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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Public Economics


2011
w17268 Leonard E. Burman
Marvin Phaup

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

w17259 Mark A. Aguiar
Erik Hurst
Loukas Karabarbounis

Time Use During Recessions

w17254 Matthew J. Kotchen
Jon Jungbien Moon

Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility

w17251 Stephen Calabrese
Dennis N. Epple
Richard Romano

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

w17250 Patrick Bayer
Robert McMillan
Alvin Murphy
Christopher Timmins

A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods

w17247 Sara LaLumia
James M. Sallee

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

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

w17236 Mark Duggan
Tamara Hayford

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

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

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

"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications

w17230 Ruediger Bachmann
Jinhui Bai

Public Consumption Over the Business Cycle

w17227 Panle Jia Barwick
Parag A. Pathak

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

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

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

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

w17218 Philippe Belley
Marc Frenette
Lance Lochner

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

w17214 Louis Kaplow
An Optimal Tax System

w17210 Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna

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

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

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

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

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

w17189 Paul J. Ferraro
Michael K. Price

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

w17180 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

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

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

w17173 Kory Kroft
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

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

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

w17170 Michael Anderson
Maximilian Auffhammer

Pounds that Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight

w17169 Chongyang Chen
Zhonglan Dai
Douglas Shackelford
Harold Zhang

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

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

w17164 Richard V. Burkhauser
Jeff Larrimore
Kosali I. Simon

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

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

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

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

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

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

w17114 Alain Jousten
Mathieu Lefebvre
Sergio Perelman

Disability in Belgium: There is More than Meets the Eye

w17093 Ran Abramitzky
Victor Lavy

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns? Evidence from an Unusual Pay Reform in Israel's Kibbutzim

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

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

w17087 Sebastian Rausch
Gilbert E. Metcalf
John M. Reilly

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

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

w17082 Eduard Ponds
Clara Severinson
Juan Yermo

Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

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

w17065 Christopher J. Mayer
Edward Morrison
Tomasz Piskorski
Arpit Gupta

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

w17055 Luc Behaghel
Didier Blanchet
Thierry Debrand
Muriel Roger

Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case

w17052 Takashi Oshio
Satoshi Shimizutani

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

w17049 James Banks
Richard Blundell
Antoine Bozio
Carl Emmerson

Disability, Health and Retirement in the United Kingdom

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

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

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

w17041 Erik Hurst
Benjamin Wild Pugsley

Understanding Small Business Heterogeneity

w16989 Stefano DellaVigna
Ruben Enikolopov
Vera Mironova
Maria Petrova
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

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

w17035 Casey Rothschild
Florian Scheuer

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

w17033 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

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

w17032 James Andreoni
Laura K. Gee

The Hired Gun Mechanism

w17025 Jialun Li
Kent Smetters

Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security

w17018 Jeffrey R. Brown
Arie Kapteyn
Olivia S. Mitchell

Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

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

w17015 Kent Smetters
Walter E. Theseira

A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions

w17012 Katherine Casey
Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel

Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on External Aid and Local Collective Action

w17008 Geoffrey Heal
Sustainability and its Measurement

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

w17002 Siqi Zheng
Matthew E. Kahn

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

w17001 Don Fullerton
Daniel Karney
Kathy Baylis

Negative Leakage

w16997 Victor Chernozhukov
Iván Fernández-Val
Amanda E. Kowalski

Quantile Regression with Censoring and Endogeneity

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

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

w16974 Soren T. Anderson
Ryan Kellogg
James M. Sallee

What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices?

w16978 Alan B. Krueger
Ilyana Kuziemko

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

w16977 Jason Brown
Mark Duggan
Ilyana Kuziemko
William Woolston

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

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

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

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

w16968 Jed Kolko
David Neumark
Marisol Cuellar Mejia

Public Policy, State Business Climates, and Economic Growth

w16956 James D. Hamilton
Jing Cynthia Wu

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

w16955 Daniel Bennett
Chun-Fang Chiang
Anup Malani

Learning During a Crisis: the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan

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

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

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

w16932 Daria Burnes
David Neumark
Michelle J. White

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

w16921 Martin Feldstein
Daniel Feenberg
Maya MacGuineas

Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits

w16913 Michael Greenstone
Elizabeth Kopits
Ann Wolverton

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

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

w16899 Patrick Bolton
Olivier Jeanne

Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies

w16891 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

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

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

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

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

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

w16863 Justin Marion
Erich Muehlegger

Fuel Tax Incidence and Supply Conditions

w16851 Susan Athey
Dominic Coey
Jonathan Levin

Set-Asides and Subsidies in Auctions

w16844 Janet Currie
Michael Greenstone
Enrico Moretti

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

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

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

w16839 Kevin S. Markle
Douglas A. Shackelford

Cross-Country Comparisons of Corporate Income Taxes

w16833 Robert A. Moffitt
Peter Gottschalk

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

w16829 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

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

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

w16812 Carola Frydman
Raven S. Molloy

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

w16802 Mimi Engel
Brian A. Jacob

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

w16798 Janet Currie
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

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

Occupational Status and Health Transitions

w16792 Jeffrey R. Brown
Robert Clark
Joshua Rauh

The Economics of State and Local Public Pensions

w16791 Syngjoo Choi
Shachar Kariv
Wieland Müller
Dan Silverman

Who Is (More) Rational?

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

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

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

w16784 Patrick Bayer
Christopher Geissler
James W. Roberts

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

w16783 Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez

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

w16779 Joshua Aizenman
Gurnain Kaur Pasricha

Net Fiscal Stimulus During the Great Recession

w16775 Hyunseung Oh
Ricardo Reis

Targeted Transfers and the Fiscal Response to the Great Recession

w16772 Katherine Baicker
Jonathan S. Skinner

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

w16769 Robert J. Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

Saints Marching In, 1590-2009

w16768 Don Fullerton
Garth Heutel
Gilbert E. Metcalf

Does the Indexing of Government Transfers Make Carbon Pricing Progressive?

w16756 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson

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

w16751 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle

w16749 Emmanuel Farhi
Iván Werning

Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle

w16748 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Alexandra Killewald

Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth

w16729 Raj Chetty
Adam Guren
Dayanand S. Manoli
Andrea Weber

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

w16727 Thomas Philippon
Philipp Schnabl

Informational Rents, Macroeconomic Rents, and Efficient Bailouts

w16723 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein

Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures

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

w16715 Ori Heffetz
John A. List

Is the Endowment Effect a Reference Effect?

w16703 Don Fullerton
Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy

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

w16694 Roger H. Gordon
Wei Li

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

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

The Buck Stops Where? The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies

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

Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

w16671 Dalton Conley
Jennifer Heerwig

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

w16663 Julie Berry Cullen
Mark C. Long
Randall Reback

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

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

Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training


2010
w16643 Joshua Angrist
Philip Oreopoulos
Tyler Williams

When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards

w16627 Klaas van 't Veld
Matthew J. Kotchen

Green Clubs

w16619 Mikhail Golosov
Maxim Troshkin
Aleh Tsyvinski
Matthew Weinzierl

Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation

w16608 Grant D. Jacobsen
Matthew J. Kotchen
Michael P. Vandenbergh

The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand

w16606 Eric A. Hanushek
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality

w16604 James M. Sallee
Joel Slemrod

Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy

w16598 C. Kirabo Jackson
Peer Quality or Input Quality?: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

w16602 Janet Currie
Wanchuan Lin
Wei Zhang

Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse: Evidence from an Audit Study in China

w16586 Christopher J. Mayer
Tomasz Piskorski
Alexei Tchistyi

The Inefficiency of Refinancing: Why Prepayment Penalties Are Good for Risky Borrowers

w16579 Joseph G. Altonji
Ching-I Huang
Christopher R. Taber

Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of School Choice

w16577 Jonathan A. Parker
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares

w16568 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Glenn Loury

Valuing Identity

w16566 Joshua Angrist
Ivan Fernandez-Val

ExtrapoLATE-ing: External Validity and Overidentification in the LATE Framework

w16553 Priyank Gandhi
Hanno Lustig

Size Anomalies in U.S. Bank Stock Returns: A Fiscal Explanation

w16545 Henrik Kleven
Camille Landais
Emmanuel Saez

Taxation and International Migration of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market

w16542 C. Simon Fan
Chen Lin
Daniel Treisman

Embezzlement Versus Bribery

w16531 Andrew Paciorek
Todd M. Sinai

Does Home Owning Smooth the Variability of Future Housing Consumption?

w16530 B. Douglas Bernheim
Navin Kartik

Of Candidates and Character

w16527 Erik Hurst
Geng Li
Benjamin Pugsley

Are Household Surveys Like Tax Forms: Evidence from Income Underreporting of the Self Employed

w16526 Camille Landais
Pascal Michaillat
Emmanuel Saez

Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle

w16518 Scott E. Carrell
Mark Hoekstra
James E. West

Is Poor Fitness Contagious? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Friends

w16515 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?

w16509 Aimee Chin
Nishith Prakash

The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India

w16504 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era

w16503 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Policy Effects in Hyperbolic vs. Exponential Models of Consumption and Retirement

w16501 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

The Growth in Social Security Benefits Among the Retirement Age Population from Increases in the Cap on Covered Earnings

w16500 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level

w16489 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Alex Rees-Jones

Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys

w16486 Ian W.H. Parry
Roberton C. Williams III

What Are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?

w16483 Catherine L. Kling
John A. List
Jinhua Zhao

A Dynamic Explanation of the Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Disparity

w16475 David A. Jaeger
Esteban F. Klor
Sami H. Miaari
M. Daniele Paserman

Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada

w16467 John Cawley
Chad Meyerhoefer

The Medical Care Costs of Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach

w16466 James Sallee
The Taxation of Fuel Economy

w16456 George Pennacchi
Mahdi Rastad

Portfolio Allocation for Public Pension Funds

w16453 Joshua Rauh
Robert Novy-Marx

Policy Options for State Pension Systems and Their Impact on Plan Liabilities

w16451 Martin S. Feldstein
Preventing a National Debt Explosion

w16450 Robert Clark
Melinda S. Morrill

The Funding Status of Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector

w16442 Alicia H. Munnell
Jean-Pierre Aubry
Laura Quinby

Public Pension Funding in Practice

w16438 Hanming Fang
Yang Wang

Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Hyperbolic Discounting, with an Application to Mammography Decisions

w16433 Melissa Schettini Kearney
Peter Tufano
Jonathan Guryan
Erik Hurst

Making Savers Winners: An Overview of Prize-Linked Savings Products

w16423 Christina Aperjis
Yali Miao
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Variable Temptations and Black Mark Reputations

w16415 Lara B. Aknin
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
Elizabeth W. Dunn
John F. Helliwell
Robert Biswas-Diener
Imelda Kemeza
Paul Nyende
Claire E. Ashton-James
Michael I. Norton

Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

w16414 Billie Davis
John Engberg
Dennis N. Epple
Holger Sieg
Ron Zimmer

Evaluating the Gifted Program of an Urban School District using a Modified Regression Discontinuity Design

w16409 Henning Bohn
Should Public Retirement Plans be Fully Funded?

w16408 John Cawley
Johanna Catherine Maclean

Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment

w16406 Gopi Shah Goda
The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures

w16396 David Card
Alexandre Mas
Enrico Moretti
Emmanuel Saez

Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction

w16381 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Nathaniel Hilger
Emmanuel Saez
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Danny Yagan

How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence From Project STAR

w16373 James Andreoni
Justin M. Rao

The Power of Asking: How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

w16372 James Andreoni
A. Abigail Payne

Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

w16370 Soren T. Anderson
Carolyn Fischer
Ian Parry
James M. Sallee

Automobile Fuel Economy Standards: Impacts, Efficiency, and Alternatives

w16366 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

w16356 John M. de Figueiredo
Chang Ho Ji
Thad Kousser

Financing Direct Democracy: Revisiting the Research on Campaign Spending and Citizen Initiatives

w16353 Robert S. Pindyck
Fat Tails, Thin Tails, and Climate Change Policy

w16348 James Andreoni
Charles Sprenger

Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Discounted Expected Utility with a Disproportionate Preference for Certainty

w16347 James Andreoni
Charles Sprenger

Estimating Time Preferences from Convex Budgets

w16346 Agustín S. Bénétrix
Philip R. Lane

International Differences in Fiscal Policy During the Global Crisis

w16342 Melvin Stephens
Jr.
Takashi Unayama

The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits

w16330 Scott E. Carrell
Mark Hoekstra
James E. West

Does Drinking Impair College Performance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach

w16327 Fatih Guvenen
Anthony Smith

Inferring Labor Income Risk from Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach

w16315 Alessandra Casella
Aniol Llorente-Saguer
Thomas R. Palfrey

Competitive Equilibrium in Markets for Votes

w16311 Alan J. Auerbach
Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Measuring the Output Responses to Fiscal Policy

w16304 Serguei Maliar
Lilia Maliar
Kenneth L. Judd

Solving the Multi-Country Real Business Cycle Model Using Ergodic Set Methods

w16299 Leah Platt Boustan
Fernando Ferreira
Hernan Winkler
Eric Zolt

Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States, 1970-2000

w16296 William N. Evans
Craig L. Garthwaite

Giving Mom a Break: The Impact of Higher EITC Payments on Maternal Health

w16289 Karel Mertens
Morten Ravn

Empirical Evidence on the Aggregate Effects of Anticipated and Unanticipated U.S. Tax Policy Shocks

w16280 Hilary W. Hoynes
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

The Insurance Value of State Tax-and-Transfer Programs

w16279 C. Kirabo Jackson
Henry S. Schneider

Do Social Connections Reduce Moral Hazard? Evidence from the New York City Taxi Industry

w16277 Raquel Fernández
Does Culture Matter?

w16275 Mathias Dolls
Clemens Fuest
Andreas Peichl

Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe

w16271 Bruce Ian Carlin
David T. Robinson

What Does Financial Literacy Training Teach Us?

w16268 Louis Kaplow
Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change

w16258 Katja Seim
Joel Waldfogel

Public Monopoly and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's Entry Decisions

w16246 Claudia R. Sahm
Matthew D. Shapiro
Joel Slemrod

Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?

w16241 Matthew E. Kahn
Matthew J. Kotchen

Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle: The Chilling Effect of Recession

w16237 Veronica Guerrieri
Daniel Hartley
Erik Hurst

Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics

w16235 Steven Shavell
The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities

w16234 Steven Shavell
Corrective Taxation versus Liability

w16212 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

How Well Are Social Security Recipients Protected from Inflation?

w16211 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

Does Stock Market Performance Influence Retirement Expectations?

w16207 Charles F. Manski
Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude

w16194 Grant D. Jacobsen
Matthew J. Kotchen

Are Building Codes Effective at Saving Energy? Evidence from Residential Billing Data in Florida

w16199 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Jianjun Miao

What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model without Capital

w16198 Hilary Williamson Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program

w16196 Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel
Alexander Rothenberg

Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities

w16189 Jing Wu
Joseph Gyourko
Yongheng Deng

Evaluating Conditions in Major Chinese Housing Markets

w16184 Roberton C. Williams III
Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy: The Role of Market-Based Regulation

w16169 Ryan Chahrour
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Martín Uribe

A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of the Tax Multiplier

w16163 Ryan D. Edwards
A Review of War Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan

w16099 Gopi Shah Goda
Colleen Flaherty Manchester

Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection

w16157 François Gourio
Jianjun Miao

Transitional Dynamics of Dividend and Capital Gains Tax Cuts

w16155 Gary V. Engelhardt
Jonathan Gruber

Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly

w16152 Luke N. Condra
Joseph H. Felter
Radha K. Iyengar
Jacob N. Shapiro

The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq

w16149 Christopher J. Ruhm
Understanding Overeating and Obesity

w16144 David Albouy
Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization

w16139 Neeraj Kaushal
Robert Kaestner

Health and Health Insurance Trajectories of Mexicans in the US

w16137 David N. Figlio
Deborah Fletcher

Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance

w16129 Jennifer Blouin
Jana Raedy
Douglas Shackelford

Dividends, Share Repurchases, and Tax Clienteles: Evidence from the 2003 Reductions in Shareholder Taxes

w16123 Lawrence H. Goulder
Robert N. Stavins

Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

w16120 Roberton C. Williams III
Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy: The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase-Ins

w16119 Bård Harstad
Buy coal? Deposit markets prevent carbon leakage

w16112 John C. Ham
I. Serkan Ozbeklik
Lara Shore-Sheppard

Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Medicaid Expansions on Take-up and Crowd-out

w16108 Ryan D. Edwards
U.S. War Costs: Two Parts Temporary, One Part Permanent

w16101 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Aparna Mathur
Kevin A. Hassett

Distributional Impacts in a Comprehensive Climate Policy Package

w16097 Sean Corcoran
William N. Evans

Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education

w16096 Matias Busso
Jesse Gregory
Patrick M. Kline

Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

w16086 Robert P. Inman
States in Fiscal Distress

w16076 Gopi Shah Goda
Ezra Golberstein
David C. Grabowski

Income and the Utilization of Long-Term Care Services: Evidence from the Social Security Benefit Notch

w16066 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine

Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being

w16064 James J. Heckman
John Eric Humphries
Nicholas S. Mader

The GED

w16050 Antony Millner
Simon Dietz
Geoffrey Heal

Ambiguity and Climate Policy

w16036 Jonathan E. Alevy
John List
Wiktor Adamowicz

How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? An Example from the Preference Reversal Literature

w16032 Nicholas Bloom
Carol Propper
Stephan Seiler
John Van Reenen

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

w16025 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh

How Much is Social Capital Worth?

w16016 John DiNardo
David S. Lee

Program Evaluation and Research Designs

w16011 Robert Kaestner
Nasreen Khan

Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly

w16009 Isaac Ehrlich
Tetsuya Saito

Taxing Guns vs. Taxing Crime: An Application of the “Market for Offenses Model”

w16008 Andrew Ang
Vineer Bhansali
Yuhang Xing

Build America Bonds

w15998 Raj Chetty
Adam Szeidl

The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice

w15990 C. Kirabo Jackson
Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence From Teachers

w15984 Richard Crump
Gopi Shah Goda
Kevin Mumford

Fertility and the Personal Exemption: Comment

w15980 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Julia Tobias

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

w15971 Casey B. Mulligan
The Housing Cycle and Prospects for Technical Progress

w15967 Astrid Dannenberg
Andreas Lange
Bodo Sturm

On the Formation of Coalitions to Provide Public Goods - Experimental Evidence from the Lab

w15966 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
Matthew Ronfeldt
James Wyckoff

The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools

w15963 Damon Jones
Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds

w15962 Hamish Low
Luigi Pistaferri

Disability Risk, Disability Insurance and Life Cycle Behavior

w15956 Ross Levine
An Autopsy of the U.S. Financial System

w15955 Patrick Bajari
Phoebe Chan
Dirk Krueger
Daniel Miller

A Dynamic Model of Housing Demand: Estimation and Policy Implications

w15949 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement

w15935 Don Fullerton
Holly Monti

Can Pollution Tax Rebates Protect Low-Income Families? The Effects of Relative Wage Rates

w15915 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Household Location and Schools in Metropolitan Areas with Heterogeneous Suburbs; Tiebout, Alonso, and Government Policy

w15911 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Trust and Well-being

w15902 Robert J. Barro
Jong-Wha Lee

A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950–2010

w15897 Casey B. Mulligan
Luke Threinen

The Marginal Products of Residential and Non-Residential Capital Through 2009

w15894 Lance Lochner
Education Policy and Crime

w15887 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh

Measuring and Understanding Subjective Well-Being

w15885 Lucas W. Davis
Erich Muehlegger

Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing

w15873 Dalton Conley
Emily Rauscher

The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship

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Emily Greene Owens

One for the Road: Public Transportation, Alcohol Consumption, and Intoxicated Driving

w15867 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research

w15863 Douglas Gollin
Richard Rogerson

Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

w15861 Jeffrey Brown
Stephen G. Dimmock
Jun-Koo Kang
Scott Weisbenner

Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations

w15860 Hanming Fang
Andrea Moro

Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey

w15855 Jonathan Gruber
Samuel A. Kleiner

Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State

w15847 Marco Del Negro
Fabrizio Perri
Fabiano Schivardi

Tax buyouts

w15846 N. Gregory Mankiw
Spreading the Wealth Around: Reflections Inspired by Joe the Plumber

w15839 Lauren Cohen
Joshua D. Coval
Christopher Malloy

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

w15818 Louis Kaplow
On the Taxation of Private Transfers

w15816 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Constrained Job Matching: Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

w15805 Stavros Panageas
Optimal retirement benefit guarantees

w15800 Casey B. Mulligan
Simple Analytics and Empirics of the Government Spending Multiplier and Other “Keynesian” Paradoxes

w15798 Douglas Almond
Janet Currie
Emilia Simeonova

Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida

w15794 Joshua Angrist
Jörn-Steffen Pischke

The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

w15788 Don Fullerton
Garth Heutel

Analytical General Equilibrium Effects of Energy Policy on Output and Factor Prices

w15786 Liran Einav
Jonathan D. Levin

Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report

w15785 Thomas Philippon
Vasiliki Skreta

Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection

w15777 Casey B. Mulligan
Foreclosures, Enforcement, and Collections under the Federal Mortgage Modification Guidelines

w15775 Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Maxim Pinkovskiy

African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!

w15745 Emmanuel Saez
Manos Matsaganis
Panos Tsakloglou

Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

w15741 Wojciech Kopczuk
Economics of estate taxation: a brief review of theory and evidence

w15769 Henrik J. Kleven
Martin B. Knudsen
Claus T. Kreiner
Søren Pedersen
Emmanuel Saez

Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Randomized Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark

w15766 Jonathan Gruber
The Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

w15761 Hanming Fang
Edward Kung

How Does Life Settlement Affect the Primary Life Insurance Market?

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

Overconfidence and Early-life Experiences: The Impact of Managerial Traits on 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


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