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14210: Long Term Insurance (LTI) for Addressing Catastrophe Risk

Dwight Jaffee, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

14209: Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health: The Effect of Ozone on Asthma Hospitalizations

Matthew Neidell

14208: Labor Supply: Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?

Miles Kimball and Matthew Shapiro

14207: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity

Steven Kaplan and Per Stromberg

14206: The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Alan Gerber, Daniel Kessler and Marc Meredith

14205: Real Effects of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Is it a Demand or a Finance Shock?

Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei

14204: Housing Wealth Isn't Wealth

Willem Buiter

14203: The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000

David Albouy

14202: Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy

Alberto Alesina, Francesca Lotti and Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

14201: Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks

Judith Hellerstein, Melissa McInerney and David Neumark

14200: Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through

Gita Gopinath and Oleg Itskhoki

14199: Assessing the Anticompetitive Effects of Multiproduct Pricing

Dennis Carlton, Patrick Greenlee and Michael Waldman

14198: Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?

Lori Beaman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova

14197: Environmental Taxes

Don Fullerton, Andrew Leicester and Stephen Smith

14196: Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey

Janet Currie, Matthew Neidell and Johannes Schmieder

14195: Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?

Steven Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov and Morten Sorensen

14194: The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation Using a Regression Discontinuity Approach: Addressing Endogenous Sorting and Noncompliance

Juan Carlos Calcagno and Bridget Long

14193: Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles

Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko and Albert Saiz

14192: The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

Roland Fryer, Lisa Kahn, Steven Levitt and Jörg Spenkuch

14191: Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction?

Ethan Ilzetzki and Carlos Vegh

14190: How Has the Euro Changed the Monetary Transmission?

Jean Boivin, Marc Giannoni and Benoit Mojon

14189: Board Interlocks and the Propensity to be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions

Toby Stuart and Soojin Yim

14188: Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri

14187: Do Buyouts (Still) Create Value?

Shourun Guo, Edie S. Hotchkiss and Weihong Song

14186: The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Struggling Low-Income Urban Students: Evidence from Massachusetts

John P. Papay, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

14185: The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers

C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Hung-Ken Chien and Ronald Lee

14184: Endogenous information, menu costs and inflation persistence

Yuriy Gorodnichenko

14183: Strategic Judgment Proofing

Yeon-Koo Che and Kathryn E. Spier

14182: The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles

David Galenson

14181: Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuations

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

14180: The Investment Behavior of Buyout Funds: Theory and Evidence

Alexander Ljungqvist, Matthew Richardson and Daniel Wolfenzon

14179: Saving Your Home in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy

Michelle White and Ning Zhu

14178: Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data

Ana Fernandes and Ariel Pakes

14177: Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

Laurent Calvet, John Campbell and Paolo Sodini

14176: School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

David Card, Martin Dooley and A. Payne

14175: Private Information and a Macro Model of Exchange Rates: Evidence from a Novel Data Set

Menzie Chinn and Michael Moore

14174: Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Steven M. Ewer and Todd H. Wagner

14173: Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?

Janet Currie, Sandra Decker and Wanchuan Lin

14172: Home Bias at the Fund Level

Harald Hau and Helene Rey

14171: On the Sources of the Great Moderation

Jordi Galí and Luca Gambetti

14170: Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences

Louis Kaplow

14169: Efficient Prediction of Excess Returns

Jon Faust and Jonathan Wright

14168: Pitfalls in Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment: The Yuan and Other Currencies

Yin-Wong Cheung, Menzie Chinn and Eiji Fujii

14167: Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era

Price Fishback, Rebecca Holmes and Samuel Allen

14166: E-commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Maris Goldmanis, Ali Hortacsu, Chad Syverson and Onsel Emre

14165: Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope

Harald Hau and Helene Rey

14164: Determinacy, Learnability, and Plausibility in Monetary Policy Analysis: Additional Results

Bennett McCallum

14163: Reconsideration of the P-Bar Model of Gradual Price Adjustment

Bennett McCallum

14162: Edgeworth Cycles Revisited

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr., Erich Muehlegger and Krislert Samphantharak

14161: Estimating Derivatives in Nonseparable Models with Limited Dependent Variables

Joseph Altonji, Hidehiko Ichimura and Taisuke Otsu

14160: Random Walk or A Run: Market Microstructure Analysis of the Foreign Exchange Rate Movements based on Conditional Probability

Yuko Hashimoto, Takatoshi Ito, Takaaki Ohnishi, Misako Takayasu, Hideki Takayasu and Tsutomu Watanabe

14159: Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care

James Rebitzer, Mari Rege and Christopher Shepard

14158: Short Sales and Trade Classification Algorithms

Paul Asquith, Rebecca Oman and Christopher Safaya

14157: The Value of Life in General Equilibrium

Anupam Jena, Casey Mulligan, Tomas Philipson and Eric Sun

14156: Family Leave after Childbirth and the Health of New Mothers

Pinka Chatterji and Sara Markowitz

14155: General Education vs. Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition

Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches

14154: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading International Currency?

Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau

14153: Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice

M. Kate Bundorf, Jonathan Levin and Neale Mahoney

14152: An Institutional Theory of Public Contracts: Regulatory Implications

Pablo Spiller

14151: Macroeconomics and ARCH

James Hamilton

14150: From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood

David Galenson and Joshua Kotin

14149: Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit

Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala and Monica Singhal

14148: The Opportunity Cost of Capital of US Buyouts

Alexander Peter Groh and Oliver Gottschalg

14147: Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation

Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert Stavins

14146: U.S. Defense Contracts During the Tax Expenditure Battles of the 1980s

Susan Guthrie and James Hines

14145: Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005

Carola Frydman and Raven E. Saks

14144: A New Method to Estimate Risk and Return of Non-Traded Assets from Cash Flows: The Case of Private Equity Funds

Joost Driessen, Tse-Chun Lin and Ludovic Phalippou

14143: Ambiguity and Extremism in Elections

Alberto Alesina and Richard Holden

14142: Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy

Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode

14141: Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn

Richard C. Sutch

14140: Superstar CEOs

Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate

14139: Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution

David Jacks and Krishna Pendakur

14138: The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered

Benjamin Jones

14137: Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS

Steven Davis, Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger and Ian Rucker

14136: Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities

Leo Feler and J. Vernon Henderson

14135: Models of Idea Flows

Fernando E. Alvarez, Francisco Buera and Robert Lucas

14134: Crisis and Responses: the Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

Stephen Cecchetti

14133: Ideas and Growth

Robert Lucas

14132: Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century

Melissa Dell, Benjamin Jones and Benjamin Olken

14131: Vengeance

Naci Mocan

14130: The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data

David Albouy

14129: Foreign Influence and Welfare

Pol Antras and Gerard Padró i Miquel

14128: Age, Luck, and Inheritance

Jess Benhabib and Shenghao Zhu

14127: Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Pinelopi Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova

14126: Exchange Rate Regimes and the Extensive Margin of Trade

Paul Bergin and Ching-Yi Lin

14125: State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?

Ellen Meara, Meredith Rosenthal, Anna Sinaiko and Katherine Baicker

14124: The Lengthening of Childhood

David Deming and Susan Dynarski

14123: Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Benjamin Olken

14122: Wages, Unemployment and Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers

Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding

14121: Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

Robert Lipsey

14120: Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression

Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn

14119: Crashes and Recoveries in Illiquid Markets

Ricardo Lagos, Guillaume Rocheteau and Pierre-Olivier Weill

14118: Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes

Tara Watson and Angela Fertig

14117: Theory and Empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets

Ariel Pakes

14116: Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries

Eric Bond, James Tybout and Hale Utar

14115: Naked Exclusion: An Experimental Study of Contracts with Externalities

Claudia Landeo and Kathryn E. Spier

14114: Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations

Bruce Sacerdote and James Feyrer

14113: Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking

Luc Laeven and Ross Levine

14112: Financially Constrained Fluctuations in an Evolving Network Economy

Domenico Delli Gatti, Mauro Gallegati, Bruce C. Greenwald, Alberto Russo and Joseph Stiglitz

14111: Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel