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Economic Research

Economics Department Working Papers: 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998

Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education: Discussion Papers

2004 Senior Honors Theses Presentations

 

2004
CPI Bias and Real Living Standards in Russia John Gibson, Steven Stillman and Trinh Le
2003

Household Investment through Migration in Rural China Alan de Brauw and Scott Rozelle

Are Women Taking Over the Farm in China? Alan de Brauw

What Can We Learn About the Sensitivity of Investment to Stock Prices with a Better Measure of Tobin's q? William M. Gentry and Christopher J. Mayer

The Character and Determinants of Corporate Capital Gains Mihir A. Desai and William M. Gentry

Green Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods Matthew J. Kotchen

Impure Public Goods and the Comparative Statics of Environmentally Friendly Consumption Matthew J. Kotchen

Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation? John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard, NBER Working Paper #9803

Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children David Card and Lara Shore-Sheppard

The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Private Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from a Comparison of Matched Records David Card, Andrew Hildreth, and Lara Shore-Sheppard

The Death-Effect on Collectible Prices Victor A. Matheson and Robert A. Baade

The Paradox of Championships "Be Careful, Sports Fans, What You Wish For" Robert A. Baade and Victor A. Matheson

Research Note: Contrary Evidence on the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl on the Victorious City Victor A. Matheson

Super Bowl or Super (Hyper)Bole? Assessing the Economic Impact of America's Premier Sports Event Robert A. Baade and Victor A. Matheson

In Search of a Fair Bet in the Lottery Victor A. Matheson and Kent Grote

Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity? Victor A. Matheson and Robert A. Baade

2002

The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity John Bound, Julie Berry Cullen, Austin Nichols and Lucie Schmidt NBER Working Paper #9155

AFDC, SSI, and Welfare Reform Aggressiveness: Caseload Reductions vs. Caseload Shifting Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak

Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Land Supply Constraints Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

Taxes Versus Regulation: The Welfare Impacts of Policies for Containing Sprawl Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, and Scott Rozelle

Getting Income Shares Right Douglas Gollin

Nobody's Business by My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development Douglas Gollin

The Green Revolution: An End of Century Perspective R.E. Evenson and Douglas Gollin

Farm Work, Home Work and International Productivity Differences Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

The Role of Agriculture in Development Douglas Gollin, Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson

2001

The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Labor Market Transitions John Ham and Lara Shore-Sheppard

The Welfare Economics of Land Use Planning Paul Cheshire and Stephen Sheppard

Do Domestic Investors Have an Information Advantage? Evidence from Indonesia Tomas Dvorak

Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Policy in Five Asian Countries: Filling in the "Hollow Middle"? Peter Montiel and Leonardo Hernandez

Reform and Growth in Latin America: All Pain, No Gain? Peter Montiel and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

Gross Capital Flows and Asymmetric Information Tomas Dvorak

Latifundia Economics Jonathan Conning

Managing Economic Insecurity in Rural El Salvador: the role of asset ownership and labor market adjustments Jonathan Conning, Pedro Olinto and Alvaro Trigueros

Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture Jonathan H. Conning and James A. Robinson

Setting Environmental Taxes in a Second-best World William K. Jaeger

Economic Growth and Environmental Resource Allocation William K. Jaeger and Van Kolpin

Carbon Taxation When Climate Affects Productivity William K. Jaeger

Environmental and Distortionary Taxes: Comment William K. Jaeger

2000

The Effect of Local Fiscal Policies on Urban Wage Structure Patricia Beeson, Lara Shore-Sheppard, and Christopher Briem

The Effect of Taxes on Portfolio Choice: Evidence From Panel Data Spanning The Tax Reform Act of 1986, Jon Bakija

Distinguishing Transitory and Permanent Price Elasticities of Charitable Giving with Pre-Announced Changes in Tax Law, Jon Bakija

Monitoring by Peers or by Delegates? Joint Liability Loans under Moral Hazard, Jonathan Conning

Of Pirates and Moneylenders: Product market competition and the depth of lending relationships in a rural market in Chile, Jonathan Conning

Community Based Targeting for Social Safety Nets, Jonathan Conning and Michael Kevane

Gender and Corruption, Anand Swamy, Stephen Knack, Young Lee, and Omar Azfar (Published in Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 64, 2001, 25-55.)

Taxation by Auction: Fund-Raising by 19th Century Indian Guilds, Arijit Sen and Anand V. Swamy

1998

"Work and Development" (abstract) Henry J. Bruton and David Fairris

"A Reconsideration of Import Substitution," Henry J. Bruton, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol XXXVI (June 1998), pp. 903-936.

"American Business Cycle Volatility in Historical Perspective: Revised Estimates of Real GDP, 1869-1913" (abstract) Mark Seigler

"It Pays to Value Family: Work and Family Tradeoffs Reconsidered"(abstract) Peter Cappelli, Jill Constantine and Cline Chadwick

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