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2013: Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan

Filipe Campante and David Yanagizawa-Drott

2013: Maintaining Local Public Goods: Evidence from Rural Kenya

Ryan Sheely

2013: The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternate Producers?

Lant Pritchett and Martina Viarengo

2013: Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service

Rema Hanna and Shing-Yi Wang

2013: Using Case Studies to Explore the External Validity of 'Complex' Development Interventions

Michael Woolcock

2013: Risk Regulation Lessons from Mad Cows

Joseph Aldy and W Viscusi

2013: Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience

Matthew Ranson and Robert Stavins

2013: Political Campaigns and Big Data

David W. Nickerson and Todd Rogers

2013: "I Won't Back Down?" Complexity and Courage in Federal Decision-Making

Steven Kelman, Ronald Sanders, Gayatri Pandit and Sarah Taylor

2013: National Security Warrants Slowing Domestic Oil Depletion, Not Accelerating It

Jeffrey Frankel

2013: This Could Be the Start of Something Big: Linking Early Managerial Choices with Subsequent Organizational Performance

Steven Kelman and Sounman Hong

2013: South Sudan's Capability Trap: Building a State with Disruptive Innovation

Greg Larson, Peter Biar Ajak and Lant Pritchett

2013: Explaining Positive Deviance in Public Sector Reforms in Development

Matt Andrews

2013: Ignorance: Lessons from the Laboratory of Literature

Devjani Roy and Richard Zeckhauser

2013: Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement

Jeffrey Liebman and Neale Mahoney

2013: The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes

Peter Ganong and Jeffrey Liebman

2013: Ideology, Deliberation and Persuasion within Small Groups: A Randomized Field Experiment on Fiscal Policy

Kevin M. Esterling, Archon Fung and Taeku Lee

2013: Partisan News before Fox: Newspaper Partisanship and Partisan Polarization, 1881-1972

Tim Groeling and Matthew Baum

2013: Audits as Signals

Maciej Kotowski, David A. Weisbach and Richard Zeckhauser

2013: Unresponsive and Unpersuaded: The Unintended Consequences of Voter Persuasion Efforts

Michael Bailey, Daniel J. Hopkins and Todd Rogers

2013: Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down

Lant Pritchett and Charles Kenny

2013: Do International Organizations Really Shape Government Solutions in Developing Countries?

Matt Andrews

2013: The F.T.C., Oligopoly, and Shared Monopoly

F. M. Scherer

2013: Two Paradoxes in the Theory of Capital Investment and Competition

F. M. Scherer

2013: Patents, Monopoly Power, and the Pricing of Pharmaceuticals in Low-Income Nations

F. M. Scherer

2013: Debt Levels, Debt Composition, and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging and Advanced Economies

Salvatore Dell'Erba, Ricardo Hausmann and Ugo Panizza

2013: Do the Laws of Tax Incidence Hold? Point of Collection and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes

Wojciech Kopczuk, Justin Marion, Erich Muehlegger and Joel Slemrod

2013: Neighbors and the Evolution of the Comparative Advantage of Nations: Evidence of International Knowledge Diffusion?

Dany Bahar, Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

2013: What Do Parents Want? An Exploration of School Preferences Expressed by Boston Parents

Ed Glaeser, Steve Poftak and Kristina Tobio

2013: Effects of Speculation and Interest Rates in a "Carry Trade" Model of Commodity Prices

Jeffrey Frankel

2013: Going beyond Heroic-Leaders in Development

Matt Andrews

2013: How Do Governments Get Great?

Matt Andrews

2013: Financial Mergers and Their Consequences

F. M. Scherer

2013: Weather, Salience of Climate Change and Congressional Voting

Evan Herrnstadt and Erich Muehlegger

2013: Can Inaccurate Beliefs about Incumbents be Changed? And Can Reframing Change Votes?

Todd Rogers and David W. Nickerson

2013: Screening Peers Softly: Inferring the Quality of Small Borrowers

Rajkamal Iyer, Asim Khwaja, Erzo Luttmer and Kelly Shue

2013: The Decisions of Entrepreneurs and Their Agents: Revealed Levels of Risk Aversion and Betrayal Aversion

Anna Dreber, David Rand, Nils Wernerfelt, Peter Worrell and Richard Zeckhauser

2013: The Future of the Currency Union

Jeffrey Frankel

2013: Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation

Filipe Campante, Ruben Durante and Francesco Sobbrio

2013: Associations of Southeast Asian Nations, People's Republic of China, and India Growth and the Rest of the World: The Role of Trade

Robert Lawrence

2013: It's All about MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ("e") to Crawl the Design Space

Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer

2013: Who Really Leads Development?

Matt Andrews

2013: Vote Self-Prediction Hardly Predicts Who Will Vote, and Is (Misleadingly) Unbiased

Todd Rogers and Masa Aida

2013: Intensive Math Instruction and Educational Attainment: Long-Run Impacts of Double-Dose Algebra

Kalena Cortes, Joshua Goodman and Takako Nomi

2013: Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, Ririn Purnamasari and Matthew Wai-Poi

2013: Arabs Want Redistribution, So Why Don't They Vote Left? Theory and Evidence from Egypt

Tarek Masoud

2013: The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets

Linda J. Bilmes

2013: Merit Aid, College Quality and College Completion: Massachusetts' Adams Scholarship as an In-Kind Subsidy

Sarah Cohodes and Joshua Goodman

2013: Social Class and Un(ethical) Behavior: A Framework, with Evidence from a Large Population Sample

Stefan Trautmann, Gijs Kuilen and Richard Zeckhauser

2013: The Human Right to Water and Common Ownership of the Earth

Mathias Risse

2013: Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-Out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Soren Leth-Peterson, Torben Nielsen and Tore Olsen

2013: Leaving Theory Behind: Why Hypothesis Testing Has Become Bad for IR

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt