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17810: When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority

Levent Celik, Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren

17809: Interjurisdictional Housing Prices and Spatial Amenities: Which Measures of Housing Prices Reflect Local Public Goods?

Spencer Banzhaf and Omar Farooque

17808: Voting Rights, Share Concentration, and Leverage at Nineteenth-Century US Banks

Howard Bodenhorn

17807: Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates

Tal Gross, Matthew Notowidigdo and Jialan Wang

17806: Trilemma Policy Convergence Patterns and Output Volatility

Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito

17805: The Firm-Level Credit Multiplier

Murillo Campello and Dirk Hackbarth

17804: Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Robert Fairlie, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

17803: Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

Gregory F. Branch, Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin

17802: Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?

Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Mark R. Cullen

17801: The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level

Jeremy Foltz, Ursula Aldana and Paul Laris

17800: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

George Borjas and Kirk Doran

17799: Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

17798: Inflation and Individual Equities

Andrew Ang, Marie Brière and Ombretta Signori

17797: Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

Bo Becker, Daniel Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian

17796: Nominal Stability and Financial Globalization

Michael Devereux, Ozge Senay and Alan Sutherland

17795: Growth Opportunities, Technology Shocks, and Asset Prices

Leonid Kogan and Dimitris Papanikolaou

17794: Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

17793: Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity

Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso and Alexander Oettl

17792: Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty: What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?

David Popp, Nidhi Santen, Karen Fisher-Vanden and Mort Webster

17791: Confronting Model Misspecification in Macroeconomics

Daniel Waggoner and Tao Zha

17790: Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence

Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão

17789: The Double Facetted Nature of Health Investments - Implications for Equilibrium and Stability in a Demand-for-Health Framework

Kristian Bolin and Bjorn Lindgren

17788: Investment and Growth in Rich and Poor Countries

Yin-Wong Cheung, Michael Dooley and Vladyslav Sushko

17787: Government Spending and Private Activity

Valerie Ramey

17786: Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching

Michael Waldman, Sean Nicholson and Nodir Adilov

17785: Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Richard Akresh, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

17784: De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl

17783: Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming: Some Preliminary Results

Xavier Gabaix

17782: Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger

17781: Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?

Silvia Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho and Adriana Lleras-Muney

17780: Macroprudential Policies in Open Emerging Economies

Joon-Ho Hahm, Frederic Mishkin, Hyun Song Shin and Kwanho Shin

17779: Is Labor Supply Important for Business Cycles?

Per Krusell, Toshihiko Mukoyama, Richard Rogerson and Aysegul Sahin

17778: Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide

Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick

17777: The Safe-Asset Share

Gary Gorton, Stefan Lewellen and Andrew Metrick

17776: Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Elizabeth Cascio and Ebonya L. Washington

17775: Aggregate Implications of a Credit Crunch

Francisco Buera and Benjamin Moll

17774: Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Chris M. Herbst and Erdal Tekin

17773: Recent Research on the Economics of Patents

Bronwyn Hall and Dietmar Harhoff

17772: Identification and Estimation of Gaussian Affine Term Structure Models

James Hamilton and Jing Cynthia Wu

17771: Collateral Crises

Gary Gorton and Guillermo Ordonez

17770: Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States

Jason DeBacker, Bradley Heim and Anh Tran

17769: Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth

Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru and Noah Stoffman

17768: Sizing Up Repo

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stefan Nagel and Dmitry Orlov

17767: Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade

Ariel Burstein and Javier Cravino

17766: Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?

Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone

17765: On the Optimal Burden of Proof

Louis Kaplow

17764: Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long Term Analysis

Sebastian Edwards

17763: How Firms Use Domestic and International Corporate Bond Markets

Juan Carlos Gozzi, Ross Levine, Maria Martinez Peria and Sergio Schmukler

17762: Do Consumers Exploit Precommitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption

B. Douglas Bernheim, Jonathan Meer and Neva K. Novarro

17761: Salience in Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect

Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

17760: The Corporation in Finance

Raghuram Rajan

17759: Oil Prices, Exhaustible Resources, and Economic Growth

James Hamilton

17758: Time as a Trade Barrier

David Hummels and Georg Schaur

17757: Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World

John Hassler and Per Krusell

17756: The Impact of Foreign Liabilities on Small Firms: Firm-Level Evidence from the Korean Crisis

Yun Jung Kim, Linda Tesar and Jing Zhang

17755: Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy

Charles Manski

17754: Shanghai's Trade, China's Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War

Wolfgang Keller, Ben Li and Carol Shiue

17753: How is Tax Policy Conducted over the Business Cycle?

Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

17752: Vertical versus Horizontal Incentives in Education: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Roland Fryer, Tanaya Devi and Richard Holden

17751: International Capital Flows and House Prices: Theory and Evidence

Jack Favilukis, David Kohn, Sydney Ludvigson and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

17750: The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey

Frank Lichtenberg

17749: The Nixon Shock after Forty Years: The Import Surcharge Revisited

Douglas Irwin

17748: Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

Martin Hackmann, Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

17747: How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?

Catherine Wolfram, Orie Shelef and Paul Gertler

17746: Directed Search over the Life Cycle

Guido Menzio, Irina Telyukova and Ludo Visschers

17745: Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

Douglas Kruse, Joseph R. Blasi and Richard Freeman

17744: What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?

Judith Scott-Clayton

17743: The Diffusion of Microfinance

Abhijit Banerjee, Arun Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew Jackson

17742: An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search

Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Lu Zhang

17741: Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages

Karen Fisher-Vanden, Erin Mansur and Qiong (Juliana) Wang

17740: The Housing Wealth Effect: The Crucial Roles of Demographics, Wealth Distribution and Wealth Shares

Charles Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer and William Miles

17739: Demand and Reimbursement Effects of Healthcare Reform: Health Care Utilization and Infant Mortality in Thailand

Jonathan Gruber, Nathaniel Hendren and Robert Townsend

17738: Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons

David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney

17737: Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

Dean Karlan and Margaret A. McConnell

17736: Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence From Banking

Sumit Agarwal, David Lucca, Amit Seru and Francesco Trebbi

17735: Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner, Georgi Kocharkov and Cezar Santos

17734: Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Internal Migration in the United States

Shuaizhang Feng, Michael Oppenheimer and Wolfram Schlenker

17733: Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes

Aaron Sojourner, Robert Town, David C. Grabowski and Michelle M. Chen

17732: Does Transparency Reduce Favoritism and Corruption? Evidence from the Reform of Figure Skating Judging

Eric Zitzewitz

17731: Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency: Evidence from Russian Administrative Data

Serguey Braguinsky and Sergey Mityakov

17730: Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

Eric Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz

17729: Who Shrunk China? Puzzles in the Measurement of Real GDP

Robert Feenstra, Hong Ma, J. Peter Neary and D.S. Prasada Rao

17728: Contractual Versus Non-Contractual Trade: The Role of Institutions in China

Robert Feenstra, Chang Hong, Hong Ma and Barbara Spencer

17727: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch

Veronica Frisancho and Kala Krishna

17726: Labor Supply of Politicians

Raymond Fisman, Nikolaj Harmon, Emir Kamenica and Inger Munk

17725: The Role of Firm Factors in Demand, Cost, and Export Market Selection for Chinese Footwear Producers

Mark Roberts, Yi Xu, Xiaoyan Fan and Shengxing Zhang

17724: Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

Christopher Knittel

17723: The Housing Market(s) of San Diego

Tim Landvoigt, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider

17722: Teacher Quality at the High-School Level: The Importance of Accounting for Tracks

C. Kirabo Jackson

17721: Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009

Wei Chi, Richard Freeman and Hongbin Li

17720: The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program

Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler

17719: The Real Effects of Financial Markets

Philip Bond, Alex Edmans and Itay Goldstein

17718: Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso

Margaret McMillan, William Masters and Harounan Kazianga

17717: Resource Allocation within Firms and Financial Market Dislocation: Evidence from Diversified Conglomerates

Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

17716: Trade And Industrialisation After Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling: How Building And Joining A Supply Chain Are Different And Why It Matters

Richard Baldwin

17715: The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

17714: Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn and Mark Wright

17713: Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance

Douglas Almond, Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn Van Ewijk

17712: Estimating Trade Elasticities: Demand Composition and the Trade Collapse of 2008-09

Matthieu Bussiere, Giovanni Callegari, Fabio Ghironi, Giulia Sestieri and Norihiko Yamano

17711: Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct versus indirect modes of export

Andrew Bernard, Marco Grazzi and Chiara Tomasi