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11709: Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies

Raj Chetty and W. Looney

11708: Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States

Raj Chetty and W. Looney

11707: The Effects of Cardiac Specialty Hospitals on the Cost and Quality of Medical Care

Jason R. Barro, Robert Huckman and Daniel P. Kessler

11706: A Re-Examination of the Border Effect

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Linda Tesar

11705: Does the Profit Motive Make Jack Nimble? Ownership Form and the Evolution of the U.S. Hospital Industry

Sujoy Chakravarty, Martin Gaynor, Steven Klepper and William Vogt

11704: Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia

Grant Miller

11703: Macro Factors in Bond Risk Premia

Sydeny C. Ludvigson and Serena Ng

11702: Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

11701: International Capital Flows, Returns and World Financial Integration

Martin Evans and Viktoria Hnatkovska

11700: Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alberto Alesina and Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln

11699: The Importance of Nontradable Goods' Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Ariel Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

11698: Banking System Stability: A Cross-Atlantic Perspective

Philipp Hartmann, Stefan Straetmans and Casper de Vries

11697: Do Local Analysts Know More? A Cross-Country Study of the Performance of Local Analysts and Foreign Analysts

Kee-Hong Bae, René Stulz and Hongping Tan

11696: Capital Flows in a Globalized World: The Role of Policies and Institutions

Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych

11695: Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Robert Cull, Lance E. Davis, Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

11694: Measures of Per Capita Hours and their Implications for the Technology-Hours Debate

Neville Francis and Valerie Ramey

11693: Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave

Joseph Altonji and Emiko Usui

11692: More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations

Dale Mortensen and Éva Nagypál

11691: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies

Enrique Mendoza

11690: Race and Health Disparities Among Seniors in Urban Areas in Brazil

Antonio J. Trujillo, John A. Vernon, Laura Rodriguez Wong and Gustavo Angeles

11689: Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed

Robert Shimer and Iván Werning

11688: Airplanes and Comparative Advantage

James Harrigan

11687: Fiscal Hedging and the Yield Curve

Hanno Lustig, Christopher Sleet and Sevin Yeltekin

11686: Who Bears the Corporate Tax? A review of What We Know

Alan Auerbach

11685: The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress

Heitor Almeida and Thomas Philippon

11684: The Labor Market and Macro Volatility: A Nonstationary General-Equilibrium Analysis

Robert Hall

11683: Investor Inattention, Firm Reaction, and Friday Earnings Announcements

Stefano DellaVigna and Joshua Pollet

11682: Markov Forecasting Methods for Welfare Caseloads

Jeffrey Grogger

11681: Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

Hilary Hoynes, Marianne Page and Ann Stevens

11680: Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag and Emmanuel Saez

11679: The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

Steven Davis and Luis Rivera-Batiz

11678: Job Loss, Job Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy Over the Past Fifty Years

Robert Hall

11677: Health Risk, Income, and Employment-Based Health Insurance

M. Kate Bundorf, Bradley Herring and Mark Pauly

11676: Price Discrimination, Copyright Law, and Technological Innovation: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs

Julie Mortimer

11675: Fractional Treatment Rules for Social Diversification of Indivisible Private Risks

Charles Manski

11674: Minorities and Storable Votes

Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman

11673: Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers

Leemore S. Dafny

11672: Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri

11671: Measuring the Efficiency of an FCC Spectrum Auction

Patrick Bajari and Jeremy Fox

11670: Expanding School Enrollment by Subsidizing Private Schools: Lessons from Bogotá

Claudia Uribe, Richard Murnane, John B. Willett and Marie Andrée Somers

11669: The End of Large Current Account Deficits, 1970-2002: Are There Lessons for the United States?

Sebastian Edwards

11668: Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch and Laurence Kotlikoff

11667: The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields

Howard F. Chang and Hilary Sigman

11666: Pillar 1 vs. Pillar 2 Under Risk Management

Loriana Pelizzon and Stephen Schaefer

11665: Tax Reform and Environmental Taxation

Gilbert Metcalf

11664: Media Bias and Reputation

Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

11663: Religious Extremism: The Good, The Bad, and The Deadly

Eli Berman and Laurence Iannaccone

11662: Hospital Ownership and Financial Performance: A Quantitative Research Review

Yu-Chu Shen, Karen Eggleston, Joseph Lau and Christopher Schmid

11661: Puzzling Tax Structures in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Two Alternative Explanations

Roger Gordon and Wei Li

11660: Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement

Thomas Dee

11659: How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life

Thomas Kniesner, W Viscusi, Christopher Woock and James Ziliak

11658: Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Adriana Kugler and Giovanni Pica

11657: What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth?

Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

11656: Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler and Maurice Kugler

11655: Is It Is or Is It Ain't My Obligation? Regional Debt in a Fiscal Federation

Russell Cooper, Hubert Kempf and Dan Peled

11654: The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpterian Story?

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff

11653: Trade Invoicing in the Accession Countries: Are They Suited to the Euro?

Linda Goldberg

11652: Pegged Exchange Rate Regimes -- A Trap?

Joshua Aizenman and Reuven Glick

11651: Separating the Business Cycle from Other Economic Fluctuations

Robert Hall

11650: Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography: Spatial Selection and Sorting

Richard Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo

11649: Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets

Jean M. Abraham, Martin Gaynor and William Vogt

11648: Trusting the Stock Market

Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

11647: Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

David Neumark, Junfu Zhang and Brandon Wall

11646: Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions and the Price Level: Background and Beyond

Eric Leeper and Tack Yun

11645: Barriers To Entry

Dennis Carlton

11644: Who Are the Greatest Living Artists? The View from the Auction Market

David Galenson

11643: Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions

Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer and Todd Sinai

11642: Technology Adoption In and Out of Major Urban Areas: When Do Internal Firm Resources Matter Most?

Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

11641: Globalization and Inflation-Output Tradeoffs

Assaf Razin and Prakash Loungani

11640: Capital Flows and Controls in Brazil: What Have We Learned?

Ilan Goldfajn and André Minella

11639: Bilateral FDI Flows: Threshold Barriers and Productivity Shocks

Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Hui Tong

11638: Modeling Exchange-Rate Passthrough After Large Devaluations

Ariel Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

11637: Tradability, Productivity, and Understanding International Economic Integration

Paul Bergin and Reuven Glick

11636: Do School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

David Neumark and Donna Rothstein

11635: Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are the Payoffs?

Jennifer Hunt and Sonia Laszlo

11634: Current Account Reversals: Always a Problem?

Barry Eichengreen and Muge Adalet

11633: Rational Inattention: A Solution to the Forward Discount Puzzle

Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop

11632: Exchange-Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area

Jose Campa, Linda Goldberg and José M. González-Mínguez

11631: The Law and Economics of Antidiscrimination Law

John Donohue

11630: Deficits and Debt in the Short and Long Run

Benjamin M. Friedman

11629: Hours Worked: Long-Run Trends

Jeremy Greenwood and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

11628: Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices

David Autor, Lawrence Katz and Melissa Kearney

11627: Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

David Autor, Lawrence Katz and Melissa Kearney

11626: Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

11625: Can a Rapidly-Growing Export-Oriented Economy Smoothly Exit an Exchange Rate Peg? Lessons for China from Japan's High-Growth Era

Barry Eichengreen and Mariko Hatase

11624: Venture Capital Contracting and Syndication: An Experiment in Computational Corporate Finance

Zsuzsanna Fluck, Kedran Garrison and Stewart C. Myers

11623: Supporting "The Best and Brightest" in Science and Engineering: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Richard Freeman, Tanwin Chang and Hanley Chiang

11622: Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?

Shinichi Nishiyama and Kent Smetters

11621: Welfare Reform, Returns to Experience, and Wages: Using Reservation Wages to Account for Sample Selection Bias

Jeffrey Grogger

11620: Death and Development

Peter Lorentzen, John McMillan and Romain Wacziarg

11619: The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

Amy Finkelstein

11618: Bubbles and Capital Flow Volatility: Causes and Risk Management

Ricardo Caballero and Arvind Krishnamurthy

11617: The Divergence of Human Capital Levels Across Cities

Christopher R. Berry and Edward Glaeser

11616: The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions

John List

11615: Smart Cities: Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital

Jesse Shapiro

11614: Trade Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from Indian Districts

Petia Topalova

11613: The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Non-Fatal Gun Injuries

Jeffrey DeSimone and Sara Markowitz

11612: Recent Trends in Resource Sharing Among the Poor

Steven Haider and Kathleen McGarry

11611: Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Charity: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Craig Landry, Andreas Lange, John List, Michael Price and Nicholas Rupp

11610: Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration

George Borjas