Department of Economics Working Papers

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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

2012-07: How do Immigrants Fare in Retirement

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

2012-06: Educational Tracking, Residential Sorting, and Intergenerational Mobility

Yong Suk Lee

2012-05: Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Current Medicaid Limits and Their Nonmarginal Expansions

Lara Shore-Sheppard, John Ham and Serkan Ozbeklik

2012-04: Culture Shocks and Consequences: the connection between the arts and urban economic growth

Peter Pedroni and Stephen Sheppard

2012-03: Shock to the System: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Child Mortality

Nicholas Wilson

2012-02: The Good of the Few: Reciprocity in the Provision of a Public Bad

Sarah Jacobson and Jason Delaney

2012-01: Low Interest Rates and Housing Bubbles: Still No Smoking Gun

Kenneth Kuttner

2011-15: Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2011-14: Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya

Nicholas Wilson, Wentao Xiong and Christine Mattson

2011-13: Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration

William Olney

2011-12: A Shared Sense of Responsibility: Money Versus Effort Contributions in the Vountary Provision of Public Goods

Robert Gazzale and Jared Carbone

2011-11: Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Nicholas Wilson

2011-10: How Flexible Can Inflation Targeting Be and Still Work?

Kenneth Kuttner and Adam Posen

2011-09: Asymmetric Information and the Foreign-Exchange Trades of Global Custody Banks

Carol Osler, Thang Nguyen and Tanseli Savaser

2011-08: The EITC, Tax Refunds, and Unemployment Spells

Sara LaLumia

2011-07: Micro-Perspectives on Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Tracy Dennison and Steven Nafziger

2011-06: Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Steven Nafziger, Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio and Se Yan

2011-05: The Value of Honesty: Empirical Estimates from the Case of the Missing Children

Sara LaLumia and James Sallee

2011-04: Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility: Should We Refill the Bernanke-Gertler Prescription?

Kenneth Kuttner

2011-03: Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis

Quamrul Ashraf, Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt

2011-02: A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment

William Olney