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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 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

17110: Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Germany

Tabea Bucher-Koenen and Annamaria Lusardi

17109: Financial Literacy, Retirement Preparation and Pension Expectations in the Netherlands

Rob Alessie, Maarten van Rooij and Annamaria Lusardi

17108: Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17107: Financial Literacy around the World: An Overview

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17106: Institutional Comparative Statics

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

17105: Maternity Leave and Children's Cognitive and Behavioral Development

Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan

17104: Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, Dania V. Francis and Christina M. Gibson-Davis

17103: Americans' Financial Capability

Annamaria Lusardi

17102: Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis

Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt

17101: Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

Emanuele Massetti and Robert Mendelsohn

17100: International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?

Nune Hovhannisyan and Wolfgang Keller

17099: Do Majority Black Districts Limit Blacks' Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting

Ebonya L. Washington

17098: On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

17097: Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

John D. Griffin, David Nickerson and Abigail Wozniak

17096: Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States

James Banks, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

17095: Empirical Implementation of Nonparametric First-Price Auction Models

Daniel Henderson, John List, Daniel Millimet, Christopher Parmeter and Michael Price

17094: Life and Growth

Charles Jones

17093: How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

Ran Abramitzky and Victor Lavy

17092: Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. and African Agriculture

Marshall Burke, John Dykema, David Lobell, Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath

17091: Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley

17090: Macroeconomic Regimes

Lieven Baele, Geert Bekaert, Seonghoon Cho, Koen Inghelbrecht and Antonio Moreno

17089: Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

Sa A. Bui, Steven Craig and Scott Imberman

17088: Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

David Card and Laura Giuliano

17087: Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households

Sebastian Rausch, Gilbert Metcalf and John Reilly

17086: Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Stanley Reynolds and Mario Samano

17085: The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education: Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment

Philip DeCicca and Justin Smith

17084: Unemployment in an Estimated New Keynesian Model

Jordi Galí, Frank Smets and Raf Wouters

17083: Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency

Garth Heutel

17082: Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence

Eduard Ponds, Clara Severinson and Juan Yermo

17081: The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

John Cawley and Christopher Ruhm

17080: Monetary Policy Mistakes and the Evolution of Inflation Expectations

Athanasios Orphanides and John Williams

17079: Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany

Axel H. Boersch-Supan and Hendrik Juerges

17078: Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17077: The Outlook for Financial Literacy

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

17076: A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis

Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra and Thierry Tressel

17075: Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Oded Galor and Stelios Michalopoulos

17074: Exchange Rates in Emerging Countries: Eleven Empirical Regularities from Latin America and East Asia

Sebastian Edwards

17073: Financial Protectionism: the First Tests

Andrew Rose and Tomasz Wieladek

17072: Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications

Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel J. Schneider and Peter Tufano

17071: Is there a trade-off between inflation and output stabilization?

Alejandro Justiniano, Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

17070: The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions

Craig L. Garthwaite

17069: Income-Based Disparities in Health Care Utilization under Universal Coverage in Brazil

Guido Cataife and Charles Courtemanche

17068: Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias

Dhaval Dave, Jennifer Tennant and Gregory Colman

17067: Goods Prices and Availability in Cities

Jessie Handbury and David Weinstein

17066: History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

Daron Acemoglu and Matthew Jackson

17065: Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

Christopher Mayer, Edward Morrison, Tomasz Piskorski and Arpit Gupta

17064: Recursive Contracts, Lotteries and Weakly Concave Pareto Sets

Harold Cole and Felix Kubler

17063: Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks

Ruediger Bachmann and Eric Sims

17062: Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations

Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan