Department of Economics Working Papers

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2019-24: Follow the leader? A field experiment on social influence

Kate Ambler, Susan Godlonton and Maria Recalde

2019-23: Occupant Well-Being and House Values

Richard Rijnks and Stephen Sheppard

2019-22: The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Disability Program Applications

Lucie Schmidt, Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara Watson

2019-21: Federalizing Benefits: The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net

Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Lucie Schmidt

2019-20: Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births

Kasey Buckles, Melanie Guldi and Lucie Schmidt

2019-19: Lump-sum Transfers for Agriculture and Household Decision Making

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

2019-18: Debt Collateralization, Structured Finance, and the CDS Basis

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2019-17: Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation

Gregory Casey

2019-16: Extreme Temperatures and Time Use in China

Teevrat Garg, Matthew Gibson and Fanglin Sun

2019-15: Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism

Zachary Breig, Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader

2019-14: School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment

Owen Thompson

2019-13: Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era

Owen Thompson

2019-12: Assessing the FSAP: Quality, Relevance, and Value Added

Gerard Caprio

2019-11: Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill

Dietrich Earnhart, Sarah Jacobson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Richard Woodward

2019-10: Diversity and Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Marc Klemp

2019-09: Money Growing on Trees: A Classroom Game about Payments for Ecosystem Services and Tropical Deforestation

Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2019-08: Preference Discovery

Jason Delaney, Sarah Jacobson and Thorsten Moenig

2019-07: Debt Collateralization, Capital Structure, and Maximal Leverage

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2019-06: Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past

P.J. Glandon, Kenneth Kuttner, Sandeep Mazumder and Caleb Stroup

2019-05: Heat Stress: Ambient Temperature and Workplace Accidents in the US

Lucy Page and Stephen Sheppard

2019-04: The Impact of Climate Change on Fertility

Gregory Casey, Soheil Shayegh, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Martin Bunzl, Oded Galor and Ken Caldeira

2019-03: Cabotage Sabotage? The Curious Case of the Jones Act

William Olney

2019-02: Climate Risk and Beliefs: Evidence from New York Floodplains

Matthew Gibson, Jamie Mullins and Alison Hill

2019-01: Global Collateral and Capital Flows

Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos and Gregory Phelan

2018-12: Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs

Melanie Guldi, Amelia Hawkins, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Lucie Schmidt

2018-11: Rural Labor Market Responses to Large Lumpy Cash Transfers: Evidence from Malawi

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

2018-10: How do Structural Features Affect Corporate Exposures to Macro-financial Shocks in Open Economies?

Rina Bhattacharya, Pranav Gupta, Xingwei Hu and Peter Pedroni

2018-09: Panel Cointegration Techniques and Open Challenges

Peter Pedroni

2018-08: Trilemma-Dilemma: Constraint or Choice? Some Empirical Evidence from a Structurally Identified Heterogeneous Panel VAR

Peter Montiel and Peter Pedroni

2018-07: A Policy of Credit Disruption: The Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900

Latika Chaudhary and Anand Swamy

2018-06: Dynamic Consequences of Monetary Policy for Financial Stability

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2018-05: Occupant Well-Being and House Values

Richard Rijnks and Stephen Sheppard

2018-04: Outside the Box: Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Great Recession and Beyond

Kenneth Kuttner

2018-03: Uncorking Expert Reviews with Social Media: A Case Study Served with Wine

Alex Albright, Peter Pedroni and Stephen Sheppard

2018-02: The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring

William Olney and Dario Pozzoli

2018-01: Cournot Fire Sales

Thomas Eisenbach and Gregory Phelan

2017-05: International Coordination of Macroprudential Policies with Capital Flows and Financial Asymmetries

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2017-04: Globalization and Executive Compensation

Wolfgang Keller and William Olney

2017-03: Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation

Quamrul Ashraf, Francesco Cinnirella, Oded Galor, Boris Gershman and Erik Hornung

2017-02: Preference Discovery

Jason Delaney, Sarah Jacobson and Thorsten Moenig

2017-01: (Im)patience by Proxy: Making Intertemporal Decisions for Others

Angela de Oliveira and Sarah Jacobson

2016-18: Dimensionality and Disagreement: Asymptotic Belief Divergence in Response to Common Information

Isaac Loh and Gregory Phelan

2016-17: Regional Concentration of Industry in China: Decentralised Choices or a Central Plan?

Stephen Sheppard and Dan Zhao

2016-16: Heat Stress: The Impact of Ambient Temperature on Occupational Injuries in the US

Lucy Page and Stephen Sheppard

2016-15: Value for Money? Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability in the Laboratory

Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande and Laura Ralston

2016-14: The Impact of Early Childhood Rainfall Shocks on the Evolution of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Jessica Leight, Paul Glewwe and Albert Park

2016-13: Grain into Gold? The Impact of Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households

Jessica Leight

2016-12: Capital Structure and Corporate Performance in Late Imperial Russia

Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger

2016-11: Anchoring Bias in Recall Data: Evidence from Central America

Susan Godlonton, Manuel Hernandez and Mike Murphy

2016-10: Employment Risk and Job-Seeker Performance

Susan Godlonton