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2012: Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence

Filipe Campante, Quoc-Anh Do and Bernardo Guimaraes

2012: Solomonic Separation: Risk Decisions as Productivity Indicators

Nolan Miller, Alexander Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser

2012: What Does "Intending to Vote" Mean?

Todd Rogers and Masa Aida

2012: Variable Temptations and Black Mark Reputations

Christina Aperjis, Yali Miao and Richard Zeckhauser

2012: Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China

Hai Fang, Karen Eggleston, John Rizzo and Richard Zeckhauser

2012: Developing Social Citizenship? A Case Study of Education and Health Services in Yantian Village, Guangdong

Tony Saich and Biliang Hu

2012: China, the USA and Asia's Future

Tony Saich

2012: The Quality of Governance in China: The Citizens' View

Tony Saich

2012: Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City

Eva Arceo-Gomez, Rema Hanna and Paulina Oliva

2012: Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment

Todd Rogers and Joel A. Middleton

2012: Merger Efficiencies and Competition Policy

F. M. Scherer

2012: Claiming Authority: How Women Explain Their Ascent to Top Business Leadership Positions

Hannah Riley Bowles

2012: Psychological Perspectives on Gender in Negotiation

Hannah Riley Bowles

2012: How Long Do Treatment Effects Last? Persistence and Durability of a Descriptive Norms Intervention's Effect on Energy Conservation

Hunt Allcott and Todd Rogers

2012: Learning through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming

Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein

2012: Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken

2012: All Foundings Are Forced

Arthur Isak Applbaum

2012: Over-Optimistic Official Forecasts in the Eurozone and Fiscal Rules

Jeffrey Frankel and Jesse Schreger

2012: Eliminating Barriers to the Adoption of Children in Foster Care

Elaine C. Kamarck, Mary Eschelbach Hansen, Julie Boatright Wilson and Jeff Katz

2012: North American Oil and Gas Reserves: Prospects and Policy

Jonathan Bailey and Henry Lee

2012: What Happened to the Soviet Superpower's Nuclear Arsenal? Clues for the Nuclear Security Summit

Graham Allison

2012: Bankruptcy Law and the Cost of Credit: The Impact of Cramdown on Mortgage Interest Rates

Joshua Goodman and Adam Levitin

2012: Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett and Michael Woolcock

2012: The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Lant Pritchett and Amanda Beatty

2012: Shaping of the Nation: The Effect of Fourth of July on Political Preferences and Behavior in the United States

Andreas Madestam and David Yanagizawa-Drott

2012: First Degree Earns: The Impact of College Quality on College Completion Rates

Sarah Cohodes and Joshua Goodman

2012: The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Coursework

Joshua Goodman

2012: Gold Standards?: State Standards Reform and Student Achievement

Joshua Goodman

2012: The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

2012: General Hamilton and Dr. Smith

F. M. Scherer

2012: Why Has Regional Convergence in the U.S. Stopped?

Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag

2012: Assessing Uncertainty in Intelligence

Jeffrey A. Friedman and Richard Zeckhauser

2012: Building New Agricultural Universities in Africa

Calestous Juma

2012: Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems

Matthew Ranson and Robert Stavins

2012: Following through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts

Katherine Milkman, John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

2012: Corruption

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan

2012: Empirical Confirmation of Creative Destruction from World Trade Data

Peter Klimek, Ricardo Hausmann and Stefan Thurner

2012: The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems

Sebastian Bustos, Charles Gomez, Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

2012: International Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Dany Bahar, Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

2012: Social Class and (Un)ethical Behavior: Evidence from a Large Population Sample

Stefan Trautmann, Gijs Kuilen and Richard Zeckhauser

2012: Financial Mergers and Their Consequences

F. M. Scherer

2012: Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change

Joseph Aldy

2012: Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States

Filipe Campante and Quoc-Anh Do

2012: Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

Rema Hanna, Esther Duflo and Michael Greenstone

2012: The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey of Diagnoses and Some Prescriptions

Jeffrey Frankel

2012: What Small Countries Can Teach the World

Jeffrey Frankel

2012: Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets

Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel

2012: On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality

Jeffrey Frankel, Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

2012: Are There Global Norms and Universal Standards of Electoral Integrity and Malpractice? Comparing Public and Expert Perceptions

Pippa Norris

2012: When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman

2012: Technological Abundance for Global Agriculture: The Role of Biotechnology

Calestous Juma

2012: Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems

Peter J. Huckfeldt, Neeraj Sood, Jose J. Escarce, David C. Grabowski and Joseph P. Newhouse

2012: Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior

Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn and Erich Muehlegger

2012: "Hard," "Soft," or "Tough Love": What Kinds of Organizational Culture Promote Successful Performance in Cross-Organizational Collaborations?

Steven Kelman and Sounman Hong

2012: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

George Borjas and Kirk Doran

2012: The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

Gabriel Chan, Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe and Richard Sweeney

2012: The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation

Joshua Goodman

2012: Why Bother Asking? The Limited Value of Self-Reported Vote Intention

Todd Rogers and Masa Aida