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Political Economy, Economic Theory

Dynamic Monopoly with Relational Incentives

Theoretical Economics, 5, 479-518
Alexander Wolitzky
April 2010
Health Economics, Public Economics

Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Jonathan Levin
March 2010
Labor Economics, Econometrics

The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(2), 3-30
Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
March 2010
American Economic Review
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Patient Cost-Sharing Hospitalization Offsets and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly

American Economic Review, 100(1), 193-213
Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber, Robin McKnight
March 2010
Industrial Organization

Countervailing Power in Wholesale Pharmaceuticals

Journal of Industrial Economics, 58(1) 32-53
Sara Fisher Ellison, Christopher Snyder
March 2010

Rainfall Insurance in Semi-Arid India: Contract Design, Household Participation and Future Prospects

Chapter in: Weather Risk Management, K. Tang (ed.), London: Risk Books
Xavier Gine, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery
March 2010
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Wealth Accumulation and Factors Accounting for Success

Journal of Econometrics. 161(1): 56-81
Anan Pawasutipaisit, Robert M. Townsend
February 2010

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Development Economics

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education In India

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 2 (1)
Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani
February 2010
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Github with code and programs
Public Economics

Unobserved Punishment Supports Cooperation

Journal of Public Economics, 94(1-2): 78-86
Drew Fudenberg and Parag A. Pathak
February 2010
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biology
Behavioral Economics

Self-deception as self-signalling: a model and experimental evidence

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biology, 2010, 365, 227-240.
Mijovic-Prelec, D. and D. Prelec.
January 2010
Econometrics

Robust Confidence Sets in the Presence of Weak Instruments

Journal of Econometrics, 157, pp. 236-247
Anna Mikusheva
January 2010
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Why We Need an Individual Mandate

Issue Paper, Center for American Progress
Jonathan Gruber
January 2010
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Readme: Instructions for Reproducing Acemoglu and Dell (2010) Geospatial Data Construction (Program Files) Table 1: Labor Income Inequality (All Individuals) and Table 2: Inequality Decomposition, Theil Index (Males 18-55) (Program Files) Table 3: Proximity to Paved Roads (Program Files) All Publicly Available Data
Development Economics, Macroeconomics, Political Economy

Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(1), pp. 169–188
Daron Acemoglu, Melissa Dell
January 2010
Public Economics, Financial Economics

Dimensions of Tax Design: The Mirrlees Review

Oxford University Press, 2010
James Mirrlees, Stuart Adam, Timothy Besley, Richard Blundell, Stephen Bond, Robert Chote, Malcolm Gammie, Paul Johnson, Gareth Myles, James Poterba
January 2010
Development Economics

Why Does Missallocation Persist?

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 2, no. 1,
Abhijit Banerjee, Benjamin Moll
January 2010

Financial Structure and Economic Welfare: Applied General Equilibrium Development Economics

Annual Review of Economics. Ed. Kenneth Arrow and Timothy Bresnahan. Vol. 2: 507-546
Robert M. Townsend
January 2010
Industrial Organization

Air Transportation Deregulation: Comment

In Better Living Through Economics, 203-205
Nancy L. Rose
January 2010

A Theory of Firm Scope

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (2): 483-513
Hart, Oliver, and Bengt Holmstrom
January 2010