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The co-movement of Housing Sales & Housing Prices

MIT Department of Economics
Nai Jia Lee, William Wheaton
February 2009
Labor Economics, Econometrics

Informing the Debate: Comparing Boston’s Charter, Pilot and Traditional Schools

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, Sarah Cohodes, Sue Dynarski, Jon Fullerton, Tom Kane, Parag Pathak
January 2009

Entrepreneurial Talent and the Thai Financial Crisis

Anna Paulson, Robert M. Townsend
January 2009
International Economics

On Optimal Voting Rules under Homgeneous Preferences

Arnaud Costinot, N. Kartik
January 2009

Sources

Slides

Idiosyncratic Sentiments and Coordination Failures

George-Marios Angeletos
December 2008

Dispersed Information over the Business Cycle: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

George-Marios Angeletos, Jennifer La'O
October 2008

Sources

SSRN
Macroeconomics

Flight to Quality and Bailouts: Policy Remarks and a Literature Review

Ricardo Caballero, Pablo Kurlat
October 2008
Econometrics

Choosing the Number of Moments in Conditional Moment Restriction Models

Stephen G. Donald, Guido Imbens, Whitney Newey
October 2008
Development Economics

Why fighting poverty is hard

Abhijit Banerjee
September 2008
Development Economics

Big Answers for Big Questions: The Presumption of Growth Policy

Abhijit Banerjee
September 2008
Development Economics

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

Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Stuti Khemani
August 2008

Sources

Programs and Data Documentation Auxillary Appendix
Econometrics, Labor Economics

Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Mulitinomial Propensity Score (working paper)

Joshua D. Angrist, Guido M. Kuersteiner
July 2008
Development Economics

Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa

Abhijit Banerjee, Sebastian Galiani, Jim Levinsohn, Zoe McLaren and Ingrid Woolard
June 2008
Macroeconomics

Equilibrium Default

Hugo Hopenhayn, Iván Werning
May 2008
Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics

The Base for Direct Taxation

James Banks, Peter Diamond
March 2008

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Slides
Macroeconomics

The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation

Emmanuel Farhi, Iván Werning
March 2008
International Economics

Heterogeneity and Trade

Arnaud Costinot
December 2007
Development Economics

What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo
December 2007