NBER Working Papers

From National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A..
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

18626: Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University

Caroline Hoxby

18625: Matthew: Effect or Fable?

Pierre Azoulay, Toby Stuart and Yanbo Wang

18624: Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina

C. Kirabo Jackson

18623: The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling: Evidence from UNICEF MICS Countries

Eric Edmonds and Maheshwor Shrestha

18622: A Voting Architecture for the Governance of Free-Driver Externalities, with Application to Geoengineering

Martin Weitzman

18621: Thirty Years of Prospect Theory in Economics: A Review and Assessment

Nicholas C. Barberis

18620: Firm/Employee Matching: An Industry Study of American Lawyers

Paul Oyer and Scott Schaefer

18619: Disagreement and Asset Prices

Bruce I. Carlin, Francis Longstaff and Kyle Matoba

18618: Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk, Richard Burkhauser and Kenneth Couch

18617: Valuation Risk and Asset Pricing

Rui Albuquerque, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

18616: Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America

Christopher Hanes and Paul Rhode

18615: Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect

Mary Amiti, Oleg Itskhoki and Jozef Konings

18614: Cognitive Mobility: Labor Market Responses to Supply Shocks in the Space of Ideas

George Borjas and Kirk Doran

18613: Mobile Scientists and International Networks

Giuseppe Scellato, Chiara Franzoni and Paula Stephan

18612: A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement

Daniel Jones, Werner Troesken and Randall Walsh

18611: Securitization

Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick

18610: Who is Exposed to Gas Prices? How Gasoline Prices Affect Automobile Manufacturers and Dealerships

Meghan R. Busse, Christopher Knittel and Florian Zettelmeyer

18609: Did the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Lead to Risky Lending?

Sumit Agarwal, Efraim Benmelech, Nittai Bergman and Amit Seru

18608: Misconduct in Credence Good Markets

Jennifer Brown and Dylan B. Minor

18607: Risk Management and Climate Change

Howard Kunreuther, Geoffrey Heal, Myles Allen, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christopher B. Field and Gary Yohe

18606: External Imbalances and Financial Crises

Alan Taylor

18605: Does State Preschool Crowd-Out Private Provision? The Impact of Universal Preschool on the Childcare Sector in Oklahoma and Georgia

Daphna Bassok, Maria Fitzpatrick and Susanna Loeb

18604: Concording EU Trade and Production Data over Time

Ilke Van Beveren, Andrew Bernard and Hylke Vandenbussche

18603: Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Michael Burda, Daniel Hamermesh and Jay Stewart

18602: Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting

David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian and Todd Schoellman

18601: Narrow Framing and Life Insurance

Daniel Gottlieb and Kent Smetters

18600: When Is There a Strong Transfer Risk from the Sovereigns to the Corporates? Property Rights Gaps and CDS Spreads

Jennie Bai and Shang-Jin Wei

18599: The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: Normative Diversity and a role for Equal Sacrifice

Matthew Weinzierl

18598: The Effects of Texas's Targeted Pre-Kindergarten Program on Academic Performance

Rodney J. Andrews, Paul Jargowsky and Kristin Kuhne

18597: Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Bruno Crépon, Esther Duflo, Marc Gurgand, Roland Rathelot and Philippe Zamora

18596: Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin and John van Reenen

18595: Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Daron Acemoglu, Gino Gancia and Fabrizio Zilibotti

18594: Costly Litigation and Optimal Damages

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

18593: Value-Based Differential Pricing: Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context

Patricia Danzon, Adrian Towse and Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz

18592: Capital and Labor Reallocation Inside Firms

Xavier Giroud and Holger M. Mueller

18591: The ARRA: Some Unpleasant Welfare Arithmetic

Casey Mulligan

18590: Buy-it-now or Take-a-chance: Price Discrimination through Randomized Auctions

L. Elisa Celis, Gregory Lewis, Markus Mobius and Hamid Nazerzadeh

18589: The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

Jay Bhattacharya, Christina Gathmann and Grant Miller

18588: Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil

Lee Alston, Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Pereira

18587: Efficient Bailouts?

Javier Bianchi

18586: The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students

Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery

18585: Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements

Marco Battaglini and Bard Harstad

18584: Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth

Wojciech Kopczuk

18583: Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox

Hunt Allcott and Nathan Wozny

18582: Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market

Fabián Duarte and Justine Hastings

18581: Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto and Peter Savelyev

18580: Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company

Heather Royer, Mark Stehr and Justin R. Sydnor

18579: Tracing Value-added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang and Shang-Jin Wei

18578: Output Spillovers from Fiscal Policy

Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

18577: The Mover's Advantage: Scientific Performance of Mobile Academics

Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato and Paula Stephan

18576: Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices

Thomas Buser, Muriel Niederle and Hessel Oosterbeek

18575: What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian and Stephen Zeldes

18574: Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

Martin Gaynor, Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

18573: Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Alessandra Casella and Sébastien Turban

18572: Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs

Harold Cole, Soojin Kim and Dirk Krueger

18571: Public Liabilities and Health Care Policy

Kristopher Hult and Tomas Philipson

18570: Is Inflation Targeting Still On Target?

Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco

18569: Macroeconomic Performance During Commodity Price Booms and Busts

Luis Cespedes and Andrés Velasco

18568: Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance

Jason A. Grissom, Demetra Kalogrides and Susanna Loeb

18567: Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com

Weijia Dai, Ginger Z. Jin, Jungmin Lee and Michael Luca

18566: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa

Leander Heldring and James Robinson

18565: Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowdout in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Søren Leth-Petersen, Torben Nielsen and Tore Olsen

18564: Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

David Card, David Lee, Zhuan Pei and Andrea Weber

18563: Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate

Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon

18562: Using Neural Data to Test a Theory of Investor Behavior: An Application to Realization Utility

Cary Frydman, Nicholas Barberis, Colin Camerer, Peter Bossaerts and Antonio Rangel

18561: How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions

Kalina Manova and Zhihong Yu

18560: Arbitrage Asymmetry and the Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle

Robert Stambaugh, Jianfeng Yu and Yu Yuan

18559: The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class

Edward N. Wolff

18558: Embedded Leverage

Andrea Frazzini and Lasse Pedersen

18557: The Federal Reserve, Emerging Markets, and Capital Controls: A High Frequency Empirical Investigation

Sebastian Edwards

18556: On the Link Between the Volatility and Skewness of Growth

Geert Bekaert and Alexander Popov

18555: Building Castles in the Air: Evidence from Industry IPO Waves

Zhi Da, Ravi Jagannathan and Jianfeng Shen

18554: Empirical Cross-Sectional Asset Pricing

Stefan Nagel

18553: How Important Are Perpetual Tax Savings?

James Hines

18552: The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity: Patient-Level Evidence from the 1996-2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Linked Mortality Public-Use Files

Frank Lichtenberg

18551: Information and College Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Philip Oreopoulos and Ryan Dunn

18550: Misallocation and Financial Frictions: Some Direct Evidence From the Dispersion in Borrowing Costs

Simon Gilchrist, Jae Sim and Egon Zakrajšek

18549: Repo and Securities Lending

Tobias Adrian, Brian Begalle, Adam Copeland and Antoine Martin

18548: Speculative Betas

Harrison Hong and David Sraer

18547: Quiet Bubbles

Harrison Hong and David Sraer

18546: On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

18545: Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Persistent Shocks

Marina Halac and Pierre Yared

18544: The Making Of A Great Contraction With A Liquidity Trap and A Jobless Recovery

Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

18543: You Owe Me

Ulrike Malmendier and Klaus Schmidt

18542: Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

18541: Free Lunch! Arbitrage Opportunities in the Foreign Exchange Markets

Takatoshi Ito, Kenta Yamada, Misako Takayasu and Hideki Takayasu

18540: Dynamic Programming with Hermite Approximation

Yongyang Cai and Kenneth Judd

18539: The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone

Victor Davies and Sylvain Dessy

18538: The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Britta Augsburg, Ralph De Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir

18537: Vulnerable Banks

Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier and David Thesmar

18536: Monetary Rules for Commodity Traders

Luis Catão and Roberto Chang

18535: Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

Hilary Hoynes, Diane Schanzenbach and Douglas Almond

18534: The Spatial Diffusion of Technology

Diego Comin, Mikhail Dmitriev and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

18533: Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing

Koichiro Ito

18532: Trade, Domestic Frictions, and Scale Effects

Natalia Ramondo, Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Milagro Saborio-Rodriguez

18531: Systemic Risks in Global Banking: What Available Data can tell us and What More Data are Needed?

Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens and Patrick McGuire

18530: Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration

Maria Fitzpatrick and Damon Jones

18529: Health Insurance Reform: The Impact of a Medicare Buy-In

Gary Hansen, Minchung Hsu and Junsang Lee

18528: Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks

Victoria Ivashina, David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein

18527: Macroeconomic Adjustment and the History of Crises in Open Economies

Joshua Aizenman and Ilan Noy