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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHICH IMMIGRANTS ARE MOST INNOVATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL? DISTINCTIONS BY ENTRY VISA Jennifer Hunt Working Paper 14920 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14920 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 I am grateful to David Munroe and Marjolaine Ga...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRICE OF POLITICAL OPPOSITION: EVIDENCE FROM VENEZUELA'S MAISANTA Chang-Tai Hsieh Edward Miguel Daniel Ortega Francisco Rodriguez Working Paper 14923 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14923 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We thank Van...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ADOLESCENT COGNITIVE AND NON-COGNITIVE CORRELATES OF ADULT HEALTH Robert Kaestner Working Paper 14924 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14924 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 ¸˛I thank James Heckman, Sergio Urzua, seminar participants at t...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FIRMS' EXPORTING BEHAVIOR UNDER QUALITY CONSTRAINTS Juan Carlos Hallak Jagadeesh Sivadasan Working Paper 14928 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14928 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 Juan Carlos Hallak thanks the National Science Foundati...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THREE EPOCHS OF OIL Eyal Dvir Kenneth S. Rogoff Working Paper 14927 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14927 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We thank Jim Anderson, Deepa Dhume, Gita Gopinath, Lutz Kilian, Brent Neiman, and the participants...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FEAR OF FIRE SALES AND THE CREDIT FREEZE Douglas W. Diamond Raghuram G. Rajan Working Paper 14925 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14925 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 Both authors are from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Bu...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EFFICIENT RECAPITALIZATION Thomas Philippon Philipp Schnabl Working Paper 14929 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14929 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We thank seminar participants at the 2010 American Finance Association Meeting, Baruch...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE SELF-INTERESTED USE OF EQUITY IN INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS Andreas Lange Andreas Löschel Carsten Vogt Andreas Ziegler Working Paper 14930 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14930 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We thank two...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DO FOREIGN FIRMS HAVE LESS IDIOSYNCRATIC RISK THAN U.S. FIRMS? Söhnke M. Bartram Gregory Brown René M. Stulz Working Paper 14931 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14931 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 The views expressed herein are th...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ALTRUISTIC DYNAMIC PRICING WITH CUSTOMER REGRET Julio J. Rotemberg Working Paper 14933 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14933 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 ¸˛I wish to thank the Harvard Business School Division of Research for research...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT'S THE "INTEREST" IN FDA DRUG ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST? Joseph Golec John Vernon Working Paper 14932 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14932 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 ¸˛John Vernon thanks FDA for financial suppor...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES REPLY TO "GENERALIZING THE TAYLOR PRINCIPLE: A COMMENT" Troy Davig Eric M. Leeper Working Paper 14919 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14919 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We thank Todd Walker for helpful conversations and Jess Benhabib...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POLLUTION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES Arik Levinson Working Paper 14936 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14936 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 This work was done in part for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Fourth No...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DOES IT MATTER WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO PATENT: FIRST-TO-INVENT OR FIRST-TO-FILE? LESSONS FROM CANADA Shih-tse Lo Dhanoos Sutthiphisal Working Paper 14926 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14926 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We are grateful...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES POLLUTION, HEALTH, AND AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR: EVIDENCE FROM THE PORTS OF LOS ANGELES Enrico Moretti Matthew Neidell Working Paper 14939 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14939 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Financial support from the Californ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE RANDOM COEFFICIENTS LOGIT MODEL IS IDENTIFIED Patrick Bajari Jeremy Fox Kyoo il Kim Stephen P. Ryan Working Paper 14934 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14934 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 Bajari thanks the National Science Foundat...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SCARCITY OF IDEAS AND R&D OPTIONS: USE IT, LOSE IT OR BANK IT Nisvan Erkal Suzanne Scotchmer Working Paper 14940 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14940 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper expands and supersedes the first part of our...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHARITABLE MEMBERSHIPS, VOLUNTEERING, AND DISCOUNTS: EVIDENCE FROM A LARGE-SCALE ONLINE FIELD EXPERIMENT Andreas Lange Andrew Stocking Working Paper 14941 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14941 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We are gratef...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ESTIMATING THE BORDER EFFECT: SOME NEW EVIDENCE Gita Gopinath Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Chang-Tai Hsieh Nicholas Li Working Paper 14938 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14938 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 ¸˛We are grateful to Paul Berg...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNSTABLE BANKING Andrei Shleifer Robert W. Vishny Working Paper 14943 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14943 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Harvard University and the University of Chicago, respectively. We are grateful to Shai Bernstei...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DEMARCATION OF LAND AND THE ROLE OF COORDINATING INSTITUTIONS Gary D. Libecap Dean Lueck Working Paper 14942 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14942 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Research support was provided by National Science Found...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO SCHOOL ENTRY LAWS AFFECT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES? Carlos Dobkin Fernando Ferreira Working Paper 14945 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14945 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank David Card, Elizabeth Cascio,...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FAMILY NETWORKS AND SCHOOL ENROLMENT: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED SOCIAL EXPERIMENT Manuela Angelucci Giacomo De Giorgi Marcos A. Rangel Imran Rasul Working Paper 14949 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14949 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRADE REFORMS AND MARKET SELECTION: EVIDENCE FROM MANUFACTURING PLANTS IN COLOMBIA Marcela Eslava John C. Haltiwanger Adriana D. Kugler Maurice Kugler Working Paper 14935 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14935 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRUPTION: EVIDENCE FROM THE AUDITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS Claudio Ferraz Frederico Finan Working Paper 14937 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14937 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 April 2009 We are grateful to Sandra Bl...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE LIMITATIONS OF STOCK MARKET EFFICIENCY: PRICE INFORMATIVENESS AND CEO TURNOVER Gary B. Gorton Lixin Huang Qiang Kang Working Paper 14944 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14944 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We appreciate comments and ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LETTING DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT BUSINESS CYCLES COMPETE Paul Beaudry Bernd Lucke Working Paper 14950 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14950 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Daron Acemoglu, Jonas Fisher, Ulrich Fritsche, Thomas Haerte...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO INVESTMENTS IN UNIVERSAL EARLY EDUCATION PAY OFF? LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF INTRODUCING KINDERGARTENS INTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Elizabeth U. Cascio Working Paper 14951 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14951 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I am gra...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT GOVERNMENTS MAXIMIZE AND WHY: THE VIEW FROM TRADE Kishore Gawande Pravin Krishna Marcelo Olarreaga Working Paper 14953 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14953 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 ¸˛Financial support from the World Bank’s Re...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OBFUSCATION, LEARNING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF INVESTOR SOPHISTICATION Bruce Ian Carlin Gustavo Manso Working Paper 14954 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14954 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We would like to thank Nittai Bergman, Tony Berna...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS: EVIDENCE FROM BLACKJACK TABLES Bruce Ian Carlin David T. Robinson Working Paper 14955 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14955 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MARKET CONDITIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF SECURITIES Isil Erel Brandon Julio Woojin Kim Michael Weisbach Working Paper 14952 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14952 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We would like to thank Murillo Campello, Navee...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EVALUATING RUBIN'S CAUSAL MODEL FOR MEASURING THE CAPITALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITIES H. Allen Klaiber V. Kerry Smith Working Paper 14957 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14957 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Partial support for this...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SEX AND SCIENCE: HOW PROFESSOR GENDER PERPETUATES THE GENDER GAP Scott E. Carrell Marianne E. Page James E. West Working Paper 14959 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14959 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Thanks go to USAFA personnel: J. Pu...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MARRY FOR WHAT: CASTE AND MATE SELECTION IN MODERN INDIA Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo Maitreesh Ghatak Jeanne Lafortune Working Paper 14958 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14958 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A MODEL OF CASINO GAMBLING Nicholas C. Barberis Working Paper 14947 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14947 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I am grateful to Isaiah Andrews and Ji Shen for excellent research assistance. I am also grateful, f...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BE AS CAREFUL OF THE COMPANY YOU KEEP AS OF THE BOOKS YOU READ: PEER EFFECTS IN EDUCATION AND ON THE LABOR MARKET Giacomo De Giorgi Michele Pellizzari Silvia Redaelli Working Paper 14948 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14948 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge,...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE INVESTMENT OVER THE BUSINESS CYCLE Boyan Jovanovic Peter L. Rousseau Working Paper 14960 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14960 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank G. Alessandria, W. Brainard, R. Lucas, G. Viol...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT DOES GLOBAL EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION MEAN FOR THE US? Richard B. Freeman Working Paper 14962 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14962 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MEASURING THE BENEFITS OF PRODUCT VARIETY WITH AN ACCURATE VARIETY SET Bruce A. Blonigen Anson Soderbery Working Paper 14956 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14956 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper has benefited from the comments ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PATTERNS OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL RAISINGS Juan Carlos Gozzi Ross Levine Sergio L. Schmukler Working Paper 14961 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14961 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We received very helpful comments from Charles Engel, C...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF THE ASIAN MIRACLE ON THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH Robert W. Fogel Working Paper 14967 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14967 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 In writing this paper, I have made use of previous research reporte...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, COMPLEXITY AND VOLATILITY Pravin Krishna Andrei A. Levchenko Working Paper 14965 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14965 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We are grateful to Arnaud Costinot, Miklos Koren and workshop pa...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WELFARE SPENDING AND MORTALITY RATES FOR THE ELDERLY BEFORE THE SOCIAL SECURITY ERA Adrian Stoian Price V. Fishback Working Paper 14970 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14970 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Andrea Balan Cohen, Kei...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HALF A CENTURY OF PUBLIC SOFTWARE INSTITUTIONS: OPEN SOURCE AS A SOLUTION TO HOLD-UP PROBLEM Michael Schwarz Yuri Takhteyev Working Paper 14946 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14946 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We are grateful to Jacqu...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IS THE EITC EQUIVALENT TO AN NIT? CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS AND TAX INCIDENCE Jesse Rothstein Working Paper 14966 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14966 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Other versions of this paper are titled “Is the EITC ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PARADOX OF DECLINING FEMALE HAPPINESS Betsey Stevenson Justin Wolfers Working Paper 14969 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We would like to thank Amanda Goodall, Christian Holzner, Robert Jäckle, A...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE TWO WAVES OF SERVICE SECTOR GROWTH Barry Eichengreen Poonam Gupta Working Paper 14968 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14968 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 University of California, Berkeley and Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, respe...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHEN ARE ANALYST RECOMMENDATION CHANGES INFLUENTIAL? Roger K. Loh René M. Stulz Working Paper 14971 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14971 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Gilbert Ho for research assistance and the Office of Resear...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES QUANTITY-QUALITY AND THE ONE CHILD POLICY: THE ONLY-CHILD DISADVANTAGE IN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN RURAL CHINA Nancy Qian Working Paper 14973 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14973 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I thank Joshua Angrist, Daron ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION REWARD RESEARCH WHILE SELLING EDUCATION? Dahlia K. Remler Elda Pema Working Paper 14974 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14974 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper is based on many earlier vers...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DISTINCT EFFECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON FIRM ORGANIZATION Nicholas Bloom Luis Garicano Raffaella Sadun John Van Reenen Working Paper 14975 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14975 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LEGAL PROTECTION IN RETAIL FINANCIAL MARKETS Bruce I. Carlin Simon Gervais Working Paper 14972 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14972 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessar...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE OPTIMAL TAXATION OF HEIGHT: A CASE STUDY OF UTILITARIAN INCOME REDISTRIBUTION N. Gregory Mankiw Matthew Weinzierl Working Paper 14976 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14976 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We are grateful to Ruchir Agar...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SPATIAL PRICE DISCRIMINATION WITH HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS Jonathan Vogel Working Paper 14978 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14978 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I am grateful to Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and especially to Gene Grossman and Far...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TOXIC EXPOSURE IN AMERICA: ESTIMATING FETAL AND INFANT HEALTH OUTCOMES Nikhil Agarwal Chanont Banternghansa Linda Bui Working Paper 14977 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14977 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The authors would like to than...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ANALYZING THE EXTENT AND INFLUENCE OF OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING ON THE LABOR MARKET Morris M. Kleiner Alan B. Krueger Working Paper 14979 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14979 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank participants at the Nati...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EDUCATION AND THE PREVALENCE OF PAIN Steven J. Atlas Jonathan S. Skinner Working Paper 14964 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14964 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Amitabh Chandra, Joyce DeLeo, Edward Glaeser, Kathy Stroffolino, J...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF BUSINESS GROUPS: EVIDENCE FROM KOREAN CHAEBOLS Heitor Almeida Sang Yong Park Marti Subrahmanyam Daniel Wolfenzon Working Paper 14983 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14983 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Alme...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NOISY BUSINESS CYCLES George-Marios Angeletos Jennifer La'O Working Paper 14982 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14982 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper was prepared for the 2009 NBER Macroeconomics Annual. We are grateful for th...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT ARE CITIES WORTH? LAND RENTS, LOCAL PRODUCTIVITY, AND THE CAPITALIZATION OF AMENITY VALUES David Albouy Working Paper 14981 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14981 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I would like to thank David Agrawal, Bo...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHERE DOES THE WAGE PENALTY BITE? Christian A. Gregory Christopher J. Ruhm Working Paper 14984 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14984 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessar...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OUTCOMES IN A PROGRAM THAT OFFERS FINANCIAL REWARDS FOR WEIGHT LOSS John Cawley Joshua A. Price Working Paper 14987 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14987 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The authors gratefully acknowledge a research grant ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SHORT RUN CONSTRAINTS AND THE INCREASING MARGINAL VALUE OF TIME IN RECREATION Raymond B. Palmquist Daniel J. Phaneuf V. Kerry Smith Working Paper 14986 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14986 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Partial support ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY AND OBESITY AMONG CHILDREN Bisakha Sen Stephen Mennemeyer Lisa C. Gary Working Paper 14985 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14985 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Susan Averett and atte...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CORPORATE DEBT MATURITY AND THE REAL EFFECTS OF THE 2007 CREDIT CRISIS Heitor Almeida Murillo Campello Bruno Laranjeira Scott Weisbenner Working Paper 14990 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14990 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Ja...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES STUDYING THE CHILD OBESITY EPIDEMIC WITH NATURAL EXPERIMENTS Robert Sandy Gilbert Liu John Ottensmann Rusty Tchernis Jeffrey Wilson O.T. Ford Working Paper 14989 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14989 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We tha...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IMPROVING THE NUMERICAL PERFORMANCE OF BLP STATIC AND DYNAMIC DISCRETE CHOICE RANDOM COEFFICIENTS DEMAND ESTIMATION Jean-Pierre H. Dubé Jeremy T. Fox Che-Lin Su Working Paper 14991 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14991 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MONETARY POLICY AND THE DOLLAR Peter L. Rousseau Working Paper 14993 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14993 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 ¸˛The author thanks Michael Bordo, Douglas Irwin, Richard Sylla, and participants at the NBER's con...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A SEARCH-THEORETIC MODEL OF THE RETAIL MARKET FOR ILLICIT DRUGS Manolis Galenianos Rosalie Liccardo Pacula Nicola Persico Working Paper 14980 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14980 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank, without implicat...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EFFECTS OF WEIGHT ON ADOLESCENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT Robert Kaestner Michael Grossman Benjamin Yarnoff Working Paper 14994 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14994 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IMPACT OF "SEGURO POPULAR" ON PRENATAL VISITS IN MEXICO, 2002-2005: LATENT CLASS MODEL OF COUNT DATA WITH A DISCRETE ENDOGENOUS VARIABLE Jeffrey E. Harris Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi Working Paper 14995 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14995 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Ca...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FOOD STAMP PROGRAM AND CONSUMPTION CHOICES Neeraj Kaushal Qin Gao Working Paper 14988 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14988 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 ¸˛We would like to thank the IRP-USDA Small Grants Program for funding this resear...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MONETARY POLICY IN EUROPE VS THE US: WHAT EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE? Harald Uhlig Working Paper 14996 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14996 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This research was started when the author was professor at Humboldt ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CARBON GEOGRAPHY: AL ECONOMY OF CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION INTENDED TO MITIGATE GREENHOUSE GAS Michael I. Cragg Matthew E. Kahn Working Paper 14963 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14963 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SUBSIDIES TO INDUSTRY AND THE ENVIRONMENT David Kelly Working Paper 14999 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14999 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I would like to thank seminar participants at Carnegie Mellon University, the Ninth Occasional...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC ON HEALTH SERVICES IN AFRICA: EVIDENCE FROM DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS Anne Case Christina Paxson Working Paper 15000 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15000 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Kimbe...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF STATE-LEVEL NUTRITION-EDUCATION PROGRAM FUNDING ON BMI: EVIDENCE FROM THE BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM Kerry Anne McGeary Working Paper 15001 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15001 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 200...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES REQUIESCAT IN PACE? THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIGH PRICED FUNERALS IN SOUTH AFRICA Anne Case Alicia Menendez Working Paper 14998 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14998 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We have benefited from the help of the Aginco...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES COMPLEXITY AND FINANCIAL PANICS Ricardo J. Caballero Alp Simsek Working Paper 14997 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14997 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Mathias Dewatripont, Pablo Kurlat, Guido Lorenzoni, Juan Ocampo and seminar...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE OIL SHOCK OF 2007-08 James D. Hamilton Working Paper 15002 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15002 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I am grateful to Alan Blinder, David Romer, Lutz Kilian, conference participan...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CROWDING OUT AND CROWDING IN OF PRIVATE DONATIONS AND GOVERNMENT GRANTS Garth Heutel Working Paper 15004 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15004 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I would like to thank the National Science Foundation Graduate ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DIFFERENCES IN THE U.S. TRENDS IN THE PREVALENCE OF OBESITY BASED ON BODY MASS INDEX AND SKINFOLD THICKNESS Richard V. Burkhauser John Cawley Maximilian D. Schmeiser Working Paper 15005 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15005 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND LABOR INCOME RISK IN THE UNITED STATES Pravin Krishna Mine Zeynep Senses Working Paper 14992 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14992 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 For helpful comments and suggestions, we are gratef...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXCHANGE RATES AND MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS Philippe Bacchetta Eric van Wincoop Working Paper 15008 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15008 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We would like to thank Raf Wo...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INCOMPLETE INFORMATION, HIGHER-ORDER BELIEFS AND PRICE INERTIA George-Marios Angeletos Jennifer La'O Working Paper 15003 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15003 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper was prepared for the 2008 SNB/JME co...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LIQUIDITY SHOCKS AND ORDER BOOK DYNAMICS Bruno Biais Pierre-Olivier Weill Working Paper 15009 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15009 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Many thanks, for helpful discussions and suggestions, to Andy Atkeson, Dir...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNRAVELING RESULTS FROM COMPARABLE DEMAND AND SUPPLY: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION Muriel Niederle Alvin E. Roth M. Utku Ünver Working Paper 15006 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15006 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The preliminary vers...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OPTIMAL INATTENTION TO THE STOCK MARKET WITH INFORMATION COSTS AND TRANSACTIONS COSTS Andrew B. Abel Janice C. Eberly Stavros Panageas Working Paper 15010 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15010 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Hal ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY Chris M. Herbst Erdal Tekin Working Paper 15007 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15007 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The authors would like to thank the participants at the 2009 Meetings of the ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES JOINT-SEARCH THEORY: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND NEW FRICTIONS Bulent Guler Fatih Guvenen Giovanni L. Violante Working Paper 15011 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15011 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The authors thank seminar and conference pa...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MIGRATION-REGIME LIBERALIZATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY: POLITICAL-ECONOMY EFFECT Assaf Razin Edith Sand Working Paper 15013 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15013 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the aut...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNDERSTANDING INFLATION-INDEXED BOND MARKETS John Y. Campbell Robert J. Shiller Luis M. Viceira Working Paper 15014 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15014 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 Campbell and Viceira's research was supported by the...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WAS THERE REALLY A HAWTHORNE EFFECT AT THE HAWTHORNE PLANT? AN ANALYSIS OF THE ORIGINAL ILLUMINATION EXPERIMENTS Steven D. Levitt John A. List Working Paper 15016 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15016 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 ¸˛Tha...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NEWS, NOISE, AND FLUCTUATIONS: AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION Olivier J. Blanchard Jean-Paul L'Huillier Guido Lorenzoni Working Paper 15015 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15015 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We thank Daron Acemoglu, Marios An...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY AND REDEVELOPMENT OF OLD INDUSTRIAL LAND Hilary Sigman Working Paper 15017 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15017 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I am grateful to Deepa Bhat and Leah Traub for excellent research ass...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE PARADOX OF UNDER- AND OVER-REGULATION Joshua Aizenman Working Paper 15018 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15018 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 I would like to thank Maury Obstfeld, Dan Friedman, Ken Kletzer, Dona...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FISCAL POLICY CAN REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT: BUT THERE IS A LESS COSTLY AND MORE EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE Roger E. A. Farmer Working Paper 15021 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15021 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper was prepared for the ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A DYNAMIC MODEL OF PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AT THE FULTON FISH MARKET Kathryn Graddy George Hall Working Paper 15019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 The views expressed herein are...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EFFECTS OF JAPANESE MACROECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE DOLLAR/YEN EXCHANGE RATE: HIGH-RESOLUTION PICTURE Yuko Hashimoto Takatoshi Ito Working Paper 15020 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15020 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 ¸˛The authors ...
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