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Risky Business: Bank Loans to Local Governments

Benji Nguyen, Sylesh Volla, and Annabel Wong
Policy Brief   Aug 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Aug2017.pdf

On the Formation of Capital and Wealth

Mordecai Kurz
Working Paper   Jun 2017   PDF icon 17-016.pdf

Opening Markets: Rules, Norms, and Bargaining in Trade Treaties

Judith Goldstein, Robert Gulotty
SCID Working Paper   Jun 2017   PDF icon 602wp.pdf

What Yelp data can tell us about the minimum wage (and other policies)

Michael Luca
Policy Brief   Jun 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-June17.pdf

Financing Black-Owned Businesses

Rob Fairlie
Policy Brief   May 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-May17.pdf

Deterrence and the Optimal Use of Prison, Parole and Probation

A. Mitchell Polinsky, Paul N. Riskind
Working Paper   May 2017   PDF icon 17-012.pdf

Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship: Two Components of Business Creation

Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
Working Paper   Apr 2017   PDF icon 17-014.pdf

Addressing Path Dependence and Incorporating Sample Weights in the Nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique for Logit, Probit and Other Nonlinear Models

Robert W. Fairlie
Working Paper   Apr 2017   PDF icon 17-013.pdf

Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Grant Miller, Alfonso Miranda, Atheendar S. Venkataramani
SCID Working Paper   Apr 2017   PDF icon 593wp.pdf

What History Tells Us about Assimilation of Immigrants

Ran Abramitzky
Policy Brief   Apr 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Apr17.pdf

The Labor Market Returns to Computer Skills: Evidence from a Field Experiment and California UI Earnings Records

Robert W. Fairlie, Peter Riley Bahr
Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 17-015.pdf

Misallocation or Mismeasurement?

Mark Bils, Peter J. Klenow, Cian Ruane
SCID Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 599wp.pdf

Formal and Informal Market Institutions: Embeddedness Revisited

Marcel Fafchamps
SCID Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 596wp.pdf

Snap Judgments: Voter Inferences Based on Candidate Photos Predict Electoral Success and Politician Quality

Katherine Casey
SCID Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 595wp.pdf

The Consequences of the Housing Boom on Local Government Debt

Gila Bronshtein
Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 17-008.pdf

Subrogation and the Theory of Insurance When Suits Can Be Brought for Losses Suffered

A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell
Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 17-007.pdf

What Drives Differences in Management?

Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, John Van Reenen
Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 17-006.pdf

What Is Killing the US Coal Industry?

Charles D. Kolstad
Policy Brief   Mar 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Mar17.pdf

Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records

Kyle Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger, Ali Yurukoglu
SCID Working Paper   Mar 2017   PDF icon 582wp_0.pdf

Local incentives and national tax evasion: The response of illegal mining to a tax reform in Colombia

Santiago Saavedra, Mauricio Romero
Working Paper   Feb 2017   PDF icon 17-009.pdf

Patronage in the Allocation of Public Sector Jobs

Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem, Edoardo Teso
Working Paper   Feb 2017  

Train Them to Retain Them: Facilitating Organizational Retention of First-Time Women Workers in India

Aruna Ranganathan
SCID Working Paper   Feb 2017   PDF icon 601wp.pdf

When Businesses Go Bust: Liquidate or Reorganize?

Shai Bernstein
Policy Brief   Feb 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Feb17.pdf

Historical Performance of Rule-Like Monetary Policy

Yevgeniy Teryoshin
Working Paper   Feb 2017   PDF icon 17-005.pdf

Black and White: Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups

Robert Fairlie, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson
Working Paper   Feb 2017   PDF icon 17-003.pdf

Safe Assets, Collateralized Lending and Monetary Policy

Moritz Lenel
Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 17-010.pdf

The Impact of Teacher Professional Development Programs on Student Achievement in Rural China

Meichen Lu, Prashant Loyalka, Yaojiang Shi, Fang Chang, Chengfang Liu, Scott Rozelle
SCID Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 600wp.pdf

When No Bad Deed Goes Punished: Relational Contracting in Ghana versus the UK

Elwyn Davies, Marcel Fafchamps
SCID Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 598wp.pdf

Pledging, Praising, and Shaming: Experimental Labour Markets in Ghana

Elwyn Davies, Marcel Fafchamps
SCID Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 597wp.pdf

The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa

Eoin McGuirk, Marhsall Burke
SCID Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 594wp.pdf

The Effects of Computers on Children’s Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment

Robert Fairlie, Ariel Kalil
Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 17-004.pdf

Changes to Medicare under the Affordable Care Act

Jack Davidson, Jonathan Levin
Policy Brief   Jan 2017   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Jan17.pdf

Pathways to Retirement and the Self-Employed

Shanthi Ramnath, John B. Shoven, Sita Nataraj Slavov
Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 17-002.pdf

Prison Work Programs in a Model of Deterrence

A. Mitchell Polinsky
Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 17-001.pdf

Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson
SCID Working Paper   Jan 2017   PDF icon 576wp.pdf

Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in U.S. Schools after World War I

Vasiliki Fouka
SCID Working Paper   Dec 2016   PDF icon 591wp_0.pdf

What Higher Interest Rates Could Mean for You

Adrien Auclert
Policy Brief   Dec 2016   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Dec16.pdf

Watersheds in Infant Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880 to 1915

Marcella Alsan, Claudia Goldin
SCID Working Paper   Dec 2016   PDF icon 530wp.pdf

Anonymity or Distance? Experimental Evidence on the Obstacles That Young People Face in the Labour Market

Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn
SCID Working Paper   Nov 2016   PDF icon 590wp.pdf

Ten Important Economic Policy Areas for President-elect Trump

Gregory Rosston
Policy Brief   Nov 2016   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Nov16.pdf

Social Networks, Reputation and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment

Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar
SCID Working Paper   Nov 2016   PDF icon 572wp_0.pdf

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Matthew O. Jackson
SCID Working Paper   Nov 2016   PDF icon 515wp.pdf

Banking the Unbanked? Evidence From Three Countries

Pascaline Dupas, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Robinson, Diego Ubfal
SCID Working Paper   Oct 2016   PDF icon 585wp.pdf

When Affordable Housing Moves in Next Door

Rebecca Diamond
Policy Brief   Oct 2016   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Oct16.pdf

The Big Cost of Restrictive Housing Prices

Enrico Moretti
Other   Oct 2016   PDF icon Essay

The Importance of Just Process: Mutual Dissatisfaction Between Managers and Workers in Foreign-Owned Companies

James Chu, Marcel Fafchamps, David Jonason
SCID Working Paper   Oct 2016   PDF icon 581wp_0.pdf

International Isolation and Regional Inequality: Evidence from Sanctions on North Korea

Yong Suk Lee
SCID Working Paper   Oct 2016   PDF icon 575wp.pdf

Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Eric A. Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold, Ludger Woessmann
SCID Working Paper   Sep 2016   PDF icon 589wp.pdf

The Weaker Sex? Vulnerable Men, Resilient Women, and Variations in Sex Differences in Mortality Since 1900

Mark R. Cullen, Michael Baiocchi, Karen Eggleston, Pooja Loftus, Victor Fuchs
SCID Working Paper   Sep 2016   PDF icon 588wp_0.pdf

Multilateral Trade Bargaining and Dominant Strategies

Kyle Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger
SCID Working Paper   Sep 2016   PDF icon 583wp.pdf

Indian Financial Sector: Structure, Trends, and Turns

Rakesh Mohan, Partha Ray
SCID Working Paper   Sep 2016   PDF icon 580wp_0.pdf

Health Insurance: Choices, Changes, and Policy Challenges

Maria Polyakova
Policy Brief   Sep 2016   PDF icon PolicyBrief-Sept16.pdf

Characterizing Global Value Chains

Zhi Wang, Shang-Jin Wei, Xinding Yu, Kunfu Zhu
SCID Working Paper   Sep 2016   PDF icon 578wp.pdf

The Daily Grind: Cash Needs, Labor Supply and Self-Control

Pascaline Dupas, Jonathan Robinson, Santiago Saavedra
SCID Working Paper   Sep 2016   PDF icon 511wp_0.pdf

Reprisals Remembered: German-Greek Conflict and Car Sales During the Euro Crisis

Vasiliki Fouka, Hans-Joachim Voth
SCID Working Paper   Aug 2016   PDF icon 587wp_0.pdf

Gender and Agency Within the Household: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, Farah Said
SCID Working Paper   Aug 2016   PDF icon 586wp_0.pdf

Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade

Rodrigo Adao, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson
SCID Working Paper   Aug 2016   PDF icon 584wp.pdf

Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium, and Social Mobility: The Truth and Illusion of China's College Entrance Exam

Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li
SCID Working Paper   Aug 2016   PDF icon 577wp_1.pdf

Contractors' Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes: A Firm-level Experiment

Francesco Decarolis, Riccardo Pacini, Giancarlo Spagnolo
Working Paper   Aug 2016   PDF icon 16-036.pdf

Valuing Peace: The Effects of Financial Market Exposure on Votes And Political Attitudes

Saumitra Jha, Moses Shayo
SCID Working Paper   Aug 2016   PDF icon 554wp_0.pdf

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