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962: Institutions and Demographic Responses to Shocks: Württemberg, 1634-1870

Timothy Guinnane and Sheilagh Ogilvie

961: Can a Preferential Trade Agreement Benefit Neighbor Countries without Compensating Them?

Masahiro Endoh, Koichi Hamada and Koji Shimomura

960: Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation

Eduardo Engel and Ronald Fischer

959: Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies

Timothy Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

958: Country Patterns of Behavior on Broader Dimensions

Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Emma Samman

957: The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

956: Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

955: Health Economics for Low-Income Countries

Germano Mwabu

954: Population Policies, Fertility, Women's Human Capital, and Child Quality

T. Schultz

953: Fertility in Developing Countries

T. Schultz

952: Price Stickiness in Ss Models: New Interpretations of Old Results

Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

951: Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Shareen Joshi and T. Schultz

950: Migration, Trade, Capital and Development: Substitutes, Complements and Policies

Gustav Ranis

949: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

948: Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa

Cheryl Doss, John McPeak and Christopher Barrett

947: The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff Zivin and Markus Goldstein

946: Tests of Independence in Separable Econometric Models: Theory and Application

Donald Brown, Rahul Deb and Marten Wegkamp

945: Two Algorithms for Solving the Walrasian Equilibrium Inequalities

Donald Brown and Ravi Kannan

944: Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption

Tavneet Suri

943: Successful Transition towards a Virtuous Cycle of Human Development and Economic Growth: Country Studies

Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart

942: A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Test of the Complementarity Hypothesis in the Mexican Case, 1960-2001

Miguel Ramirez

941: Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Martín Valdivia and Dean Karlan

940: Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

939: Household Decision Making and Savings Impacts: Further Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

938: Toward the Enhanced Effectiveness of Foreign Aid

Gustav Ranis

937: Renegotiation Without Holdup: Anticipating Spending and Infrastructure Concessions

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

936: Microfinance Games

Dean Karlan, Xavier Gine, Jonathan Morduch and Pamela Jakiela

935: Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

T. Schultz

934: What Determines Technological Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China

Galina Hale and Cheryl Long

933: Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

932: The Return to Capital in Ghana

Christopher Udry and Santosh Anagol

931: On the Conditions that Preclude the Existence of the Lerner Paradox and the Metzler Paradox

Masahiro Endoh and Koichi Hamada

930: Deposit Collectors

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

929: The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana

Markus Goldstein and Christopher Udry

928: Institutions and Development:A View from Below

Rohini Pande and Christopher Udry

927: Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

Patrick Bayer, Stephen Ross and Giorgio Topa

926: Elasticities of Demand for Consumer Credit

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

925: Fertility and Income

T. Schultz

924: Coordinating Development: Can Income-based Incentive Schemes Eliminate Pareto Inferior Equilibria?

Philip Bond and Rohini Pande

923: Dams

Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande

922: Profits and Politics: Coordinating Technology Adoption in Agriculture

Rohini Pande

921: Political Selection and the Qualilty of Government: Evidence from South India

Timothy Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao

920: Chinese Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-2002

Adam Szirmai, Ruoen Ren and Manyin Bai

919: Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto

918: What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

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

917: Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin

916: Human Development: Beyond the HDI

Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Emma Samman

915: Cross-Border Political Donations and Pareto-Efficient Tariffs

Masahiro Endoh

914: Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

Jonathan Conning and Christopher Udry

913: Social Connections and Group Banking

Dean Karlan