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17061: Are the Seeds of Bad Governance Sown in Good Times?

Antoinette Schoar and Ebonya L. Washington

17060: Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations

George-Marios Angeletos and Jennifer La'O

17059: Theft and Deterrence

William Harbaugh, Naci Mocan and Michael S. Visser

17058: Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Oded Galor

17057: The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Oded Galor

17056: Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

17055: Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case

Luc Behaghel, Didier Blanchet, Thierry Debrand and Muriel Roger

17054: Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden

Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson

17053: Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands

Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn and Adriaan Kalwij

17052: Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan: A Historical Perspective

Takashi Oshio and Satoshi Shimizutani

17051: Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman

17050: Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups

Annamaria Conti, Marie Thursby and Frank Rothaermel

17049: Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Antoine Bozio and Carl Emmerson

17048: Health, Disability and Pathways to Retirement in Spain

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Sergi Jimenez-Martin and Judit Vall Castello

17047: The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

David Card, Stefano DellaVigna and Ulrike Malmendier

17046: Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less

Peter J. Huckfeldt and Christopher Knittel

17045: Land-price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations

Zheng Liu, Pengfei Wang and Tao Zha

17044: Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession

Laurence Ball and Sandeep Mazumder

17043: Incentives and the Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics

John Conley, Mario Crucini, Robert Driskill and Ali Onder

17042: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt and John Scholz

17041: What Do Small Businesses Do?

Erik Hurst and Benjamin Pugsley

17040: Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010

Henry S. Farber

17039: Estimating and Testing Models with Many Treatment Levels and Limited Instruments

Lance Lochner and Enrico Moretti

17038: This Time Is the Same: Using Bank Performance in 1998 to Explain Bank Performance During the Recent Financial Crisis

Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Robert Prilmeier and René Stulz

17037: Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

17036: Does Accuracy Improve the Information Value of Trials?

Scott A. Baker and Anup Malani

17035: Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

Casey Rothschild and Florian Scheuer

17034: Are the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks Big or Small?

Olivier Coibion

17033: Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

James Andreoni and Laura Gee

17032: The Hired Gun Mechanism

James Andreoni and Laura Gee

17031: Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision

Nicola Lacetera and Lorenzo Zirulia

17030: Heuristic Thinking and Limited Attention in the Car Market

Nicola Lacetera, Devin Pope and Justin R. Sydnor

17029: An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl

17028: Limited and Varying Consumer Attention: Evidence from Shocks to the Salience of Bank Overdraft Fees

Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman

17027: The Social Cost of Near-Rational Investment

Tarek Hassan and Thomas Mertens

17026: Credit Risk and Disaster Risk

Francois Gourio

17025: Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security

Jialun Li and Kent Smetters

17024: Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus

Michael Bordo and Peter Rousseau

17023: The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker

Steven Levitt and Thomas J. Miles

17022: The Quantification of Systemic Risk and Stability: New Methods and Measures

Romney B. Duffey

17021: Credit Spreads and Business Cycle Fluctuations

Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajšek

17020: Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments

Ximena Cadena and Antoinette Schoar

17019: The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries

Corbett Grainger and Christopher Costello

17018: Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

Jeffrey Brown, Arie Kapteyn and Olivia Mitchell

17017: Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences

Charles Kolstad

17016: Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70: A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005

Joseph P. Ferrie and Karen Rolf

17015: A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions

Kent Smetters and Walter E. Theseira

17014: Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Markus Mobius, Muriel Niederle, Paul Niehaus and Tanya Rosenblat

17013: The Organization of R&D in American Corporations: The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization

Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon and Luis A. Rios

17012: Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan

Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster and Edward Miguel

17011: Can Medical Progress be Sustained? Implications of the Link Between Development and Output Markets

Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson

17010: Legal Investor Protection and Takeovers

Mike Burkart, Denis Gromb, Holger M. Mueller and Fausto Panunzi

17009: Estimates of Crowd-Out from a Public Health Insurance Expansion Using Administrative Data

Laura Dague, Thomas DeLeire, Donna Friedsam, Daphne Kuo, Lindsey Leininger, Sarah Meier and Kristen Voskuil

17008: Sustainability and its Measurement

Geoffrey Heal

17007: Continuous Workout Mortgages

Robert Shiller, Rafal Wojakowski, M. Shahid Ebrahim and Mark Shackleton

17006: Durable Financial Regulation: Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions

Leonard Nakamura

17005: Should Central Banks Raise their Inflation Targets? Some Relevant Issues

Bennett McCallum

17004: The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity

Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell

17003: Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002

James Anderson and Yoto Yotov

17002: Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

Siqi Zheng and Matthew Kahn

17001: Negative Leakage

Don Fullerton, Daniel Karney and Kathy Baylis

17000: Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-the-counter Markets

Viral Acharya and Alberto Bisin

16999: Household Debt and Saving During the 2007 Recession

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Donghoon Lee, Wilbert van der Klaauw and Basit Zafar

16998: Systemic Risks and the Macroeconomy

Gianni De Nicolò and Marcella Lucchetta

16997: Quantile Regression with Censoring and Endogeneity

Victor Chernozhukov, Ivan Fernandez-Val and Amanda Kowalski

16996: Shocks and Crashes

Martin Lettau and Sydney Ludvigson

16995: Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Viral Acharya, Sergei A. Davydenko and Ilya Strebulaev

16994: Illiquid Banks, Financial Stability, and Interest Rate Policy

Douglas Diamond and Raghuram Rajan

16993: The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions

Ralf Meisenzahl and Joel Mokyr

16992: China's Rising Demand for "Green Cities": Evidence from Cross-City Real Estate Price Hedonics

Siqi Zheng, Jing Cao and Matthew Kahn

16991: Pensions in the 2000s: the Lost Decade?

Edward Wolff

16990: The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research

Amitabh Chandra, Anupam Jena and Jonathan Skinner

16989: Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia

Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

16988: Intertemporal Price Discrimination in Storable Goods Markets

Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo

16987: The Cost of Fuel Economy in the Indian Passenger Vehicle Market

Randy Chugh, Maureen Cropper and Urvashi Narain

16986: Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets: Problems and Solutions

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

16985: Drowning or Weathering the Storm? Changes in Family Finances from 2007 to 2009

Jesse Bricker, Brian K. Bucks, Arthur Kennickell, Traci L. Mach and Kevin Moore

16984: Diversity and Technological Progress

Daron Acemoglu

16983: Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?

Petra Moser and Paul Rhode

16982: Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk: Lessons from the U.S. and Europe

Andrew Ang and Francis Longstaff

16981: A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara

16980: Funding Scientific Knowledge: Selection, Disclosure and the Public-Private Portfolio

Joshua Gans and Fiona E. Murray

16979: Bank Finance Versus Bond Finance

Fiorella De Fiore and Harald Uhlig

16978: The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy

Alan Krueger and Ilyana Kuziemko

16977: How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

Jason Brown, Mark Duggan, Ilyana Kuziemko and William Woolston

16976: Stock Volatility During the Recent Financial Crisis

G. Schwert

16975: Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data

Daniel Paravisini, Veronica Rappoport, Philipp Schnabl and Daniel Wolfenzon

16974: What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices?

Soren Anderson, Ryan Kellogg and James Sallee

16973: The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

Daniel Hungerman

16972: Discount Rates

John Cochrane

16971: Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress and Challenges

Maureen Cropper, James Hammitt and Lisa Robinson

16970: On the Relationship Between Mobility, Population Growth, and Capital Spending in the United States

Marco Bassetto and Leslie McGranahan

16969: Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Stephen Ryan, Paul Schrimpf and Mark R. Cullen

16968: What Do Business Climate Indexes Teach Us About State Policy and Economic Growth?

Jed Kolko, David Neumark and Marisol Cuellar Mejia

16967: Global retail lending in the aftermath of the US financial crisis: Distinguishing between supply and demand effects

Manju Puri, Jörg Rocholl and Sascha Steffen

16966: Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson

16965: Household Leverage and the Recession

Callum Jones, Virgiliu Midrigan and Thomas Philippon

16964: Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations

Gordon Hanson and Chong Xiang

16963: Contracting for Impure Public Goods: Carbon Offsets and Additionality

Charles Mason and Andrew Plantinga

16962: Market-specific and Currency-specific Risk During the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Interbank Markets in Tokyo and London

Shin-ichi Fukuda