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2009
w15354 Dave E. Marcotte
Sara Markowitz

A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends

w15213 Samuel H. Preston
Jessica Y. Ho

Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?

w15164 David M. Cutler
Bryan Lincoln
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans

w15130 Jason M. Fletcher
Partha Deb
Jody L. Sindelar

Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence

w15032 Anupam Jena
Tomas Philipson

Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

w15001 Kerry Anne McGeary
The Impact of State-Level Nutrition-Education Program Funding on BMI: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

w14838 Robert S. Goldfarb
Thomas C. Leonard
Sara Markowitz
Steven Suranovic

Can A Rational Choice Framework Make Sense of Anorexia Nervosa?

w14775 Marigee Bacolod
John DiNardo
Mireille Jacobson

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

w14723 David S. Lee
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics


2008
w14419 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew G. Resseger
Kristina Tobio

Urban Inequality

w14404 Pinka Chatterji
Margarita Alegria
David Takeuchi

Psychiatric Disorders and Employment: New Evidence from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES)

w14374 Edward L. Glaeser
Charles Redlick

Social Capital and Urban Growth

w14340 Isaac Ehrlich
William A. Hamlen Jr.
Yong Yin

Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets

w14274 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

w14156 Pinka Chatterji
Sara Markowitz

Family Leave after Childbirth and the Health of New Mothers

w14114 Bruce Sacerdote
James Feyrer

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations

w14131 Naci H. Mocan
Vengeance

w14027 Kathy Fogel
Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

Big Business Stability and Social Welfare


2007
w13604 Joseph H. Golec
John A. Vernon

Financial Risk in the Biotechnology Industry

w13561 Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?

w13402 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Daniel M. Hungerman

The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation

w13358 Baoping Shang
Dana P. Goldman

Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending

w13343 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes

w13113 Inas Rashad
Sara Markowitz

Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance

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

w12931 Jeffrey R. Kling
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments

w12849 Neeraj Kaushal
Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience


2006
t0333 Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Michael Kremer

Using Ramdomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

w12674 James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoe Oldfield
James P. Smith

The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic

w12527 Sara Markowitz
The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

w12300 Sara Markowitz
John Tauras

Even For Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees: Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints

w12232 Alison Cuellar
Sara Markowitz

Medicaid Policy Changes in Mental Health Care and Their Effect on Mental Health Outcomes

w12227 Susan M. Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics

w12145 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery


2005
w11844 Donald Boyd
Pamela Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement

w11822 Katherine Ho
Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market

w11819 Katherine Ho
The Welfare Effects of Restricted Hospital Choice in the US Medical Care Market

w11818 Dana Goldman
Nicole Maestas

Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice

w11805 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program

w11463 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

Principals as Agents: Subjective Performance Measurement in Education

w11378 Sara Markowitz
Robert Kaestner
Michael Grossman

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors

w11343 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Gender, Body Mass and Economic Status

w11316 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

The Determinants of the Willingness to be an Organ Donor

w11302 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility


2004
w10932 Edward P. Lazear
Speeding, Tax Fraud, and Teaching to the Test

w10896 John F. Helliwell
Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

w10653 Anne C. Case
Christina Paxson

Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality

w10440 Katherine Baicker
Douglas Staiger

Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality

w10361 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Subjective Outcomes in Economics

w10256 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

Market Culture: How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance

w10247 Christopher J. Ruhm
How Well Do Parents With Young Children Combine Work and Family Life


2003
w10063 James P. Smith
Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events

w9994 Jonathan Klick
Sara Markowitz

Are Mental Health Insurance Mandates Effective? Evidence from Suicides

w9972 Leemore S. Dafny
How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?

w9954 Susanna Loeb
Bruce Fuller
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Bidemi Carrol
Judith Carroll

Child Care in Poor Communities: Early Learning Effects of Type, Quality, and Stability

w9952 Alison Evans Cuellar
Sara Markowitz
Anne M. Libby

The Relationships between Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Juvenile Crime

w9913 Axel Borsch-Supan
Barbara Berkel

Pension Reform in Germany: The Impact on Retirement Decisions

w9897 Florian Heiss
Michael Hurd
Axel Borsch-Supan

Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Predicted Trajectories of Health, Wealth and Living Arrangements Among the Oldest Old

w9892 James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise

Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts

w9653 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren

Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration and Juvenile Crime

w9561 John Cawley
Sara Markowitz
John Tauras

Lighting Up and Slimming Down: The Effects of Body Weight and Cigarette Prices on Adolescent Smoking Initiation

w9467 C. Nicholas McKinney
Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

The collapse of a medical clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)


2002
w9346 Jay Bhattacharya
Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood

The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-Related Mortality

w9244 Michael Grossman
Sara Markowitz

I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use

w9216 Michael Grossman
Robert Kaestner
Sara Markowitz

Get High and Get Stupid: The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior

w9065 John F. Helliwell
How's Life? Combining Individual and National Variables to Explain Subjective Well-Being

w8844 Brett Katzman
Sara Markowitz
Kerry Anne McGeary

The Impact of Lending, Borrowing, and Anti-Smoking Policies on Cigarette Consumption by Teens

w8810 Sara Markowitz
Pinka Chatterji
Robert Kaestner
Dhaval Dave

Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Young Adults


2001
w8481 Edward Miguel
Michael Kremer

Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya


2000
w7982 Sara Markowitz
An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

w7500 Sara Markowitz
The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers


1999
w7099 Rebecca M. Blank
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services


1996
w5760 Tomas Philipson
Gary S. Becker

Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance


1995
w5216 William H. Dow
Jessica Holmes
Tomas Philipson
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions


1994
w3923 Richard G. Frank
Martin Gaynor

"Organizational Failure and Government Transfers: Evidence From an Experiment in the Financing of Mental Health Care."


1993
w3803 Richard G. Frank
David S. Salkever

Pricing, Patent Loss and the Market For Pharmaceuticals

w3987 Theodore Joyce
Andrew D. Racine
Naci Mocan

The Consequences and Costs of Maternal Substance Abuse in New York City


1992
w3994 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Human Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution


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