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9209: Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie

9208: Can Free Entry be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry

Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti

9207: Household Leverage and the Deductibility of Home Mortgage Interest: Evidence from UK House Purchasers

Patric Hendershott, Gwilym Pryce and Michael White

9206: Competition, Payer, and Hospital Quality

Gautam Gowrisankaran and Robert Town

9205: What is the Tradeoff Between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality?

Christopher Jepsen and Steven Rivkin

9204: FDI Contribution to Capital Flows and Investment in Capacity

Assaf Razin

9203: The Role for Discretionary Fiscal Policy in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Martin Feldstein

9202: Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory

Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri

9201: Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

9200: Do Trust and Trustworthiness Pay Off?

Joel Slemrod and Peter Katuscak

9199: Integration of Unemployment Insurance with Retirement Insurance

Joseph Stiglitz and Jungyoll Yun

9198: The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos

William Evans and Julie H. Topoleski

9197: The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch

Stephen E. Snyder and William Evans

9196: Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations

Jonathan Parker and Bruce Preston

9195: Understanding Individual Account Guarantees

Marie-Eve Lachance and Olivia Mitchell

9194: Flexibility and Job Creation: Lessons for Germany

James Heckman

9193: Abortion Legalization and Adolescent Substance Use

Kerwin Kofi Charles and Melvin Stephens

9192: Modest Policy Interventions

Eric Leeper and Tao Zha

9191: Vertical Integration and Distance to Frontier

Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion and Fabrizio Zilibotti

9190: Sargent-Wallace Meets Krugman-Flood-Garber, or: Why Sovereign Debt Swaps Don't Avert Macroeconomic Crises

Joshua Aizenman, Kenneth Kletzer and Brian Pinto

9189: Storable Votes

Alessandra Casella

9188: The Trick is to Live: Is the Estate Tax Social Security for the Rich?

Wojciech Kopczuk

9187: Trust in Public Finance

Joel Slemrod

9186: Why World Redistribution Fails

Wojciech Kopczuk, Joel Slemrod and Shlomo Yitzhaki

9185: The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption: Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

Adriana Lleras-Muney and Frank Lichtenberg

9184: Decomposing Wage Inequality Change Using General Equilibrium Models

Lisandro Abrego and John Whalley

9183: The Social Security Early Entitlement Age in a Structural Model of Retirement and Wealth

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

9182: Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England

Joshua Rosenbloom

9181: Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950?

Michael Clemens and Jeffrey Williamson

9180: Changing Labor Market Opportunities for Women and the Quality of Teachers 1957-1992

Sean Corcoran, William Evans and Robert S. Schwab

9179: How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax Base Restrictions

Antonio Rangel

9178: Bond Risk Premia

John Cochrane and Monika Piazzesi

9177: Large Portfolio Losses

Amir Dembo, Jean-Deominique Deuschel and Darrell Duffie

9176: Real Shock, Monetary Aftershock: The San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907

Kerry A. Odell and Marc Weidenmier

9175: Efficient Patent Pools

Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

9174: Coordination, Fair Treatment and Inflation Persistence

John Driscoll and Steinar Holden

9173: A Renaissance Instrument to Support Nonprofits: The Sale of Private Chapels in Florentine Churches

Jonathan Katz Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser

9172: Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Naci Mocan and Erdal Tekin

9171: The Political Economy of Hatred

Edward Glaeser

9170: Survival of the Best Fit: Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of US Manufacturing Plants

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen and Peter Schott

9169: The Gains from Trade with Monopolistic Competition: Specification, Estimation, and Mis-Specification

Huiwen Lai and Daniel Trefler

9168: Welfare Programs and Labor Supply

Robert Moffitt

9167: Did Blue Cross and Blue Shield Suffer from Adverse Selection? Evidence from the 1950s

Melissa Thomasson

9166: The Role of Economic Policy in Social Security Reform: Perspectives from the President's Commission

John F. Cogan and Olivia Mitchell

9165: Are Politicians Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

Rafael Di Tella and Raymond Fisman

9164: International Financial Integration and Economic Growth

Hali Edison, Ross Levine, Luca Ricci and Torsten Slok

9163: Towards a Theory of Current Accounts

Jaume Ventura

9162: Vertical Networks and US Auto Parts Exports: Is Japan Different?

Keith Head, John Ries and Barbara Spencer

9161: Winners and Losers Over Two Centuries of Globalization

Jeffrey Williamson

9160: A Brazilian Debt-Crisis

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

9159: What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

9158: Liquidity, Efficiency and Bank Bailouts

Gary Gorton and Lixin Huang

9157: Does Managerial 'Outsourcing' Reduce Expense Preference Behavior? A Comparison of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Contract-Management in US Hospitals

Kathleen Carey and Avi Dor

9156: The Market for Corporate Law

Oren Bar-Gill, Michal Barzuza and Lucian Bebchuk

9155: The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity

John Bound, Julie Cullen, Austin Nichols and Lucie Schmidt

9154: International Reserve Holdings with Sovereign Risk and Costly Tax Collection

Joshua Aizenman and Nancy Marion

9153: The Social Multiplier

Edward Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote and Jose Scheinkman

9152: Estimates from a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes

Sarah West and Roberton Williams

9151: Do Mergers Lead to Monopoly in the Long Run? Results from the Dominant Firm Model

Gautam Gowrisankaran and Thomas Holmes

9150: The Injustice of Inequality

Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer

9149: The New York School vs. the School of Paris: Who Really Made the Most Important Art After World War II?

David Galenson

9148: Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision

Jonathan Gruber and Jeffrey Kubik

9147: Crises in the Global Economy from Tulips to Today: Contagion and Consequences

Larry Neal and Marc Weidenmier

9146: The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence from Private Equity

Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

9145: Using Heteroscedasticity to Estimate the Returns to Education

Vincent Hogan and Roberto Rigobon

9144: Household Demand for Employer-Based Health Insurance

Jean Marie Abraham, William Vogt and Martin Gaynor

9143: Spurious Regressions in Financial Economics?

Wayne Ferson, Sergei Sarkissian and Timothy Simin

9142: Expected Bequests and Their Distribution

Michael Hurd and James Smith

9141: The Impact and Inefficiency of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from State Organizational Form Data

Austan Goolsbee

9140: The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming

Michael Hurd, James Smith and Julie Zissimopoulos

9139: The Effect of Changes in Drug Utilization on Labor Supply and Per Capita Output

Frank Lichtenberg

9138: Bank-Based or Market-Based Financial Systems: Which is Better?

Ross Levine

9137: Banking Panics and the Origin of Central Banking

Gary Gorton and Lixin Huang

9136: Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy

Mustafa H. Babiker, Gilbert Metcalf and John Reilly

9135: '3rd of tha Month': Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks?

Melvin Stephens

9134: In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance

Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik

9133: The Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women is Too Small

Derek Neal

9132: Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy: Constraints, Preferences and the Resolution of Uncertainty

Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett

9131: Investor Behavior and the Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) Plans - The Importance of Plan Design

Nellie Liang and Scott Weisbenner

9130: Modeling Health Insurance Expansions: Effects of Alternate Approaches

Dahlia K. Remler, Joshua Graff Zivin and Sherry A. Glied

9129: Feasible Globalizations

Dani Rodrik

9128: Wealth Portfolios in the UK and the US

James Banks, Richard Blundell and James Smith

9127: Has the Business Cycle Changed and Why?

James Stock and Mark Watson

9126: Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter?

Roberta Romano

9125: Optimal Pollution Abatement - Whose Benefits Matter, and How Much?

Wayne Gray and Ron Shadbegian

9124: Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Yunyong Thaicharoen

9123: Careers and Canvases: The Rise of the Market for Modern Art in the Nineteenth Century

David Galenson and Robert Jensen

9122: Foreign Entry into U.S. Manufacturing by Takeovers and the Creation of New Firms

Robert Lipsey and Zadia Feliciano

9121: Knowledge Creation and Control in Organizations

Diego Puga and Daniel Trefler

9120: The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth: Evidence from Retail Trade

Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and C.J. Krizan

9119: The Declining Effects of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injuries: 1979 to 1998

Wayne Gray and John Mendeloff

9118: Exchange Rates and Adjustment: Perspectives from the New Open Economy Macroeconomics

Maurice Obstfeld

9117: When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique

Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik and Karen Horn Welch

9116: Sharpening Sharpe Ratios

William Goetzmann, Jonathan Ingersoll, Matthew I. Spiegel and Ivo Welch

9115: International Joint Ventures and the Boundaries of the Firm

Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James Hines

9114: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties

Suzanne Scotchmer

9113: Market Size Matters

Jeffrey Campbell and Hugo Hopenhayn

9112: From Sectoral to Functional Urban Specialization

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

9111: Understanding Mutual Fund and Hedge Fund Styles Using Return Based Style Analysis

Arik Ben Dor and Ravi Jagannathan

9110: Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

Sandra Black and Elizabeth Brainerd