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15140: Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis

Marc Law and Zeynep K. Hansen

15139: When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?

Bruce Ian Carlin, Simon Gervais and Gustavo Manso

15138: Collective Moral Hazard, Maturity Mismatch and Systemic Bailouts

Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole

15137: Disease and Development Revisited

David Bloom, David Canning and Günther Fink

15136: Investment Tournaments: When Should a Rational Agent Put All Eggs in One Basket?

Michael Schwarz and Sergei Severinov

15135: Splendid Associations of Favored Individuals: Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era

Howard Bodenhorn

15134: A Bargain at Twice the Price? California Hospital Prices in the New Millennium

Yaa Akosa Antwi, Martin Gaynor and William Vogt

15133: Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and Fiscal Stimulus

Troy Davig and Eric Leeper

15132: World Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions

Isil Erel, Rose C. Liao and Michael Weisbach

15131: Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson

15130: Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence

Jason Fletcher, Partha Deb and Jody L. Sindelar

15129: The organization of firms across countries

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

15128: The End of Gatekeeping: Underwriters and the Quality of Sovereign Bond Markets, 1815-2007

Marc Flandreau, Juan Flores Zendejas, Norbert Gaillard and Sebastián Nieto-Parra

15127: He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election

Isaías N. Chaves, Leopoldo Fergusson and James Robinson

15126: Conditional Cash Penalties in Education: Evidence from the Learnfare Experiment

Thomas Dee

15125: Cost Containment in Climate Change Policy: Alternative Approaches to Mitigating Price Volatility

Gilbert Metcalf

15124: Sin Taxes: Do Heterogeneous Responses Undercut Their Value?

Padmaja Ayyagari, Partha Deb, Jason Fletcher, William T. Gallo and Jody L. Sindelar

15123: Globally Correlated Nominal Fluctuations

Espen Henriksen, Finn Kydland and Roman Sustek

15122: Job Loss: Eat, drink and try to be merry?

Partha Deb, William T. Gallo, Padmaja Ayyagari, Jason Fletcher and Jody L. Sindelar

15121: Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health

Jason Fletcher, Jody L. Sindelar and Shintaro Yamaguchi

15120: Transmission of the U.S. Subprime Crisis to Emerging Markets: Evidence on the Decoupling-Recoupling Hypothesis

Michael Dooley and Michael Hutchison

15119: Credit Constraints, Cyclical Fiscal Policy and Industry Growth

Philippe Aghion, David Hemous and Enisse Kharroubi

15118: Negative Nominal Interest Rates: Three ways to overcome the zero lower bound

Willem Buiter

15117: Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

Michael Elsby and Matthew Shapiro

15116: Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages

David Autor and Michael Handel

15115: Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates

Peter Diamond and Johannes Spinnewijn

15114: Public Policy, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood

Phillip Levine, Robin McKnight and Samantha Heep

15113: Global Savings and Global Investment: The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks

James Feyrer and Jay Shambaugh

15112: Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality

W. Bentley Macleod and Miguel Urquiola

15111: Risk Sharing, Inequality and Fertility

Roozbeh Hosseini, Larry Jones and Ali Shourideh

15110: Risk Allocation, Debt Fueled Expansion and Financial Crisis

Paul Beaudry and Amartya Lahiri

15109: Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

15108: Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans

Olivia Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola, Stephen P. Utkus and Takeshi Yamaguchi

15107: Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys

Avraham Ebenstein, Ann Harrison, Margaret McMillan and Shannon Phillips

15106: The Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Health Care Spending

Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Lorens A. Helmchen and Robert Kaestner

15105: The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality: Estimates from the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery

Dalton Conley and Jennifer A. Heerwig

15104: Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago

Filipe Campante and Edward Glaeser

15103: The Complementarity between Cities and Skills

Edward Glaeser and Matthew G. Resseger

15102: Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

Henry Chen, Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner and Josh Lerner

15101: Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

15100: Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?

Haitao Yin, Howard Kunreuther and Matthew White

15099: Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?

Howard Bodenhorn and Gregory Price

15098: Abortion and Crime: A Review

Ted Joyce

15097: Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows

Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato

15096: Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight

Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla and Yuhui Zheng

15095: War and Relatedness

Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

15094: The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital

Charles Jones and Paul Romer

15093: The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China

Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang

15092: Identification in Matching Games

Jeremy Fox

15091: Do Multinationals or Domestic Firms Face Higher Effective Tax Rates?

Kevin S. Markle and Douglas Shackelford

15090: Life at the top: the benefits of height

Angus Deaton and Raksha Arora

15089: Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs

Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney and Kimberly V. Smith

15088: State Capacity, Conflict and Development

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

15087: Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints

Orazio Attanasio and Katja Kaufmann

15086: A Free Lunch in the Commons

Matthew Kotchen and Stephen Salant

15085: Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care

Amanda Kowalski

15084: What Comes to Mind

Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

15083: Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

Raghuram Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan

15082: What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program

Meredith Fowlie, Stephen Holland and Erin Mansur

15081: The Economics of Renewable Energy

Geoffrey Heal

15080: Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter and Dmitriy Stolyarov

15079: Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

Jingjing Chai, Wolfram Horneff, Raimond Maurer and Olivia Mitchell

15078: Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

Kenneth Chay, Jonathan Guryan and Bhashkar Mazumder

15077: Decomposing the U.S. External Returns Differential

Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak and Francis Warnock

15076: The Equality Multiplier

Erling Barth and Karl Ove Moene

15075: The (Mythical?) Housing Wealth Effect

Charles Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer and William Miles

15074: Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women

Qingyan Shang and Bruce Weinberg

15073: Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

David Galenson

15072: A Model of a Systemic Bank Run

Harald Uhlig

15071: Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice

N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl and Danny Yagan

15070: Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

Jeffrey Brown, Julia Lynn Coronado and Don Fullerton

15069: Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point

William Easterly

15068: The Quality of Medical Care, Behavioral Risk Factors, and Longevity Growth

Frank Lichtenberg

15067: China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption

Hongbin Cai, J. Vernon Henderson and Qinghua Zhang

15066: Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

15065: Adoption Curves and Social Interactions

William Brock and Steven Durlauf

15064: Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

Christina M. Fong and Erzo Luttmer

15063: Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers

Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette and Paul Willen

15062: Crash Risk in Currency Markets

Emmanuel Farhi, Samuel Paul Fraiberger, Xavier Gabaix, Romain Ranciere and Adrien Verdelhan

15061: Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Ryan L. Lampe and Petra Moser

15060: Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch

Ryan Kellogg

15059: Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades: A Tale of Two Countries

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger and Mathias Sommer

15058: Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises

Stavros Panageas

15057: Measuring Discrimination in Education

Rema Hanna and Leigh Linden

15056: Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

Kate Ho and Matthew Neidell

15055: Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History

Joshua Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom

15054: Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies

Gilbert Metcalf

15053: Integrated Political Strategy

John M. de Figueiredo

15052: The Japanese Bubble: A 'Heterogeneous' Approach

Robert Barsky

15051: Generalized Agency Problems

Randall Morck

15050: Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

15049: Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence

Robert Barsky and Eric Sims

15048: Trade, Offshoring, and the Invisible Handshake

Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren

15047: Pricing Model Performance and the Two-Pass Cross-Sectional Regression Methodology

Raymond Kan, Cesare Robotti and Jay Shanken

15046: Economic Contextual Factors and Child Body Mass Index

Lisa M. Powell and Frank Chaloupka

15045: The Credit Rating Crisis

Efraim Benmelech and Jennifer Dlugosz

15044: Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform

Francois Gourio and Jianjun Miao

15043: Can a Focus on Breakthrough Technologies Improve the Performance of International Environmental Agreements?

Michael Hoel and Aart de Zeeuw

15042: Never Waste a Good Crisis: An Historical Perspective on Comparative Corporate Governance

Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

15041: Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Seema Jayachandran and Ilyana Kuziemko