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162: The Effects of School Quality on the Youth Labor Market

Sam Peltzman and Kevin Murphy

161: Teaching Microeconomics in Wonderland

B. Peter Pashigian

160: Status, Lotteries, and Inequality

Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy and Iván Werning

159: Merit Motives & Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse

Casey Mulligan and T. J. Phlipson

158: Obstacles to Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms

Randall S. Kroszner

157: Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publically Induced Retirement?

Casey Mulligan

156: Alcohol

Michael J. Moore and Philip J Cook

155: Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation

Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

154: Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security

Casey Mulligan

153: Firm Responses to Growing Ineguality in Income and the Cost of Time

Peter Pashigian and Jeanne-Mey Sun

152: Immigrant Earnings: Language Skills, Linguistic Concentrations and the Business Cycle

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

151: Is the Financial System Politically Independent? Perspectives on the Political Economy of Banking and Financial Regulation

Randall S. Kroszner

150: Bankers on Boards: Monitoring Conflicts of Interest & Lender Laiability

Randall S. Kroszner

149: A Model of Immigrant Language Acquisition: Application to Male Immigrants in Canada

Barry Chiswick

148: The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital

Barry Chiswick

147: Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Barry Chiswick

146: The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care

Tomas Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla

145: The Strategic Use Of Tying To Preserve And Create Market Power In Evolving Industries

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

144: Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government

Gary Becker and Casey Mulligan

143: Contracts, Externalities, and Incentives in Shopping Malls: An Empirical Analysis

B. Peter Pashigian and Eric Gould

142: Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall

Sam Peltzman

141: Defense Procurement Fraud, Penalties, & Contractor Influence

Jonathan Karpoff

140: The Absorption of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Israel, 1990 - 1995

Yoram Weiss and Zvi Eckstein

139: Social Status and Economic Performance: A Survey

Yoram Weiss and Chaim Fershtman

138: Ethic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades

Timur Kuran

137: Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

Douglas Irwin and Randall S. Kroszner

136: The Political Economy of Deregulation: Evidence From the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions in the United States

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

135: Potato Paradoxes

Sherwin Rosen

134: The Future of Old-Age Longevity: Competitive Pricing of Morality Contingent Claims

Charles Mullin and Tomas Philipson

133: Austrian and Neoclassical Economics: Any Gains From Trade?

Sherwin Rosen

132: An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade inInsurance

John Cawley and Tomas Philipson

131: Were the Good Old Days That Good? The Evolution of Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

C. G. Holderness, R. S. Kroszner and D. P. Sheehan

130: On the Great Depression

L. G. Telser

129: Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance

Tomas Philipson and Gary Becker

128: Regulation and Investment Behavior: Evidence From the ElectricUtility Industry

Thomas Lyon and John Mayo

127: Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns and the Importance of Deterrence

Lott Jr.

126: Interest Group Competition and the Organization of Congress:Theory And Evidence from Financial Services Political Action Committees

Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

125: Early Weather Information, Cost That May Be Sunk, And TheEnsuing Rate of Return

D. Erik Craft

124: Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Douglas Irwin and Randall S. Kroszner

123: Products Liability and Prescription Drug Prices in Canada and the United States

Richard L. Manning

122: Self-Regulation and Social Welfare: The Political Economy of Corporate Environmentalism

John Maxwell, Thomas Lyon and Steven C.. Hackett

121: A Simple Explanation for Why Campaign Expenditures are Increasing:The Government is Getting Bigger

John R. Lott

120: Ticket Pricing

Sherwin Rosen and Andy Rosenfield

119: Regulatory Incentives and the Thrift Crisis: Dividends, Mutual-to-Stock Conversions, and Financial Distress

Randall Kroszner, Strahan S. and Philip E.

118: Do Campaign Donations Alter How a Politician Votes?

Stephen Bronars and John R. Lott

117: Testing Whether Predatory Commitments are Credible

John R. Lott

116: Fatal Encounters: An Economic Theory of Accidental Injury with Application to New Zealand=s No-Fault System

John C. Hause

115: Internalizing Agglomeration Economies: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls

B. Peter Pashigian and Eric Gould

114: Political Influence on the Central Bank- International Evidence

Alex Cukierman and Steven Webb

113: Public School Choice: Some Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988

Barbara Schneider, Kathryn S. Schiller and James S. Coleman