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2010
w15740 Joshua D. Angrist
Susan M. Dynarski
Thomas J. Kane
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Who Benefits from KIPP?

w15724 Patrick Bajari
Jane Cooley
Kyoo il Kim
Christopher Timmins

A Theory-Based Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution

w15715 Brian A. Jacob
Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?

w15655 Brian A. Jacob
The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling

w15713 Brian G. Knight
Nathan Schiff

Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

w15701 John A. List
Sally Sadoff
Mathis Wagner

So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design

w15693 Daron Acemoglu
Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?

w15686 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Iuliana Pascu
Mark R. Cullen

How general are risk preferences? Choices under uncertainty in different domains.

w15683 Brian A. Jacob
Tamara Wilder

Educational Expectations and Attainment

w15682 Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

The Effect of Uncertain Labor Income and Social Security on Life-cycle Portfolios

w15681 Casey B. Mulligan
Aggregate Implications of Labor Market Distortions: The Recession of 2008-9 and Beyond

w15666 H. Spencer Banzhaf
B. Andrew Chupp

Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and US Air Pollution

w15665 John Graham
Jana Raedy
Douglas Shackelford

Research in Accounting for Income Taxes

w15659 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate
Jonathan Yan

Managerial Beliefs and Corporate Financial Policies

w15656 Louis Kaplow
Targeted Savings and Labor Supply

w15654 Nicole M. Baran
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Can we infer social preferences from the lab? Evidence from the trust game

w15649 Tomas J. Philipson
Gary Becker
Dana Goldman
Kevin M. Murphy

Terminal Care and The Value of Life Near Its End

w15643 Alexander Whalley
Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers: Evidence from City Treasurers

w15637 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health


2009
w15629 Stefano DellaVigna
John A. List
Ulrike Malmendier

Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving

w15617 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Tore Olsen
Luigi Pistaferri

Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records

w15616 Raj Chetty
Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply

w15615 Vera Kononova
John Whalley

Recent Russian Debate on Moving from VAT to Sales Taxes and Its Global Implications

w15614 Daniel Elfenbein
Raymond Fisman
Brian McManus

Reputation, Altruism, and the Benefits of Seller Charity in an Online Marketplace

w15612 Austan Goolsbee
Michael Lovenheim
Joel B. Slemrod

Playing With Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes and Competition From the Internet

w15607 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

Integrating Retirement Models

w15595 Louis Kaplow
Utility from Accumulation

w15589 Hilary W. Hoynes
Marianne E. Page
Ann Huff Stevens

Is a WIC Start a Better Start? Evaluating WIC’s Impact on Infant Health Using Program Introduction

w15586 Alma Cohen
Peter Siegelman

Testing for Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets

w15583 Alexander M. Gelber
Joshua W. Mitchell

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women

w15582 Dirk Krueger
Fabrizio Perri

Public versus Private Risk Sharing

w15554 Dirk Krueger
Fabrizio Perri
Luigi Pistaferri
Giovanni L. Violante

Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

w15550 Francesco Caselli
Guy Michaels

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil

w15549 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua Angrist
Susan Dynarski
Thomas J. Kane
Parag Pathak

Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots

w15531 Thomas Dee
Brian Jacob

The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

w15526 Fatih Guvenen
Burhanettin Kuruscu
Serdar Ozkan

Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

w15493 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

Family Bonding with Universities

w15488 Robert A. Moffitt
John Karl Scholz

Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support

w15465 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
Esteban F. Klor

The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism

w15462 Todd M. Sinai
Nicholas S. Souleles

Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?

w15461 Susan Dynarski
Jonathan Gruber
Danielle Li

Cheaper By the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

w15453 John List
Charles Mason

Are CEOs Expected Utility Maximizers?

w15451 Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Leonardo Bursztyn
David Hemous

The Environment and Directed Technical Change

w15446 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

w15434 Leemore Dafny
Mark Duggan
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan

Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry

w15429 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code

w15421 Claudia R. Sahm
Matthew D. Shapiro
Joel B. Slemrod

Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications

w15420 John A. List
The Economics of Open Air Markets

w15413 Janet Currie
Reed Walker

Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass

w15408 Anthony B. Atkinson
Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez

Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

w15407 Alan J. Auerbach
William G. Gale

Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity

w15405 Stavros Panageas
Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts

w15400 Daron Acemoglu
Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski

Power Fluctuations and Political Economy

w15396 Hongbin Cai
Yuyu Chen
Hanming Fang
Li-An Zhou

Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

w15387 David Deming
Susan Dynarski

Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor

w15383 Darius N. Lakdawalla
Seth A. Seabury

The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability

w15373 Robert S. Pindyck
Neng Wang

The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes

w15369 Robert J. Barro
Charles J. Redlick

Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes

w15354 Dave E. Marcotte
Sara Markowitz

A Cure for Crime? Psycho-Pharmaceuticals and Crime Trends

w15347 Kenneth Kovash
Steven D. Levitt

Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

w15343 Mathias Trabandt
Harald Uhlig

How Far Are We From The Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited

w15337 Lawrence H. Goulder
Mark R. Jacobsen
Arthur A. van Benthem

Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations: The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits

w15328 William Congdon
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan

Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy

w15327 Clemens Sialm
Laura Starks

Mutual Fund Tax Clienteles

w15326 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
Kimberly Quaid
E. Ray Dorsey

Genetic Adverse Selection: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease

w15323 Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

w15320 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore

Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

w15317 Ning Tang
Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen Utkus

The Efficiency of Sponsor and Participant Portfolio Choices in 401(k) Plans

w15302 Daron Acemoglu
Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski

Political Economy of Ramsey Taxation

w15300 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

Soft Budgets and Renegotiations in Public-Private Partnerships

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15294 Marc N. Conte
Matthew J. Kotchen

Explaining the Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets

w15293 Lawrence H. Goulder
Marc A. C. Hafstead
Michael S. Dworsky

Impacts of Alternative Emissions Allowance Allocation Methods under a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program

w15291 Scott Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler
Bruce Sacerdote

Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees

w15290 Martin S. Feldstein
Economic Conditions and U.S. National Security in the 1930s and Today

w15281 Casey B. Mulligan
Means-Tested Mortgage Modification: Homes Saved or Income Destroyed?

w15280 Michael Kremer
Jessica Leino
Edward Miguel
Alix Peterson Zwane

Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions

w15263 R. Alison Felix
James R. Hines
Jr.

Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States

w15262 Stephen P. Holland
Taxes and Trading versus Intensity Standards: Second-Best Environmental Policies with Incomplete Regulation (Leakage) or Market Power

w15259 Robert S. Pindyck
Uncertain Outcomes and Climate Change Policy

w15246 Raj Chetty
The Simple Economics of Salience and Taxation

w15242 Rajkamal Iyer
Asim Ijaz Khwaja
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Kelly Shue

Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

w15241 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Jonathan Levin

Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets

w15224 David Albouy
Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds

w15221 Benjamin A. Olken
Monica Singhal

Informal Taxation

w15220 Andrew Gelman
Nate Silver
Aaron Edlin

What is the probability your vote will make a difference?

w15218 Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Claus Thustrup Kreiner
Emmanuel Saez

Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries

w15185 James R. Hines
Jr.

Income Misattribution under Formula Apportionment

w15183 Seth M. Freedman
Melissa Schettini Kearney
Mara Lederman

Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls

w15181 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K. C. Mok
James X. Sullivan

The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

w15177 John R. Graham
Hyunseob Kim

The Effects of the Length of the Tax-Loss Carryback Period on Tax Receipts and Corporate Marginal Tax Rates

w15172 Charles F. Manski
WHEN CONSENSUS CHOICE DOMINATES INDIVIDUALISM: Jensen's Inequality and Collective Decisions under Uncertainty

w15170 John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes

Market Valuation of Accrued Social Security Benefits

w15163 Jay Bhattacharya
Kate Bundorf
Noemi Pace
Neeraj Sood

Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?

w15156 Arik Levinson
Valuing Public Goods Using Happiness Data: The Case of Air Quality

w15149 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses

w15146 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Krishna B. Kumar
Neeraj Sood

Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

w15139 Bruce Ian Carlin
Simon Gervais
Gustavo Manso

When Does Libertarian Paternalism Work?

w15125 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Cost Containment in Climate Change Policy: Alternative Approaches to Mitigating Price Volatility

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 and Weight Gain

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 Limão
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


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