Department of Economics Working Papers

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2011-01: Land and Law in Colonial India

Anand Swamy

2010-23: Antiretroviral Therapy and Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia

Nicholas Wilson

2010-22: Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data

Jon Bakija, Adam Cole and Bradley Heim

2010-21: Economic Booms and Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Zambian Copper Mining Cities

Nicholas Wilson

2010-20: Identity and Mobility: Historical Fractionalization, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice in the American Midwest

Kaivan Munshi and Nicholas Wilson

2010-19: Favor Trading in Public Good Provision

Sarah Jacobson and Ragan Petrie

2010-18: Real Exchange Rates, Saving and Growth: Is there a Link?

Peter Montiel and Luis Servén

2010-17: Do Worker Remittances Reduce Output Volatility in Developing Countries?

Ralph Chami, Dalia Hakura and Peter Montiel

2010-16: Globalization and Investment in Human Capital

Daniel Hickman and William Olney

2010-15: The Great Recession, 'Rainy Day' Funds, and Countercyclical Fiscal Policy in Latin America

Eduardo Fernández-Arias and Peter Montiel

2010-14: Monetary transmission in low income countries

Prachi Mishra, Antonio Spilimbergo and Peter Montiel

2010-13: Remittances and Institutions: Are Remittances a Curse?

Yasser Abdih, Jihad Dagher and Peter Montiel

2010-12: Workers' Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Evidence

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Dalia Hakura and Peter Montiel

2010-11: Immigration and Firm Expansion

William Olney

2010-10: Offshoring, Immigration, and the Native Wage Distribution

William Olney

2010-09: Tax Preferences for Higher Education and Adult College Enrollment

Sara LaLumia

2010-08: Commitment and Conquest: The Case of British Rule in India

Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy

2010-07: Web Appendix to: How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? New Estimates from Panel Data

Jon Bakija and Bradley Heim

2010-06: Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

Tara Watson and Sara McLanahan

2010-05: Local Fiscal Policies and Urban Wage Structures

Patricia Beeson, Tara Watson and Lara Shore-Sheppard

2010-04: Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann

2010-03: Implementation of Monetary Policy: How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?

Benjamin Friedman and Kenneth Kuttner

2010-02: The Climatic Origins of the Neolithic Revolution: Theory and Evidence

Quamrul Ashraf and Stelios Michalopoulos

2010-01: Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

2009-07: The Earned Income Tax Credit and Reported Self-Employment Income

Sara LaLumia

2009-06: Safe and Sound Banking: A Role for Countercyclical Regulatory Requirements?

Gerard Caprio

2009-05: Financial Regulation in a Changing World: Lessons from the Recent Crisis

Gerard Caprio

2009-04: Isolation and Development

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Ömer Özak

2009-03: Learning to Play Nash from the Best

Robert Gazzale

2009-02: Ambiguous Solicitation: Ambiguous Prescription

Robert Gazzale, Julian Jamison, Alexander Karlan and Dean Karlan

2009-01: Behavioral Biases in Annuity Choice: An Experiment

Robert Gazzale and Lina Walker

2008-23: Democracy Under the Tsars? The Case of the Zemstvo

Steven Nafziger

2008-22: Remain Silent and Ye Shall Suffer: Seller Exploitation of Reticent Buyers in an Experimental Reputation System

Robert Gazzale and Tapan Khopkar

2008-21: Pension Freezes and Household Saving Over the Life Cycle

David Love and Paul A. Smith

2008-20: Animal genetic resource trade flows: Economic assessment

Douglas Gollin, Eric Van Dusen and Harvey Blackburn

2008-19: Labour's Share of Income

Douglas Gollin

2008-18: Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements

Douglas Gollin and Fabian Lange

2008-17: Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

Douglas Gollin and Christian Zimmermann

2008-16: Taxes, Wages, and the Labor Supply of Older Americans

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

2008-15: Understanding the Flattening Phillips Curve

Kenneth Kuttner and Tim Robinson

2008-14: Economic Research Citations at Liberal Arts Colleges

Peter Pedroni and Stephen Sheppard

2008-13: The Effect of Marital Status and Children on Savings and Portfolio Choice

David Love

2008-12: A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households

David Love, Paul A. Smith and Lucy C. McNair

2008-11: Does Health Affect Portfolio Choice?

David Love and Paul Smith

2008-10: The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement

David Love, Michael Palumbo and Paul Smith

2008-09: Bank Regulations Are Changing: But For Better or Worse?

Gerard Caprio, James Barth and Ross Levine

2008-08: The 2007 Meltdown in Structured Securitization: Searching for Lessons not Scapegoats

Gerard Caprio, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Edward Kane

2008-07: Banking Crises

Gerard Caprio and Patrick Honohan

2008-06: Does Marriage Really Mattter? Investments in Prenatal Care and Birth Outcomes

Alison Jacknowitz and Lucie Schmidt

2008-05: Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates

Marianne Bitler and Lucie Schmidt