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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DESIGNING CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICY Joseph E. Aldy Alan J. Krupnick Richard G. Newell Ian W.H. Parry William A. Pizer Working Paper 15022 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15022 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The authors are grateful to C...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WATCH WHAT I DO, NOT WHAT I SAY: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF THE HOMELAND INVESTMENT ACT Dhammika Dharmapala C. Fritz Foley Kristin J. Forbes Working Paper 15023 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15023 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Th...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INFLATION AND THE STOCK MARKET: UNDERSTANDING THE "FED MODEL" Geert Bekaert Eric Engstrom Working Paper 15024 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15024 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank the participants of seminars at Columbia Univers...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES COMPUTING DSGE MODELS WITH RECURSIVE PREFERENCES Dario Caldara Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez Wen Yao Working Paper 15026 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15026 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Michel Juillard fo...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DEBT, DEFICITS AND FINITE HORIZONS: THE STOCHASTIC CASE Roger Farmer Carine Nourry Alain Venditti Working Paper 15025 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15025 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This study is supported in part by NSF grant #072...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LAND POLICY: FOUNDING CHOICES AND OUTCOMES, 1781-1802 Farley Grubb Working Paper 15028 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15028 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The author is Professor of Economics and NBER Research Associate at the Univers...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF TEENAGE BODY WEIGHT ON ADULT WAGES Euna Han Edward C. Norton Lisa M. Powell Working Paper 15027 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15027 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The views expressed herein are those of ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ELASTICITY OF TAXABLE INCOME WITH RESPECT TO MARGINAL TAX RATES: A CRITICAL REVIEW Emmanuel Saez Joel B. Slemrod Seth H. Giertz Working Paper 15012 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15012 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 This paper was w...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CO-OPTIMIZATION OF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY AND CARBON SEQUESTRATION Andrew Leach Charles F. Mason Klaas van't Veld Working Paper 15035 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15035 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The views expressed herein are tho...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND UNEMPLOYMENT Mark Bils Yongsung Chang Sun-Bin Kim Working Paper 15030 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15030 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Evgenia Dechter for her excellent research assistance. We part...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT LIES BENEATH THE EURO'S EFFECT ON FINANCIAL INTEGRATION: CURRENCY RISK, LEGAL HARMONIZATION, OR TRADE? Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan Elias Papaioannou José-Luis Peydró Working Paper 15034 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15034 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DO SKILLED IMMIGRANTS STRUGGLE IN THE LABOR MARKET? A FIELD EXPERIMENT WITH SIX THOUSAND RESUMES Philip Oreopoulos Working Paper 15036 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15036 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This research was carried o...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IS INVESTOR RATIONALITY TIME VARYING? EVIDENCE FROM THE MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY Vincent Glode Burton Hollifield Marcin Kacperczyk Shimon Kogan Working Paper 15038 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15038 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We than...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ABCS OF CHARITABLE SOLICITATION Jonathan Meer Harvey S. Rosen Working Paper 15037 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15037 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful to Kevin Cotter, Bruce D. Freeman, Jean Grossman, William Hardt, ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NEVER WASTE A GOOD CRISIS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Randall Morck Bernard Yeung Working Paper 15042 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15042 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful for helpful su...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AMPLIFICATION MECHANISMS IN LIQUIDITY CRISES Arvind Krishnamurthy Working Paper 15040 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15040 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 I thank Tobias Adrian, Olivier Blanchard, Markus Brunnermeier, Ricardo Caballero,...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: ECONOMIC AND POLICY FACTORS Melayne M. McInnes Judith A. Shinogle Working Paper 15039 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15039 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Jim Sallis and participants at the NBER Conference on...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND DIFFUSION AS SOURCES OF OUTPUT AND ASSET PRICE FLUCTUATIONS Diego A. Comin Mark Gertler Ana Maria Santacreu Working Paper 15029 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15029 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We appreciate...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHY DO MOTHERS BREASTFEED GIRLS LESS THAN BOYS? EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD HEALTH IN INDIA Seema Jayachandran Ilyana Kuziemko Working Paper 15041 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15041 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Kri...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ENERGY EFFICIENCY ECONOMICS AND POLICY Kenneth Gillingham Richard G. Newell Karen Palmer Working Paper 15031 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15031 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This manuscript was prepared for the Annual Review of Reso...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CAN A FOCUS ON BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS? Michael Hoel Aart de Zeeuw Working Paper 15043 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15043 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This article...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FIRM HETEROGENEITY AND THE LONG-RUN EFFECTS OF DIVIDEND TAX REFORM Francois Gourio Jianjun Miao Working Paper 15044 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15044 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank John Boyd, Christophe Chamley, Russell Coo...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRICING MODEL PERFORMANCE AND THE TWO-PASS CROSS-SECTIONAL REGRESSION METHODOLOGY Raymond Kan Cesare Robotti Jay Shanken Working Paper 15047 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15047 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Pierluigi Balduzz...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRADE, OFFSHORING, AND THE INVISIBLE HANDSHAKE Bilgehan Karabay John McLaren Working Paper 15048 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15048 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful to seminar participants at Boston University, Florida ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CREDIT RATING CRISIS Efraim Benmelech Jennifer Dlugosz Working Paper 15045 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15045 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Daron Acemuglo, Adam Ashcraft, George-Marios Angeletos, Bengt Holmstrom, David...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INFORMATION, ANIMAL SPIRITS, AND THE MEANING OF INNOVATIONS IN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE Robert B. Barsky Eric R. Sims Working Paper 15049 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15049 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The authors gratefully acknowledge...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS CONTRIBUTE TO THE PERSISTENCE OF THE CHILD LABOR PROBLEM? Matthias Doepke Fabrizio Zilibotti Working Paper 15050 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15050 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Kaushik Basu...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LABOR-MARKET REGIMES IN U.S. ECONOMIC HISTORY Joshua L. Rosenbloom William A. Sundstrom Working Paper 15055 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15055 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Alex Field and Tom Weiss for their perceptive comm...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ECONOMIC CONTEXTUAL FACTORS AND CHILD BODY MASS INDEX Lisa M. Powell Frank J. Chaloupka Working Paper 15046 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15046 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This research was supported by the National Research Initia...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GENERALIZED AGENCY PROBLEMS Randall Morck Working Paper 15051 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15051 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 I am grateful for suggestions from Malcolm Baker, Nick Barberis, Andrei Shleifer, and Jeff Wurgler. The v...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE JAPANESE BUBBLE: A 'HETEROGENEOUS' APPROACH Robert B. Barsky Working Paper 15052 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15052 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This paper was prepared for a conference volume on the Japanese Bubble, Deflation,...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS OF PUBLIC GOODS: THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY WATER FLUORIDATION ON DENTISTS Katherine Ho Matthew Neidell Working Paper 15056 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15056 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We would like to thank Lee...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INTEGRATED POLITICAL STRATEGY John M. de Figueiredo Working Paper 15053 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15053 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WAGE DISPERSION IN THE SEARCH AND MATCHING MODEL WITH INTRA-FIRM BARGAINING Dale T. Mortensen Working Paper 15033 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15033 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The financial support of the National Science Foundat...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ENDOGENOUS COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS IN HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION Anupam Jena Tomas Philipson Working Paper 15032 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15032 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank James Raftery for his generous provi...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MEASURING DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION Rema Hanna Leigh Linden Working Paper 15057 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15057 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛This project was funded in part by University Research Challenge Fund at New York U...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INEQUALITY TRENDS FOR GERMANY IN THE LAST TWO DECADES: A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln Dirk Krueger Mathias Sommer Working Paper 15059 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15059 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Michael ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TAX POLICIES FOR LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES Gilbert E. Metcalf Working Paper 15054 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15054 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛I thank Frank Sammartino for helpful comments on a previous draft of this paper. The ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CRASH RISK IN CURRENCY MARKETS Emmanuel Farhi Samuel Paul Fraiberger Xavier Gabaix Romain Ranciere Adrien Verdelhan Working Paper 15062 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15062 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Robert Tumarkin provided excell...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BAILOUTS, THE INCENTIVE TO MANAGE RISK, AND FINANCIAL CRISES Stavros Panageas Working Paper 15058 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15058 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 I would like to thank Andy Abel, Andy Atkeson, Peter DeMarzo, Nicolae...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO PATENT POOLS ENCOURAGE INNOVATION? EVIDENCE FROM THE 19TH-CENTURY SEWING MACHINE INDUSTRY Ryan L. Lampe Petra Moser Working Paper 15061 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15061 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We wish to thank the Wiscons...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES REDUCING FORECLOSURES: NO EASY ANSWERS Christopher Foote Kristopher Gerardi Lorenz Goette Paul Willen Working Paper 15063 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15063 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The views in this paper are our own and not n...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LEARNING BY DRILLING: INTER-FIRM LEARNING AND RELATIONSHIP PERSISTENCE IN THE TEXAS OILPATCH Ryan Kellogg Working Paper 15060 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15060 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 I am grateful for financial support from ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO RACE AND FAIRNESS MATTER IN GENEROSITY? EVIDENCE FROM A NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE CHARITY EXPERIMENT Christina M. Fong Erzo F.P. Luttmer Working Paper 15064 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15064 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Funding...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ADOPTION CURVES AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS William A. Brock Steven N. Durlauf Working Paper 15065 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15065 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This paper has been written in memory of Antoni Calvo-Armengol. The res...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SCHOOLING, COGNITIVE SKILLS, AND THE LATIN AMERICAN GROWTH PUZZLE Eric A. Hanushek Ludger Woessmann Working Paper 15066 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15066 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We benefited from helpful comments from Paul Ro...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IS SOCIAL SECURITY PART OF THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET? Jeffrey R. Brown Julia Lynn Coronado Don Fullerton Working Paper 15070 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15070 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This research was supported by the U.S. Social...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EMPIRICS OF STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCE: THE CASE OF THE RACIAL TIPPING POINT William Easterly Working Paper 15069 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15069 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛I am grateful for comments received from David Romer...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTIONS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART David Galenson Working Paper 15073 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15073 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OPTING FOR FAMILIES: RECENT TRENDS IN THE FERTILITY OF HIGHLY EDUCATED WOMEN Qingyan Shang Bruce A. Weinberg Working Paper 15074 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15074 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful for extensive discussi...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE (MYTHICAL?) HOUSING WEALTH EFFECT Charles Calomiris Stanley D. Longhofer William Miles Working Paper 15075 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15075 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛The authors thank Rick Mishkin, Kevin Hassett, and Sha...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE, BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTORS, AND LONGEVITY GROWTH Frank R. Lichtenberg Working Paper 15068 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15068 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This research was supported by the Centre for Strat...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHINA'S LAND MARKET AUCTIONS: EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION Hongbin Cai J. Vernon Henderson Qinghua Zhang Working Paper 15067 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15067 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛The authors thank Yona Rubinstein for helpful ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OPTIMAL TAXATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE N. Gregory Mankiw Matthew Weinzierl Danny Yagan Working Paper 15071 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15071 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and d...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BIRTH COHORT AND THE BLACK-WHITE ACHIEVEMENT GAP: THE ROLES OF ACCESS AND HEALTH SOON AFTER BIRTH Kenneth Y. Chay Jonathan Guryan Bhashkar Mazumder Working Paper 15078 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15078 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EQUALITY MULTIPLIER Erling Barth Karl O. Moene Working Paper 15076 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15076 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This work is part of a larger research project at ESOP, the Frisch center and the Institute for ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INEQUALITY AND VOLATILITY MODERATION IN RUSSIA: EVIDENCE FROM MICRO-LEVEL PANEL DATA ON CONSUMPTION AND INCOME Yuriy Gorodnichenko Klara Sabirianova Peter Dmitriy Stolyarov Working Paper 15080 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15080 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Camb...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EXTENDING LIFE CYCLE MODELS OF OPTIMAL PORTFOLIO CHOICE: GRATING FLEXIBLE WORK, ENDOGENOUS RETIREMENT, AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS WITH LIFETIME PAY Jingjing Chai Wolfram Horneff Raimond Maurer Olivia S. Mitchell Working Paper 15079 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15079 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RE...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT COMES TO MIND Nicola Gennaioli Andrei Shleifer Working Paper 15084 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15084 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are deeply grateful to Josh Schwartzstein for considerable input, and to Pedro Bordalo, Shan...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WHAT DO EMISSIONS MARKETS DELIVER AND TO WHOM? EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S NOX TRADING PROGRAM Meredith Fowlie Stephen P. Holland Erin T. Mansur Working Paper 15082 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15082 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE ECONOMICS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY Geoffrey Heal Working Paper 15081 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15081 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛ I am grateful to Columbia Business School students in my course “Current Developments in Energy ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LAND AND CREDIT: A STUDY OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY Raghuram G. Rajan Rodney Ramcharan Working Paper 15083 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15083 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We t...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES STATE CAPACITY, CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT Timothy J. Besley Torsten Persson Working Paper 15088 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15088 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This paper is the basis for Persson’s Presidential address to the Econom...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EDUCATIONAL CHOICES, SUBJECTIVE EXPECTATIONS, AND CREDIT CONSTRAINTS Orazio Attanasio Katja Kaufmann Working Paper 15087 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15087 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 ¸˛A first draft of this paper was presented at...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LIFE AT THE TOP: THE BENEFITS OF HEIGHT Angus S. Deaton Raksha Arora Working Paper 15090 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15090 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful to Gallup and Healthways for access to the proprietary data fr...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A FREE LUNCH IN THE COMMONS Matthew J. Kotchen Stephen W. Salant Working Paper 15086 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15086 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This paper begun while Salant was a visiting scholar at the Bren School of Environ...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DECOMPOSING THE U.S. EXTERNAL RETURNS DIFFERENTIAL Stephanie E. Curcuru Tomas Dvorak Francis E. Warnock Working Paper 15077 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15077 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This paper, a much-revised and updated vers...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CENSORED QUANTILE INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ESTIMATES OF THE PRICE ELASTICITY OF EXPENDITURE ON MEDICAL CARE Amanda E. Kowalski Working Paper 15085 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15085 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 I am grateful to Amy Fi...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO MULTINATIONALS OR DOMESTIC FIRMS FACE HIGHER EFFECTIVE TAX RATES? Kevin S. Markle Douglas Shackelford Working Paper 15091 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15091 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We appreciate the helpful comments from Ro...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MODERN MEDICINE AND THE 20TH CENTURY DECLINE IN MORTALITY: EVIDENCE ON THE IMPACT OF SULFA DRUGS Seema Jayachandran Adriana Lleras-Muney Kimberly V. Smith Working Paper 15089 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15089 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Ju...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE COMPETITIVE SAVING MOTIVE: EVIDENCE FROM RISING SEX RATIOS AND SAVINGS RATES IN CHINA Shang-Jin Wei Xiaobo Zhang Working Paper 15093 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15093 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The authors would like to than...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES FOOD PRICES AND THE DYNAMICS OF BODY WEIGHT Dana Goldman Darius Lakdawalla Yuhui Zheng Working Paper 15096 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15096 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful to participants at the November 2008 Economi...
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SKILL DISPERSION AND TRADE FLOWS Matilde Bombardini Giovanni Gallipoli Germán Pupato Working Paper 15097 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15097 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We would like to thank Paul Beaudry, David Green, Patrick Fran...
34,404
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WAR AND RELATEDNESS Enrico Spolaore Romain Wacziarg Working Paper 15095 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15095 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful to Don Cox, Klaus Desmet, Rajeev Dehejia, Jim Fearon, Michelle Garfinkel, Yanni...
32,215
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CRIME AND BODY WEIGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: WAS THERE A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BRAWN, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CRIME? Howard Bodenhorn Gregory Price Working Paper 15099 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15099 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 J...
12,688
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IDENTIFICATION IN MATCHING GAMES Jeremy T. Fox Working Paper 15092 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15092 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Previous versions of these theorems circulated as part of the paper “Estimating Matching Games with ...
51,030
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RISK-BASED PRICING AND RISK-REDUCING EFFORT: DOES THE PRIVATE INSURANCE MARKET REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL ACCIDENTS? Haitao Yin Howard Kunreuther Matthew White Working Paper 15100 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15100 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Jun...
25,917
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A MODEL OF A SYSTEMIC BANK RUN Harald Uhlig Working Paper 15072 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15072 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This paper has been written for and financially supported by the Carnegie-Rochester conference in April...
24,155
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ABORTION AND CRIME: A REVIEW Theodore J. Joyce Working Paper 15098 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15098 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 This is a draft of a paper to be included in the Handbook on the Economics of Crime, edited by Bruce...
29,498
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES OBESITY, SELF-ESTEEM AND WAGES Naci H. Mocan Erdal Tekin Working Paper 15101 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15101 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛We thank Duha Altindag and Tatsuya Hanabuchi for excellent research assistance. Sara Ma...
32,734
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BUY LOCAL? THE GEOGRAPHY OF SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE CAPITAL EXPANSION Henry Chen Paul Gompers Anna Kovner Josh Lerner Working Paper 15102 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15102 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Harvard Business...
24,156
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN CITIES AND SKILLS Edward L. Glaeser Matthew G. Resseger Working Paper 15103 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15103 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Both authors thank the Taubman Center for State and Local Gover...
18,658
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES YET ANOTHER TALE OF TWO CITIES: BUENOS AIRES AND CHICAGO Filipe Campante Edward L. Glaeser Working Paper 15104 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15104 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Both authors thank the John S. and Cynthia Reed foundati...
22,985
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF MILITARY CONSCRIPTION ON MORTALITY: ESTIMATES FROM THE VIETNAM-ERA DRAFT LOTTERY Dalton Conley Jennifer A. Heerwig Working Paper 15105 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15105 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 The vie...
8,857
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH PLANS ON HEALTH CARE SPENDING Anthony T. Lo Sasso Lorens A. Helmchen Robert Kaestner Working Paper 15106 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15106 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We gratefully acknowle...
13,157
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DEFAULT, FRAMING AND SPILLOVER EFFECTS: THE CASE OF LIFECYCLE FUNDS IN 401(K) PLANS Olivia S. Mitchell Gary R. Mottola Stephen P. Utkus Takeshi Yamaguchi Working Paper 15108 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15108 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Jun...
15,336
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ESTIMATING THE IMPACT OF TRADE AND OFFSHORING ON AMERICAN WORKERS USING THE CURRENT POPULATION SURVEYS Avraham Ebenstein Ann Harrison Margaret McMillan Shannon Phillips Working Paper 15107 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15107 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridg...
20,311
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GLOBAL SAVINGS AND GLOBAL INVESTMENT: THE TRANSMISSION OF IDENTIFIED FISCAL SHOCKS James Feyrer Jay C. Shambaugh Working Paper 15113 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15113 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank seminar participants at D...
67,308
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RISK ALLOCATION, DEBT FUELED EXPANSION AND FINANCIAL CRISIS Paul Beaudry Amartya Lahiri Working Paper 15110 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15110 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛The authors thank Subrata Sarkar for excellent research a...
30,094
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES RISK SHARING, INEQUALITY AND FERTILITY Roozbeh Hosseini Larry E. Jones Ali Shourideh Working Paper 15111 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15111 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are indebted to Alice Schoonbroodt for all of her helpful c...
44,434
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE NEW KALDOR FACTS: IDEAS, INSTITUTIONS, POPULATION, AND HUMAN CAPITAL Charles I. Jones Paul M. Romer Working Paper 15094 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15094 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 Prepared for a session at the January 2009 ...
15,956
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CAPITAL INCOME TAXES WITH HETEROGENEOUS DISCOUNT RATES Peter A. Diamond Johannes Spinnewijn Working Paper 15115 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15115 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We are grateful to Richard Blundell, Jesse Edgerton, Lo...
18,409
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TAX REFORM, DELOCATION AND HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS Richard Baldwin Toshihiro Okubo Working Paper 15109 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15109 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛We thank three anonymous referees and seminar participants at CES-...
16,130
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PUBLIC POLICY, HEALTH INSURANCE AND THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD Phillip B. Levine Robin McKnight Samantha Heep Working Paper 15114 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15114 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Akila Weerapana and seminar...
17,680
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ANTI-LEMONS: SCHOOL REPUTATION AND EDUCATIONAL QUALITY W. Bentley MacLeod Miguel Urquiola Working Paper 15112 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15112 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 For discussions and comments, we thank Janet Currie, Denn...
27,978
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES STEPPING OFF THE WAGE ESCALATOR: THE EFFECTS OF WAGE GROWTH ON EQUILIBRIUM EMPLOYMENT Michael W. L. Elsby Matthew D. Shapiro Working Paper 15117 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15117 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We would like to thank...
24,493
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PUTTING TASKS TO THE TEST: HUMAN CAPITAL, JOB TASKS AND WAGES David H. Autor Michael J. Handel Working Paper 15116 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15116 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative f...
27,575
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS ON HEALTH Jason M. Fletcher Jody L. Sindelar Shintaro Yamaguchi Working Paper 15121 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15121 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 We thank Steven Lehrer for helpful commen...
21,319
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRANSMISSION OF THE U.S. SUBPRIME CRISIS TO EMERGING MARKETS: EVIDENCE ON THE DECOUPLING-RECOUPLING HYPOTHESIS Michael P. Dooley Michael M. Hutchison Working Paper 15120 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15120 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 20...
14,979
NBER
2,009
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NEGATIVE NOMINAL INTEREST RATES: THREE WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ZERO LOWER BOUND Willem H. Buiter Working Paper 15118 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15118 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 June 2009 ¸˛I would like to thank Anne Sibert, Charles Goodhart...
32,603