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15961: The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market

John Horton, David G. Rand and Richard Zeckhauser

15960: Borders, Ethnicity and Trade

Jenny C. Aker, Michael Klein, Stephen A. O'Connell and Muzhe Yang

15959: Market Structure and Innovation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automobile Industry

Aamir Hashmi and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

15958: Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization

Daron Acemoglu, Gino Gancia and Fabrizio Zilibotti

15957: An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade

Thomas Holmes and John Stevens

15956: An Autopsy of the U.S. Financial System

Ross Levine

15955: A Dynamic Model of Housing Demand: Estimation and Policy Implications

Patrick Bajari, Phoebe Chan, Dirk Krueger and Daniel Miller

15954: The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data

Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks

15953: Binge Drinking and Risky Sex among College Students

Jeffrey DeSimone

15952: Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts

Ulf Axelson, Tim Jenkinson, Per Stromberg and Michael Weisbach

15951: Measurement Errors in Investment Equations

Heitor Almeida, Murillo Campello and Antonio Galvao

15950: Does Risk Explain Anomalies? Evidence from Expected Return Estimates

Jin Ginger Wu and Lu Zhang

15949: The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

15948: Characteristic Timing

Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson

15947: Local Labor Markets

Enrico Moretti

15946: The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis and Enrico Moretti

15945: Short Criminals: Stature and Crime in Early America

Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn Moehling and Gregory Price

15944: Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy in Development Economics

Daron Acemoglu

15943: Breadth vs. Depth: The Timing of Specialization in Higher Education

Ofer Malamud

15942: Who Pays Cigarette Taxes? The Impact of Consumer Price Search

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Feng Liu

15941: Excise Tax Avoidance: The Case of State Cigarette Taxes

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Feng Liu

15940: The Other Side of Value: Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium

Robert Novy-Marx

15939: Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

15938: On the Sources of Aggregate Fluctuations in Emerging Economies

Roberto Chang and Andrés Fernández Martin

15937: Locked Up by a Lockup: Valuing Liquidity as a Real Option

Andrew Ang and Nicolas P.B. Bollen

15936: Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing

Robert Lipsey, Fredrik Sjöholm and Jing Sun

15935: Can Pollution Tax Rebates Protect Low-Income Families? The Effects of Relative Wage Rates

Don Fullerton and Holly Monti

15934: Fiscal Rules in India: Are They Effective?

Willem Buiter and Urjit R. Patel

15933: Client-Based Entrepreneurship

James Rauch and Joel Watson

15932: Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-state Tuition at State Colleges and Universities

Aimee Chin and Chinhui Juhn

15931: Unemployment Fiscal Multipliers

Tommaso Monacelli, Roberto Perotti and Antonella Trigari

15930: Innovators: Filmmakers

David Galenson

15929: Reading the Recent Monetary History of the U.S., 1959-2007

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Pablo Guerron and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

15928: Fortune or Virtue: Time-Variant Volatilities Versus Parameter Drifting in U.S. Data

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Pablo Guerron and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

15927: Excessive Volatility in Capital Flows: A Pigouvian Taxation Approach

Olivier Jeanne and Anton Korinek

15926: Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: A General Gains-from-Trade Result and Illustrative Examples

James Markusen

15925: Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

Daniel Benjamin, James Choi and Geoffrey W. Fisher

15924: Credit within the firm

Luigi Pistaferri, Luigi Guiso and Fabiano Schivardi

15923: Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?

Erik Snowberg and Justin Wolfers

15922: Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence from India

Emily Oster and M. Bryce Millett

15921: Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Agricultural Commodities: Implications for the US Ethanol Mandate

Michael Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker

15920: Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters

Emi Nakamura, Jon Steinsson, Robert Barro and José Ursúa

15919: Balance Sheet Adjustments in the 2008 Crisis

Zhiguo He, In Gu Khang and Arvind Krishnamurthy

15918: Leadership: A Personnel Economics Approach

Edward Lazear

15917: The dark side of outside directors: Do they quit when they are most needed?

Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Angie Low and René Stulz

15916: Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

15915: Household Location and Schools in Metropolitan Areas with Heterogeneous Suburbs; Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy

Eric Hanushek and Kuzey Yilmaz

15914: Earnings, Consumption and Lifecycle Choices

Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

15913: Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?

Gary Charness and Peter Kuhn

15912: Learning and the Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns

Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang

15911: Trust and Well-being

John Helliwell and Shun Wang

15910: Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure

Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood

15909: Tapping the Supercomputer Under Your Desk: Solving Dynamic Equilibrium Models with Graphics Processors

Eric Aldrich, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, A. Gallant and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

15908: Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy

John Taylor and John Williams

15907: Decoupling and Recoupling

Anton Korinek, Agustín Roitman and Carlos Vegh

15906: A Corporate Beauty Contest

John R. Graham, Campbell Harvey and Manju Puri

15905: Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations: Lessons from the Internet

Shane Greenstein

15904: Getting Cars Off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program

Maureen Cropper, Yi Jiang, Anna Alberini and Patrick Baur

15903: Putting Per-Capita Income Back into Trade Theory

James Markusen

15902: A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010

Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

15901: Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market

Richard Rogerson and Robert Shimer

15900: Deep Financial Integration and Volatility

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent Sorensen and Vadym Volosovych

15899: Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers: Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives

Christoph Böhringer, Andreas Lange and Thomas Rutherford

15898: Financial Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from Randomized Trials

Roland Fryer

15897: The Marginal Products of Residential and Non-Residential Capital Through 2009

Casey Mulligan and Luke Threinen

15896: Household Leverage and the Recession of 2007 to 2009

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

15895: The Effect of State Workers' Compensation Program Changes on the Use of Federal Social Security Disability Insurance

Melissa McInerney and Kosali Simon

15894: Education Policy and Crime

Lance Lochner

15893: Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic Development

Jeremy Greenwood, Juan Sanchez and Cheng Wang

15892: Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States

John Bound, Michael Lovenheim and Sarah Turner

15891: Understanding the mechanisms of economic development

Angus Deaton

15890: The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a DSGE Model with Recursive Preferences

Jules van Binsbergen, Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Ralph Koijen and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

15889: Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Sandra Black and Paul Devereux

15888: Pass-Through of Oil Prices to Japanese Domestic Prices

Etsuro Shioji and Taisuke Uchino

15887: Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

John Helliwell and Christopher Barrington-Leigh

15886: Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China

Hai Fang, Karen Eggleston, John Rizzo and Richard Zeckhauser

15885: Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing

Lucas Davis and Erich Muehlegger

15884: The Shanxi Banks

Randall Morck and Fan Yang

15883: Beauty Contests and Irrational Exuberance: A Neoclassical Approach

George-Marios Angeletos, Guido Lorenzoni and Alessandro Pavan

15882: Trade-in-goods and trade-in-tasks: An Integrating Framework

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

15881: Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility (Long Version)

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

15880: Has medical innovation reduced cancer mortality?

Frank Lichtenberg

15879: How Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Evolved Over Time?

Jean Boivin, Michael Kiley and Frederic Mishkin

15878: Why Do Inventories Rise When Demand Falls in Housing and Other Markets?

Edward Lazear

15877: Public Safety through Private Action: An economic assessment of BIDs, locks, and citizen cooperation

Philip J Cook and John MacDonald

15876: Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma

Joshua Aizenman, Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito

15875: Diet, Health and Work Intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914

Bernard Harris, Roderick Floud, Robert Fogel and Sok Chul Hong

15874: Improving Employment Prospects for Former Prison Inmates: Challenges and Policy

Steven Raphael

15873: The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship

Dalton Conley and Emily Rauscher

15872: One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving

C. Kirabo Jackson and Emily Owens

15871: Monetary Policy and Unemployment

Jordi Galí

15870: Economic Growth with Bubbles

Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

15869: Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires

Jasjit Singh and Ajay Agrawal

15868: The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis: Real Exchange Rates and their Long-Run Equilibrium

Yanping Chong, Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor

15867: Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

15866: Investor Overconfidence and the Forward Premium Puzzle

Craig Burnside, Bing Han, David Hirshleifer and Tracy Yue Wang

15865: Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil

Lee Alston, Gary Libecap and Bernardo Mueller

15864: Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight

Shu Wen Ng, Edward Norton, David K. Guilkey and Barry M. Popkin

15863: Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

Douglas Gollin and Richard Rogerson

15862: The Trend of Mean BMI Values of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986 Indicates that the Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Hitherto Thought

John Komlos and Marek Brabec