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18340: Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation

Dina Mayzlin, Yaniv Dover and Judith Chevalier

18339: Mortgage Market Design

John Campbell

18338: Back to the Future? Abortion Before & After Roe

Ted Joyce, Ruoding Tan and Yuxiu Zhang

18337: Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Fernando Broner, Paula Bustos and Vasco Carvalho

18336: The Output Effect of Fiscal Consolidations

Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi

18335: Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2007-9

Tobias Adrian, Paolo Colla and Hyun Song Shin

18334: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries

Nir Jaimovich and Henry Siu

18333: Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Edward Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

18332: Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources

Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl

18331: Mussa Redux and Conditional PPP

Paul Bergin, Reuven Glick and Jyh-Lin Wu

18330: Taylor Rule Exchange Rate Forecasting During the Financial Crisis

Tanya Molodtsova and David Papell

18329: Debt- and Equity-Led Capital Flow Episodes

Kristin Forbes and Francis Warnock

18328: Development, Discouragement, or Diversion? New Evidence on the Effects of College Remediation

Judith Scott-Clayton and Olga Rodriguez

18327: Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes

18326: Do Higher Tobacco Taxes Reduce Adult Smoking? New Evidence of the Effect of Recent Cigarette Tax Increases on Adult Smoking

Kevin Callison and Robert Kaestner

18325: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development

Dean Karlan, Ryan Knight and Christopher Udry

18324: The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes

Justine Hastings, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

18323: A Continuity Refinement for Rational Expectations Solutions

Bennett McCallum

18322: The Effect of Income and Immigration Policies on International Migration

Francesc Ortega and Giovanni Peri

18321: The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers

Ralph Koijen and Motohiro Yogo

18320: Race and the Politics of Close Elections

Tom Vogl

18319: Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition: Evidence from South Asia

Tom Vogl

18318: Height, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico

Tom Vogl

18317: The Value of Bosses

Edward Lazear, Kathryn Shaw and Christopher T. Stanton

18316: Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries under the New Deal

Ryan L. Lampe and Petra Moser

18315: Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds

Robert Gordon

18314: International Prices and Endogenous Quality

Robert Feenstra and John Romalis

18313: The Need for Enemies

Leopoldo Fergusson, James Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Juan Vargas

18312: Resident Networks and Firm Trade

Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Christopher Malloy

18311: Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program

Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru

18310: Immigration and Production Technology

Ethan Lewis

18309: Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility

Bruce Meyer and Laura Wherry

18308: The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?

C. Bee, Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

18307: Open Borders

John Kennan

18306: The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

18305: Risks For the Long Run: Estimation with Time Aggregation

Ravi Bansal, Dana Kiku and Amir Yaron

18304: An Empirical Analysis of the Fed's Term Auction Facility

Efraim Benmelech

18303: Banks, Sovereign Debt and the International Transmission of Business Cycles

Luca Guerrieri, Matteo Iacoviello and Raoul Minetti

18302: Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education

Adriana Lleras-Muney and Allison Shertzer

18301: The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation

Lawrence H. Goulder and Roberton Williams

18300: Risk and Returns to Education

Jeffrey Brown, Chichun Fang and Francisco Gomes

18299: Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Sarah Stith

18298: Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence From Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson

18297: Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms: Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Albert Link, Christopher Ruhm and Donald Siegel

18296: When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South

Richard Hornbeck and Suresh Naidu

18295: Convergence and Modernization Revisited

Robert Barro

18294: The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

Abhay Aneja, John Donohue and Alexandria Zhang

18293: Measuring Price Elasticities for Residential Water Demand with Limited Information

Henry Klaiber, V. Smith, Michael Kaminsky and Aaron Strong

18292: Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research

Michael Roach and Wesley M. Cohen

18291: Legislating Stock Prices

Lauren Cohen, Karl B. Diether and Christopher Malloy

18290: The Great Leveraging

Alan Taylor

18289: The Financial Sector in Burundi

Janvier D. Nkurunziza, Leonce Ndikumana and Prime Nyamoya

18288: International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice's Response to Globalization

Diego Puga and Daniel Trefler

18287: Defying Gravity: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High?

Takeo Hoshi and Takatoshi Ito

18286: Does it Matter if Your Health Insurer is For-Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending

Leemore Dafny and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan

18285: The Price Theory of Money, Prospero's Liquidity Trap, and Sudden Stop: Back to Basics and Back

Guillermo Calvo

18284: The Evolution of Endogenous Business Cycles

Roger Farmer

18283: Over-optimistic Official Forecasts in the Eurozone and Fiscal Rules

Jeffrey Frankel and Jesse Schreger

18282: Private Information and Insurance Rejections

Nathaniel Hendren

18281: The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology

David Dranove, Christopher Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

18280: Fiscal Unions

Iván Werning and Emmanuel Farhi

18279: Am I my Brother's Keeper? Sibling Spillover Effects: The Case of Developmental Disabilities and Externalizing Behavior

Jason Fletcher, Nicole L. Hair and Barbara Wolfe

18278: Airports and Urban Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment

Bruce Blonigen and Anca Cristea

18277: Heterogeneity in High Math Achievement Across Schools: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions

Glenn Ellison and Ashley Swanson

18276: Homework in Monetary Economics: Inflation, Home Production, and the Production of Homes

S. Boragan Aruoba, Morris Davis and Randall Wright

18275: National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa

Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

18274: Time to Ship During Financial Crises

Nicolas Berman, José De Sousa, Philippe Martin and Thierry Mayer

18273: The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gee Hee Hong

18272: New Multi-City Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920-1940

Price Fishback and Trevor Kollmann

18271: What Was New About the New Deal?

Price Fishback and John Joseph Wallis

18270: Did Capital Requirements and Fair Value Accounting Spark Fire Sales in Distressed Mortgage-Backed Securities?

Craig B. Merrill, Taylor D. Nadauld, René Stulz and Shane Sherlund

18269: A New Look at Second Liens

Donghoon Lee, Christopher Mayer and Joseph Tracy

18268: Letter Grading Government Efficiency

Alberto Chong, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

18267: Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro

18266: Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico

David Atkin

18265: Mismatch Unemployment

Aysegul Sahin, Joseph Song, Giorgio Topa and Giovanni Violante

18264: Economic Effects of Runs on Early 'Shadow Banks': Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907

Carola Frydman, Eric Hilt and Lily Y. Zhou

18263: As Certain as Debt and Taxes: Estimating the Tax Sensitivity of Leverage from Exogenous State Tax Changes

Florian Heider and Alexander Ljungqvist

18262: Risk and Return in Environmental Economics

Robert Pindyck

18261: Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

Lex Borghans, Anne Gielen and Erzo Luttmer

18260: The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms

Ling Feng, Zhiyuan Li and Deborah Swenson

18259: The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Lorenzo Caliendo, Ferdinando Monte and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

18258: Estimating Second Order Probability Beliefs from Subjective Survival Data

Peter Hudomiet and Robert Willis

18257: Cycles of Distrust: An Economic Model

Daron Acemoglu and Alexander Wolitzky

18256: FX Counterparty Risk and Trading Activity in Currency Forward and Futures Markets

Richard M. Levich

18255: Does Seeing the Doctor More Often Keep You Out of the Hospital?

Robert Kaestner and Anthony T. Lo Sasso

18254: The Role of Federal and State Dependent Coverage Eligibility Policies on the Health Insurance Status of Young Adults

Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit, Derek DeLia and Kristen Lloyd

18253: Estimating the Effects of Friendship Networks on Health Behaviors of Adolescents

Jason Fletcher and Stephen Ross

18252: Log Odds and Ends

Edward Norton

18251: Market Liquidity -- Theory and Empirical Evidence

Dimitri Vayanos and Jiang Wang

18250: Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

18249: The Determinants of National Competitiveness

Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

18248: Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice: Evidence from Commodity Price Shocks

Justine Hastings and Jesse Shapiro

18247: Econometric Analysis of Present Value Models When the Discount Factor Is near One

Kenneth West

18246: Carry-Along Trade

Andrew Bernard, Emily Blanchard, Ilke Van Beveren and Hylke Vandenbussche

18245: Really Uncertain Business Cycles

Nicholas Bloom, Max Floetotto, Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten and Stephen Terry

18244: Urban Public Finance

Edward Glaeser

18243: Market Size, Division of Labor, and Firm Productivity

Thomas Chaney and Ralph Ossa

18242: Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach

Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler

18241: Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Leonardo Bursztyn, Florian Ederer, Bruno Ferman and Noam Yuchtman