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21440: Long Run Health Repercussions of Drought Shocks: Evidence from South African Homelands

Taryn Dinkelman

21439: Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intra-national Trade Costs

David Atkin and Dave Donaldson

21438: Mobile Politicians: Opportunistic Career Moves and Moral Hazard

Duha Altindag and Naci Mocan

21437: The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits

Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis

21436: Unsticking the Flypaper Effect in an Uncertain World

Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

21435: People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill In Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks

Jeanne Lafortune, José Tessada and Ethan Lewis

21434: Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention

Raymond Guiteras and Ahmed Mobarak

21433: Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass: Prior and Posterior Analysis

Eric Leeper, Nora Traum and Todd Walker

21432: Are Universities Becoming More Unequal?

Yan Lau and Harvey Rosen

21431: What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations

David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber

21430: Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem Revisited

Jordi Galí

21429: Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Attitudes: Evidence from India

Diva Dhar, Tarun Jain and Seema Jayachandran

21428: Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of a Child Health Investment

Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks, Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel

21427: Can Foreign Exchange Intervention Stem Exchange Rate Pressures from Global Capital Flow Shocks?

Olivier Blanchard, Gustavo Adler and Irineu de Carvalho Filho

21426: Jump Starting the Euro Area Recovery: Would a Rise in Core Fiscal Spending Help the Periphery?

Olivier Blanchard, Christopher Erceg and Jesper Lindé

21425: The Medicaid Program

Thomas Buchmueller, John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

21424: Corporate Venture Capital as a Real Option in the Markets for Technology

Marco Ceccagnoli, Matthew Higgins and Hyunsung D. Kang

21423: The Armington Assumption and the Size of Optimal Tariffs

Chunding Li, Jing Wang and John Whalley

21422: Elections and Divisiveness: Theory and Evidence

Elliott Ash, Massimo Morelli and Richard Van Weelden

21421: The Dynamic Properties of Financial-Market Equilibrium with Trading Fees

Adrian Buss and Bernard Dumas

21420: On the Desirability of Nominal GDP Targeting

Julio Garin, Robert Lester and Eric Sims

21419: Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Sharon Barnhardt, Erica Field and Rohini Pande

21418: Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium: Evidence from a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement

Timothy Conley, Nirav Mehta, Ralph Stinebrickner and Todd Stinebrickner

21417: Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

David Atkin, Azam Chaudhry, Shamyla Chaudry, Amit Khandelwal and Eric Verhoogen

21416: Micro-Evidence on Product and Labor Market Regime Differences between Chile and France

Sabien Dobbelaere, Rodolfo Lauterbach and Jacques Mairesse

21415: Using Scientific Publications to Evaluate Government R&D Spending: The Case of Energy

David Popp

21414: Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take-Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia

B. Kelsey Jack, Paulina Oliva, Christopher Severen, Elizabeth Walker and Samuel Bell

21413: Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Currency of Invoicing and Market Share

Michael Devereux, Ben Tomlin and Wei Dong

21412: Does Credit-card Information Reporting Improve Small-business Tax Compliance?

Joel Slemrod, Brett Collins, Jeffrey Hoopes, Daniel Reck and Michael Sebastiani

21411: The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

David Bloom, Michael Kuhn and Klaus Prettner

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