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14810: Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision

Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

14809: When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Daron Acemoglu

14808: Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness

Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano

14807: Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Increasing Productivity

David Neumark

14806: The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States

Edward Glaeser and Joshua Gottlieb

14805: Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

Katharine Abraham, John Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky and James Spletzer

14804: Maxing Out: Stocks as Lotteries and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns

Turan G. Bali, Nusret Cakici and Robert F. Whitelaw

14803: Profit Shifting and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

14802: What Segments Equity Markets?

Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, Christian Lundblad and Stephan Siegel

14801: Civil War

Christopher Blattman and Edward Miguel

14800: Labor Force Participation of Older Males in Korea: 1955-2005

Chulhee Lee

14799: The Real Swing Voter's Curse

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

14798: Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement

Orley Ashenfelter, Daniel Hosken and Matthew Weinberg

14797: Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge: The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

14796: The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

George Borjas

14795: Consumption and Real Exchange Rates in Professional Forecasts

Michael Devereux, Gregor Smith and James Yetman

14794: Valuation Effects and the Dynamics of Net External Assets

Michael Devereux and Alan Sutherland

14793: The Effect of Property Taxes on Location Decisions:Evidence From the Market for Vacation Homes

Erik Johnson and Randall Walsh

14792: Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education

John Bound, Sarah Turner and Patrick Walsh

14791: Central Bank Transparency: Causes, Consequences and Updates

Nazire Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen

14790: Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans

Kanaka D. Shetty, Thomas DeLeire, Chapin White and Jayanta Bhattacharya

14789: Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries: Market distortions or Efficient Institutions?

Richard Freeman

14788: The Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment

Jason Beeler and John Campbell

14787: Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks

Mark Bils, Pete Klenow and Benjamin Malin

14786: Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States

Anusha Chari, Wenjie Chen and Kathryn Dominguez

14785: Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

14784: Migration and the welfare state: Dynamic Political-Economy Theory

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Benjarong Suwankiri

14783: The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon

14782: New Keynesian versus Old Keynesian Government Spending Multipliers

John F. Cogan, Tobias Cwik, John Taylor and Volker Wieland

14781: Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Joshua Angrist, Stacey H. Chen and Brigham R. Frandsen

14780: Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California

Jennifer L. Steele, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

14779: On the Paradox of Prudential Regulations in the Globalized Economy: International Reserves and the Crisis a Reassessment

Joshua Aizenman

14778: Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation

Cory Koedel and Julian Betts

14777: Reduced-Class Distinctions: Effort, Ability, and the Education Production Function

Philip Babcock and Julian R. Betts

14776: Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Marc-Andreas Muendler and Sascha Becker

14775: Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

Marigee Bacolod, John DiNardo and Mireille Jacobson

14774: The Myth of the Frontier

Camilo García-Jimeno and James Robinson

14773: Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

Tara Watson and Sara McLanahan

14772: Optimal Endowment Destruction under Campbell-Cochrane Habit Formation

Lars Ljungqvist and Harald Uhlig

14771: Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?

Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi

14770: A Note on Regime Switching, Monetary Policy, and Multiple Equilibria

Jess Benhabib

14769: Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Philippe Aghion, John van Reenen and Luigi Zingales

14768: Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni Violante

14767: Commodity Market Disintegration in the Interwar Period

William Hynes, David Jacks and Kevin O'Rourke

14766: History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491

Jeffrey Williamson

14765: Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions

Jeremy Bulow, Jonathan Levin and Paul Milgrom

14764: Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

Roland Benabou

14763: Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response

Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey Williamson

14762: Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy

Ruben Durante and Brian Knight

14761: Ratings Shopping and Asset Complexity: A Theory of Ratings Inflation

Vasiliki Skreta and Laura Veldkamp

14760: Stock-Market Crashes and Depressions

Robert Barro and José F. Ursúa

14759: Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

Jason T. Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber

14758: The Broadband Bonus: Accounting for Broadband Internet's Impact on U.S. GDP

Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt

14757: Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?

Lubos Pastor and Robert Stambaugh

14756: A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators

Alberto Abadie and Guido Imbens

14755: Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry

Robert Pindyck

14754: Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation

Miles Kimball, Claudia Sahm and Matthew Shapiro

14753: Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?

Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

14752: An Activity-Generating Theory of Regulation

Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer

14751: Towards a System of Open Cities in China: Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air Quality in 35 Major Cities

Siqi Zheng, Matthew Kahn and Hongyu Liu

14750: The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?

Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

14749: Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBA

Joseph Price, Lars Lefgren and Henry Tappen

14748: Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

David Jacks, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

14747: Where does regulation hurt? Evidence from new businesses across countries

Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi

14746: Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America

Chulhee Lee

14745: Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers

Chulhee Lee

14744: Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

Daron Acemoglu, Amy Finkelstein and Matthew Notowidigdo

14743: Modeling Earnings Dynamics

Joseph Altonji, Anthony Smith and Ivan Vidangos

14742: Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

Jonathan Guryan and Melissa Kearney

14741: Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence From U.S. Law Firms

Luis Garicano and Thomas Hubbard

14740: Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Giuseppe Moscarini and Fabien Postel-Vinay

14739: The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies

Douglas Diamond and Raghuram Rajan

14738: The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

Alon Cohen, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

14737: Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods

Gautam Gowrisankaran and Marc Rysman

14736: The Contribution of Highways to GDP Growth

Barbara M. Fraumeni

14735: A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

Reint Gropp and Anil Kashyap

14734: International Portfolio Allocation under Model Uncertainty

Pierpaolo Benigno and Salvatore Nisticò

14733: Characteristics of Observed Limit Order Demand and Supply Schedules for Individual Stocks

Jung-Wook Kim, Jason Lee and Randall Morck

14732: A Sticky-Information General-Equilibrium Model for Policy Analysis

Ricardo Reis

14731: Bretton Woods II Still Defines the International Monetary System

Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber

14730: The distribution of wealth and fiscal policy in economies with finitely lived agents

Jess Benhabib and Alberto Bisin

14729: What Caused the Recession of 2008? Hints from Labor Productivity

Casey Mulligan

14728: Maternal Smoking and the Timing of WIC Enrollment

Cristina Yunzal-Butler, Ted Joyce and Andrew D. Racine

14727: A Note on Liquidity Risk Management

Markus Brunnermeier and Motohiro Yogo

14726: Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator

Guido Imbens and Karthik Kalyanaraman

14725: Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism

Alan Auerbach

14724: Do Target CEOs Sell Out Their Shareholders to Keep Their Job in a Merger?

Leonce L. Bargeron, Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz and Chad J. Zutter

14723: Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

David S. Lee and Thomas Lemieux

14722: The Euro and Fiscal Policy

Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov

14721: The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain

Janet Currie, Stefano DellaVigna, Enrico Moretti and Vikram Pathania

14720: International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

John Helliwell, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Anthony Harris and Haifang Huang

14719: Why We Need to Measure the Effect of Merger Policy and How to Do It

Dennis Carlton

14718: Towards an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement

Kyna Fong and Michael Schwarz

14717: Work Environment and "Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths

Jane Leber Herr and Catherine Wolfram

14716: Introduction to "China's Growing Role in World Trade"

Robert Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei

14715: New Ways to Make People Save: A Social Marketing Approach

Annamaria Lusardi, Punam Anand Keller and Adam M. Keller

14714: Financial Patenting in Europe

Bronwyn Hall, Grid Thoma and Salvatore Torrisi

14713: Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn, James Heckman and Huub Meijers

14712: The Credit Ratings Game

Patrick Bolton, Xavier Freixas and Joel Shapiro

14711: International Trade and the Negotiability of Global Climate Change Agreements

Yuezhou Cai, Raymond Riezman and John Whalley