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19010: If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?

Diego Comin and Martí Mestieri

19009: Pledgability and Liquidity: A New Monetarist Model of Financial and Macroeconomic Activity

Venky Venkateswaran and Randall Wright

19008: Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars

George Hall and Thomas Sargent

19007: Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and Jonathan Shaw

19006: China and India: Reforms and the Response: How Differently have the Economies Behaved

Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley

19005: Economic Analysis of Risk and Uncertainty induced by Health Shocks: A Review and Extension

Tomas Philipson and George Zanjani

19004: State-run Banks, Money Growth, and the Real Economy

Randall Morck, M. Deniz Yavuz and Bernard Yeung

19003: Community-Wide Job Loss and Teenage Fertility

Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines and Christina M. Gibson-Davis

19002: Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

19001: More is Less: Why Parties May Deliberately Write Incomplete Contracts

Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka and Oliver Hart

19000: The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle

Alisdair McKay and Ricardo Reis

18999: Discounting under Disagreement

Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner

18998: Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK

James Andreoni, A. Payne and Sarah Smith

18997: Keeping it Fresh: Strategic Product Redesigns and Welfare

Bruce Blonigen, Christopher Knittel and Anson Soderbery

18996: Growth and Structural Transformation

Berthold Herrendorf, Richard Rogerson and Akos Valentinyi

18995: The VIX, the Variance Premium and Stock Market Volatility

Geert Bekaert and Marie Hoerova

18994: Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Maltreatment

Jason Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller and Benjamin Hansen

18993: Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William Kerr

18992: Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

18991: Social Impact Bonds in Nonprofit Health Care: New Product or New Package?

Mark Pauly and Ashley Swanson

18990: What Drives Aggregate Investment? Evidence from German Survey Data

Ruediger Bachmann and Peter Zorn

18989: Firms' Optimism and Pessimism

Ruediger Bachmann and Steffen Elstner

18988: Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB

Elizabeth Davidson, Randall Reback, Jonah E. Rockoff and Heather L. Schwartz

18987: This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout

Sandra Black, Aline Bütikofer, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

18986: How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Chad Kendall, Tommaso Nannicini and Francesco Trebbi

18985: A Bargaining Theory of Trade Invoicing and Pricing

Linda Goldberg and Cédric Tille

18984: Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary B. Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist

18983: The Pruned State-Space System for Non-Linear DSGE Models: Theory and Empirical Applications

Martin Andreasen, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

18982: Patent Trading Flows of Small and Large Firms

Nicolas Figueroa and Carlos Serrano

18981: The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

Umut Dur, Scott Kominers, Parag Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez

18980: Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem

Elliot Anenberg and Patrick Bayer

18979: Women's Emancipation Through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Fatih Guvenen and Michelle Rendall

18978: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner

18977: Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making and Performance Among Physicians

Janet Currie and W. Bentley Macleod

18976: Shrouded Costs of Government: The Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions

Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto

18975: Why Does Balanced News Produce Unbalanced Views?

Edward Glaeser and Cass Sunstein

18974: Energy Production and Health Externalities: Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France

Emmanuelle Lavaine and Matthew Neidell

18973: Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places: Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry

Luis Cabral, Zhu Wang and Yi Xu

18972: Innovation and Production in the Global Economy

Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Stephen Yeaple

18971: The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)

Peter Boone, Ila Fazzio, Kameshwari Jandhyala, Chitra Jayanty, Gangadhar Jayanty, Simon Johnson, Vimala Ramachandrin, Filipa Silva and Zhaoguo Zhan

18970: Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?

Brian Greaney, Joseph Kaboski and Eva Van Leemput

18969: Financial Literacy and High-Cost Borrowing in the United States

Annamaria Lusardi and Carlo de Bassa Scheresberg

18968: Testing Macroprudential Stress Tests: The Risk of Regulatory Risk Weights

Viral Acharya, Robert Engle and Diane Pierret

18967: The Global Energy Outlook

Richard Newell and Stuart Iler

18966: Family Ties

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

18965: Congressional Influence as a Determinant of Subprime Lending

Stuart Gabriel, Matthew Kahn and Ryan Vaughn

18964: Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves

Grant Miller and Ahmed Mobarak

18963: Fundamentals and Sovereign Risk of Emerging Markets

Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak and Donghyun Park

18962: Preparing to Export

Claudio Labanca, Danielken Molina and Marc-Andreas Muendler

18961: More Trusting, Less Trust? An Investigation of Early E-Commerce in China

Hongbin Cai, Ginger Z. Jin, Chong Liu and Li-An Zhou

18960: The Simple Analytics of Monetary Policy: A Post-Crisis Approach

Benjamin M. Friedman

18959: Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality

Garth Heutel and Christopher Ruhm

18958: Exploring Tradeoffs in the Organization of Scientific Work: Collaboration and Scientific Reward

Michaël Bikard, Fiona E. Murray and Joshua Gans

18957: Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses

Richard Baldwin and Javier Lopez-Gonzalez

18956: Assessing International Efficiency

Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri

18955: Large Block Shareholders, Institutional Investors, Boards of Directors and Bank Value in the Nineteenth Century

Howard Bodenhorn

18954: Improving GDP Measurement: A Measurement-Error Perspective

S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis Diebold, Jeremy Nalewaik, Frank Schorfheide and Dongho Song

18953: An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Jeremy Greenwood, Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos and Michele Tertilt

18952: The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

18951: The Simple Economics of Commodity Price Speculation

Christopher Knittel and Robert Pindyck

18950: The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan

18949: Housing Booms, Manufacturing Decline, and Labor Market Outcomes

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Matthew Notowidigdo

18948: Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women

Edward Norton, Lauren Nicholas and Sean Sheng-Hsiu Huang

18947: Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program

Michael Geruso and Harvey Rosen

18946: Financial Development in 205 Economies, 1960 to 2010

Martin Cihak, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Erik Feyen and Ross Levine

18945: Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model

Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

18944: Finance: Function Matters, not Size

John Cochrane

18943: Procyclical Leverage and Value-at-Risk

Tobias Adrian and Hyun Song Shin

18942: Capital Flows and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy

Valentina Bruno and Hyun Song Shin

18941: Household Leveraging and Deleveraging

Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

18940: The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

18939: Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance: Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections

Ginger Zhe Jin and Jungmin Lee

18938: Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson

18937: Growth in Regions

Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez de Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

18936: Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

18935: Environment, Health, and Human Capital

Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell

18934: Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries

Christophe Gouel

18933: Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu and Stephen Ross

18932: Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs

Grant Miller and Kimberly Singer Babiarz

18931: A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry

Kenneth Flamm

18930: Local Deficits and Local Jobs: Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?

Gerald Carlino and Robert P. Inman

18929: Uncertainty and Decision in Climate Change Economics

Geoffrey Heal and Antony Millner

18928: The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits During and After the Great Recession

David Neumark and Diego Grijalva

18927: Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

Daniel Benjamin, Ori Heffetz, Miles Kimball and Alex Rees-Jones

18926: How Do Hospitals Respond to Market Entry? Evidence from A Deregulated Market for Cardiac Revascularization

Suhui Li and Avi Dor

18925: Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life

David Albouy, Walter Graf, Ryan Kellogg and Hendrik Wolff

18924: Incidence and Environmental Effects of Distortionary Subsidies

Garth Heutel and David Kelly

18923: Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?

Anil Kashyap and Natalia Kovrijnykh

18922: Bond Market Clienteles, the Yield Curve, and the Optimal Maturity Structure of Government Debt

Stéphane Guibaud, Yves Nosbusch and Dimitri Vayanos

18921: Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

18920: Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Christian Fons-Rosen, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen, Carolina Villegas-Sanchez and Vadym Volosovych

18919: New Trade Models, New Welfare Implications

Marc Melitz and Stephen Redding

18918: Price Indexes for Clinical Trial Research: A Feasibility Study

Ernst R. Berndt and Iain Cockburn

18917: Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets

Amanda Pallais

18916: Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

18915: The Long-term Effects of Early Lead Exposure: Evidence from a case of Environmental Negligence

Tomás Rau, Loreto Reyes and Sergio Urzua

18914: No News is News: Do Markets Underreact to Nothing?

Stefano Giglio and Kelly Shue

18913: The Articulation Effect of Government Policy: Health Insurance Mandates Versus Taxes

Keith Ericson and Judd B. Kessler

18912: The Market for OTC Derivatives

Andrew Atkeson, Andrea Eisfeldt and Pierre-Olivier Weill

18911: A Theory of the Competitive Saving Motive

Qingyuan Du and Shang-Jin Wei