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14661: Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation

Hanno Lustig, Chad Syverson and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

14660: Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing

Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

14659: Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?

Sumit Agarwal, Paige M. Skiba and Jeremy Tobacman

14658: Some New Perspectives on India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad

14657: Sterling in crisis: 1964-1967

Michael Bordo, Ronald MacDonald and Michael J. Oliver

14656: The Aftermath of Financial Crises

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

14655: Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements

Nuno Limão and Patricia Tovar

14654: Satisficing Contracts

Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud

14653: Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and John Jones

14652: This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

David Autor and David Dorn

14651: Inventories, Markups, and Real Rigidities in Menu Cost Models

Oleksiy Kryvtsov and Virgiliu Midrigan

14650: Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact: Evidence from China

Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

14649: Information, Liquidity, and the (Ongoing) Panic of 2007

Gary Gorton

14648: Regulation and Distrust

Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc and Andrei Shleifer

14647: Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

Jonathan Gruber, Kevin Milligan and David Wise

14646: Learning in Financial Markets

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

14645: An Elementary Theory of Comparative Advantage

Arnaud Costinot

14644: Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006

Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef

14643: Globalization and Income Distribution: A Specific Factors Continuum Approach

James Anderson

14642: Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade

James Anderson

14641: Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish

Martha Bailey and William Collins

14640: Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman, Michael Haines and Robert Margo

14639: Do Bequests Increase or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?

Charles Horioka

14638: The Perils of the Learning Model For Modeling Endogenous Technological Change

William Nordhaus

14637: Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa

Angus Deaton, Jane Fortson and Robert Tortora

14636: How Big are the Gains from International Financial Integration?

Indrit Hoxha, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Dietrich Vollrath

14635: Recent Trends in Height by Gender and Ethnicity in the US in Relation to Levels of Income

John Komlos

14634: The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation

Guy David, Sara Markowitz and Seth Richards-Shubik

14633: Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

14632: Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis

Albert Park, Dean Yang, Xinzheng Shi and Yuan Jiang

14631: The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong

John Taylor

14630: Fiscal Foresight and Information Flows

Eric Leeper, Todd Walker and Shu-Chun Yang

14629: Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff

14628: A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

John William Hatfield and Gerard Padró i Miquel

14627: New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences

Bruce Blonigen

14626: Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Wolfgang Keller and Stephen Yeaple

14625: An Empirical Model of Subprime Mortgage Default From 2000 to 2007

Patrick Bajari, Chenghuan Sean Chu and Minjung Park

14624: Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile

14623: Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation

Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen and Per Stromberg

14622: Behavioral Welfare Economics

B. Douglas Bernheim

14621: Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation and the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

14620: Information-Constrained State-Dependent Pricing

Michael Woodford

14619: Hospitals As Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand

Dana Goldman and John Romley

14618: Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms: An Experimental Investigation

Clayton Featherstone and Muriel Niederle

14617: Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD

Michael Elsby, Bart Hobijn and Aysegul Sahin

14616: A General-Equilibrium Asset-Pricing Approach to the Measurement of Nominal and Real Bank Output

J. Christina Wang, Susanto Basu and John Fernald

14615: The Value of Risk: Measuring the Service Output of U.S. Commercial Banks

Susanto Basu, Robert Inklaar and J. Christina Wang

14614: Risk Bearing, Implicit Financial Services and Specialization in the Financial Industry

J. Christina Wang and Susanto Basu

14613: A Theory of Firm Scope

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom

14612: Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08

Markus Brunnermeier

14611: The Effects of Capacity on Sales Under Alternative Vertical Contracts

Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer

14610: An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz

14609: Informed Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Stock Selection by Mutual Funds

Zhi Da, Pengjie Gao and Ravi Jagannathan

14608: National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

Steven Cantrell, Jon Fullerton, Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

14607: Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

14606: Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Eli Berman, Jacob N. Shapiro and Joseph H. Felter

14605: Trading Frictions and House Price Dynamics

Andrew Caplin and John Leahy

14604: Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands

Peter Henry and Conrad Miller

14603: Endogenous Presidentialism

James Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

14602: Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries: Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology

Matthew Higgins, Paula Stephan and Jerry Thursby

14601: Forecast Evaluation of Small Nested Model Sets

Kirstin Hubrich and Kenneth West

14600: "Currency Manipulation" and World Trade

Robert Staiger and Alan O. Sykes

14599: The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner

14598: Media Coverage of Political Scandals

Riccardo Puglisi and James Snyder

14597: Predictability and 'Good Deals' in Currency Markets

Richard M. Levich and Valerio Potì

14596: Opting Out of the Great Inflation: German Monetary Policy After the Break Down of Bretton Woods

Andreas Beyer, Vitor Gaspar, Christina Gerberding and Otmar Issing

14595: Learning the Wealth of Nations

Francisco Buera, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Giorgio Primiceri

14594: Innovation and Productivity in SMEs: Empirical Evidence for Italy

Bronwyn Hall, Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse

14593: Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

Christopher Barrington-Leigh and John Helliwell

14592: Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation

Ajay Agrawal, Devesh Kapur and John McHale

14591: Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

Dhaval Dave, Sandra Decker, Robert Kaestner and Kosali Simon

14590: Comparing Open and Sealed Bid Auctions: Evidence from Timber Auctions

Susan Athey, Jonathan Levin and Enrique Seira Bejarano

14589: Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

John Helliwell and Haifang Huang

14588: The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry

Justin Ho, Katherine Ho and Julie Mortimer

14587: Banking Crises: An Equal Opportunity Menace

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

14586: What Can Survey Forecasts Tell Us About Informational Rigidities?

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

14585: The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

14584: Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects, and Markups

Tommaso Monacelli and Roberto Perotti

14583: Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows

Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner

14582: The Value of Making Commitments Externally: Evidence from WTO Accessions

Man-Keung Tang and Shang-Jin Wei

14581: Equity Depletion from Government-Guaranteed Debt

Robert Hall

14580: Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

Loretti Dobrescu, Laurence Kotlikoff and Alberto Motta

14579: The Flypaper Effect

Robert P. Inman

14578: The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

Justine Hastings and Ebonya L. Washington

14577: Superstar Extinction

Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin and Jialan Wang

14576: Evidence of Improved Monitoring and Insolvency Resolution after FDICIA

Edward Kane, Rosalind Bennett and Robert Oshinsky

14575: The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

James Adams and J. Roger Clemmons

14574: Delegated Asset Management, Investment Mandates, and Capital Immobility

Zhiguo He and Wei Xiong

14573: Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers

Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman

14572: Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

Leemore Dafny

14571: Forecasting Stock Market Returns: The Sum of the Parts is More than the Whole

Miguel Ferreira and Pedro Santa-Clara

14570: The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig

14569: An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008

Michael Bordo

14568: The Cost of Primary Care Doctors

Sherry A. Glied, Ashwin Prabhu and Norman H. Edelman

14567: Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and Italy

Vincenzo Atella, Jay Bhattacharya and Lorenzo Carbonari

14566: The Timing of Labor Demand

Ana Rute Cardoso, Daniel Hamermesh and Jose Varejao

14565: International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA

Lucas Davis and Matthew Kahn

14564: Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

Jonah E. Rockoff and Lesley Turner

14563: The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited

Alan Blinder and Jeremy B. Rudd

14562: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Stylized Facts about their Determinants and Governance

Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick