Papers Issued in 2007

• w13704 December 2007 Arbitrage in Housing Markets
  Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
• w13697 December 2007 Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking
  Wen-Jui Han, Christopher Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel
• w13698 December 2007 Firm Level Heterogeneous Productivity and Demand Shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh
  Hiau Looi Kee and Kala Krishna
• w13699 December 2007 The Bidder's Curse
  Young Han Lee and Ulrike Malmendier
• w13700 December 2007 Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?
  Alma Cohen, Rajeev Dehejia, and Dmitri Romanov
• w13701 December 2007 CEO Centrality
  Lucian A. Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers, and Urs Peyer
• w13702 December 2007 Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics
  Lucian A. Bebchuk and Zvika Neeman
• w13703 December 2007 Optimal Choice of Product Scope for Multiproduct Firms under Monopolistic Competition
  Robert Feenstra and Hong Ma
• w13705 December 2007 Organizing Growth
  Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
• w13706 December 2007 What Determines the Structure of Corporate Debt Issues?
  Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim, and Michael Weisbach
• w13707 December 2007 The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis
  Matthias Doepke, Moshe Hazan, and Yishay Maoz
• w13712 December 2007 Social Capital as Good Culture
  Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales
• w13708 December 2007 Corporate Misreporting and Bank Loan Contracting
  John R. Graham, Si Li, and Jiaping Qiu
• w13709 December 2007 Using Tax Return Data to Simulate Corporate Marginal Tax Rates
  John R. Graham and Lillian F. Mills
• w13710 December 2007 Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?
  Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
• w13711 December 2007 Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies
  Itzhak Ben-David, John R. Graham, and Campbell R. Harvey
• w13713 December 2007 Procrastination and Impatience
  Ernesto Reuben, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales
• w13714 December 2007 Do Professional Currency Managers Beat the Benchmark?
  Momtchil Pojarliev and Richard M. Levich
• w13715 December 2007 Impact of First Occupation on Health at Older Ages
  Jody L. Sindelar, Jason Fletcher, Tracy Falba, Patricia Keenan, and William T. Gallo
• w13716 December 2007 Forecast Targeting as a Monetary Policy Strategy: Policy Rules in Practice
  Michael Woodford
• w13677 December 2007 Nominal Debt as a Burden on Monetary Policy
  Ramon Marimon, Javier Díaz-Giménez, Giorgia Giovannetti, and Pedro Teles
• w13678 December 2007 Conservation: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium
  Matthew Kotchen and Michael Moore
• w13679 December 2007 Principal-agent Incentives, Excess Caution, and Market Inefficiency: Evidence From Utility Regulation
  Severin Borenstein, Meghan Busse, and Ryan Kellogg
• w13680 December 2007 Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models
  Larry E. Jones and Alice Schoonbroodt
• w13681 December 2007 Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure
  Cecilia Elena Rouse, Jane Hannaway, Dan Goldhaber, and David Figlio
• w13682 December 2007 Housing and Monetary Policy
  John B. Taylor
• w13683 December 2007 Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
  Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• w13684 December 2007 Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers
  Morris M. Kleiner and Richard M. Todd
• w13685 December 2007 The Explanatory Power of Monetary Policy Rules
  John B. Taylor
• w13686 December 2007 Occupational Choice and Development
  Jan Eeckhout and Boyan Jovanovic
• w13687 December 2007 Extremism and Social Learning
  Edward L. Glaeser and Cass R. Sunstein
• w13688 December 2007 Trade Policy under Firm-Level Heterogeneity in a Small Economy
  Svetlana Demidova and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
• w13689 December 2007 Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
  Robert J. Barro and Jason Hwang
• w13690 December 2007 Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs
  Robert J. Barro
• w13691 December 2007 What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions
  Arnaud Costinot and Ivana Komunjer
• w13692 December 2007 The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal
  Todd C. Neumann, Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor
• w13693 December 2007 Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement
  Todd Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles
• w13694 December 2007 The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates -- Evidence from Consumer Credit Data
  Sumit Agarwal, Chunlin Liu, and Nicholas S. Souleles
• w13695 December 2007 Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930
  Woong Lee
• w13696 December 2007 The Economics Approach to Cities
  Edward L. Glaeser
• w13658 December 2007 How Sovereign is Sovereign Credit Risk?
  Francis A. Longstaff, Jun Pan, Lasse H. Pedersen, and Kenneth J. Singleton
• w13660 December 2007 Financial Structure, Liquidity, and Firm Locations
  Andres Almazan, Adolfo de Motta, Sheridan Titman, and Vahap Uysal
• w13661 December 2007 Prejudice and The Economics of Discrimination
  Kerwin Kofi Charles and Jonathan Guryan
• w13662 December 2007 Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness
  Andres Rodriguez-Clare
• w13663 December 2007 First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function
  Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
• w13664 December 2007 Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment
  Awash Teklehaimanot, Gordon C. McCord, and Jeffrey D. Sachs
• w13666 December 2007 Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale
  Yuriy Gorodnichenko
• w13667 December 2007 Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior
  Rebecca M. Blank, Kerwin Kofi Charles, and James M. Sallee
• w13670 December 2007 The American High School Graduation Rate: Trends and Levels
  James J. Heckman and Paul A. LaFontaine
• w13671 December 2007 Trade Policy and Market Power: The Case of the US Steel Industry
  Bruce A. Blonigen, Benjamin H. Liebman, and Wesley W. Wilson
• w13672 December 2007 Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress.
  Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi
• w13673 December 2007 Insurance and Opportunities: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk
  Jonathan Heathcote, Kjetil Storesletten, and Giovanni L. Violante
• w13675 December 2007 The Great Mexican Emigration
  Gordon H. Hanson and Craig McIntosh
• w13649 November 2007 Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India
  Ashlesha Datar, Arkadipta Ghosh, and Neeraj Sood
• w13638 November 2007 Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
  Alberto Alesina, Andrea Ichino, and Loukas Karabarbounis
• w13639 November 2007 Inefficient Credit Booms
  Guido Lorenzoni
• w13640 November 2007 Do Stock Prices Influence Corporate Decisions? Evidence from the Technology Bubble
  Murillo Campello and John Graham
• w13641 November 2007 The Impact of Litigation on Venture Capitalist Reputation
  Vladimir Atanasov, Vladimir Ivanov, and Kate Litvak
• w13642 November 2007 Open-Access Losses and Delay in the Assignment of Property Rights
  Gary D. Libecap
• w13643 November 2007 Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets
  Matthew J. Kotchen
• w13644 November 2007 Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry
  Iain M. Cockburn and Megan MacGarvie
• w13645 November 2007 The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates
  Don Fullerton and Garth Heutel
• w13646 November 2007 Endogenous Entry, Product Variety, and Business Cycles
  Florin Bilbiie, Fabio Ghironi, and Marc J. Melitz
• w13650 November 2007 Evaluating Asset Pricing Models with Limited Commitment using Household Consumption Data
  Dirk Krueger, Hanno Lustig, and Fabrizio Perri
• w13647 November 2007 Firms' Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency
  Andres Almazan, Javier Suarez, and Sheridan Titman
• w13648 November 2007 Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?
  Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor
• w13651 November 2007 International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.
  Ann Bartel, Casey Ichniowski, Kathryn Shaw, and Ricardo Correa
• w13652 November 2007 Tenure and Output
  Kathryn Shaw and Edward P. Lazear
• w13653 November 2007 Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources
  Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw
• w13654 November 2007 Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms
  Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw
• w13656 November 2007 Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect
  James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian
• w13655 November 2007 The Heterogeneous State of Modern Macroeconomics: A Reply to Solow
  V. V. Chari and Patrick J. Kehoe
• w13619 November 2007 Foreign Capital and Economic Growth
  Eswar S. Prasad, Raghuram G. Rajan, and Arvind Subramanian
• w13617 November 2007 Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
  Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor
• w13618 November 2007 Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"
  Hongbin Cai, Yasuyuki Todo, and Li-An Zhou
• w13620 November 2007 Pass-through of Exchange Rates and Competition Between Floaters and Fixers
  Paul R. Bergin and Robert C. Feenstra
• w13621 November 2007 Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition
  Manuel F. Bagues and Mauro Sylos Labini
• w13622 November 2007 Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks
  Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
• w13623 November 2007 Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments
  Justine S. Hastings and Jeffrey M. Weinstein
• w13624 November 2007 Taxes and the Global Allocation of Capital
  David Backus, Espen Henriksen, and Kjetil Storesletten
• w13625 November 2007 When Does a Mutual Fund's Trade Reveal its Skill?
  Zhi Da, Pengjie Gao, and Ravi Jagannathan
• w13626 November 2007 Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data
  Daniel Sullivan and Till von Wachter
• w13627 November 2007 Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans
  Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter
• w13628 November 2007 The Role of Extensive and Intensive Margins and Export Growth
  Tibor Besedes and Thomas J. Prusa
• w13629 November 2007 Intertemporal Distortions in the Second best
  Stefania Albanesi and Roc Armenter
• w13630 November 2007 A Theory of Retirement
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Michael Moore
• w13631 November 2007 Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration
  Susana Iranzo and Giovanni Peri
• w13632 November 2007 Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox
  Timothy S. Simcoe, Stuart J.H. Graham, and Maryann Feldman
• w13633 November 2007 Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market
  Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda, and M. Julia Prats
• w13634 November 2007 Securing Their Future? Entry And Survival In The Information Security Industry
  Ashish Arora and Anand Nandkumar
• w13635 November 2007 The Long and the Short End of the Term Structure of Policy Rules
  Josephine M. Smith and John B. Taylor
• w13636 November 2007 The Effect of Venture Capital on Innovation Strategies
  Marco Da Rin and María Fabiana Penas
• w13637 November 2007 Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries
  Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff
• w13607 November 2007 New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability
  Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie
• w13613 November 2007 The Transmission of Domestic Shocks in the Open Economy
  Christopher J. Erceg, Christopher Gust, and David López-Salido
• w13608 November 2007 The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
  Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer
• w13609 November 2007 Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development
  John Cawley and Feng Liu
• w13610 November 2007 Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Emily Oster
• w13611 November 2007 The Affine Arbitrage-Free Class of: Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Models
  Jens H. E. Christensen, Francis X. Diebold, and Glenn D. Rudebusch
• w13612 November 2007 Goods Trade and International Equity Portfolios
  Fabrice Collard, Harris Dellas, Behzad Diba, and Alan Stockman
• w13614 November 2007 Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases
  Dora Gicheva, Justine Hastings, and Sofia Villas-Boas
• w13615 November 2007 Relative Goods' Prices, Pure Inflation, and the Phillips Correlation
  Ricardo Reis and Mark W. Watson
• w13616 November 2007 Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
  Arik Levinson
• w13555 November 2007 A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance
  YiLi Chien, Harold Cole, and Hanno Lustig
• w13587 November 2007 Too Good to Be True? An Examination of Three Economic Assessments of California Climate Change Policy
  Robert Stavins, Judson Jaffe, and Todd Schatzki
• w13588 November 2007 Global Yield Curve Dynamics and Interactions: A Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Approach
  Francis X. Diebold, Canlin Li, and Vivian Z. Yue
• w13589 November 2007 Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past
  Joseph Kaboski and Trevon D. Logan
• w13590 November 2007 Policy with Dispersed Information
  George-Marios Angeletos and Alessandro Pavan
• w13657 November 2007 Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men
  John Bound, Todd Stinebrickner, and Timothy Waidmann
• w13591 November 2007 Modeling Great Depressions: The Depression in Finland in the 1990s
  Juan Carlos Conesa, Timothy J. Kehoe, and Kim J. Ruhl
• w13592 November 2007 Measuring the Welfare Gain from Personal Computers: A Macroeconomic Approach
  Jeremy Greenwood and Karen A. Kopecky
• w13593 November 2007 Incentive Conflict In Central-Bank Responses to Sectoral Turmoil in Financial Hub Countries
  Edward J. Kane
• w13594 November 2007 Measuring the Values for Time
  Raymond B. Palmquist, Daniel J. Phaneuf, and V. Kerry Smith
• w13595 November 2007 Body Composition and Wages
  Roy Wada and Erdal Tekin
• w13596 November 2007 Whoa, Nellie! Empirical Tests of College Football's Conventional Wisdom
  Trevon D. Logan
• w13599 November 2007 The Mortality Cost to Smokers
  W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch
• w13597 November 2007 Bank Failures in Theory and History: The Great Depression and Other "Contagious" Events
  Charles W. Calomiris
• w13598 November 2007 The Political-Economy Positive Role of the Social Security System in Sustaining Immigration (But Not Vice Versa)
  Edith Sand and Assaf Razin
• w13600 November 2007 Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data
  John Cawley and Feng Liu
• w13601 November 2007 Did Firms Substitute Dividends for Share Repurchases after the 2003 Reductions in Shareholder Tax Rates?
  Jennifer L. Blouin, Jana Smith Raedy, and Douglas A. Shackelford
• w13602 November 2007 Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle
  Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Olivier Jeanne
• w13603 November 2007 Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How Important is On-The-Job Skill Accumulation?
  Gary D. Hansen and Selo Imrohoroglu
• w13604 November 2007 Financial Risk in the Biotechnology Industry
  Joseph H. Golec and John A. Vernon
• w13605 November 2007 Canada's Pioneering Experience with a Flexible Exchange Rate in the 1950s:(Hard) Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy
  Michael D. Bordo, Ali Dib, and Lawrence Schembri
• w13606 November 2007 Segregation and Black Political Efficacy
  Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat and Ebonya L. Washington
• w13659 November 2007 Exchange Rate Volatility and First-Time Entry by Multinational Firms
  Katheryn Niles Russ
• w13665 November 2007 Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
  Christopher A. Parsons, Johan Sulaeman, Michael C. Yates, and Daniel S. Hamermesh
• w13668 November 2007 Does Medicare Save Lives?
  David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas
• w13669 November 2007 Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico
  George J. Borjas
• w13674 November 2007 Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment
  Andreas Hornstein, Per Krusell, and Giovanni L. Violante
• w13676 November 2007 School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools' Effectiveness
  Alejandra Mizala and Miguel Urquiola
• w13567 November 2007 Victory or Repudiation? The Probability of the Southern Confederacy Winning the Civil War
  Marc D. Weidenmier and Kim Oosterlinck
• w13568 November 2007 Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing
  Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
• w13569 November 2007 Assessing Monetary Policy Effects Using Daily Fed Funds Futures Contracts
  James D. Hamilton
• w13570 November 2007 Corporate Financial Policies With Overconfident Managers
  Ulrike Malmendier, Geoffrey Tate, and Jonathan Yan
• w13571 November 2007 Endogenous Discounting, the World Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account
  Horag Choi, Nelson C. Mark, and Donggyu Sul
• w13572 November 2007 What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions
  Ruben N. Lubowski, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Robert N. Stavins
• w13573 November 2007 Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures
  Sheila Olmstead, W. Michael Hanemann, and Robert N. Stavins
• w13574 November 2007 Environmental Economics
  Robert N. Stavins
• w13575 November 2007 Environmental Law and Policy
  Richard L. Revesz and Robert Stavins
• w13576 November 2007 Immigration and Crime in Early 20th Century America
  Carolyn Moehling and Anne Morrison Piehl
• w13577 November 2007 Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in the First Era of Globalization
  Michael D. Bordo and Christopher M. Meissner
• w13578 November 2007 Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?
  Richard V. Burkhauser and Kosali I. Simon
• w13579 November 2007 Social Reinforcement: Cascades, Entrapment and Tipping
  Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther
• w13586 November 2007 The Impacts of Renminbi Appreciation on Trades Flows and Reserve Accumulation in a Monetary Trade Model
  Li Wang and John Whalley
• w13581 November 2007 Evaluating the Impure Chinese VAT Relative to a Pure Form in a Simple Monetary Trade Model with an Endogenous Trade Surplus
  John Whalley and Li Wang
• w13582 November 2007 Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000
  Rene Boeheim and Ana Rute Cardoso
• w13583 November 2007 Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend
  David E. Bloom, David Canning, Günther Fink, and Jocelyn E. Finlay
• w13580 November 2007 How the World Achieved Consensus on Monetary Policy
  Marvin Goodfriend
• w13584 November 2007 Real Options in a Dynamic Agency Model, with Applications to Financial Development, IPOs, and Business Risk
  Thomas Philippon and Yuliy Sannikov
• w13585 November 2007 How Much Uncompensated Care do Doctors Provide?
  Jonathan Gruber and David Rodriguez
• w13565 October 2007 Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation
  Maarten van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi, and Rob Alessie
• w13545 October 2007 Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
  Joana Naritomi, Rodrigo R. Soares, and Juliano J. Assunção
• w13550 October 2007 Measuring Ancient Inequality
  Branko Milanovic, Peter H. Lindert, and Jeffrey G. Williamson
• w13544 October 2007 Optimal Monetary Policy and the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability
  Giancarlo Corsetti, Luca Dedola, and Sylvain Leduc
• w13556 October 2007 Globalization and Inflation Dynamics: the Impact of Increased Competition
  Argia M. Sbordone
• w13546 October 2007 The Impact of Milton Friedman on Modern Monetary Economics: Setting the Record Straight on Paul Krugman's "Who Was Milton Friedman?"
  Edward Nelson and Anna J. Schwartz
• w13547 October 2007 Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration
  Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby
• w13548 October 2007 Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending
  Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer
• w13549 October 2007 Still the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election
  Jeffrey S. DeSimone and Courtney LaFountain
• w13551 October 2007 Entrepreneurship and the City
  Edward L. Glaeser
• w13552 October 2007 China's Exports and Employment
  Robert C. Feenstra and Chang Hong
• w13566 October 2007 Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science?
  Frederic S. Mishkin
• w13553 October 2007 Understanding Recent Trends in House Prices and Home Ownership
  Robert J. Shiller
• w13554 October 2007 The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis
  Kevin A. Hassett, Aparna Mathur, and Gilbert E. Metcalf
• w13557 October 2007 Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data
  Janet Currie and Firouz Gahvari
• w13558 October 2007 Low Interest Rates and High Asset Prices: An Interpretation in Terms of Changing Popular Economic Models
  Robert J. Shiller
• w13559 October 2007 Enforcement Problems and Secondary Markets
  Fernando A. Broner, Alberto Martin, and Jaume Ventura
• w13560 October 2007 Financiers vs. Engineers: Should the Financial Sector be Taxed or Subsidized?
  Thomas Philippon
• w13561 October 2007 Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?
  Tomas J. Philipson and Eric Sun
• w13562 October 2007 Voting as a Rational Choice: Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others
  Aaron Edlin, Andrew Gelman, and Noah Kaplan
• w13563 October 2007 On Optimal Legal Change, Past Behavior, and Grandfathering
  Steven Shavell
• w13564 October 2007 Eminent Domain Versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperpect Information About Owners' Valuation
  Steven Shavell
• w13522 October 2007 Dynamic Product Repositioning in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Format Switching in the Commercial Radio Industry
  Andrew Sweeting
• w13532 October 2007 Productivity and U.S. Macroeconomic Performance: Interpreting the Past and Predicting the Future with a Two-Sector Real Business Cycle Model
  Peter N. Ireland and Scott Schuh
• w13538 October 2007 An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation
  Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez
• w13518 October 2007 Housing and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
  Frederic S. Mishkin
• w13519 October 2007 The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity
  Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren
• w13527 October 2007 The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement
  Philippe Belley and Lance Lochner
• w13520 October 2007 The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement
  Carolyn J. Heinrich, Peter R. Mueser, and Kenneth R. Troske
• w13526 October 2007 The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy
  Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman
• w13521 October 2007 Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and US After 2001
  Lawrence Christiano, Roberto Motto, and Massimo Rostagno
• w13523 October 2007 The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality
  Thomas Lemieux
• w13524 October 2007 School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects
  Dennis N. Epple and Maria Marta Ferreyra
• w13525 October 2007 Understanding the Accrual Anomaly
  Jin Ginger Wu, Lu Zhang, and X. Frank Zhang
• w13528 October 2007 Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment
  Katherine Baicker and Helen Levy
• w13529 October 2007 The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices
  Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
• w13530 October 2007 What Have We Learned From Market Design?
  Alvin E. Roth
• w13531 October 2007 Export Dynamics in Colombia: Firm-Level Evidence
  Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, Maurice Kugler, and James Tybout
• w13533 October 2007 Demographic Change and the Structure of Wages: A Demand-Theoretic Analysis for Brazil
  Ernesto F. L. Amaral, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Joseph E. Potter, and Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto
• w13534 October 2007 Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK
  Robert Moffitt
• w13535 October 2007 Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities
  Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko
• w13536 October 2007 Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences
  Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest, and James Banks
• w13537 October 2007 Rational and Behavioral Perspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning
  Jeffrey R. Brown
• w13539 October 2007 Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
  David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, Monica Singhal, and Tom Vogl
• w13540 October 2007 Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
  Oliver Hart
• w13541 October 2007 Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa
  Anne Case and Alicia Menendez
• w13542 October 2007 Macroeconomic Modeling for Monetary Policy Evaluation
  Jordi Galí and Mark Gertler
• w13543 October 2007 Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
  Leah Platt Boustan
• w13488 October 2007 Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures
  Alan C. Monheit, Jessica P. Vistnes, and Jeannette A. Rogowski
• w13494 October 2007 Wages, Violence and Health in the Household
  Anna Aizer
• w13489 October 2007 Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880-1913
  Michael D. Bordo, Alberto F. Cavallo, and Christopher M. Meissner
• w13490 October 2007 Structural Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change
  Martin Weitzman
• w13491 October 2007 Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940
  Todd Sorensen, Price V. Fishback, Samuel Allen, and Shawn E. Kantor
• w13492 October 2007 Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships
  Anna Aizer and Pedro Dal Bó
• w13493 October 2007 Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
  Jonathan C. Javitt, James B. Rebitzer, and Lonny Reisman
• w13495 October 2007 The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price
  Anne Case, Diana Lee, and Christina Paxson
• w13496 October 2007 Housing Price Volatility and Downsizing in Later Life
  James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoë Oldfield, and James P. Smith
• w13517 October 2007 Computing Stochastic Dynamic Economic Models with a Large Number of State Variables: A Description and Application of a Smolyak-Collocation Method
  Benjamin Malin, Dirk Krueger, and Felix Kubler
• w13497 October 2007 "Lost" on the Web: Does Web Distribution Stimulate or Depress Television Viewing?
  Joel Waldfogel
• w13498 October 2007 Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable
  Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi, Omar Galarraga, and Jeffrey E. Harris
• w13499 October 2007 Unmeasured Investment and the Puzzling U.S. Boom in the 1990s
  Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott
• w13500 October 2007 The Economics of Inefficient Technology Use
  Paul Beaudry and Patrick Francois
• w13501 October 2007 The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance
  Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood
• w13502 October 2007 Two Reasons Why Money and Credit May be Useful in Monetary Policy
  Lawrence Christiano, Roberto Motto, and Massimo Rostagno
• w13503 October 2007 Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time
  Edgar Cudmore, John Piggott, and John Whalley
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