* Real Wage Inequality
Enrico Moretti #14370 (LS)
* Housing Externalities
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Pierre-Daniel Sarte, and Raymond Owens III #14369 (EFG, PE)
* An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods
Timothy Erickson and Ariel Pakes #14368 (IO, PR)
* Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?
Bridget Terry Long and Michal Kurlaender #14367 (ED)
* A Model of Capital and Crises
Zhiguo He and Arvind Krishnamurthy #14366 (AP, CF)
* Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life
Thomas DeLeire and Christopher Timmins #14364 (EEE, LS)
* Can the West Save Africa?
William Easterly #14363 (EFG, POL)
* Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil’s Alternative Energy Program
Marc D. Weidenmier, Joseph H. Davis, and Roger Aliaga-Diaz #14362 (DAE, EFG, ME)
* Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040
Robert W. Fogel #14361 (HC)
* Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk #14345 (EFG)
Week of September 14 - September 20, 2008
* Media versus Special Interests
Alexander Dyck, David Moss, and Luigi Zingales #14360 (POL)
* Policymaking for Posterity
Lawrence H. Summers and Richard J. Zeckhauser #14359 (EEE, IFM)
* The Panic of 2007
Gary B. Gorton #14358 (AP, CF, EFG, ME)
* Design Limits and Dynamic Policy Analysis
William A. Brock, Steven N. Durlauf, and Giacomo Rondina #14357 (EFG, ME)
* Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future
Steven D. Levitt and John A. List #14356 (PE)
* Trades of the Living Dead: Style Differences, Style Persistence and Performance of Currency Fund Managers
Momtchil Pojarliev and Richard M. Levich #14355 (IFM)
* Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD
Anna Aizer #14354 (CH, ED, HE, LS, PE)
* Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times
Christopher F. Chabris, David Laibson, Carrie L. Morris, Jonathon P. Schuldt, and Dmitry Taubinsky #14353 (HE, LS, PE)
* Fetal Exposure to Toxic Releases and Infant Health
Janet Currie and Johannes F. Schmieder #14352 (CH, EEE, HE, PE)
* Intermediated Quantities and Returns
Rajnish Mehra, Facundo Piguillem, and Edward C. Prescott #14351 (AP, EFG)
* Demanding Customers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care
Hai Fang, Nolan H. Miller, John A. Rizzo, and Richard J. Zeckhauser #14350 (HC, HE)
* Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions
S. Boragan Aruoba, Francis X. Diebold, and Chiara Scotti #14349 (EFG)
* The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
David H. Autor #14348 (LS)
* Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan #14347 (CF, POL)
* Divorce Law and Women’s Labor Supply
Betsey Stevenson #14346 (DAE, LE, LS)
* The Internationalization of Venture Capital and Private Equity
Joshua Aizenman and Jake Kendall #14344 (ITI)
* The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises
Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua D. Rauh #14343 (AG, AP, CF, PE)
* Costly External Equity: Implications for Asset Pricing Anomalies
Dongmei Li, Erica X. N. Li, and Lu Zhang #14342 (AP, CF, EFG)
* Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success
Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, and Jialan Wang #14341 (CF)
Week of September 7 - September 13, 2008
* Listing of Working PapersAsset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets
Isaac Ehrlich, William A. Hamlen Jr., and Yong Yin #14340 (AP, ED, LS)
* Leadership, Coordination and Mission-Driven Management
Patrick Bolton, Markus K. Brunnermeier, and Laura Veldkamp #14339 (CF)
* Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers
Victor Lavy #14338 (ED, LS)
* Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, and Bert Van Landeghem #14337 (HC, HE, LS)
* International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
Andrew K. Rose and Mark M. Spiegel #14336 (IFM)
* The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig #14335 (EFG, PE, POL)
* The Role of Exports in the Economy of Colonial North America: New Estimates for the Middle Colonies
Peter Mancall, Joshua Rosenbloom, and Thomas J. Weiss #14334 (DAE)
* Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms
David M. Cutler, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Tom Vogl #14333 (AG, HC, HE)
* Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints
Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Ralph Rogalla #14332 (AG, LS, PE)
* Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity
Phillip Leslie and Paul Oyer #14331 (CF, IO, LE, LS)
* Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
Jeffrey Liebman and Richard Zeckhauser #14330 (HC, HE, PE)
* Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
Robert E. Hall and Alan B. Krueger #14329 (EFG, LS)
* Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
Liliana E. Pezzin, Robert A. Pollak, and Barbara S. Schone #14328 (LS)
* Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, and Pierre Cahuc #14327 (LS)
* Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization
Jonathan D. Ketcham and Kosali Simon #14326 (HC, HE)
* Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles
V. Kerry Smith, Carol Mansfield, and Laurel Clayton #14325 (EEE)
* The Litigation of Financial Innovations
Josh Lerner #14324 (CF, PR)
* Strategic Interaction Among Heterogeneous Price-Setters In An Estimated DSGE Model
Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko #14323 (EFG, ME)
* Phillips Curve Inflation Forecasts
James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson #14322 (EFG, ME)
* Capital Flow Bonanzas: An Encompassing View of the Past and Present
Carmen M. Reinhart and Vincent R. Reinhart #14321 (IFM)
* Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets
David Lee and Emmanuel Saez #14320 (LS, PE)
* Is a Donor in Hand Better than Two in the Bush? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Craig E. Landry, Andreas Lange, John A. List, Michael K. Price, and Nicholas G. Rupp #14319 (EEE, PE)
* International evidence on well-being
David G. Blanchflower #14318 (LS)
* The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging
David Neumark #14317 (AG)
Week of August 31 - September 6, 2008
* Listing of Working PapersDemand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability
Christopher T. Conlon and Julie Holland Mortimer #14315 (IO)
* Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement
Donald Boyd, Pamela Grossman, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff #14314 (ED, LS)
* New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis
V.V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, and Ellen R. McGrattan #14313 (EFG)
* How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle #14312 (LS)
* Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Stuti Khemani #14311 (CH)
* Housing Busts and Household Mobility
Fernando Ferreira, Joseph Gyourko, and Joseph Tracy #14310 (PE)
* The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance
John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler #14309 (HC)
* The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing
Morris M. Kleiner and Alan B. Krueger #14308 (LS)
* Redistribution and Tax Expenditures: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Nada Eissa and Hilary Hoynes #14307 (PE)
* Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach #14306 (CH, LS, PE)
* Reconsidering the Economics of Demand Analysis with Kinked Budget Constraints
Aaron Strong and V. Kerry Smith #14304 (EEE)
* Does Church Attendance Cause People to Vote? Using Blue Laws' Repeal to Estimate the Effect of Religiosity on Voter Turnout
Alan Gerber, Jonathan Gruber, and Daniel M. Hungerman #14303 (PE)
* Attitude-Dependent Altruism, Turnout and Voting
Julio J. Rotemberg #14302 (POL)
* Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven and Wojciech Kopczuk #14301 (LS, PE)
* Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment
Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda #14300 (EFG, LS)
* Power Laws in Economics and Finance
Xavier Gabaix #14299 (AP, EFG)
* The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
Noel Maurer and Lakshmi Iyer #14298 (DAE)
* School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
Daniel L. Millimet, Rusty Tchernis, and Muna Husain #14297 (HE)
* Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans
Claudio Lucarelli, Jeffrey Prince, and Kosali Simon #14296 (HC)
* Current Account Sustainability and Relative Reliability
Stephanie E. Curcuru, Charles P. Thomas, and Francis E. Warnock #14295 (IFM)
* The Foreclosure-House Price Nexus: Lessons from the 2007-2008 Housing Turmoil
Charles W. Calomiris, Stanley D. Longhofer, and William Miles #14294 (EFG)
* Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Adriana Kugler and Mutlu Yuksel #14293 (LS)