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9930: Studying Governance and Public Management: Challenges and Prospects

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn Heinrich and Carolyn J. Hill

9929: External Treatment Effects and Program Implementation Bias

Tomas Philipson

9928: Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers

Harry Holzer and Robert LaLonde

9927: Legislative Structure, Incentives, and Informational Lobbying

Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann

9926: Pivotal Voting and the Emperor's New Clothes

Howard Margolis

9925: An Examination of the Effects of Impact Fees on Chicago's Suburbs

Brett M. Baden and Don L. Coursey

9924: Studying Governance and Public Management: Why? How?

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn Heinrich and Carolyn J. Hill

9923: Rethinking the Rational Foundations of Supranational Governance: Lessons from the North American Free Trade Agreement

Lloyd Gruber

9922: Power Politics and the Institutionalization of International Relations

Lloyd Gruber

9921: Interstate Cooperation and the Hidden Face of Power: The Case of European Money

Lloyd Gruber

9920: Power Politics and the Free Trade Bandwagon

Lloyd Gruber

9919: Rationalist Approaches to International Cooperation: A Call for Theoretical Reorientation

Lloyd Gruber

9918: The Making and Analysis of Public Policy: A Perspective on the Role of Social Science

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

9917: Can Small Fluctuations in Investors' Subjective Preferences Induce Large Volatility in Equity Prices?

Rajnish Mehra and Raaj Sah

9916: Some Results for the Comparative Statics of Steady-States of Higher-Order Discrete Dynamic Systems

Raaj Sah

9915: Means and Ends: A Comparative Study of Empirical Methods For Investigating Governance and Performance

Carolyn Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

9914: Bureaucratic Reform In Developing Countries: A Comparison of Presidential and Parliamentary Rule

Delia M. Boylan

9913: African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes

Laura D. Pittman and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

9912: The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner

9910: Abortion Decisions in the U.S

Robert Michael

9909: Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

9908: The Effects of IRAs on Household Consumption and National Saving

Orazio Attanasio and Thomas DeLeire

9907: Public Management in North America

Laurence Lynn

9906: Governance Matters: The Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Performance

Carolyn Heinrich and Laurence Lynn

9905: How Developmental Psychologists Think About Family Process and Child Development in Low Income Families

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

9904: Male-Female Differences in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Jane Waldfogel and Susan Mayer

9903: Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand, Erzo Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan

9902: Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution

Erzo Luttmer

9901: A Place at the Table: Policy Analysis, Its Postpositive Critics, and the Future of Practice

Laurence Lynn

9803: Requiring Bureaucracies to Perform: What Have We Learned From the U.S. Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)?

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

9802: Holding Democracy Hostage: Central Bank Autonomy In the Transition From Authoritarian Rule

Delia M. Boylan

9801: Persuasion Through the Purse: How Political Contributions Crowd Out Information

Morten Bennedsen and Sven Feldmann

9708: Integrated Governance as a Reform Strategy in the Chicago Public Schools: A Report on System-Wide School Governance Reform

Kenneth K. Wong, Robert Dreeben, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Gail L. Sunderman

9707: Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood: Recent Evidence and Future Directions

Rebekah Levine Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

9706: Does Age at Enrollment in first Grade Affect Children's cognitive Test Scores

Susan Mayer and David Knutson

9705: An Examination of Compensation Mechanisms to Solve the NIMBY Problem

Don Coursey and Sangheon Kim

9704: Public Management and Government Performance: A Consideration of Theory and Evidence

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

9703: On Progressive Taxation, Income Redistribution and Political Representation

Philippe Penelle

9702: The Locality of Waste Sites Within the City of Chicago: A Demographic, Social, and Economic Analysis

Brett Baden and Don Coursey

9702: Economic Integration as a Partition Function Game

Massimo Morelli and Philippe Penelle

9601: What Makes Lay Intuition So Often Fundamentally at Odds with Expert Assessments of Environmental Risks?

Howard Margolis

9503: Governing Public Schools: The Role of Formal Authority In School Improvement

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Teresa R. Kowalczyk

9502: The costs and Consequences of Early Fatherhood: The Impact on Young Men, Young Women and Their Children

Michael J. Brien and Robert Willis

9501: The Costs and Consequences of Teenage Childbearing for Mothers

V. Joseph Hotz, Susan Williams McElroy and Seth G. Sanders

9408: Environmental Racism in the City of Chicago: The History of EPA Hazardous Waste Sites in African-American Neighborhoods

Don Coursey, Andrew Geer, Christine Hagerbaumer, David Hammond and Betsy Mendelsohn

9407: Bounding Treatment Effects In Controlled and Natural Experiments Subject to Post-Randomized Treatment Choice

V. Joseph Hotz and Seth G. Sanders

9406: Employment and Training and the Urban Workforce

Patricia Carter, John Dilts and Janel Highfill

9405: Regulating Child Care: The Effects of State Regulations on child Care Demand and Its Cost

V. Joseph Hotz and M. Rebecca Kilbourn

9403: Leadership of a State Agency: An Analysis Using Game Theory

Barbara Koremenos and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

9402: The Revealed Demand For a Public Good: Evidence from Endangered and Threatened Species

Don Coursey