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13060: Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Nicholas Bloom, Mark Schankerman and John van Reenen

13059: Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security

Andrew Samwick

13058: An Economic Analysis of Platform Sharing

Arghya Ghosh and Hodaka Morita

13057: Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution

Kevin O'Rourke, Ahmed Rahman and Alan Taylor

13056: The Incentives to Start New Companies: Evidence from Venture Capital

Robert Hall and Susan E. Woodward

13055: Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Joan Rosés, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson

13054: Firms in International Trade

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott

13053: Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs

William Pizer and David Popp

13052: Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation

David Card, Alexandre Mas and Jesse Rothstein

13051: The Power of the Family

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

13050: On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate

Jeffrey Frankel

13049: HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

Emily Oster

13048: Market Access, Openness and Growth

John Romalis

13047: The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?

Farley Grubb

13046: Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys

Christopher Carpenter and Philip J Cook

13045: Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine

13044: Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design

Mark V. Pauly and Fredric E. Blavin

13043: Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

John Abowd, John Haltiwanger, Julia Lane, Kevin McKinney and Kristin Sandusky

13042: Return Persistence and Fund Flows in the Worst Performing Mutual Funds

Jonathan B. Berk and Ian Tonks

13041: Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications

Christian Broda and David Weinstein

13040: Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders: Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?

Kala Krishna and Ling Hui Tan

13039: Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

Guido Imbens and Thomas Lemieux

13038: Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

Bruce Weinberg

13037: Risk, Government and Globalization: International Survey Evidence

Anna Maria Mayda, Kevin O'Rourke and Richard Sinnott

13036: The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Roland Fryer and Michael Greenstone

13035: Unbalanced Trade

Robert Dekle, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

13034: Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Jennifer Hunt

13033: Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence

Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley and Kamal Saggi

13032: Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

Alan Krueger and David Schkade

13031: Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs

Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

13030: Rent Rigidity, Asymmetric Information, and Volatility Bounds in Labor Markets

Bjoern Bruegemann and Giuseppe Moscarini

13029: Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's

Bruno Contini, Roberto Leombruni, Lia Pacelli and Claudia Villosio

13028: The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

13027: The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Alan Krueger and David A. Schkade

13026: Replication in Economics

Daniel Hamermesh

13025: Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach

13024: Regularities

Laura X. L. Liu, Toni Whited and Lu Zhang

13023: Regionalization, Changes in Home Bias, and the Growth of World Trade

John Whalley and Xian Xin

13022: The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

Jacob Vigdor

13021: Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

Oskar Skans, Per-Anders Edin and Bertil Holmlund

13020: Collateral Damage: Exchange Controls and International Trade

Shang-Jin Wei and Zhiwei Zhang

13019: Crises and Growth: A Latin American Perspective

Sebastian Edwards

13018: Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants

Diego Restuccia and Richard Rogerson

13017: Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes

Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius

13016: The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

James Heckman and Dimitriy V. Masterov

13015: International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

Susan Helper and Morris M. Kleiner

13014: Human Capital, Bankruptcy and Capital Structure

Jonathan B. Berk, Richard Stanton and Josef Zechner

13013: Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Allison B. Rosen

13012: Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

Erzo Luttmer

13011: Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity

Hyunbae Chun, Jung-Wook Kim, Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung

13010: Is Bad News About Inflation Good News for the Exchange Rate?

Richard Clarida and Daniel Waldman

13009: No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes

Justine Hastings and Jeffrey M. Weinstein

13008: Factions and Political Competition

Nicola Persico, Jose Carlos Rodriguez-Pueblita and Dan Silverman

13007: Policy Analysis in a Matching Model with Intensive and Extensive Margins

Lei Fang and Richard Rogerson

13006: Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

Paul Beaudry, David Green and Benjamin Sand

13005: Bank Size and Lending Relationships in Japan

Hirofumi Uchida, Gregory Udell and Wako Watanabe

13004: Liquidity Risk Aversion, Debt Maturity, and Current Account Surpluses: A Theory and Evidence from East Asia

Shin-ichi Fukuda and Yoshifumi Kon

13003: Central Bank Transparency: Where, Why, and with What Effects?

Nazire Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen

13002: Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms

Jedidiah Brewer, Robert Glennon, Alan Ker and Gary Libecap

13001: Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, James Markusen and Bertel Schjerning

13000: Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Michael Burda, Daniel Hamermesh and Philippe Weil

12999: Internal Increasing Returns to Scale and Economic Growth

John List and Haiwen Zhou

12998: Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition

Guido Friebel and Elena Panova

12997: Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

John Earle and Almos Telegdy

12996: Defining and Measuring the Location of FDI Output

Robert Lipsey

12995: Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice

Justine Hastings, Richard Van Weelden and Jeffrey Weinstein

12994: Risk Sharing in Private Information Models with Asset Accumulation: Explaining the Excess Smoothness of Consumption

Orazio Attanasio and Nicola Pavoni

12993: Growing Up to Financial Stability

Michael Bordo

12992: Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data

John List

12991: Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade

Richard Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

12990: Real Options With Uncertain Maturity and Competition

Kristian R. Miltersen and Eduardo S. Schwartz

12989: Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market

Paul Oyer

12988: Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Jacob Vigdor and Jens Ludwig

12987: What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

Michael Kremer

12986: Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns

João Gomes, Leonid Kogan and Motohiro Yogo

12985: Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and Gary Solon

12984: The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

12983: Fetters of Debt, Deposit, or Gold during the Great Depression? The International Propagation of the Banking Crisis of 1931

Gary Richardson and Patrick Van Horn

12982: Three Great American Disinflations

Michael Bordo, Christopher Erceg and Andrew Levin

12981: Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?

Jonathan Skinner

12980: Trade and Workforce Changeover in Brazil

Marc-Andreas Muendler

12979: Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview: Empirical evidence from France

Marc-Arthur Diaye, Nathalie Greenan and Michal Urdanivia

12978: Wage Structure and Firm Productivity in Belgium

Thierry Lallemand, Robert Plasman and Francois Rycx

12977: Adjusting Imperfect Data: Overview and Case Studies

Lars Vilhuber

12976: Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

Stephen Burks, Jeffrey Carpenter, Lorenz Goette, Kristen Monaco, Aldo Rustichini and Kay Porter

12975: The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover: A Case Study Analysis

Colleen N. Flaherty

12974: Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980-1997

John Hunnes, Jarle Møen and Kjell G Salvanes

12973: The Benefits and Costs of Head Start

Jens Ludwig and Deborah A. Phillips

12972: Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly

Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight

12971: Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?

Mary Amiti and John Romalis

12970: Optimal Asset Allocation in Asset Liability Management

Jules van Binsbergen and Michael W. Brandt

12969: Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison

M. Scott Taylor

12968: Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade

Margaret Kyle

12967: Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market

Kristopher Gerardi, Harvey Rosen and Paul Willen

12966: Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height

Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton and Climent Quintana-Domeque

12965: Understanding the New-Keynesian Model when Monetary Policy Switches Regimes

Roger Farmer, Daniel Waggoner and Tao Zha

12964: The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Advertising on Youth Smoking

Henry Saffer, Melanie Wakefield and Yvonne Terry-McElrath

12963: No-Arbitrage Semi-Martingale Restrictions for Continuous-Time Volatility Models subject to Leverage Effects, Jumps and i.i.d. Noise: Theory and Testable Distributional Implications

Torben Andersen, Tim Bollerslev and Dobrislav Dobrev

12962: Do Bonds Span Volatility Risk in the U.S. Treasury Market? A Specification test for Affine Term Structure Models

Torben Andersen and Luca Benzoni

12961: Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits

Morten Ravn, Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe and Martín Uribe