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16740: How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors

Justine Hastings and Olivia Mitchell

16739: Making friends with your neighbors? Agglomeration and tacit collusion in the lodging industry

Li Gan and Manuel Hernandez

16738: A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Insurance Demand

Li Gan, Feng Huang and Adalbert Mayer

16737: Capital-Market Effects of Securities Regulation: Prior Conditions, Implementation, and Enforcement

Hans B. Christensen, Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz

16736: Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

16735: Transaction Cost Regulation

Pablo Spiller

16734: Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Markets

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

16733: Learning Versus Stealing: How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?

Ann Harrison, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj

16732: Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

16731: If Drug Treatment Works So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison?

Harold Pollack, Peter Reuter and Eric L. Sevigny

16730: Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel

Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

16729: Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference Between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities

Raj Chetty, Adam Guren, Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

16728: Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

16727: Informational Rents, Macroeconomic Rents, and Efficient Bailouts

Thomas Philippon and Philipp Schnabl

16726: Differences of Opinion and International Equity Markets

Bernard Dumas, Karen Lewis and Emilio Osambela

16725: Credit Spreads as Predictors of Real-Time Economic Activity: A Bayesian Model-Averaging Approach

Jon Faust, Simon Gilchrist, Jonathan Wright and Egon Zakrajšek

16724: Liquidity Mergers

Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello and Dirk Hackbarth

16723: Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein

16722: Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

Lance Lochner

16721: Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA

William Jack and Tavneet Suri

16720: Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

Itai Ashlagi and Alvin Roth

16719: Social Security and Retirement around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms - Introduction and Summary

Kevin Milligan and David Wise

16718: Fertility and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn

16717: Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Nicholas Bloom, Mirko Draca and John van Reenen

16716: Risk Response in Agriculture

Jeffrey LaFrance, Rulon Pope and Jesse Tack

16715: Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

Ori Heffetz and John List

16714: Forecasts in a Slightly Misspecified Finite Order VAR

Ulrich K. Müller and James Stock

16713: Assessing China's Top-Down Securities Markets

William T. Allen and Han Shen

16712: What Does Futures Market Interest Tell Us about the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices?

Harrison Hong and Motohiro Yogo

16711: The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models

Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher

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