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21261: A New Look at the U.S. Foreclosure Crisis: Panel Data Evidence of Prime and Subprime Borrowers from 1997 to 2012

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

21260: Expectations and Investment

Nicola Gennaioli, Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer

21259: Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA's Clean Power Plan

James Bushnell, Stephen Holland, Jonathan Hughes and Christopher Knittel

21258: Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions

Robert Merton and Richard Thakor

21257: Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure

Robert Moffitt, Brian J. Phelan and Anne Winkler

21256: Charter Schools: A Survey of Research on Their Characteristics and Effectiveness

Dennis Epple, Richard Romano and Ron Zimmer

21255: House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

21254: Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association

Jacob T. Levy

21253: How Important Are Terms Of Trade Shocks?

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

21252: Declining Desire to Work and Downward Trends in Unemployment and Participation

Régis Barnichon and Andrew Figura

21251: Linkages and Economic Development

Dominick Bartelme and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

21250: The Political Economy of European Integration

Enrico Spolaore

21249: Sample-selection biases and the “industrialization puzzle”

Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy Guinnane and Thomas Mroz

21248: Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits: Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data

Melvin Stephens and Takashi Unayama

21247: Innovation and Top Income Inequality

Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Antonin Bergeaud, Richard Blundell and David Hemous

21246: Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from Health Care Markets

Heidi Williams

21245: Cross-border Acquisitions and Labor Regulations

Ross Levine, Chen Lin and Beibei Shen

21244: Trends and Cycles in China's Macroeconomy

Chun Chang, Kaiji Chen, Daniel Waggoner and Tao Zha

21243: Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures Ten Years Later

Geetesh Bhardwaj, Gary Gorton and K. Rouwenhorst

21242: Ancestry, Language and Culture

Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

21241: Reviving the Limit Cycle View of Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Paul Beaudry, Dana Galizia and Franck Portier

21240: Mental Health Stigma

Prashant Bharadwaj, Mallesh M. Pai and Agne Suziedelyte

21239: The Impact of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Premature Cancer Mortality in Canada, 2000-2011

Frank Lichtenberg

21238: How Large is the Stock Component of Human Capital?

Mark Huggett and Greg Kaplan

21237: International Organizations and Structural Reforms

Sebastian Galiani, Iván Torre and Gustavo Torrens

21236: Who is Internationally Diversified? Evidence from 296 401(k)

Geert Bekaert, Kenton Hoyem, Wei-Yin Hu and Enrichetta Ravina

21235: Cyclical Reallocation of Workers Across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage

John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer

21234: The Term Structure of Returns: Facts and Theory

Jules van Binsbergen and Ralph Koijen

21233: An Overview of the Stratified Economics of Stratified Medicine

Mark R. Trusheim and Ernst R. Berndt

21232: Admitting Students to Selective Education Programs: Merit, Profiling, and Affirmative Action

Dario Cestau, Dennis Epple and Holger Sieg

21231: Majority Choice of Tax Systems in Single- and Multi-Jurisdictional Economies

Stephen Calabrese, Dennis Epple and Richard Romano

21230: The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

W. Bentley Macleod, Evan Riehl, Juan E. Saavedra and Miguel Urquiola

21229: Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

21228: Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics

Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln and Tarek Hassan

21227: The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism

Lucian Bebchuk, Alon Brav and Wei Jiang

21226: Different Types of Central Bank Insolvency and the Central Role of Seignorage

Ricardo Reis

21225: Does Exporting Improve Matching? Evidence from French Employer-Employee Data

Matilde Bombardini, Gianluca Orefice and Maria D. Tito

21224: Financial Markets where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices

Erik Eyster, Matthew Rabin and Dimitri Vayanos

21223: The Stress Cost of Children

Hielke Buddelmeyer, Daniel Hamermesh and Mark Wooden

21222: Upcoding: Evidence from Medicare on Squishy Risk Adjustment

Michael Geruso and Timothy Layton

21221: War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the First Iraq War

Hugh Rockoff

21220: Balance-Sheet Households and Fiscal Stimulus: Lessons from the Payroll Tax Cut and Its Expiration

Claudia Sahm, Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

21219: Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics

Claudio Ferraz, Frederico Finan and Dimitri Szerman

21218: Physician Practice Style and Patient Health Outcomes: The Case of Heart Attacks

Janet Currie, W. Bentley Macleod and Jessica Van Parys

21217: The Great Escape: Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Since 1940

Nathaniel Hilger

21216: Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Henry S. Farber

21215: Crime, Punishment and the Halo Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility

Harrison Hong and Inessa Liskovich

21214: Socioeconomic Status and Learning from Financial Information

Camelia Kuhnen and Andrei C. Miu

21213: An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble: The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885

Ewout Frankema, Jeffrey Williamson and Pieter Woltjer

21212: Structural Gravity and Fixed Effects

Thibault Fally

21211: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Austin Nichols and Jesse Rothstein

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 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