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2018-08: Do Criminally Accused Politicians Affect Economic Outcomes? Evidence from India

Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore and Yogesh Uppal

2018-07: Causality between Output and Income Inequality across U.S. States: Evidence from a Heterogeneous Mixed Panel Approach

Shinhye Chang, Hsiao-Ping Chu, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

2018-06: The Micro-Foundations of an Open Economy Money Demand: An Application to the Central and Eastern European Countries

Claudiu Albulescu, Dominique Pépin and Stephen Miller

2018-05: Growth Volatility and Inequality in the U.S.: A Wavelet Analysis

Shinhye Chang, Rangan Gupta, Stephen Miller and Mark Wohar

2018-04: Social Accountability and Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Nathan Fiala and Patrick Premand

2018-03: Race and the City

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Stephen Ross

2018-02: Economic Measures of Capacity Utilization: A Nonparametric Cost Function Analysis

Subhash Ray, John Walden and Lei Chen

2018-01: Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-first Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Richard Langlois

2017-23: The Affordable Care Act, Public Insurance Expansion and Opioid Overdose Mortality

Mark McInerney

2017-22: Houses Divided: A Model of Intergenerational Transfers, Differential Fertility and Wealth Inequality

Aaron Cooke, Hyun Lee and Kai Zhao

2017-21: Patent Validity Challenges and The America Invents Act

Talia Bar and Brendan Costello

2017-20: Why Are Exchange Rates So Smooth? A Household Finance Explanation

YiLi Chien, Hanno Lustig and Kanda Naknoi

2017-19: Simple and Trustworthy Cluster-Robust GMM Inference

Jungbin Hwang

2017-18: Intergenerational Transfers and China’s Social Security Reform

Ayse Imrohoroglu and Kai Zhao

2017-17: The Chinese Saving Rate: Long-Term Care Risks, Family Insurance, and Demographics

Ayse Imrohoroglu and Kai Zhao

2017-16: Oil, Debt and Development: OPEC in the Third World

Paul Hallwood and Stuart Sinclair

2017-15: Fission, Forking, and Fine Tuning

Richard Langlois

2017-14: The Relationship between the Inflation Rate and Inequality across U.S. States: A Semiparametric Approach

Mehmet Balcilar, Shinhye Chang, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

2017-13: Modeling U.S. Historical Time-Series Prices and Inflation Using Various Linear and Nonlinear Long-Memory Approaches

Giorgio Canarella, Luis Gil-Alana, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

2017-12: The Determinants of Growth in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry: A Firm-Level Analysis

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen Miller

2017-11: Partisan Conflict and Income Distribution in the United States: A Nonparametric Causality-in-Quantiles Approach

Mehmet Balcilar, Seyi Akadiri, Rangan Gupta and Stephen Miller

2017-10: U.S. Fiscal Policy and Asset Prices: The Role of Partisan Conflict

Rangan Gupta, Chi Keung Lau, Stephen Miller and Mark Wohar

2017-09: The Transformation Function, Technical Efficiency, and the CCR Ratio

Subhash Ray

2017-08: A Reverse Directional Distance Function to Reconcile Between Competing Efficiency Goals: An Application to Indian Manufacturing

Subhash Ray and Kankana Mukherjee

2017-07: Comment: Betting on Secession: Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War

Paul Hallwood

2017-06: Does Public School Spending Raise Intergenerational Mobility?: Evidence from U.S. School Finance Reforms

Sungoh Kwon

2017-05: Business is Tough, but Family is Worse: Household Bargaining and Investment in Microenterprises in Uganda

Nathan Fiala

2017-04: Labor-Cost Efficiency with Indivisible Outputs and Inputs: A Study of Indian Bank Branches

Subhash Ray, Abhiman Das and Kankana Mukherjee

2017-03: Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling in Police Traffic Stops

Jesse Kalinowski, Matthew Ross and Stephen Ross

2017-02: Classroom Peer Effects and Teachers: Evidence from Quasi-random Assignment in a Chinese Middle School

Leshui He and Stephen Ross

2016-39: Wife or Frau, Women Still Do Worse: A Comparison of Men and Women in the United States and Germany after Union Dissolutions in the 1990s and 2000s

Richard Hauser, Richard Burkhauser, Kenneth Couch and Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk

2016-38: On Punishment Severity and Crime Rates

Tim Friehe and Thomas Miceli

2016-37: Measuring Social Interaction Effects when Instruments are Weak

Stephen Ross and Zhentao Shi

2016-36: Revisiting the Product Life Cycle

Dennis Heffley

2016-35: Quantitative Impact of Reducing Barriers to Skilled Labor Immigration: The Case of the US H-1B Visa

Hyun Lee

2016-34: Identification and Estimation of a Large Factor Model with Structural Instability

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Fa Wang

2016-33: Testing for Instability in Covariance Structures

Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani and Giovanni Urga

2016-32: Testing Cross-sectional Correlation in Large Panel Data Models with Serial Correlation

Badi Baltagi, Chihwa Kao and Peng Bin

2016-31: Nudging Backward Induction

William Neilson, Michael Price and Mikhael Shor

2016-30: Procedural Justice and Political Risk

Salil Benegal and Mikhael Shor

2016-29: The Common Ratio Effect in Choice, Pricing, and Happiness Tasks

Mark Schneider and Mikhael Shor

2016-28: The Impact of Stock Market Fluctuations on the Mental and Physical Wellbeing of Children

Chad Cotti and David Simon

2016-27: The Intergenerational Consequences of Tobacco Policy

Leah Lakdawala and David Simon

2016-26: Health Shocks and the Long-Lasting Change in Health Behaviors: Evidence from Mexico

Jorge Agüero and Trinidad Beleche

2016-25: The Intergenerational Transmission of Schooling among the Education-Rationed

Jorge Agüero and Maithili Ramachandran

2016-24: War and the Stock of Human Capital

Jorge Agüero and Muhammad Farhan Majid

2016-23: Using Partial Identification Methods to Estimate the Effect of Violence Against Women on Their Children’s Health Outcomes

Jorge Agüero

2016-22: Leniency and Loyalty in the Choice of Certifiers: Evidence from the BRC Food Safety Standard

Talia Bar and Yuqing Zheng

2016-21: Inflation Persistence and Structural Breaks: The Experience of Inflation Targeting Countries and the US

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen Miller

2016-20: Is Real Per Capita State Personal Income Stationary? New Nonlinear, Asymmetric Panel-Data Evidence

Furkan Emirmahmutoglu, Rangan Gupta, Stephen Miller and Tolga Omay