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14010: Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity

Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner

14009: Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look

Frank Lichtenberg and Gautier Duflos

14008: Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003

Frank Lichtenberg

14007: Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey

Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Mahnaz Islam

14006: The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance

Jeffrey DeSimone

14005: The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century

David Galenson

14004: Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild

Gary Richardson and Michael McBride

14003: An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I

Petra Moser

14002: Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects

Jean-Pierre Florens, James Heckman, Costas Meghir and Edward Vytlacil

14001: Monetary Non-Neutrality in a Multi-Sector Menu Cost Model

Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson

14000: When Should Firms Invest in Old Capital?

Boyan Jovanovic

13999: Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy

Pedro Dal Bó, Andrew Foster and Louis Putterman

13998: Specific Capital and Technological Variety

Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau

13997: Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood

John Cawley and Katharina Spiess

13996: Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

13995: The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

David Albouy

13994: The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size

Thomas Dee and Martin West

13993: Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Jonathan Guryan, Erik Hurst and Melissa Kearney

13992: Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry

William Easterly, Shanker Satyanath and Daniel Berger

13991: Indexed Regulation

Richard Newell and William Pizer

13990: Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870

Aurora Gómez Galvarriato and Jeffrey Williamson

13989: Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert Stavins and Richard H. K. Vietor

13988: Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel

13987: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

Janet Currie

13986: The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off at Low Inflation

Pierpaolo Benigno and Luca Ricci

13985: Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data

Valerie Ramey

13984: When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?

Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei

13983: Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

13982: Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

Robert Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker

13981: Inverse Probability Tilting for Moment Condition Models with Missing Data

Bryan Graham, Cristine Pinto and Daniel Egel

13980: Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals

Gilbert Metcalf, Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly, Henry Jacoby and Jennifer F. Holak

13979: Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts

John Geanakoplos and Stephen Zeldes

13978: Will Subprime be a Twin Crisis for the United States?

Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber

13977: The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Brandon Dupont, Alka Gandhi and Thomas Weiss

13976: How are Preferences Revealed?

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

13975: Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

Sabien Dobbelaere and Jacques Mairesse

13974: Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets

Farley Grubb

13973: Sell Side School Ties

Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy

13972: Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

David Blanchflower

13971: Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China

Emily Oster and Gang Chen

13970: Does Stabilizing Inflation Contribute To Stabilizing Economic Activity?

Frederic Mishkin

13969: Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

13968: National Cultures and Soccer Violence

Edward Miguel, Sebastián M. Saiegh and Shanker Satyanath

13967: Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Raj Chetty

13966: Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

Francisco Gomes, Laurence Kotlikoff and Luis Viceira

13965: Pass-Through in Retail and Wholesale

Emi Nakamura

13964: Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk

Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padro i Miquel

13963: China's Local Comparative Advantage

James Harrigan and Haiyan Deng

13962: Derivatives Markets for Home Prices

Robert Shiller

13961: Institutions and Contract Enforcement

Armin Falk, David Huffman and W. Bentley Macleod

13960: Contracting in the Shadow of the Law

Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley Macleod

13959: Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel and Matthew Slaughter

13958: Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China

Jikun Huang, Yu Liu, Will Martin and Scott Rozelle

13957: The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics

Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Susumu Imai and Kala Krishna

13956: The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

David Jaeger, Esteban Klor, Sami Miaari and M. Daniele Paserman

13955: Competing Liquidities: Corporate Securities, Real Bonds and Bubbles

Emmanuel Farhi and Jean Tirole

13954: On the Potential of Neuroeconomics: A Critical (but Hopeful) Appraisal

B. Douglas Bernheim

13953: Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?

Martin Feldstein

13952: Resolving the Global Imbalance: The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate

Martin Feldstein

13951: Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer and Aurel Hizmo

13950: Trevor Swan And The Neoclassical Growth Model

Robert Dimand and Barbara Spencer

13949: Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model

Patrick Bayer, Shakeeb Khan and Christopher Timmins

13948: Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy

Frederic Mishkin

13947: Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines

Seema Jayachandran and Adriana Lleras-Muney

13946: The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

13945: Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring

Dalton Conley and Brian J. McCabe

13944: Do Funds-of-Funds Deserve Their Fees-on-Fees?

Andrew Ang, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Rui Zhao

13943: A Black Swan in the Money Market

John Taylor and John Williams

13942: Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices

David Weinstein and Christian Broda

13941: Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Jeff Larrimore, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Laura Zayatz

13940: Macroeconomic Crises since 1870

Robert Barro and José F. Ursúa

13939: Portraits of the Artist: Personal Visual Art in the Twentieth Century

David Galenson

13938: The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents

Carlos Serrano

13937: The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving: An Analysis of Micro Data

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

13936: The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the 2007 Mortgage Default Crisis

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

13935: Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders

Keith Finlay

13934: Econometric Causality

James Heckman

13933: Endogenous Variety and the Gains from Trade

Costas Arkolakis, Svetlana Demidova, Pete Klenow and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

13932: Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

Alan Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob de Haan and David-Jan Jansen

13931: Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir

13930: Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution

Gary Richardson

13929: The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

13928: Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

Keith Finlay and David Neumark

13927: Climate Economics: A Meta-Review and Some Suggestions

Geoffrey Heal

13926: Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

Marianne Bertrand, Rema Hanna and Sendhil Mullainathan

13925: Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale

Viktoria Hnatkovska, Amartya Lahiri and Carlos Vegh

13924: Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

Aleksander Berentsen, Guido Menzio and Randall Wright

13923: How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

Muriel Niederle, Carmit Segal and Lise Vesterlund

13922: Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions

Muriel Niederle and Alexandra H. Yestrumskas

13921: Current Account Patterns and National Real Estate Markets

Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak

13920: Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations

John Haltiwanger, Stefano Scarpetta and Helena Schweiger

13919: Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

13918: The "Thin Film Of Gold": Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries

Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick

13917: The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

Mark Duggan and Fiona Scott Morton

13916: Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms

Chenghuan Sean Chu, Phillip Leslie and Alan Sorensen

13915: A Theory of Military Dictatorships

Daron Acemoglu, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni

13914: Innocents Abroad: The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms

Susan Perkins, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

13913: Institutions, Technology, and Trade

Wolfgang Keller and Carol Shiue

13912: The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

13911: Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings

Francesco Giavazzi and Michael McMahon