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2021
w28873 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser

When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic
w28860 Zach Y. Brown
Alexander MacKay

Competition in Pricing Algorithms
w28856 Song Ma
Joy Tianjiao Tong
Wei Wang

Bankrupt Innovative Firms
w28848 Timothy J. Moore
Kevin T. Schnepel

Opioid Use, Health and Crime: Insights from a Rapid Reduction in Heroin Supply
w28804 Dhaval M. Dave
Joseph J. Sabia
Samuel Safford

Statewide Reopening During Mass Vaccination: Evidence on Mobility, Public Health and Economic Activity from Texas
w28794 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Chicheng Ma
Yuchen Xu

The Legal Origins of Financial Development: Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
w28793 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Valeria Perotti
Andrei Shleifer

Property Rights and Urban Form
w28789 Jesse Kalinowski
Matthew B. Ross
Stephen L. Ross

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling
w28765 Jialan Wang
Kathleen Burke

The Effects of Disclosure and Enforcement on Payday Lending in Texas
w28763 Toshio Ferrazares
Joseph J. Sabia
D. Mark Anderson

Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired?
w28718 Catherine Balfe
Patrick Button
Mary Penn
David Schwegman

Infrequent Identity Signals and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies
w28707 Timothy J. Moore
Todd Morris

Shaping the Habits of Teen Drivers
w28650 Benjamin Enke
Uri Gneezy
Brian Hall
David C. Martin
Vadim Nelidov
Theo Offerman
Jeroen van de Ven

Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?
w28647 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees

The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana
w28640 Aloisio Araujo
Rafael Ferreira
Spyridon Lagaras
Flavio Moraes
Jacopo Ponticelli
Margarita Tsoutsoura

The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy
w28610 Andres Gonzalez-Lira
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation when Agents Learn and Adapt
w28600 Amanda Y. Agan
Jennifer L. Doleac
Anna Harvey

Misdemeanor Prosecution
w28572 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

Unequal Jury Representation and Its Consequences
w28560 A. James O'Malley
Thomas A. Bubolz
Jonathan S. Skinner

The Diffusion of Health Care Fraud: A Network Analysis
w28555 David Neumark
Maysen Yen

Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
w28532 Duha T. Altindag
Naci H. Mocan
Jie Zhang

Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament
w28522 Jarkko Harju
Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer

Voice at Work
w28491 Jean Beuve
Marian W. Moszoro
Pablo T. Spiller

Contractual Rigidity and Political Contestability: Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations
w28475 Ioana Marinescu
Yue Qiu
Aaron Sojourner

Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
w28410 Dhaval M. Dave
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

Political Violence, Risk Aversion, and Non-Localized Disease Spread: Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Riot
w28405 Howard Bodenhorn
Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs
w28357 Susan F. Cherry
Erica Xuewei Jiang
Gregor Matvos
Tomasz Piskorski
Amit Seru

Government and Private Household Debt Relief during COVID-19
w28351 Allison Shertzer
Tate Twinam
Randall P. Walsh

Zoning and Segregation in Urban Economic History
w28350 Matthew Backus
Christopher Conlon
Michael Sinkinson

Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry
w28341 Robert C. Merton
Richard T. Thakor

No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
w28319 Hadar Avivi
Patrick M. Kline
Evan Rose
Christopher R. Walters

Adaptive Correspondence Experiments
2020
w28293 Jeffrey Grogger
Sean Gupta
Ria Ivandic
Tom Kirchmaier

Comparing Conventional and Machine-Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases
w28262 Seth Garz
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
Rafe Mazer
Caitlin Sanford
Jonathan Zinman

Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives
w28255 Patrick Bayer
Peter Q. Blair
Kenneth Whaley

A National Study of School Spending and House Prices
w28235 Marcelo L. Bergolo
Martin Leites
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Matias Strehl

What Makes a Tax Evader?
w28227 Peter Q. Blair
Bobby W. Chung

A Model of Occupational Licensing and Statistical Discrimination
w28209 Francesco Decarolis
Raymond Fisman
Paolo Pinotti
Silvia Vannutelli

Rules, Discretion, and Corruption in Procurement: Evidence from Italian Government Contracting
w28202 Aaron Chalfin
Benjamin Hansen
Emily K. Weisburst
Morgan C. Williams
Jr.

Police Force Size and Civilian Race
w28192 Benjamin J. McMichael
Sara Markowitz

Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
w28179 Leila Agha
Keith Marzilli Ericson
Xiaoxi Zhao

The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Healthcare Coordination and Utilization
w28173 Calvin Bryan
Benjamin Hansen
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

Do State Tobacco 21 Laws Work?
w28168 Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder

Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines
w28158 Bradley Larsen
Ziao Ju
Adam Kapor
Chuan Yu

The Effect of Occupational Licensing Stringency on the Teacher Quality Distribution
w28146 Price V. Fishback
Jessica LaVoice
Allison Shertzer
Randall Walsh

Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Federal Redlining
w28138 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

We are all Behavioral, More or Less: A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision Making
w28128 Mark J. McCabe
Christopher Snyder

Cite Unseen: Theory and Evidence on the Effect of Open Access on Cites to Academic Articles Across the Quality Spectrum
w28122 Aparna Soni
Erdal Tekin

How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
w28118 Zhiguo He
Jing Huang
Jidong Zhou

Open Banking: Credit Market Competition When Borrowers Own the Data
w28093 Eric Budish
Maximize Utility subject to R≤1: A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy
w28091 Michael Ostrovsky
Choice Screen Auctions
w28085 Matthew Goodkin-Gold
Michael Kremer
Christopher M. Snyder
Heidi L. Williams

Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases
w28068 Amalia R. Miller
Carmit Segal
Melissa K. Spencer

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
w28042 Sylvain Chassang
Lucia Del Carpio
Samuel Kapon

Making the Most of Limited Government Capacity: Theory and Experiment
w28025 Elliott Ash
W. Bentley MacLeod

Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts
w28011 Samantha Horn
Julian Jamison
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Does Lasting Behavior Change Require Knowledge Change? Evidence From Savings Interventions For Young Adults
w27993 Michael Geruso
Dean Spears

How Likely Is It that Courts Will Select the US President? The Probability of Narrow, Reversible Election Results in the Electoral College versus a National Popular Vote
w27990 Lauren Cohen
Umit G. Gurun
Quoc H. Nguyen

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
w27950 Sean Cao
Wei Jiang
Baozhong Yang
Alan L. Zhang

How to Talk When a Machine is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
w27940 Jacob Goldin
Katherine Michelmore

Who Benefits From the Child Tax Credit?
w27933 Jason U. Huh
Julian Reif

Teenage Driving, Mortality, and Risky Behaviors
w27914 Renee Bowen
J. Lawrence Broz

Designing an International Economic Order: A Research Agenda
w27900 David H. Howard
Ian McCarthy

Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care
w27860 Victor Stango
Jonathan Zinman

Behavioral Biases are Temporally Stable
w27857 W. Bentley MacLeod
Victoria Valle Lara
Christian Zehnder

Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation: On Building an Effective Conflict Culture
w27816 Brad C. Nathan
Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Alejandro Zentner

My Taxes are Too Darn High: Why Do Households Protest their Taxes?
w27813 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

The Contagion Externality of a Superspreading Event: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and COVID-19
w27802 Ivan A. Canay
Magne Mogstad
Jack Mountjoy

On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making
w27801 Daniel Ovando
Gary D. Libecap
Katherine D. Millage
Lennon Thomas

Coasean Approaches to Ending Overfishing: Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
w27792 Krista J. Ruffini
Aaron Sojourner
Abigail K. Wozniak

Who's In and Who's Out under Workplace COVID Symptom Screening?
w27776 Samuel Bazzi
Martin Fiszbein
Mesay Gebresilasse

Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27750 Eric C. Edwards
Martin Fiszbein
Gary D. Libecap

Colonial Origins, Property Rights, and the Organization of Agricultural Production: the US Midwest and Argentine Pampas Compared
w27736 Danielle Li
Lindsey R. Raymond
Peter Bergman

Hiring as Exploration
w27713 Ozkan Eren
Naci H. Mocan

Judge Peer Effects in the Courthouse
w27710 Eleonora Broccardo
Oliver D. Hart
Luigi Zingales

Exit vs. Voice
w27665 Zhiguo He
Maggie Rong Hu
Zhenping Wang
Vincent Yao

Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty
w27653 Zhuang Liu
Michael Sockin
Wei Xiong

Data Privacy and Temptation
w27650 Edward L. Glaeser
Ginger Zhe Jin
Benjamin T. Leyden
Michael Luca

Learning from Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During COVID-19
w27649 Anthony Koschmann
Yi Qian

Latent Estimation of Piracy Quality and its Effect on Revenues and Distribution: The Case of Motion Pictures
w27641 Amir Kermani
Yueran Ma

Two Tales of Debt
w27619 Monica Deza
Johanna Catherine Maclean
Keisha T. Solomon

Local Access to Mental Healthcare and Crime
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27584 Abby E. Alpert
Sarah E. Dykstra
Mireille Jacobson

How Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing? The Role of Hassle Costs versus Information
w27579 Michael D. Frakes
Melissa F. Wasserman

Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination
w27573 Mathias Kronlund
Veronika K. Pool
Clemens Sialm
Irina Stefanescu

Out of Sight No More? The Effect of Fee Disclosures on 401(k) Investment Allocations
w27568 Morris M. Kleiner
Ming Xu

Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity
w27563 Leila Agha
Soomi Kim
Danielle Li

Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation
w27544 Janet Currie
Hannes Schwandt

The Opioid Epidemic Was Not Caused by Economic Distress But by Factors that Could be More Rapidly Addressed
w27535 John A. List
Non est Disputandum de Generalizability? A Glimpse into The External Validity Trial
w27522 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Drew McNichols
Connor Redpath
Joseph J. Sabia

Risk Aversion, Offsetting Community Effects, and COVID-19: Evidence from an Indoor Political Rally
w27511 Benjamin Enke
Ricardo Rodríguez-Padilla
Florian Zimmermann

Moral Universalism and the Structure of Ideology
w27501 Bo Li
Jacopo Ponticelli

Going Bankrupt in China
w27463 Giovanni Facchini
Brian G. Knight
Cecilia Testa

The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act
w27450 Ian Burn
Patrick Button
Theodore F. Figinski
Joanne Song McLaughlin

Why Retirement, Social Security, and Age Discrimination Policies Need to Consider the Intersectional Experiences of Older Women
w27408 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia
Samuel Safford

Black Lives Matter Protests and Risk Avoidance: The Case of Civil Unrest During a Pandemic
w27362 Dylan Balla-Elliott
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

Business Re-Opening During the COVID-19 Pandemic
w27324 Tanaya Devi
Roland G. Fryer Jr

Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime
w27322 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia

Are the Effects of Adoption and Termination of Shelter-in-Place Orders Symmetric? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
w27294 Emily E. Wiemers
Scott Abrahams
Marwa AlFakhri
V. Joseph Hotz
Robert F. Schoeni
Judith A. Seltzer

Disparities in Vulnerability to Severe Complications from COVID-19 in the United States
w27279 Resul Cesur
Joseph J. Sabia
Erdal Tekin

Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans
w27253 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Lai Wei
Wensi Xie

Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation
w27240 Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Glen R. Waddell

Persistent Effects of Violent Media Content
w27233 Patrick A. McLaughlin
Casey B. Mulligan

Three Myths about Federal Regulation
w27229 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia
Samuel Safford

Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
w27225 Bruce I. Carlin
Tarik Umar
Hanyi Yi

Deputization
w27221 Viral V. Acharya
Raghuram Rajan
Jack Shim

When is Debt Odious? A Theory of Repression and Growth Traps
w27181 Joshua R. Bruce
John M. de Figueiredo

Innovation in the U.S. Government
w27138 Martin Andersen
Johanna Catherine Maclean
Michael F. Pesko
Kosali I. Simon

Paid sick-leave and physical mobility: Evidence from the United States during a pandemic
w27126 John Cawley
Alex M. Susskind
Barton Willage

Does Information Disclosure Improve Consumer Knowledge? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Restaurant Menu Calorie Labels
w27111 Ashesh Rambachan
Jon Kleinberg
Sendhil Mullainathan
Jens Ludwig

An Economic Approach to Regulating Algorithms
w27091 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia

When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time
w27068 Peter Arcidiacono
Josh Kinsler
Tyler Ransom

Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
w27058 Scott R. Baker
Stephen Teng Sun
Constantine Yannelis

Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices
w27054 Benjamin Hansen
Drew McNichols

Information and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap: Early Evidence from California's Salary History Ban
w27000 Hunt Allcott
Charlie Rafkin

Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence
w26992 Andrew I. Friedson
Drew McNichols
Joseph J. Sabia
Dhaval Dave

Did California's Shelter-in-Place Order Work? Early Coronavirus-Related Public Health Effects
w26989 Alexander W. Bartik
Marianne Bertrand
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey
w26980 Andy Yuan
Price V. Fishback

Rising Burdens of Proofs and The Grand Bargain of Workers' Compensation Laws
w26977 Dhaval M. Dave
Daniel L. Dench
Donald S. Kenkel
Alan D. Mathios
Hua Wang

News that Takes Your Breath Away: Risk Perceptions During an Outbreak of Vaping-related Lung Injuries
w26944 Charles Cameron
John M. de Figueiredo

Quitting in Protest: Presidential Policymaking and Civil Service Response
w26900 Guy Aridor
Yeon-Koo Che
Tobias Salz

The Effect of Privacy Regulation on the Data Industry: Empirical Evidence from GDPR
w26896 Sara Markowitz
E. Kathleen Adams

The Effects of State Scope of Practice Laws on the Labor Supply of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
w26891 Andres Drenik
Simon Jäger
Miguel Pascuel Plotkin
Benjamin Schoefer

Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
w26885 Michela Giorcelli
Petra Moser

Copyright and Creativity. Evidence from Italian Opera During the Napoleonic Age
w26861 Patrick M. Kline
Christopher R. Walters

Reasonable Doubt: Experimental Detection of Job-Level Employment Discrimination
w26858 Chao Fu
Nicolás Grau
Jorge Rivera

Wandering Astray: Teenagers' Choices of Schooling and Crime
w26856 Charles W. Calomiris
Harry Mamaysky
Ruoke Yang

Measuring the Cost of Regulation: A Text-Based Approach
w26855 Antonio Coppola
Matteo Maggiori
Brent Neiman
Jesse Schreger

Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens
w26840 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

Happiness and the Quality of Government
w26775 Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder

Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience
w26774 Mark Hoekstra
CarlyWill Sloan

Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls
w26739 Adair Morse
Karen Pence

Technological Innovation and Discrimination in Household Finance
w26637 Efraim Benmelech
Nitish Kumar
Raghuram Rajan

The Decline of Secured Debt
w26601 Chiara Farronato
Andrey Fradkin
Bradley Larsen
Erik Brynjolfsson

Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

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