NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Public Economics


2013
w19130 Emel Filiz-Ozbay
Jonathan Guryan
Kyle Hyndman
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Erkut Y. Ozbay
Do Lottery Payments Induce Savings Behavior: Evidence from the Lab

w19122 Enrico Spolaore
What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

w19121 Richard V. Burkhauser
Markus H. Hahn
Roger Wilkins
Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data: A Cautionary Tale from Australia

w19114 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Philipp Harms
Matthew O. Jackson
Updating Beliefs with Ambiguous Evidence: Implications for Polarization

w19110 Philip Armour
Richard V. Burkhauser
Jeff Larrimore
Levels and Trends in United States Income and Its Distribution: A Crosswalk from Market Income Towards a Comprehensive Haig-Simons Income Approach

w19102 Anna Aizer
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Juvenile Incarceration, Human Capital and Future Crime: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges

w19082 Jonathan Meer
Effects of the Price of Charitable Giving: Evidence from an Online Crowdfunding Platform

w19081 T. Christopher Borek
Angelo Frattarelli
Oliver Hart
Tax Shelters or Efficient Tax Planning? A Theory of The Firm Perspective On the Economic Substance Doctrine

w19080 John G. Bullock
Alan S. Gerber
Seth J. Hill
Gregory A. Huber
Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics

w19075 Facundo Alvaredo
Anthony B. Atkinson
Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

w19071 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving

w19066 Alexander L. Brown
Jonathan Meer
J. Forrest Williams
Why Do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations

w19064 Joseph Stiglitz
Jungyoll Yun
Optimal Provision of Loans and Insurance Against Unemployment From A Lifetime Perspective

w19035 Liran Einav
Jonathan D. Levin
The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

w19031 Scott E. Carrell
Bruce Sacerdote
Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching New Hampshire

w19020 Patrick Bayer
Fernando Ferreira
Stephen L. Ross
The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

w19014 Sara Heller
Harold A. Pollack
Roseanna Ander
Jens Ludwig
Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment

w19007 Richard Blundell
Monica Costa Dias
Costas Meghir
Jonathan M. Shaw
Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform

w19000 Alisdair McKay
Ricardo Reis
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle

w18999 Geoffrey Heal
Antony Millner
Discounting under Disagreement

w18998 James Andreoni
A. Abigail Payne
Sarah Smith
Do Grants to Charities Crowd Out Other Income? Evidence from the UK

w18991 Mark Pauly
Ashley Swanson
Social Impact Bonds in Nonprofit Health Care: New Product or New Package?

w18988 Elizabeth Davidson
Randall Reback
Jonah E. Rockoff
Heather L. Schwartz
Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind: Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States’ Implementation of NCLB

w18981 Umut M. Dur
Scott Duke Kominers
Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez
The Demise of Walk Zones in Boston: Priorities vs. Precedence in School Choice

w18980 Elliot Anenberg
Patrick Bayer
Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem

w18979 Fatih Guvenen
Michelle Rendall
Women's Emancipation Through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis

w18976 Edward L. Glaeser
Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
Shrouded Costs of Government: The Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions

w18965 Stuart A. Gabriel
Matthew E. Kahn
Ryan K. Vaughn
Congressional Influence as a Determinant of Subprime Lending

w18949 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment

w18947 Michael Geruso
Harvey S. Rosen
Fraud in the Workplace? Evidence from a Dependent Verification Program

w18936 Roland Bénabou
Jean Tirole
Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

w18930 Gerald Carlino
Robert P. Inman
Local Deficits and Local Jobs: Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?

w18928 David Neumark
Diego Grijalva
The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits During and After the Great Recession

w18927 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Alex Rees-Jones
Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

w18925 David Albouy
Walter F. Graf
Ryan Kellogg
Hendrik Wolff
Climate Amenities, Climate Change, and American Quality of Life

w18924 Garth Heutel
David L. Kelly
Incidence and Environmental Effects of Distortionary Subsidies

w18922 Stéphane Guibaud
Yves Nosbusch
Dimitri Vayanos
Bond Market Clienteles, the Yield Curve, and the Optimal Maturity Structure of Government Debt

w18913 Keith Marzilli Ericson
Judd B. Kessler
The Articulation Effect of Government Policy: Health Insurance Mandates Versus Taxes

w18907 Julie Agnew
Joshua Hurwitz
Financial Education and Choice in State Public Pension Systems

w18902 Gopi Shah Goda
Damon Jones
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Retirement Plan Type and Employee Mobility: The Role of Selection and Incentive Effects

w18900 Sanders Korenman
Dahlia Remler
Rethinking Elderly Poverty: Time for a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure?

w18898 Kathy Baylis
Don Fullerton
Daniel H. Karney
Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy

w18897 Joshua Elliott
Don Fullerton
Can a Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?

w18889 Lisa Barrow
Amy Claessens
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
The Impact of Chicago’s Small High School Initiative

w18885 Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Camille Landais
Emmanuel Saez
Esben Anton Schultz
Migration and Wage Effects of Taxing Top Earners: Evidence from the Foreigners' Tax Scheme in Denmark

w18881 Justine S. Hastings
Ali Hortaçsu
Chad Syverson
Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico

w18880 Joseph Gyourko
Joseph Tracy
Unemloyment and Unobserved Credit Risk in the FHA Single Family Mortgage Insurance Fund

w18872 Siqi Zheng
Matthew E. Kahn
Weizeng Sun
Danglun Luo
Incentivizing China’s Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism

w18871 Nicholas Bloom
James Liang
John Roberts
Zhichun Jenny Ying
Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

w18869 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K.C. Mok
Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

w18865 Ilyana Kuziemko
Michael I. Norton
Emmanuel Saez
Stefanie Stantcheva
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

w18863 John Cawley
Rosemary Avery
Matthew Eisenberg
The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

w18859 Gary Solon
Steven J. Haider
Jeffrey Wooldridge
What Are We Weighting For?

w18853 David Dranove
Craig Garthwaite
Christopher Ody
How do Hospitals Respond to Negative Financial Shocks? The Impact of the 2008 Stock Market Crash

w18849 Christopher R. Knittel
Ryan Sandler
The Welfare Impact of Indirect Pigouvian Taxation: Evidence from Transportation

w18835 Emmanuel Saez
Stefanie Stantcheva
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights for Optimal Tax Theory

w18812 Barbara L. Wolfe
Jason Fletcher
Estimating Benefits from University-Level Diversity

w18804 Jonathan T. Kolstad
Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards

w18798 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi
Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

w18792 Emmanuel Farhi
Iván Werning
Estate Taxation with Altruism Heterogeneity

w18787 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Nichole Szembrot
Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments

w18785 Michael J. Kottelenberg
Steven F. Lehrer
New Evidence on the Impacts of Access to and Attending Universal Childcare in Canada

w18779 Olivier J. Blanchard
Daniel Leigh
Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers

w18772 Jens Ludwig
Greg J. Duncan
Lisa A. Gennetian
Lawrence F. Katz
Ronald C. Kessler
Jeffrey R. Kling
Lisa Sanbonmatsu
Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity

w18674 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Jacob N. Shapiro
Erin Troland
Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones

w18767 Stephen Coate
Evaluating Durable Public Good Provision using Housing Prices

w18764 Veronika K. Pool
Clemens Sialm
Irina Stefanescu
It Pays to Set the Menu: Mutual Fund Investment Options in 401(k) Plans

w18762 Jing Wu
Joseph Gyourko
Yongheng Deng
Is There Evidence of a Real Estate Collateral Channel Effect on Listed Firm Investment in China?

w18760 Ellen R. McGrattan
Edward C. Prescott
On Financing Retirement with an Aging Population

w18759 Robert J. Barro
Sanjay P. Misra
Gold Returns

w18758 Patrick Kline
Enrico Moretti
Place Based Policies with Unemployment

w18757 Michael L. Anderson
Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns: The Impacts of Public Transit on Traffic Congestion

w18755 Jeffrey R. Brown
Zoran Ivković
Scott Weisbenner
Empirical Determinants of Intertemporal Choice

w18749 Michael F. Lovenheim
Emily G. Owens
Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998

w18748 Stefano DellaVigna
John A. List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao
The Importance of Being Marginal: Gender Differences in Generosity

w18747 Wojciech Kopczuk
Incentive Effects of Inheritances and Optimal Estate Taxation

w18742 B. Douglas Bernheim
Debraj Ray
Sevin Yeltekin
Poverty and Self-Control

w18735 Matthew J. Holian
Matthew E. Kahn
The Rise of the Low Carbon Consumer City

w18731 Hope Corman
Naci H. Mocan
Alcohol Consumption, Deterrence and Crime in New York City

w18728 Roger Gordon
Gordon B. Dahl
Views among Economists: Professional Consensus or Point-Counterpoint?

w18719 Jeremy Lise
Costas Meghir
Jean-Marc Robin
Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics

w18718 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan
Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession

w18681 David Neumark
J.M. Ian Salas
William Wascher
Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?

w18700 Janet Currie
Lucas Davis
Michael Greenstone
Reed Walker
Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings

w18698 Naoki Aizawa
Hanming Fang
Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform

w18692 Alan Barreca
Karen Clay
Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

w18690 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang
Comparing the Happiness Effects of Real and On-line Friends

w18687 Daniel L. McFadden
The New Science of Pleasure

w18669 Annamaria Lusardi
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Olivia S. Mitchell
Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality

w18665 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics


2012
w18663 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Revealed Preferences for Journals: Evidence from Page Limits

w18662 Joshua Angrist
Miikka Rokkanen
Wanna Get Away? RD Identification Away from the Cutoff

w18657 François Gourio
Nicolas A. Roys
Size-Dependent Regulations, Firm Size Distribution, and Reallocation

w18649 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor
Algebra for 8th Graders: Evidence on its Effects from 10 North Carolina Districts

w18642 Aviva Aron-Dine
Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later

w18633 Gerard Padro i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao
Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China

w18629 Jeffrey D. Sachs
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery

w18626 Caroline M. Hoxby
Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University

w18624 C. Kirabo Jackson
Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina

w18612 Daniel B. Jones
Werner Troesken
Randall Walsh
A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement

w18582 Fabian Duarte
Justine S. Hastings
Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market

w18599 Matthew C. Weinzierl
The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

w18591 Casey B. Mulligan
The ARRA: Some Unpleasant Welfare Arithmetic

w18586 Caroline M. Hoxby
Christopher Avery
The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students

w18585 Marco Battaglini
Bård Harstad
Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements

w18584 Wojciech Kopczuk
Taxation of Intergenerational Transfers and Wealth

w18583 Hunt Allcott
Nathan Wozny
Gasoline Prices, Fuel Economy, and the Energy Paradox

w18578 Alan J. Auerbach
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Output Spillovers from Fiscal Policy

w18572 Harold L. Cole
Soojin Kim
Dirk Krueger
Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs

w18565 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Soren Leth-Petersen
Torben Nielsen
Tore Olsen
Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowdout in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

w18553 James R. Hines Jr.
How Important Are Perpetual Tax Savings?

w18542 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai
Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support

w18535 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Douglas Almond
Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

w18530 Maria D. Fitzpatrick
Damon Jones
Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration

w18529 Gary D. Hansen
Minchung Hsu
Junsang Lee
Health Insurance Reform: The Impact of a Medicare Buy-In

w18525 Andrew A. Samwick
Donating the Voucher: An Alternative Tax Treatment of Private School Enrollment

w18524 Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William R. Kerr
Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

w18522 David Card
Jörg Heining
Patrick Kline
Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

w18521 Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez
Optimal Labor Income Taxation

w18520 Robert A. Moffitt
The U.S. Employment-Population Reversal in the 2000s: Facts and Explanations

w18519 Bård Harstad
Matti Liski
Games and Resources

w18517 John Chalmers
Woodrow T. Johnson
Jonathan Reuter
The Effect of Pension Design on Employer Costs and Employee Retirement Choices: Evidence from Oregon

w18514 Marika Cabral
Caroline Hoxby
The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts

w18501 Kenneth L. Judd
Lilia Maliar
Serguei Maliar
Merging Simulation and Projection Approaches to Solve High-Dimensional Problems

w18493 Elizabeth M. Caucutt
Lance Lochner
Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family

w18491 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh
Linking Benefits to Investment Performance in US Public Pension Systems

w18489 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh
The Revenue Demands of Public Employee Pension Promises

w18488 Robert L. Clark
Melinda S. Morrill
David Vanderweide
Defined Benefit Pension Plan Distribution Decisions by Public Sector Employees

w18466 Gabriella Conti
James J. Heckman
The Economics of Child Well-Being

w18486 John F. Helliwell
Understanding and Improving the Social Context of Well-Being

w18485 Steven J. Haider
Kathleen M. McGarry
Parental Investments in College and Later Cash Transfers

w18484 Magnus Carlsson
Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills

w18483 Harry Huizinga
Johannes Voget
Wolf Wagner
International Taxation and Cross-Border Banking

w18479 Rowena Crawford
Richard Disney
Reform of Ill-health Retirement Benefits for Police in England and Wales: The roles of National Policy and Local Finance

w18478 Guido W. Imbens
Michal Kolesar
Robust Standard Errors in Small Samples: Some Practical Advice

w18472 Jesse Edgerton
Investment, Accounting, and the Salience of the Corporate Income Tax

w18471 Nick Netzer
Florian Scheuer
A Game Theoretic Foundation of Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection

w18468 Katherine Baicker
Sendhil Mullainathan
Joshua Schwartzstein
Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance

w18448 Alicia Munnell
Jean-Pierre Aubry
Joshua Hurwitz
Laura Quinby
Public Plans and Short-Term Employees

w18446 Kathleen McGarry
Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers

w18442 Jarkko Harju
Tuomas Kosonen
The Impact of Tax Incentives on the Economic Activity of Entrepreneurs

w18440 Laura Kawano
Joel Slemrod
The Effect of Tax Rates and Tax Bases on Corporate Tax Revenues: Estimates with New Measures of the Corporate Tax Base

w18439 Scott A. Imberman
Michael F. Lovenheim
Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

w18437 William N. Evans
Craig Garthwaite
Timothy J. Moore
The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets

w18433 Raj Chetty
Amy Finkelstein
Social Insurance: Connecting Theory to Data

w18429 Anna Aizer
Flávio Cunha
The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility

w18426 Casey B. Mulligan
Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status

w18422 Anna Aizer
Laura Stroud
Stephen Buka
Maternal Stress and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings

w18417 Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz
Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

w18415 Peter Egger
Christian Keuschnigg
Valeria Merlo
Georg Wamser
Corporate Taxes and Internal Borrowing within Multinational Firms

w18412 Justine S. Hastings
Brigitte C. Madrian
William L. Skimmyhorn
Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Economic Outcomes

w18406 Florian Scheuer
Adverse Selection In Credit Markets and Regressive Profit Taxation

w18403 Yongheng Deng
Joseph Gyourko
Jing Wu
Land and House Price Measurement in China

w18389 Jeffrey R. Brown
Stephen G. Dimmock
Scott Weisbenner
The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Donations to Higher Education

w18386 Edward P. Lazear
James R. Spletzer
The United States Labor Market: Status Quo or A New Normal?

w18383 Steven Nafziger
Peter H. Lindert
Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution

w18375 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Ethan Kapstein
Erin Troland
Predation, Economic Activity and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines

w18374 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Nichole Szembrot
Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

w18359 Keith M. Marzilli Ericson
Consumer Inertia and Firm Pricing in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Insurance Exchange

w18351 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

w18350 Eli Berman
Laurence R. Iannaccone
Giuseppe Ragusa
From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics

w18311 Sumit Agarwal
Gene Amromin
Itzhak Ben-David
Souphala Chomsisengphet
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru
Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program

w18269 Donghoon Lee
Christopher J. Mayer
Joseph Tracy
A New Look at Second Liens

w18342 Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott Weisbenner
The Distributional Effects of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision

w18341 John Cawley
David Frisvold
Chad Meyerhoefer
The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children

w18332 Alexander M. Gelber
Matthew C. Weinzierl
Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources

w18321 Ralph S.J. Koijen
Motohiro Yogo
The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers

w18309 Bruce D. Meyer
Laura R. Wherry
Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility

w18308 Adam Bee
Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan
The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?

w18306 Richard Schmalensee
Robert Stavins
The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment

w18301 Lawrence H. Goulder
Roberton C. Williams III
The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation

w18300 Jeffrey Brown
Chichun Fang
Francisco Gomes
Risk and Returns to Education

w18297 Albert N. Link
Christopher J. Ruhm
Donald S. Siegel
Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms: Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

w18295 Robert J. Barro
Convergence and Modernization Revisited

w18287 Takeo Hoshi
Takatoshi Ito
Defying Gravity: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High?

w18283 Jeffrey A. Frankel
Jesse Schreger
Over-optimistic Official Forecasts in the Eurozone and Fiscal Rules

w18282 Nathaniel Hendren
Private Information and Insurance Rejections

w18278 Bruce A. Blonigen
Anca D. Cristea
Airports and Urban Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment

w18267 Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro
Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

w18261 Lex Borghans
Anne C. Gielen
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform

w18244 Edward L. Glaeser
Urban Public Finance

w18239 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang
Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence

w18232 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Emmanuel Saez
Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings

w18230 Derek M. Lemoine
Christian P. Traeger
Tipping Points and Ambiguity in the Economics of Climate Change

w18228 Casey Rothschild
Florian Scheuer
Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model

w18220 Brigitte C. Madrian
Matching Contributions and Savings Outcomes: A Behavioral Economics Perspective

w18206 Hilary W. Hoynes
Douglas L. Miller
David Simon
Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

w18204 Charles F. Manski
Choosing Size of Government Under Ambiguity: Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation

w18198 Gordon B. Dahl
Katrine V. Løken
Magne Mogstad
Peer Effects in Program Participation

w18196 Michael L. Anderson
The Benefits of College Athletic Success: An Application of the Propensity Score Design with Instrumental Variables

w18190 Andrew Caplin
Anna Cororaton
Joseph Tracy
Is the FHA Creating Sustainable Homeownership?

w18185 Silke J. Forbes
Nora E. Gordon
When Educators Are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools

w18183 Evan Borkum
Fang He
Leigh L. Linden
The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India

w18172 David Autor
Mark Duggan
Jonathan Gruber
Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance

w18171 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Srikanth Kadiyala
Priscillia Hunt
Alessandro Malchiodi
An Alternative Framework for Empirically Measuring the Size of Counterfeit Markets

w18165 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List
Susanne Neckermann
Sally Sadoff
The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

w18156 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Martín Rossi
Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service

w18150 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Diana B. Moreira
Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil

w18142 Miles S. Kimball
"Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck in Fiscal Policy"

w18140 Matthew Ranson
Robert N. Stavins
Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems

w18126 Emilie Caldeira
Martial Foucault
Grégoire Rota-Graziosi
Decentralisation in Africa and the Nature of Local Governments' Competition: Evidence from Benin

w18125 David H. Autor
Christopher J. Palmer
Parag A. Pathak
Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge Massachusetts

w18119 Juan Botero
Alejandro Ponce
Andrei Shleifer
Education and the Quality of Government

w18118 Emilie Caldeira
Martial Foucault
Grégoire Rota-Graziosi
Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

w18115 Harounan Kazianga
Dan Levy
Leigh L. Linden
Matt Sloan
The Effects of “Girl-Friendly” Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso

w18112 Edward L. Glaeser
The Political Risks of Fighting Market Failures: Subversion, Populism and the Government Sponsored Enterprises

w18111 Devin G. Pope
Jaren C. Pope
When Walmart Comes to Town: Always Low Housing Prices? Always?

w18110 David Albouy
Gabriel Ehrlich
Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity

w18108 Amanda E. Kowalski
Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance

w18107 Mihir A. Desai
C. Fritz Foley
James R. Hines Jr.
Trade Credit and Taxes

w18105 Neale Mahoney
Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance

w18103 David Albouy
Fernando Leibovici
Casey Warman
Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities across Canadian Cities

w18101 Monica Martinez-Bravo
Gerard Padró i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao
The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China

w18095 Raymond Fisman
Florian Schulz
Vikrant Vig
Private Returns to Public Office

w18093 Marco Castillo
Ragan Petrie
Máximo Torero
Lise Vesterlund
Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination

w18088 Casey B. Mulligan
Do Welfare Policies Matter for Labor Market Aggregates? Quantifying Safety Net Work Incentives since 2007

w18076 Patrick Hummel
Brian Knight
Sequential or Simultaneous Elections? A Welfare Analysis

w18069 Patrick Bayer
Marcus D. Casey
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan
Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market

w18065 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dan Silverman
Dean Yang
Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices

w18059 Todd M. Sinai
House Price Moments in Boom-Bust Cycles

w18045 Matthew C. Weinzierl
Why do we Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? The principle of equal sacrifice and optimal taxation

w18042 Sylvain Leduc
Daniel Wilson
Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Public Infrastructure Investment

w18040 H. Spencer Banzhaf
Wallace E. Oates
On Fiscal Illusion and Ricardian Equivalence in Local Public Finance

w18039 Dana Burde
Leigh L. Linden
The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

w18033 Rema Hanna
Esther Duflo
Michael Greenstone
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

w18029 Rahul Deb
Robert S. Gazzale
Matthew J. Kotchen
Testing Motives for Charitable Giving: A Revealed-Preference Methodology with Experimental Evidence

w18018 Liran Einav
Dan Knoepfle
Jonathan D. Levin
Neel Sundaresan
Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce

w18009 Axel H. Börsch-Supan
Entitlement Reforms in Europe: Policy Mixes in the Current Pension Reform Process

w17989 Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez
A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation

w17988 Andrew Caplin
Daniel J. Martin
Defaults and Attention: The Drop Out Effect

w17986 Dennis N. Epple
Richard Romano
On The Political Economy Of Educational Vouchers

w17977 Hunt Allcott
Sendhil Mullainathan
Dmitry Taubinsky
Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

w17957 Omar Al-Ubaydli
John A. List
On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics

w17954 Dean Karlan
John A. List
How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?

w17937 Laurence Ales
Roozbeh Hosseini
Larry E. Jones
Is There “Too Much” Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?

w17927 Gopi Shah Goda
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner
What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving

w17926 Marco Battaglini
Salvatore Nunnari
Thomas Palfrey
The Free Rider Problem: a Dynamic Analysis

w17933 Jonathan T. Kolstad
Amanda E. Kowalski
Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

w17920 Zhiguo He
Gregor Matvos
Debt and Creative Destruction: Why Could Subsidizing Corporate Debt be Optimal?

w17919 Chunding Li
John Whalley
Indirect Tax Initiatives and Global Rebalancing

w17917 Richard W. Evans
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kerk L. Phillips
Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

w17914 Edward L. Glaeser
Joshua D. Gottlieb
Kristina Tobio
Housing Booms and City Centers

w17913 Ruud de Mooij
Michael Keen
'Fiscal Devaluation' and Fiscal Consolidation: The VAT in Troubled Times

w17911 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen Utkus
Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans

w17899 Hanming Fang
Edward Kung
Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks

w17893 Charles J. Courtemanche
Daniela Zapata
Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience

w17892 Benjamin A. Olken
Junko Onishi
Susan Wong
Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia

w17891 Shanjun Li
Joshua Linn
Erich Muehlegger
Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior

w17890 Peter Arcidiacono
Patrick Bayer
Federico A. Bugni
Jonathan James
Approximating High-Dimensional Dynamic Models: Sieve Value Function Iteration

w17887 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

w17882 Arthur Korteweg
Morten Sorensen
Estimating Loan-to-Value and Foreclosure Behavior

w17881 Pïerre Cahuc
Stephane Carcillo
Can Public Sector Wage Bills Be Reduced?

w17863 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell
Vilsa Curto
Financial Sophistication in the Older Population

w17861 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen
Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid

w17860 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer
The Incentive Effects of Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from the Interwar Era

w17859 C. Kirabo Jackson
Do College-Prep Programs Improve Long-Term Outcomes?

w17850 Nicholas Bloom
Christos Genakos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen
Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

w17845 Gabriel Chan
Robert Stavins
Robert Stowe
Richard Sweeney
The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation

w17843 James J. Choi
Emily Haisley
Jennifer Kurkoski
Cade Massey
Small Cues Change Savings Choices

w17842 Chiara Criscuolo
Ralf Martin
Henry Overman
John Van Reenen
The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

w17834 Susan Dynarski
Mark Wiederspan
Student Aid Simplification: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

w17833 Francesco Caselli
Thomas E. Cunningham
Massimo Morelli
Inés Moreno de Barreda
Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds

w17827 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Claudia Goldin
Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges

w17818 Jason M. Lindo
Charles F. Stoecker
Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

w17817 Florian Scheuer
Optimal Asset Taxes in Financial Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty

w17814 Johannes F. Schmieder
Till M. von Wachter
Stefan Bender
The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Employment

w17813 Johannes F. Schmieder
Till M. von Wachter
Stefan Bender
The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years

w17809 H. Spencer Banzhaf
Omar Farooque
Interjurisdictional Housing Prices and Spatial Amenities: Which Measures of Housing Prices Reflect Local Public Goods?

w17807 Tal Gross
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Jialan Wang
Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates

w17804 Robert W. Fairlie
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman
Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

w17803 Gregory F. Branch
Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin
Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

w17802 Aviva Aron-Dine
Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen
Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?

w17799 Robert P. Inman
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

w17794 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian
Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

w17784 Benjamin B. Lockwood
Matthew C. Weinzierl
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Theory and Evidence on Preference Heterogeneity and Redistribution

w17770 Jason M. DeBacker
Bradley T. Heim
Anh Tran
Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas: Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States

w17766 Hunt Allcott
Michael Greenstone
Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?

w17762 B. Douglas Bernheim
Jonathan Meer
Neva K. Novarro
Do Consumers Exploit Precommitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption

w17757 John Hassler
Per Krusell
Economics and Climate Change: Integrated Assessment in a Multi-Region World

w17755 Charles F. Manski
Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy

w17748 Martin B. Hackmann
Jonathan T. Kolstad
Amanda E. Kowalski
Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

w17737 Dean Karlan
Margaret A. McConnell
Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

w17731 Serguey Braguinsky
Sergey V. Mityakov
Foreign Corporations and the Culture of Transparency: Evidence from Russian Administrative Data

w17730 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz
Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

w17724 Christopher R. Knittel
Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation

w17722 C. Kirabo Jackson
Teacher Quality at the High-School Level: The Importance of Accounting for Tracks

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