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17210: Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna

17209: State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790

Farley Grubb

17208: Competition in Health Care Markets

Martin Gaynor and Robert Town

17207: When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Marcel Fafchamps, David McKenzie, Simon Quinn and Christopher Woodruff

17206: What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?

Steven C.A. Pincus and James Robinson

17205: Vaccine Supply: Effects Of Regulation And Competition

Patricia Danzon and Nuno Sousa Pereira

17204: Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico

Leonardo Iacovone, Beata Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller and James Tybout

17203: Economic Preparation for Retirement

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

17202: Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James Hines

17201: International Recessions

Fabrizio Perri and Vincenzo Quadrini

17200: Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status

Samuel Dastrup, Joshua Graff Zivin, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

17199: The Behavior of Savings and Asset Prices When Preferences and Beliefs are Heterogeneous

Ngoc-Khanh Tran and Richard Zeckhauser

17198: The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco's Health Care Security Ordinance

Carrie Colla, William Dow and Arindrajit Dube

17197: Issuer Quality and the Credit Cycle

Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson

17196: The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions

Alberto Bisin, Andrea Moro and Giorgio Topa

17195: Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action

Georgiy Bobashev, Maureen Cropper, Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke, Stephen Hutton and A. Over

17194: Pay for Percentile

Gadi Barlevy and Derek Neal

17193: Connected Substitutes and Invertibility of Demand

Steven Berry, Amit Gandhi and Philip Haile

17192: Negotiating with Labor Under Financial Distress

Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman and Ricardo Enriquez

17191: Customer Capital

Francois Gourio and Leena Rudanko

17190: The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph Newhouse, Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker and The Oregon Health Study Group

17189: Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Paul Ferraro and Michael Price

17188: Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Lee Branstetter, Chirantan Chatterjee and Matthew Higgins

17187: What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Michael Burda and Jennifer Hunt

17186: The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification

Konrad Burchardi and Tarek Hassan

17185: Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read in School: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

Ama Abeberese, Todd J. Kumler and Leigh Linden

17184: Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

17183: Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

Katherine Milkman, John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

17182: Regime Changes and Financial Markets

Andrew Ang and Allan Timmermann

17181: Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions

Thomas Astebro and Carlos Serrano

17180: Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

John Helliwell and Shun Wang

17179: Clashing Theories of Unemployment

Robert Hall

17178: Innovation and Productivity

Bronwyn Hall

17177: Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention

Susanna Loeb, Demetra Kalogrides and Tara Béteille

17176: How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement

Matthew Ronfeldt, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb and James Wyckoff

17175: Productivity Volatility and the Misallocation of Resources in Developing Economies

Allan Collard-Wexler, John Asker and Jan De Loecker

17174: Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement

Patricia Danzon, Andrew W. Mulcahy and Adrian Towse

17173: Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence

Kory Kroft and Matthew Notowidigdo

17172: Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

Christos Genakos, Kai-Uwe Kuhn and John van Reenen

17171: Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes

John M. de Figueiredo

17170: Pounds that Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight

Michael Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer

17169: Does Financial Constraint Affect Shareholder Taxes and the Cost of Equity Capital?

Chongyang Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Douglas Shackelford and Harold Zhang

17168: The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?

Jonathan Gruber

17167: The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks

Matthew Notowidigdo

17166: How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-century GI Bills

Daniel Fetter

17165: Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor

Richard Akresh and Eric Edmonds

17164: A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

Richard Burkhauser, Jeff Larrimore and Kosali Simon

17163: A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception

Andrew Caplin and Daniel Martin

17162: Side Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets

Guy David and Sara Markowitz

17161: Cognitive Disparities, Lead Plumbing, and Water Chemistry: Intelligence Test Scores and Exposure to Water-Borne Lead Among World War Two U.S. Army Enlistees

Joseph P. Ferrie, Karen Rolf and Werner Troesken

17160: Smoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era

Sara Markowitz, E. Kathleen Adams, Patricia M. Dietz, Viji Kannan and Tong Van

17159: Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger

17158: Human Capital and Regional Development

Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

17157: Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the "Culture of Despair"

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

17156: Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan

17155: Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon and Sarah J. Reber

17154: What does Monetary Policy do to Long-Term Interest Rates at the Zero Lower Bound?

Jonathan Wright

17153: Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups

Arthur van Soest, Tatiana Andreyeva, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

17152: A Functional Filtering and Neighborhood Truncation Approach to Integrated Quarticity Estimation

Torben Andersen, Dobrislav Dobrev and Ernst Schaumburg

17151: A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles

Enrique Mendoza and Vivian Yue

17150: Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies

Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor

17149: Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees

Bryan T. Kelly, Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

17148: Dimensions of Health in the Elderly Population

David Cutler and Mary Beth Landrum

17147: Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth and Politics in New York, 1791-1826

Eric Hilt and Jacqueline Valentine

17146: Trade Credit Contracts

Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven and Raghuram Rajan

17145: Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis

Stephen Coate

17144: Financing Labor

Efraim Benmelech, Nittai K. Bergman and Amit Seru

17143: Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth

Margaret McMillan and Dani Rodrik

17142: Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity

Lawrence Christiano and Daisuke Ikeda

17141: Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

17140: Inference for VARs Identified with Sign Restrictions

Hyungsik Moon, Frank Schorfheide, Eleonora Granziera and Mihye Lee

17139: Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe

Francesco D'Amuri and Giovanni Peri

17138: Disability Programs, Health and Retirement in Denmark since 1960

Paul Bingley, Nabanita Datta Gupta and Peder Pedersen

17137: Animal Spirits, Financial Crises and Persistent Unemployment

Roger Farmer

17136: A Pyrrhic Victory? - Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk

Viral Acharya, Itamar Drechsler and Philipp Schnabl

17135: Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

Liana E. Fox, Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

17134: Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply

Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Ralph Rogalla

17133: Risk, Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate

Gianluca Benigno, Pierpaolo Benigno and Salvatore Nisticò

17132: Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason

Daniel Treisman

17131: Sharing the Burden: Monetary and Fiscal Responses to a World Liquidity Trap

David Cook and Michael Devereux

17130: An Estimation of Economic Models with Recursive Preferences

Xiaohong Chen, Jack Favilukis and Sydney Ludvigson

17129: Mobile Banking: The Impact of M-Pesa in Kenya

Isaac Mbiti and David Weil

17128: The Financial Crisis and the Well-Being of Americans

Angus Deaton

17127: Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments

Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang

17126: Price Setting in a Leading Swiss Online Supermarket

Martin Berka, Michael Devereux and Thomas Rudolph

17125: The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

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

17124: Privacy and Innovation

Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker

17123: Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?

Richard Burdekin, Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier

17122: Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments

Yael V. Hochberg and Joshua D. Rauh

17121: Global Crises and Equity Market Contagion

Geert Bekaert, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher and Arnaud Mehl

17120: How Performance Information Affects Human-Capital Investment Decisions: The Impact of Test-Score Labels on Educational Outcomes

John P. Papay, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

17119: Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam

Eric Bettinger, Brent J. Evans and Devin Pope

17118: The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

17117: Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport

Anca Cristea, David Hummels, Laura Puzzello and Misak Avetisyan

17116: The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium

Charles Engel

17115: A Model of Shadow Banking

Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

17114: Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre and Sergio Perelman

17113: Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Nico Voigtlaender and Hans-Joachim Voth

17112: High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: A Multi-Dimensional Regression-Discontinuity Analysis

John P. Papay, John B. Willett and Richard Murnane

17111: Fiscal Stimulus and Distortionary Taxation

Thorsten Drautzburg and Harald Uhlig