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1012: For Every Law, a Loophole: Flexibility in the Menu of Spanish Business Forms, 1886-1936

Timothy Guinnane and Susana Martinez Rodriguez

1011: A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment

Melanie Morten, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

1010: The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico

Miriam Bruhn, Dean Karlan and Antoinette Schoar

1009: You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment

Gharad Bryan, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

1008: Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Junsen Zhang and Mark Rosenzweig

1007: Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured

Ahmed Mobarak and Mark Rosenzweig

1006: Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

Dean Karlan and Margaret McConnell

1005: Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Alberto Chong, Ana De La O, Dean Karlan and Leonard Wantchekon

1004: Technology and Human Development

Gustav Ranis

1003: The New Model of Foreign Aid Drawn from the Experiences of Japan and the United States

Gustav Ranis, Stephen Kosack and Ken Togo

1002: Technology Change: Sources and Impediments

Gustav Ranis, Mallory Irons and Yanjing Huang

1001: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

1000: Learning, Misallocation, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from New Malaria Therapy in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu

999: The Evolution of Grain Policy Beyond Europe: Ottoman Grain Administration in the Late Eighteenth Century

Seven Agir

998: Endowments and Investment within the Household: Evidence from Iodine Supplementation in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

997: Political Mergers as Coalition Formation

Eric Weese

996: Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

995: Labor Supply, Schooling and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

994: Healthcare Choices, Information and Health Outcomes

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Anant Nyshadham

993: Social Class and the Fertility Transition: A Critical Comment on the Statistical Results Reported in Simon Szreter's Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940

Geoffrey Barnes and Timothy Guinnane

992: Natural Disasters in a Two-Sector Model of Endogenous Growth

Ryo Horii and Masako Ikefuji

991: Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?

Mark Rosenzweig and Andrew Foster

990: The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists

Timothy Guinnane

989: Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor

Mark Pitt, Mark Rosenzweig and Nazmul Hassan

988: Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Dean Karlan, Margaret McDonnell, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman

987: Did the Cooperative Start Life as a Joint-Stock Company? Business Law and Cooperatives in Spain, 1869-1931

Timothy Guinnane and Susana Martinez-Rodriguez

986: Trade, tastes and Nutrition in India

David Atkin

985: Microeconomic Approaches to Development: Schooling, Learning, and Growth

Mark Rosenzweig

984: Microeconomics of Technology Adoption

Andrew Foster and Mark Rosenzweig

983: Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants

Mark Rosenzweig

982: Structural Change in Transition Economies: Does Foreign Aid Matter?

Mohsen Fardmanesh and Li Tan

981: Does Land Abundance Explain African Institutions?

James Fenske

980: Commitment Contracts

Gharad Bryan, Dean Karlan and Scott Nelson

979: The Gender and Generational Consquences of the Demographic Transition and Population Policy: An Assessment of the Micro and Macro Linkages

T. Schultz

978: Moral hazard in a mutual health-insurance system: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

977: Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An Overview

Gustav Ranis

976: Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila

Jonathan Zinman and Dean Karlan

975: Economics, Area Studies and Human Development

Gustav Ranis

974: Population and Health Policies

T. Schultz

973: Cairo Evaluation Clinic: Thoughts on Randomized Trials for Evaluation of Development

Dean Karlan

972: That's Where the Money Was: Foreign Bias and English Investment Abroad, 1866-1907

Benjamin Chabot and Christopher Kurz

971: Bringing "Honest Capital" to Poor Borrowers: The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law, 1907-1930

Bruce Carruthers, Timothy Guinnane and Yoonseok Lee

970: Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups

Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

969: Adaptive Experimental Design Using the Propensity Score

Jinyong Hahn, Keisuke Hirano and Dean Karlan

968: What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan, Dean Karlan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman

967: Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

966: Borders, Market Size and Urban Growth, The Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century

Florian Ploeckl

965: Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocuation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement

Hongbin Li, Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

964: The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig

963: The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight

Germano Mwabu