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13578: Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

Richard Burkhauser and Kosali Simon

13577: Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in the First Era of Globalization

Michael Bordo and Christopher Meissner

13576: Immigration and Crime in Early 20th Century America

Carolyn Moehling and Anne Piehl

13575: Environmental Law and Policy

Richard L. Revesz and Robert Stavins

13574: Environmental Economics

Robert Stavins

13573: Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures

Sheila Olmstead, Michael Hanemann and Robert Stavins

13572: What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions

Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga and Robert Stavins

13571: Endogenous Discounting, the World Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account

Horag Choi, Nelson Mark and Donggyu Sul

13570: Corporate Financial Policies With Overconfident Managers

Ulrike Malmendier, Geoffrey Tate and Jonathan Yan

13569: Assessing Monetary Policy Effects Using Daily Fed Funds Futures Contracts

James Hamilton

13568: Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

13567: Victory or Repudiation? The Probability of the Southern Confederacy Winning the Civil War

Marc Weidenmier and Kim Oosterlinck

13566: Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science?

Frederic Mishkin

13565: Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation

Maarten van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi and Rob Alessie

13564: Eminent Domain Versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperpect Information About Owners' Valuation

Steven Shavell

13563: On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering

Steven Shavell

13562: Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others

Aaron Edlin, Andrew Gelman and Noah Kaplan

13561: Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?

Tomas Philipson and Eric Sun

13560: Financiers vs. Engineers: Should the Financial Sector be Taxed or Subsidized?

Thomas Philippon

13559: Enforcement Problems and Secondary Markets

Fernando Broner, Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

13558: Low Interest Rates and High Asset Prices: An Interpretation in Terms of Changing Popular Economic Models

Robert Shiller

13557: Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data

Janet Currie and Firouz Gahvari

13556: Globalization and Inflation Dynamics: the Impact of Increased Competition

Argia Sbordone

13555: A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance

YiLi Chien, Harold Cole and Hanno Lustig

13554: The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis

Kevin Hassett, Aparna Mathur and Gilbert Metcalf

13553: Understanding Recent Trends in House Prices and Home Ownership

Robert Shiller

13552: China's Exports and Employment

Robert Feenstra and Chang Hong

13551: Entrepreneurship and the City

Edward Glaeser

13550: Measuring Ancient Inequality

Branko Milanovic, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson

13549: Still the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election

Jeffrey DeSimone and Courtney LaFountain

13548: Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

Christina Romer and David Romer

13547: Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

13546: The Impact of Milton Friedman on Modern Monetary Economics: Setting the Record Straight on Paul Krugman's "Who Was Milton Friedman?"

Edward Nelson and Anna Schwartz

13545: Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Joana Naritomi, Rodrigo Soares and Juliano Assuncao

13544: Optimal Monetary Policy and the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability

Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola and Sylvain Leduc

13543: Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

Leah Boustan

13542: Macroeconomic Modeling for Monetary Policy Evaluation

Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler

13541: Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa

Anne Case and Alicia Menendez

13540: Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points

Oliver Hart

13539: Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, Monica Singhal and Tom Vogl

13538: An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez

13537: Rational and Behavioral Perspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning

Jeffrey Brown

13536: Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks

13535: Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities

Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko

13534: Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK

Robert Moffitt

13533: Demographic Change and the Structure of Wages: A Demand-Theoretic Analysis for Brazil

Ernesto F. L. Amaral, Daniel Hamermesh, Joseph E. Potter and Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto

13532: Productivity and U.S. Macroeconomic Performance: Interpreting the Past and Predicting the Future with a Two-Sector Real Business Cycle Model

Peter Ireland and Scott Schuh

13531: Export Dynamics in Colombia: Firm-Level Evidence

Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, Maurice Kugler and James Tybout

13530: What Have We Learned From Market Design?

Alvin Roth

13529: The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

Muriel Niederle and Alvin Roth

13528: Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment

Katherine Baicker and Helen Levy

13527: The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

Philippe Belley and Lance Lochner

13526: The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy

Flavio Cunha and James Heckman

13525: Understanding the Accrual Anomaly

Jin Ginger Wu, Lu Zhang and X. Frank Zhang

13524: School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects

Dennis Epple and Maria Marta Ferreyra

13523: The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux

13522: Dynamic Product Repositioning in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry

Andrew Sweeting

13521: Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and US After 2001

Lawrence Christiano, Roberto Motto and Massimo Rostagno

13520: The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement

Carolyn Heinrich, Peter Mueser and Kenneth Troske

13519: The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren

13518: Housing and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Frederic Mishkin

13517: Computing Stochastic Dynamic Economic Models with a Large Number of State Variables: A Description and Application of a Smolyak-Collocation Method

Benjamin Malin, Dirk Krueger and Felix Kubler

13516: Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen and Hanming Fang

13515: Openness, Technology Capital, and Development

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

13514: The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren

13513: The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations

Erin Mansur and Sheila M. Olmstead

13512: Averting Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from New Source Review

Nathaniel Keohane, Erin Mansur and Andrey Voynov

13511: Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market

Erin Mansur

13510: Prices vs. Quantities: Environmental Regulation and Imperfect Competition

Erin Mansur

13509: Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets

Erin Mansur

13508: Is Real-Time Pricing Green? The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance

Stephen Holland and Erin Mansur

13507: Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets

James Bushnell, Erin Mansur and Celeste Saravia

13506: Fear, Unemployment and Migration

David Blanchflower and Chris Shadforth

13505: Is Unemployment More Costly Than Inflation?

David Blanchflower

13504: Advisors and Asset Prices: A Model of the Origins of Bubbles

Harrison Hong, Jose Scheinkman and Wei Xiong

13503: Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time

Edgar Cudmore, John Piggott and John Whalley

13502: Two Reasons Why Money and Credit May be Useful in Monetary Policy

Lawrence Christiano, Roberto Motto and Massimo Rostagno

13501: The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

13500: The Economics of Inefficient Technology Use

Paul Beaudry and Patrick Francois

13499: Unmeasured Investment and the Puzzling U.S. Boom in the 1990s

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

13498: Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi, Omar Galarraga and Jeffrey E. Harris

13497: "Lost" on the Web: Does Web Distribution Stimulate or Depress Television Viewing?

Joel Waldfogel

13496: Housing Price Volatility and Downsizing in Later Life

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

13495: The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

Anne Case, Diana Lee and Christina Paxson

13494: Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

Anna Aizer

13493: Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Jonathan C. Javitt, James Rebitzer and Lonny Reisman

13492: Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

Anna Aizer and Pedro Dal Bó

13491: Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940

Todd Sorensen, Price Fishback, Samuel Allen and Shawn Kantor

13490: Structural Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change

Martin Weitzman

13489: Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880-1913

Michael Bordo, Alberto Cavallo and Christopher Meissner

13488: Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures

Alan C. Monheit, Jessica P. Vistnes and Jeannette A. Rogowski

13487: Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution

Sumit Agarwal, John Driscoll and David Laibson

13486: The Informal Sector

Aureo de Paula and Jose Scheinkman

13485: The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly

13484: Co-Authoring Advanced Art

David Galenson

13483: The International Diversification Puzzle Is Not As Bad As You Think

Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri

13482: Risk Tolerance and Alcohol Demand Among Adults and Older Adults

Dhaval Dave and Henry Saffer

13481: Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm

Oliver Hart

13480: Personnel Economics

Edward Lazear and Paul Oyer

13479: Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?

Patricia Anderson, Kristin Butcher and Diane Schanzenbach