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21210: The Making of Homo Honoratus: From Omission to Commission

Michael Hallsworth, John List, Robert Metcalfe and Ivo Vlaev

21209: The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program

Mark Duggan, Melissa S. Kearney and Stephanie Rennane

21208: The Political Economy of State and Local Investment in Pre-K Programs

Matthew Kahn and Kyle Barron

21207: Optimal Taxation and Human Capital Policies over the Life Cycle

Stefanie Stantcheva

21206: Causal Effects of Mental Health Treatment on Education Outcomes for Youth in the Justice System

Alison Evans Cuellar and Dhaval Dave

21205: The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse

James Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Thierry Verdier

21204: Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia

Christopher Blattman, Julian C. Jamison and Margaret Sheridan

21203: Household Debt and Defaults from 2000 to 2010: Facts from Credit Bureau Data

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

21202: Insurgency and Small Wars: Estimation of Unobserved Coalition Structures

Francesco Trebbi and Eric Weese

21201: Runs versus Lemons: Information Disclosure and Fiscal Capacity

Miguel Faria-e-Castro, Joseba Martinez and Thomas Philippon

21200: Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg Wright

21199: Firming Up Inequality

Jae Song, David Price, Fatih Guvenen, Nicholas Bloom and Till von Wachter

21198: Culture and Global Sourcing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Bohdan Kukharskyy and Gérard Roland

21197: Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico

Jeffrey Grogger

21196: The Market Value of R&D in Weak Innovation Regimes: Evidence from India

Sunil Kanwar and Bronwyn Hall

21195: Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States

Eric Hilt

21194: Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled: Why Fuel Economy Requirements Don't Increase Household Driving

Jeremy West, Mark Hoekstra, Jonathan Meer and Steven Puller

21193: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Jeanet Bentzen, Jacob Gerner Hariri and James Robinson

21192: New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth among Individuals: Part IV: Land and Credit

Joseph Stiglitz

21191: New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth among Individuals: Part III: Life Cycle Savings vs. Inherited Savings

Joseph Stiglitz

21190: New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth among Individuals: Part II: Equilibrium Wealth Distributions

Joseph Stiglitz

21189: New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth among Individuals: Part I. The Wealth Residual

Joseph Stiglitz

21188: Political Bonds: Political Hazards and the Choice of Municipal Financial Instruments

Abhay Aneja, Marian Moszoro and Pablo Spiller

21187: Regulating Internalities

Hunt Allcott and Cass Sunstein

21186: Rigidity of Public Contracts

Marian Moszoro, Pablo Spiller and Sebastian Stolorz

21185: Ghost-House Busters: The Electoral Response to a Large Anti Tax Evasion Program

Lorenzo Casaburi and Ugo antonio Troiano

21184: Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality

Michael Geruso and Dean Spears

21183: Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap

Xiaodong Fan, Hanming Fang and Simen Markussen

21182: The Price of Variance Risk

Ian Dew-Becker, Stefano Giglio, Anh Le and Marius Rodriguez

21181: The U.S. listing gap

Craig Doidge, G. Karolyi and René Stulz

21180: Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan

Michael Callen, Saad Gulzar, Ali Hasanain, Muhammad Khan and Arman Rezaee

21179: A Tractable Model of Monetary Exchange with Ex-post Heterogeneity

Guillaume Rocheteau, Pierre-Olivier Weill and Russell Wong

21178: Thinking, Fast and Slow? Some Field Experiments to Reduce Crime and Dropout in Chicago

Sara B. Heller, Anuj K. Shah, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Harold A. Pollack

21177: Optimal Income, Education, and Bequest Taxes in an Intergenerational Model

Stefanie Stantcheva

21176: Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

David Atkin, Benjamin Faber and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

21175: Foreign and Native Skilled Workers: What Can We Learn from H-1B Lotteries?

Giovanni Peri, Kevin Shih and Chad Sparber

21174: Misperceiving Inequality

Vladimir Gimpelson and Daniel Treisman

21173: Maintaining Central-Bank Financial Stability under New-Style Central Banking

Robert Hall and Ricardo Reis

21172: Financial Flows and the International Monetary System

Evgenia Passari and Helene Rey

21171: Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Jason Lindo and María Padilla-Romo

21170: Do ‘Cheeseburger Bills’ Work? Effects of Tort Reform for Fast Food

Christopher Carpenter and Daniel Tello-Trillo

21169: Social Networks, Reputation and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment

Emily Breza and Arun Chandrasekhar

21168: Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

John Beshears, James Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

21167: Market Definition, Market Power

Louis Kaplow

21166: Days to Cover and Stock Returns

Harrison Hong, Weikai Li, Sophie X. Ni, Jose Scheinkman and Philip Yan

21165: Skill Biased Structural Change

Francisco Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Richard Rogerson

21164: How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China

Xue Bai, Kala Krishna and Hong Ma

21163: Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform

Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo and John van Reenen

21162: Dilemma not Trilemma: The Global Financial Cycle and Monetary Policy Independence

Helene Rey

21161: The Supply and Demand of S&P 500 Put Options

George Constantinides and Lei Lian

21160: Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions? Evidence from a Menu with Dominated Options

Saurabh Bhargava, George Loewenstein and Justin Sydnor

21159: Uncovered Interest Parity and Monetary Policy Near and Far from the Zero Lower Bound

Menzie Chinn and Yi Zhang

21158: Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises: Can Monetary Policy Really Help?

Philippe Bacchetta, Elena Perazzi and Eric van Wincoop

21157: Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run

Joshua Graff Zivin, Solomon M. Hsiang and Matthew Neidell

21156: The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren and Lawrence Katz

21155: A Tractable Framework for Analyzing a Class of Nonstationary Markov Models

Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar, John Taylor and Inna Tsener

21154: Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti

21153: Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State: Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900

Ruth H. Bloch and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

21152: Colonial New Jersey's Provincial Fiscal Structure, 1709-1775: Spending Obligations, Revenue Sources, and Tax Burdens in War and in Peace

Farley Grubb

21151: A Structural Model of Electoral Accountability

S. Boragan Aruoba, Allan Drazen and Razvan Vlaicu

21150: Bank sovereign bond holdings, sovereign shock spillovers, and moral hazard during the European crisis

Andrea Beltratti and René Stulz

21149: The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics

Lorenzo Caliendo, Maximiliano Dvorkin and Fernando Parro

21148: When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming

Amrita Ahuja, Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel and Shawn Powers

21147: Giving College Credit Where it is Due: Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes

Jonathan Smith, Michael Hurwitz and Christopher Avery

21146: The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions

Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua L. Krieger

21145: Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making

Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson

21144: The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program

David Autor, Mark Duggan, Kyle Greenberg and David S. Lyle

21143: Above a Swamp: A Theory of High-Quality Scientific Production

Bralind Kiri, Nicola Lacetera and Lorenzo Zirulia

21142: The Facts of Economic Growth

Charles Jones

21141: It's Good to be First: Order Bias in Reading and Citing NBER Working Papers

Daniel Feenberg, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Jonathan Gruber

21140: Lost in the Clouds: The Impact of Changing Property Rights on Investment in Cloud Computing Ventures

Josh Lerner and Greg Rafert

21139: Cofinancing in Environment and Development: Evidence from the Global Environment Facility

Matthew Kotchen and Neeraj Kumar Negi

21138: Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India

Adriana Kugler and Santosh Kumar

21137: Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from California Community Colleges

Ann Stevens, Michal Kurlaender and Michel Grosz

21136: How Modern Dictators Survive: An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism

Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

21135: The Impact of Tuition Increases on Undocumented College Students' Attainment

Dylan Conger and Lesley Turner

21134: Slack Time and Innovation

Ajay Agrawal, Christian Catalini and Avi Goldfarb

21133: What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

Paul Gompers, Steven Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov

21132: Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

Marcel Fafchamps and Simon Quinn

21131: Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix

21130: Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a natural Experiment

Hans Fricke, Jeffrey Grogger and Andreas Steinmayr

21129: Productivity, Safety, and Regulation in Underground Coal Mining: Evidence from Disasters and Fatalities

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Charles He, Eric A. Lutz and Jefferey L. Burgess

21128: Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Trilemma in the New Normal: Periphery Country Sensitivity to Core Country Conditions

Joshua Aizenman, Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

21127: Redistribution and Group Participation: Comparative Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK

Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Hill

21126: Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky and Molly Schnell

21125: Identification and Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of a Dynamic Discrete Game

Patrick Bajari, Victor Chernozhukov, Han Hong and Denis Nekipelov

21124: Improving Policy Functions in High-Dimensional Dynamic Games

Carlos A. Manzanares, Ying Jiang and Patrick Bajari

21123: Are Immigrants a Shot in the Arm for the Local Economy?

Gihoon Hong and John McLaren

21122: High-frequency, Algorithmic Spillovers Between NASDAQ and Forex

Takatoshi Ito and Masahiro Yamada

21121: Monnet's Error?

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

21120: The Effect of State Taxes on the Geographical Location of Top Earners: Evidence from Star Scientists

Enrico Moretti and Daniel Wilson

21119: Goldilocks Economies? Temperature Stress and the Direct Impacts of Climate Change

Geoffrey Heal and Jisung Park

21118: Liquidity as Social Expertise

Pablo Kurlat

21117: Culture, Institutions and Democratization

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gérard Roland

21116: Green Skills

Francesco Vona, Giovanni Marin, Davide Consoli and David Popp

21115: Welfare and Distributional Implications of Shale Gas

Catherine Hausman and Ryan Kellogg

21114: The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality since 1900

Mark R. Cullen, Michael Baiocchi, Karen Eggleston, Pooja Loftus and Victor Fuchs

21113: The U.S. Electricity Industry After 20 Years of Restructuring

Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell

21112: Demystifying the Chinese Housing Boom

Hanming Fang, Quanlin Gu, Wei Xiong and Li-An Zhou

21111: Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity: A Case Study for China

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen