Faculty Publications (since January 2006)

Marcelo Bianconi:

"Heterogeneity, Adverse Selection and Valuation with Endogenous Labor Supply," International Review of Economics and Finance, 17, 113-126, 2008.

"Transfer Programs under Alternative Insurance Schemes and Liquidity Constraints," Marcelo Bianconi, revised version March 2009, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, forthcoming.

Drusilla Brown:

"Human Resource Management Technology Diffusion through Global Supply Chains: Buyer-Directed Factory-Based Health Care," with T. Downes, K. Eggleston and R. Kumari, World Development, forthcoming.

Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs: Five Country Studies, with R. Robertson, G. Pierre, and M. Sanchez-Puerta. The World Bank, Washington, D.C, 2009.

"Labor Standards," in Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, edited by Kenneth A. Reinert & Ramkishen S. Rajan, Amy Jocelyn Glass & Lewis S. Davis, Princeton University Press, 2008.

"Global Trade and Child Labor," in Child Labor World Atlas: A Reference Encyclopedia, H. D. Hindman (ed.), ME Sharpe, 2008.

"An Analysis of a U.S.-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Free Trade Agreement," with R.M. Stern and K. Kiyota, World Development, vol. 36, no. 3, pp 461-484, 2007.

NAFTA Revisited, by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott in The Journal of Economic Literature, March 2007.

The WTO and Labour and Employment, with R. Stern, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2007.

"Consumer Product Labels, Child Labor and Educational Attainment," Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, BEPress, vol. 5, issue 1, 2006.

"The Menu of U.S.-Japan Trade Policies: Spaghetti Bowl or Free Lunch," with K. Kiyota and R.M.Stern, World Economy, June 2006.

David Dapice:

"Choosing Success: The Lessons of East and Southeast Asia and Vietnam's Future," (with D. Perkins et al.), Harvard Vietnam Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, forthcoming in Macromarketing, edited by S. J Shapiro, Mark Tadajewski and C. J. Shultz, SAGE Publications, 2009.

"What Do We Know About Economic Development?" Journal of Macromarketing, December 2008, pp. 413-41.

Rajeev Dehejia:

"Why Should We Care About Child Labor? Child Labor and the Returns to Schooling and Experience in Vietnam" with Roberta Gatti and Kathleen Beegle, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

"Optimal Minimum Wage in the Classic Labor Supply and Demand Paradigm," with Bjorn Jorgensen and Raphael Thomadsen, Journal of Poverty, forthcoming.

"The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth," with Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer, and Josh Mitchell in An Economics Perspective on the Problems of Disadvantaged Youth, edited by Jonathan Gruber, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

"When is ATE Enough? Rules of Thumb and Decision Analysis in Evaluating Training Programs," in Advances in Econometrics: Modeling and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, Volume 21, edited by D. Millimet, J. Smith, and E. Vytlacil, New York:Elsevier-Science, 2008.

"Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations," with Thomas DeLeire and Erzo Luttmer, Journal of Public Economics, 91, 2007, pp. 259-279.

"Financial Development and Pathways of Growth: State Branching and Deposit Insurance Laws in the United States from 1900 to 1940" with Adriana Lleras-Muney,  Journal of Law and Economics, 50 (2), May 2007, pp. 239-272.

"Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints," with Roberta Gatti and Kathleen Beegle, Journal of Development Economics, Volume 81 (September 2006), pp. 80-96.

Thomas Downes:

"School Finance Reform" in Barry McGaw, Penelope L Peterson, and Eva Baker, editors, International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition, San Diego, CA: Elsevier, forthcoming.

"Human Resource Management Technology Diffusion through Global Supply Chains:Buyer-Directed Factory-Based Health Care," with Drusilla Brown, Karen Eggleston, and Ratna Kumari. World Development, forthcoming.

"School Finance Reform" in Barry McGaw, Penelope L Peterson, and Eva Baker, editors, International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition, San Diego, CA: Elsevier, forthcoming.

"Understanding Why Universal Service Obligations May Be Unnecessary: The Private Development of Local Internet Access Markets in the United States," Journal of Urban Economics 62 (July 2007): 2-26 - with Shane Greenstein.

"Measuring Equity and Adequacy in School Finance," in H. Ladd and E. Fiske, editors, Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2007): 222-237 - with Leanna Stiefel.

"Tax and Expenditure Limits, School Finance, and School Quality" in H. Ladd and E. Fiske, editors, Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (New York: Routledge, 2007): 373-388. - with David Figlio.

Yannis Ioannides:

Discussion of "A Reconsideration of the NAS--Rule from an Industrial Agglomeration Perspective" by Tomoya Mori and Tony Smith, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, forthcoming.

Review of The Difference: How The Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page (Princeton University Press, 2007), Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming.

"The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure," with Henry G. Overman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Kurt Schmidheiny,  Economic Policy, April, 203-242, 2008.

"Interactions, Neighborhood Selection and Housing Demand," with Jeffrey E. Zabel, Journal of Urban Economics, 63, 229-252, 2008.

"Urban Growth," with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, in Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Laurence E., eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, February 2005, May 2008.

"Social Networks in Labor Markets," with Antoni Calvo-Armengol, in Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Laurence E., eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, May 2008.

"Empirics of Social Interactions," in Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Laurence E., eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, May 2008.

"Emergence," in Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Laurence E., eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, second edition, May 2008.

"Unemployment and Liquidity Constraints," with Vassilis A. Hajivassiliou, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22, 3, April/May, 479-510, 2007

Social Networking and Individual Outcomes beyond the Mean Field Case," with Adriaan R. Soetevent, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 64, 3-4, 369-390, 2007.

"Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution," with Adriaan R. Soetevent, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, , 96, 2, 270-274, May 2006.

"Topologies of Social Interactions," Economic Theory, 28, pp. 559-584, 2006.

"The Role of Output Composition in the Stabilization of US Output Growth," with Andrew Eggers, Journal of Macroeconomics, 28, 585-595, 2006.

Edward Kutsoati:

"(Non-)Intervention in Civil Conflicts", (with J. Atsu Amegashie);  European Journal of Political Economy, September 2007.

A reply to "Comment on Rematches in Boxing and other Sporting Events" (with J. Atsu Amegashie), Journal of Sports Economics, October 2007.

"Death and Dying: The Simple Economics of Funerals in Ghana," Ghana Policy Journal, Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana, June 2007.

"Microcredit in Ghana: The way forward" Macroeconomic Review, Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana, May 2007.

"The Evolution of Managerial Expertise: How Corporate Culture Can Run Amok," with D. Bernhardt and E. Hughson, American Economic Review, vol. 96(1), pages 195-221, March 2006.

Kutsoati, Edward. "Who Herds?" (with Dan Bernhardt and Murillo Campello), Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 80(3), pages 657-675, June 2006.

Linda Loury:

"Am I Still Too Black For You?: Schooling and Secular Change in Skin Tone Effects." Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.

"Some Job Contacts Are More Equal Than Others: Earnings and Job Information Networks" Journal of Labor Economics 24, 299-318, April 2006.

"All in the Extended Family: Effects on Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles on Educational Attainment."  American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.  96 (2): 275-278, May 2006.

Margaret McMillan:

"Food Aid and Poverty ," with Barrett Kirwan, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 89, Number 5, , pp. 1152-1160(9), December 2007.

"Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia," (with Jim Levinsohn) in Ann Harrison, ed., Globalization and Poverty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

"My Policies or Yours: Do OECD Agricultural Policies Affect Poverty in Developing Countries?" (with Ashraf, Nava, and Alix Peterson-Zwane), in Ann Harrison, ed., Globalization and Poverty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

Review of The White Man's Burden by William Easterly, The Penguin Press (2006). Journal of International Economics, Volume 73, Issue 1, September 2007, Pages 213-215.

"U.S. Multinational Activity Abroad and U.S. Jobs: Substitutes or Complements?" with Ann Harrison and Clair Null,  Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 347-365, April 2007.

"On the links between globalization and poverty," with Ann Harrison, Journal of Economic Inequality, 5(1): 123-134, April, 2007.

"Profit Sharing Between Host Countries and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: An Empirical Investigation," with Andrew Waxman, Brookings Trade Forum 2007.

"Dispelling Some Myths About Offshoring" (with Ann E. Harrison), Academy of Management Perspective, 2006.

Book Review, of "Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries" by the World Bank, Journal of Economic Literature, 2006.

Gilbert Metcalf:

"Market-based Policy Options to Control U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23:2, forthcoming.

"The Design of a Carbon Tax," Harvard Environmental Law Review, with David Weisbach, forthcoming.

"Environmental Taxation: What Have We Learned in This Decade?," in Tax Policy Lessons From the 2000s, ed. Alan Viard, AEI Press, 2009: 7-34.

"The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis," with Kevin Hassett and Aparna Mathur, The Energy Journal, 30:2 (2009): 157- 179.

"Energy Tax Incentives and the Alternative Minimum Tax," National Tax Journal, 61:3(2008): 477-491 (with Curtis Carlson).

"Designing a Carbon Tax to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3:1(2009): 63-83.

"Tax Policy for Financing Alternative Energy Equipment," Journal of Equipment Lease Financing, 28:2(2008): 1-7.

"An Empirical Analysis of Energy Intensity and Its Determinants at the State Level," The Energy Journal, 29:3(2008): 1-26.

"Using Tax Expenditures to Achieve Energy Policy Goals," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 98(2008): 90-94.

"Assessment of US GHG Cap-and-Trade Proposals," Climate Policy, 8(2008): 395-420 (with Sergey Paltsev, John Reilly, Henry Jacoby, Angelo Gurgel, Andrei Sokolov, and Jennifer Holak).

"Value-Added Taxation," entry in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, L. Blume and S. Durlauf, eds., London: Macmillan Ltd., May 2008.

"Tax Incidence," entry in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, L. Blume and S. Durlauf, eds., London: Macmillan Ltd., May 2008.

"Distortions," entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Second edition, William A. Darity, ed., Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, pp. 414-415.

"Corporate Tax Reform: Paying the Bills with a Carbon Tax," Public Finance Review, 35(2007): 440-459.

"A Comment on the Role of Prices for Excludable Public Goods," International Tax and Public Finance, 14(2007): 685-698 (with Jongsang Park).

"Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy," Tax Policy and the Economy, 21(2007): 145-184.

"What Would a Rational Energy Tax Policy Look Like?" Tax Analysts Special Supplement on Energy, November 27, 2006, pp. 89-92 (with Kevin A. Hassett).

"Tax Solutions," Forum letter in Issues in Science and Technology, 22:3(2006): 20-22.

George Norman:

"Internalization Revisited", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, forthcoming.

"Entrepreneurial First Movers, Brand-Name Fast Seconds, and the Evolution of Market Structure", with L. Pepall and D. Richards., The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8.1, 2008.

"Generic Product Advertising, Spillovers and Market Concentration," with L. Pepall and D. Richards,  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008, pp. 719-732.

A Dictionary of Industrial Organization, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, forthcoming.

Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Policy, with L. Pepall and D. Richards, Wiley-Blackwell, 4th Edition, 2008.

Recent Developments in Monopoly and Competition Policy, (editor), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2008.

"Competition Policy: Recent Developments", Introduction to Recent Developments in Monopoly and Competition Policy (G. Norman, editor), Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2008.

"Measuring the Shadow of the Future: An Introduction to the Game Theory of Customary International Law," with Joel Trachtman, Illinois Law Journal, 2007.

"When to Exit a Product: Evidence from the U.S. motion-pictures exhibition market,"American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 96, No. 2, pp. 57-6, May 2006.

Lynne Pepall:

"Entrepreneurial First Movers, Brand-Name Fast Seconds, and the Evolution of Market Structure", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8.1, 2008, with G. Norman and D. Richards.

"Generic Product Advertising, Spillovers, and Market Concentration," with G. Norman and D. Richards. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008, 90, 719-732.

Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Empirical Applications. Fourth Edition, Wiley-Blackwell (2008), with G. Norman and D. Richards.

Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Policy, with G. Norman and D. Richards, Wiley-Blackwell, 4th Edition, 2008.

"Advertising and Bidding for Television Programming," with D. Richards, Economics Letters, 90, 237-242, February 2006.

Daniel Richards:

"Generic Product Advertising, Spillovers, and Market Concentration", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90 (August 2008), 719-32, with G. Norman and L. Pepall.

"Entrepreneurial First Movers, Brand-Name Fast Seconds, and the Evolution of Market Structure," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: 8.1, Contributions, 2008, with G. Norman and L. Pepall.

Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Empirical Applications. Fourth Edition, Wiley-Blackwell (2008), with G. Norman and L. Pepall.

"Entrepreneurial First Movers, Brand-Name Fast Seconds, and the Evolution of Market Structure" The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 8.1, 2008.

Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Policy, with G. Norman and L. Pepall, Wiley-Blackwell, 4th Edition, 2008.

 "Advertising and Bidding for Television Programming," with L. Pepall, Economics Letters, 90, 237-242, February 2006.

Enrico Spolaore:

"The Diffusion of Development," with Romain Wacziarg, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124:2, May 2009.

"Federalism, Interregional Redistribution, and Country Stability" in Regional Fiscal Flows and the Stability of Federations, Wallace Oates Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance series, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

"Efficiency and Stability of National Borders," Review of Business and Economics, forthcoming.

"Civil Conflict and Secessions," Economics of Governance, vol. 9(1), pages 45-63, January 2008.

"Economics Approach to the Size of Nations" in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2008.

"Herschel Grossman" in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2008.

 "Borders and Barriers, Considerations on the Political Economy of Geography, Institutions, and Cross-Country Inequality" in Égalité – Inégalité (s) dans les Amériques, edited by Christine Zumello and Polymnia Zagefka, Éditions de l'IHEAL / Éditions de l'Institut des Amériques, Paris, 2008.

 "Democratization as Commitment" Review of The Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Economic Journal, February 2007.

National Borders and the Size of Nations, Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, 2006.

"Monetary and Fiscal Policies with Adjustment Costs," in Monetary Policy and Institutions. Essays in Honor of Mario Arcelli, edited by Giorgio Di Giorgio and Fabio Neri, LUISS University Press, Rome, 2006.

"Conflict, Defense Spending, and the Number of Nations" (with Alberto Alesina), European Economic Review, vol. 50(1), pages 91-120, January 2006.

Jeffrey Zabel:

"The Employment Impacts of Active Labour Market Policy: The Case of SSP Plus," with Saul Schwartz, forthcoming in Canadian Public Policy.

"It's Not Just Span: Size, Spending and Grade Span in K-8 School Organization," with Ross Rubenstein, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Leanna Stiefel, forthcoming in Education Finance and Policy.

"Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes," with Lynn Fisher and Henry Pollakowski,  forthcoming in Real Estate Economics.

 "Using Hedonic Models to Measure Racial Discrimination and Prejudice in the U.S. Housing Market," to be published in Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets – Assessing Environmental Amenities and Segregation, Springer.

 "Interactions, Neighborhood Selection, and Housing Demand," with Yannis Ioannides, Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (2008): 229-252.

"The Impact of Peer Effects on Student Outcomes in New York City Public Schools," Education Finance and Policy. 3(2008): 197-249.

"Location, Location, Location: The 3L Approach to House Price Determination," with Katherine Kiel, Journal of Housing Economics, 17(2008): 175-190.

"School Efficiency and Student Subgroups: Is a Good School Good for Everyone?" with Dae Yeop Kim, Leanna Stiefel, and Amy Schwartz, Peabody Journal of Education, 81(2006) 4: 95-117.

"The Effects of Critical Habitat Designation on Housing Supply: An Analysis of California Housing Construction Activity," with Robert Paterson, Journal of Regional Science, 46 (2006): 67-95.

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