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16710: The Design of Performance Pay in Education

Derek Neal

16709: Supply and Effects of Specialty Crop Insurance

Ethan Ligon

16708: One-node Quadrature Beats Monte Carlo: A Generalized Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

Kenneth Judd, Lilia Maliar and Serguei Maliar

16707: Why Are Target Interest Rate Changes So Persistent?

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

16706: Modeling Processor Market Power and the Incidence of Agricultural Policy: A Non-parametric Approach

Rachael Goodhue and Carlo Russo

16705: Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth

David Bloom, David Canning and Günther Fink

16704: Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Bruce Blonigen and Jeremy Piger

16703: Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy

Don Fullerton

16702: White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

Leah Boustan and Robert Margo

16701: Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners' Mobility

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

16700: The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

Amil Petrin, T. Kirk White and Jerome P. Reiter

16699: How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

Steven Sexton and David Zilberman

16698: Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature

Patrick L. Hill, Brent W. Roberts, Jeffrey Grogger, Jonathan Guryan and Karen Sixkiller

16697: Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices

Xiaoguang Chen, Haixiao Huang, Madhu Khanna and Hayri Onal

16696: Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies

Pierre Chiappori, Krislert Samphantharak, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl and Robert Townsend

16695: Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption

Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell and Wolfram Schlenker

16694: Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

Roger Gordon and Wei Li

16693: The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies

Barry Goodwin, Ashok Mishra and Francois Ortalo-Magne

16692: Investigating the Dynamic Effects of Counterfeits with a Random Changepoint Simultaneous Equation Model

Yi Qian and Hui Xie

16691: Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives

Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Luigi Guiso and Raffaella Sadun

16690: Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of AMI Population 1996-2005

Yu-Chu Shen and Renee Y. Hsia

16689: Partnership fragility and credit costs

Howard Bodenhorn

16688: Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach

Charles Calomiris, Joseph Mason and David Wheelock

16687: Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

Philip Babcock, Kelly Bedard, Gary Charness, John Hartman and Heather Royer

16686: Rebalancing and the Chinese VAT: Some Numerical Simulation Results

Chunding Li and John Whalley

16685: Foreclosures, House Prices, and the Real Economy

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi and Francesco Trebbi

16684: Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

Jonathan Parker, Nicholas Souleles, David S. Johnson and Robert McClelland

16683: The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Bhaven Sampat

16682: A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Daron Acemoglu, Mikhail Golosov, Aleh Tsyvinski and Pierre Yared

16681: Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area

Peter Ireland

16680: Best Prices

Judith Chevalier and Anil Kashyap

16679: A New Control Function Approach for Non-Parametric Regressions with Endogenous Variables

Kyoo il Kim and Amil Petrin

16678: Economics, History, and Causation

Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

16677: U.S. International Equity Investment and Past and Prospective Returns

Stephanie E. Curcuru, Charles Thomas, Francis Warnock and Jon Wongswan

16676: Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions

Jesse Ellis, Sara B. Moeller, Frederik Schlingemann and René Stulz

16675: The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

16674: The Role of Currency Realignments in Eliminating the US and China Current Account Imbalances

Martin Feldstein

16673: Is Being in School Better? The Impact of School on Children's BMI When Starting Age is Endogenous

Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher, Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Schanzenbach

16672: Gravity Chains: Estimating Bilateral Trade Flows When Parts And Components Trade Is Important

Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni

16671: The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

Dalton Conley and Jennifer Heerwig

16670: Tax Competition and Migration: The Race-to-the-Bottom Hypothesis Revisited

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

16669: Health Insurance Mandates, Mammography, and Breast Cancer Diagnoses

Marianne Bitler and Christopher Carpenter

16668: International Happiness

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

16667: Kosher Pork

Allan Drazen and Ethan Ilzetzki

16666: Trade and the Global Recession

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, Brent Neiman and John Romalis

16665: Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present

William Collins and Robert Margo

16664: Long-run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments

Rucker C. Johnson

16663: Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan

Julie Cullen, Mark Long and Randall Reback

16662: Trade and Labor Market Outcomes

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding

16661: Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa

Murray Leibbrandt and James Levinsohn

16660: International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

16659: Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training

Dhaval Dave, Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman and Dhiman Das

16658: Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts

16657: The Propagation of Regional Recessions

James Hamilton and Michael Owyang

16656: A Structural Approach to Market Definition With an Application to the Hospital Industry

Martin Gaynor, Samuel Kleiner and William Vogt

16655: Valuing the Benefits of Superfund Site Remediation: Three Approaches to Measuring Localized Externalities

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Ralph Mastromonaco and Christopher Timmins

16654: Inflation Targeting

Lars Svensson

16653: The Equity and Efficiency of Two-Part Tariffs in U.S. Natural Gas Markets

Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis

16652: Venture Capital and Other Private Equity: A Survey

Andrew Metrick and Ayako Yasuda

16651: Equity Prices and Equity Flows: Testing Theory of the Information-Efficiency Tradeoff

Assaf Razin and Anuk Serechetapongse

16650: Bailouts and the Preservation of Competition

James W. Roberts and Andrew Sweeting

16649: Dynamic Incentive Contracts Under Parameter Uncertainty

Julien Prat and Boyan Jovanovic

16648: Predictability of Returns and Cash Flows

Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

16647: U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention and the Early Dollar Float: 1973 - 1981

Michael Bordo, Owen Humpage and Anna Schwartz

16646: The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration

Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden and Giovanni Peri

16645: Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others

Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

16644: Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Blinder and Solow Revisited

Roger Farmer and Dmitry Plotnikov

16643: When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards

Joshua Angrist, Philip Oreopoulos and Tyler Williams

16642: Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics

Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

16641: The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis

Costas Arkolakis, Sharat Ganapati and Marc-Andreas Muendler

16640: Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization

Fernando Broner and Jaume Ventura

16639: Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

William Kerr and Scott Kominers

16638: How Does the Business Cycle Affect Eating Habits?

Dhaval Dave and Inas Kelly

16637: Stopping Suicide Attacks: Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

Michael McBride and Gary Richardson

16636: Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply With Coordinated Working Times

Richard Rogerson

16635: Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance

Alain de Janvry, Frederico Finan and Elisabeth Sadoulet

16634: Identification and Inference in Linear Stochastic Discount Factor Models with Excess Returns

Craig Burnside

16633: Second-Order Approximation of Dynamic Models with Time-Varying Risk

Gianluca Benigno, Pierpaolo Benigno and Salvatore Nisticò

16632: Holdouts in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Theory of Negotiation in a Weak Contractual Environment

Rohan Pitchford and Mark Wright

16631: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money After 75 Years: The Importance of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time

Matthew N. Luzzetti and Lee Ohanian

16630: International Macro-Finance

Anna Pavlova and Roberto Rigobon

16629: Unexploited Gains from International Diversification: Patterns of Portfolio Holdings Around the World

Tatiana Didier, Roberto Rigobon and Sergio Schmukler

16628: Trading and Liquidity with Limited Cognition

Bruno Biais, Johan Hombert and Pierre-Olivier Weill

16627: Green Clubs

Klaas van 't Veld and Matthew Kotchen

16626: Evaluating the Effectiveness of National Labor Relations Act Remedies: Analysis and Comparison with Other Workplace Penalty Policies

Morris M. Kleiner and David Weil

16625: Where There's Smoking, There's Fire: The Effects of Smoking Policies on the Incidence of Fires in the United States

Sara Markowitz

16624: Committing to Exercise: Contract Design for Virtuous Habit Formation

Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, Erik Blumenkranz and Alan M. Garber

16623: AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions

Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence

16622: The Real and Financial Implications of Corporate Hedging

Murillo Campello, Chen Lin, Yue Ma and Hong Zou

16621: Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies

Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra

16620: A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and its Implications for Financial Regulation

Julio Rotemberg

16619: Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation

Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, Aleh Tsyvinski and Matthew Weinzierl

16618: Macroeconomics and Volatility: Data, Models, and Estimation

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

16617: Retail Trade by Federal Reserve District, 1919 to 1939: A Statistical History

Haelim M. Park and Gary Richardson

16616: New cellular networks in Malawi: Correlates of service rollout and network performance

Dimitrios Batzilis, Taryn Dinkelman, Emily Oster, Rebecca Thornton and Deric Zanera

16615: Urban Accounting and Welfare

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

16614: Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes

Gilbert Metcalf and Catherine Wolfram

16613: The Domestic and International Effects of Interstate U.S. Banking

Fabio Ghironi and Viktors Stebunovs

16612: The Role of Financial Literacy in Determining Retirement Plans

Robert Clark, Melinda Morrill and Steven Allen

16611: Spiders and snakes: offshoring and agglomeration in the global economy

Richard Baldwin and Anthony Venables