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11309: Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

David Card and Enrico Moretti

11308: The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'

Angus Deaton

11307: Measuring the Implications of Sales and Consumer Inventory Behavior

Igal Hendel and Aviv Nevo

11306: The Chinese Approach to Capital Inflows: Patterns and Possible Explanations

Eswar Prasad and Shang-Jin Wei

11305: Crises in Emerging Market Economies: A Global Perspective

Guillermo Calvo

11304: Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

Cathy J. Bradley, David Neumark, Zhehui Luo and Heather L. Bednarek

11303: The Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

Jay Bhattacharya and M. Kate Bundorf

11302: Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility

Dalton Conley and Rebecca Glauber

11301: Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef, Bent Sorensen and Oved Yosha

11300: The Life-Cycle Personal Accounts Proposal for Social Security: A Review

Robert Shiller

11299: A Review of the Empirical Literature on FDI Determinants

Bruce Blonigen

11298: From the Webbs to the Web: The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

Richard Freeman

11297: The Time-Series Properties of Aggregate Consumption: Implications for the Costs of Fluctuation

Ricardo Reis

11296: A Global View of Economic Growth

Jaume Ventura

11295: Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor

11294: Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Securities?

Armando Gomes and Gordon Phillips

11293: A Quantitative Model of Sudden Stops and External Liquidity Management

Ricardo Caballero and Stavros Panageas

11292: Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements

Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier

11291: Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability

Mark Carlson and Kris James Mitchener

11290: Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications, Introduction and Summary

Jonathan Gruber and David Wise

11289: My Policies or Yours: Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?

Margaret McMillan, Alix Peterson Zwane and Nava Ashraf

11288: Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi Williams

11287: Lucky Stores, Gambling, and Addiction: Empirical Evidence from State Lottery Sales

Jonathan Guryan and Melissa Kearney

11286: Labour Market Institutions Without Blinders: The Debate over Flexibility and Labour Market Performance

Richard Freeman

11285: Understanding and Comparing Factor-Based Forecasts

Jean Boivin and Serena Ng

11284: Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention

Steven Shavell

11283: Conditional Policies in General Equilibrium

Kala Krishna

11282: Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

Marie Connolly and Alan Krueger

11281: The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

George Borjas and Lawrence Katz

11280: Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches

Mitchell Petersen

11279: The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

Gordon Dahl and Lance Lochner

11278: Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?

Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote

11277: Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and their Peers

David Figlio

11276: Taylor Rules, McCallum Rules and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Michael Gallmeyer, Burton Hollifield and Stanley Zin

11275: Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States

Daron Acemoglu

11274: On the Renminbi: The Choice between Adjustment under a Fixed Exchange Rate and Adjustment under a Flexible Rate

Jeffrey Frankel

11273: Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller

11272: Effective Exchange Rate Classifications and Growth

Justin Dubas, Byung-Joo Lee and Nelson Mark

11271: Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities

Ivica Dus, Raimond Maurer and Olivia Mitchell

11270: Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League

Cade Massey and Richard Thaler

11269: Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing

Giovanni Facchini, Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Gerald Willmann

11268: Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility

Raquel Fernandez and Alessandra Fogli

11267: Tax Structure in Developing Countries: Many Puzzles and a Possible Explanation

Roger Gordon and Wei Li

11266: British Investment Overseas 1870-1913: A Modern Portfolio Theory Approach

William Goetzmann and Andrey Ukhov

11265: The Evolution of Precedent

Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

11264: An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence

Shamena Anwar and Hanming Fang

11263: Treatment Effect Bounds: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catheterization

Jay Bhattacharya, Azeem Shaikh and Edward Vytlacil

11262: Urban Structure and Growth

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark Wright

11261: Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark Wright

11260: School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and David Neumark

11259: Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation

James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

11258: On the Measurement of Segregation

Federico Echenique and Roland Fryer

11257: Prices, Production and Inventories over the Automotive Model Year

Adam Copeland, Wendy Dunn and George Hall

11256: Winners and Losers from Enacting the Financial Modernization Statute

Kenneth A. Carow, Edward Kane and Rajesh P. Narayanan

11255: Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

11254: When Labor Has a Voice in Corporate Governance

Olubunmi Faleye, Vikas Mehrotra and Randall Morck

11253: A Tale of Two Labor Markets: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850

Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie

11252: Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making With School Choice

Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Steven Rivkin and Gregory F. Branch

11251: Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers

Jonathan Skinner and Doug Staiger

11250: Rethinking Social Insurance

Martin Feldstein

11249: The Euro and the Stability Pact

Martin Feldstein

11248: The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations

Li Gan and Qinghua Zhang

11247: Portfolio Choice over the Life-Cycle in the Presence of 'Trickle Down' Labor Income

Luca Benzoni, Pierre Collin-Dufresne and Robert S. Goldstein

11246: Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression

Price Fishback, Michael Haines and Shawn Kantor

11245: The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain

Robert Hall and Paul Milgrom

11244: Deflation and Monetary Policy in Taiwan

Ya-Hwei Yang and Jia-Dong Shea

11243: Fear and Greed in Financial Markets: A Clinical Study of Day-Traders

Andrew Lo, Dmitry V. Repin and Brett N. Steenbarger

11242: Ex Ante Carrots instead of Ex Post Sticks: Two Examples

Joshua Aizenman

11241: Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value

Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

11240: What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us about Labor Market Discrimination?

June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill

11239: Bargaining Power in Marriage: Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

Robert Pollak

11238: Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

Erdal Tekin and Sara Markowitz

11237: Deflation and the International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle

Harold Cole, Lee Ohanian and Ron Leung

11236: Choosing Electoral Rules: Theory and Evidence from US Cities

Philippe Aghion, Alberto Alesina and Francesco Trebbi

11235: Constitutions, Politics and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effect of Constitutions"

Daron Acemoglu

11234: The Economic Winners and Losers of Legalized Gambling

Melissa Kearney

11233: Changes in the Physiology of Aging during the Twentieth Century

Robert Fogel

11232: Beyond Goods and Services: Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs involving ASEAN Countries

O. G. Dayaratna Banda and John Whalley

11231: Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938

Lee Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie

11230: Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn

11229: Pharmaceutical Stock Price Reactions to Price Constraint Threats and Firm-Level R&D Spending

Joseph Golec, Shantaram Hegde and John A. Vernon

11228: Globalization and Taste Convergence: The Case of Wine and Beer

Joshua Aizenman and Eileen L. Brooks

11227: A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Daniel L. Rubinfeld

11226: The Effects of Competition on Variation in the Quality and Cost of Medical Care

Daniel P. Kessler and Jeffrey J. Geppert

11225: Pricing Capital Under Mandatory Unbundling and Facilities Sharing

Robert Pindyck

11224: SMEs, Growth, and Poverty

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine

11223: The Competitive Effects of Drug Withdrawals

John Cawley and John Rizzo

11222: The Tactical and Strategic Value of Commodity Futures

Claude B. Erb and Campbell Harvey

11221: The Structure of Factor Content Predictions

Daniel Trefler and Susan Chun Zhu

11220: An Information Approach to International Currencies

Richard Lyons and Michael Moore

11219: Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Joshua Angrist and Adriana Kugler

11218: Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies

Dana Goldman and James Smith

11217: The Labor Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration

George Borjas

11216: Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)

Caroline Hoxby

11215: Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby (2000)

Jesse Rothstein

11214: Pitfalls of a State-Dominated Financial System: The Case of China

Genevieve Boyreau-Debray and Shang-Jin Wei

11213: Affirmative Action in Hierarchies

Suzanne Scotchmer

11212: Fluctuating Macro Policies and the Fiscal Theory

Troy Davig and Eric Leeper

11211: Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market

Stefano DellaVigna and Joshua M. Pollet

11210: Asymmetric Crime Cycles

Naci Mocan and Turan G. Bali