Selected Faculty Publications

Anna Aizer
"Home Alone: Maternal Employment, Child Care and Adolescent Behavior," Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
"Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly Funded Maternity Care in California," with J. Currie, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
"Low Take-up in Medicaid: Does Outreach Matter and For Whom?" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2003.

Nathaniel Baum-Snow
"The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods," with J.Marion, Journal of Public Economics,2009
"Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?,"Quarterly Journal of Economics,2007
"Suburbanization and Transportation in the Monocentric Model,"Journal of Urban Economics, 2007
"Effects of Urban Rail Transit Expansion: Evidence from Sixteen Cities," with M.E. Kahn, Brookings Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005

George Borts
"The Solvency of Federal Welfare Entitlement Programs: Social Security and Medicare," ed. by R. Aronson, H. Parmet and R. Thornton, Variations in Economic Analysis: Essays in Honor of Eli Schwartz, 2008.
"Ideology and the Content of the Economics Journals," presented at Allied Social Science Association meeting, 1987.
"Long-term Rail Contracts -- Handle with Care," Transportation Journal, 1986.
"The Greenhouse Program: Is it Economically Feasible and Justifiable?" Northeast Journal of Business and Economics, 1984.

Pedro Dal Bó
"Workers, Warriors and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium," with E. Dal Bo, Journal of European Economic Association,forthcoming.
"Love,Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships," with A.Aizer, Journal of Public Economics,2009
"Political Dynasties," with E. Dal Bo and J.Snyder, Review of Economic Studies, 2009
Plata o Plomo?:Bribes and Punishment in a Theory of Political Influence," with E. Dal Bo and R. Di Tella, American Political Science Review, 2006.
"Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future:Experimental Evidence from Infinitely Repeated Games," American Economic Review, 2005.

Geoffroy de Clippel
"Two Remarks on the Inner Core," with E. Minelli, Games and Economic Behavior, 2005.
"Values for Cooperative Games with Incomplete Information: an Eloquent Example," Games and Economic Behavior, 2005.
"The Type-Agent Core for Exchange Economies under Asymmetric Information," Journal of Economic Theory, 2007.
"Impartial Division of a Dollar," with H. Moulin and N. Tideman, Journal of Economic Theory, 2008.
"Marginal Contributions and Externalities in the Value", with R. Serrano, Economertica, 2008.

Mark Dean
"Axiomatic Methods, Dopamine and Reward Prediction Error," with A. Caplin, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2008.
"Dopamine, Reward Prediction Error, and Economics," with A. Caplin, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008.
"Trading Off Speed and Accuracy in Rapid, Goal-Directed Movements," with L. Maloney and S. Woo, Journal of Vision, 2007.

Allan Feldman
"Welfare Economics," in S.Durlauf and L.Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., London, 2008.
Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, 2nd Edition, with R. Serrano, Springer Science and Business Media, New York, 2006.
"Victim or Injurer, Small Car or SUV: Tort Liablity Rules Under Role-Type Uncertainty," with Jeongyun Kim, International Review of Law and Economics, 2006.
"The Hand Rule and United States v. Carroll Towing Co. Reconsidered," with Jeonghyun Kim, American Law and Economic Review, 2005.
"A Simple Model of Efficient Tort Liability Rules," International Review of Law and Economics, 1998.

Andrew Foster
"Economic Growth and the Rise of Forests," with M. Rosenzweig, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003.
"Household Division, Inequality and Rural Economic Growth," with M. Rosenzweig, Review of Economic Studies, 2002.
"Imperfect Commitment, Altruism, and the Family: Evidence from Transfer Behavior in Low-Income Rural Areas," with M. Rosenzweig, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001.
"Women`s Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth," with J. Behrman, M. Rosenzweig and P. Vashishtha, Journal of Political Economy, 1999.
"Comparative Advantage, Information and the Allocation of Workers to Tasks: Evidence from an Agricultural Labor Market," with M. Rosenzweig, Review of Economic Studies, 1996.

Rachel Friedberg
"The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001.
"You Can`t Take It With You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital," Journal of Labor Economics, 2000.
"Immigration and the Receiving Economy," with J. Hunt, in C. Hirschman, P. Kasinitz, and J. DeWind, eds. The Handbook of International Migration, Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
"The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth," with J. Hunt, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995.

Oded Galor
"Das Human_Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure," Review of Economic Studies, 2006.
"Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth," with O. Moav, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002.
"Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond," with D. Weil, American Economic Review, 2000.
"Ability Biased Technological Transition, Wage Inequality and Economic Growth," with O. Moav, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000.
"Income Distribution and Macroeconomics," with J. Zeira, Review of Economic Studies, 1993.

Vernon Henderson
"The Theory of Urban Growth," with D. Black, Journal of Political Economy, 1999.
"On Strategic Community Development," with J-F Thisse, Journal of Political Economy, 2001.
"How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration and Productivity in China," with C.C. Au, Journal of Economic Development, 2006.
"Are Chinese Cities Too Small," with C.C. Au, Review of Economic Studies, 2006.
"Spatial Organization of Firms," with K. Aarland, J. Davis and Y. Ono, Rand Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
"Networking off Madison Avenue," with M. Arzaghi, Revenue of Economic Studies, 2008
"The Dynamics of City Formation", with A. Venables, Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009

Stefan Hoderlein
"Testing and Imposing Rationality Restrictions Nonparametrically," with B. Haag and K. Pendakur, Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming.
"Increasing the Price Variation in a Repeated Cross Section," with S. Mihaleva, Journal of Econometrics, 2008.
"Identification of Marginal Effects in Nonseparable Models without Monotonicity," with E. Mammen, Econometrica, 2007.
"Local Partitioned Regression," with N. Christoeit, Econometrica, 2006.

Peter Howitt
"The Microfoundations of the Keynesian Multiplier Process," Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2006.
"Appropriate Growth Policy: An Integrating Framework," with P. Aghion, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006.
"Beyond Search: Fiat Money in Organized Exchange," International Economic Review, 2005.
"Endogenous Growth and Cross Country Income Differences," American Economic Review, 2000.
"Endogenous Growth Theory," with P. Aghion, MIT Press, 1998.

Frank Kleibergen
"Testing Parameters in GMM without assuming that they are identified," Econometrica, 2005.
"Testing Subsets of Structural Parameters in the IV Regression Model," Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004.
"Invariant Bayesian Inference in Regression Models that is robust against the Jeffreys-Lindleys Paradox," Journal of Econometrics, 2004.
"Bayesian and Classical Approaches to Instrumental Variable Regression," with E. Zivot, Journal of Econometrics, 2003.
"Pivotal Statistics for testing Structural Parameters in Instrumental Variables Regression," Econometrica, 2002.

Brian Knight
"Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration," with S. Coate, Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
"Estimating the Value of Proposal Power," American Economic Review, 2005.
"Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program," American Economic Review, 2002.

Tony Lancaster
"Orthogonal Parameters and Panel Data," Review of Economic Studies, 2002.
An Introduction to Modern Bayesian Econometrics, Blackwells, 2004.
"The Incidental Parameter Problem Since 1948," Journal of Econometrics, 2000.
"Panel Data with Survival: Hospitalization of HIV Patients," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1998.
"Bayes WESML: Posterior Inference from Choice-Based Samples," Journal of Econometrics, 1997.

Ross Levine
Rethinking Bank Supervision and Regulation: Until Angels Govern, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006.
"Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending," Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006.
"Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?" Journal of Financial Economics, 2007.
"Complex Ownership Structures and Corporation Valuations," Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
"Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuations," Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.

Sophocles Mavroeidis
"Identification Issues in Forward Looking Models Estimated by GMM, with an Application to the Phillips Curve," Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2005.
"Weak identification of Forward-looking Models in Monetary Economics," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004.

Blaise Melly
"Decomposition of Differences In Distribution Using Quantile Regression," Labour Economics, 2005.
"Public-private Sector Wage Differentials in Germany: Evidence using Quantile Regression," Emperical Economics, 2005.

Kaivan Munshi
"Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy," with M. Rosenzweig, American Economic Review, 2006.
"New Roles for Marriage in Urban Africa: Kinship Networks and the Labor Market in Kenya," with N. Luke, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006.
"How Efficiently is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur," with A. Banerjee, The Review of Economic Studies, 2004.
"Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the U.S. Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003.
"Inequality, Control Rights and Rent Seeking: Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra," with A. Banerjee, D. Mookherjee and D. Ray, Journal of Political Economy, 2001.

Talbot Page
"An Experimental Study of the Effect of Private Information in the Coase Theorem," with R. McKelvey, Experimental Economics, forthcoming.
"Taking Coase Seriously," with R. McKelvey, Economics and Philosophy, 1999.
"Sustainability and the Discount Rate Problem," Land Economics, 1997.
"Public and Private Information: An Experimental Study of Information Pooling," with R. McKelvey, Econometrica, 1990.
"Common Knowledge of an Aggregate of Expectations," with L.T. Nielsen, A. Brandenbarger, J. Geanakoplos, and R. McKelvey, Econometrica, 1990.

Mark Pitt
"Credit Programs for the Poor and the Nutritional Status of Children in Rural Bangladesh," with S.R. Khandker, O.H. Chowdhury, D.Millimet, International Economic Review, 2003.
"Simulated Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Linear Expenditure System with Binding Non-negativity Constraints," with L-F. Lee and C. Kao, Annals of Economics and Finance, 2001.
"Credit Programs or the Poor and Reproductive Behavior in Low Income Countries: Are the Reported Causal Relationships the Results of Heterogeneity Bias?" with S. Khandker, S-M. McKernan, and M. Latif, Demography, 1999.
"The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter?" with S. Khandker, Journal of Political Economy, 1998.
"Productivity, Health and Inequality in the Intra-household Distribution of Food in Low-Income Countries," with M. Rosenzweig and M. Hassan, American Economic Review, 1990.

Louis Putterman
"Monitoring in Teams: A Model and Experiment on the Central Monitor Hypothesis," with S. Grosse and B. Rockenbach, Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.
"Who to Punish? Individual Decisions and Majority Rule in Mitigating the Free-Rider Problem," with A. Ertan and T. Page, European Economic Review, 2009.
"Not Just Babble: Opening the Black Box of Communication in a Voluntary Contribution Experiment," with O. Bochet, European Economic Review, 2009.
"Agriculture, Diffusion, and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution," Economica, 2008.
"Reforming China’s SOEs: An Overview," with W. Li, Comparative Economic Studies, 2008.

Harl Ryder
"Two-Sided Search, Marriages and Matchmakers," with F. Bloch, International Economic Review, 2000.
"Wage Bargaining and the Choice of Production Technique in Capitalist Firms," with G. Skillman, in Markets and Democracy: Participation, Accountability, and Efficiency, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
"Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability of Equilibrium in an Overlapping-Generations Model with Productive Capital," with O. Galor, Journal of Economic Theory, 1989.
"Heterogeneous Time Preferences and the Distribution of Wealth," International Journal of Mathematical Social Sciences, 1985.
"Optimal Growth with Intertemporally Dependent Preferences," with G.M. Heal, Review of Economic Studies, 1973.

Roberto Serrano
"A Difficulty in Implementing Correlated Equilibrium Distributions," with A. Kar and I. Ray, Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming.
"Marginal Contributions and Externalities in the Value," with G. de Clippel, Econometrica, 2008.
"An Economic Index of Riskiness," with R. J. Aumann, Journal of Political Economy, 2008.
"Bargaining,"in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, McMillan, 2008.
"Information Transmission in Coalitional Voting Games," with R. Vohra, Journal of Economic Theory, 2007.

John Tyler
"What is the Value of the GED to Dropouts Who Pursue the Credential," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming.
"Basic Skills and the Earnings of Dropouts," Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.
"Using State Child Labor Laws to Identify the Effect of School-Year Work on High School Achievement," Journal of Labor Economics, 2003.
"Who Benefits from a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond for Females," with R. Murnane and J. Willett, Economics of Education Review, 2003.
"Estimating The Labor Market Signaling Value of the GED," with R. Murnane and J. Willett, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000.

Rajiv Vohra
"The Ex Ante Incentive Compatible Core in the Absence of Wealth Effects," with F. Forges and J-F. Mertens, Econometrica, 2002.
"Incentives and the Core of an Exchange Economy: A Survey," with F. Forges and E. Minelli, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2002.
"Coalitional Power and Public Good," with D. Ray, Journal of Political Economy, 2001.
"On the Failure of Core Convergence in Economies with Asymmetric Information," with R. Serrano and O. Volij, Econometrica, 2001.
"Incomplete Information, Incentive Compatibility and the Core," Journal of Economic Theory, 1999.

David Weil
"When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?," with Q. Ashraf and A. Lester, NBER Macro Annual, 2008.
"Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007.
"Saving and Growth with Habit Formation," with C. Carroll and J. Overland, American Economic Review, 2000.
"The Gender Gap, Fertility, and Growth," with O. Galor, American Economic Review, 1996.
"A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth," with G. Mankiw and D. Romer, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1992.

Ivo Welch
"A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction," with A. Goyal, Review of Financial Studies, 2008.
"The Cost of Bankruptcy," with A. Bris and N. Zhu, The Journal of Finance, 2006.
"Capital Structure and Stock Returns," Journal of Political Economy, 2004.
"Liquidity and Financial Market Runs," with A. Bernardo, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004.
"A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Changes as Information Cascades," with S. Bikchandani and D. Hirshleifer, The Journal of Political Economy, 1992.

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