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19961: Empowering Women: The Effect of Schooling on Young Women's Knowledge and Use of Contraception

Mabel Andalón, Jenny Williams and Michael Grossman

19960: Managing Credit Bubbles

Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

19959: Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples

Guido Imbens

19958: Asset Prices in a Lifecycle Economy

Roger Farmer

19957: Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending

Peter Koudijs and Hans-Joachim Voth

19956: Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care: What Determines Heterogeneity in Imaging Behavior?

Jason Abaluck, Leila Agha, Christopher Kabrhel, Ali Raja and Arjun Venkatesh

19955: Caveat Lector: Sample Selection in Historical Heights and the Interpretation of Early Industrializing Economies

Howard Bodenhorn, Timothy Guinnane and Thomas Mroz

19954: The Effects of Medicare on Medical Expenditure Risk and Financial Strain

Silvia Barcellos and Mireille Jacobson

19953: Opting Out of Good Governance

C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein and Eric Zwick

19952: Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures: Does Strip-down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?

Wenli Li, Ishani Tewari and Michelle White

19951: Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Nicholas Bloom, Paul Romer, Stephen Terry and John van Reenen

19950: The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales

Timothy Bond and Kevin Lang

19949: Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan

Eli Berman, Michael Callen, Clark Gibson and James D. Long

19948: Effects of Prescription Drug Insurance on Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Robert Kaestner, Cuiping Long and G Alexander

19947: Patents as Quality Signals? The Implications for Financing Constraints on R&D

Dirk Czarnitzki, Bronwyn Hall and Hanna Hottenrott

19946: Maturity Rationing and Collective Short-Termism

Konstantin Milbradt and Martin Oehmke

19945: Loan Prospecting and the Loss of Soft Information

Sumit Agarwal and Itzhak Ben-David

19944: Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers

Tom Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell

19943: The Political Coase Theorem: Experimental Evidence

Sebastian Galiani, Gustavo Torrens and Maria Lucia Yanguas

19942: In with the Big, Out with the Small: Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Leslie Martin, Shanthi Nataraj and Ann Harrison

19941: Trade and Uncertainty

Dennis Novy and Alan Taylor

19940: Breastfeeding and Child Disability: A Comparison of Siblings from the United States

George Wehby

19939: Did Robert Bork Understate the Competitive Impact of Mergers? Evidence from Consummated Mergers

Orley Ashenfelter, Daniel Hosken and Matthew Weinberg

19938: Exiting from QE

Fumio Hayashi and Junko Koeda

19937: Understanding the Role of Time-Varying Unobserved Ability Heterogeneity in Education Production

Weili Ding and Steven Lehrer

19936: The Economics of Work Schedules under the New Hours and Employment Taxes

Casey Mulligan

19935: Heterogeneous Paths Through College: Detailed Patterns and Relationships with Graduation and Earnings

Rodney Andrews, Jing Li and Michael Lovenheim

19934: Learning From the Doers: Developing Country Lessons for Advanced Economy Growth

Anusha Chari and Peter Henry

19933: Institutions, Human Capital and Development

Daron Acemoglu, Francisco Gallego and James Robinson

19932: The Labor Market Effects of Reducing the Number of Illegal Immigrants

Andri Chassamboulli and Giovanni Peri

19931: Liquidity Risk and the Dynamics of Arbitrage Capital

Péter Kondor and Dimitri Vayanos

19930: Retirement Security in an Aging Society

James Poterba

19929: Endogenous Co-residence and Program Incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension

Amar Hamoudi and Duncan Thomas

19928: Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Charles Courtemanche, Joshua Pinkston and Jay Stewart

19927: The Safety Trap

Ricardo Caballero and Emmanuel Farhi

19926: The Growing Dependence of Britain on Trade during the Industrial Revolution

Gregory Clark, Kevin O'Rourke and Alan Taylor

19925: The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

James Heckman and Stefano Mosso

19924: The Argentina Paradox: Microexplanations and Macropuzzles

Alan Taylor

19923: The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India

Rajeev Dehejia and Arvind Panagariya

19922: Driving to Opportunity: Local Rents, Wages, Commuting Costs and Sub-Metropolitan Quality of Life

David Albouy and Bert Lue

19921: The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tian Tang and David Popp

19920: The Effectiveness of Mandatory Mortgage Counseling: Can One Dissuade Borrowers from Choosing Risky Mortgages?

Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet and Douglas Evanoff

19919: Urban Population and Amenities: The Neoclassical Model of Location

David Albouy and Bryan Stuart

19918: Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study

Marina Agranov and Thomas Palfrey

19917: Foreign Ownership of U.S. Safe Assets: Good or Bad?

Jack Favilukis, Sydney Ludvigson and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

19916: Gravity and Extended Gravity: Using Moment Inequalities to Estimate a Model of Export Entry

Eduardo Morales, Gloria Sheu and Andres Zahler

19915: The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Hugh Macartney

19914: Debt Crises and Risk Sharing: The Role of Markets versus Sovereigns

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Emiliano Luttini and Bent Sorensen

19913: Financial Incentives, Health and Retirement in Spain

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Judit Vall Castello

19912: Big-Box Retailers and Urban Carbon Emissions: The Case of Wal-Mart

Matthew Kahn and Nils Kok

19911: Fiscal Multipliers in Japan

Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

19910: A Century of Capital Structure: The Leveraging of Corporate America

John Graham, Mark T. Leary and Michael Roberts

19909: Is It Too Late to Bail Out the Troubled Countries in the Eurozone?

Juan Carlos Conesa and Timothy Kehoe

19908: Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout

Henry S. Farber

19907: Effect of Pensions and Disability Benefits on Retirement in the UK

James Banks, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow

19906: Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements: Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service

Morris M. Kleiner, Allison Marier, Kyoung Park and Coady Wing

19905: Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic co-authorship within the US

Richard Freeman and Wei Huang

19904: Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance

Jeffrey Clemens

19903: A New Approach to Solving the Colonial Monetary Puzzle: Evidence from New Jersey, 1709-1775

Farley Grubb

19902: The Role of Health in Retirement

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

19901: Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry

Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama, Tetsuji Okazaki and Chad Syverson

19900: Can Intangible Capital Explain Cyclical Movements in the Labor Wedge?

Francois Gourio and Leena Rudanko

19899: Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni Violante

19898: Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US?: A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios

Jun Wang and John Whalley

19897: An Optimizing Neuroeconomic Model of Discrete Choice

Michael Woodford

19896: Efficiency versus Equity in the Allocation of Medical Specialty Training Positions in Spain: A Health Policy Simulation Based on a Discrete Choice Model

Jeffrey E. Harris, Beatriz G. López-Valcárcel, Patricia Barber and Vicente Ortun

19895: The Demise of U.S. Economic Growth: Restatement, Rebuttal, and Reflections

Robert Gordon

19894: Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and Murat Celik

19893: Are Chinese Growth and Inflation Too Smooth? Evidence from Engel Curves

Emi Nakamura, Jon Steinsson and Miao Liu

19892: Effects of Index-Fund Investing on Commodity Futures Prices

James Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu

19891: Scale and Skill in Active Management

Lubos Pastor, Robert Stambaugh and Lucian A. Taylor

19890: Central Clearing and Collateral Demand

Darrell Duffie, Martin Scheicher and Guillaume Vuillemey

19889: Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement: Micro-Simulation Evidence for Germany

Hendrik Juerges, Lars Thiel, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Johannes Rausch, Morten Schuth and Axel Boersch-Supan

19888: Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

19887: Measuring the ''World'' Real Interest Rate

Mervyn King and David Low

19886: Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing? Redux

Saroj Bhattarai, Gauti Eggertsson and Raphael Schoenle

19885: A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk

Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy

19884: Short-run Effects of Job Loss on Health Conditions, Health Insurance, and Health Care Utilization

Jessamyn Schaller and Ann Stevens

19883: Search Frictions and Market Power in Negotiated Price Markets

Jason Allen, Robert Clark and Jean-François Houde

19882: Default and Repayment Among Baccalaureate Degree Earners

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

19881: Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

Alan Barreca, Karen Clay and Joel Tarr

19880: Media Bias in the Marketplace: Theory

Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse Shapiro and Daniel Stone

19879: Risk Aversion and the Desirability of Attenuated Legal Change

Steven Shavell

19878: Tobacco Control Campaign in Uruguay: Impact on Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy

Jeffrey E. Harris, Ana Balsa and Patricia Triunfo

19877: The Morphology of Price Dispersion

Greg Kaplan and Guido Menzio

19876: Revealed Preference, Rational Inattention, and Costly Information Acquisition

Andrew Caplin and Mark Dean

19875: Testing for Information Asymmetries in Real Estate Markets

Pablo Kurlat and Johannes Stroebel

19874: Present-Bias, Procrastination and Deadlines in a Field Experiment

Alberto Bisin and Kyle Hyndman

19873: Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements

J.J. Prescott, Kathryn E. Spier and Albert Yoon

19872: Intra-national Trade Costs: Measurement and Aggregation

Delina Agnosteva, James Anderson and Yoto Yotov

19871: High Discounts and High Unemployment

Robert Hall

19870: A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages

Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller

19869: Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation

Raquel Fernandez and Joyce C. Wong

19868: Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

19867: Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson

19866: Age and Scientific Genius

Benjamin Jones, E.J. Reedy and Bruce Weinberg

19865: Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects

Andrew Bernard, Renzo Massari, José-Daniel Reyes and Daria Taglioni

19864: How Risky Are Recessions for Top Earners?

Fatih Guvenen, Greg Kaplan and Jae Song

19863: Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda

Dean Karlan and Leigh Linden

19862: The (Surprising) Efficacy of Academic and Behavioral Intervention with Disadvantaged Youth: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Chicago

Philip J Cook, Kenneth Dodge, George Farkas, Roland Fryer, Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig, Susan Mayer, Harold Pollack and Laurence Steinberg