Department of Economics Working Papers

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2004-13: Do Maternal Investments in Human Capital Affect Childrens' Academic Achievement?

Quinn Moore and Lucie Schmidt

2004-12: Do the Rich Flee from High State Taxes? Evidence from Federal Estate Tax Returns

Jon Bakija and Joel Slemrod

2004-11: Transmission of External and Internal Shocks In Argentina During the Convertibility Period: Some Empirical Findings From VARs

Chris Geirgat

2004-10: Seasonal Migration and Improving Living Standards in Vietnam

Tomoko Harigaya and Alan de Brauw

2004-09: Are the new and old EU countries financially integrated?

Tomas Dvorak and Chris R. A. Geiregat

2004-08: Cosigned Or Group Loans

Philip Bond and Ashok S. Rai

2004-07: Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Household Participation in Green-Electricity Programs

Matthew J. Kotchen and Michael R. Moore

2004-06: Explaining The Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda For Open-Space Conservation

Matthew Kotchen and Shawn M. Powers

2004-05: The Impact of Rent Controls in Non-Walrasian Markets: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Ralph Bradburd, Stephen Sheppard, Joseph Bergeron and Eric Engler

2004-04: The Effect of Infrastructure on Long Run Economic Growth

Peter Pedroni and David Canning

2004-03: Social Capital, Barriers to Production, and Capital Shares: Implications for the Importance of Parameter Heterogeneity from a Nonstationary Panel Approach

Peter Pedroni

2004-02: When Does Learning in Games Generate Convergence to Nash Equilibria? The Role of Supermodularity in an Experimental Setting

Yan Chen and Robert S. Gazzale

2004-01: Improving Learning Performance by Applying Economic Knowledge

Christopher H. Brooks, Jeffrey K. MacKie Mason, Robert S. Gazzale and Edmund H. Durfee

2003-18: Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritance and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from Across States and Time

Jon Bakija, William Gale and Joel Slemrod

2003-17: Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity?

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-16: In Search of a Fair Bet in the Lottery

Victor Matheson and Kent Grote

2003-15: Super Bowl or Super (Hyper)Bole? Assessing the Economic Impact of America's Premier Sports Event

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-14: Research Note: Contrary Evidence on the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl on the Victorious City

Victor Matheson

2003-13: The Paradox of Championships "Be Careful, Sports Fans, What You Wish For"

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-12: The "Death-Effect" on Collectible Prices

Victor Matheson and Robert Baade

2003-11: The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from a Comparison of Matched Records

David Card, Andrew Hildreth and Lara Shore-Sheppard

2003-10: The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Private Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP

Lara Shore-Sheppard and John Ham

2003-09: Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children

David Card and Lara Shore-Sheppard

2003-08: Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?

John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

2003-07: Sometimes Close is Good Enough: The Value of Nearby Environmental Amenities

Lucie Schmidt and Paul Courant

2003-06: Impure Public Goods and the Comparative Statics of Environmentally Friendly Consumption

Matthew Kotchen

2003-05: Green Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods

Matthew Kotchen

2003-04: The Character and Determinants of Corporate Capital Gains

Mihir A. Desai and William Gentry

2003-03: What Can We Learn About the Sensitivity of Investment to Stock Prices with a Better Measure of Tobin's q?

William Gentry and Christopher J. Mayer

2003-02: Are Women Taking over the Farm in China?

Alan de Brauw

2003-01: Household Investment through migration in Rural China

Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle

2002-09: The Role of Agriculture in Development

Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

2002-08: Farm Work, Home Work and International Productivity Differences

Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

2002-07: The Green Revolution: An End of Century Perspective

Robert Evenson and Douglas Gollin

2002-05: Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform

Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

2002-04: Taxes Versus Regulation: The Welfare Impacts of Policies for Containing Sprawl

Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

2002-03: AFDC, SSI, and Welfare Reform Aggressiveness: Caseload Reductions vs. Caseload Shifting

Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

2002-02: The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity

John Bound, Julie Cullen, Austin Nichols and Lucie Schmidt

2002-01: Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing what to Learn

Christopher Brooks, Robert Gazzale, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey Kephart, Jeffrey Mackie-Mason and Edmund Durfee

2001-15: Carbon Taxation When Climate Affects Productivity

William K. Jaeger

2001-14: Economic Growth and Environmental Resource Allocation

William K. Jaeger and Kolpin Van

2001-13: Setting Environmental Taxes in a Second-best World

William K. Jaeger

2001-12: Environmental and Distortionary Taxes: Comment

William K. Jaeger

2001-11: Getting Income Shares Right

Douglas Gollin

2001-10: Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture

Jonathan Conning and James Robinson

2001-09: Managing Economic Insecurity in Rural El Salvador: The role of asset ownership and labor market adjustments

Jonathan Conning, Pedro Olinto and Alvaro Trigueros

2001-08: Latifundia Economics

Jonathan Conning

2001-07: Gross Capital Flows and Asymmetric Information

Tomas Dvorak

2001-06: Reform and Growth in Latin America: All Pain, No Gain?

Eduardo Fernández-Arias and Peter Montiel

2001-05: Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Policy in Five Asian Countries: Filling in the "Hollow Middle"?

Leonardo Hernández and Peter Montiel