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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

11980: The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets

Brigitte Madrian

11979: Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment(TM)

James Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian

11978: Comparing the Point Predictions and Subjective Probability Distributions of Professional Forecasters

Joseph Engelberg, Charles Manski and Jared Williams

11977: The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance

Anthony T. Lo Sasso and Bruce Meyer

11976: Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform

Bruce Meyer and James Sullivan

11975: Health Insurance and the Wage Gap

Helen Levy

11974: Lifecycle Asset Allocation Strategies and the Distribution of 401(k) Retirement Wealth

James Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven Venti and David Wise

11973: Capital Controls: An Evaluation

Nicolas Magud and Carmen Reinhart

11972: The Median Voter and the Median Consumer: Local Private Goods and Residential Sorting

Joel Waldfogel

11971: A Phillips Curve with an Ss Foundation

Mark Gertler and John Leahy

11970: Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

Christiana Stoddard and Peter Kuhn

11969: From Forced Busing to Free Choice in Public Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Individual and General Effects

Victor Lavy

11968: Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare

V. Joseph Hotz and John Scholz

11967: Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations

John Kennan

11966: Lessons From the Debt-Deflation Theory of Sudden Stops

Enrique Mendoza

11965: Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag Pathak, Alvin Roth and Tayfun Sönmez

11964: Household Ownership of Variable Annuities

Jeffrey Brown and James Poterba

11963: The Determinants of Mortality

David Cutler, Angus Deaton and Adriana Lleras-Muney

11962: Multi-Period Corporate Default Prediction With Stochastic Covariates

Darrell Duffie, Leandro Siata and Ke Wang

11961: Common Failings: How Corporate Defaults are Correlated

Sanjiv Das, Darrell Duffie, Nikunj Kapadia and Leandro Saita

11960: The Negative Trade-off Between Risk and Incentives: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry

Eric Hilt

11959: Dividend Taxes and Firm Valuation: New Evidence

Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett

11958: Production Targets

Guillermo Caruana and Liran Einav

11957: Structural Estimation of Caloric Intake, Exercise, Smoking, and Obesity

Inas Rashad

11956: Nutrition Labels and Obesity

Jayachandran N. Variyam and John Cawley

11955: The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective

Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez

11954: The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam

Edward Miguel and Gérard Roland

11953: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family

Claudia Goldin

11952: The Social Cost of Foreign Exchange Reserves

Dani Rodrik

11951: Health Insurance Take-up by the Near Elderly

Thomas Buchmueller and Sabina Ohri

11950: The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees

Kevin Hallock and Craig Olson

11949: Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?

Daron Acemoglu, David Cutler, Amy Finkelstein and Joshua Linn

11948: Intangible Capital and Economic Growth

Carol Corrado, Charles R. Hulten and Daniel Sichel

11947: What's So Special about China's Exports?

Dani Rodrik

11946: Assessing the Sources of Changes in the Volatility of Real Growth

Stephen Cecchetti, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Stefan Krause-Montalbert

11945: A Tax-Based Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution

Jonathan Gruber