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43: The Impact of Credit Constraints on the Performance of Chinese Agricultural Wholesalers

Lifang Hu, Rigoberto Lopez and Yinchu Zeng

42: The Effect of Early ACA Medicaid Expansion on Mental Health

Omer Hoke and Richard Dunn

41: Property Rights, Labor Mobility and Collectivization: The Impact of Institutional Changes on China’s Agriculture in 1950-1978

Shengmin Sun, Rigoberto Lopez and Liu Xiaoou

40: Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions: An analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up

Michee Lachaud, Boris Bravo-Ureta and Carlos Ludena

39: Oligopoly Power in the Food Industries Revisited: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Rigoberto Lopez, Hualu Zheng and Azzeddine Azzam

38: Energy Price Transmission and Retail Milk Prices

Xun Li and Rigoberto Lopez

37: Substitution between Online and Offline Advertising: Evidence from the Carbonated Soft Drink Industry

Xi He, Rigoberto Lopez and Yizao Liu

36: An Examination of Consumer Willingness to Pay for Local Products

Aaron Adalja, James Hansen, Charles Towe and Elina Tselepidakis

35: Decomposing the Danger of Drinking Drivers: 1983-2012

Richard Dunn and Nathan Tefft

34: A Longitudinal Analysis of Fast-Food Exposure On Child Weight Outcomes: Identifying Causality Through School Transitions

Richard Dunn, Rodolfo Nayga, Michael Thomsen and Heather Rouse

33: A Bayesian Approach to Analyzing the Economic Costs of Environmental Regulation in U.S. Dairy Farming

Eric Njuki and Boris Bravo-Ureta

32: When Can Financial Education Affect Savings Behavior? Evidence From A Randomized Experiment Among Low Income Clients of Branchless Banking in India

Margherita Calderone, Nathan Fiala, Florentina Mulaj, Santadarshan Sadhu and Leopold Sarr

31: Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration After Civil War

Michal Bauer, Nathan Fiala and Ian Levely

30: Skills in the Marketplace: Market Equilibrium, Personality and Ability in a Field-Based Experiment

Nathan Fiala

29: Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement

Nathan Fiala

27: Heterogeneity in Consumer Responses to Front-of-Package Nutrition Labels: Evidence from a Natural Experiment?

Chen Zhu and Rui Huang

26: A Simple Lesson in Economic Valuation: Do Scientists Value Expanding the Nutrient Network?

Stephen Swallow, Pengfei Liu, Eric Seabloom and Elizabeth Borer

25: Do Exurban Communities Want More Development?

Dana Bauer, Pengfei Liu, Stephen Swallow and Robert Johnston

24: Threshold Level Public Goods Provision with Multiple Units: Experimental Effects of Disaggregated Groups with Rebates

Pengfei Liu, Stephen Swallow and Christopher Anderson

23: Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crash Risk and the Location of Alcohol Purchase

Chad Cotti, Richard Dunn and Nathan Tefft

22: Seatbelt Use Following Stricter Drunk Driving Regulations

Scott Adams, Chad Cotti and Nathan Tefft

21: The Effect of Advertising and In-Store Promotion on the Demand for Chocolate

Jason Patalinghug

20: The Dow is Killing Me: Risky Health Behaviors and the Stock Market

Chad Cotti, Richard Dunn and Nathan Tefft

19: How Effective is Public Policy in Decreasing Soda Consumption? An Assessment of Four Policy Options

Yizao Liu, Rigoberto Lopez and Chen Zhu

18: Spillover and Competitive Effects of Advertising in the Carbonated Soft Drink Market

Rigoberto Lopez, Yizao Liu and Chen Zhu

17: Groundnut Production and Climatic Variability: Evidence from Uganda

Aizhen Li, Boris Bravo-Ureta, David Okello, Carl Deom and Naveen Puppala

16: The Bobolink Project: Selling Public Goods from Ecosystem Services Using Provision Point Mechanisms

Stephen Swallow, Christopher Anderson and Emi Uchida

15: An Empirical Analysis of Equilibrium Pricing and Advertising in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Market

Michael Cohen and Adam Rabinowitz

14: Uniform Price Mechanisms for Threshold Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Investigation

Zhi Li, Christopher Anderson and Stephen Swallow

13: Payment choice with consumer panel data*

Michael Cohen and Marc Rysman

12: Corporate Social Responsibility for Kids’ Sake: A Dynamic Model of Firm Participation*

Michael Cohen and Rui Huang

11: The Use of Voluntary Marketing Initiatives to Improve the Nutritional Profile of Kids Cereals*

Michael Cohen, Rui Huang and Chen Zhu

10: The Economics of Protection against Sea-Level Rise: An Application to Coastal Properties in Connecticut

Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Farhed Shah

9: An Evaluation of Government and Industry Proposed Restrictions on Television Advertising of Breakfast Cereals to Children

Joshua Berning, Rui Huang and Adam Rabinowitz

8: Whose and What Chatter Matters? The Effect of Tweets on Movie Sales

Huaxia Rui, Yizao Liu and Andrew Whinston

7: Re-Evaluating the Role of Energy Efficiency Standards: A Time-Consistent Behavioral Economics Approach

Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Kathleen Segerson

6: Effects of Public Funding on Local Tradeoffs and Willingness to Pay (WTP) in a Choice Experiment: Blackstone River Watershed Management*

Achyut Kafle, Stephen Swallow and Elizabeth Smith

5: Assessing a Provision Game for Two Units of a Public Good, With Different Group Arrangements, Marginal Benefits, and Rebate Rules: Experimental Evidence

Pengfei Liu, Stephen Swallow and Christopher Anderson

4: Home Bias in U.S. Beer Consumption

Rigoberto Lopez and Xenia Matschke

3: Entry of Wal-Mart Supercenters and Supermarkets’ Profit Margins

Xiaoou Liu and Rigoberto Lopez

2: Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy Efficiency And Automobile Replacement Dynamics

Yizao Liu

1: Preference-Directed Regulation When Ethical Environmental Policy Choices Are Formed With Limited Information

Christopher Jeffords