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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

17710: The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

David Deming, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

17709: The Virtuous Tax: Lifesaving and Crime-Prevention Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol-Tax Increase

Philip J Cook and Christine Piette Durrance

17708: Multilateral Economic Cooperation and the International Transmission of Fiscal Policy

Giancarlo Corsetti and Gernot Müller

17707: Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations

J. Vernon Henderson and Yong Suk Lee

17706: Export Prices of U.S. Firms

James Harrigan, Xiangjun Ma and Victor Shlychkov

17705: The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Joseph Aldy and William Pizer

17704: Children's Schooling and Parents' Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study

Alexander Gelber and Adam Isen

17703: Does Retiree Health Insurance Encourage Early Retirement?

Steven Nyce, Sylvester Schieber, John B. Shoven, Sita Slavov and David Wise

17702: Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Esther Duflo

17701: Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

William Kerr

17700: Catch-up Growth Followed by Stagnation: Mexico, 1950-2010

Timothy Kehoe and Felipe Meza

17699: The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Raj Chetty, John Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff

17698: Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference in Finite Samples

Jerry Hausman and Christopher J. Palmer

17697: The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

David Autor

17696: A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More Than Outsiders

Viral Acharya and Bart M. Lambrecht

17695: The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation

Severin Borenstein

17694: Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

David Card and Ana Rute Cardoso

17693: Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India

Sean Dougherty, Veronica Frisancho and Kala Krishna

17692: Adjustment patterns to commodity terms of trade shocks: the role of exchange rate and international reserves policies

Joshua Aizenman, Sebastian Edwards and Daniel Riera-Crichton

17691: Home Bias in Open Economy Financial Macroeconomics

Nicolas Coeurdacier and Helene Rey

17690: Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Veronica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

17689: Medicaid and the Elderly

Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, John Jones and Angshuman Gooptu

17688: Consumption and the Great Recession

Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and David Benson

17687: Capitalizing China

Joseph Fan, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

17686: International Contagion Through Leveraged Financial Institutions

Eric van Wincoop

17685: The Future of the Government Sponsored Enterprises: The Role for Government in the U.S. Mortgage Market

Dwight Jaffee and John Quigley

17684: Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health

Wolfram Schlenker and Reed Walker

17683: Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Antonio Ciccone and Giovanni Peri

17682: Global Macroeconomic and Financial Supervision: Where Next?

Charles Goodhart

17681: The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in GDP/capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Jing Wang, Dana Medianu and John Whalley

17680: A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms-of-Trade Manipulation

Arnaud Costinot, Guido Lorenzoni and Iván Werning

17679: Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O, Dean Karlan and Leonard Wantchekon

17678: Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

Janice Compton and Robert Pollak

17677: Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?

Jason Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen Waddell

17676: From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Mariesa Herrmann

17675: International Trade and Institutional Change

Andrei Levchenko

17674: Prospects for Nuclear Power

Lucas Davis

17673: Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling and Seth J. Hill

17672: The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Matthias Doepke, Michele Tertilt and Alessandra Voena

17671: Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

17670: Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and Credit Booms

Nicolas Magud, Carmen Reinhart and Esteban R. Vesperoni

17669: Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun

Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel

17668: Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates

Marianne Bitler and Lucie Schmidt

17667: Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes

17666: Do Borrower Rights Improve Borrower Outcomes? Evidence from the Foreclosure Process

Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson and Paul Willen

17665: International Policy Coordination: The Long View

Barry Eichengreen

17664: Regulating Systemic Risk through Transparency: Tradeoffs in Making Data Public

Augustin Landier and David Thesmar

17663: CEO Preferences and Acquisitions

Dirk Jenter and Katharina Lewellen

17662: Fiscal Devaluations

Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki

17661: Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

Bo Becker and Per Stromberg

17660: The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Banks

Martin Goetz, Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

17659: Cross-Sectoral Variation in The Volatility of Plant-Level Idiosyncratic Shocks

Rui Castro, Gian Luca Clementi and Yoonsoo Lee

17658: Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children

Carole Roan Gresenz, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam J. Laugesen and José J. Escarce

17657: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality

Ann Stevens, Douglas Miller, Marianne Page and Mateusz Filipski

17656: The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound

Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone

17655: The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments

Alberto Alesina, Dorian Carloni and Giampaolo Lecce

17654: The Expanding Social Safety Net

Casey Mulligan

17653: Evaporating Liquidity

Stefan Nagel

17652: Competing on Speed

Emiliano Pagnotta and Thomas Philippon

17651: Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and is it Rational?

Paul Beaudry, Deokwoo Nam and Jian Wang

17650: Can the Doha Round be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

17649: Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi and Daniel Hamermesh

17648: Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving

James Andreoni, Justin M. Rao and Hannah Trachtman

17647: Moral Hazard, Incentive Contracts and Risk: Evidence from Procurement

Gregory Lewis and Patrick Bajari

17646: Does Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Increase Student Achievement? Early Evidence from the Boston Teacher Residency

John P. Papay, Martin R. West, Jon B. Fullerton and Thomas J. Kane

17645: Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability before the 2008 Financial Crisis

John Whalley, Manmohan Agarwal, Jing Wang, Sean Walsh and Chen Yan

17644: The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes

Anna Gumpert, James Hines and Monika Schnitzer

17643: Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Endogenous Forcing Variable and an Application to Contracting in Health Care

Patrick Bajari, Han Hong, Minjung Park and Robert Town

17642: Optimal Dynamic Taxes

Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin and Aleh Tsyvinski

17641: The International Monetary System: Living with Asymmetry

Maurice Obstfeld