Budgetary Consolidation: VAR Evidence for the 12 Euro Countries

Alfredo Pereira and Fatima Pinho

39: Pareto, Anonymity, and Independence: Four Alternatives

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

38: Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality, but not IIA

Donald Campbell and Jerry Kelly

37: ON THE ECONOMIC AND BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF INVESTMENTS IN SCUTS -THE PORTUGUESE TOLL-FREE HIGHWAYS

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

36: Controlling the Public Wage Bill in Portugal: The Case of University Professors

Alfredo Pereira and Rui Pereira

35: On the Effects of Fiscal Policies in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Oriol Roca Sagales

34: When I'm 104: The Determinants Of Healthy Longevity among the Oldest-Old in China

Dennis Ahlburg, Eric Jensen and Ruyan Liao

33: On the Economic and Fiscal Effects of Investment in Road Infrastructure in Portugal

Alfredo Pereira and Jorge Andraz

32: On Migrant Selectivity

Eric Jensen, Sarah Gale and Paul Charpentier

31: Monetary Policy, the Bond Market, and Changes in FOMC Communication Policy

Troy Davig and Jeffrey Gerlach

30: Arrest Avoidance: Law Enforcement and Price of Cocaine

Beth Freeborn

29: Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000

David Jaeger

28: The Effects of Joint Taxation of Married Couples on Labor Supply and Non-wage Income

Sara LaLumia

27: Should You Turn Yourself In? The Consequences of Environmental Self-Policing

Sarah Stafford

26: Self-Policing in a Targeted Enforcement Regime

Sarah Stafford

25: A Spatial Model of Dolphin Avoidance in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean

Robert Hicks and Kurt Schnier

24: Graduation Rates and Accountability: Regressions versus Production Frontiers

Robert Archibald and David Feldman

23: Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

22: The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

David Jaeger and M. Daniele Paserman

21: Does Banning Affirmative Action Affect Racial SAT Score Gaps? An Empirical Analysis

Eric Furstenberg

20: Did the Devil Make Them Do It? The Effects of Religion in Public Goods and Trust Games

Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

19: Can Consumers Enforce Environmental Regulations? The Role of the Market in Hazardous Waste Compliance

Sarah Stafford

18: Dynamic Discrete Choice Modeling: Monte Carlo Analysis

Robert Hicks and Kurt Schnier

17: Does Crime Pay? A Classroom Demonstration of Monitoring and Enforcement

Lisa Anderson and Sarah Stafford

16: Production and Gains from Trade

Lisa Anderson, Emily Blanchard, Kelly Chaston, Charles Holt, Laura Razzolini and Robert Singleton

15: Yes, Wall Street, There Is a January Effect! Evidence from Laboratory Auctions

Lisa Anderson, Jeffrey Gerlach and Francis DiTraglia

14: An Experimental Study of the Effects of Inequality and Relative Deprivation on Trusting Behavior

Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

13: The Diversified Business Group as an Innovative Organizational Model for Large State-Enterprise Reform in China and Vietnam

Berhanu Abegaz

12: Inequality and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis

Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

11: Illustrating Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets with a Classroom Game

Jennifer Mellor

10: State Higher Education Spending and the Tax Revolt

Robert Archibald and David Feldman

9: Why Executive Power Centralizes Government

Samuel Baker

8: Revealed Preference for Car Tax Cuts: An Empirical Study of Perceived Fiscal Incidence

Samuel Baker and David Feldman

7: Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games

Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

6: Poverty Trap in a Tributary Mode of Production: The Peasant Economy of Ethiopia

Berhanu Abegaz

5: State Social Capital and Individual Health Status

Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

4: A Risk-Based Rationale for Two-way Capital Flows: Why Do Capital Flights and Inward Foreign Direct Investments Co-exist?

Arnab Basu and Nancy Chau

3: Affirmative Action, Incentives and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Eric Furstenberg

2: A Test of Benefits Transfer of Random Utility Models of Recreation Demand

Robert Hicks

1: Recreational Fishing and the Benefits of Oyster Reef Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay

Robert Hicks