Department of Economics Working Papers

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2016-09: Employment Exposure: Employment and Wage Effects in Urban Malawi

Susan Godlonton

2016-08: Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms

Paul Castañeda Dower, Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach and Steven Nafziger

2016-07: Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom

Johannes Buggle and Steven Nafziger

2016-06: Debt Collateralization, Structured Finance, and the CDS Basis

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2016-05: Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-cognitive Characteristics in Rural China

Jessica Leight and Elaine Liu

2016-04: Regulation-Induced Pollution Substitution

Matthew Gibson

2016-03: Do Airbnb Properties Affect House Prices?

Stephen Sheppard and Andrew Udell

2016-02: The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2016-01: Gray Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation

Prashant Bharadwaj, Matthew Gibson, Joshua Graff Zivin and Christopher Neilson

2015-17: Time Use and Productivity: The Wage Returns to Sleep

Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader

2015-16: The Effects of Road Pricing on Driver Behavior and Air Pollution

Matthew Gibson and Maria Carnovale

2015-15: When Do Punishment Institutions Work?

Patrick Aquino, Robert Gazzale and Sarah Jacobson

2015-14: Securitized Markets, International Capital Flows, and Global Welfare

Gregory Phelan and Alexis Akira Toda

2015-13: Debt Collateralization, Capital Structure, and Maximal Leverage

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2015-12: Global Collateral: How Financial Innovation Drives Capital Flows and Increases Financial Instability

Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos and Gregory Phelan

2015-11: Hyperbolic Discounting and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice

David Love and Gregory Phelan

2015-10: On the Robustness of Theoretical Asset Pricing Models

Gregory Phelan and Alexis Akira Toda

2015-09: Policies with Varying Costs and Benefits: A Land Conservation Classroom Game

Sarah Jacobson and Sahan Dissanayake

2015-08: The Nature of Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2015-07: Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture

Quamrul Ashraf and Stelios Michalopoulos

2015-06: Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2015-05: English Proficiency and Labor Market Performance: Evidence from the Economics Profession

William Olney

2015-04: Income Effects in Labor Supply: Evidence from Child-Related Tax Benefits

Philippe Wingender and Sara LaLumia

2015-03: Collateralized Borrowing and Increasing Risk

Gregory Phelan

2015-02: Financial Intermediation, Leverage, and Macroeconomic Instability

Gregory Phelan

2015-01: Correlated Default and Financial Intermediation

Gregory Phelan

2014-06: Evidence on the Responsiveness of Export-Related VAT Evasion to VAT Rates in the EU

Jon Bakija and Ivan Badinski

2014-05: Fatal Attraction: health care agglomeration and its consequences

Stephen Sheppard and Michael Hellstern

2014-04: Culture Concentration

Stephen Sheppard

2014-03: The Good of the Few: Reciprocal Acts and the Provision of a Public Bad

Sarah Jacobson and Jason Delaney

2014-02: Discovered Preferences for Risky and Non-Risky Goods

Sarah Jacobson, Jason Delaney and Thorsten Moenig

2014-01: Temporal Spillovers in Land Conservation

Sarah Jacobson

2013-18: Globalization and Human Capital Investment: How Export Composition Drives Educational Attainment

Emily Blanchard and William Olney

2013-17: Temporal Spillovers in Land Conservation

Sarah Jacobson

2013-16: Staffing Subsidies and the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Yong Suk Lee and Andrew Foster

2013-15: Russian Peasants and Politicians: The Political Economy of Local Agricultural Support in Nizhnii Novgorod Province, 1864-1914

Steven Nafziger

2013-14: Russian Serfdom, Emancipation, and Land Inequality: New Evidence

Steven Nafziger

2013-13: Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution

Steven Nafziger and Peter Lindert

2013-12: How Inflation Affects Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Investigation

Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt

2013-11: The Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth

Quamrul Ashraf, David Weil and Joshua Wilde

2013-10: The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2013-09: Those Outsiders: How Downstream Externalities Affect Public Good Provision

Sarah Jacobson and Jason Delaney

2013-08: Reallocating wealth? Insecure property rights and agricultural investment in rural China

Jessica Leight

2013-07: The New Safety Net? Supplemental Security Income after Welfare Reform

Lucie Schmidt

2013-06: New Evidence on Taxes and the Timing of Birth

Sara LaLumia, James Salle and Nicolas Turner

2013-05: How Income Changes During Unemployment: Evidence from Tax Return Data

Sara LaLumia and Laura Kawano

2013-04: Impact of Corruption on Firm-Level Export Decisions

William Olney

2013-03: Favor Trading in Public Good Provision

Ragan Petrie and Sarah Jacobson

2013-02: Payments or persuasion: common pool resource management with price and non-price measures

Jason Delaney and Sarah Jacobson

2013-01: Tax Policy and Philanthropy: A Primer on the Evidence for the U.S. and its Implications

Jon Bakija