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20740: The Long Reach of Education: Early Retirement

Steven Venti and David Wise

20739: Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Sascha Becker and Marc-Andreas Muendler

20738: Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence from Roth 401(k) Introductions

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

20737: Unprecedented Actions: The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective

Frederic Mishkin and Eugene White

20736: What are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

Michael Callen, Suresh De Mel, Craig McIntosh and Christopher Woodruff

20735: Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

Matthew Weinzierl

20734: What Do We Know About Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?

Wojciech Kopczuk

20733: Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962-2013: What Happened over the Great Recession?

Edward N. Wolff

20732: Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations during Early U.S. Industrialization

B. Zorina Khan

20731: Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System: Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

B. Zorina Khan

20730: Corporate Debt Structure and the Financial Crisis

Fiorella De Fiore and Harald Uhlig

20729: The Generalized Informativeness Principle

Pierre Chaigneau, Alex Edmans and Daniel Gottlieb

20728: Agglomeration: A Dynamic Approach

W Hanlon and Antonio Miscio

20727: The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Eric Hanushek, Marc Piopiunik and Simon Wiederhold

20726: The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Firm-Level Evidence from a Policy Experiment

Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari and Fabio Kanczuk

20725: Growth, Slowdowns, and Recoveries

Francesco Bianchi, Howard Kung and Gonzalo Morales

20724: The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession: Evidence of Effects on the Employment and Income Trajectories of Low-Skilled Workers

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither

20723: Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin and Jane Greve

20722: All or Nothing? The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Effort and Academic Achievement

Soohyung Lee, Lesley Turner, Seokjin Woo and Kyunghee Kim

20721: A Taxonomy of Anomalies and their Trading Costs

Robert Novy-Marx and Mihail Velikov

20720: Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels

Lucas Davis and Gilbert Metcalf

20719: Government Spending Multipliers in Good Times and in Bad: Evidence from U.S. Historical Data

Valerie Ramey and Sarah Zubairy

20718: Nudges and Learning: Evidence from Informational Interventions for Low-Income Taxpayers

Dayanand Manoli and Nick Turner

20717: Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?

Johan Hombert, Antoinette Schoar, David Sraer and David Thesmar

20716: Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics

Matthew Kahn

20715: A Phillips Curve with Anchored Expectations and Short-Term Unemployment

Laurence Ball and Sandeep Mazumder

20714: How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?

Leonardo Bursztyn and Robert Jensen

20713: The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns

Tatyana Deryugina, Laura Kawano and Steven Levitt

20712: Retail Financial Advice: Does One Size Fit All?

Stephen Foerster, Juhani T. Linnainmaa, Brian Melzer and Alessandro Previtero

20711: Jumps in Bond Yields at Known Times

Don H. Kim and Jonathan Wright

20710: House Prices, Local Demand, and Retail Prices

Johannes Stroebel and Joseph Vavra

20709: Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria

20708: The Impact of Health Insurance Expansion on Physician Treatment Choice: Medicare Part D and Physician Prescribing

Tianyan Hu, Sandra L. Decker and Shin-Yi Chou

20707: Accounting for Post-Crisis Inflation and Employment: A Retro Analysis

Chiara Fratto and Harald Uhlig

20706: The Perverse Impact of Calling for Energy Conservation

J Holladay, Michael Price and Marianne Wanamaker

20705: Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts: Economics vs Politics

Antony Millner and Geoffrey Heal

20704: Do Credit Market Shocks affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and ‘Normal’ Economic Times

Michael Greenstone, Alexandre Mas and Hoai-Luu Nguyen

20703: The Collateral Trap

Frédéric Boissay and Russell Cooper

20702: Extended Families and Child Well-being

Daniel LaFave and Duncan Thomas

20701: Public School Choice: An Economic Analysis

Levon Barseghyan, Damon Clark and Stephen Coate

20700: Do Funds Make More When They Trade More?

Lubos Pastor, Robert Stambaugh and Lucian A. Taylor

20699: Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Completeness of Markets in Agricultural Settings

Daniel LaFave and Duncan Thomas

20698: Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality

Lisa Kahn and Erika McEntarfer

20697: Revealing Malfeasance: How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico

Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall and James Snyder

20696: The Emotional Consequences of Donation Opportunities

Lara B. Aknin, Guy Mayraz and John Helliwell

20695: Toward an Understanding of Reference-Dependent Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

Steffen Andersen, Alec Brandon, Uri Gneezy and John List

20694: Unemployment in the Great Recession: A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Florian Hoffmann and Thomas Lemieux

20693: Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective

Michael Bordo and Pierre Siklos

20692: Are Public Sector Jobs Recession-Proof? Were They Ever?

Jason L. Kopelman and Harvey Rosen

20691: A Welfare Criterion for Models with Distorted Beliefs

Markus Brunnermeier, Alp Simsek and Wei Xiong

20690: Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

David Atkin, Amit Khandelwal and Adam Osman

20689: Does Reading During the Summer Build Reading Skills? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in 463 Classrooms

Jonathan Guryan, James S. Kim and David M. Quinn

20688: How Does Tax Progressivity and Household Heterogeneity Affect Laffer Curves?

Hans Holter, Dirk Krueger and Serhiy Stepanchuk

20687: Is Government Spending at the Zero Lower Bound Desirable?

Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti

20686: Empirical Linkages between Good Government and National Well-being

John Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shawn Grover and Shun Wang

20685: Economic Development and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid: A Historical Perspective

Sebastian Edwards

20684: Household Finance over the Life-Cycle: What does Education Contribute?

Russell Cooper and Guozhong Zhu

20683: New Linked Data on Research Investments: Scientific Workforce, Productivity, and Public Value

Julia Lane, Jason Owen-Smith, Rebecca Rosen and Bruce Weinberg

20682: Which Factors?

Kewei Hou, Haitao Mo, Chen Xue and Lu Zhang

20681: Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks: Evidence from Twitter

Yosh Halberstam and Brian Knight

20680: Subjective Beliefs, Deterrence, and the Propensity to Drive While Intoxicated

Yiqun Chen and Frank Sloan

20679: Does Private Information Influence Automobile Insurance Purchase Decisions?

Frank Sloan, Patricia A. Robinson and Lindsey M. Eldred

20678: Prices, Consumption, and Dividends Over the Business Cycle: A Tale of Two Regimes

Anisha Ghosh and George Constantinides

20677: Markets for Scientific Attribution

Joshua Gans and Fiona Murray

20676: Financing Innovation

William Kerr and Ramana Nanda

20675: The Road to Redemption: Policy Response to Crises in Latin America

Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

20674: Does Uncertainty about Management Affect Firms’ Costs of Borrowing?

Yihui Pan, Tracy Yue Wang and Michael Weisbach

20673: Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Estimation Moments

Isaiah Andrews, Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

20672: Raising Revenue by Limiting Tax Expenditures

Martin Feldstein

20671: Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

Matthew Weinzierl

20670: Unemployment and Innovation

Joseph Stiglitz

20669: Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality

Attila Ambrus, Arun Chandrasekhar and Matt Elliott

20668: The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries

Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber and Adam Isen

20667: Does Management Matter in Schools

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

20666: Whither News Shocks?

Robert Barsky, Susanto Basu and Keyoung Lee

20665: The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring

Daron Acemoglu, Tarek Hassan and Ahmed Tahoun

20664: Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts

Elliott Ash and W. Bentley Macleod

20663: Trade Adjustment Dynamics and the Welfare Gains from Trade

George Alessandria, Horag Choi and Kim Ruhl

20662: Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

Prashant Bharadwaj, Matthew Gibson, Joshua Graff Zivin and Christopher Neilson

20661: Does Conflict of Interest Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews

Stefano DellaVigna and Johannes Hermle

20660: Momentum Trading, Return Chasing, and Predictable Crashes

Benjamin Chabot, Eric Ghysels and Ravi Jagannathan

20659: One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

Benjamin N. York and Susanna Loeb

20658: The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"

Peter Temin

20657: Validating Teacher Effect Estimates Using Changes in Teacher Assignments in Los Angeles

Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

20656: Federal Reserve Policy and Bretton Woods

Michael Bordo and Owen Humpage

20655: Political Polarization, Anticipated Health Insurance Uptake and Individual Mandate: A view from the Washington State

Anirban Basu, Norma Coe, David E. Grembowski and Larry Kessler

20654: Is it all worth it? The experiences of new PhDs on the job market, 2007-2010

Brooke Helppie McFall, Marta Murray-Close, Robert Willis and Uniko Chen

20653: The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans

Martha Bailey and Andrew Goodman-Bacon

20652: Safe Assets

Robert Barro, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Oren Levintal and Andrew Mollerus

20651: Growth Expectations, Dividend Yields, and Future Stock Returns

Zhi Da, Ravi Jagannathan and Jianfeng Shen

20650: Monetary Policy and Debt Fragility

Antoine Camous and Russell Cooper

20649: Do Beliefs Justify Actions or Do Actions Justify Beliefs? An Experiment on Stated Beliefs, Revealed Beliefs, and Social-Image Manipulation

James Andreoni and Alison Sanchez

20648: The Impact of Short Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance and Human Capital Formation

Victor Lavy, Avraham Ebenstein and Sefi Roth

20647: The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations

Victor Lavy, Avraham Ebenstein and Sefi Roth

20646: Liquidity and Foreign Asset Management Challenges for Latin American Countries

Joshua Aizenman and Daniel Riera-Crichton

20645: The Evolution of Charter School Quality

Patrick L. Baude, Marcus Casey, Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

20644: W.U.I. on Fire: Risk, Salience & Housing Demand

Shawn J. McCoy and Randall Walsh

20643: Optimal Fiscal Limits

Stephen Coate

20642: Adverse Selection and Self-fulfilling Business Cycles

Jess Benhabib, Feng Dong and Pengfei Wang

20641: “Nash-in-Nash” Bargaining: A Microfoundation for Applied Work

Allan Collard-Wexler, Gautam Gowrisankaran and Robin Lee