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17940: Tailspotting: Identifying and profiting from CEO vacation trips

David Yermack

17939: School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools

Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas and Michael Kremer

17938: Remedies for Sick Insurance

Daniel McFadden, Carlos Noton and Pau Olivella

17937: Is There "Too Much" Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?

Laurence Ales, Roozbeh Hosseini and Larry Jones

17936: Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., John A. Graves, Jonathan Gruber and Samuel Kleiner

17935: Debt Financing in Asset Markets

Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong

17934: Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki and John Moore

17933: Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski

17932: Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Costas Meghir, Mårten Palme and Emilia Simeonova

17931: Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease

Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson and E. Ray Dorsey

17930: Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis

Leora Klapper, Annamaria Lusardi and Georgios Panos

17929: The Market for Financial Advice: An Audit Study

Sendhil Mullainathan, Markus Noeth and Antoinette Schoar

17928: Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft? High-Value Employee Selection Decisions and Decision-Making Bias

Casey Ichniowski and Anne E. Preston

17927: What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving

Gopi Goda, Colleen Flaherty Manchester and Aaron Sojourner

17926: The Free Rider Problem: a Dynamic Analysis

Marco Battaglini, Salvatore Nunnari and Thomas Palfrey

17925: Prices, Markups and Trade Reform

Jan De Loecker, Pinelopi Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal and Nina Pavcnik

17924: Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories

Ruediger Bachmann and Lin Ma

17923: Price Setting with menu cost for Multi-product firms

Fernando E. Alvarez and Francesco Lippi

17922: The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception and the Gender Gap in Wages

Martha Bailey, Brad Hershbein and Amalia Miller

17921: Convective Risk Flows in Commodity Futures Markets

Ing-Haw Cheng, Andrei Kirilenko and Wei Xiong

17920: Debt and Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing Corporate Debt be Optimal?

Zhiguo He and Gregor Matvos

17919: Indirect Tax Initiatives and Global Rebalancing

Chunding Li and John Whalley

17918: Estimating the Relationship between Alcohol Policies and Criminal Violence and Victimization

Sara Markowitz, Erik Nesson, Eileen Poe-Yamagata, Curtis Florence, Partha Deb, Tracy Andrews and Sarah Beth L. Barnett

17917: Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

Richard Evans, Laurence Kotlikoff and Kerk L. Phillips

17916: Evaluating Estimates of Materials Offshoring from U.S. Manufacturing

Robert Feenstra and J. Jensen

17915: You Get a Book! Demand Spillovers, Combative Advertising, and Celebrity Endorsements

Craig L. Garthwaite

17914: Housing Booms and City Centers

Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb and Kristina Tobio

17913: 'Fiscal Devaluation' and Fiscal Consolidation: The VAT in Troubled Times

Ruud de Mooij and Michael Keen

17912: Improving Police Performance in Rajasthan, India: Experimental Evidence on Incentives, Managerial Autonomy and Training

Abhijit Banerjee, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston and Nina Singh

17911: Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans

Olivia Mitchell and Stephen Utkus

17910: Hiring, Churn and the Business Cycle

Edward Lazear and James Spletzer

17909: Financial Regulation in General Equilibrium

Charles A.E. Goodhart, Anil Kashyap, Dimitrios Tsomocos and Alexandros P. Vardoulakis

17908: Exit from a Monetary Union through Euroization: Discipline without Chaos

Russell Cooper

17907: International Portfolio Diversification and Multilateral Effects of Correlations

Paul Bergin and Ju Hyun Pyun

17906: Posterior Predictive Analysis for Evaluating DSGE Models

Jon Faust and Abhishek Gupta

17905: The Macroeconomics of Microfinance

Francisco Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Yongseok Shin

17904: Status, Marriage, and Managers' Attitudes To Risk

Nikolai Roussanov and Pavel Savor

17903: Perceptions and Misperceptions of Fiscal Inflation

Eric Leeper and Todd Walker

17902: An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

Diego Comin

17901: Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities

Mark R. Cullen, Clint Cummins and Victor Fuchs

17900: Ambiguous Business Cycles

Cosmin Ilut and Martin Schneider

17899: Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks

Hanming Fang and Edward Kung

17898: Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns

Andrew Atkeson, Christian Hellwig and Guillermo Ordonez

17897: On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Nancy Qian

17896: Does Inequality Lead to a Financial Crisis?

Michael Bordo and Christopher Meissner

17895: Search Fatigue

Bruce Ian Carlin and Florian Ederer

17894: Central Banks and Gold Puzzles

Joshua Aizenman and Kenta Inoue

17893: Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience

Charles Courtemanche and Daniela Zapata

17892: Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

Benjamin Olken, Junko Onishi and Susan Wong

17891: Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior

Shanjun Li, Joshua Linn and Erich Muehlegger

17890: Approximating High-Dimensional Dynamic Models: Sieve Value Function Iteration

Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer, Federico Bugni and Jonathan James

17889: Vertical Integration and Market Structure

Timothy Bresnahan and Jonathan Levin

17888: Why Don't Women Patent?

Jennifer Hunt, Jean-Philippe Garant, Hannah Herman and David J. Munroe

17887: The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson

17886: Heterogeneity in Target-Date Funds: Optimal Risk-Taking or Risk Matching?

Pierluigi Balduzzi and Jonathan Reuter

17885: The Barnett Critique After Three Decades: A New Keynesian Analysis

Michael Belongia and Peter Ireland

17884: Fiscal Rules: Theoretical Issues and Historical Experiences

Charles Wyplosz

17883: Referrals: Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Gharad T. Bryan, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

17882: Estimating Loan-to-Value and Foreclosure Behavior

Arthur Korteweg and Morten Sorensen

17881: Can Public Sector Wage Bills Be Reduced?

Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

17880: Business Cycles and Household Formation: The Micro vs the Macro Labor Elasticity

Sebastian Dyrda, Greg Kaplan and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

17879: Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare

Richard Steckel and William J. White

17878: Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities

Harrison Fell, Ian MacKenzie and William Pizer

17877: Does the Current Account Still Matter?

Maurice Obstfeld

17876: Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality

Veronica Guerrieri and Robert Shimer

17875: Are Chinese Trade Flows Different?

Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Xingwang Qian

17874: Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?

Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson and Steven Kaplan

17873: Follow the Money: Quantifying Domestic Effects of Foreign Bank Shocks in the Great Recession

Nicola Cetorelli and Linda Goldberg

17872: International Consumption Risk Is Shared After All: An Asset Return View

Karen Lewis and Edith Liu

17871: Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression

Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O'Rourke

17870: Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems

Peter J. Huckfeldt, Neeraj Sood, José J. Escarce, David C. Grabowski and Joseph Newhouse

17869: Culture and the Historical Process

Nathan Nunn

17868: Crisis-Related Shifts in the Market Valuation of Banking Activities

Charles Calomiris and Doron Nissim

17867: Financing-Motivated Acquisitions

Isil Erel, Yeejin Jang and Michael Weisbach

17866: The Decision to Delay Social Security Benefits: Theory and Evidence

John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

17865: Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial

Damien de Walque, William Dow, Carol Medlin and Rose Nathan

17864: International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Sebastian Sotelo

17863: Financial Sophistication in the Older Population

Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia Mitchell and Vilsa Curto

17862: How Do Laffer Curves Differ Across Countries?

Mathias Trabandt and Harald Uhlig

17861: Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

17860: The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era

Christina Romer and David Romer

17859: Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?

C. Kirabo Jackson

17858: Repossession and the Democratization of Credit

Juliano Assuncao, Efraim Benmelech and Fernando S. S. Silva

17857: Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care

Robin McKnight, Jonathan Reuter and Eric Zitzewitz

17856: Equity-Holding Institutional Lenders: Do they Receive Better Terms?

Jongha Lim, Bernadette A. Minton and Michael Weisbach

17855: Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate: Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

Uri Gneezy, John List and Michael Price

17854: Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Default Crises: A Long-Term Perspective

Kay Giesecke, Francis Longstaff, Stephen Schaefer and Ilya Strebulaev

17853: The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and Chad Syverson

17852: Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan

17851: Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province

Pascaline Dupas, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats and Jonathan Robinson

17850: Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

17849: Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits

Yi Qian

17848: The "Out of Sample" Performance of Long-run Risk Models

Wayne Ferson, Suresh K. Nallareddy and Biqin Xie

17847: Vote Trading With and Without Party Leaders

Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Sébastien Turban

17846: Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li and Julie Wulf

17845: The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

Gabriel Chan, Robert Stavins, Robert Stowe and Richard Sweeney

17844: Uncertain Fiscal Consolidations

Huixin Bi, Eric Leeper and Campbell Leith

17843: Small Cues Change Savings Choices

James Choi, Emily Haisley, Jennifer Kurkoski and Cade Massey

17842: The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John van Reenen

17841: From Growth to Green Growth - a Framework

Stephane Hallegatte, Geoffrey Heal, Marianne Fay and David Tréguer