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174: The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

173: Does Local Financial Development Matter?

Luigi Zingales

172: Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison

Luigi Zingales

171: Economic Limits on "Rational" Democratic Redistribution

Casey B. Mulligan

170: A Century of Labor-Leisure Distortions

Casey B. Mulligan

169: Offsetting Behavior and Medical Breakthroughs

Sam Peltzman

168: It's What You Know, Not How You Learned to Teach It: Evidence from a Study of the Effects of Knowledge an d Pedagogy on Student Achievement

William B. Vogt and Robert Strauss

167: Could we Tell if Health Insurance Mandates Cause Unemployment? A Note on the Literature

William B. Vogt and Jayanta Bhattacharya

166: A Simple Model of Pharmaceutical Price Dynamics, version 1.1

William B. Vogt and Jayanta Bhattacharya

165: The Veterans' Bonus of 1936 and the Abortive Recovery from the Great Depression

Lester G. Telser

164: Competition, Monopoly, and Aftermarkets

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

163: Entrepreneurial Ability, Market Selection and Setting Up an Infant Industry-Theory and Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Textile Industry

Atsushi Ohyama, Serguey Braguinsky and Kevin M. Murphy

162: The Effects of School Quality on the Youth Labor Market

Sam Peltzman and Kevin M. Murphy

161: Teaching Microeconomics in Wonderland

B. Peter Pashigian

160: Status, Lotteries, and Inequality

Gary Becker, Ivan Werning and Kevin M. Murphy

159: Merit Motives & Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse

Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas Philipson

158: Obstacles To Optimal Policy: The Interplay of Politics and Economics in Shaping Bank Supervision and Regulation Reforms

Randall S. Kroszner

157: Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publicly Induced Retirement?

Casey B. Mulligan

156: Alcohol

Philip J. Cook and Michael Moore

155: Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation

Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

154: Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security

Casey B. Mulligan and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

153: Firm Responses to Growing Inequality in Income and the Cost of Time

B. Peter Pashigian and Jeanne-Mey Sun

152: Immigrant Earnings: Language Skills, Linguistic Concentrations and the Business Cycle

Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller

151: Is the Financial System Politically Independent? Perspectives on the Political Economy of Banking and Financial Regulation

Randall S. Kroszner

150: Bankers on Boards: Monitoring Conflicts of Interest & Lender Liability

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

149: A Model of Destination Language Acquistion: Application to Male Immigrants in Canada

Barry Chiswick

148: The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Barry Chiswick

147: Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Barry Chiswick

146: The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care

Tomas Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla

145: The Strategic Use Of Tying To Preserve And Create Market Power In Evolving Industries

Dennis Carlton and Michael Waldman

144: Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government

Gary Becker and Casey B. Mulligan

143: Contracts, Externalities, and Incentives in Shopping Malls: An Empirical Analysis

B. Peter Pashigian and Eric Gould

142: Prices Rise Faster Than They Fall

Sam Peltzman

141: Defense Procurement Fraud, Penalties, and Contractor Influence

Jonathan Karpoff, Scott D. Lee and Valaria P. Vendrzyk

140: The Absorption of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Israel, 1990 - 1995

Yoram Weiss and Zvi Eckstein

139: Social Status and Economic Performance: A Survey

Yoram Weiss and Chaim Fershtman

138: Ethic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades

Timur Kuran

137: Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945

Douglas A. Irwin and Randall S. Kroszner

136: The Political Economy of Deregulation: Evidence From the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions in the United States

Randall S. Kroszner and Philip E. Strahan

135: Potato Paradoxes

Sherwin Rosen

134: The Future of Old-Age Longevity: Competitive Pricing of Morality Contingent Claims

Charles Mullin and Tomas Philipson

133: Austrian and Neoclassical Economics: Any Gains From Trade?

Sherwin Rosen

132: An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance

John Cawley and Tomas Philipson

131: Were the Good Old Days That Good? The Evolution of Managerial Stock Ownership Since the Great Depression

Clifford G. Holderness, Randall S. Kroszner and Dennis P. Sheehan

130: On the Great Depression

Lester G. Telser

129: Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance

Tomas Philipson and Gary Becker

128: Regulation and Investment Behavior: Evidence From the Electric Utility Industry

Thomas P. Lyon and John Mayo

127: Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns and the Importance of Deterrence

John R. Lott and David B. M. Mustard

126: Interest Group Competition and the Organization of Congress: Theory And Evidence from Financial Services Political Action Committees

Randall S. Kroszner and Thomas Stratmann

125: Early Weather Information, Cost That May Be Sunk, And The Ensuing Rate of Return

D. Erik Craft