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2017: Transitions Between Informal and Formal Employment Results from a Worker Survey in Bangladesh

Italo Gutierrez, Krishna Kumar, Minhaj Mahmud, Farzana Munshi and Shanthi Nataraj

2017: Does Informal Employment Respond to Growth Opportunities? Trade-Based Evidence from Bangladesh

Prodyumna Goutam, Italo Gutierrez, Krishna Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj

2017: What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo Gutierrez, Krishna Kumar and Shanthi Nataraj

2017: The Impact of Obesity on Adult Mortality Assessment of Estimates with Applications

Alberto Palloni and Hiram Beltran-Sanchez

2017: Stabilization in Afghanistan Trends in Violence, Attitudes, Well-being and Program Activity

Radha Iyengar Plumb, Jacob Shapiro, Benjamin Crisman, Manu Singh and James Mao

2017: Lessons Learned from Stabilization Initiatives in Afghanistan A Systematic Review of Existing Research

Radha Iyengar Plumb, Jacob Shapiro and Stephen Hegarty

2017: Inference with Correlated Clusters

David Powell

2017: Identifying Productivity Spillovers Using the Structure of Production Networks

Samuel Bazzi, Amalavoyal Chari, Shanthi Nataraj and Alexander Rothenberg

2017: When Regional Policies Fail An Evaluation of Indonesia's Integrated Economic Development Zones

Alexander Rothenberg, Samuel Bazzi, Shanthi Nataraj and Amalavoyal Chari

2017: Household Retirement Saving The Location of Savings Between Spouses

Katherine Carman and Angela Hung

2017: Drawing Down Retirement Wealth Interactions between Social Security Wealth and Private Retirement Savings

Philip Armour and Angela Hung

2017: Opting out of Retirement Plan Default Settings

Jeremy Burke, Angela Hung and Jill Luoto

2017: Supply-Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes Evidence from the Introduction of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids

Abby Alpert, David Powell and Rosalie Pacula

2017: Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Indonesia's Manufacturing Sector Evidence from Three Decades

Alexander Rothenberg, Samuel Bazzi, Shanthi Nataraj and Amalavoyal Chari

2017: The Effect of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Absence from Work

Fabián Duarte, Srikanth Kadiyala, Samuel Masters and David Powell

2017: Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Through Inclusion of Shortage Indicators

Matthew Baird, Lindsay Daugherty and Krishna Kumar

2016: Decomposing the Racial Gap in STEM Major Attrition A Course-Level Investigation

Matthew Baird, Moshe Buchinsky and Veronica Sovero

2016: How Increasing Medical Access to Opioids Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic Evidence from Medicare Part D

David Powell, Rosalie Pacula and Erin Taylor

2016: The Effect of Civil Conflict on Domestic Violence The Case of Peru

Italo Gutierrez and Jose Gallegos

2016: Reverting to Informality Unregistered Property Transactions and the Erosion of the Titling Reform in Peru

Italo Gutierrez and Oswaldo Molina

2016: Treatment Effects Using Inverse Probability Weighting and Contaminated Treatment Data An Application to the Evaluation of a Government Female Sterilization Campaign in Peru

Tanya Byker and Italo Gutierrez

2016: The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force and Productivity

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and David Powell

2016: Beyond Tracking and Detracking The Dimensions of Organizational Differentiation in Schools

Thurston Domina, Andrew McEachin, Paul Hanselman, Priyanka Agarwal, NaYoung Hwang and Ryan Lewis

2016: Prevalence and Patterns of Health Risk Behaviors of Palestinian Youth Findings from a Representative Survey

Peter Glick, Umaiyeh Kammash, Mohammed Shaheen, Ryan Brown, Prodyumna Goutam, Rita Karam, Sebastian Linnemayr and Salwa Massad

2016: Improved Wealth Measures in the Health and Retirement Study Asset Reconciliation and Cross-Wave Imputation

Michael Hurd, Erik Meijer, Michael Moldoff and Susann Rohwedder

2016: A Change is in the Air Emerging Challenges for the Cloud Computing Industry

Marlon Graf, Jakub Hlavka and Bonnie Triezenberg

2016: Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Case Studies Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?

David Powell

2016: Methodology of the RAND 2016 Presidential Election Panel Survey (PEPS)

Michael Pollard and Joshua Mendelsohn

2015: When do Firms Go Green? Comparing Price Incentives with Command and Control Regulations in India

Ann Harrison, Benjamin Hyman, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj

2015: Health IT and Ambulatory Care Quality

Carole Gresenz, Scott Laughery, Amalia Miller and Catherine Tucker

2015: Does a Ban on Informal Health Providers Save Lives? Evidence from Malawi

Susan Godlonton and Edward Okeke

2015: The Effect of Housing and Stock Wealth Losses on Spending in the Great Recession

Marco Angrisani, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2015: Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?

James Banks, Richard Blundell, Peter Levell and James Smith

2015: Profile of Female Sterilization in Brazil, 2001—2006

Ernesto Amaral

2015: Determinants of Female Sterilization in Brazil, 2001-2007

Ernesto Amaral and Joseph Potter

2015: The (Non-) Effect of Violence on Education Evidence from the "War on Drugs" in Mexico

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, Francisco Perez-Arce and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán

2015: Impacts of Conflicts of Interest in the Financial Services Industry

Jeremy Burke, Angela Hung, Jack Clift, Steven Garber and Joanne Yoong

2015: Trust and Financial Advice

Jeremy Burke and Angela Hung

2015: A Theory of Education and Health

Titus Galama and Hans van Kippersluis

2015: Characterization of Fertility Levels in Brazil, 1970-2010

Ernesto Amaral, Mariana Almeida and Guilherme Goncalves

2015: The Influence of Internal Migration on Male Earnings in Brazil, 1970-2000

Ernesto Amaral, Eduardo Rios-Neto and Joseph Potter

2015: Effects of Demographic and Educational Changes on the Labor Markets of Brazil and Mexico

Ernesto Amaral, Bernardo Queiroz and Julia Calazans

2015: Disability Insurance and the Great Recession

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

2015: Human Capital and Labor Informality in Chile A Life-Cycle Approach

Italo Lopez Garcia

2015: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study USER GUIDE, Health Behavior, Version A

Serena Wang, Joohong Min and Jinkook Lee

2015: Can Institutional Deliveries Reduce Newborn Mortality? Evidence from Rwanda

Edward Okeke and Amalavoyal Chari

2015: Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

David Autor, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

2014: Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement

Dayanand Manoli, Kathleen Mullen and Mathis Wagner

2014: Cross Validation Bandwidth Selection for Derivatives of Multidimensional Densities

Matthew Baird

2014: Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes Evidence from Workers' Compensation Reforms

David Powell and Seth Seabury

2014: Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Rajeev Darolia, Cory Koedel, Paco Martorell, Katie Wilson and Francisco Perez-Arce

2014: Impact of Public Works on Household Occupational Choice Evidence from NREGS in India

Sinduja Srinivasan

2014: Soft versus Hard Commitments A Test on Savings Behaviors

Jeremy Burke, Jill Luoto and Francisco Perez-Arce

2014: Mobile phones, rent-to-own payments & water filters Evidence from Kenya

Jill Luoto and David Levine

2014: Estimating Intensive and Extensive Tax Responsiveness Do Older Workers Respond to Income Taxes?

Abby Alpert and David Powell

2014: Longitudinal Aging Study In India Biomarker Data Documentation

David Bloom, Perry Hu, P. Arokiasamy, Arun Risbud, T. Sekher, S. Mohanty, Varsha Kale, Jennifer O'Brien, Sandy Chien and Jinkook Lee

2014: Did the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 Reduce Labor Supply? Evidence from Quantile Panel Data Estimation

David Powell

2014: Source of Health Insurance Coverage and Employment Survival Among Newly Disabled Workers Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Matthew Hill, Nicole Maestas and Kathleen Mullen

2014: In with the Big, Out with the Small Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Leslie Martin, Shanthi Nataraj and Ann Harrison

2014: Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance

David Powell and Dana Goldman

2014: How Do Management Fees Affect Retirement Wealth Under Mexico’s Personal Retirement Accounts System?

Emma Aguila, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder