NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Public Economics


2012
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
Do High-School Teachers Really Matter?


2011
w17718 Margaret S. McMillan
William A. Masters
Harounan Kazianga

Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso

w17715 Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

The Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers’ Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

w17709 Philip J. Cook
Christine Piette Durrance

The Virtuous Tax: Lifesaving and Crime-Prevention Effects of the 1991 Federal Alcohol-Tax Increase

w17707 J. Vernon Henderson
Yong Suk Lee

Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations

w17704 Alexander M. Gelber
Adam Isen

Children’s Schooling and Parents’ Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study

w17701 William R. Kerr
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

w17699 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Jonah E. Rockoff

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

w17697 David H. Autor
The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

w17690 Verónica Amarante
Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

w17689 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones
Angshuman Gooptu

Medicaid and the Elderly

w17688 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
David Benson

Consumption and the Great Recession

w17685 Dwight Jaffee
John M. Quigley

The Future of the Government Sponsored Enterprises: The Role for Government in the U.S. Mortgage Market

w17677 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement?

w17673 Alan S. Gerber
Gregory A. Huber
David Doherty
Conor M. Dowling
Seth J. Hill

Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment

w17671 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko

Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors

w17667 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

w17664 Augustin Landier
David Thesmar

Regulating Systemic Risk through Transparency: Tradeoffs in Making Data Public

w17655 Alberto F. Alesina
Dorian Carloni
Giampaolo Lecce

The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments

w17654 Casey B. Mulligan
The Expanding Social Safety Net

w17648 James Andreoni
Justin M. Rao
Hannah Trachtman

Avoiding The Ask: A Field Experiment on Altruism, Empathy, and Charitable Giving

w17647 Gregory Lewis
Patrick Bajari

Incentives and Adaptation: Evidence from Highway Procurement in Minnesota

w17644 Anna Gumpert
James R. Hines
Jr.
Monika Schnitzer

The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes

w17642 Mikhail Golosov
Maxim Troshkin
Aleh Tsyvinski

Optimal Dynamic Taxes

w17637 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access

w17636 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

w17635 James Andreoni
A. Abigail Payne

Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada: New Knowledge from the North

w17628 Matthew Kotchen
Matthew Potoski

Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations: Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches

w17626 Hans-Werner Sinn
Timo Wollmershaeuser

Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows: The ECB’s Rescue Facility

w17622 Fatih Guvenen
Macroeconomics With Heterogeneity: A Practical Guide

w17618 James Andreoni
Abigail Payne
Justin D. Smith
David Karp

Diversity and Donations: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving

w17616 Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez
Stefanie Stantcheva

Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities

w17613 Robert Novy-Marx
Logical Implications of GASB’s Methodology for Valuing Pension Liabilities

w17611 Kelly C. Bishop
Christopher Timmins

Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Estimating Marginal Willingness to Pay for Differentiated Products Without Instrumental Variables

w17600 John Cawley
Asako S. Moriya
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

w17591 Eric A. Hanushek
Susanne Link
Ludger Woessmann

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

w17589 Daniel M. Hungerman
Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal

w17587 B. Douglas Bernheim
Andrey Fradkin
Igor Popov

The Welfare Economics of Default Options: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of 401(k) Plans

w17585 Julio J. Rotemberg
Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked

w17584 Casey B. Mulligan
Rising Labor Productivity during the 2008-9 Recession

w17579 Roland Benabou
Jean Tirole

Laws and Norms

w17578 Christopher J. Ruhm
Alison Snow Jones
William C. Kerr
Thomas K. Greenfield
Joseph V. Terza
Ravi S. Pandian
Kerry Anne McGeary

What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

w17577 William R. Kerr
William F. Lincoln
Prachi Mishra

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

w17576 Michael P. Devereux
Simon Loretz

How Would EU Corporate Tax Reform Affect US Investment in Europe?

w17572 Ruben Durante
Giovanna Labartino
Roberto Perotti

Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia

w17570 Giovanni Peri
The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition

w17569 Joseph E. Aldy
Robert Stavins

The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

w17562 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

Fiscal Policy and Unemployment

w17556 Toshi H. Arimura
Shanjun Li
Richard G. Newell
Karen Palmer

Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs

w17554 Paul W. Glewwe
Eric A. Hanushek
Sarah D. Humpage
Renato Ravina

School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

w17547 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?

w17540 William D. Nordhaus
Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon: Background and Results from the RICE-2011 Model

w17536 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement

w17534 Jesse Rothstein
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

w17533 Susan Dynarski
Joshua M. Hyman
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion

w17531 Martin S. Feldstein
The Tax Reform Act of 1986: Comment on the 25th Anniversary

w17527 Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Andrei Shleifer

Teaching Practices and Social Capital

w17522 Kristian Rydqvist
Joshua Spizman
Ilya A. Strebulaev

Government Policy and Ownership of Financial Assets

w17519 Michal Kolesár
Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Edward L. Glaeser
Guido W. Imbens

Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments

w17505 Vasily Kartashov
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Lifecycle Portfolio Choice with Systematic Longevity Risk and Variable Investment-Linked Deferred Annuities

w17504 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Lei Zhang

General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

w17499 Don Fullerton
Catherine Wolfram

The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy: An Introduction

w17485 Lisa J. Dettling
Melissa Schettini Kearney

House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

w17473 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

The Hidden Benefits of Control: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17469 Brian G. Knight
State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing

w17467 David Neumark
Joanne Song

Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

w17466 R. Alison Felix
James R. Hines
Jr.

Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?

w17465 Daniel Gottlieb
Kent Smetters

Grade Non-Disclosure

w17458 William J. Collins
Katharine L. Shester

Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States

w17456 Jesse M. Cunha
Giacomo De Giorgi
Seema Jayachandran

The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers

w17451 Jeffrey Brown
Amy Finkelstein

Insuring Long Term Care In the US

w17447 Alan J. Auerbach
Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion

w17446 Ralf Martin
Laure B. de Preux
Ulrich J. Wagner

The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata

w17445 Casey B. Mulligan
Means-Tested Subsidies and Economic Performance Since 2007

w17440 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?

w17438 David J. Deming
Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

w17435 Lance Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Credit Constraints in Education

w17434 Nicholas J. Sanders
Charles F. Stoecker

Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates

w17410 Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Lee Vermeulen
Marian Wrobel

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

w17409 BÃ¥rd Harstad
The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

w17406 Gregory J. Colman
Dhaval M. Dave

Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle

w17405 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko
Joseph Tracy

Housing Busts and Household Mobility: An Update

w17403 Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Paul Raschky
Howard Kunreuther

Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks

w17398 Benjamin A. Olken
Rohini Pande

Corruption in Developing Countries

w17397 Marco Faravelli
Randall Walsh

Smooth Politicians and Paternalistic Voters: A Theory of Large Elections

w17390 Christopher R. Knittel
Ryan Sandler

Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation

w17384 Hanming Fang
Dmitry A. Shapiro
Arthur Zillante

An Experimental Study of Alternative Campaign Finance Systems: Donations, Elections and Policy Choices

w17375 Daniel M. Hungerman
Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test

w17374 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko

Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom: U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009

w17369 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig
Douglas L. Miller

The Effects of Housing and Neighborhood Conditions on Child Mortality

w17364 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan

Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification

w17348 Mikhail Golosov
John Hassler
Per Krusell
Aleh Tsyvinski

Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium

w17342 James Andreoni
Charles Sprenger

Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom

w17338 Greg Kaplan
Giovanni L. Violante

A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

w17332 Joshua D. Angrist
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

w17328 Robert J. Barro
José F. Ursua

Rare Macroeconomic Disasters

w17320 Dayanand S. Manoli
Andrea Weber

Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions

w17319 Sanjay K. Chugh
Fabio Ghironi

Optimal Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Product Variety

w17315 Gene Amromin
Jennifer Huang
Clemens Sialm
Edward Zhong

Complex Mortgages

w17310 Janet Currie
Erdal Tekin

Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?

w17309 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra

Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

w17305 Takero Doi
Takeo Hoshi
Tatsuyoshi Okimoto

Japanese Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy

w17287 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment

w17268 Leonard E. Burman
Marvin Phaup

Tax Expenditures, the Size and Efficiency of Government, and Implications for Budget Reform

w17259 Mark A. Aguiar
Erik Hurst
Loukas Karabarbounis

Time Use During Recessions

w17254 Matthew J. Kotchen
Jon Jungbien Moon

Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility

w17251 Stephen Calabrese
Dennis N. Epple
Richard Romano

Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition

w17250 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Alvin Murphy
Christopher Timmins

A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods

w17247 Sara LaLumia
James M. Sallee

The Value of Honesty: Empirical Estimates from the Case of the Missing Children

w17240 Jonathan A. Parker
On Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy in Recessions

w17236 Mark Duggan
Tamara Hayford

Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates

w17235 Ilyana Kuziemko
Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?

w17234 Ilyana Kuziemko
Ryan W. Buell
Taly Reich
Michael I. Norton

"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications

w17230 Ruediger Bachmann
Jinhui Bai

Public Consumption Over the Business Cycle

w17227 Panle Jia Barwick
Parag A. Pathak

The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston

w17225 C. Kirabo Jackson
School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina

w17222 Christopher R. Knittel
Douglas L. Miller
Nicholas J. Sanders

Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health

w17218 Philippe Belley
Marc Frenette
Lance Lochner

Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?

w17214 Louis Kaplow
An Optimal Tax System

w17210 Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

w17202 Mihir A. Desai
C. Fritz Foley
James R. Hines Jr.

Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

w17190 Amy Finkelstein
Sarah Taubman
Bill Wright
Mira Bernstein
Jonathan Gruber
Joseph P. Newhouse
Heidi Allen
Katherine Baicker
The Oregon Health Study Group

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

w17189 Paul J. Ferraro
Michael K. Price

Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

w17180 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

w17185 Ama Baafra Abeberese
Todd J. Kumler
Leigh L. Linden

Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

w17173 Kory Kroft
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence

w17171 John M. de Figueiredo
Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes

w17170 Michael Anderson
Maximilian Auffhammer

Pounds that Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight

w17169 Chongyang Chen
Zhonglan Dai
Douglas Shackelford
Harold Zhang

Does Financial Constraint Affect Shareholder Taxes and the Cost of Equity Capital?

w17168 Jonathan Gruber
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?

w17164 Richard V. Burkhauser
Jeff Larrimore
Kosali I. Simon

A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

w17155 Elizabeth U. Cascio
Nora E. Gordon
Sarah J. Reber

Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

w17145 Stephen Coate
Property Taxation, Zoning, and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis

w17135 Liana E. Fox
Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

w17128 Angus S. Deaton
The Financial Crisis and the Well-Being of Americans

w17114 Alain Jousten
Mathieu Lefebvre
Sergio Perelman

Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye

w17093 Ran Abramitzky
Victor Lavy

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

w17089 Sa A. Bui
Steven G. Craig
Scott A. Imberman

Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

w17087 Sebastian Rausch
Gilbert E. Metcalf
John M. Reilly

Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households

w17083 Garth Heutel
Optimal Policy Instruments for Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency

w17082 Eduard Ponds
Clara Severinson
Juan Yermo

Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17070 Craig L. Garthwaite
The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions

w17065 Christopher J. Mayer
Edward Morrison
Tomasz Piskorski
Arpit Gupta

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide

w17055 Luc Behaghel
Didier Blanchet
Thierry Debrand
Muriel Roger

Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case

w17052 Takashi Oshio
Satoshi Shimizutani

Disability Pension Program and Labor Force Participation in Japan: A Historical Perspective

w17049 James Banks
Richard Blundell
Antoine Bozio
Carl Emmerson

Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17042 Yonatan Ben-Shalom
Robert A. Moffitt
John Karl Scholz

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

w17041 Erik Hurst
Benjamin Wild Pugsley

What Do Small Businesses Do?

w16989 Stefano DellaVigna
Ruben Enikolopov
Vera Mironova
Maria Petrova
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Unintended Media Effects in a Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism

w17035 Casey Rothschild
Florian Scheuer

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

w17033 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

Gun For Hire: Does Delegated Enforcement Crowd out Peer Punishment in Giving to Public Goods?

w17032 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

The Hired Gun Mechanism

w17025 Jialun Li
Kent Smetters

Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security

w17018 Jeffrey R. Brown
Arie Kapteyn
Olivia S. Mitchell

Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

w17017 Charles D. Kolstad
Public Goods Agreements with Other-Regarding Preferences

w17015 Kent Smetters
Walter E. Theseira

A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions

w17012 Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel

Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-Analysis Plan

w17008 Geoffrey Heal
Sustainability and its Measurement

w17006 Leonard Nakamura
Durable Financial Regulation: Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions

w17002 Siqi Zheng
Matthew E. Kahn

Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

w17001 Don Fullerton
Daniel Karney
Kathy Baylis

Negative Leakage

w16997 Victor Chernozhukov
Iván Fernández-Val
Amanda E. Kowalski

Quantile Regression with Censoring and Endogeneity

w16985 Jesse Bricker
Brian K. Bucks
Arthur Kennickell
Traci L. Mach
Kevin Moore

Drowning or Weathering the Storm? Changes in Family Finances from 2007 to 2009

w16974 Soren T. Anderson
Ryan Kellogg
James M. Sallee

What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices?

w16978 Alan B. Krueger
Ilyana Kuziemko

The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy

w16977 Jason Brown
Mark Duggan
Ilyana Kuziemko
William Woolston

How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

w16973 Daniel M. Hungerman
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

w16969 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Stephen P. Ryan
Paul Schrimpf
Mark R. Cullen

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

w16968 Jed Kolko
David Neumark
Marisol Cuellar Mejia

Public Policy, State Business Climates, and Economic Growth

w16956 James D. Hamilton
Jing Cynthia Wu

The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a Zero Lower Bound Environment

w16955 Daniel Bennett
Chun-Fang Chiang
Anup Malani

Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan

w16948 Monica Martinez-Bravo
Gerard Padró i Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao

Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China

w16945 Jeffrey A. Frankel
A Solution to Fiscal Procyclicality: The Structural Budget Institutions Pioneered by Chile

w16932 Daria Burnes
David Neumark
Michelle J. White

Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing?

w16921 Martin Feldstein
Daniel Feenberg
Maya MacGuineas

Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits

w16913 Michael Greenstone
Elizabeth Kopits
Ann Wolverton

Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings: A Summary and Interpretation

w16908 John A. List
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

w16899 Patrick Bolton
Olivier Jeanne

Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies

w16891 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

w16887 Erin Todd Bronchetti
Thomas S. Dee
David B. Huffman
Ellen Magenheim

When a Nudge Isn’t Enough: Defaults and Saving Among Low-Income Tax Filers

w16865 Scott E. Carrell
Bruce I. Sacerdote
James E. West

From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects

w16863 Justin Marion
Erich Muehlegger

Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

w16851 Susan Athey
Dominic Coey
Jonathan Levin

Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions

w16844 Janet Currie
Michael Greenstone
Enrico Moretti

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

w16830 Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

w16839 Kevin S. Markle
Douglas A. Shackelford

Cross-Country Comparisons of Corporate Income Taxes

w16833 Robert A. Moffitt
Peter Gottschalk

Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings in the U.S., 1970-2004

w16829 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment: Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 2.3 Million Americans

w16817 C. Kirabo Jackson
Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

w16812 Carola Frydman
Raven S. Molloy

Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms

w16802 Mimi Engel
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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

w16798 Janet Currie
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

w16794 G. Brant Morefield
David C. Ribar
Christopher J. Ruhm

Occupational Status and Health Transitions

w16792 Jeffrey R. Brown
Robert Clark
Joshua Rauh

The Economics of State and Local Public Pensions

w16791 Syngjoo Choi
Shachar Kariv
Wieland Müller
Dan Silverman

Who Is (More) Rational?

w16787 Santiago Carbo-Valverde
Edward J. Kane
Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez

Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession

w16786 Roberto Perotti
The Effects of Tax Shocks on Output: Not So Large, But Not Small Either

w16784 Patrick Bayer
Christopher Geissler
James W. Roberts

Speculators and Middlemen: The Role of Flippers in the Housing Market

w16783 Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez

School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation

w16779 Joshua Aizenman
Gurnain Kaur Pasricha

Net Fiscal Stimulus During the Great Recession

w16775 Hyunseung Oh
Ricardo Reis

Targeted Transfers and the Fiscal Response to the Great Recession

w16772 Katherine Baicker
Jonathan S. Skinner

Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates

w16769 Robert J. Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

Saints Marching In, 1590-2009

w16768 Don Fullerton
Garth Heutel
Gilbert E. Metcalf

Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?

w16756 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD

w16751 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle

w16749 Emmanuel Farhi
Iván Werning

Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle

w16748 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Alexandra Killewald

Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth

w16729 Raj Chetty
Adam Guren
Dayanand S. Manoli
Andrea Weber

Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference Between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities

w16727 Thomas Philippon
Philipp Schnabl

Informational Rents, Macroeconomic Rents, and Efficient Bailouts

w16723 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein

Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures

w16722 Lance Lochner
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

w16715 Ori Heffetz
John A. List

Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

w16703 Don Fullerton
Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy

w16701 Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Negative Equity Does Not Reduce Homeowners' Mobility

w16694 Roger H. Gordon
Wei Li

Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior

w16693 Barry K. Goodwin
Ashok K. Mishra
François Ortalo-Magné

The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies

w16684 Jonathan A. Parker
Nicholas S. Souleles
David S. Johnson
Robert McClelland

Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

w16671 Dalton Conley
Jennifer Heerwig

The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

w16663 Julie Berry Cullen
Mark C. Long
Randall Reback

Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan

w16659 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Dhiman Das

Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training


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