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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

11609: What Did Medicare Do (And Was It Worth It)?

Amy Finkelstein and Robin McKnight

11608: Estimating Bank Trading Risk: A Factor Model Approach

James O'Brien and Jeremy Berkowitz

11607: "Aggregation Bias" DOES Explain the PPP Puzzle

Jean Imbs, Haroon Mumtaz, Morten Ravn and Helene Rey

11606: Euler Equation Errors

Martin Lettau and Sydney Ludvigson

11605: Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

Amitabh Chandra and Andrew Samwick

11604: Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor

Susan Dynarski

11603: The Industrial Organization of Markets with Two-Sided Platforms

David Evans and Richard Schmalensee

11602: Insurance and Innovation in Health Care Markets

Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood

11601: Lifecycle Prices and Production

Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst

11600: Why is Fiscal Policy Often Procyclical?

Alberto Alesina and Guido Tabellini

11599: Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

Judith Hellerstein and David Neumark

11598: The 2004 Global Labor Survey: Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

Davin Chor and Richard Freeman

11597: Do Accountability and Voucher Threats Improve Low-Performing Schools?

David Figlio and Cecilia Rouse

11596: Declining Volatility in the U.S. Automobile Industry

Valerie Ramey and Daniel J. Vine

11595: Why Are Some Public Officials more Corrupt Than Others?

Jennifer Hunt

11594: Wealth Transfers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing

Severin Borenstein

11593: Searching for Non-Monotonic Effects of Fiscal Policy: New Evidence

Francesco Giavazzi, Tullio Jappelli, Marco Pagano and Marina Benedetti

11592: Eat, Drink, Firms and Government: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms

Hongbin Cai, Hanming Fang and Lixin Xu

11591: Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up

Steven Levitt

11590: Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?

Isaac Ehrlich and Jinyoung Kim

11589: A Global Perspective on External Positions

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

11588: Commitment, Risk, and Consumption: Do Birds of a Feather Have Bigger Nests?

Stephen H. Shore and Todd Sinai

11587: The Intergenerational Effect of Worker Displacement

Philip Oreopoulos, Marianne Page and Ann Stevens

11586: Seventy Years of Central Banking: The Bank of Canada in International Context, 1935-2005

Michael Bordo and Angela Redish

11585: Determinants of City Growth in Brazil

Daniel Da Mata, Uwe Deichmann, J. Vernon Henderson, Somik Lall and H.G. Wang

11584: The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

Inas Rashad, Michael Grossman and Shin-Yi Chou

11583: Smooth Landing or Crash? Model-Based Scenarios of Global Current Account Rebalancing

Hamid Faruqee, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir and Paolo Pesenti

11582: Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

Michael Grossman

11581: What Are Firms? Evolution from Birth to Public Companies

Steven Kaplan, Berk A. Sensoy and Per Stromberg

11580: Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic

Zsolt Darvas, Andrew Rose and György Szapáry

11579: How Much Do Banks Use Credit Derivatives to Reduce Risk?

Bernadette A. Minton, René Stulz and Rohan Williamson

11578: Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption

Jordi Galí, David Lopez-Salido and Javier Valles

11577: Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

Jeffrey Kling, Jeffrey Liebman and Lawrence Katz

11576: Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer

11575: Products and Productivity

Peter Schott, Andrew Bernard and Stephen Redding

11574: Fiscal Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Qiang Dai and Thomas Philippon

11573: The Economics of Fraudulent Accounting

Simi Kedia and Thomas Philippon

11572: Why Does the Average Price of Tuna Fall During Lent?

Aviv Nevo and Konstantinos Hatzitaskos

11571: Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: The Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries

Diego Puga and Daniel Trefler

11570: Diversity and Redistribution

Raquel Fernandez and Gilat Levy

11569: Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

Raquel Fernandez and Alessandra Fogli

11568: The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Mark Duggan and Melissa Kearney

11567: Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight

Janet Currie and Enrico Moretti

11566: The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper

Daniel Hamermesh and Joel Slemrod

11565: Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

Reuven Glick and Alan Taylor

11564: The Returns on Human Capital: Good News on Wall Street is Bad News on Main Street

Hanno Lustig and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

11563: From World Banker to World Venture Capitalist: US External Adjustment and the Exorbitant Privilege

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Helene Rey

11562: The Incredible Volcker Disinflation

Marvin Goodfriend and Robert King

11561: Is Academic Science Driving a Surge in Industrial Innovation? Evidence from Patent Citations

Lee Branstetter and Yoshiaki Ogura