NBER Working Papers

From National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A..
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

14061: Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

Runjuan Liu and Daniel Trefler

14060: Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanczuk

14059: Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines

Efraim Benmelech and Nittai K. Bergman

14058: Market Liquidity, Asset Prices and Welfare

Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang

14057: Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

14056: Big-Think Regionalism: A Critical Survey

Richard Baldwin

14055: Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Michael Z. Stamos

14054: Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski and Sergio Rebelo

14053: Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn

14052: The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten and Giovanni Violante

14051: A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization

Eswar Prasad and Raghuram Rajan

14050: Second-Best Institutions

Dani Rodrik

14049: An Anatomy Of Credit Booms: Evidence From Macro Aggregates And Micro Data

Enrique Mendoza and Marco Terrones

14048: Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels

Steven Davis and James Kahn

14047: Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory

Marco Battaglini and Stephen Coate

14046: Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation

James Anderson

14045: Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?

James Anderson

14044: Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James Heckman, John Humphries, Paul LaFontaine and Pedro L. Rodriguez

14043: Crossover Inventions And Knowledge Diffusion Of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence From The Electrical Technology

Shih-tse Lo and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

14042: Cigarette Taxes and the Transition from Youth to Adult Smoking: Smoking Initiation, Cessation, and Participation

Philip DeCicca, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios

14041: Effects of Regulation on Drug Launch and Pricing in Interdependent Markets

Patricia Danzon and Andrew J. Epstein

14040: Bayesian Learning in Social Networks

Daron Acemoglu, Munther A. Dahleh, Ilan Lobel and Asuman Ozdaglar

14039: Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain

Karin Mayr-Dorn and Giovanni Peri

14038: The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

Jordan Matsudaira and Rebecca Blank

14037: Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

Trevon Logan

14036: Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?

Terra McKinnish, Randall Walsh and T. Kirk White

14035: The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Soetevent and Arie Kapteyn

14034: Globalization, Growth and Crises: The View from Latin America

Sebastian Edwards

14033: When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Pablo Querubin and James Robinson

14032: Does Your Cohort Matter? Measuring Peer Effects in College Achievement

Scott Carrell, Richard L. Fullerton and James West

14031: Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Sharon L. Maccini and Dean Yang

14030: The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas

Lucas Davis and Lutz Kilian

14029: Government Sponsored versus Private Venture Capital: Canadian Evidence

James Brander, Edward Egan and Thomas Hellmann

14028: Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics

Eric Leeper, Todd Walker and Shu-Chun Yang

14027: Big Business Stability and Social Welfare

Kathy Fogel, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

14026: Systemic Sudden Stops: The Relevance Of Balance-Sheet Effects And Financial Integration

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Luis Fernando Mejía

14025: Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments: Old Wine in Green Bottles?

Ben Lockwood and John Whalley

14024: China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa

Hany Besada, Yang Wang and John Whalley

14023: Assessing the Federal Deduction for State and Local Tax Payments

Gilbert Metcalf

14022: Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

Donald Boyd, Pam Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb and James Wyckoff

14021: The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, Jonah Rockoff and James Wyckoff

14020: Measuring the Output and Prices of the Lottery Sector: An Application of Implicit Expected Utility Theory

Kam Yu

14019: Inflation, Monetary Policy and Stock Market Conditions

Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock

14018: Hedonic Imputation versus Time Dummy Hedonic Indexes

Walter Diewert, Saeed Heravi and Mick Silver

14017: Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data

Christian Broda and David Weinstein

14016: Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights

Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei

14015: Private Sunspots and Idiosyncratic Investor Sentiment

George-Marios Angeletos

14014: Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

Anders Bjorklund and Richard Freeman

14013: Liquidity and Market Crashes

Jennifer Huang and Jiang Wang

14012: Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi

14011: Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires

Seema Jayachandran

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