New This Week Archive

• Obesity, Self-esteem and Wages
  Naci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin #15101 (HE)
  
• Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?
  Haitao Yin, Howard Kunreuther, and Matthew Whte #15100 (EEE, IO, LE, PE)
  
• Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
  Howard Bodenhorn and Gregory Price #15099 (DAE, LS)
  
• Abortion and Crime: A Review
  Theodore J. Joyce #15098 (CH, HE)
  
• Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows
  Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli, and German Pupato #15097 (ITI)
  
• Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight
  Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Yuhui Zheng #15096 (HE)
  
• War and Relatedness
  Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg #15095 (POL)
  
• The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital
  Charles I. Jones and Paul M. Romer #15094 (EFG, ITI, PR)
  
• The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China
  Shang-Jin Wei and Xiaobo Zhang #15093 (IFM, ME)
  
• Identification in Matching Games
  Jeremy T. Fox #15092 (IO, LS, TWP)
  
• Do Multinationals or Domestic Firms Face Higher Effective Tax Rates?
  Kevin S. Markle and Douglas Shackelford #15091 (PE)
  
• Life at the top: the benefits of height
  Angus S. Deaton and Raksha Arora #15090 (AG, HC)
  
• Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs
  Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Kimberly V. Smith #15089 (DAE, HC, HE)
  
• State Capacity, Conflict and Development
  Timothy J. Besley and Torsten Persson #15088 (POL)
  
• A Free Lunch in the Commons
  Matthew J. Kotchen and Stephen W. Salant #15086 (EEE, PE)
  
• Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care
  Amanda E. Kowalski #15085 (AG, HC)
  
• What Comes to Mind
  Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer #15084 (AP, CF)
  
• Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century
  Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #15083 (CF, DAE, ME, PE, POL)
  
• What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program
  Meredith Fowlie, Stephen P. Holland, and Erin T. Mansur #15082 (EEE, IO)
  

• The Economics of Renewable Energy
  Geoffrey Heal #15081 (EEE)
  
• Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Klara Sabirianova Peter, and Dmitriy Stolyarov #15080 (ED, EFG, LS)
  
• Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts
  Jingjing Chai, Wolfram Horneff, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell #15079 (AG, LS, PE)
  
• Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth
  Kenneth Y. Chay, Jonathan Guryan, and Bhashkar Mazumder #15078 (CH, ED, HC, HE, LS, PE)
  
• Decomposing the U.S. External Returns Differential
  Stephanie E. Curcuru, Tomas Dvorak, and Francis E. Warnock #15077 (IFM)
  
• The Equality Multiplier
  Erling Barth and Karl O. Moene #15076 (LS)
  
• The (Mythical?) Housing Wealth Effect
  Charles Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer, and William Miles #15075 (EFG)
  
• Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women
  Qingyan Shang and Bruce A. Weinberg #15074 (CH, LS)
  
• Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art
  David Galenson #15073 (ED, LS)
  
• A Model of a Systemic Bank Run
  Harald Uhlig #15072 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
  N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan #15071 (ME, PE)
  
• Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?
  Jeffrey R. Brown, Julia Lynn Coronado, and Don Fullerton #15070 (AG, PE)
  
• Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point
  William Easterly #15069 (POL)
  
• The Quality of Medical Care, Behavioral Risk Factors, and Longevity Growth
  Frank R. Lichtenberg #15068 (EFG, HC)
  
• China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption
  Hongbin Cai, J. Vernon Henderson, and Qinghua Zhang #15067 (PE)
  
• Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
  Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann #15066 (ED, EFG, LS, PE)
  
• Adoption Curves and Social Interactions
  William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf #15065 (EFG, TWP)
  
• Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment
  Christina M. Fong and Erzo F.P. Luttmer #15064 (LS, PE, POL)
  
• Reducing Foreclosures: No Easy Answers
  Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi, Lorenz Goette, and Paul Willen #15063 (EFG)
  

• Crash Risk in Currency Markets
  Emmanuel Farhi, Samuel Paul Fraiberger, Xavier Gabaix, Romain Ranciere, and Adrien Verdelhan #15062 (AP, EFG, IFM)
  
• Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
  Ryan L. Lampe and Petra Moser #15061 (DAE, LE, PR)
  
• Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch
  Ryan Kellogg #15060 (EEE, IO, PR)
  
• Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades: A Tale of Two Countries
  Nicola Fuchs-Sch?ndeln, Dirk Krueger, and Mathias Sommer #15059 (EFG)
  
• Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises
  Stavros Panageas #15058 (AP, CF)
  
• Measuring Discrimination in Education
  Rema Hanna and Leigh Linden #15057 (CH, ED, LS)
  
• Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists
  Katherine Ho and Matthew Neidell #15056 (HC, HE, IO, LS, PE)
  
• Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History
  Joshua L. Rosenbloom and William A. Sundstrom #15055 (DAE)
  
• Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies
  Gilbert E. Metcalf #15054 (EEE, PE)
  
• Integrated Political Strategy
  John M. de Figueiredo #15053 (LE, POL)
  
• The Japanese Bubble: A 'Heterogeneous' Approach
  Robert B. Barsky #15052 (AP, EFG, ME)
  
• Generalized Agency Problems
  Randall Morck #15051 (CF)
  
• Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
  Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti #15050 (   EFG   POL)
  
• Information, Animal Spirits, and the Meaning of Innovations in Consumer Confidence
  Robert B. Barsky and Eric R. Sims #15049 (   EFG   ME)