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2017-06: Effects of Subsidized Childcare on Mothers' Labor Supply Under a Rationing Mechanism*

Shintaro Yamaguchi, Yukiko Asai and Ryo Kambayashi

2017-05: How Does Early Childcare Enrollment Affect Children, Parents, and Their Interactions?*

Shintaro Yamaguchi, Yukiko Asai and Ryo Kambayashi

2017-04: The Canadian Productivity Stagnation, 2002-2014

Juan Carlos Conesa and Pau Pujolas

2017-03: ONE SIZE MAY NOT FIT ALL: WELFARE BENEFITS AND COST REDUCTIONS WITH DIFFERENTIATED HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICITY RATES IN A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL

Farhad Daruwala, Frank T. Denton and Dean C. Mountain

2017-02: Energy, Economics & Replication

Jeffrey Racine

2017-01: OPTIMAL MODEL AVERAGING OF VARYING COEFFICIENT MODELS

Cong Li, Qi Li, Jeffrey Racine and Daiqiang Zhang

2016-14: A Standardized Method for the Evaluation of Adherence to Practice Guidelines

Stephanie Thomas

2016-13: IMMIGRATION AND THE RATE OF POPULATION MIXING: EXPLORATIONS WITH A STYLIZED MODEL

Frank T Denton and Byron Spencer

2016-12: Playing by the rules? Agreement between predicted and observed binary choices

Stephanie Thomas

2016-11: Learning Efficiency Shocks, Knowledge Capital and the Business Cycle: A Bayesian Evaluation

Alok Johri and Muhebullah Karimzada

2016-10: Effects of Parental Leave Policies on Female Career and Fertility Choices

Shintaro Yamaguchi

2016-09: Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers

Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

2016-08: Trade policy reform and firm-level productivity growth: Does the choice of production function matter?

John Kealey, Pau Pujolas and Cesar Sosa-Padilla

2016-07: Nonparametric Analysis of Complex Nonlinear Systems

Sonali Das and Jeffrey Racine

2016-06: Family Policies and Female Employment in Japan

Shintaro Yamaguchi

2016-05: Test-bedding the Replacement of the Incurred Credit Loss Model with an Expected Credit Loss Model: The Case of Trade Receivables

Kohamed Gomaa, Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Stuart Mestelman and Mohamed Shehata

2016-04: Pre-CEO Executive Skill Accumulation and Firm-CEO Matching with Pay Limits

Seungjin Han

2016-03: Captial Accumulation and the Welfare Gains from Trade

Wyatt Brooks and Pau Pujolas

2016-02: Semiparametric Varying Coefficient Models with Endogenous Covariates

Samuele Centorrino and Jeffrey Racine

2016-01: A Correction to "Generalized Nonparametric Smoothing with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Data" by Li, Simar & Zelenyuk (2014, CSDA)

Jeffrey Racine

2015-15: Investing in Health: A Macroeconomic Exploration of Short-Run and Long-Run Trade-Offs

Junying Zhao, William Scarth and Jeremiah Hurley

2015-14: A Simulation Analysis of the Longer-Term Effects of Immigration on Per Capita Income in an Aging Population

Frank T. Denton and Byron Spencer

2015-13: Financial Shocks, Customer Capital and the Trade Collapse of 2008-2009

Alok Johri and Terry Yip

2015-12: Financial News, Banks and Business Cycles

Christopher Gunn and Alok Johri

2015-11: Learning Efficiency Shocks, Knowledge Capital and the Business Cycle: A Bayesian Evaluation

Alok Johri and Muhebullah Karimzada

2015-10: Nonparametric Regression-Spline Random Effects Models

Shujie Ma, Jeffrey Racine and Aman Ullah

2015-09: Agnecy Costs, Risk Shocks and International Cycles

Marc-Andre Letendre and Joel Wagner

2015-08: Crowding-Out Effect of Publicly Provided Childcare: Why Maternal Employment Did Not Increase

Yukiko Asai, Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi

2015-07: Competing Mechanisms: Theory and Applications in Directed Search Markets

Seungjin Han

2015-06: The Convergence of IFRS and US GAAP: Evidence from the SEC’s Removal of Form 20-F Reconciliations

Stuart Mestelman, Emad Mohammad and Mohamed Shehata

2015-05: Are Notions of Fairness Path‐Dependent? Experimental Evidence from an Efficiency‐Wage Environment

Stan Hu, Stuart Mestelman and William Scarth

2015-04: Trade Policies, Firm Heterogeneity, and Variable Markups

Svetlana Demidova

2015-03: Information Measures for Nonparametric Kernel Estimation

Neshat Beheshti, Jeffrey Racine and Ehsan S. Soofi

2015-02: Local Polynomial Derivative Estimation: Analytic or Taylor?

Jeffrey Racine

2015-01: Biases in Consumer Elasticities Based on Micro and Aggregate Data: An Integrated Framework and Empirical Evaluation

Frank T. Denton and Dean C. Mountain

2014-16: Production Capacity and Abatement Technology Strategies in Emissions Trading Markets

Neil Buckley, Stuart Mestelman and Andrew Muller

2014-15: Nonlinear Gravity

Wyatt Brooks and Pau Pujolas

2014-14: Immigration as a Policy Instrument in an Economy with an Aging Population: A Longer-Run Perspective

Frank T. Denton and Byron Spencer

2014-13: Exercising Empowerment in an Investment Environment

Mohamed Gomaa, KiridaranKanagaretnam, Stuart Mestelman and Mohamed Shehata

2014-12: Financial News, Banks and Business Cycles

Alok Johri and Christopher Gunn

2014-11: Modelling the Age Dynamics of Chronic Health Conditions: Life-Table-Consistent Transition Probabilities and their Application

Frank T. Denton and Byron Spencer

2014-10: Exploring the Population Implications of Male Preference When the Sex Probabilities at Birth Can Be Altered

Frank T. Denton and Byron Spencer

2014-09: The Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood

Paul Contoyannis and Jinhu Li

2014-08: Childcare Availability, Household Structure, and Maternal Employment

Yukiko Asai, Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi

2014-07: Social Distance, Reputation, Risk Attitude, Value Orientation and Equity in Economic Exchanges

Mohamed I. Gomaa, Stuart Mestelman and Mohamed Shehata

2014-06: Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk

Juan Hatchondo, Leonardo Martinez and Cesar Sosa-Padilla

2014-05: Sellers' Implicit Collusion in Directed Search Markets

Seungjin Han

2014-04: Robust Competitive Auctions

Seungjin Han

2014-03: Aid and Economic Growth: A Robust Approach

Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and Jeffrey Racine

2014-02: Parametric and Nonparametric Analysis of Tax Changes

James Bugden, Iain Fraser, Jeffrey Racine and Robert Waschik