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17640: Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

17639: Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments

Jennifer Brown and Dylan B. Minor

17638: Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss

Steven Davis and Till von Wachter

17637: Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

Jason Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen and Glen Waddell

17636: Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis and Robert Slonim

17635: Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada: New Knowledge from the North

James Andreoni and A. Payne

17634: The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880

Pablo Querubin and James Snyder

17633: Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

Martha Bailey and Susan Dynarski

17632: Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City

Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer

17631: Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels

Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei

17630: The Incidence of Geography on Canada's Services Trade

James Anderson, Catherine A. Milot and Yoto Yotov

17629: Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease

Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson and E. Ray Dorsey

17628: Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations: Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches

Matthew Kotchen and Matthew Potoski

17627: The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

17626: Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows: The ECB's Rescue Facility

Hans-Werner Sinn and Timo Wollmershaeuser

17625: The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate

Richard Hornbeck and Pinar Keskin

17624: When Should Sellers Use Auctions?

James W. Roberts and Andrew Sweeting

17623: A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang

17622: Macroeconomics With Heterogeneity: A Practical Guide

Fatih Guvenen

17621: When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises

Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

17620: The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou

17619: On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality

Jeffrey Frankel, Carlos Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin

17618: Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving

James Andreoni, A. Payne, Justin Smith and David Karp

17617: The Euro and European Economic Conditions

Martin Feldstein

17616: Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities

Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva

17615: Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill

Marcin Kacperczyk, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp

17614: Household Stock Market Beliefs and Learning

Gabor Kezdi and Robert Willis

17613: Logical Implications of GASB's Methodology for Valuing Pension Liabilities

Robert Novy-Marx

17612: Risk Sharing through Capital Gains

Faruk Balli, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Bent Sorensen

17611: Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products Without Instrumental Variables

Kelly Bishop and Christopher Timmins

17610: Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Jesse Rothstein and Nathan Wozny

17609: Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability

Ethan Lewis

17608: Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS

Martin Gaynor, Mauro Laudicella and Carol Propper

17607: Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius

Orley Ashenfelter

17606: Contracting With Synergies

Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein and John Zhu

17605: Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

Naci Mocan and Bulent Unel

17604: Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium

James Harrigan and Ariell Reshef

17603: Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements

Nuno Limão and Kamal Saggi

17602: The Role of Information in Competitive Experimentation

Ufuk Akcigit and Qingmin Liu

17601: Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability

Francesco Caselli and Andrea Tesei

17600: The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

John Cawley, Asako S. Moriya and Kosali Simon

17599: Should Derivatives be Privileged in Bankruptcy?

Patrick Bolton and Martin Oehmke

17598: Coping with Shocks and Shifts: The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective

Douglas Irwin and Kevin O'Rourke

17597: Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel's Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard

Douglas Irwin

17596: Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

17595: Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38

Douglas Irwin

17594: Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008-2009

Gita Gopinath, Oleg Itskhoki and Brent Neiman

17593: The External Impact of China's Exchange Rate Policy: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Barry Eichengreen and Hui Tong

17592: The Leverage Effect Puzzle: Disentangling Sources of Bias at High Frequency

Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Jianqing Fan and Yingying Li

17591: Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Eric Hanushek, Susanne Link and Ludger Woessmann

17590: Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles

Antoinette Schoar and Luo Zuo

17589: Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal

Daniel Hungerman

17588: Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models, with Applications in Health Economics

John Mullahy

17587: The Welfare Economics of Default Options in 401(k) Plans

B. Douglas Bernheim, Andrey Fradkin and Igor Popov

17586: Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-area

Giorgia Palladini and Richard Portes

17585: Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked

Julio Rotemberg

17584: Rising Labor Productivity during the 2008-9 Recession

Casey Mulligan

17583: Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings, and the Liquidity Trap

Veronica Guerrieri and Guido Lorenzoni

17582: Feedback Effects and the Limits to Arbitrage

Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein and Wei Jiang

17581: The Determinants and Long-term Projections of Saving Rates in Developing Asia

Charles Horioka and Akiko Hagiwara

17580: Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India

G Emmanuel Guindon, Arindam Nandi, Frank Chaloupka and Prabhat Jha

17579: Laws and Norms

Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole

17578: What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

Christopher Ruhm, Alison Jones, William C. Kerr, Thomas K. Greenfield, Joseph Terza, Ravi S. Pandian and Kerry Anne McGeary

17577: The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

William Kerr, William Lincoln and Prachi Mishra

17576: How Would EU Corporate Tax Reform Affect US Investment in Europe?

Michael Devereux and Simon Loretz

17575: Temperature, Aggregate Risk, and Expected Returns

Ravi Bansal and Juan Ochoa

17574: Welfare Costs of Long-Run Temperature Shifts

Ravi Bansal and Juan Ochoa

17573: Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-century Sewing Machine Industry

Ryan L. Lampe and Petra Moser

17572: Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia

Ruben Durante, Giovanna Labartino and Roberto Perotti

17571: The "Austerity Myth": Gain Without Pain?

Roberto Perotti

17570: The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition

Giovanni Peri

17569: The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins

17568: A Model of Private Equity Fund Compensation

Wonho Wilson Choi, Andrew Metrick and Ayako Yasuda

17567: The Effect of Liquidity on Governance

Alex Edmans, Vivian W. Fang and Emanuel Zur

17566: Persistent Liquidity Effects and Long Run Money Demand

Fernando E. Alvarez and Francesco Lippi

17565: Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China

Risheng Mao and John Whalley

17564: The Forward Premium Puzzle in a Two-Country World

Ian Martin

17563: The Lucas Orchard

Ian Martin

17562: Fiscal Policy and Unemployment

Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

17561: Testing Conditional Factor Models

Andrew Ang and Dennis Kristensen

17560: When Bonds Matter: Home Bias in Goods and Assets

Nicolas Coeurdacier and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

17559: A Sorted Tale of Globalization: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring

Runjuan Liu and Daniel Trefler

17558: A Transparency Standard for Derivatives

Viral Acharya

17557: Identifying Demand with Multidimensional Unobservables: A Random Functions Approach

Jeremy Fox and Amit Gandhi

17556: Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs

Toshi Arimura, Shanjun Li, Richard Newell and Karen Palmer

17555: The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates: Channels and Implications for Policy

Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

17554: School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

Paul Glewwe, Eric Hanushek, Sarah D. Humpage and Renato Ravina

17553: A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth

Costas Arkolakis

17552: The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis

Guido Sandleris and Mark Wright

17551: The Stock of External Sovereign Debt: Can We Take the Data At 'Face Value'?

Daniel Dias, Christine Richmond and Mark Wright

17550: A Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment

Pablo Fajgelbaum, Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman

17549: On the Connections between Intertemporal and Intra-temporal Trades

Jiandong Ju, Kang Shi and Shang-Jin Wei

17548: A Theory of Asset Pricing Based on Heterogeneous Information

Elias Albagli, Christian Hellwig and Aleh Tsyvinski

17547: How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

17546: Unconditional Convergence

Dani Rodrik

17545: How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?

Ernst Fehr, Oliver Hart and Christian Zehnder

17544: The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge

Aaron Weisbrod and John Whalley

17543: Supply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower Bound

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Pablo Guerron and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

17542: Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector

Viral Acharya and Raghuram Rajan

17541: The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan