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9860: Why didn't France follow the British Stabilization after World War One?

Michael Bordo and Pierre Hautcoeur

9859: Understanding Changes in International Business Cycle Dynamics

James Stock and Mark Watson

9858: Stock Prices and IPO Waves

Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

9857: The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990

Joshua Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom

9856: Literary Life Cycles: The Careers of Modern American Poets

David Galenson

9855: Tax Credits and the Use of Medical Care

Michael Smart and Mark Stabile

9854: After the War Boom: Reconversion on the U.S. Pacific Coast, 1943-49

Paul Rhode

9853: Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity

Daniel Hamermesh and Amy M. Parker

9852: The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion

Louis Kaplow

9851: The Effects of Changes in State SSI Supplements on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

David Neumark and Elizabeth Powers

9850: Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998

Claudio Montenegro and Carmen Pages

9849: Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

Robert Gibbons and Michael Waldman

9848: Understanding Trend and Cycle in Asset Values: Reevaluating the Wealth Effect on Consumption

Martin Lettau and Sydney Ludvigson

9847: Quality and Employers' Choice of Health Plan

Michael Chernew, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Catherine McLaughlin and Teresa Gibson

9846: New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000)

William Easterly, Ross Levine and David Roodman

9845: Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?

Kent Smetters

9844: Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?

Michael Greenstone and Enrico Moretti

9843: Addressing the Transfer-Pricing Problem in an Origin-Basis X Tax

David Bradford

9842: Public Goods and the Distribution of Income

Louis Kaplow

9841: How "Original Sin" was Overcome: The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions

Michael Bordo, Christopher Meissner and Angela Redish

9840: Financial Innovation, Market Participation and Asset Prices

Laurent Calvet, Martin Gonzalez-Eiras and Paolo Sodini

9839: Regime-Switching and the Estimation of Multifractal Processes

Laurent Calvet and Adlai Fisher

9838: Monetary Policy in Economies with Little or No Money

Bennett McCallum

9837: Multiple-Solution Indeterminacies in Monetary Policy Analysis

Bennett McCallum

9836: Bidding Rings and the Winner's Curse: The Case of Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions

Ken Hendricks, Robert Porter and Guofu Tan

9835: Monetary Policy and Sectoral Shocks: Did the FED react properly to the High-Tech Crisis?

Claudio Raddatz and Roberto Rigobon

9834: Asset Prices and Exchange Rates

Anna Pavlova and Roberto Rigobon

9833: Why Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines?

Michael Kremer and Christopher Snyder

9832: Do Flexible Durable Goods Prices Undermine Sticky Price Models?

Robert Barsky, Christopher House and Miles Kimball

9831: Chip Shots: Association Between the State Children's Health Insurance Programs and Immunization Coverage and Delivery

Ted Joyce and Andrew Racine

9830: Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik

9829: Are More Data Always Better for Factor Analysis?

Jean Boivin and Serena Ng

9828: Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate, and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina's Lessons

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Ernesto Talvi

9827: Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation

William Dow, Kristine A. Gonzalez and Luis Rosero-Bixby

9826: What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance And What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?

Helen Levy and Thomas DeLeire

9825: Grilichesian Breakthroughs: Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology

Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker

9824: Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

9823: Trade, Growth and the Environment

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

9822: Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)

Angus Deaton

9821: Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

9820: Strict Dollarization and Economic Performance: An Empirical Investigation

Sebastian Edwards and I. Igal Magendzo

9819: What Happens After a Technology Shock?

Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Robert Vigfusson

9818: The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

9817: Stock Market Cycles, Financial Liberalization and Volatility

Sebastian Edwards, Javier Gómez Biscarri and Fernando Pérez de Gracia

9816: Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986-1999

Paul Gompers, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein

9815: Causing Problems? The WTO Review of Causation and Injury Attribution in U.S. Section 201 Cases

Douglas Irwin

9814: The Case for Open-Market Purchases in a Liquidity Trap

Alan Auerbach and Maurice Obstfeld

9813: Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried

9812: Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services

Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen

9811: The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children

Joseph Altonji and Ernesto Villanueva

9810: Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea

Youngjae Lim and Chin Hee Hahn

9809: Choosing (and reneging on) exchange rate regimes

Alberto Alesina and Alexander Wagner

9808: The Mirage of Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Market Countries

Guillermo Calvo and Frederic Mishkin

9807: Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital

Steven Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar

9806: Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility

Mario Draghi, Francesco Giavazzi and Robert Merton

9805: Social Learning and Coordination in High-Stakes Games: Evidence from Friend or Foe

Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel and Matthew White

9804: Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria

Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Arvind Subramanian

9803: Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?

John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

9802: Incentives in Markets, Firms and Governments

Daron Acemoglu, Michael Kremer and Atif Mian

9801: Chasing the Smokestack: Strategic Policymaking With Multiple Instruments

Per Fredriksson, John List and Daniel Millimet

9800: Measuring the Impact of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Latin America

William Maloney and Jairo Nunez

9799: The Practice and Proscription of Affirmative Action in Higher Education:An Equilibrium Analysis

Dennis Epple, Richard Romano and Holger Sieg

9798: "Will Social Security Be There For You?": How Americans Perceive Their Benefits

Jeff Dominitz, Charles Manski and Jordan Heinz

9797: Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care: Lessons from African Traditional Healers

Kenneth Leonard and Joshua Graff Zivin

9796: Disagreement about Inflation Expectations

N. Gregory Mankiw, Ricardo Reis and Justin Wolfers

9795: The Dominance of Retail Stores

Alexandre Ziegler and Edward Lazear

9794: Distributional Disputes and Civil Conflict

Herschel Grossman

9793: ... and six hundred thousand men were dead

Herschel Grossman

9792: Committee Structure and the Success of Connected Lending in Nineteenth Century New England Banks

Christopher Meissner

9791: How to Tell if a Money Manager Knows More?

Sergey Iskoz and Jiang Wang

9790: The Impact of Physician Intervention and Tobacco Control Policies on Average Daily Cigarette Consumption Among Adult Smokers

John Tauras and Lan Liang

9789: Product Choice and Product Switching

Andrew Bernard, Peter Schott and Stephen Redding

9788: From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance

Anne Case, Angela Fertig and Christina Paxson

9787: Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain: The Effects of Financial Liberalization

Graciela Kaminsky and Sergio Schmukler

9786: Government Finance in the Wake of Currency Crises

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo

9785: The Optimal Taxation of Unskilled Labor with Job Search and Social Assistance

Jan Boone and Lans Bovenberg

9784: The Trouble with Stock Options

Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy

9783: House Prices and Consumer Welfare

Patrick Bajari, C. Lanier Benkard and John Krainer

9782: The Married Widow: Marriage Penalties Matter!

Michael Baker, Emily Hanna and Jasmin Kantarevic

9781: Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population

George Borjas

9780: Measuring Success of Advanced Technology Program Participation Using Archival Data

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

9779: Phasing Into Retirement

Steven Allen, Robert L. Clark and Linda S. Ghent

9778: Hedging Sudden Stops and Precautionary Contractions

Ricardo Caballero and Stavros Panageas

9777: One Cost of the Chilean Capital Controls: Increased Financial Constraints for Smalles Traded Firms

Kristin Forbes

9776: Globalization and Dirty Industries: Do Pollution Havens Matter?

Jean-Marie Grether and Jaime de Melo

9775: Judicial Checks and Balances

Rafael LaPorta, Florencio Lopez- de-Silane, Cristian Pop-Eleches and Andrei Shleifer

9774: The Effects of Private Insurance on Measures of Health: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Avi Dor, Joseph Sudano and David W. Baker

9773: Fiscal Policy and Monetary Integration in Europe

Jordi Galí and Roberto Perotti

9772: Fiscal Shocks and Their Consequences

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Jonas Fisher

9771: Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care

Robert Fogel

9770: Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

William Collins and Robert Margo

9769: The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

Robert Kaestner and Won Chan Lee

9768: The Vintage Effect in TFP Growth: An Analysis of the Age Structure of Capital

Maury Gittleman, Thijs ten Raa and Edward Wolff

9767: Coordination and Policy Traps

George-Marios Angeletos, Christian Hellwig and Alessandro Pavan

9766: International Migration, Remittances, and Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador

Alejandra Cox Edwards and Manuelita Ureta

9765: The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality

Gary Becker, Tomas Philipson and Rodrigo Soares

9764: Idiosyncratic Production Risk, Growth, and the Business Cycle

George-Marios Angeletos and Laurent Calvet

9763: Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information

Walter Novaes and Luigi Zingales

9762: ENTICE: Endogenous Technological Change in the DICE Model of Global Warming

David Popp

9761: Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation: Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s

Shane Greenstein and Michael Mazzeo