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13-03: Improving Early-Grade Literacy in East Africa: Experimental Evidence from Kenya and Uganda

Adrienne Lucas, Patrick McEwan, Moses Ngware and Moses Oketch

13-02: Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health: Evidence from Scale-up in Zambia

Adrienne Lucas and Nicholas Wilson

13-01: Evidence of Student Achievement in a High School Personal Finance Course

Andrew Hill, Bonnie Meszaros and Brian Tyson

12-13: The Original Operation Twist: The War Finance Corporation's War Bond Purchase, 1918-1920

James Butkiewicz and Mihaela Solcan

12-12: Maximizing Benefits for Women: A Charitable Donation Allocation Problem

Jenna Toussaint, Shang Wu and Kent Messer

12-11: Payment Mechanisms in the Healthcare Industry: An Experimental Study of Physician Incentives in a Multiple Principal Agent Setting

Ellen Green

12-10: Access, Sorting and Achievement: the Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya

Adrienne Lucas and Isaac Mbiti

12-09: The Dynamics That Are Restructuring Higher Education in the US and France

Alain Alcouffe and Jeffrey Miller

12-08: Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America

Farley Grubb

12-07: Is Paper Money just Paper Money/ Experimentation and Local Variation in the Fiat Paper Monies Issued by the Colonial Government of British North America, 1690-1775: Part I

Farley Grubb

12-06: The Effects of Hypertension and Obesity on Total Health Care Expenditures of Diabetes Patients in the United States

Simon Condliffe, Charles Link, Michael Pollack and Shreekant Parasuraman

12-05: The Determinants and Consequence of School Choice Errors in Kenya

Adrienne Lucas and Isaac Mbiti

12-04: To Sponsor or not to Sponsor: Sponsored Search Auctions with Organic Links

Michael Arnold, Eric Darmon and Thierry Pénard

12-03: Government Intervention to Prevent Bankruptcy: the Effect of Blind-Bidding Laws on Movie Theaters

James Mulligan and Daniel J. Wedzielewski

12-02: Capital Intensity and U.S. Country Population Growth during the Late Nineteenth Century

Burton Abrams, Jing Li and James Mulligan

12-01: Cost Effective Conservation Planning: Twenty Lessons from Economics

Joshua Duke, Steven Dundas and Kent Messer

11-22: Financial Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies: Empirical Evidence from the CEE and CIS Countries

Laura Cojocaru, Saul Hoffman and Jeffrey Miller

11-21: Can Vehicle-to-Grid Revenue Help Electric Vehicles on the Market?

George Parsons, Michael K. Hidrue, Willett Kempton and Meryl P. Gardner

11-20: The Impact of Malaria Eradication on Fertility

Adrienne Lucas

11-19: The German Influence on the Origin of U.S. Federal Financial Rescues

James Butkiewicz

11-18: The Impacts of Various Taxes on Foreign Direct Investment

Stacie Beck and Alexis Chaves

11-17: Wage Inequality and the Labor Market Impact of Economic Transformation: Croatia, 1970-2008

Saul Hoffman, Ivo Bicanic and Oriana Vukoja

11-16: Employment Effects of the 2009 Minimum Wage Increase: Evidence from State Comparisons of At-Risk Workers (Revised Version)

Saul Hoffman and Chenglong Ke

11-15: The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment

Farley Grubb

11-14: Social Security: Universal vs. Earnings-Dependent Benefits

Jorge Soares

11-13: Government Outlays, Economic Growth and Unemployment: A VAR Model

Siyan Wang and Burton Abrams

11-12: The Effect of Government Size on the Steady-State Unemployment Rate: A Dynamic Perspective

Siyan Wang and Burton Abrams

11-11: Keynesian Fiscal Stimulus: What Have We Learned from the Great Recession?

Laurence Seidman

11-10: Did the 2008 Rebate Fail? A Response to Taylor and Feldstein

Kenneth Lewis and Laurence Seidman

11-09: THE IMPACT OF TAXES ON TRADE COMPETITIVENESS

Stacie Beck and Alexis Chaves

11-08: State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790

Farley Grubb

11-07: The Educational Value of the College Fed Challenge

Vera Brusentsev and Jeffrey Miller

11-06: Interregional mobility, productivity and the value of patents for prolific inventors in France, Germany and the U.K

William Latham, Dmitry Volodin, Christian Le Bas and Riad Bouklia Hassane

11-05: The Political Business Cycle: New Evidence from the Nixon Tapes

Burton Abrams and James Butkiewicz

11-04: Valuing the Visual Disamenity of Offshore Wind Projects at Varying Distances from the Shore: An Application on the Delaware Shoreline

Andrew D. Krueger, George Parsons and Jeremy Firestone

11-03: The Economic Value of Viewing Migratory Shorebirds on the Delaware Bay: An Application of the Single Site Travel Cost Model Using On-Site Data

Peter Edwards, George Parsons and Kelley H. Myers

11-02: Willingness to Pay for Electric Vehicles and their Attributes

Michael K. Hidrue, George Parsons, Willett Kempton and Meryl Gardner

11-01: Financial-Sector Shocks in a Credit-View Model

Burton Abrams

10-14: Integrating Optimization and Strategic Conservation to Achieve Higher Efficiencies in Land Protection

Kent Messer, Ole M. Amundsen and William L. Allen, III

10-13: Wage Differentials and Wage Inequality in Croatia, 1970-2008: Assessing the Labor Market Impact of Economic Transformation

Saul Hoffman, Ivo Bicanic and Oriana Vukoja

10-12: Evolution of Consumption Volatility for the Liquidity Constrained Households over 1983 to 2004

Olga Gorbachev and Keshav Dogra

10-11: Knowledge-Capital, International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: A Sectoral Analysis

Titus Awokuse, Keith Maskus and Yiting An

10-10: Does foreign intellectual property rights protection affect U.S. exports and FDI?

Titus Awokuse and Grace Gu

10-09: Context effects in a negative externality experiment

Kent Messer, Jordan Suter and Jubo Yan

10-08: Maximizing Conservation and In-Kind Cost Share: Applying Goal Programming to Forest Protection

Jacob R. Fooks and Kent Messer

10-07: Employment Effects of the 2009 Minimum Wage Increase: Evidence from State Comparisons of At-Risk Workers

Saul Hoffman and Chenglong Ke

10-06: Did the 2008 Rebate Fail? A Response to Taylor and Feldstein

Kenneth Lewis and Laurence Seidman

10-05: Money-Multiplier Shocks in a Credit-View Model

Burton Abrams

10-04: The Effect of Child Health on Schooling: Evidence from Rural Vietnam

Thuan Quang Thai and Evangelos Falaris

10-03: Croatian Wage Inequality and Wage Differentials, 1970-2008: Measurement and Determinants

Ivo Bicanic, Saul Hoffman and Oriana Vukoja