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17461: Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

George Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger and Gordon Hanson

17460: Importing Skill-Biased Technology

Ariel Burstein, Javier Cravino and Jonathan Vogel

17459: Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts

Benjamin R. Handel

17458: Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States

William Collins and Katharine L. Shester

17457: Fiscal Policy in Debt Constrained Economies

Mark Aguiar and Manuel Amador

17456: The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers

Jesse Cunha, Giacomo De Giorgi and Seema Jayachandran

17455: Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections

Charles Manski and John Pepper

17454: CoVaR

Tobias Adrian and Markus Brunnermeier

17453: Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence

Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

17452: Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?

Chloe Gibbs, Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

17451: Insuring Long Term Care In the US

Jeffrey Brown and Amy Finkelstein

17450: Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

Kevin Lang and Jee-Yeon Lehmann

17449: Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Xavier Gine, Jessica Goldberg and Dean Yang

17448: Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit

Igor Livshits, James (Jim) MacGee and Michele Tertilt

17447: Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion

Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

17446: The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata

Ralf Martin, Laure de Preux and Ulrich Wagner

17445: Means-Tested Subsidies and Economic Performance Since 2007

Casey Mulligan

17444: Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass

Eric Leeper, Nora Traum and Todd Walker

17443: A Brief History of Regulations Regarding Financial Markets in the United States: 1789 to 2009

Alejandro Komai and Gary Richardson

17442: Robust Inference for Misspecified Models Conditional on Covariates

Alberto Abadie, Guido Imbens and Fanyin Zheng

17441: Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

17440: Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

17439: The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

17438: School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

David Deming, Justine Hastings, Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

17437: In the Eye of a Storm: Manhattan's Money Center Banks During the International Financial Crisis of 1931

Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn

17436: Competition in Persuasion

Matthew Gentzkow and Emir Kamenica

17435: Credit Constraints in Education

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

17434: Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates

Nicholas Sanders and Charles Stoecker

17433: Firm Heterogeneity, Endogenous Entry, and the Business Cycle

Gianmarco Ottaviano

17432: The Democratic Transition

Fabrice Murtin and Romain Wacziarg

17431: Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking

Gilles Saint-Paul

17430: Reconciling Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: A Structural Perspective

Michael Keane and Richard Rogerson

17429: The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the US and Europe

Alejandro Justiniano and Claudio Michelacci

17428: Cyclicality, Performance Measurement, and Cash Flow Liquidity in Private Equity

David Robinson and Berk A. Sensoy

17427: The Fiscal Stimulus of 2009-10: Trade Openness, Fiscal Space and Exchange Rate Adjustment

Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak

17426: The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

Susan Busch, Ezra Golberstein and Ellen Meara

17425: The Federal Reserve as an Informed Foreign Exchange Trader: 1973 - 1995

Michael Bordo, Owen Humpage and Anna Schwartz

17424: Estimators for Persistent and Possibly Non-Stationary Data with Classical Properties

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Anna Mikusheva and Serena Ng

17423: The Socio-Economic Causes of Obesity

Charles Baum and Shin-Yi Chou

17422: Crashes and Collateralized Lending

Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford

17421: Improving GDP Measurement: A Forecast Combination Perspective

S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis Diebold, Jeremy Nalewaik, Frank Schorfheide and Dongho Song

17420: Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries: New Measurement and Implications for Business Cycles

Lee Ohanian and Andrea Raffo

17419: Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care

Guy David, Evan Rawley and Daniel Polsky

17418: How to Solve Dynamic Stochastic Models Computing Expectations Just Once

Kenneth Judd, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

17417: The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Robin Burgess, Matthew Hansen, Benjamin Olken, Peter Potapov and Stefanie Sieber

17416: Equity Yields

Jules van Binsbergen, Wouter Hueskes, Ralph Koijen and Evert Vrugt

17415: Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market

Christoph Moser and Andrew Rose

17414: The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity: Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007

Frank Lichtenberg

17413: Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Henry Saffer, Dhaval Dave and Michael Grossman

17412: Educational "Goodwill": Measuring the Intangible Assets at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

Peter Nurnberg, Morton Schapiro and David Zimmerman

17411: Vote-Buying and Reciprocity

Frederico Finan and Laura Schechter

17410: Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

Jeffrey Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Lee Vermeulen and Marian Wrobel

17409: The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

Bard Harstad

17408: Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs

Alan Barreca, Jason Lindo and Glen Waddell

17407: What is the Risk of European Sovereign Debt Defaults? Fiscal Space, CDS Spreads and Market Pricing of Risk

Joshua Aizenman, Michael Hutchison and Yothin Jinjarak

17406: Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle

Gregory Colman and Dhaval Dave

17405: Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update

Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko and Joseph Tracy

17404: Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby and Jason Fong

17403: Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Paul Raschky and Howard Kunreuther

17402: The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America

Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer

17401: Who Should Supervise? The Structure of Bank Supervision and the Performance of the Financial System

Barry Eichengreen and Nazire Nergiz Dincer

17400: The Future of Economic Convergence

Dani Rodrik

17399: Private Equity and Employment

Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda

17398: Corruption in Developing Countries

Benjamin Olken and Rohini Pande

17397: Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections

Marco Faravelli and Randall Walsh

17396: Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows, and Global Imbalances

Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych

17395: Information Manipulation, Coordination, and Regime Change

Chris Edmond

17394: Comparing the Investment Behavior of Public and Private Firms

John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist

17393: Estimating the Effects of Large Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument

Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist and Ruediger Fahlenbrach

17392: Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina

17391: Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions

Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson

17390: Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation

Christopher Knittel and Ryan Sandler

17389: Financial Markets and Unemployment

Tommaso Monacelli, Vincenzo Quadrini and Antonella Trigari

17388: Financial Distress in the Great Depression

John R. Graham, Sonali Hazarika and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan

17387: Corporate Governance, Debt, and Investment Policy during the Great Depression

John R. Graham, Sonali Hazarika and Krishnamoorthy Narasimhan

17386: Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies

Stephen Holland, Jonathan Hughes, Christopher Knittel and Nathan C. Parker

17385: Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets

Liran Einav, Theresa Kuchler, Jonathan Levin and Neel Sundaresan

17384: An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems: Donations, Elections and Policy Choices

Hanming Fang, Dmitry A. Shapiro and Arthur Zillante

17383: Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency: The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector

Kabir Malik, Maureen Cropper, Alexander Limonov and Anoop Singh

17382: Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War

Dora Costa

17381: A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Robert Fairlie, Florian Hoffmann and Philip Oreopoulos

17380: A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History

Michael Bordo, Agnieszka Markiewicz and Lars Jonung

17379: International Liquidity: The Fiscal Dimension

Maurice Obstfeld

17378: Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

James Heckman

17377: The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth

Quamrul Ashraf, David Weil and Joshua Wilde

17376: Embodied Carbon Tariffs

Christoph Böhringer, Jared Carbone and Thomas Rutherford

17375: Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test

Daniel Hungerman

17374: Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

17373: Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs

Amil Petrin and Jagadeesh Sivadasan

17372: Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

Naercio Menezes-Filho and Marc-Andreas Muendler

17371: Comparative Effectiveness Research, COURAGE, and Technological Abandonment

David H. Howard and Yu-Chu Shen

17370: Capital Allocation and Delegation of Decision-Making Authority within Firms

John R. Graham, Campbell Harvey and Manju Puri

17369: The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality

Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

17368: Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation

John R. Graham, Si Li and Jiaping Qiu

17367: Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights

Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman and Carlos Serrano

17366: Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation

Yan Dong and John Whalley

17365: The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and Its Impacts on Trade

Hejing Chen and John Whalley

17364: Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification

Patrick Bayer and Robert McMillan

17363: Managing Capital Inflows: The Role of Capital Controls and Prudential Policies

Mahvash Qureshi, Jonathan Ostry, Atish Ghosh and Marcos Chamon

17362: International Reserves and the Global Financial Crisis

Kathryn Dominguez, Yuko Hashimoto and Takatoshi Ito