Working Papers from 2017

Re-Evaluating the Returns to Language Skills Using Latent Trait Estimates

Nov 17, 2017

James V. Marrone

Understanding the Effects of Middle School Algebra: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Oct 20, 2017

Andrew McEachin, Thurston Domina, Andrew M. Penner

Does Informal Employment Respond to Growth Opportunities? Trade-Based Evidence from Bangladesh

Jul 21, 2017

Prodyumna Goutam, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj

What Aspects of Formality Do Workers Value? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Bangladesh

Jul 20, 2017

Minhaj Mahmud, Italo A. Gutierrez, Krishna B. Kumar, Shanthi Nataraj

Lessons Learned from Stabilization Initiatives in Afghanistan: A Systematic Review of Existing Research

Jun 20, 2017

Radha Iyengar Plumb, Jacob N. Shapiro, Stephen Hegarty

Stabilization in Afghanistan: Trends in Violence, Attitudes, Well-being and Program Activity

Jun 20, 2017

Radha Iyengar Plumb, Jacob N. Shapiro, Benjamin Crisman, Manu Singh, James Mao

The Impact of Obesity on Adult Mortality: Assessment of Estimates with Applications

Jun 16, 2017

Alberto Palloni, Hiram Beltran-Sanchez

Inference with Correlated Clusters

Jun 6, 2017

David Powell

Identifying Productivity Spillovers Using the Structure of Production Networks

Mar 9, 2017

Samuel Bazzi, Amalavoyal V. Chari, Shanthi Nataraj, Alexander D. Rothenberg

When Regional Policies Fail: An Evaluation of Indonesia's Integrated Economic Development Zones

Feb 27, 2017

Alexander D. Rothenberg, Samuel Bazzi, Shanthi Nataraj, Amalavoyal V. Chari

Household Retirement Saving: The Location of Savings Between Spouses

Feb 6, 2017

Katherine Grace Carman, Angela A. Hung

Opting out of Retirement Plan Default Settings

Feb 2, 2017

Jeremy Burke, Angela A. Hung, Jill E. Luoto

Drawing Down Retirement Wealth: Interactions between Social Security Wealth and Private Retirement Savings

Feb 2, 2017

Philip Armour, Angela A. Hung

Assessing the Spatial Concentration of Indonesia's Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from Three Decades

Jan 11, 2017

Alexander D. Rothenberg, Samuel Bazzi, Shanthi Nataraj, Amalavoyal V. Chari

The Effect of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Absence from Work

Jan 10, 2017

Fabian Duarte, Srikanth Kadiyala, Samuel H. Masters, David Powell

Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Through Inclusion of Shortage Indicators

Jan 9, 2017

Matthew D. Baird, Lindsay Daugherty, Krishna B. Kumar