NBER Papers in Public Economics

NBER Papers in Public Economics

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2009
w15115 Peter A. Diamond
Johannes Spinnewijn

Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates

w15111 Roozbeh Hosseini
Larry E. Jones
Ali Shourideh

Risk Sharing, Inequality and Fertility

w15108 Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen P. Utkus
Takeshi Yamaguchi

Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans

w15104 Filipe Campante
Edward L. Glaeser

Yet Another Tale of Two Cities: Buenos Aires and Chicago

w15103 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew G. Resseger

The Complementarity between Cities and Skills

w15100 Haitao Yin
Howard Kunreuther
Matthew White

Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?

w15091 Kevin S. Markle
Douglas Shackelford

Do Multinationals or Domestic Firms Face Higher Effective Tax Rates?

w15086 Matthew J. Kotchen
Stephen W. Salant

A Free Lunch in the Commons

w15083 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

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

w15078 Kenneth Y. Chay
Jonathan Guryan
Bhashkar Mazumder

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

w15071 N. Gregory Mankiw
Matthew Weinzierl
Danny Yagan

Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice

w15070 Jeffrey R. Brown
Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton

Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

w15067 Hongbin Cai
J. Vernon Henderson
Qinghua Zhang

China's Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption

w15066 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

w15064 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

w15056 Katherine Ho
Matthew Neidell

Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

w15054 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Tax Policies for Low-Carbon Technologies

w15044 Francois Gourio
Jianjun Miao

Firm Heterogeneity and the Long-run Effects of Dividend Tax Reform

w15037 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation

w15023 Dhammika Dharmapala
C. Fritz Foley
Kristin J. Forbes

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

w15017 Hilary Sigman
Environmental Liability and Redevelopment of Old Industrial Land

w15013 Assaf Razin
Edith Sand

Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security: Political-Economy Effect

w15012 Emmanuel Saez
Joel B. Slemrod
Seth H. Giertz

The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review

w15004 Garth Heutel
Crowding Out and Crowding In of Private Donations and Government Grants

w14981 David Albouy
What Are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Capitalization of Amenity Values

w14976 N. Gregory Mankiw
Matthew Weinzierl

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

w14966 Jesse Rothstein
Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence

w14963 Michael I. Cragg
Matthew E. Kahn

Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production

w14946 Michael Schwarz
Yuri Takhteyev

Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

w14945 Carlos Dobkin
Fernando Ferreira

Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?

w14941 Andreas Lange
Andrew Stocking

Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment

w14929 Thomas Philippon
Philipp Schnabl

Efficient Recapitalization

w14923 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Edward Miguel
Daniel Ortega
Francisco Rodriguez

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

w14885 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban M. Aucejo
Hanming Fang
Kenneth I. Spenner

Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

w14879 Meta Brown
John Karl Scholz
Ananth Seshadri

A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education

w14869 Elizabeth Cascio
Nora Gordon
Ethan Lewis
Sarah Reber

Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools

w14866 John Y. Campbell
Stefano Giglio
Parag Pathak

Forced Sales and House Prices

w14864 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Parag A. Pathak
Alvin E. Roth

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match

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

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

w14857 Stephen Coate
Brian Knight

Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Municipalities

w14854 Andrew K. Rose
Mark M. Spiegel

The Olympic Effect

w14852 Caroline M. Hoxby
Sonali Murarka

Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement

w14851 Philippe Aghion
Mathias Dewatripont
Caroline M. Hoxby
Andreu Mas-Colell
André Sapir

The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

w14842 John Engberg
Dennis Epple
Jason Imbrogno
Holger Sieg
Ron Zimmer

Estimation of Causal Effects in Experiments with Multiple Sources of Noncompliance

w14836 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients

w14827 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

w14817 Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Miguel Garrido

Do Newspapers Matter? Evidence from the Closure of The Cincinnati Post

w14801 Christopher Blattman
Edward Miguel

Civil War

w14798 Orley C. Ashenfelter
Daniel Hosken
Matthew Weinberg

Generating Evidence to Guide Merger Enforcement

w14793 Erik B. Johnson
Randall Walsh

The Effect of Property Taxes on Location Decisions:Evidence From the Market for Vacation Homes

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14775 Marigee Bacolod
John DiNardo
Mireille Jacobson

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

w14762 Ruben Durante
Brian Knight

Partisan Control, Media Bias, and Viewer Responses: Evidence from Berlusconi's Italy

w14759 Jason T. Abaluck
Jonathan Gruber

Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

w14753 Matthew D. Shapiro
Joel B. Slemrod

Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?

w14744 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

w14743 Joseph G. Altonji
Anthony Smith
Ivan Vidangos

Modeling Earnings Dynamics

w14742 Jonathan Guryan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

w14738 Alon Cohen
Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka

The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

w14729 Casey Mulligan
What Caused the Recession of 2008? Hints from Labor Productivity

w14725 Alan J. Auerbach
Implementing the New Fiscal Policy Activism

w14722 Antonio Fatas
Ilian Mihov

The Euro and Fiscal Policy

w14721 Janet Currie
Stefano DellaVigna
Enrico Moretti
Vikram Pathania

The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity

w14720 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
Anthony Harris
Haifang Huang

International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

w14708 Joseph Gyourko
Understanding Commercial Real Estate: Just How Different from Housing Is It?

w14702 Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Government Transfers and Political Support

w14695 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

w14692 Helen Levy
David Weir

Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study

w14685 Lucas W. Davis
Lutz Kilian

Estimating the Effect of a Gasoline Tax on Carbon Emissions

w14684 Martin S. Feldstein
Rethinking the Role of Fiscal Policy

w14682 Alan J. Auerbach
Ronald Lee

Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

w14664 James R. Hines
Jr.
Lawrence H. Summers

How Globalization Affects Tax Design

w14660 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
Elizabeth Washbrook

Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing

w14655 Nuno Limăo
Patricia Tovar

Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements

w14653 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

w14647 Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan
David A. Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

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

w14637 Angus Deaton
Jane Fortson
Robert Tortora

Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa

w14633 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

w14628 John William Hatfield
Gerard Padró i Miquel

A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization


2008
w14622 B. Douglas Bernheim
Behavioral Welfare Economics

w14606 Eli Berman
Jacob N. Shapiro
Joseph H. Felter

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

w14604 Peter Blair Henry
Conrad Miller

Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands

w14599 Gordon Dahl
Lance Lochner

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

w14580 Loretti I. Dobrescu
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Alberto F. Motta

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

w14593 Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
John F. Helliwell

Empathy and Emulation: Life Satisfaction and the Urban Geography of Comparison Groups

w14591 Dhaval M. Dave
Sandra Decker
Robert Kaestner
Kosali I. Simon

Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

w14583 Zoran Ivkovich
Scott Weisbenner

Individual Investor Mutual-Fund Flows

w14579 Robert P. Inman
The Flypaper Effect

w14578 Justine S. Hastings
Ebonya L. Washington

The First of the Month Effect: Consumer Behavior and Store Responses

w14570 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

w14564 Jonah E. Rockoff
Lesley J. Turner

Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

w14559 Michael A. Spencer
Stephen K. Swallow
Jason F. Shogren
John A. List

Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision

w14551 Andrew Mountford
Harald Uhlig

What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?

w14538 Justine S. Hastings
Lydia Tejeda-Ashton

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

w14535 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Torben Sřrensen
Christopher R. Taber

Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

w14540 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif

Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

w14539 Rafael Di Tella
Robert MacCulloch

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"

w14537 Chiaki Moriguchi
Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005

w14530 David Neumark
Jed Kolko

Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14516 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Fernando Ferreira
Jesse Rothstein

The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

w14514 Casey B. Mulligan
A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance

w14496 Andrew Ang
Vineer Bhansali
Yuhang Xing

Taxes on Tax-Exempt Bonds

w14494 Alan J. Auerbach
Michael P. Devereux
Helen Simpson

Taxing Corporate Income

w14487 Alessandra Casella
Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control. Theory and Experiments

w14482 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile
Phongsack Manivong
Leslie L. Roos

Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

w14472 David Albouy
Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across Cities

w14470 David Card
Alexandre Mas
Jesse Rothstein

Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping

w14469 Bryan S. Graham
James Powell

Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models

w14466 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

w14462 Dora L. Costa
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

w14458 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Jeff Larrimore

Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

w14450 Shanjun Li
Roger von Haefen
Christopher Timmins

How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?

w14446 Casey Mulligan
Luke Threinen

Market Responses to the Panic of 2008

w14445 Brian G. Knight
Chun-Fang Chiang

Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements

w14439 James M. Poterba
Arturo Ramirez Verdugo

Portfolio Substitution and the Revenue Cost of Exempting State and Local Government Interest Payments from Federal Income Tax

w14429 Matthew J. Kotchen
Laura E. Grant

Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana

w14427 Alexander W. Blocker
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Stephen A. Ross

The True Cost of Social Security

w14426 David von Below
Torsten Persson

Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy

w14419 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew G. Resseger
Kristina Tobio

Urban Inequality

w14417 Ricardo J. Caballero
Pierre Yared

Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings

w14414 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

w14405 Rosanne Altshuler
Alan J. Auerbach
Michael Cooper
Matthew Knittel

Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses

w14403 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance

w14399 Raj Chetty
Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

w14397 Louis Kaplow
Taxing Leisure Complements

w14396 Charles F. Manski
Partial Prescriptions For Decisions With Partial Knowledge

w14378 William A. Brock
Charles F. Manski

Competitive Lending with Partial Knowledge of Loan Repayment

w14375 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Designing A Carbon Tax to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions

w14374 Edward L. Glaeser
Charles Redlick

Social Capital and Urban Growth

w14373 Edward L. Glaeser
Joshua D. Gottlieb

The Economics of Place-Making Policies

w14371 Mark Duggan
Randi Hjalmarsson
Brian A. Jacob

The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas

w14369 Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Pierre-Daniel Sarte
Raymond Owens III

Housing Externalities

w14356 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

w14354 Anna Aizer
Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD

w14353 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times

w14352 Janet Currie
Johannes F. Schmieder

Fetal Exposure to Toxic Releases and Infant Health

w14343 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh

The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises

w14335 Kaivan Munshi
Mark Rosenzweig

The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

w14332 Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints

w14330 Jeffrey Liebman
Richard Zeckhauser

Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies

w14320 David Lee
Emmanuel Saez

Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets

w14319 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w14316 Alberto Alesina
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

w14301 Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Wojciech Kopczuk

Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits

w14310 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko
Joseph Tracy

Housing Busts and Household Mobility

w14307 Nada Eissa
Hilary Hoynes

Redistribution and Tax Expenditures: The Earned Income Tax Credit

w14306 Douglas Almond
Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

w14303 Alan Gerber
Jonathan Gruber
Daniel M. Hungerman

Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout

w14288 Alan J. Auerbach
Federal Budget Rules: The US Experience

w14277 Matthew Neidell
Jane Waldfogel

Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education

w14257 Alan M. Garber
Jonathan Skinner

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

w14268 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Monica Singhal

Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution

w14263 Rosanne Altshuler
Robert D. Dietz

Tax Expenditure Estimation and Reporting: A Critical Review

w14253 James M. Poterba
Todd M. Sinai

Income Tax Provisions Affecting Owner-Occupied Housing: Revenue Costs and Incentive Effects

w14247 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore

Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

w14241 Don Fullerton
Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy: An Introduction

w14231 John B. Shoven
Gopi Shah Goda

Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation

w14237 Jon Bakija
Bradley Heim

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

w14220 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Happiness Inequality in the United States

w14211 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap

w14210 Dwight Jaffee
Howard Kunreuther
Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Long Term Insurance (LTI) for Addressing Catastrophe Risk

w14206 Alan Gerber
Daniel Kessler
Marc Meredith

The Persuasive Effects of Direct Mail: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

w14197 Don Fullerton
Andrew Leicester
Stephen Smith

Environmental Taxes

w14196 Janet Currie
Matthew J. Neidell
Johannes Schmieder

Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey

w14193 Edward L. Glaeser
Joseph Gyourko
Albert Saiz

Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles

w14173 Janet Currie
Sandra Decker
Wanchuan Lin

Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?

w14170 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Preferences

w14153 M. Kate Bundorf
Jonathan D. Levin
Neale Mahoney

Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice

w14149 Mihir A. Desai
Dhammika Dharmapala
Monica Singhal

Investable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit

w14147 Sheila M. Olmstead
Robert N. Stavins

Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation

w14146 Susan Guthrie
James R. Hines
Jr.

U.S. Defense Contracts During the Tax Expenditure Battles of the 1980s

w14136 Leo Feler
J. Vernon Henderson

Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities

w14125 Ellen Meara
Meredith Rosenthal
Anna Sinaiko
Katherine Baicker

State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?

w14123 Benjamin A. Olken
Direct Democracy and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

w14118 Tara Watson
Angela Fertig

Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Infant Health Outcomes

w14110 Curtis Carlson
Gilbert E. Metcalf

Energy Tax Incentives and the Alternative Minimum Tax

w14105 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14094 Ian Ayres
Barry J. Nalebuff

Life-cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

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

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

w14083 Christopher J. Mayer
Karen Pence

Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom?

w14078 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Cagri Kumru

Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges

w14074 C. Fritz Foley
Welfare Payments and Crime

w14065 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren
David Sims

The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

w14062 Michael D. Grubb
Paul Oyer

Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking

w14055 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

w14050 Dani Rodrik
Second-Best Institutions

w14047 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory

w14040 Daron Acemoglu
Munther A. Dahleh
Ilan Lobel
Asuman Ozdaglar

Bayesian Learning in Social Networks

w14038 Jordan D. Matsudaira
Rebecca M. Blank

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

w14036 Terra McKinnish
Randall Walsh
Kirk White

Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?

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

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

w14028 Eric M. Leeper
Todd B. Walker
Shu-Chun Susan Yang

Fiscal Foresight: Analytics and Econometrics

w14023 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Assessing the Federal Deduction for State and Local Tax Payments

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
On the Potential of Neuroeconomics: A Critical (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?


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