NBER Papers in Public Economics

NBER Papers in Public Economics

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2008
w13995 David Y. Albouy
The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

w13993 Jonathan Guryan
Erik Hurst
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

w13989 Forest L. Reinhardt
Robert N. Stavins
Richard H. K. Vietor

Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

w13987 Janet Currie
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

w13980 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Sergey Paltsev
John Reilly
Henry Jacoby
Jennifer F. Holak

Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals

w13979 John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes

Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts

w13976 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How are Preferences Revealed?

w13940 Robert J. Barro
José F. Ursúa

Macroeconomic Crises since 1870

w13967 Raj Chetty
Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

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

w13956 David A. Jaeger
Esteban F. Klor
Sami H. Miaari
M. Daniele Paserman

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

w13955 Emmanuel Farhi
Jean Tirole

Competing Liquidities: Corporate Securities, Real Bonds and Bubbles

w13954 B. Douglas Bernheim
Neuroeconomics: A Sober (but Hopeful) Appraisal

w13946 Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt

w13945 Dalton Conley
Brian J. McCabe

Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring

w13941 Jeff Larrimore
Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Laura Zayatz

Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

w13937 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving: An Analysis of Micro Data

w13934 James J. Heckman
Econometric Causality

w13931 Orazio Attanasio
Adriana Kugler
Costas Meghir

Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

w13927 Geoffrey Heal
Climate Economics: A Meta-Review and Some Suggestions

w13917 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

w13912 Lance J. Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital

w13911 Francesco Giavazzi
Michael McMahon

Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings

w13900 Susumu Imai
Hajime Katayama
Kala Krishna

A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model

w13885 Sherry A. Glied
Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption

w13884 Woodrow T. Johnson
James M. Poterba

Taxes and Mutual Fund Inflows Around Distribution Dates

w13859 Orley Ashenfelter
Daniel Hosken

The Effect of Mergers on Consumer Prices: Evidence from Five Selected Case Studies

w13858 Anton Korinek
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage

w13855 Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler

Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia

w13844 Raj Chetty
Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance

w13837 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

The Increase in Leisure Inequality

w13830 Casey B. Mulligan
Kevin K. Tsui

Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy

w13803 J.J. Prescott
Jonah E. Rockoff

Do Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws Affect Criminal Behavior?

w13827 Hanming Fang
Peter Norman

Toward an Efficiency Rationale for the Public Provision of Private Goods

w13808 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Schedule Selection by Agents: from Price Plans to Tax Tables

w13801 Susan Dynarski
Judith E. Scott-Clayton

Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis

w13797 Hanming Fang
Peter Norman

Optimal Provision of Multiple Excludable Public Goods

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

w13769 J. Vernon Henderson
Anthony Venables

The Dynamics of City Formation

w13763 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Ben Marx
David Rapson

To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question

w13758 Jonathan Gruber
Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.

w13756 Simeon Djankov
Tim Ganser
Caralee McLiesh
Rita Ramalho
Andrei Shleifer

The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship

w13753 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals

w13752 Alma Cohen
Asymmetric Learning in Repeated Contracting: An Empirical Study

w13748 Jeffrey R. Brown
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Marian V. Wrobel

Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

w13746 David M. Cutler
Amy Finkelstein
Kathleen McGarry

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

w13745 Martin S. Feldstein
Effects of Taxes on Economic Behavior

w13742 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer

Optimal Resource Extraction Contracts Under Threat of Expropriation

w13737 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics

w13735 Robert P. Inman
Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism

w13733 Robert P. Inman
Daniel L. Rubinfeld

Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition: Learning from South Africa

w13729 Martin S. Feldstein
Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States

w13728 Daniel Rondeau
John A. List

Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity:Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

w13727 Uri Gneezy
Kenneth L. Leonard
John A. List

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model

w13720 Emmanuel Farhi
Iván Werning

Optimal Savings Distortions with Recursive Preferences

w13719 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Klara Sabirianova Peter

Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

w13718 Gordon Dahl
Stefano DellaVigna

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?


2007
w13709 John R. Graham
Lillian F. Mills

Using Tax Return Data to Simulate Corporate Marginal Tax Rates

w13702 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Zvika Neeman

Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics

w13700 Alma Cohen
Rajeev Dehejia
Dmitri Romanov

Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

w13697 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

w13694 Sumit Agarwal
Chunlin Liu
Nicholas S. Souleles

The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates -- Evidence from Consumer Credit Data

w13693 Todd Sinai
Nicholas S. Souleles

Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement

w13690 Robert J. Barro
Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs

w13689 Robert J. Barro
Jason Hwang

Religious Conversion in 40 Countries

w13678 Matthew Kotchen
Michael Moore

Conservation: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

w13673 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

Insurance and Opportunities: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk

w13656 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

The Flypaper Effect in Individual Investor Asset Allocation

w13655 V. V. Chari
Patrick J. Kehoe

The Heterogeneous State of Modern Macroeconomics: A Reply to Solow

w13645 Don Fullerton
Garth Heutel

The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates

w13643 Matthew J. Kotchen
Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets

w13638 Alberto Alesina
Andrea Ichino
Loukas Karabarbounis

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

w13637 Brian Knight
Nathan Schiff

Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries

w13629 Stefania Albanesi
Roc Armenter

Intertemporal Distortions in the Second best

w13624 David Backus
Espen Henriksen
Kjetil Storesletten

Taxes and the Global Allocation of Capital

w13623 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments

w13622 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks

w13614 Dora Gicheva
Justine Hastings
Sofia Villas-Boas

Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases

w13601 Jennifer L. Blouin
Jana Smith Raedy
Douglas A. Shackelford

Did Firms Substitute Dividends for Share Repurchases after the 2003 Reductions in Shareholder Tax Rates?

w13598 Edith Sand
Assaf Razin

The Political-Economy Positive Role of the Social Security System in Sustaining Immigration (But Not Vice Versa)

w13581 John Whalley
Li Wang

Evaluating the Impure Chinese VAT Relative to a Pure Form in a Simple Monetary Trade Model with an Endogenous Trade Surplus

w13579 Geoffrey Heal
Howard Kunreuther

Social Reinforcement: Cascades, Entrapment and Tipping

w13574 Robert N. Stavins
Environmental Economics

w13573 Sheila Olmstead
W. Michael Hanemann
Robert N. Stavins

Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures

w13560 Thomas Philippon
Financiers vs. Engineers: Should the Financial Sector be Taxed or Subsidized?

w13557 Janet Currie
Firouz Gahvari

Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data

w13554 Kevin A. Hassett
Aparna Mathur
Gilbert E. Metcalf

The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis

w13551 Edward L. Glaeser
Entrepreneurship and the City

w13549 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Courtney LaFountain

Still the Economy, Stupid: Economic Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election

w13548 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13538 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation

w13537 Jeffrey R. Brown
Rational and Behavioral Perspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning

w13535 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko

Do Political Parties Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities

w13534 Robert Moffitt
Estimating Marginal Returns to Higher Education in the UK

w13527 Philippe Belley
Lance Lochner

The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

w13524 Dennis N. Epple
Maria Marta Ferreyra

School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13516 Hongbin Cai
Yuyu Chen
Hanming Fang

Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

w13503 Edgar Cudmore
John Piggott
John Whalley

Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time

w13501 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

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

w13490 Martin Weitzman
Structural Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change

w13487 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
David Laibson

Optimal Mortgage Refinancing: A Closed Form Solution

w13486 Áureo de Paula
José A. Scheinkman

The Informal Sector

w13485 Jeffrey Grogger
Lynn Karoly

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

w13476 John B. Shoven
New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Goverment Policies and GDP

w13459 John M. de Figueiredo
Brian S. Silverman

How Does the Government (Want to) Fund Science? Politics, Lobbying and Academic Earmarks

w13458 Michael Greenstone
Is the "Surge" Working? Some New Facts

w13457 Adi Brender
Allan Drazen

Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy

w13456 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Richard T. Holden

Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans

w13413 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

w13454 Hans-Werner Sinn
Public Policies against Global Warming

w13453 Hans-Werner Sinn
Pareto Optimality in the Extraction of Fossil Fuels and the Greenhouse Effect: A Note

w13443 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian A. Jacob

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

w13442 Cally Ardington
Anne Case
Victoria Hosegood

Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

w13438 Jeffrey R. Brown
Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

w13420 Stefano DellaVigna
Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

w13417 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Steven D. Levitt

Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

w13402 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Daniel M. Hungerman

The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation

w13394 Fatih Guvenen
An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes

w13392 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Nikolai Roussanov

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

w13390 Emmanuel Farhi
Capital Taxation and Ownership when Markets are Incomplete

w13380 Ilyana Kuziemko
Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime

w13379 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type

w13375 Hanming Fang
Dan Silverman

Time-Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY

w13371 Hanming Fang
Alessandro Gavazza

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence

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

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

w13362 Borys Grochulski
Narayana Kocherlakota

Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems

w13360 Igal Hendel
Aviv Nevo
François Ortalo-Magné

The Relative Performance of Real Estate Marketing Platforms: MLS versus FSBOMadison.com

w13358 Baoping Shang
Dana P. Goldman

Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending

w13331 A. Lans Bovenberg
Lawrence H. Goulder
Mark R. Jacobsen

Industry Compensation and the Costs of Alternative Environmental Policy Instruments

w13330 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney
Kory Kroft

Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

w13354 Andrew B. Abel
Optimal Capital Income Taxation

w13353 Mark Aguiar
Manuel Amador
Gita Gopinath

Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang

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

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

w13350 Jonathan Levin
Steven Tadelis

Contracting for Government Services: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities

w13348 Daniel M. Hungerman
Diversity and Crowd-out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving

w13345 Wojciech Kopczuk
Emmanuel Saez
Jae Song

Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937

w13335 Sun Go
Peter H. Lindert

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

w13323 Daniel M. Hungerman
Race and Charitable Church Activity

w13317 Angus Deaton
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

w13313 Barry Bosworth
Susan M. Collins
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

Returns on FDI: Does the U.S. Really Do Better?

w13312 Charles F. Manski
Adaptive Minimax-Regret Treatment Choice, With Application To Drug Approval

w13295 George A. Plesko
Estimates of the Magnitude of Financial and Tax Reporting Conflicts

w13284 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

w13283 Mihir A. Desai
Li Jin

Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy

w13281 Mihir A. Desai
Dhammika Dharmapala

Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends

w13279 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

From Brown to Busing

w13273 Charles Yuji Horioka
Wataru Suzuki
Tatsuo Hatta

Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan

w13270 Steven N. Kaplan
Joshua Rauh

Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

w13264 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks

w13257 Jeffrey A. Miron
Elina Tetelbaum

Does the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Save Lives?

w13248 John H. Mutti
Harry Grubert

The Effect of Taxes on Royalties and the Migration of Intangible Assets Abroad

w13240 Joshua Rauh
Risk Shifting versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans

w13238 Leah G. Traub
Hilary Sigman

"Cooperative Federalism" as a Strategic Interaction: Voluntary Decentralization in Environmental Policy

w13236 Patrick Bayer
Fernando Ferreira
Robert McMillan

A Unified Framework for Measuring Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

w13228 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Paul Schrimpf

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

w13221 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Guenther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?

w13219 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

w13216 Laura Alfaro
Fabio Kanczuk

Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

w13211 Matthew J. Kotchen
Nicholas E. Burger

Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13185 Alexander Ludwig
Dirk Krueger
Axel H. Boersch-Supan

Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations

w13181 Christopher J. Ruhm
Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States

w13176 Sergey Paltsev
John M. Reilly
Henry D. Jacoby
Angelo C. Gurgel
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Andrei P. Sokolov
Jennifer F. Holak

Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals

w13169 Jeffrey R. Brown
Nellie Liang
Scott Weisbenner

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

w13168 Jeffrey R. Brown
Zoran Ivkovich
Paul A. Smith
Scott Weisbenner

Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation

w13164 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

w13163 Rafael Di Tella
Federico Weinschelbaum

Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling Device

w13162 Lena Edlund
Wojciech Kopczuk

Women, Wealth and Mobility

w13160 Marco Cagetti
Mariacristina De Nardi

Estate Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Wealth

w13152 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Giving

w13145 Benjamin A. Olken
Patrick Barron

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

w13143 Roberto Perotti
In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy

w13136 George-Marios Angeletos
Vasia Panousi

Revisiting the Supply-Side Effects of Government Spending Under Incomplete Markets

w13132 Mihir A. Desai
Dhammika Dharmapala

Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

w13131 Laura Alfaro
Fabio Kanczuk

Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race

w13127 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen Donald

The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

w13119 Laura Alfaro
Fabio Kanczuk

Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?

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

w13098 Hilary Sigman
Decentralization and Environmental Quality: An International Analysis of Water Pollution

w13097 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

w13072 Glenn W. Harrison
John A. List

Naturally Occurring Markets and Exogenous Laboratory Experiments: A Case Study of the Winner's Curse

w13071 Edward L. Glaeser
Kristina Tobio

The Rise of the Sunbelt

w13068 Glenn Ellison
Edward L. Glaeser
William Kerr

What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

w13067 William Adams
Liran Einav
Jonathan Levin

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending

w13059 Andrew A. Samwick
Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security

w13052 David Card
Alexandre Mas
Jesse Rothstein

Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation

w13051 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

The Power of the Family

w13045 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

w13044 Mark V. Pauly
Fredric E. Blavin

Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design

w13034 Jennifer Hunt
Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

w13031 Edward L. Glaeser
Bruce Sacerdote

Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs

w13028 Timothy Besley
Torsten Persson

The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics

w13025 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Schanzenbach

Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

w13017 Richard Rogerson
Johanna Wallenius

Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes

w13016 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

w13012 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

w13009 Justine S. Hastings
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

No Child Left Behind: Estimating the Impact on Choices and Student Outcomes

w13008 Nicola Persico
José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita
Dan Silverman

Factions and Political Competition

w13002 Jedidiah Brewer
Robert Glennon
Alan Ker
Gary D. Libecap

Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms

w12995 Justine S. Hastings
Richard Van Weelden
Jeffrey Weinstein

Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in Public School Choice

w12992 John A. List
Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data

w12987 Alix Peterson Zwane
Michael Kremer

What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

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

w12960 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Schools and Location: Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy

w12958 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

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

w12946 Hans-Werner Sinn
The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

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

w12924 Amy Finkelstein
E-ZTax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates

w12923 James Poterba
Nirupama Rao
Jeri Seidman

The Significance and Composition of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities

w12915 David Neumark
William Wascher

Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era

w12899 John Whalley
Li Wang

The Unified Enterprise Tax and SOEs in China

w12893 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber

The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

w12890 Richard Rogerson
Taxation and Market Work: Is Scandinavia an Outlier?

w12880 Juan Carlos Conesa
Sagiri Kitao
Dirk Krueger

Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!

w12873 Douglas A. Shackelford
Joel Slemrod
James M. Sallee

A Unifying Model of How the Tax System and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Affect Corporate Behavior

w12869 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis

w12865 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K. C. Mok

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State

w12863 Pietro Garibaldi
Francesco Giavazzi
Andrea Ichino
Enrico Rettore

College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

w12859 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

w12858 Jonathan Gruber
Kosali Simon

Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?

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

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12833 Francesco Caselli
Nicola Gennaioli

Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms

w12832 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

w12831 Alberto Abadie
Alexis Diamond
Jens Hainmueller

Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

w12828 Charles T. Clotfelter
Helen F. Ladd
Jacob L. Vigdor

How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?

w12827 Alexander Muermann
Howard Kunreuther

Self-Protection and Insurance with Interdependencies

w12825 Ryan S. Johnson
Shawn Kantor
Price V. Fishback

Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression

w12822 Carlo Favero
Francesco Giavazzi

Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy

w12750 Joshua Aizenman
Kenneth Kletzer
Brian Pinto

Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt: Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences


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