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20779: Marginal Pricing and Student Investment in Higher Education

Steven W. Hemelt and Kevin Stange

20778: Reservation Prices: An Economic Analysis of Cigarette Purchases on Indian Reservations

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Feng Liu

20777: The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations

Sergey Chernenko, Samuel Hanson and Adi Sunderam

20776: Option-Based Credit Spreads

Christopher L. Culp, Yoshio Nozawa and Pietro Veronesi

20775: Demand Analysis using Strategic Reports: An application to a school choice mechanism

Nikhil Agarwal and Paulo Somaini

20774: College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea

Christopher Avery, Soohyung Lee and Alvin Roth

20773: External Validity in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs

Marinho Bertanha and Guido Imbens

20772: The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Pol Antras, Teresa Fort and Felix Tintelnot

20771: Betting the House

Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

20770: Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets

Supreet Kaur

20769: The Risky Capital of Emerging Markets

Felix Gerding, Espen Henriksen and Ina Simonovska

20768: Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution

Judith Chevalier and Anil Kashyap

20767: An Empirical Model of the Medical Match

Nikhil Agarwal

20766: The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

20765: Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction

Leah Boustan and Robert Margo

20764: The Impact of Education on Health and Health Behavior in a Middle-Income, Low-Education Country

Resul Cesur, Bahadir Dursun and Naci Mocan

20763: Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure

Richard Akresh, German Caruso and Harsha Thirumurthy

20762: Race, Ethnicity and High-Cost Mortgage Lending

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Stephen Ross

20761: Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies

Astrid Kunze and Amalia Miller

20760: Competition and Bank Opacity

Liangliang Jiang, Ross Levine and Chen Lin

20759: Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

Emily Beam, David McKenzie and Dean Yang

20758: Does the Geographic Expansion of Bank Assets Reduce Risk?

Martin Goetz, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

20757: Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Junjian Yi, James Heckman, Junsen Zhang and Gabriella Conti

20756: Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Robin L. Lumsdaine and Stephanie J.C. Vermeer

20755: The Evolution of the Federal Reserve Swap Lines since 1962

Michael Bordo, Owen Humpage and Anna Schwartz

20754: Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Magali Delmas, Matthew Kahn and Stephen Locke

20753: To Cut or Not to Cut? On the Impact of Corporate Taxes on Employment and Income

Alexander Ljungqvist and Michael Smolyansky

20752: One Size does not Fit All: Multiple Dimensions of Ability, College Attendance and Wages

Maria Prada and Sergio Urzua

20751: Regional Transfers

Raphael Corbi, Elias Papaioannou and Paolo Surico

20750: Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States

Tatyana Deryugina and Solomon M. Hsiang

20749: Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Tim Kautz, James Heckman, Ron Diris, Bas ter Weel and Lex Borghans

20748: Unemployment and Health Behaviors Over the Business Cycle: a Longitudinal View

Gregory Colman and Dhaval Dave

20747: A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation

Steven Shavell

20746: Heterogeneity in Decentralized Asset Markets

Julien Hugonnier, Benjamin Lester and Pierre-Olivier Weill

20745: Incidental Bequests and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks

Lee Lockwood

20744: Capital Share Risk in U.S. Asset Pricing

Martin Lettau, Sydney Ludvigson and Sai Ma

20743: Transition to Clean Technology

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William Kerr

20742: Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality

Charles Jones

20741: Sign Restrictions, Structural Vector Autoregressions, and Useful Prior Information

Christiane Baumeister and James Hamilton

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