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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

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