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5257: The Impact of Child Health and Family Inputs on Child Cognitive Develop-ment

Robert Kaestner and Hope Corman

5256: Organization Structure and Credibility: Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities Before the Glass-Steagall Act

Randall S. Kroszner and Raghuram Rajan

5255: Trade and Production Networks of U.S. MNCs and Exports by Their Asian Affiliates

Robert Lipsey

5254: Labor Income Indices Designed for Use in Contracts Promoting Income Risk Management

Robert Shiller and Ryan Schneider

5253: Multinational Corporations, Outsourcing, and American Wage Divergence

Matthew J. Slaughter

5252: Unemployment Insurance and Precautionary Saving

Eric M. Engen and Jonathan Gruber

5251: Optimal Inflation Targets, `Conservative' Central Banks, and Linear Inflation Contracts

Lars Svensson

5250: Factors Determining Participation of the Elderly in SSI

Kathleen McGarry

5249: Culture and Language

Edward Lazear

5248: Economic Issues in Vaccine Purchase Arrangements

David Salkever and Richard G. Frank

5247: Pricing Decisions in Franchised Chains: A Look at the Restaurant and Fast-Food Industry

Francine Lafontaine

5246: Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals

Patricia Born, William Gentry, W Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

5245: The Causes and Consequences of Rate Regulation in the Auto Insurance Industry

Dwight Jaffee and Thomas Russell

5244: Bank Capital Regulation in General Equilibrium

Gary Gorton and Andrew Winton

5243: Present at the Revolution: Transformation of Technical Identity for a Large Incumbent Pharmaceutical Firm After the Biotechnological Breakthrough

Lynne Zucker and Michael Darby

5242: Trade, Spatial Separation, and the Environment

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

5241: Capital Markets Integration, Volatility and Persistence

Joshua Aizenman

5240: Race, Children's Cognitive Achievement and The Bell Curve

Janet Currie and Duncan Thomas

5239: Can Capital Controls Alter the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff?

Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen

5238: The Demand for Illicit Drugs

Henry Saffer and Frank Chaloupka

5237: Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Steven Davis and Magnus Henrekson

5236: The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages

Chinhui Juhn and Dae Il Kim

5235: Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Strategic TradePolicy

Steven Berry, James Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes

5234: Risk Taking by Mutual Funds as a Response to Incentives

Judith Chevalier and Glenn Ellison

5233: Stock Market Efficiency and Economic Efficiency: Is There a Connection?

James Dow and Gary Gorton

5232: Tax Reforms and Investment: A Cross-Country Comparison

Jason Cummins, Kevin Hassett and Robert Hubbard

5231: Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employers Survey

Lisa Lynch and Sandra Black

5230: A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve

Sanders Korenman and Christopher Winship

5229: External Financing and Insurance Cycles

Anne Gron and Deborah Lucas

5228: Non-Employment and Health Insurance Coverage

Jonathan Gruber and Brigitte Madrian

5227: Options, the Value of Capital, and Investment

Andrew Abel, Avinash Dixit, Janice Eberly and Robert Pindyck

5226: Measuring the Intensity of Competition in Export Markets

Pinelopi Goldberg and Michael M. Knetter

5225: The Effects of Trade Policy Reform: What Do We Really Know?

Ann Harrison and Ana Revenga

5224: The Effect of New Jersey's Minimum Wage Increase on Fast-Food Employment: A Re-Evaluation Using Payroll Records

David Neumark and William Wascher

5223: Factors Affecting Labor Supply Decisions and Retirement Income

Robin L. Lumsdaine

5222: The Language Ability of U.S. Immigrants: Assimilation and Cohort Effects

Geoffrey Carliner

5221: Openness and Growth: A Time-Series, Cross-Country Analysis for Developing Countries

Ann Harrison

5220: The Seamless World: A Spatial Model of International Specialization

Paul Krugman and Anthony Venables

5219: After the Deluge: Do Fixed Exchange Rates Allow Inter-Temporal Volatility Tradeoffs?

Andrew Rose

5218: High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1980s: The Anatomy of Behavioral Response

Joel Slemrod

5217: An Adverse Selection Model of Bank Asset and Liability Management with Implications for the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Jeremy Stein

5216: Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions

William Dow, Jessica Holmes, Tomas Philipson and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

5215: Do National Borders Matter for Quebec's Trade?

John Helliwell

5214: Fiscal Expansions and Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

5213: Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Survey

Robert Barsky, Miles Kimball, F. Juster and Matthew Shapiro

5212: Does Monetary Policy Affect Real Economic Activity?: Why Do We Still Ask This Question?

Benjamin M. Friedman

5211: Growth Without Scale Effects

Alwyn Young

5210: The Political Economy of Branching Restrictions and Deposit Insurance: A Model of Monopolistic Competition among Small and Large Banks

Nicholas Economides, Robert Hubbard and Darius Palia

5209: Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth

Michael Bruno and William Easterly

5208: Who Works When? Evidence from the U.S. and Germany

Daniel Hamermesh

5207: Engines of Growth: Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

5206: Property and Casualty Solvency Funds as a Tax and Social Insurance System

James Bohn and Brian J. Hall

5205: A Positive Model of Growth and Pollution Controls

Larry Jones and Rodolfo Manuelli

5204: Price Level Determinacy Without Control of a Monetary Aggregate

Michael Woodford

5203: What Can Explain the Apparent Lack of International Consumption Risk Sharing?

Karen Lewis

5202: The Decline of Non-Competing Groups: Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

5201: The Incidence of a Firm-Varying Payroll Tax: The Case of Unemployment Insurance

Patricia Anderson and Bruce Meyer

5200: An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels

Michael Grossman, Frank Chaloupka and Ismail Sirtalan

5199: Collaboration Structure and Information Dilemmas in Biotechnology: Organizational Boundaries as Trust Production

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby, Marilynn B. Brewer and Yusheng Peng

5198: On the Ills of Adjustment

Ricardo Caballero and Mohamad L. Hammour

5197: Real Effects of Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization: An Analysis of Competing Theories

Sergio Rebelo and Carlos Vegh

5196: Choosing a Dictator: Bureaucracy and Welfare in Less Developed Polities

James Rauch

5195: Alcohol Policies and Highway Vehicle Fatalities

Christopher Ruhm

5194: How Important is Precautionary Saving?

Christopher Carroll and Andrew Samwick

5193: The Nature of Precautionary Wealth

Christopher Carroll and Andrew Samwick

5192: Estimating the Labor Market Impact of Voluntary Military Service Using Social Security Data on Military Applicants

Joshua Angrist

5191: The Mirage of Fixed Exchange Rates

Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff

5190: Why are Retirement Rates So High at Age 65?

Robin L. Lumsdaine, James Stock and David Wise

5189: Taxation and Corporate Investment: The Impact of the 1991 Swedish Tax Reform

Alan Auerbach, Kevin Hassett and Jan Södersten

5188: Career and Family: College Women Look to the Past

Claudia Goldin

5187: Strategic Trading in a Two-Sided Foreign Exchange Auction

Linda Goldberg and Rafael Tenorio

5186: Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data

Daniel Feenberg and Jeffrey Miron

5185: The Impact of Imigration on American Labor Markets Prior to the Quotas

Timothy J. Hutton and Jeffrey Williamson

5184: Mortgage Default and Low Downpayment Loans: The Costs of Public Subsidy

Yongheng Deng, John Quigley and Robert Van Order

5183: House Prices and Home Owner Saving Behavior

Gary V. Engelhardt

5182: Housing Price Dynamics Within a Metropolitan Area

Karl Case and Christopher Mayer

5181: Residential Mobility and Mortgages

Sewin Chan

5180: The Effect of Income and Collateral Constraints on Residential Mortgage Terminations

Wayne Archer, David Ling and Gary A. McGill

5179: Expectations, Efficiency, and Euphoria in the Housing Market

Dennis Capozza and Paul J. Seguin

5178: Risk-Based Capital Standards and the Riskiness of Bank Portfolios: Credit and Factor Risks

Steven R. Grenadier and Brian J. Hall

5177: In Search of Empirical Evidence that Links Rent and User Cost

Dixie M. Blackley and James R. Follain

5176: Should the Stagnant Homeownership Rate be a Source of Concern?

Richard Green

5175: Nontraded Goods, Nontraded Factors, and International Non-Diversification

Marianne Baxter, Urban Jermann and Robert King

5174: Is an Integrated Regional Labor Market Emergin in East and Southeast Asia?

David Bloom and Waseen Noor

5173: The Seasonality of Consumer Prices

Michael F. Bryan and Stephen Cecchetti

5172: The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a Pure Exchange Economy with Heterogeneous Investors

Jiang Wang

5171: Tax Shelters and Passive Losses After the Tax Reform Act of 1986

Andrew Samwick

5170: Industry or Class Cleavages over Trade Policy? Evidence from the BritishGeneral Election of 1923

Douglas Irwin

5169: Worker Adaptation and Employer Accommodation Following the Onset of a Health Impairment

Mary Daly and John Bound

5168: Protection and the Business Cycle

Kyle Bagwell and Robert Staiger

5167: The Limits of Arbitrage

Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny

5166: Why Is There a Home Bias? An Analysis of Foreign Portfolio Equity Ownership in Japan

Jun-Koo Kang and René Stulz

5165: Leverage, Investment, and Firm Growth

Larry Lang, Eli Ofek and René Stulz

5164: Rising Public College Tuition and College Entry: How Well Do Public Subsidies Promote Access to College?

Thomas J. Kane

5163: Are Ghettos Good or Bad?

David Cutler and Edward Glaeser

5162: Cyclical versus Secular Movements in Employment Creation and Destruction

Randall Eberts and Edward Montgomery

5161: Inflation Indicators and Inflation Policy

Stephen Cecchetti

5160: Why is there Multilateral Lending?

Dani Rodrik

5159: Race and Education Differences in Disability Status and Labor Force Attachment

John Bound, Michael Schoenbaum and Timothy Waidmann

5158: Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit

Nada Eissa and Jeffrey Liebman