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12080: Insurance and Incentives for Medical Innovation

Alan M. Garber, Charles Jones and Paul Romer

12079: Why Have Business Cycle Fluctuations Become Less Volatile?

Andres Arias, Gary Hansen and Lee Ohanian

12078: Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

David Card and Jesse Rothstein

12077: Post-Secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality

Thomas Lemieux

12076: Discretionary Policy and Multiple Equilibria

Robert King

12075: Asset Prices When Agents are Marked-to-Market

Gary Gorton, Ping He and Lixin Huang

12074: Are Prudential Supervision and Regulation Pillars of Financial Stability? Evidence from the Great Depression

Kris James Mitchener

12073: Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

12072: Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture

Agata Antkiewicz and John Whalley

12071: Employee Screening: Theory and Evidence

Fali Huang and Peter Cappelli

12070: Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth

Don Fullerton and Seung-Rae Kim

12069: Looking Beyond TRIA: A Clinical Examination of Potential Terrorism Loss Sharing

Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

12068: CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation

Dirk Jenter and Fadi Kanaan

12067: A Bound on Risk Aversion Using Labor Supply Elasticities

Raj Chetty

12066: Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt

12065: Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?

Ronald Ehrenberg, George Jakubson, Jeffrey Groen, Eric So and Joseph Price

12064: Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education

Jeffrey Groen, George Jakubson, Ronald Ehrenberg, Scott Condie and Albert Liu

12063: Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

Uri Gneezy and John List

12062: Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina

Miles Kimball, Helen Levy, Fumio Ohtake and Yoshiro Tsutsui

12061: Taxation

Louis Kaplow

12060: Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

12059: The Making of an Investment Banker: Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income

Paul Oyer

12058: The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

David Galenson

12057: Some Answers to the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

12056: Single Parenthood and Childhood Outcomes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban South

Howard Bodenhorn

12055: Estimating and Testing Beta Pricing Models: Alternative Methods and their Performance in Simulations

Jay Shanken and Guofu Zhou

12054: The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict

Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz

12053: Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Andrew Leigh and Justin Wolfers

12052: New Measures of Port Efficiency Using International Trade Data

Bruce Blonigen and Wesley Wilson

12051: Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

Patrick Bajari, Stephanie Houghton and Steven Tadelis

12050: A Framework for Assessing Corporate Governance Reform

Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Weisbach

12049: Who Adjusts and When? On the Political Economy of Reforms

Alberto Alesina, Silvia Ardagna and Francesco Trebbi

12048: State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Joanna Lahey

12047: The Causes of Political Integration: An Application to School Districts

Nora Gordon and Brian Knight

12046: Why Did U.S. Market Hours Boom in the 1990s?

Ellen McGrattan and Edward Prescott

12045: Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss

12044: Offshore Financial Centers: Parasites or Symbionts?

Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel

12043: Urban Poverty, School Attendance, and Adolescent Labor Force Attachment: Some Historical Evidence

Howard Bodenhorn

12042: Investment Under Uncertainty and Time-Inconsistent Preferences

Steven R. Grenadier and Neng Wang

12041: Sorting, Prices, and Social Preferences

Edward Lazear, Ulrike Malmendier and Roberto Weber

12040: How Do the Better Educated Do It? Socioeconomic Status and the Ability to Cope with Underlying Impairment

David Cutler, Mary Beth Landrum and Kate A. Stewart

12039: PublicationHarvester: An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

Pierre Azoulay, Andrew Stellman and Joshua Graff Zivin

12038: Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

Marcos Chamon and Michael Kremer

12037: Special Interest Groups and the Allocation of Public Funds

Monica Singhal

12036: Housing, Consumption, and Asset Pricing

Monika Piazzesi, Martin Schneider and Selale Tuzel

12035: Legal-Political Factors and the Historical Evolution of the Finance-Growth Link

Michael Bordo and Peter Rousseau

12034: And Now for Something Completely Different: The Versatility of Conceptual Innovators

David Galenson

12033: Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence

Christian Broda, Nuno Limão and David Weinstein

12032: Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?

Diego Comin, Erica Groshen and Bess Rabin

12031: The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India

Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen Redding and Fabrizio Zilibotti

12030: Down or Out: Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Investment Mistakes

Laurent Calvet, John Campbell and Paolo Sodini

12029: Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative

Christopher Avery, Caroline Hoxby, C. Kirabo Jackson, Kaitlin Burek, Glenn Pope and Mridula Raman

12028: Durable Goods and Conformity

Christopher House and Emre Ozdenoren

12027: The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Philippe Aghion, Richard Blundell, Rachel Griffith, Peter Howitt and Susanne Prantl

12026: The Dog That Did Not Bark: A Defense of Return Predictability

John Cochrane

12025: Geographic Spillover of Unionism

Thomas Holmes

12024: Pervasive Stickiness (Expanded Version)

N. Gregory Mankiw and Ricardo Reis

12023: India's Patterns of Development: What Happened, What Follows

Kalpana Kochhar, Utsav Kumar, Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

12022: The Time Varying Volatility of Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Alejandro Justiniano and Giorgio Primiceri

12021: Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

12020: Valuation in Over-the-Counter Markets

Darrell Duffie, Nicolae Garleanu and Lasse Pedersen

12019: Ugly Criminals

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

12018: Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns

James Heckman and Paul LaFontaine

12017: Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Jakub W. Jurek and Luis Viceira

12016: Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Health Care Technology Assessment Procedures

Tomas Philipson and Anupam Jena

12015: Do Hot Hands Exist Among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Evaluation

Ravi Jagannathan, Alexey Malakhov and Dmitry Novikov

12014: Optimal Market Timing

Xuenan Li, Dmitry Livdan and Lu Zhang

12013: Estimating Static Models of Strategic Interaction

Patrick Bajari, Han Hong, John Krainer and Denis Nekipelov

12012: State Casket Sales and Restrictions: A Pointless Undertaking?

Judith Chevalier and Fiona Scott Morton

12011: A Short Note on the Size of the Dot-Com Bubble

James DeLong and Konstantin Magin

12010: Piracy on the Silver Screen

Rafael Rob and Joel Waldfogel

12009: The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Savings Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

12008: Perverse Incentives in the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

David McAdams and Michael Schwarz

12007: Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Chul-In Lee and Gary Solon

12006: The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior

James Heckman, Jora Stixrud and Sergio Urzua

12005: Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?

Joshua Angrist, Aimee Chin and Ricardo Godoy

12004: Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions

Nancy E. Reichman, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Dhaval Dave

12003: Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings

Jeffrey Kling

12002: Time to Eat: Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality

Daniel Hamermesh

12001: Regulating Advertisements: The Case of Smoking Cessation Products

Rosemary J. Avery, Donald Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard and Alan Mathios

12000: Equilibrium Exhaustible Resource Price Dynamics

Murray Carlson, Zeigham Khokher and Sheridan Titman

11999: Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales and Luigi Guiso

11998: Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins

Philip Oreopoulos, Mark Stabile, Randy Walld and Leslie Roos

11997: How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out?

James Adams, J. Roger Clemmons and Paula Stephan

11996: An Equilibrium Model of "Global Imbalances" and Low Interest Rates

Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

11995: Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet

Austan Goolsbee and Pete Klenow

11994: The Value of Broadband and the Deadweight Loss of Taxing New Technology

Austan Goolsbee

11993: Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

11992: Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later

Sergio Godoy and Joseph Stiglitz

11991: Vying for Foreign Direct Investment: A EU-type Model of Tax Competition

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

11990: The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity

Donald Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard and Alan Mathios

11989: Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

Justin Wolfers

11988: How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being

John Helliwell and Haifang Huang

11987: Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

John Donohue and Steven Levitt

11986: The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

David Autor, Lawrence Katz and Melissa Kearney

11985: People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Lex Borghans, Bas ter Weel and Bruce Weinberg

11984: Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk

Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

11983: Securitization and the Declining Impact of Bank Finance on Loan Supply: Evidence from Mortgage Acceptance Rates

Elena Loutskina and Philip E. Strahan

11982: Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

John Donohue and Justin Wolfers

11981: Consumer Boycotts: The Impact of the Iraq War on French Wine Sales in the U.S

Larry Chavis and Phillip Leslie