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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

13339: Why Tie A Product Consumers Do Not Use?

Dennis Carlton, Joshua Gans and Michael Waldman

13338: Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

Rachel Griffith, Sokbae (Simon) Lee and John van Reenen

13337: Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses

Miles Kimball, Claudia Sahm and Matthew Shapiro

13336: Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell G Salvanes

13335: The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

Sun Go and Peter Lindert

13334: Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Pierre Yared

13333: The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care

Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy and Tomas Philipson

13332: Profit Sharing Between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence From a Firm-Level Panel

Margaret McMillan and Andrew Waxman

13331: Industry Compensation and the Costs of Alternative Environmental Policy Instruments

Lans Bovenberg, Lawrence H. Goulder and Mark R. Jacobsen

13330: Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

Raj Chetty, W. Looney and Kory Kroft

13329: Globalization and Monetary Control

Michael Woodford

13328: Explaining the Effects of Government Spending Shocks on Consumption and the Real Exchange Rate

Morten Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe

13327: Are Franchises Bad Employers?

Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori

13326: Innovation, firm dynamics, and international trade

Andrew Atkeson and Ariel Burstein

13325: How Important is Money in the Conduct of Monetary Policy?

Michael Woodford

13324: The height of US-born non-Hispanic children and adolescents ages 2-19, born 1942-2002 in the NHANES Samples

John Komlos and Ariane Breitfelder

13323: Race and Charitable Church Activity

Daniel Hungerman

13322: Close to You? Bias and Precision in Patent-Based Measures of Technological Proximity

Mary Benner and Joel Waldfogel

13321: Strategic Judicial Decision Making

Pablo Spiller and Rafael Gely

13320: Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources

Boyan Jovanovic

13319: To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

David de la Croix and Matthias Doepke

13318: Exchange Rate Models Are Not as Bad as You Think

Charles Engel, Nelson Mark and Kenneth West

13317: Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Angus Deaton

13316: Optimal Property Rights in Financial Contracting

Kenneth Ayotte and Patrick Bolton

13315: Investment during the Korean Financial Crisis: A Structural Econometric Analysis

Simon Gilchrist and Jae Sim

13314: Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle

David Laibson, Sean Chanwook Lee, Peter Maxted, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman

13313: Returns on FDI: Does the U.S. Really Do Better?

Barry Bosworth, Susan M. Collins and Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

13312: Adaptive Minimax-Regret Treatment Choice, With Application To Drug Approval

Charles Manski

13311: Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization

Leah Boustan

13310: Coalition-Proof Trade and the Friedman Rule in the Lagos-Wright Model

Tai-wei Hu, John Kennan and Neil Wallace

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