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13439: Policy vs. Consumer Pressure: Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry

David Popp, Tamara Hafner and Nick Johnstone

13438: Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Jeffrey Brown

13437: Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector

Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef

13436: Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

13435: Institutions and Foreign Investment: China versus the World

Joseph P.H. Fan, Randall Morck, Lixin Xu and Bernard Yeung

13434: Temporary Help Agencies and the Advancement Prospects of Low Earners

Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer and Julia Lane

13433: Financial Exchange Rates and International Currency Exposures

Philip Lane and Jay Shambaugh

13432: Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through

Gita Gopinath, Oleg Itskhoki and Roberto Rigobon

13431: Institutions and U.S. Regional Development: A Study of Massachusetts and Virginia

Sukkoo Kim

13430: Linearity-Generating Processes: A Modelling Tool Yielding Closed Forms for Asset Prices

Xavier Gabaix

13429: Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S

June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill

13428: Housing IS the Business Cycle

Edward Leamer

13427: Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations

Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman and Tarun Khanna

13426: The market value of patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms

Bronwyn Hall, Grid Thoma and Salvatore Torrisi

13425: What Has Financed Government Debt?

Hess Chung and Eric Leeper

13424: International Portfolios with Supply, Demand and Redistributive Shocks

Nicolas Coeurdacier, Robert Kollmann and Philippe Martin

13423: Estimating the Equity Premium

John Campbell

13422: Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments

Jonathan Guryan, Kory Kroft and Matthew Notowidigdo

13421: Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment

Robert Shimer

13420: Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

Stefano DellaVigna

13419: Cracking the Conundrum

David Backus and Jonathan Wright

13418: Keep on Scrapping: The Salvage Drives of World War II

Hugh Rockoff

13417: Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt

13416: Financial Innovation and the Transactions Demand for Cash

Fernando E. Alvarez and Francesco Lippi

13415: Risks and Prices: The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets

Rosalie Pacula, Beau Kilmer, Michael Grossman and Frank Chaloupka

13414: Bayesian and Adaptive Optimal Policy under Model Uncertainty

Lars Svensson and Noah Williams

13413: Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

13412: On the Welfare Implications of Financial Globalization without Financial Development

Enrique Mendoza, Vincenzo Quadrini and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

13411: Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience, and earnings

Joshua Angrist and Stacey H. Chen

13410: Determinacy and Identification with Taylor Rules

John Cochrane

13409: Determinacy and Identification with Taylor Rules

John Cochrane

13408: The Effects of Mandatory Seatbelt Laws on Seatbelt Use, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and Crash-Related Injuries among Youths

Christopher Carpenter and Mark Stehr

13407: Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

Pinka Chatterji and Ellen Meara

13406: Aggregate Demand and Supply

Roger Farmer

13405: Why Has the U.S. Financial Sector Grown so Much? The Role of Corporate Finance

Thomas Philippon

13404: Factor Analysis in a Model with Rational Expectations

Andreas Beyer, Roger Farmer, Jerome Henry and Massimiliano Marcellino

13403: The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s

Kris James Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier

13402: The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat and Daniel Hungerman

13401: Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility

Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal

13400: Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman

13399: Consolidation of Banks in Japan: Causes and Consequences

Kaoru Hosono, Koji Sakai and Kotaro Tsuru

13398: On the Optimal Choice of a Monetary Policy Instrument

Andrew Atkeson, Varadarajan Chari and Patrick Kehoe

13397: Comparing Greenbook and Reduced Form Forecasts using a Large Realtime Dataset

Jon Faust and Jonathan Wright

13396: "Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Till Bärnighausen and David Bloom

13395: Realizing the Gains From Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

Jorge Balat, Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto

13394: An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes

Fatih Guvenen

13393: The Breakup of the Euro Area

Barry Eichengreen

13392: Conspicuous Consumption and Race

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Nikolai Roussanov

13391: Leadership in Groups: A Monetary Policy Experiment

Alan Blinder and John Morgan

13390: Capital Taxation and Ownership when Markets are Incomplete

Emmanuel Farhi

13389: Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages, and the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Giovanni Peri and Chad Sparber

13388: Current Account Adjustment: Some New Theory and Evidence

Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei

13387: Understanding Trust

Paola Sapienza, Anna Toldra and Luigi Zingales

13386: Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

MaryBeth Walker, Erdal Tekin and Sally Wallace

13385: The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks

Nicholas Bloom

13384: Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang

13383: A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

13382: Social Security and the Timing of Divorce

Gopi Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Slavov

13381: The Changing Landscape of Pensions in the United States

James Poterba, Steven Venti and David Wise

13380: Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime

Ilyana Kuziemko

13379: Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type

Alan Gustman, Thomas Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

13378: Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers

Valentino Larcinese, Riccardo Puglisi and James Snyder

13377: Artists and the Market: From Leonardo and Titian to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst

David Galenson

13376: Please Pass the Catch-up The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports

Bruce Blonigen and Alyson Ma

13375: Time-Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY

Hanming Fang and Dan Silverman

13374: The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age

Christopher Carpenter and Carlos Dobkin

13373: Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

Raquel Fernandez

13372: A Calibratable Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium

Alex Edmans, Xavier Gabaix and Augustin Landier

13371: Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence

Hanming Fang and Alessandro Gavazza

13370: Conversations Among Competitors

Jeremy Stein

13369: The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Erzo Luttmer and Joshua Mitchell

13368: The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Shocks: Why are the 2000s So Different from the 1970s?

Olivier Blanchard and Jordi Galí

13367: The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades

Nathan Nunn

13366: Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Laura Veldkamp

13365: Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment

Elhanan Helpman and Oleg Itskhoki

13364: East Asia and Global Imbalances: Saving, Investment, and Financial Development

Hiro Ito and Menzie Chinn

13363: Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies

Igor Livshits, James (Jim) MacGee and Michele Tertilt

13362: Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems

Borys Grochulski and Narayana Kocherlakota

13361: Mortgage Timing

Ralph Koijen, Otto Van Hemert and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

13360: The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com

Igal Hendel, Aviv Nevo and Francois Ortalo-Magne

13359: Evaluating The Effectiveness of Terrorism Risk Financing Solutions

Howard C. Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

13358: Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending

Baoping Shang and Dana Goldman

13357: Empirical Asset Pricing and Statistical Power in the Presence of Weak Risk Factors

Craig Burnside

13356: Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District

Raegen T. Miller, Richard Murnane and John B. Willett

13355: Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

Stefano DellaVigna and Eliana La Ferrara

13354: Optimal Capital Income Taxation

Andrew Abel

13353: Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang

Mark Aguiar, Manuel Amador and Gita Gopinath

13352: The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

13351: The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence

Giulia Faggio, Kjell G Salvanes and John van Reenen

13350: Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

Jonathan Levin and Steven Tadelis

13349: China's WTO Entry: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement

Chad Bown

13348: Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving

Daniel Hungerman

13347: Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

Douglas Almond, Lena Edlund and Mårten Palme

13346: China's Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)

Irene Brambilla, Amit Khandelwal and Peter Schott

13345: Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937

Wojciech Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez and Jae Song

13344: Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Josef Fersterer, Jorn-Steffen Pischke and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

13343: The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat

13342: Evidence about the Potential Role for Affirmative Action in Higher Education

Braz Camargo, Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

13341: The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance

Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

13340: The Effect of Credit Constraints on the College Drop-Out Decision A Direct Approach Using a New Panel Study

Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner