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21410: Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines

Jean-Pascal Bassino, Marion Dovis and John Komlos

21409: Poor Little Rich Kids? The Role of Nature versus Nurture in Wealth and Other Economic Outcomes and Behaviors

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

21408: Exporter Heterogeneity and Price Discrimination: A Quantitative View

Jae Wook Jung, Ina Simonovska and Ariel Weinberger

21407: The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea

Jaegeum Lim and Jonathan Meer

21406: Nudges in Exercise Commitment Contracts: A Randomized Trial

Jay Bhattacharya, Alan M. Garber and Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

21405: Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

Jishnu Das, Alaka Holla, Aakash Mohpal and Karthik Muralidharan

21404: Content Aggregation by Platforms: The Case of the News Media

Lesley Chiou and Catherine Tucker

21403: Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso and Patrick Kline

21402: School Entry Cutoff Date and the Timing of Births

Hitoshi Shigeoka

21401: Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade

Rodrigo Adao, Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson

21400: Do Risk Preferences Change? Evidence from Panel Data before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Chie Hanaoka, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Yasutora Watanabe

21399: Household Surveys in Crisis

Bruce Meyer, Wallace K C Mok and James Sullivan

21398: Do Building Energy Codes Have a Lasting Effect on Energy Consumption? New Evidence From Residential Billing Data in Florida

Matthew Kotchen

21397: The Economy of People’s Republic of China from 1953

Anton Cheremukhin, Mikhail Golosov, Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinski

21396: Should We Give Up After Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios under Uncertainty

Mort Webster, Karen Fisher-Vanden, David Popp and Nidhi Santen

21395: Objective Course Placement and College Readiness: Evidence from Targeted Middle School Math Acceleration

Shaun Dougherty, Joshua Goodman, Darryl Hill, Erica Litke and Lindsay C. Page

21394: Inequality when Effort Matters

Martin Ravallion

21393: Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness

Markus Nagler, Marc Piopiunik and Martin R. West

21392: On the Welfare and Cyclical Implications of Moderate Trend Inflation

Guido Ascari, Louis Phaneuf and Eric Sims

21391: The Economics of Exclusion Restrictions in IV Models

Damon Jones

21390: Long Term Impacts of Vouchers for Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence for Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Arlen Guarin, Carlos Medina and Costas Meghir

21389: Information Technology and Patient Health: Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms

Seth Freedman, Haizhen Lin and Jeffrey Prince

21388: What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?

Rahul Anand, Eswar Prasad and Boyang Zhang

21387: Which Models Can We Trust to Evaluate Consumer Decision Making? Comment on “Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly”

Jonathan Ketcham, Nicolai Kuminoff and Christopher A. Powers

21386: Sources of Inaction in Household Finance: Evidence from the Danish Mortgage Market

Steffen Andersen, John Campbell, Kasper Meisner Nielsen and Tarun Ramadorai

21385: Lessons for Public Pensions from Utah’s Move to Pension Choice

Robert L. Clark, Emma Hanson and Olivia Mitchell

21384: The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

William Collins and Marianne Wanamaker

21383: The Impact of Trading on the Costs and Benefits of the Acid Rain Program

Hei Sing Chan, Benjamin Chupp, Maureen Cropper and Nicholas Muller

21382: Supplemental Plan Offerings and Retirement Saving Choices: An Analysis of North Carolina School Districts

Robert L. Clark, Emma Hanson, Melinda Morrill and Aditi Pathak

21381: Learning and (or) Doing: Human Capital Investments and Optimal Taxation

Stefanie Stantcheva

21380: Academics as Economic Advisers: Gold, the ‘Brains Trust,’ and FDR

Sebastian Edwards

21379: Does Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Make It Harder to Get Hired? Evidence from Disability Discrimination Laws

David Neumark, Joanne Song and Patrick Button

21378: The Birth of Edge Cities in China: Measuring the Spillover Effects of Industrial Parks

Siqi Zheng, Weizeng Sun, Jianfeng Wu and Matthew Kahn

21377: Growth and Trade with Frictions: A Structural Estimation Framework

James Anderson, Mario Larch and Yoto Yotov

21376: Multidimensional Skill Mismatch

Fatih Guvenen, Burhanettin Kuruscu, Satoshi Tanaka and David Wiczer

21375: Inventing Prizes: A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy

B. Zorina Khan

21374: How was the Weekend? How the Social Context Underlies Weekend Effects in Happiness and other Emotions for US Workers

John Helliwell and Shun Wang

21373: Broadening State Capacity

Traviss Cassidy, Mark Dincecco and Ugo antonio Troiano

21372: Military Officer Quality in the All-Volunteer Force

Matthew F. Cancian and Michael Klein

21371: The Intergenerational Transmission of War

Filipe Campante and David Yanagizawa-Drott

21370: The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade

Costas Arkolakis, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

21369: Why Don't Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from a 25 Million Dollar Experiment

Jonathan Parker

21368: Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Sandra Black, Kalena E. Cortes and Jane Arnold Lincove

21367: The Effect of Post-and-Hold Laws on Alcohol Consumption

Henry Saffer and Markus Gehrsitz

21366: The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure

Deborah Goldschmidt and Johannes Schmieder

21365: Accounting for Adaptation in the Economics of Happiness

Miles Kimball, Ryan Nunn and Dan Silverman

21364: When Is Social Responsibility Socially Desirable?

Jean-Etienne de Bettignies and David Robinson

21363: The Dynamics of Inequality

Xavier Gabaix, Jean-Michel Lasry, Pierre-Louis Lions and Benjamin Moll

21362: The Private Ordering Solution to Multiforum Shareholder Litigation

Roberta Romano and Sarath Sanga

21361: Long Run Effects of Temporary Incentives on Medical Care Productivity

Pablo Celhay, Paul Gertler, Paula Giovagnoli and Christel Vermeersch

21360: Economic and Social Impacts of the Media

Stefano DellaVigna and Eliana La Ferrara

21359: Who Needs a Fracking Education? The Educational Response to Low-Skill Biased Technological Change

Elizabeth Cascio and Ayushi Narayan

21358: Fiscal Policies and the Prices of Labor: A Comparison of the U.K. and U.S

Casey Mulligan

21357: Why the Referential Treatment: Evidence from Field Experiments on Referrals

Amanda Pallais and Emily Glassberg Sands

21356: Precautionary Savings, Retirement Planning and Misperceptions of Financial Literacy

Anders Anderson, Forest Baker and David Robinson

21355: Solar Geoengineering, Uncertainty, and the Price of Carbon

Garth Heutel, Juan Moreno-Cruz and Soheil Shayegh

21354: Birth Weight in the Long Run

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

21353: Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

Prashant Bharadwaj, Petter Lundborg and Dan-Olof Rooth

21352: Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks

Itzik Fadlon and Torben Nielsen

21351: What do Exporters Know?

Michael J. Dickstein and Eduardo Morales

21350: The Antecedents and Aftermath of Financial Crises as told by Carlos F. Díaz Alejandro

Carmen Reinhart

21349: Capital Markets in China and Britain, 18th and 19th Century: Evidence from Grain Prices

Wolfgang Keller, Carol Shiue and Xin Wang

21348: The Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genotype on Smoking Behavior and Health

Lauren Schmitz and Dalton Conley

21347: Top Incomes in Canada: Evidence from the Census

Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell

21346: Evaluating the Risk of Chinese Housing Markets: What We Know and What We Need to Know

Jing Wu, Joseph Gyourko and Yongheng Deng

21345: Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Addictions and Deaths Related to Pain Killers?

David Powell, Rosalie Pacula and Mireille Jacobson

21344: Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr

21343: The Pass-Through of RIN Prices to Wholesale and Retail Fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard

Christopher Knittel, Ben Meiselman and James Stock

21342: The Private Net Benefits of Residential Solar PV: The Role of Electricity Tariffs, Tax Incentives and Rebates

Severin Borenstein

21341: Protecting Financial Stability in the Aftermath of World War I: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Dissenting Policy

Eugene White

21340: Effective Policy for Reducing Inequality? The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Distribution of Income

Hilary Hoynes and Ankur J. Patel

21339: The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya

Pascaline Dupas, Anthony Keats and Jonathan Robinson

21338: A Theory of Civil Disobedience

Edward Glaeser and Cass Sunstein

21337: Healthy(?), Wealthy and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

21336: Time Consistency and the Duration of Government Debt: A Signalling Theory of Quantitative Easing

Saroj Bhattarai, Gauti Eggertsson and Bulat Gafarov

21335: The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse: 1372-1946

David Le Bris, William Goetzmann and Sébastien Pouget

21334: Banks' Risk Exposures

Juliane Begenau, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider

21333: From Financial Repression to External Distress: The Case of Venezuela

Carmen Reinhart and Miguel Santos

21332: On the Origins of Risk-Taking

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Petter Lundborg and Kaveh Majlesi

21331: Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program

Meredith Fowlie, Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram

21330: (Un)Informed College and Major Choice: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Justine Hastings, Christopher Neilson, Anely Ramirez and Seth Zimmerman

21329: Backtesting Strategies Based on Multiple Signals

Robert Novy-Marx

21328: Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion

Fernando Alvarez and Gadi Barlevy

21327: The Measurement of Wealth: Recessions, Sustainability and Inequality

Joseph Stiglitz

21326: Does Retirement Improve Health and Life Satisfaction?

Aspen Gorry, Devon Gorry and Sita Slavov

21325: Mining with Environmental Risk

Christopher Costello and Charles Kolstad

21324: Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Pascaline Dupas and Jonathan Robinson

21323: The Taxation of Superstars

Florian Scheuer and Iván Werning

21322: The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Stabilization

Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

21321: Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband

Aviv Nevo, John Turner and Jonathan W. Williams

21320: Loan Originations and Defaults in the Mortgage Crisis: Further Evidence

Manuel Adelino, Antoinette Schoar and Felipe Severino

21319: The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border: Evidence from Switzerland

Andreas Beerli and Giovanni Peri

21318: The Elasticity of Substitution Between Time and Market Goods: Evidence from the Great Recession

Aviv Nevo and Arlene Wong

21317: Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error

John Cawley and Anna Choi

21316: Government Economic Policy, Sentiments, and Consumption

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Nasim Khoshkhou

21315: Aggregating Elasticities: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Female Labour Supply

Orazio Attanasio, Peter Levell, Hamish Low and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos

21314: Relaxing Migration Constraints for Rural Households

Cynthia Kinnan, Shing-Yi Wang and Yongxiang Wang

21313: Exact P-values for Network Interference

Susan Athey, Dean Eckles and Guido Imbens

21312: Solving Shortage in a Priceless Market: Insights from Blood Donation

Tianshu Sun, Susan Feng Lu and Ginger Zhe Jin

21311: Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data

Benjamin Hansen, Joseph J. Sabia and Daniel Rees