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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

16610: The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World

Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

16609: Over The Cliff: From the Subprime to the Global Financial Crisis

Frederic Mishkin

16608: The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand

Grant D. Jacobsen, Matthew Kotchen and Michael P. Vandenbergh

16607: The Maturity Rat Race

Markus Brunnermeier and Martin Oehmke

16606: The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

Eric Hanushek

16605: Determinants of Financial Stress and Recovery during the Great Recession

Joshua Aizenman and Gurnain Pasricha

16604: Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy

James Sallee and Joel Slemrod

16603: Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services

Mireille Jacobson and Heather Royer

16602: Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse: Evidence from an Audit Study in China

Janet Currie, Wanchuan Lin and Wei Zhang

16601: Betting Against Beta

Andrea Frazzini and Lasse Pedersen

16600: Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation

Richard Baldwin

16599: Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth

Kenneth Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence H. Goulder, Kevin Mumford and Kirsten Oleson

16598: Can Higher-Achieving Peers Explain the Benefits to Attending Selective Schools?: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

C. Kirabo Jackson

16597: African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations

William Easterly and Ariell Reshef

16596: Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Shocks in Dynastic Models

Larry Jones and Alice Schoonbroodt

16595: Local Versus Aggregate Lending Channels: The Effects Of Securitization On Corporate Credit Supply In Spain

Gabriel Jimenez, Atif Mian, Jose-Luis Peydro and Jesús Saurina

16594: Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya

Joshua Graff Zivin, Maria Damon and Harsha Thirumurthy

16593: Accounting for Anticipation Effects: An Application to Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

Anup Malani and Julian Reif

16592: The Contribution of Human Capital to China's Economic Growth

John Whalley and Xiliang Zhao

16591: What Does Stock Ownership Breadth Measure?

James Choi, Li Jin and Hongjun Yan

16590: Are all Credit Default Swap Databases Equal?

Sergio Mayordomo, Juan Ignacio Peña and Eduardo S. Schwartz

16589: The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-08: Is it Unprecedented?

Michael Bordo and John Landon-Lane

16588: Capital Taxation During the U.S. Great Depression

Ellen McGrattan

16587: Understanding Markups in the Open Economy under Bertrand Competition

Beatriz de Blas and Katheryn Russ

16586: The Inefficiency of Refinancing: Why Prepayment Penalties Are Good for Risky Borrowers

Christopher Mayer, Tomasz Piskorski and Alexei Tchistyi

16585: CEO Compensation

Carola Frydman and Dirk Jenter

16584: Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up

Dora Costa

16583: The European Union, the Euro, and Equity Market Integration

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, Christian Lundblad and Stephan Siegel

16582: The Mommy Track Divides: The Impact of Childbearing on Wages of Women of Differing Skill Levels

Elizabeth Wilde, Lily Batchelder and David T. Ellwood

16581: Networks and Workouts: Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment

Philip Babcock and John L. Hartman

16580: Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth?

Timothy Kehoe and Kim Ruhl

16579: Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice

Joseph Altonji, Ching-I Huang and Christopher R. Taber

16578: Beware of Unawareness: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Awareness of Chronic Diseases

Pinka Chatterji, Heesoo Joo and Kajal Lahiri

16577: The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares

Jonathan Parker and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

16576: The Gravity Model

James Anderson

16575: The Regional Distribution of Skill Premia in Urban China

John Whalley and Chunbing Xing

16574: The Vote is Cast: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value

Vicente Cuñat, Mireia Gine and Maria Guadalupe

16573: Innovation and Foreign Ownership

Maria Guadalupe, Olga Kuzmina and Catherine Thomas

16572: Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index

Hendrik Wolff, Howard Chong and Maximilian Auffhammer

16571: Production Chains

David Levine

16570: Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability

Andreas Schick and Richard Steckel

16569: Mauritius: African Success Story

Jeffrey Frankel

16568: Valuing Identity

Roland Fryer and Glenn Loury

16567: Financial Crises, Credit Booms, and External Imbalances: 140 Years of Lessons

Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

16566: ExtrapoLATE-ing: External Validity and Overidentification in the LATE Framework

Joshua Angrist and Ivan Fernandez-Val

16565: Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar Prasad

16564: Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance

John Asker and Heski Bar-Isaac

16563: World Food Prices and Monetary Policy

Luis Catão and Roberto Chang

16562: Theories of Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Stephen Redding