New This Week Archive

• Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
  William R. Kerr #17701 (EFG   LS   PE   POL   PR)
  
• Catch-up Growth Followed by Stagnation: Mexico, 1950–2010
  Timothy J. Kehoe and Felipe Meza #17700 (EFG)
  
• Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference in Finite Samples
  Jerry A. Hausman and Christopher J. Palmer #17698 (TWP)
  
• The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options
  David H. Autor #17697 (HE   LS   PE)
  
• A Theory of Income Smoothing When Insiders Know More Than Outsiders
  Viral V. Acharya and Bart M. Lambrecht #17696 (CF   LE)
  
• The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation
  Severin Borenstein #17695 (EEE   IO)
  
• Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
  David Card and Ana Rute Cardoso #17694 (LS)
  
• Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India
  Sean Dougherty, Verónica C. Frisancho Robles, and Kala Krishna #17693 (ITI   PR)
  
• Adjustment patterns to commodity terms of trade shocks: the role of exchange rate and international reserves policies
  Joshua Aizenman, Sebastian Edwards, and Daniel Riera-Crichton #17692 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Home Bias in Open Economy Financial Macroeconomics
  Nicolas Coeurdacier and Hélène Rey #17691 (AP   CF   IFM   ME)
  
• Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
  Verónica Amarante, Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, and Andrea Vigorito #17690 (CH   HE   LS   PE)
  
• Medicaid and the Elderly
  Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Angshuman Gooptu #17689 (HC   HE   PE)
  
• Consumption and the Great Recession
  Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and David Benson #17688 (EFG   PE)
  
• Capitalizing China
  Joseph Fan, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung #17687 (CF)
  
• International Contagion Through Leveraged Financial Institutions
  Eric van Wincoop #17686 (AP   EFG   IFM)
  
• The Future of the Government Sponsored Enterprises: The Role for Government in the U.S. Mortgage Market
  Dwight Jaffee and John M. Quigley #17685 (PE)
  
• Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health
  Wolfram Schlenker and W. Reed Walker #17684 (EEE   HE)
  
• Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990
  Antonio Ciccone and Giovanni Peri #17683 (ITI   LS)
  
• Global Macroeconomic and Financial Supervision: Where Next?
  Charles Goodhart #17682 (ME   POL)
  
• The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in GDP/capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
  Jing Wang, Dana Medianu, and John Whalley #17681 (ITI)
  
• A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms-of-Trade Manipulation
  Arnaud Costinot, Guido Lorenzoni, and Iván Werning #17680 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
  Alberto Chong, Ana L. De La O, Dean Karlan, and Leonard Wantchekon #17679 (POL)
  

• Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment
  Janice Compton and Robert A. Pollak #17678 (LS)
  
• Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?
  Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen, and Glen R. Waddell #17677 (ED   PE)
  
• From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
  Douglas Almond, Janet Currie, and Mariesa Herrmann #17676 (CH   HE)
  
• International Trade and Institutional Changve
  Andrei A. Levchenko #17675 (IFM   ITI)
  
• Prospects for Nuclear Power
  Lucas W. Davis #17674 (EEE   IO)
  
• Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment
  Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Seth J. Hill #17673 (PE   POL)
  
• The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
  Matthias Doepke, Michèle Tertilt, and Alessandra Voena #17672 (EFG   POL)
  
• Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
  Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko #17671 (LS   PE   POL)
  
• Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and Credit Booms
  Nicolas E. Magud, Carmen M. Reinhart, and Esteban R. Vesperoni #17670 (IFM   ME)
  
• Sustainable Cooperation in Global Climate Policy: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Build on Copenhagen and Cancun
  Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey A. Frankel #17669 (EEE)
  
• Utilization of Infertility Treatments: The Effects of Insurance Mandates
  Marianne P. Bitler and Lucie Schmidt #17668 (HE)
  
• Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
  Marianne Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes #17667 (CH   LS   PE)
  
• Do Borrower Rights Improve Borrower Outcomes? Evidence from the Foreclosure Process
  Kristopher Gerardi, Lauren Lambie-Hanson, and Paul S. Willen #17666 (EFG)
  
• International Policy Coordination: The Long View
  Barry Eichengreen #17665 (DAE   IFM)
  
• Regulating Systemic Risk through Transparency: Tradeoffs in Making Data Public
  Augustin Landier and David Thesmar #17664 (PE)
  
• CEO Preferences and Acquisitions
  Dirk Jenter and Katharina Lewellen #17663 (CF)
  
• Fiscal Devaluations
  Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath, and Oleg Itskhoki #17662 (EFG   IFM   ITI   ME)
  
• Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts
  Bo Becker and Per Strömberg #17661 (CF)
  
• The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Banks
  Martin Goetz, Luc Laeven, and Ross Levine #17660 (CF)
  
• Cross-Sectoral Variation in The Volatility of Plant-Level Idiosyncratic Shocks
  Rui Castro, Gian Luca Clementi, and Yoonsoo Lee #17659 (EFG   IO   PR)
  
• Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children
  Carole Roan Gresenz, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam J. Laugesen, and José J. Escarce #17658 (HE)
  
• The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality
  Ann Huff Stevens, Douglas L. Miller, Marianne E. Page, and Mateusz Filipski #17657 (AG   HC   LS)
  
• A Note on Schooling in Development Accounting
  Francesco Caselli and Antonio Ciccone #17656 (EFG)
  
• Does Practice-Based Teacher Preparation Increase Student Achievement? Early Evidence from the Boston Teacher Residency
  John P. Papay, Martin R. West, Jon B. Fullerton, and Thomas J. Kane #17646 (ED)
  

• The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments
  Alberto F. Alesina, Dorian Carloni, and Giampaolo Lecce #17655 (PE   POL)
  
• The Expanding Social Safety Net
  Casey B. Mulligan #17654 (EFG   LS   PE)
  
• Evaporating Liquidity
  Stefan Nagel #17653 (AP)
  
• Competing on Speed
  Thomas Philippon and Emiliano Pagnotta #17652 (AP   CF   IO)
  
• Do Mood Swings Drive Business Cycles and is it Rational?
  Paul Beaudry, Deokwoo Nam, and Jian Wang #17651 (EFG)
  
• Can the Doha Round be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table
  Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger #17650 (ITI)
  
• Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
  Jungmin Lee, Daiji Kawaguchi, and Daniel S. Hamermesh #17649 (LS)
  
• Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving
  James Andreoni, Justin M. Rao, and Hannah Trachtman #17648 (PE)
  
• Incentives and Adaptation: Evidence from Highway Procurement in Minnesota
  Gregory Lewis and Patrick Bajari #17647 (IO   LE   PE)
  
• Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability before the 2008 Financial Crisis
  John Whalley, Manmohan Agarwal, Jing Wang, Sean Walsh, and Chen Yan #17645 (IFM   ITI)
  
• The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
  Anna Gumpert, James R. Hines, Jr., and Monika Schnitzer #17644 (ITI   PE)
  
• Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Endogenous Forcing Variable and an Application to Contracting in Health Care
  Patrick Bajari, Han Hong, Minjung Park, and Robert Town #17643 (HC   IO)
  

• Optimal Dynamic Taxes
  Mikhail Golosov, Maxim Troshkin, and Aleh Tsyvinski #17642 (EFG   PE)
  
• The International Monetary System: Living with Asymmetry
  Maurice Obstfeld #17641 (EFG   IFM)
  
• Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
  Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor #17640 (EFG)
  
• Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments
  Jennifer Brown and Dylan B. Minor #17639 (IO)
  
• Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss
  Steven J. Davis and Till M. von Wachter #17638 (EFG   LS)
  
• Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
  Jason M. Lindo, Isaac D. Swensen, and Glen R. Waddell #17637 (ED   LE   PE)
  
• Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
  Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis, and Robert Slonim #17636 (HE   LS   PE)
  
• Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada: New Knowledge from the North
  James Andreoni and A. Abigail Payne #17635 (PE)
  
• The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
  Pablo Querubin and James M. Snyder, Jr. #17634 (POL)
  
• Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion
  Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarski #17633 (CH   DAE   ED   LS)
  
• Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City
  Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr #17632 (ED   LS)
  
• Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
  Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei #17631 (CF   ITI)
  
• The Incidence of Geography on Canada's Services Trade
  James E. Anderson, Catherine A. Milot, and Yoto V. Yotov #17630 (ITI)
  
• Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease
  Emily Oster, Ira Shoulson, and E. Ray Dorsey #17629 (HC   HE   LS)
  
• Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
  Francesco Caselli and Andrea Tesei #17601 (EFG   POL)
  

• Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations: Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches
  Matthew Kotchen and Matthew Potoski #17628 (EEE   PE)
  
• The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
  Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, and Peter K. Schott #17627 (ITI)
  
• Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows: The ECB’s Rescue Facility
  Hans-Werner Sinn and Timo Wollmershaeuser #17626 (PE)
  
• The Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Climate
  Richard Hornbeck and Pinar Keskin #17625 (DAE   EEE)
  
• When Should Sellers Use Auctions?
  James W. Roberts and Andrew Sweeting #17624 (IO)
  
• A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets
  Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang #17623 (LS)
  
• Macroeconomics With Heterogeneity: A Practical Guide
  Fatih Guvenen #17622 (AP   EFG   LS   ME   PE)
  
• When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises
  &iograve;scar Jordà, Moritz HP. Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor #17621 (DAE   IFM   ME)
  
• The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
  Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou #17620 (EFG   IFM   POL)
  
• On Graduation from Fiscal Procyclicality
  Jeffrey A. Frankel, Carlos A. Végh, and Guillermo Vuletin #17619 (IFM)
  
• Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving
  James Andreoni, Abigail Payne, Justin D. Smith, and David Karp #17618 (PE)
  
• The Euro and European Economic Conditions
  Martin S. Feldstein #17617 (EFG   IFM   ME)
  
• Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities
  Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva #17616 (PE)
  
• Time-Varying Fund Manager Skill
  Marcin Kacperczyk, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Laura Veldkamp #17615 (AP   CF)
  
• Household Stock Market Beliefs and Learning
  Gábor Kézdi and Robert J. Willis #17614 (AG)
  
• Logical Implications of GASB's Methodology for Valuing Pension Liabilities
  Robert Novy-Marx #17613 (AP   PE)
  
• Risk Sharing through Capital Gains
  Faruk Balli, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Bent Sorensen #17612 (IFM)
  

• Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products Without Instrumental Variables
  Kelly C. Bishop and Christopher Timmins #17611 (EEE   PE)
  
• Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap
  Jesse Rothstein and Nathan Wozny #17610 (CH   ED)
  
• Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability
  Ethan G. Lewis #17609 (LS)
  
• Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS
  Martin Gaynor, Mauro Laudicella, and Carol Propper #17608 (   HC)