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0716: The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson Effect: Congresswomen and the Distribution of Federal Spending

Sarah Anzia and Christopher Berry

0715: Food Stamps, Unemployment Insurance, and the Safety Net

Daniel G. Schroeder Daniel G. Schroeder

0714: Is Parental Love Colorblind? Allocation of Resources within Mixed Families

Marcos Rangel

0713: The Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions

Christopher Berry and Jacob Gersen

0712: A Bridge to Somewhere: Mapping State and Congressional Ideology on a Cross-Institutional Common Space

Boris Shor, Christopher Berry and Nolan McCarty

0711: Consumption Reponses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach

0710: Wellbeing of Citizen Children of Immigrants in Relation to Food Stamps and WIC, 1998-2005

Mariana Chilton

0709: Design Priorities and Disciplinary Perspectives: The Case of the US National Children's Study

Robert Michael and Colm O'Muircheartaigh

0708: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State

Bruce Meyer and Wallace K C Mok

0707: School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence

Christopher Berry

0706: Accountability and Local Elections: Rethinking Retrospective Voting

Christopher Berry and William Howell

0705: Piling On: Overlapping Jurisdictions & the Fiscal Common-Pool

Christopher Berry

0704: The Community Reinvestment Act: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Christopher Berry and Sarah Lee

0703: Growing Pains: The School Consolidation Movement and Student Outcomes

Christopher Berry and Martin West

0702: School Consolidation and Inequality

Christopher Berry

0701: Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970-2004

Christopher Berry, Berry Burden and William Howell

0610: Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

Bruce Meyer and Wallace K C Mok

0609: Corruption Across Countries and Regions: Some Consequences of Local Osmosis

Raaj Sah

0608: A New Approach to Forecasting Food Stamp Caseloads

Jeffrey Grogger

0607: Do food stamps cause obesity? Evidence from immigrant experience

Neeraj Kaushal

0606: What Have Researchers Learned from Project STAR?

Diane Schanzenbach

0605: Cognition and Extended Rational Choice

Howard Margolis

0604: Some Patterns of Market Shares of Brands Within and Across Product Categories

Rajeev Kohli and Raaj Sah

0603: Evidence of the Effectiveness of Child Support and Visitation: Examining Food Insecurity among Children with Nonresident Fathers

Steven Garasky and Susan Stewart

0602: Are Economists Human?

Howard Margolis

0601: Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

0517: Breadth vs. Depth: The Effect of Academic Specialization on Labor Market Outcomes

Ofer Malamud

0516: Vocational Training versus General Education: Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania

Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches

0515: Out of West Africa: Evidence on the Efficient Allocation of Resources within Farm Households

Marcos Rangel and Duncan Thomas

0514: Wason, Monty Hall, and Adverse Defaults

Howard Margolis

0513: Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?

Diane Schanzenbach

0512: Globalization in Theory: What's Missing from the Current Debate?

Lloyd Gruber

0511: Children's Reading and Math Skills: The Family's Two Constraints

Robert Michael

0510: The Impact of Incarceration in State Prison on the Employment Prospects of Women

Rosa Cho and Robert LaLonde

0508: Globalization and Redistribution: The Missing Link

Lloyd Gruber

0507: Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops from Behind a Veil of Darkness

Jeffrey Grogger and Greg Ridgeway

0506: Food Stamp and WIC Take-Up and the Relationship between Take-Up and TANF Recidivism Among Illinois TANF Leavers

Mairead Reidy, Meejung Chin, Duck-Hye Yang and Robert Goerge

0505: Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil

Marcos Rangel

0504: Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal

Anne Case, Alicia Menendez and Cally Ardington

0503: Food Security Stability and Change Among Low-Income Urban Women

Andrew London and Ellen Scott

0502: Cognitive Anomalies and Experimental Economics

Howard Margolis

0501: The Material Well-Being of Single Mother Households in the 1980s and 1990s: What Can We Learn From Food Spending?

Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy

0417: The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance

Anthony Lo Sasso and Bruce Meyer

0416: Three Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

0415: Like Mother, Like Daughter? SES and the Intergenerational correlation of Traits, Behaviors and Attitudes

Susan Mayer, Greg Duncan and Ariel Kalil

0414: Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?

Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo

0413: Bordeaux Wine Vintage Quality and Weather

Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore and Robert LaLonde

0412: Should We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks? The Impact of Community College Retraining on Older Displaced Workers

Robert LaLonde

0411: Do Liberals Play Nice? The Effects of Party and Political Ideology in Public Goods and Trust Games

Lisa Anderson, Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

0410: State Campaign Finance Laws and the Turnout Decision

David Primo and Jeffrey Milyo