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912: Inter-household Allocations within Extended Family: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey

Firman Witoelar

911: Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

910: Information Asymmetry and the Problem of Transfers in Trade Negotiations and International Agencies

Koichi Hamada and Shyam Sunder

909: Using Experimental Economics to Measure Social Capital And Predict Financial Decisions

Dean Karlan

908: The Role of Preconceived Ideas in Macroeconomic Policy: Japan's Experiences in the Two Deflationary Periods

Koichi Hamada and Asahi Noguchi

907: Trust: A Concept Too Many

Timothy Guinnane

906: Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya

Cheryl Doss and John McPeak

905: Demystifying the German "Armament Miracle" During World War II. New Insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers

Lutz Budrab, Jonas Scherner and Jochen Streb

904: A Pro-Market Agenda for El Salvador

Eduardo Engel

903: Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

T. Schultz

902: Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

901: Demographic Determinants of Savings: Estimating and Interpreting the Aggregate Association in Asia

T. Schultz

900: Labor Surplus Economies

Gustav Ranis

899: The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels

Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

898: Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso

Harounan Kazianga and Christopher Udry

897: Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh

896: Structural Change in Russian Transition

Paul R. Gregory and Valery Lazarev

895: Motives for Household Private Transfers in Burkina Faso

Harounan Kaziango

894: Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Shareen Joshi

893: Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility

Ricardo Caballero, Eduardo Engel and Alejandro Micco

892: Schooling Returns for Wage Earners in Burkina Faso: Evidence from the 1994 and 1998 National Surveys

Harounan Kazianga

891: Arthur Lewis' Contribution to Development Thinking and Policy

Gustav Ranis

890: Intra-Household Redistribution of Income and Calorie Consumption in South-Western Nigeria

Adebayo B. Aromolaran

889: Testing for a Supply Constraint to Fertility: Interpreting the Up to God Response to the Survey Question on Desired Family Size

Nistha Sinha

888: Social Networks in Ghana

Christopher Udry and Timothy Conley

887: Human Development and Economic Growth

Gustav Ranis

886: The Evolution of Development Thinking: Theory and Policy

Gustav Ranis

885: Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan and Kim Rueben

884: Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America

Ricardo Caballero, Eduardo Engel and Alejandro Micco

883: Three Strikes and You.re Out: Reply to Cooper and Willis

Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

882: Political Rents, Promotion Incentives, and Support for a Non-Democratic Regime

Valery Lazarev

881: The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Menzie Chinn and Robert Fairlie

880: Financial Vergangenheitsbewältigung: The 1953 London Debt Agreement

Timothy Guinnane

879: Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria

Adebayo B. Aromolaran

878: GMOs: Prospects for Increased Crop Productivity in Developing Countries

Robert E. Evenson

877: Do Family Caps Reduce Out-of-Wedlock Births? Evidence from Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia

Wendy Tanisha Dyer and Robert Fairlie

876: Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium

Mohsen Fardmanesh and Seymour Douglas

875: Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa from Household Surveys: Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education

T. Schultz

874: Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human Development and Economic Growth

Michael Boozer, Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart and Tavneet Suri

873: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Robert Fairlie

872: A Unified Framework for Estimating Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Robert McMillan

871: Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

870: Is Dualism Worth Revisiting?

Gustav Ranis

869: Two Statistical Problems in the Princeton Project on the European Fertility

John C. Brown and Timothy Guinnane

868: Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast

T. Schultz

867: Fertility, Child Work and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Nistha Sinha

866: Privatizing Highways in Latin America: Is It Possible to Fix What Went Wrong?

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

865: Adjustment Is Much Slower Than You Think

Ricardo Caballero and Eduardo Engel

864: Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections

Patrick Bayer, Randi Pintoff and David E. Pozen

863: The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public versus Private Management

Patrick Bayer and David E. Pozen