Department of Economics Working Papers

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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

2008-04: Cosigners as Collateral

Stefan Klonner and Ashok Rai

2008-03: Borrower Runs

Philip Bond and Ashok Rai

2008-02: Extreme Returns without News: A Microstructural Explanation

Carol Osler and Tanseli Savaser

2008-01: How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? New Estimates from Panel Data

Jon Bakija and Bradley Heim

2007-07: Micro-Perspectives on 19th-century Russian Living Standards

Steven Nafziger and Tracy Dennison

2007-06: Only Twice As Much: A Rule for Regulating Lenders

Mandar Oak and Anand Swamy

2007-05: Do Markets Care Who Chairs the Central Bank?

Kenneth Kuttner and Adam Posen

2007-04: Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined Benefit Pension Plans?

David Love, Paul Smith and David Wilcox

2007-03: Risk Preferences and the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing

Lucie Schmidt

2007-02: Exchange Rate Response to Macro News: Through the Lens of Microstructure

Tanseli Savaser

2007-01: Adverse Selection in Credit Markets: Evidence from a Policy Experiment

Ashok Rai and Stefan Klonner

2006-06: Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

2006-05: Contracts, Hold-Up, and Exports: Textiles and Opium in Colonial India

Anand V. Swamy and Rachel E. Kranton

2006-04: Health disparities and infertility: impacts of state-level insurance mandates

Marianne Bitler and Lucie Schmidt

2006-03: Reconciling the Returns to Education in Off-FarmWage Employment in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle

2006-02: Documentation for a Comprehensive Historical U.S. Federal and State Income Tax Calculator Program

Jon Bakija

2006-01: Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and the Theory of Social Capital

Roger Bolton

2005-08: Timing vs. Long-run Charitable Giving Behavior: Reconciling Divergent Approaches and Estimates

Jon Bakija and Robert McClelland

2005-07: Effects of Infertility Insurance Mandates on Fertility

Lucie Schmidt

2005-06: Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance

Lara Shore-Sheppard

2005-05: Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and John Giles

2005-04: Robust Unit Root and Cointegration Rank Tests for Panels and Large Systems

Peter Pedroni and Tim Vogelsang

2005-03: Regional Income Divergence in China

Peter Pedroni and James Yudong Yao

2005-02: Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap: Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations

Tara Watson

2005-01: System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals

Robert S. Gazzale and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

2004-17: Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Characteristics and Uncertainty

Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

2004-16: Conservation Behavior: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

Matthew Kotchen and Michael R. Moore

2004-15: Panel Cointegration: Asymptotic and Finite Sample Properties of Pooled Time Series Tests with an Application to the PPP Hypothesis

Peter Pedroni

2004-14: Working Until Dropping: Employment Behavior of the Elderly in Rural China

Lihua Pang, Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle