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2021
w28875 Jeffrey Clemens
Stan Veuger

Politics and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from Federal Legislation in Response to COVID-19
w28865 Chong-En Bai
Ruixue Jia
Hongbin Li
Xin Wang

Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
w28857 Judson Boomhower
When Do Environmental Externalities Have Electoral Consequences? Evidence from Fracking
w28849 Thomas Fujiwara
Karsten Müller
Carlo Schwarz

The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
w28832 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson

Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework
w28821 Eduardo Montero
Dean Yang

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from Catholic Saint Day Festivals in Mexico
w28793 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Valeria Perotti
Andrei Shleifer

Property Rights and Urban Form
w28786 Alberto Bisin
Giovanni Federico

Merger or Acquisition? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics
w28766 Kilian Huber
Volker Lindenthal
Fabian Waldinger

Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany
w28735 Yingfei Mu
Edward A. Rubin
Eric Zou

What's Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring: Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors
w28726 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Suresh Dalpath
Esther Duflo
John Floretta
Matthew O. Jackson
Harini Kannan
Francine N. Loza
Anirudh Sankar
Anna Schrimpf
Maheshwor Shrestha

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
w28714 Gauthier Marchais
Christian M. Mugaruka
Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

The Forging of a Rebel
w28694 Bruno Pellegrino
Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Barriers to Global Capital Allocation
w28686 Brian G. Knight
Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon
Ana Tribin

Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown
w28683 Frederico Finan
Maurizio Mazzocco

Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles
w28674 Alessandra Casella
Jeffrey Guo
Michelle Jiang

Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment.
w28673 Jorg L. Spenkuch
Edoardo Teso
Guo Xu

Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
w28667 Ying Bai
Ruixue Jia
Jiaojiao Yang

The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization
w28665 Diana Moreira
Santiago Pérez

Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the Pendleton Act
w28662 Giovanni Peri
Daniel I. Rees
Brock Smith

Terrorism and Political Attitudes: Evidence from European Social Surveys
w28655 Benjamin Marx
Vincent Pons
Tavneet Suri

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
w28649 Justus A. Baron
Bernhard Ganglmair
Nicola Persico
Timothy Simcoe
Emanuele Tarantino

Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity
w28631 Soeren J. Henn
Christian Mastaki Mugaruka
Miguel Ortiz
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

On the Ends of the State: Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo
w28629 Alexander Chudik
M. Hashem Pesaran
Alessandro Rebucci

COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide: An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing
w28610 Andres Gonzalez-Lira
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation when Agents Learn and Adapt
w28603 Soeren J. Henn
James A. Robinson

Africa's Latent Assets
w28599 Peter M. DeMarzo
Zhiguo He
Fabrice Tourre

Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction
w28596 David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Riccardo Marchingiglio
Umut Özek
Paola Sapienza

Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
w28578 Zhihan Cui
Geoffrey Heal
Howard Kunreuther
Lu Liu

The Political Economy of Responses to COVID-19 in the U.S.A.
w28572 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
w28547 Ruixue Jia
Xiaohuan Lan
Gerard Padró I Miquel

Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses
w28543 James J. Heckman
Rasmus Landersø

Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility
w28532 Duha T. Altindag
Naci H. Mocan
Jie Zhang

Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament
w28522 Jarkko Harju
Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer

Voice at Work
w28504 Isaac Ehrlich
Yun Pei

Endogenous Immigration, Human and Physical Capital Formation, and the Immigration Surplus
w28491 Jean Beuve
Marian W. Moszoro
Pablo T. Spiller

Contractual Rigidity and Political Contestability: Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations
w28488 Alberto Bisin
Jared Rubin
Avner Seror
Thierry Verdier

Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
w28484 Ester Faia
Andreas Fuster
Vincenzo Pezone
Basit Zafar

Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic
w28468 Job Boerma
Loukas Karabarbounis

Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps
w28465 Renee Bowen
Danil Dmitriev
Simone Galperti

Learning from Shared News: When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization
w28458 Christopher Blattman
Gustavo Duncan
Benjamin Lessing
Santiago Tobón

Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
w28410 Dhaval M. Dave
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

Political Violence, Risk Aversion, and Non-Localized Disease Spread: Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Riot
w28448 Leonardo Bursztyn
Thomas Chaney
Tarek Alexander Hassan
Aakaash Rao

The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism
w28425 Gerald Carlino
Thorsten Drautzburg
Robert P. Inman
Nicholas Zarra

Partisanship and Fiscal Policy in Economic Unions: Evidence from U.S. States
w28403 Ruixue Jia
Gérard Roland
Yang Xie

A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility: China vs. Europe Revisited
w28397 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli
Yongxiang Wang

Gender and Bureaucratic Corruption: Evidence from Two Countries
w28393 Edward Asiedu
Dean Karlan
Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
Christopher R. Udry

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
w28348 Kerry Back
Bruce I. Carlin
Seyed Mohammad Kazempour

The Asset Pricing Implications of Plausible Deniability
w28347 Marco Battaglini
Chaos and Unpredictability in Dynamic Social Problems
w28341 Robert C. Merton
Richard T. Thakor

No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
w28326 Gaia Dossi
David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon
2020
w28301 Marta A. Santamaría
Jaume Ventura
Uğur Yeşilbayraktar

Borders within Europe
w28299 Zach Y. Brown
Eduardo Montero
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Market Structure and Extortion:Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
w28297 Sebastian Ottinger
Nico Voigtländer

History's Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
w28296 Nathan J. Canen
Chad Kendall
Francesco Trebbi

Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization: 1927-2018
w28273 Shane Lubold
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Tyler H. McCormick

Identifying the Latent Space Geometry of Network Models through Analysis of Curvature
w28270 Alberto Alesina
Sebastian Hohmann
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
w28256 Michael D. Frakes
Jonathan Gruber
Timothy Justicz

Public and Private Options in Practice: The Military Health System
w28251 Réka Juhász
Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Away from Home and Back: Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020
w28243 Eoin F. McGuirk
Nathan Nunn

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
w28234 Michael Bailey
Drew M. Johnston
Martin Koenen
Theresa Kuchler
Dominic Russel
Johannes Stroebel

Social Networks Shape Beliefs and Behavior: Evidence from Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w28230 Charlotte Bartels
Simon Jäger
Natalie Obergruber

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
w28209 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli

Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
w28190 Giovanni Maggi
Ralph Ossa

The Political Economy of Deep Integration
w28175 Sylvain Catherine
Constantine Yannelis

The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness
w28170 Chong-En Bai
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Zheng Michael Song
Xin Wang

Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
w28168 Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder

Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines
w28158 Bradley Larsen
Ziao Ju
Adam Kapor
Chuan Yu

The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution
w28137 Alessandra Casella
Evan Friedman
Manuel Perez Archila

Mediating Conflict in the Lab
w28113 Alberto Bisin
Andrea Moro

LATE for History
w28110 Bruce Sacerdote
Ranjan Sehgal
Molly Cook

Why Is All COVID-19 News Bad News?
w28099 Kristoffer B. Hvidberg
Claus Kreiner
Stefanie Stantcheva

Social Position and Fairness Views
w28078 Marcella Alsan
Katherine Eriksson
Gregory Niemesh

Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party
w28073 Matilde Bombardini
Bingjing Li
Francesco Trebbi

Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?
w28071 Lauren Cohen
Umit Gurun
Danielle Li

Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems
w28050 Rhiannon Jerch
Matthew E. Kahn
Gary C. Lin

Local Public Finance Dynamics and Hurricane Shocks
w28044 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes
w28043 James M. Snyder Jr.
Hasin Yousaf

Making Rallies Great Again: The Effects of Presidential Campaign Rallies on Voter Behavior, 2008-2016
w28042 Sylvain Chassang
Lucia Del Carpio
Samuel Kapon

Making the Most of Limited Government Capacity: Theory and Experiment
w28036 Levi Boxell
Jacob Conway
James N. Druckman
Matthew Gentzkow

Affective Polarization Did Not Increase During the Coronavirus Pandemic
w28035 Douglas Almond
Xinming Du
Alana Vogel

Russian Holidays Predict Troll Activity 2015-2017
w27998 Enrico Cantoni
Vincent Pons

Does Context Outweigh Individual Characteristics in Driving Voting Behavior? Evidence from Relocations within the U.S.
w27989 Asaf Bernstein
Stephen B. Billings
Matthew Gustafson
Ryan Lewis

Voting with their Sandals: Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk
w27984 Matthew Backus
Thomas Blake
Jett Pettus
Steven Tadelis

Communication and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis
w27981 Renee Bowen
Ilwoo Hwang
Stefan Krasa

Agenda-Setter Power Dynamics: Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining
w27972 Marcella Alsan
Luca Braghieri
Sarah Eichmeyer
Minjeong Joyce Kim
Stefanie Stantcheva
David Y. Yang

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
w27967 Paola Giuliano
Andrea Matranga

Historical Data: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them
w27961 Scott R. Baker
Aniket Baksy
Nicholas Bloom
Steven J. Davis
Jonathan A. Rodden

Elections, Political Polarization, and Economic Uncertainty
w27949 Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

The Political Economics of Non-democracy
w27918 Sara Lowes
Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics
w27914 Renee Bowen
J. Lawrence Broz

Designing an International Economic Order: A Research Agenda
w27902 Jeffrey Clemens
Michael R. Strain

Public Policy and Participation in Political Interest Groups: An Analysis of Minimum Wages, Labor Unions, and Effective Advocacy
w27893 Sara Lowes
Eduardo Montero

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
w27871 Mara Faccio
John J. McConnell

Impediments to the Schumpeterian Process in the Replacement of Large Firms
w27854 Daron Acemoglu
Giuseppe De Feo
Giacomo De Luca
Gianluca Russo

War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism: An Empirical Exploration
w27852 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence
w27839 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Valeria Perotti
Andrei Shleifer

Measuring Property Rights Institutions
w27832 Nikita Melnikov
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
w27827 Nick Obradovich
Ömer Özak
Ignacio Martín
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Edmond Awad
Manuel Cebrián
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Iyad Rahwan
Ángel Cuevas

Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
w27822 Marco Battaglini
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza
Eleonora Patacchini

Abstentions and Social Networks in Congress
w27816 Brad C. Nathan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Alejandro Zentner

My Taxes are Too Darn High: Why Do Households Protest their Taxes?
w27798 Abhay Aneja
Guo Xu

The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson
w27794 Greg Kaplan
Benjamin Moll
Giovanni L. Violante

The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S.
w27790 Matthew E. Kahn
Weizeng Sun
Siqi Zheng

Clean Air as an Experience Good in Urban China
w27776 Samuel Bazzi
Martin Fiszbein
Mesay Gebresilasse

Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27743 Alessandra Casella
Antonin Macé

Does Vote Trading Improve Welfare?
w27741 Marina Azzimonti
Alessandra Fogli
Fabrizio Perri
Mark Ponder

Pandemic Control in ECON-EPI Networks
w27736 Danielle Li
Lindsey R. Raymond
Peter Bergman

Hiring as Exploration
w27725 Paola Giuliano
Gender and Culture
w27723 Martin Beraja
David Y. Yang
Noam Yuchtman

Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China
w27706 Nathan Nunn
History as Evolution
w27703 Eric Hilt
Matthew S. Jaremski
Wendy Rahn

When Uncle Sam Introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the Transformation of American Finance
w27699 Stefanie Stantcheva
Understanding Tax Policy: How Do People Reason?
w27678 Michael Callen
Saad Gulzar
Syed Ali Hasanain
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Arman B. Rezaee

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
w27665 Zhiguo He
Maggie Rong Hu
Zhenping Wang
Vincent Yao

Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty
w27651 Paola Giuliano
Romain Wacziarg

Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital
w27650 Edward L. Glaeser
Ginger Zhe Jin
Benjamin T. Leyden
Michael Luca

Learning from Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During COVID-19
w27631 Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Persuasion on Networks
w27628 Hanming Fang
Chang Liu
Li-An Zhou

Window Dressing in the Public Sector: A Case Study of China's Compulsory Education Promotion Program
w27623 Alexander W. Bartik
Zoe B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton
Adi Sunderam

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses
w27620 Brian G. Knight
Ana Tribin

Immigration and Violent Crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border
w27595 Marina Azzimonti
Gabriel P. Mihalache
Laura Karpuska

Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27572 Susan Athey
Billy A. Ferguson
Matthew Gentzkow
Tobias Schmidt

Experienced Segregation
w27569 Aidan Coville
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Susumu Yoshida

Enforcing Payment for Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi's Slums
w27558 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

China's Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
w27557 Marco Battaglini
Forrest W. Crawford
Eleonora Patacchini
Sida Peng

A Graphical Lasso Approach to Estimating Network Connections: The Case of U.S. Lawmakers
w27537 Viral V. Acharya
Lea Borchert
Maximilian Jager
Sascha Steffen

Kicking the Can Down the Road: Government Interventions in the European Banking Sector
w27526 Dani Rodrik
Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-wing Populism
w27511 Benjamin Enke
Ricardo Rodríguez-Padilla
Florian Zimmermann

Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
w27503 Réka Juhász
Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France
w27498 Massimo Pulejo
Pablo Querubín

Electoral Concerns Reduce Restrictive Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27479 Christian Dippel
Dustin Frye
Bryan Leonard

Property Rights without Transfer Rights: A Study of Indian Land Allotment
w27463 Giovanni Facchini
Brian G. Knight
Cecilia Testa

The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
w27456 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Monica Martinez-Bravo

Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil
w27433 Enrico Cantoni
Vincent Pons

Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy
w27432 Austan Goolsbee
Chad Syverson

Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020
w27417 Leonardo Bursztyn
Aakaash Rao
Christopher P. Roth
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott

Misinformation During a Pandemic
w27401 Barry Eichengreen ⓡ
Orkun Saka ⓡ
Cevat Giray Aksoy

The Political Scar of Epidemics
w27362 Dylan Balla-Elliott
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

Business Re-Opening During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27359 Vincenzo Galasso
Vincent Pons
Paola Profeta
Michael Becher
Sylvain Brouard
Martial Foucault

Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
w27351 Diego Daruich
Raquel Fernández

Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment
w27349 Sarah Moshary
Bradley T. Shapiro
Jihong Song

How and When to Use the Political Cycle to Identify Advertising Effects
w27329 Klaus Desmet
Romain Wacziarg

Understanding Spatial Variation in COVID-19 across the United States
w27327 David Danz
Lise Vesterlund
Alistair J. Wilson

Belief Elicitation: Limiting Truth Telling with Information on Incentives
w27320 John M. Barrios
Efraim Benmelech
Yael V. Hochberg
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Civic Capital and Social Distancing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
w27310 James Andreoni
Nikos Nikiforakis
Simon Siegenthaler

Predicting Social Tipping and Norm Change in Controlled Experiments
w27304 Robert S. Pindyck
What We Know and Don't Know about Climate Change, and Implications for Policy
w27302 Stephen B. Billings
Eric Chyn
Kareem Haggag

The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity
w27301 Prateik Dalmia
Allan Drazen
Erkut Y. Ozbay

Reciprocity versus Reelection
w27288 Leonardo Bursztyn
Ingar K. Haaland
Aakaash Rao
Christopher P. Roth

Disguising Prejudice: Popular Rationales as Excuses for Intolerant Expression
w27282 Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian

India's Lockdown: An Interim Report
w27277 Georgy Egorov
Ruben Enikolopov
Alexey Makarin
Maria Petrova

Divided We Stay Home: Social Distancing and Ethnic Diversity
w27238 Paola Giuliano
Marco Tabellini

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
w27237 Andrey Simonov
Szymon K. Sacher
Jean-Pierre H. Dubé
Shirsho Biswas

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Non-Compliance with Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
w27225 Bruce I. Carlin
Tarik Umar
Hanyi Yi

Deputization
w27211 Ying Fan
A. Yeşim Orhun
Dana Turjeman

Heterogeneous Actions, Beliefs, Constraints and Risk Tolerance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27194 Pedro Bordalo
Marco Tabellini
David Y. Yang

Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes
w27189 Nicola Gennaioli
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Trust and Insurance Contracts
w27164 David Altig
Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Elias Ilin
Victor Ye

Marginal Net Taxation of Americans' Labor Supply
w27161 James J. Feigenbaum
Soumyajit Mazumder
Cory B. Smith

When Coercive Economies Fail: The Political Economy of the US South After the Boll Weevil
w27153 William Easterly
Steven Pennings

Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders
w27141 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

The Cost of the Covid-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
w27107 Zhangkai Huang
Gordon M. Phillips
Jialun Yang
Yi Zhang

Education and Innovation: The Long Shadow of the Cultural Revolution
w27082 Thiemo R. Fetzer
Marc Witte
Lukas Hensel
Jon Jachimowicz
Johannes Haushofer
Andriy Ivchenko
Stefano Caria
Elena Reutskaja
Christopher P. Roth
Stefano Fiorin
Margarita Gómez
Gordon Kraft-Todd
Friedrich M. Götz
Erez Yoeli

Global Behaviors and Perceptions at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27075 Konrad B. Burchardi
Thomas Chaney
Tarek Alexander Hassan
Lisa Tarquinio
Stephen J. Terry

Immigration, Innovation, and Growth
w27073 Samuel Bazzi
Masyhur Hilmy
Benjamin Marx

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
w26845 Joseph S. Shapiro
The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
w27062 Christian A. Moser
Pierre Yared

Pandemic Lockdown: The Role of Government Commitment
w27053 Alberto F. Alesina
Marlon Seror
David Y. Yang
Yang You
Weihong Zeng

Persistence Despite Revolutions
w27039 Alexander Chudik
M. Hashem Pesaran
Alessandro Rebucci

Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing: Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries
w27034 Lydia Cox
Gernot Müller
Ernesto Pastén
Raphael Schoenle
Michael Weber

Big G
w27032 Jian Chu
Raymond Fisman
Songtao Tan
Yongxiang Wang

Hometown Ties and the Quality of Government Monitoring: Evidence from Rotation of Chinese Auditors
w27026 J. Carter Braxton
Kyle F. Herkenhoff
Gordon M. Phillips

Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance
w27008 John M. Barrios
Yael Hochberg

Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
w26990 Theresa Kuchler
Dominic Russel
Johannes Stroebel

The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with the Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
w26987 Sydney C. Ludvigson
Sai Ma
Serena Ng

COVID-19 and The Macroeconomic Effects of Costly Disasters
w26975 William Belmont
Bruce Sacerdote
Ranjan Sehgal
Ian Van Hoek

Relief Rally: Senators As Feckless As the Rest of Us at Stock Picking
w26960 Michael Bailey
Abhinav Gupta
Sebastian Hillenbrand
Theresa Kuchler
Robert J. Richmond
Johannes Stroebel

International Trade and Social Connectedness
w26946 Hunt Allcott
Levi Boxell
Jacob C. Conway
Matthew Gentzkow
Michael Thaler
David Y. Yang

Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus Pandemic
w26930 Kate Baldwin
Dean Karlan
Christopher R. Udry
Ernest Appiah

How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana
w26928 Erika Deserranno
Aisha Nansamba
Nancy Qian

Foreign Aid and State Capacity
w26921 Philippe Aghion
Roland Bénabou
Ralf Martin
Alexandra Roulet

Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?
w26913 Louis Kaplow
Scott Duke Kominers

On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout
w26897 Filipe R. Campante
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
Ruben Durante

The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.
w26856 Charles W. Calomiris
Harry Mamaysky
Ruoke Yang

Measuring the Cost of Regulation: A Text-Based Approach
w26848 Leopoldo Fergusson
Carlos A. Molina
James A. Robinson

The Weak State Trap
w26840 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

Happiness and the Quality of Government
w26825 Francesco Giavazzi
Felix Iglhaut
Giacomo Lemoli
Gaia Rubera

Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties: Analyzing Text from Twitter
w26818 Christine Laudenbach
Ulrike Malmendier
Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi

The Long-lasting Effects of Living under Communism on Attitudes towards Financial Markets
w26775 Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder

Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience
w26757 Marco Battaglini
Rebecca B. Morton
Eleonora Patacchini

Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests
w26754 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Historical Natural Experiments: Bridging Economics and Economic History
w26744 Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar

Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
w26733 Oriana Bandiera
Michael Carlos Best
Adnan Qadir Khan
Andrea Prat

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
w26730 Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries
w26720 Alberto F. Alesina
Davide Furceri
Jonathan D. Ostry
Chris Papageorgiou
Dennis P. Quinn

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