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13309: Social Identity and Preferences

Daniel Benjamin, James Choi and A. Joshua Strickland

13308: From "White Christmas" to Sgt. Pepper: The Conceptual Revolution in Popular Music

David Galenson

13307: Investment Options and the Business Cycle

Boyan Jovanovic

13306: Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

13305: The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India

Robert Jensen and Emily Oster

13304: Clinical Pathways to Disability

Mary Beth Landrum, Kate A. Stewart and David Cutler

13303: Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

Miguel Urquiola and Eric Verhoogen

13302: Spatial Growth and Industry Age

Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

13301: Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr.

13300: Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya

Paul Glewwe, Michael Kremer and Sylvie Moulin

13299: Big Bad Banks? The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution

Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine and Alexey Levkov

13298: A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"

Tae Okada and Charles Horioka

13297: Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity... for Some Plants

Alla Lileeva and Daniel Trefler

13296: Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Bronwyn Hall, Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse

13295: Estimates of the Magnitude of Financial and Tax Reporting Conflicts

George A. Plesko

13294: Why Don't Inventors Patent?

Petra Moser

13293: Left Behind By Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability

Derek Neal and Diane Schanzenbach

13292: Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser

13291: Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr.

13290: Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Pete Klenow

13289: Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

Charles Baum and Christopher Ruhm

13288: Differences in Governance Practices between U.S. and Foreign Firms: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences

Reena Aggarwal, Isil Erel, René Stulz and Rohan Williamson

13287: Island Matching

Dale Mortensen

13286: Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution

Robert Lucas

13285: Fundamentals, Market Timing, and Seasoned Equity Offerings

Harry DeAngelo, Linda DeAngelo and René Stulz

13284: The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

13283: Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy

Mihir A. Desai and Li Jin

13282: Neoclassical Factors

Long Chen and Lu Zhang

13281: Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends

Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

13280: Flattened Inflation-Output Tradeoff and Enhanced Anti-Inflation Policy: Outcome of Globalization?

Assaf Razin and Alon Binyamini

13279: From Brown to Busing

Elizabeth Cascio, Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis and Sarah Reber

13278: Understanding the Forward Premium Puzzle: A Microstructure Approach

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

13277: Large Hoarding of International Reserves and the Emerging Global Economic Architecture

Joshua Aizenman

13276: The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression

Leah Boustan, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

13275: Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

David Card and Michael Ransom

13274: Conflicts of Interests Among Shareholders: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions

Jarrad Harford, Dirk Jenter and Kai Li

13273: Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan

Charles Horioka, Wataru Suzuki and Tatsuo Hatta

13272: Is Peer Review in Decline?

Glenn Ellison

13271: Multinationals and the Creation of Chinese Trade Linkages

Deborah Swenson

13270: Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

Steven Kaplan and Joshua Rauh

13269: Irreversible Investment, Capital Costs and Productivity Growth: Implications for Telecommunications

Jeffrey Bernstein and Theofanis Mamuneas

13268: When are Auctions Best?

Jeremy I. Bulow and Paul Klemperer

13267: Consent and Exchange

Oren Bar-Gill and Lucian Bebchuk

13266: Greenhouse Gas Reductions under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?

Stephen Holland, Christopher Knittel and Jonathan Hughes

13265: Bankruptcy Reform and Credit Cards

Michelle White

13264: The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks

Christina Romer and David Romer

13263: Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate

Andrew Rose and Saktiandi Supaat

13262: Fraternity Membership and Drinking Behavior

Jeffrey DeSimone

13261: How Did SCHIP Affect the Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?

Thomas Buchmueller, Anthony Lo Sasso and Kathleen Wong

13260: Incomplete Markets, Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Dynamics

Bruce Preston and Mauro Roca

13259: Central Bank Communication and Expectations Stabilization

Stefano Eusepi and Bruce Preston

13258: French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

Orley Ashenfelter, Stephen Ciccarella and Howard Shatz

13257: Does the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Save Lives?

Jeffrey Miron and Elina Tetelbaum

13256: US Faculty Patenting: Inside and Outside the University

Jerry Thursby, Anne Fuller and Marie Thursby

13255: Defining Price Stability in Japan: A View from America

Christian Broda and David Weinstein

13254: Optimal Monetary Policy in a 'Sudden Stop'

Fabio Braggion, Lawrence Christiano and Jorge Roldos

13253: The Organizational Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century

Ricard Gil and Pablo Spiller

13252: Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

Janet Currie, Eric Hanushek, E. Megan Kahn, Matthew Neidell and Steven Rivkin

13251: Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing

Rui Albuquerque and Neng Wang

13250: Investment, Consumption, and Hedging under Incomplete Markets

Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang

13249: The Fundamentals of Commodity Futures Returns

Gary Gorton, Fumio Hayashi and K. Rouwenhorst

13248: The Effect of Taxes on Royalties and the Migration of Intangible Assets Abroad

John H. Mutti and Harry Grubert

13247: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

Nava Ashraf, James Berry and Jesse Shapiro

13246: What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix

Jill R. Horwitz and Austin Nichols

13245: Arbitrage-Free Bond Pricing with Dynamic Macroeconomic Models

Michael Gallmeyer, Burton Hollifield, Francisco Palomino and Stanley Zin

13244: Net Worth, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy: The Effects of a Devaluation in a Financially Fragile Environment

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

13243: Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence

Robert T. Jensen and Nolan H. Miller

13242: Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Richard Freeman

13241: Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective

Pol Antras and Ricardo Caballero

13240: Risk Shifting versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans

Joshua Rauh

13239: Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries

Robert Lipsey and Birgitta Swedenborg

13238: Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies

Howard Chang, Hilary Sigman and Leah G. Traub

13237: Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

13236: A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Robert McMillan

13235: How Does Outsourcing Affect Performance Dynamics? Evidence from the Automobile Industry

Sharon Novak and Scott Stern

13234: The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas: Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Joshua Gans, David H. Hsu and Scott Stern

13233: The Same Yet Different: Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries

Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi

13232: Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions: Evidence from Automobile Product Development

Sharon Novak and Scott Stern

13231: Comparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment

Mark Bils, Yongsung Chang and Sun-Bin Kim

13230: Employment Law and the Labor Market

Christine Jolls

13229: Why are Immigrants' Incarceration Rates so Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation

Kristin Butcher and Anne Piehl

13228: The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf

13227: Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration

Olivier Deschenes and Enrico Moretti

13226: Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, C.J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci and Kristin Sandusky

13225: Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

Alvin Roth

13224: Sources of Lifetime Inequality

Mark Huggett, Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron

13223: After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century

Sung Won Kang and Hugh Rockoff

13222: Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Garth Frazer and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

13221: Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?

David Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink and Jocelyn Finlay

13220: Risk Based Explanations of the Equity Premium

John Donaldson and Rajnish Mehra

13219: What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

Christina M. Fong and Erzo Luttmer

13218: Governance, Issuance Restrictions, And Competition In Payment Card Networks

Robert Pindyck

13217: Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

Janet Currie and Mark Stabile

13216: Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

13215: The Guy at the Controls: Labor Quality and Power Plant Efficiency

James Bushnell and Catherine Wolfram

13214: Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

Richard Baldwin and James Harrigan

13213: The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin Roth

13212: Dynamics of Union Organizations: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files

Thomas Holmes and Michael Walrath

13211: Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

Matthew Kotchen and Nicholas Burger

13210: Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

Lex Borghans and Ben Kriechel