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Development Economics

The Diffusion of Microfinance

Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew O. Jackson
July 2013
Econometrica
Economic Theory, Industrial Organization

Robust Predictions in Games of Incomplete Information

Econometrica 81, 1251-1308
Dirk Bergemann and Stephen Morris
July 2013
Econometrics

Individual Heterogeneity and Average Welfare

Whitney Newey, Jerry Hausman
July 2013
Econometrics

Optimal Social Insurance with Heterogeneity

Isaiah Andrews, Conrad Miller
June 2013
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

The Changing Task Composition of the US Labor Market: An Update of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003)

MIT Working Paper
David H. Autor, Brendan Price
June 2013
Macroeconomics

The Network Origins of Large Economic Downturns

Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
June 2013
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

A Tax-Based Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution

Quarterly Journal of Finance, 3(1)
Jonathan Gruber
June 2013

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Working Paper

Heterogeneity and Risk-Sharing in Village Economies

Quantitative Economics 5(1): 1-27
Pierre-Andr´e Chiappori, Krislert Samphantharak, Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Robert M. Townsend
June 2013

Sources

SSRN
Macroeconomics

A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM): Safety Traps and Economic Policy

Ricardo Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi
May 2013
Development Economics

Microcredit Under the Microscope: What Have We Learned in the Past Two Decades, and What Do We Need to Know?

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 5:487-519
Abhijit Banerjee
May 2013
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy

The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 103(3), 220–225
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson
May 2013

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Slides
Macroeconomics

Estate Taxation with Altruism Heterogeneity

American Economic Review, 103(3), 489-495
Emmanuel Farhi, Iván Werning
May 2013
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Political Economy

A Political Theory of Populism

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(2), pp. 771-805.
Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
May 2013
Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

The Oregon Experiment – Effect of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes

New England Journal of Medicine, 368, 1713-1722
Kate Baicker, Sarah Taubman, Heidi Allen, Mira Bernstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph Newhouse, Eric Schneider, Bill Write, Alan Zaslavski, Amy Finkelstein, the Oregon Study Group
May 2013
Labor Economics, Econometrics

ExtrapoLATE-ing: External Validity and Overidentification in the LATE Framework

In Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 3
Joshua D. Angrist, Iván Fernández-Val
May 2013
Development Economics

What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-Party Auditors

Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan
May 2013

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Online Appendix
Health Economics, Public Economics

The Oregon Experiment - Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes

Heidi Allen, Katherine Baicker, Mira Bernstein, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph Newhouse, Eric Schneider, Sarah Taubman, Bill Wright, Alan Zaslavsky, and the Oregon Health Study Group
May 2013
Industrial Organization

An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information

Sara Fisher Ellison, Christopher Snyder
May 2013