NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Microeconomics

Household Behavior and Family Economics


2009
w15477 Alejandrina Salcedo
Todd Schoellman
Michèle Tertilt

Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000

w15469 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell
Vilsa Curto

Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication Among Older Americans

w15392 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D

w15351 Robert J. Gordon
Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

w15310 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

Liquidity, Activity, Mortality

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15265 Christopher D. Carroll
Patrick Toche

A Tractable Model of Buffer Stock Saving

w15183 Seth M. Freedman
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Mara Lederman

Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls

w15159 Manuel Adelino
Kristopher Gerardi
Paul S. Willen

Why Don't Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization

w15087 Orazio Attanasio
Katja Kaufmann

Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints

w15145 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Default on Mortgages

w15093 Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang

The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w14998 Anne Case
Alicia Menendez

Requiescat in Pace? The Consequences of High Priced Funerals in South Africa

w14986 Raymond B. Palmquist
Daniel J. Phaneuf
V. Kerry Smith

Short Run Constraints and the Increasing Marginal Value of Time in Recreation

w14958 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Maitreesh Ghatak
Jeanne Lafortune

Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

w14954 Bruce Ian Carlin
Gustavo Manso

Obfuscation, Learning, and the Evolution of Investor Sophistication

w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck

The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions

w14933 Julio J. Rotemberg
Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

w14912 Jean-Pierre Dubé
Güenter J. Hitsch
Peter E. Rossi

State Dependence and Alternative Explanations for Consumer Inertia

w14859 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

w14827 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

w14822 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski

The Rise of the Service Economy

w14813 Ulrike Malmendier
Stefan Nagel

Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?

w14754 Miles S. Kimball
Claudia R. Sahm
Matthew D. Shapiro

Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation

w14742 Jonathan Guryan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

w14676 Michael Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

w14659 Sumit Agarwal
Paige M. Skiba
Jeremy Tobacman

Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?

w14653 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

w14639 Charles Yuji Horioka
Do Bequests Increase or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?


2008
w14583 Zoran Ivkovich
Scott Weisbenner

Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows

w14546 Marcos Chamon
Eswar Prasad

Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

w14456 Anne Case
Anu Garrib
Alicia Menendez
Analia Olgiati

Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa

w14451 Asher A. Blass
Saul Lach
Charles F. Manski

Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability

w14436 Liran Einav
Ephraim Leibtag
Aviv Nevo

Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan

w14433 Rachel Griffith
Ephraim Leibtag
Andrew Leicester
Aviv Nevo

Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index

w14414 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

w14406 Jessica Cohen
Pascaline Dupas

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment

w14346 Betsey Stevenson
Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

w14328 Liliana E. Pezzin
Robert A. Pollak
Barbara S. Schone

Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?

w14266 Larry E. Jones
Alice Schoonbroodt
Michèle Tertilt

Fertility Theories: Can They Explain the Negative Fertility-Income Relationship?

w14237 Jon Bakija
Bradley Heim

How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel Estimates Accounting for Predictable Changes in Taxation

w14228 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Filippos Papakonstantinou
Jonathan A. Parker

An Economic Model of the Planning Fallacy

w14177 Laurent E. Calvet
John Y. Campbell
Paolo Sodini

Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

w14089 Amy Finkelstein
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

w14084 Annamaria Lusardi
Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?

w14035 Peter J. Kuhn
Peter Kooreman
Adriaan R. Soetevent
Arie Kapteyn

The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

w13982 Robert J. Gordon
Ian Dew-Becker

Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

w13966 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

w13919 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt

Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?

w13905 Raj Arunachalam
Trevon Logan

Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

w13893 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure

w13873 Li Gan
Roberto Mosquera

An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers

w13870 Trevon D. Logan
Are Engel Curve Estimates of CPI Bias Biased?

w13869 Trevon D. Logan
Economies of Scale in the Household: Puzzles and Patterns from the American Past

w13824 Annamaria Lusardi
Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs

w13822 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

Learning in the Credit Card Market

w13796 B. Douglas Bernheim
Jonathan Meer

How Much Value Do Real Estate Brokers Add? A Case Study

w13789 Erik Hurst
The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle

w13754 Julio J. Rotemberg
Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

w13738 Marianne Bertrand
Simon Johnson
Krislert Samphantharak
Antoinette Schoar

Mixing Family With Business: A Study of Thai Business Groups and the Families Behind Them


2007
w13700 Alma Cohen
Rajeev Dehejia
Dmitri Romanov

Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

w13699 Young Han Lee
Ulrike Malmendier

The Bidder's Curse

w13656 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

w13649 Ashlesha Datar
Arkadipta Ghosh
Neeraj Sood

Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India

w13638 Alberto Alesina
Andrea Ichino
Loukas Karabarbounis

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

w13627 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans

w13609 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w13573 Sheila Olmstead
W. Michael Hanemann
Robert N. Stavins

Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures

w13541 Anne Case
Alicia Menendez

Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa

w13496 James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith

Housing Price Volatility and Downsizing in Later Life

w13495 Anne Case
Diana Lee
Christina Paxson

The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

w13392 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Nikolai Roussanov

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

w13386 MaryBeth Walker
Erdal Tekin
Sally Wallace

Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

w13369 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Joshua Mitchell

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

w13361 Ralph S.J Koijen
Otto Van Hemert
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Mortgage Timing

w13330 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney
Kory Kroft

Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

w13352 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

w13273 Charles Yuji Horioka
Wataru Suzuki
Tatsuo Hatta

Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan

w13258 Orley Ashenfelter
Stephen Ciccarella
Howard J. Shatz

French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

w13247 Nava Ashraf
James Berry
Jesse M. Shapiro

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

w13228 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Paul Schrimpf

The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

w13220 John Donaldson
Rajnish Mehra

Risk Based Explanations of the Equity Premium

w13201 Zoran Ivkovich
Scott Weisbenner

Information Diffusion Effects in Individual Investors' Common Stock Purchases Covet Thy Neighbors' Investment Choices

w13191 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle

w13169 Jeffrey R. Brown
Nellie Liang
Scott Weisbenner

Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans

w13142 Robert A. Pollak
Bargaining Around the Hearth

w13138 Alexandre Mas
Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market

w13137 Carole Roan Gresenz
Jeannette Rogowski
José J. Escarce

Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length

w13127 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen Donald

The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

w13124 Ulrike Malmendier
Devin Shanthikumar

Do Security Analysts Speak in Two Tongues?

w13105 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
Steven Laufer
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

w13067 William Adams
Liran Einav
Jonathan Levin

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending

w13000 Michael Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Philippe Weil

Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

w12981 Jonathan Skinner
Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?

w12967 Kristopher Gerardi
Harvey S. Rosen
Paul Willen

Do Households Benefit from Financial Deregulation and Innovation? The Case of the Mortgage Market

w12961 Morten Ravn
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
Martin Uribe

Incomplete Cost Pass-Through Under Deep Habits

w12955 Jacob L. Vigdor
Is Urban Decay Bad? Is Urban Revitalization Bad Too?

w12944 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

w12942 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement

w12940 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Christian Gollier
Jonathan A. Parker

Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns

w12936 Nicholas Barberis
Ming Huang

Stocks as Lotteries: The Implications of Probability Weighting for Security Prices

w12908 Shelly Lundberg
Robert A. Pollak

The American Family and Family Economics

w12842 Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott J. Weisbenner

Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?


2006
w12776 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Steven Shavell

Mandatory Versus Voluntary Disclosure of Product Risks

w12768 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

w12758 Martin Gaynor
Jian Li
William B. Vogt

Is Drug Coverage a Free Lunch? Cross-Price Elasticities and the Design of Prescription Drug Benefits

w12756 Andre Bonfrer
Ernst R. Berndt
Alvin Silk

Anomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test

w12723 Charles Yuji Horioka
Junmin Wan

The Determinants of Household Saving in China: A Dynamic Panel Analysis of Provincial Data

w12712 Juan Carlos Hallak
A Product-Quality View of the Linder Hypothesis

w12701 Wojciech Kopczuk
Bequest and Tax Planning: Evidence From Estate Tax Returns

w12688 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore
Younghwan Song

The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

w12659 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Simplification and Saving

w12655 Midori Wakabayashi
Charles Y. Horioka

Is the Eldest Son Different? The Residential Choice of Siblings in Japan

w12630 Raj Arunachalam
Trevon D. Logan

On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives

w12554 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles

w12530 Jonathan E. Hughes
Christopher R. Knittel
Daniel Sperling

Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

w12456 Orazio Attanasio
Margherita Borella

Stochastic Components of Individual Consumption: A Time Series Analysis of Grouped Data

w12452 Louis Kaplow
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply

w12396 Dean Yang
Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence From Philippine Migrants%u2019 Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

w12388 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Melvin Stephens
Jr.

The Level and Composition of Consumption Over the Business Cycle: The Role of %u201CQuasi-Fixed%u201D Expenditures

w12370 Peter C. Reiss
Matthew W. White

Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices

w12367 Leora Friedberg
Anthony Webb

Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households

w12358 Liliana E. Pezzin
Robert A. Pollak
Barbara S. Schone

Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

w12351 Charles Yuji Horioka
The Dissaving of the Aged Revisited: The Case of Japan

w12350 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Mark L. Pocock

Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman

w12341 Gary D. Hansen
Selahattin Imrohoroglu

Consumption Over the Life Cycle: The Role of Annuities

w12338 Dean Karlan
John A. List

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

w12331 Janna L. Matlack
Jacob L. Vigdor

Do Rising Tides Lift All Prices? Income Inequality and Housing Affordability

w12330 Miki Kohara
Charles Yuji Horioka

Do Borrowing Constraints Matter? An Analysis of Why the Permanent Income Hypothesis Does Not Apply in Japan

w12329 Justin McCrary
Heather Royer

The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

w12325 Dean Yang
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

w12309 Paul Willen
Felix Kubler

Collateralized Borrowing and Life-Cycle Portfolio Choice

w12288 Malcolm Baker
Stefan Nagel
Jeffrey Wurgler

The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

w12287 Reuben Gronau
Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia

w12282 Erica Field
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School

w12261 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds

w12242 Glenn Ellison
Sara Fisher Ellison

Internet Retail Demand: Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

w12142 Charles Yuji Horioka
The Causes of Japan's "Lost Decade": The Role of Household Consumption

w12082 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades

w11951 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Sabina Ohri

Health Insurance Take-up by the Near Elderly

w11920 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian

Early Decisions: A Regulatory Framework


2005
w11892 Marianne Bertrand
Dean Karlin
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Jonathan Zinman

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

w11809 Jerry Hausman
Ephraim Leibtag

Consumer Benefits from Increased Competition in Shopping Outlets: Measuring the Effect of Wal-Mart

w11767 Wojciech Kopczuk
Joseph Lupton

To Leave or Not To Leave: The Distribution of Bequest Motives

w11763 Li Gan
Tarun Sabarwal

A Simple Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theories of Consumer Bankruptcy

w11754 Trevon D. Logan
The Transformation of Hunger: The Demand for Calories Past and Present

w11648 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Trusting the Stock Market

w11601 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Lifecycle Prices and Production

w11576 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

w11560 Midori Wakabayashi
Charles Yuji Horioka

Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Behavior in Japan

w11553 Ye Feng
Don Fullerton
Li Gan

Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven, and Pollution Policies

w11534 John Y. Campbell
João F. Cocco

How Do House Prices Affect Consumption? Evidence From Micro Data

w11518 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

w11485 Wojciech Kopczuk
Joel Slemrod

Denial of Death and Economic Behavior

w11431 John A. Rizzo
Richard Zeckhauser

Generic Scrip Share and the Price of Brand-Name Drugs: The Role of the Consumer

w11405 Kevin M. Murphy
Robert H. Topel

The Value of Health and Longevity

w11395 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees

w11361 Manju Puri
David Robinson

Optimism and Economic Choice

w11327 Thomas S. Dee
Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex

w11252 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin
Gregory F. Branch

Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making With School Choice

w11239 Robert A. Pollak
Bargaining Power in Marriage: Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

w11227 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

A Damage-Revelation Rationale for Coupon Remedies

w11163 John Laitner
Dan Silverman

Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement

w11122 George M. Constantinides
John B. Donaldson
Rajnish Mehra

Junior is Rich: Bequests as Consumption

w11079 Rob Alessie
Agar Brugiavini
Guglielmo Weber

Saving and Cohabitation: The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands


2004
w11012 Morten O. Ravn
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
Martin Uribe

The Macroeconomics of Subsistence Points

w10980 Kathleen Beegle
Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

w10976 Gary S. Becker
Kevin M. Murphy
Michael Grossman

The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs

w10915 Julio J. Rotemberg
Fair Pricing

w10883 Ricardo Reis
Inattentive Consumers

w10819 Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

Overestimating Self_Control: Evidence from the Health Club Industry

w10812 Ulrike Malmendier
Devin Shanthikumar

Are Investors Naive About Incentives?

w10765 Jeremy Greenwood
Ananth Seshadri

Technological Progress and Economic Transformation

w10707 Markus K. Brunnermeier
Jonathan A. Parker

Optimal Expectations

w10514 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
John Leahy
Tom Tyler

Measuring Self-Control

w10509 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons

w10498 Esther Duflo
Christopher Udry

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

w10462 Arthur van Soest
Michael Hurd

A Test for Anchoring and Yea-Saying in Experimental Consumption Data

w10461 Arthur van Soest
Michael Hurd

Models for Anchoring and Acquiescence Bias in Consumption Data

w10281 Gordon B. Dahl
Enrico Moretti

The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage

w10261 Morten Ravn
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
Martin Uribe

Deep Habits

w10231 Mikhail Golosov
Larry E. Jones
Michele Tertilt

Efficiency with Endogenous Population Growth

w10226 Mark Grinblatt
Matti Keloharju
Seppo Ikaheimo

Interpersonal Effects in Consumption: Evidence from the Automobile Purchases of Neighbors


2003
w10175 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress

w10162 A. Mitchell Polinsky
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts

w10159 Shubham Chaudhuri
Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Panle Jia

Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study of Quinolones in India

w10062 William H. Crown
Ernst R. Berndt
Onur Baser
Stan N. Finkelstein
Whitney P. Witt

Benefit Plan Design and Prescription Drug Utilization Among Asthmatics: Do Patient Copayments Matter?

w10012 Jin-Tan Liu
James K. Hammitt

Effects of Disease Type and Latency on the Value of Mortality Risk

w9997 Nicholas Barberis
Ming Huang
Richard Thaler

Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium

w9993 Dirk Krueger
Fabrizio Perri

On the Welfare Consequences of the Increase in Inequality in the United States

w9986 Peter C. Reiss
Matthew W. White

Demand and Pricing in Electricity Markets: Evidence from San Diego During California's Energy Crisis

w9926 Jeff Dominitz
Charles F. Manski

How Should We Measure Consumer Confidence (Sentiment)? Evidence from the Michigan Survey of Consumers

w9925 Mark V. Pauly
Kate H. Withers
Krupa Subramanian-Viswana
Jean Lemaire
John C. Hershey

Price Elasticity of Demand for Term Life Insurance and Adverse Selection

w9917 James Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
Andrew Metrick

Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults

w9902 Axel Borsch-Supan
Lothar Essig

Household Saving in Germany: Results of the first SAVE study

w9896 Richard B. Freeman
What, Me Vote?

w9811 Joseph G. Altonji
Ernesto Villanueva

The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children

w9789 Andrew B. Bernard
Peter K. Schott
Stephen Redding

Product Choice and Product Switching

w9788 Anne Case
Angela Fertig
Christina Paxson

From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance

w9760 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

w9745 Audrey Light
Kathleen McGarry

Why Parents Play Favorites: Explanations for Unequal Bequests

w9736 John A. List
Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace

w9714 Thomas Davidoff
Jeffrey R. Brown
Peter A. Diamond

Annuities and Individual Welfare

w9647 Tokuo Iwaisako
Household Portfolios in Japan

w9499 William N. Goetzmann
Massimo Massa

Disposition Matters: Volume, Volatility and Price Impact of a Behavioral Bias

w9429 Bradley T. Heim
Bruce D. Meyer

Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Models


2002
w9394 Shin-Yi Chou
Jin-Tan Liu
James K. Hammitt

Health Insurance and Households' Precautionary Behaviors - An Unusual Natural Experiment

w9382 Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
Dirk Krueger

Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

w9350 Jeff DeSimone
Determinants of Drug Injection Behavior: Economic Factors, HIV Injection Risk and Needle Exchange Programs

w9330 Melissa Schettini Kearney
State Lotteries and Consumer Behavior

w9329 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Addiction and Cue-Conditioned Cognitive Processes

w9298 Jerry Hausman
Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the CPI

w9232 Robert A. Pollak
Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics

w9213 Anne Case
Christina Paxson
Joseph Ableidinger

Orphans in Africa

w9099 Robert A. Pollak
An Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence

w8948 Nathan D. Grawe
Casey B. Mulligan

Economic Interpretations of Intergenerational Correlations

w8920 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
John Leahy

Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan

w8735 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
John Leahy

Retirement Consumption: Insights from a Survey

w8702 Jenny Williams
Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity?


2001
w8688 Louis Kaplow
Steven Shavell

Moral Rules and the Moral Sentiments: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System

w8651 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
Andrew Metrick

For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior

w8642 Shelly Lundberg
Robert A. Pollak

Efficiency in Marriage

w8577 Charles Yuji Horioka
Are the Japanese Selfish, Altruistic, or Dynastic?

w8544 B. Douglas Bernheim
Katherine Grace Carman
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

w8509 Reuben Gronau
Daniel S. Hamermesh

The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

w8495 Anne Case
Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions

w8473 Joseph G. Altonji
Ulrich Doraszelski

The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth

t0272 Patrick Bajari
C. Lanier Benkard

Demand Estimation With Heterogeneous Consumers and Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach

w8298 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s

w8262 Kent Smetters
Jennifer Gravelle

The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation

w8237 Annamaria Lusardi
Jonathan Skinner
Steven Venti

Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States

w8234 Todd W. Allen
Christopher D. Carroll

Individual Learning About Consumption

w8227 Amil Petrin
Quantifying the Benefits of New Products: The Case of the Minivan

w8176 Robert C. Feenstra
Matthew D. Shapiro

High-Frequency Substitution and the Measurement of Price Indexes

w8159 Casey B. Mulligan
Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor


2000
w7906 Karen E. Dynan
Jonathan Skinner
Stephen P. Zeldes

Do the Rich Save More?

w7874 Anne Case
I-Fen Lin
Sara McLanahan

Educational Attainment in Blended Families

w7839 Christopher D. Carroll
'Risky Habits' and the Marginal Propensity to Consume Out of Permanent Income, or, How Much Would a Permanent Tax Cut Boost Japanese Consumption?

w7826 Christopher D. Carroll
Portfolios of the Rich

w7791 B. Douglas Bernheim
Sergei Severinov

Bequests as Signals: An Explanation for the Equal Division Puzzle

w7785 Jerome Adda
Russell Cooper

The Dynamics of Car Sales: A Discrete Choice Approach

w7772 Ernst R. Berndt
Robert S. Pindyck
Pierre Azoulay

Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs

w7713 David M. Cutler
Edward Glaeser
Karen Norberg

Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide

w7691 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

Mothers and Others: Who Invests in Children's Health?

w7663 David Joulfaian
Estate Taxes and Charitable Bequests by the Wealthy

w7650 Dora L. Costa
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures

w7594 Marianne Bertrand
Douglas Miller
Sendhil Mullainathan

Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa

w7545 Eli Berman
Zaur Rzakhanov

Fertility, Migration, and Altruism

w7463 Charles Yuji Horioka
Hideki Fujisaki
Wako Watanabe
Takatsugu Kouno

Are Americans More Altruistic than the Japanese? A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives


1999
w7238 Jonathan A. Parker
Spendthrift in America? On Two Decades of Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate

w7148 Dora L. Costa
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures

w7046 Marianne Baxter
Urban J. Jermann

Household Production and the Excess Sensitivity of Consumption to Current Income

w7024 Ernst R. Berndt
Robert S. Pindyck
Pierre Azoulay

Network Effects and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs


1998
w6568 Christopher D. Carroll
Byung-Kun Rhee
Changyong Rhee

Does Cultural Origin Affect Saving Behavior? Evidence from Immigrants

w6549 Christopher D. Carroll
Why Do the Rich Save So Much?


1997
w6227 B. Douglas Bernheim
Jonathan Skinner
Steven Weinberg

What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?

w6085 B. Douglas Bernheim
Daniel M. Garrett
Dean M. Maki

Education and Saving: The Long-Term Effects of High School Financial Curriculum Mandates

w6081 Christopher D. Carroll
Wendy E. Dunn

Unemployment Expectations, Jumping (S,s) Triggers, and Household Balance Sheets

w4032 Martin Feldstein
College Scholarship Rules and Private Saving

w6054 Dora L. Costa
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888


1996
w4163 Laurie Simon Bagwell
B. Douglas Bernheim

Conspicuous Consumption, Pure Profits, and the Luxury Tax

t0203 Steven N. Durlauf
Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior


1995
w5378 Joseph G. Altonji
Fumio Hayashi
Laurence Kotlikoff

Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence

w4181 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

401(k) Plans and Tax-Deferred Saving

w5315 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel T. Slesnick

Unemployment Insurance and Household Welfare: Microeconomic Evidence 1980-93

w5261 Albert Ando
Andrea Moro

Demographic Dynamics, Labor Force Participation and Household Asset Accumulation: Case of Japan

w5152 Michael J. Moore
Philip J. Cook

Habit and Heterogeneity in the Youthful Demand for Alcohol

w5126 Orazio P. Attanasio
Hilary W. Hoynes

Differential Mortality and Wealth Accumulation

w5099 Kathleen McGarry
Robert F. Schoeni

Transfer Behavior within the Family: Results from the Asset and Health Dynamics Survey

w5044 David Neumark
Andrew Postlewaite

Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment

w5033 Fumio Hayashi
Is the Japanese Extended Family Altruistically Linked? A Test based on Engel Curves

w4272 Zvi Griliches
Iain Cockburn

Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price Indexes


1994
w4950 Joseph G. Altonji
Thomas A. Dunn

An Intergenerational Model of Wages, Hours and Earnings

w4900 Orazio P. Attanasio
Thomas C. DeLeire

IRAs and Household Saving Revisited: Some New Evidence

w4771 Orazio Attanasio
Steven J. Davis

Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption

w4629 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement in a Family Context: A Structural Model for Husbands and Wives


1993
w4569 Albert Ando
Luigi Guiso
Daniele Terlizzese

Dissaving by the Elderly, Transfer Motives and Liquidity Constraints

w4454 Orazio P. Attanasio
A Cohort Analysis of Saving Behavior by U.S. Households


1992
w4019 David Neumark
Sanders Korenman

Sources of Bias in Women's Wage Equations: Results Using Sibling Data

w3976 Miles Kimball
Philippe Weil

Precautionary Saving and Consumption Smoothing Across Time and Possibilities


1991
w3834 Fumio Hayashi
Joseph Altonji
Laurence Kotlikoff

Risk-Sharing, Altruism, and the Factor Structure of Consumption


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