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15740: Who Benefits from KIPP?

Joshua Angrist, Susan Dynarski, Thomas J. Kane, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

15739: The Consumption Response to Income Changes

Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri

15738: Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media: Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Nancy Qian and David Yanagizawa-Drott

15737: The Business Cycle and Health Behaviors

Xin Xu and Robert Kaestner

15736: Sources of Variation in Holding Returns for Fed Funds Futures Contracts

James Hamilton and Tatsuyoshi Okimoto

15735: Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection

Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman

15734: On the Relative Pricing of long Maturity S&P 500 Index Options and CDX Tranches

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Robert S. Goldstein and Fan Yang

15733: Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion via the Updating of Beliefs

Pierre Collin-Dufresne, Robert S. Goldstein and Jean Helwege

15732: University-Industry Spillovers, Government Funding, and Industrial Consulting

Richard Jensen, Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby

15731: Exits from Recessions: The U.S. Experience 1920-2007

Michael Bordo and John Landon-Lane

15730: Securitization without risk transfer

Viral Acharya, Philipp Schnabl and Gustavo Suarez

15729: Modeling College Major Choices using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals

Peter Arcidiacono, V. Joseph Hotz and Songman Kang

15728: Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Betsey Stevenson

15727: Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Flows

Itay Goldstein, Assaf Razin and Hui Tong

15726: Great Inflation and Central Bank Independence in Japan

Takatoshi Ito

15725: Women's Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility

Adam Isen and Betsey Stevenson

15724: A Theory-Based Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution

Patrick Bajari, Jane Cooley, Kyoo il Kim and Christopher Timmins

15723: Generic Utilization Rates, Real Pharmaceutical Prices, and Research and Development Expenditures

Philip J Cook, Graeme Hunter and John A. Vernon

15722: The Effects of an Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes

C. Kirabo Jackson

15721: Further Comments on The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth

Robert Fogel

15720: The Effects of Relative Food Prices on Obesity -- Evidence from China: 1991-2006

Yang Lu and Dana Goldman

15719: Consumption Risk-sharing in Social Networks

Attila Ambrus, Markus Mobius and Adam Szeidl

15718: Risk and Global Economic Architecture: Why Full Financial Integration May Be Undesirable

Joseph Stiglitz

15717: Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change

Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell

15716: Sensitivity to Missing Data Assumptions: Theory and An Evaluation of the U.S. Wage Structure

Patrick Kline and Andres Santos

15715: Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

Brian A. Jacob

15714: Simple Analytics of the Government Expenditure Multiplier

Michael Woodford

15713: Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff

15712: What Determines Productivity?

Chad Syverson

15711: Climate Shocks and Exports

Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken

15710: Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Kris James Mitchener and David Wheelock

15709: Limited Capital Market Participation and Human Capital Risk

Jonathan Berk and Johan Walden

15708: Bankruptcy and the Collateral Channel

Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman

15707: Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial

Francine Blau, Janet Currie, Rachel Croson and Donna Ginther

15706: The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade

JaeBin Ahn, Amit Khandelwal and Shang-Jin Wei

15705: The Political Resource Curse

Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti and Guido Tabellini

15704: Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia

Howard Bodenhorn

15703: Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications

J. Trent Alexander, Michael Davern and Betsey Stevenson

15702: Interest Rate Risk and Other Determinants of Post-WWII U.S. Government Debt/GDP Dynamics

George Hall and Thomas Sargent

15701: So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design

John List, Sally Sadoff and Mathis Wagner

15700: Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection

Xiaobo Lü, Kenneth F. Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter

15699: The Elasticity of Demand With Respect to Product Failures; or Why the Market for Quack Medicines Flourished for More Than 150 Years

Werner Troesken

15698: Detecting Crowded Trades in Currency Funds

Momtchil Pojarliev and Richard M. Levich

15697: Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

Dan Bogart and Gary Richardson

15696: A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Price Fishback, Samuel Allen, Jonathan Fox and Brendan Livingston

15695: Pay-to-Bid Auctions

Brennan Platt, Joseph Price and Henry Tappen

15694: Political Limits to Globalization

Daron Acemoglu and Pierre Yared

15693: Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?

Daron Acemoglu

15692: Modeling the Impact of Warming in Climate Change Economics

Robert Pindyck

15691: Does Prescription Drug Adherence Reduce Hospitalizations and Costs?

William Encinosa, Didem Bernard and Avi Dor

15690: Is the Spurious Regression Problem Spurious?

Bennett McCallum

15689: Asymmetric Information and the Demand for Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe

Kristian Bolin, Daniel Hedblom, Anna Lindgren and Bjorn Lindgren

15688: The Cross-Section and Time-Series of Stock and Bond Returns

Ralph Koijen, Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

15687: Let them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange

Leemore Dafny, Kate Ho and Mauricio Varela

15686: How general are risk preferences? Choices under uncertainty in different domains

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Iuliana Pascu and Mark R. Cullen

15685: U.S. Growth in the Decade Ahead

Martin Feldstein

15684: Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan and Katherine Eriksson

15683: Educational Expectations and Attainment

Brian A. Jacob and Tamara Wilder

15682: The Effect of Uncertain Labor Income and Social Security on Life-cycle Portfolios

Raimond Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Ralph Rogalla

15681: Aggregate Implications of Labor Market Distortions: The Recession of 2008-9 and Beyond

Casey Mulligan

15680: Latin American Growth-Inequality Trade-Offs: The Impact of Insurgence and Independence

Jeffrey Williamson

15679: Globalization, Trade & Wages: What Does History tell us about China?

Kris James Mitchener and Se Yan

15678: Explaining the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality

David Cutler, Fabian Lange, Ellen Meara, Seth Richards-Shubik and Christopher Ruhm

15677: From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Jeremy Greenwood and Nezih Guner

15676: Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Ashish Arora and Alfonso Gambardella

15675: Euler-Equation Estimation for Discrete Choice Models: A Capital Accumulation Application

Russell Cooper, John Haltiwanger and Jonathan Willis

15674: Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

Viral Acharya, Douglas Gale and Tanju Yorulmazer

15673: Innovation and Climate Policy

David Popp

15672: Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

Thomas Dee and Brian A. Jacob

15671: Peer Migration in China

Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue

15670: Searching for Irving Fisher

Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier

15669: Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog

Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

15668: Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets

Isaac Ehrlich, Jong Shin and Yong Yin

15667: Oil and Democracy in Russia

Daniel Treisman

15666: Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and US Air Pollution

Spencer Banzhaf and Benjamin Chupp

15665: Research in Accounting for Income Taxes

John Graham, Jana Raedy and Douglas Shackelford

15664: Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

Flavio Cunha, James Heckman and Susanne Schennach

15663: Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?

Alice Schoonbroodt and Michele Tertilt

15662: Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09

Ricardo Reis

15661: Innovators: Architects

David Galenson

15660: Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

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

15659: Overconfidence and Early-life Experiences: The Impact of Managerial Traits on Corporate Financial Policies

Ulrike Malmendier, Geoffrey Tate and Jonathan Yan

15658: Intended and Unintended Effects of Youth Bicycle Helmet Laws

Christopher Carpenter and Mark Stehr

15657: Real-Time Macroeconomic Monitoring: Real Activity, Inflation, and Interactions

S. Boragan Aruoba and Francis Diebold

15656: Targeted Savings and Labor Supply

Louis Kaplow

15655: The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling

Brian A. Jacob

15654: Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game

Nicole M. Baran, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

15653: Rollover Risk and Credit Risk

Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong

15652: Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing

Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

15651: Efficient Regulation

Andrei Shleifer

15650: Securitization in the 1920's

William Goetzmann and Frank Newman

15649: Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End

Tomas Philipson, Gary Becker, Dana Goldman and Kevin Murphy

15648: Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants

Bryan Bollinger, Phillip Leslie and Alan Sorensen

15647: Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-level Data

Virgiliu Midrigan and Yi Xu

15646: On the Size of the Active Management Industry

Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh

15645: The Great Recession and the Great Depression

Peter Temin

15644: Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice

David Dranove and Ginger Zhe Jin

15643: Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers: Evidence from City Treasurers

Alexander Whalley

15642: Virtual Borders: Online Nominal Rigidities and International Market Segmentation

Jean Boivin, Robert Clark and Nicolas Vincent

15641: Identification in Differentiated Products Markets Using Market Level Data

Steven Berry and Philip Haile