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2015: Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development

Laura Diaz Anadon, Gabriel Chan, Alicia Harley, Kira Matus, Suerie Moon, Sharmila L. Murthy and William C. Clark

2015: Urban Networks: Connecting Markets, People, and Ideas

Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo Ponzetto and Yimei Zou

2015: The International Monetary Fund: 70 Years of Reinvention

Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

2015: Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs Worldwide

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Gabriel Kreindler and Benjamin Olken

2015: Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures for Urban Life

Edward L. Glaeser, Scott Kominers, Michael Luca and Nikhil Naik

2015: The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

2015: Doing Problem Driven Work

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

2015: Green Bonds and Land Conservation: The Evolution of a New Financing Tool

Carolyn M. duPont, James N. Levitt and Linda J. Bilmes

2015: Getting an Honest Answer: Clickers in the Classroom

Dan Levy, Joshua Yardley and Richard Zeckhauser

2015: Inflation and Activity - Two Explorations and Their Monetary Policy Implications

Olivier Blanchard, Eugenio Cerutti and Lawrence Summers

2015: Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

2015: Evaluating Mitigation Effort: Tools and Institutions for Assessing Nationally Determined Contributions

Joseph Aldy

2015: What Determines End-of-Life Assets? A Retrospective View

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David A. Wise

2015: Recollection Bias and Its Underpinnings: Lessons from Terrorism-Risk Assessments

W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

2015: The Pitfalls of External Dependence: Greece, 1829-2015

Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

2015: Explaining Causal Findings without Bias: Detecting and Assessing Direct Effects

Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen

2015: Has Sweden Injected Realism into Public Financial Management Reforms in Partner Countries?

Matt Andrews

2015: Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

George Borjas, Ilpo Kauppinen and Panu Poutvaara

2015: Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? THe Co-evolution of Physical, Social and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities

Nikhil Naik, Scott Kominers, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser and Cesar Hidalgo

2015: What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin R. Handel and Jonathan Kolstad

2015: Electricity Markets and the Clean Power Plan

William W. Hogan

2015: Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector

Amitabh Chandra, Amy Finkelstein, Adam Sacarny and Chad Syverson

2015: The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal

George Borjas

2015: The Plaza Accord, 30 Years Later

Jeffrey Frankel

2015: CATalytic Insurance: The Case of Natural Disasters

Tito Cordella and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

2015: Thinking about the World: Philosophy and Sociology

Mathias Risse and John W. Meyer

2015: The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice

Christopher Avery and Parag Pathak

2015: The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy

Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik

2015: Institutions as Causes and Effects: North African Electoral Systems during the Arab Spring

John M. Carey, Tarek Masoud and Andrew S. Reynolds

2015: The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Joseph Aldy and William Pizer

2015: Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Normative Innovations and Implementation Challenges

John Ruggie and Tamaryn Nelson

2015: Early Math Coursework and College Readiness: Evidence from Targeted Middle School Math Acceleration

Shaun Dougherty, Joshua Goodman, Darryl Hill, Erica Litke and Lindsay C. Page

2015: Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Sharon Barnhardt, Erica Field and Rohini Pande

2015: A Note on Stability in One-to-One, Multi-period Matching Markets

Maciej Kotowski

2015: Better Predictions, Better Allocations: Scientific Advances and Adaptation to Climate Change

Mark C. Freeman, Ben Groom and Richard Zeckhauser

2015: How Uncertainty about Judicial Nominees Can Distort the Confirmation Process

Maya Sen and William Spaniel

2015: The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers

Adam Bonica, Adam S. Chilton and Maya Sen

2015: Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits?

John Beshears, James Choi, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Jung Sakong

2015: London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment

William C. Clark

2015: Why Is Chiapas Poor?

Dan Levy, Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel Santos, Luis Espinoza and Miguel Flores

2015: On the Fast Track: The Spread of Gender Quota Policies for Elected Office

Pippa Norris and Drude Dahlerup

2015: Voter Suppression or Voter Fraud in the 2014 US Elections?

Pippa Norris and Holly Ann Garnett

2015: The Intergenerational Transmission of War

Filipe Campante and David Yanagizawa-Drott

2015: Does Reserve Accumulation Crowd Out Investments?

Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart and Takeshi Tashiro

2015: The Great Divergence: The Death Penalty in the United States and the Failure of Abolition in Transatlantic Perspective

Moshik Temkin

2015: A Theory of Civil Disobedience

Edward L. Glaeser and Cass Sunstein

2015: The Antecedents and Aftermath of Financial Crises as Told by Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro

Carmen Reinhart

2015: Recent Declines in Labor's Share in U.S. Income: A Preliminary Neoclassical Account

Robert Lawrence

2015: Low Quality, Low Returns, Low Adoption: Evidence from the Market for Fertilizer and Hybrid Seed in Uganda

Tessa Bold, Kayuki C. Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson and David Yanagizawa-Drott

2015: Does Encouragement Matter in Improving Gender Imbalances in Technical Fields? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Cait Unkovic, Maya Sen and Kevin M. Quinn

2015: Time Horizons, Lattice Structures, and Welfare in Multi-period Matching Markets

Sangram Kadam and Maciej Kotowski

2015: Multi-period Matching

Sangram Kadam and Maciej Kotowski

2015: Policy Surveillance in the G-20 Fossil Fuel Subsidies Agreement: Lessons for Climate Policy

Joseph Aldy

2015: Sovereign Debt Relief and Its Aftermath

Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch

2015: Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting versus Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India

Lant Pritchett and Yamini Aiyar

2015: Explaining Attitudes from Behavior: A Cognitive Dissonance Approach

Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen

2015: Varieties of Capital Flows: What Do We Know

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Jimena Zuniga

2015: Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

John Beshears, James Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

2015: Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Khan and Arman Rezaee

2015: Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda

Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin

2015: Giving College Credit Where It Is Due: Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes

Jonathan Smith, Michael Hurwitz and Christopher Avery

2015: First Mover Advantages and Optimal Patent Protection

F. M. Scherer

2015: Ethnic Complementarities after the Opening of China: How Chinese Graduate Students Affected the Productivity of Their Advisors

George Borjas, Kirk Doran and Ying Shen

2015: Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?

Erica Field, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol

2015: From Financial Repression to External Distress: The Case of Venezuela

Carmen Reinhart and Miguel Santos

2015: Creating Birds of Similar Feathers

Hunter Gehlbach, Maureen E. Brinkworth, Aaron M. King, Laura M. Hsu, Joe McIntyre and Todd Rogers

2015: Why Are Indian Children So Short

Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande

2015: The Underutilized Potential of Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Matthew Kraft and Todd Rogers

2015: The Euro Crisis: Where to From Here?

Jeffrey Frankel

2015: Uncertainty and the Geography of the Great Recession

Daniel Shoag and Stan Veuger

2015: Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?

Alicia Modestino, Daniel Shoag and Joshua Ballance

2015: An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics

Edward L. Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson

2015: What Are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Michael Callen, Suresh De Mel, Craig McIntosh and Christopher Woodruff

2015: The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards, and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan C. Kyle, Benjamin Olken and Sudarno Sumarto

2015: Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss

Lamar Pierce, Todd Rogers and Jason A. Snyder

2015: Dealing with Debt

Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

2015: The Year in Elections, 2014

Pippa Norris, Ferran Martinez i Coma and Max Gromping

2015: Carbon Sequestration in the U.S. National Parks: A Value beyond Visitation

Adam Banasiak, Linda J. Bilmes and John Loomis

2015: Tips and Tells from Managers: How Analysts and the Market Read between the Lines of Conference Calls

Marina Druz, Alexander Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser

2015: College Access, Initial College Choice and Degree Completion

Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz and Jonathan Smith

2015: How Quantifying Probability Assessments Influences Analysis and Decision Making: Experimental Evidence from National Security Professionals

Jeffrey A. Friedman, Jennifer S. Lerner and Richard Zeckhauser

2015: An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and Its Implications for Climate-Chhange Policy

Todd Gerarden, Richard Newell, Robert Stavins and Robert C. Stowe

2015: Addressing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

Todd Gerarden, Richard Newell and Robert Stavins

2015: Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-national Climate Policies through a Future International Agreement

Daniel M. Bodansky, Seth Hoedl, Gilbert Metcalf and Robert Stavins

2015: Climate Sensitivity Uncertainty: When Is Good News Bad?

Mark C. Freeman, Gernot Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser

2015: The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Politicize the Judiciary

Adam Bonica and Maya Sen

2015: Reading Managerial Tone: How Analysts and the Market Respond to Conference Calls

Marina Druz, Alexander Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser