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Development Economics

Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

The Review of Economic Studies
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Matthew O. Jackson
February 2019
The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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From Hyperinflation to Stable Prices: Argentina's Evidence on Menu cost Models

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Martin Beraja, Fernando Alvarez, Martin Gonzalez-Rozada, Andy Neumeyer

We derive and test predictions of menu-cost models on price setting behavior at high and low inflation, and compute the costs of a hyperinflation.

February 2019

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Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

Economic Journal, 129(618), 651–677
Jie Bai, Seema Jayachandran, Edmund Malesky, Benjamin A. Olken
February 2019
Development Economics

Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew O. Jackson
February 2019
Industrial Organization

Thinking Through Anticompetitive Effects of Mergers on Workers

Continuing Legal Education Material, American Bar Association Antitrust Spring Meeting
Nancy L. Rose
February 2019
Journal of Political Economy

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Replication Files
Macroeconomics, Political Economy

Democracy Does Cause Growth

Journal of Political Economy, 127(1), pp. 47-100
Daron Acemoglu, Suresh Naidu, Pascual Restrepo, James A. Robinson
February 2019
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

American Economic Review: Insights, 1(2): 161-178.
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson
January 2019

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Summary for Columbia Law School's Blog
Labor Economics

How Substitutable are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

American Economic Review, conditionally accepted.
Simon Jäger, Jörg Heining, and Nathan Lazarus
January 2019

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Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics

Behavioral Development Economics

In Handbook of Behavioral Economics, Vol. 2
Michael Kremer, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach
January 2019
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

The Affordable Care Act’s Effect on Patients Providers and the Economy: What We’ve Learned so Far

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 38(4), 1028-1052
Jonathan Gruber, Benjamin D. Sommers
January 2019
Development Economics

Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in India

Journal of Political Economy
Abhijit Banerjee, Jordan Kyle, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, Sudarno Sumarto
January 2019

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Online appendices Data and programs
Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Postings

American Economic Review, 109(1), 237-270
Adnan Khan, Asim Khwaja, Benjamin A. Olken
January 2019
Political Economy, Economic Theory

Maintaining Privacy in Cartels

Journal of Political Economy, 126(6), 2569-2607
Takuo Sugaya, Alexander Wolitzky
December 2018
Journal of Political Economy

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Testimony to Boston School Commitee NBER Working Paper
Labor Economics, Market Design, Political Economy

Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and The Demise of Boston's Walk Zones

Journal of Political Economy, 126(6)
Umut Dur, Scott D. Kominers, Parag A. Pathak and Tayfun Sönmez
December 2018
Annual Review of Economics
Econometrics

Econometric Methods for Program Evaluation

Annual Review of Economics, 10, 465–503.
Alberto Abadie with M. Cattaneo
December 2018
Econometrics

Increasing the Power of Specification Tests

Jerry A. Hausman, Tiemen Woutersen
November 2018

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Online Appendix
Health Economics, Public Economics

Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs- Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney
November 2018
American Economic Review
Macroeconomics

Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

American Economic Review, 108(11), pp. 3450–3491
Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, William Kerr
November 2018