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1.

Why is the Euro Punching Below its Weight?

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-013, NBER Working Paper No. 26760
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 27 May 2020
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Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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2.

What Maximizes Research Excellence? Productivity and Impact in Political Science

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-010
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 May 2020
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Pippa Norris
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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3.

Demographic Determinants of Testing Incidence and COVID-19 Infections in New York City Neighborhoods

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-008
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Apr 2020
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George J. Borjas
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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4.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Outcomes and Expectations

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 20-102, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-102, HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-012
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 29 May 2020
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Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoe Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

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5.

Three Prongs for Prudent Climate Policy

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-009
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Apr 2020
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Joseph E. Aldy and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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6.

Returnable Reciprocity: When Optional Gifts Increase Compliance

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-007
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2020
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Julian Zlatev and Todd Rogers
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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7.

Looking Back at Fifty Years of the Clean Air Act

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-003
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Feb 2020
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Joseph E. Aldy, Max Auffhammer, Maureen Cropper, Arthur G. Fraas and Richard D. Morgenstern
Harvard Kennedy School, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Resources for the Future and Resources for the Future

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8.

Effectively Managing Connected Mobility Marketplaces

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Feb 2020
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Stephen Goldsmith and Matt Leger
Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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9.

Prioritizing Public Value in the Changing Mobility Landscape

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-005
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Feb 2020
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Stephen Goldsmith and Betsy Gardner
Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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You Get What You Pay For: Sources and Consequences of the Public Sector Premium in Albania and Sri Lanka

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-004
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Feb 2020
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Ricardo Hausmann, Ljubica Nedelkoska and Sehar Noor
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Center for International Development (CID) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Measuring Populism Worldwide

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-002
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Feb 2020
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Pippa Norris
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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12.

Building a Good Jobs Economy

HKS Working Paper No. RWP20-001
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Feb 2020
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Dani Rodrik and Charles Sabel
Harvard University and Columbia University - Columbia Law School
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13.

The $64 Billion Massachusetts Vehicle Economy

HKS Working Paper No. RWP-038
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2019
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Stevie Olson, Phil Berkaw, Lucien Charland, Elizabeth Patton and Linda Bilmes
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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14.

The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-031
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie, Hans Gronqvist, Susan Niknami, Marten Palme and Mikael Priks
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Stockholm University, Stockholm University, Stockholm University - Department of Economics and Stockholm University - Department of Economics
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Targeted Debt Relief and the Origins of Financial Distress: Experimental Evidence from Distressed Credit Card Borrowers

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-030
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie and Jae Song
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Government of the United States of America - Social Security Administration
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Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-029, NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
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Will Dobbie, Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini and Vikram Pathania
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Sussex - Department of Economics
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17.

The Property Rights Theory of Production Networks

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-033
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2020
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Ivan Balbuzanov and Maciej H. Kotowski
University of Melbourne - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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18.

Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-132
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2019
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Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker and Jonathan S. Skinner
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and Dartmouth College - Department of Economics

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19.

Corporate Purpose in Play: The Role of ESG Investing

M-RCBG Faculty Working Paper Series, 2019-05, Draft chapter for 'Sustainable Investing: A Path to a New Horizon', Routledge, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Nov 2019
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John Gerard Ruggie
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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20.

Bound to Happen: Explanation Bias in Historical Analysis

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-032
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Oct 2019
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Aroop Mukharji and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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21.

'Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists': How Family Immigration History Shapes Representation in Congress

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-028, September 2019
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 27 Sep 2019
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James Feigenbaum, Maxwell Palmer and Benjamin Schneer
Boston University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Political Science and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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22.

STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-025, August 2019
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 11 Sep 2019
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David Deming and Kadeem Noray
Harvard University and Harvard University
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23.

A Source of Escalation or a Source of Restraint? An Empirical Investigation of How Civil Society Affects Mass Killings

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-027, September 2019
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Sep 2019
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Erica Chenoweth and Evan Perkoski
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of Connecticut
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Using Behavioral Insights to Improve Truancy Notifications

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-026, August 2019
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 22 Aug 2019
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Jessica Lasky-Fink, Carly Robinson, Hedy Chang and Todd Rogers
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University, Attendance Works and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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25.

Risky Business: Commissioning Portraits in Renaissance Italy

Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, thematic issue, “Bad Reception: Negative Reactions to Italian Renaissance Art,” ed. by Diletta Gamberini, Jonathan K. Nelson, and Alessandro Nova, Forthcoming. , HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-024, July 2019,
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Jul 2019
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Jonathan Katz Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Syracuse University in Florence and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Strategic Sorting: The Role of Ordeals in Health Care

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-023, June 2019
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jul 2019
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Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Health Care Spending Projections and Policy Changes: Recognizing the Limits of Existing Forecasts

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-022, June 2019
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Jun 2019
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Daniel Shoag
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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First-Price Auctions with Budget Constraints

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-021, June 2019
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 13 Jun 2019
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Maciej H. Kotowski
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Can Transparency and Accountability Programs Improve Health? Experimental Evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-020
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Jun 2019
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Jean Arkedis, Jessica Creighton, Akshay Dixit, Archon Fung, Stephen Kosack and Dan Levy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy: Normative Assessment and Positive Prognosis

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-017
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Jun 2019
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Robert N. Stavins
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Joint Patient Selection and Scheduling under No-Shows: Theory and Application in Proton Therapy

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-019
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2020
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Soroush Saghafian, Nikolaos Trichakis, Ruihao Zhu and Helen Shih
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital
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Do Physicians Influence Each Other's Performance? Evidence from the Emergency Department

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-026, May 2019
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2020
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Soroush Saghafian, Raha Imanirad and Stephen Traub
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and Mayo Clinic - College of Medicine and Science
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A Perfectly Robust Approach to Multiperiod Matching Problems

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-016
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 May 2019 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2020
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Maciej H. Kotowski
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Estimating the Effect of Asking About Citizenship on the US Census: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-015
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 May 2019
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Matthew Baum, Bryce Dietrich, Rebecca Goldstein and Maya Sen
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Birds of a Feather: Estimating the Value of Statistical Life from Dual-Earner Families

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-013
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
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Joseph E. Aldy
Harvard Kennedy School

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Efficient Division When Preferences are Private: Using the Expected Externality Mechanism

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Apr 2019
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Christina Aperjis, Maciej H. Kotowski and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise - Social Computing Lab, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Unwavering SES Achievement Gap: Trends in U.S. Student Performance

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-012
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Mar 2019
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Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, Laura Talpey and Ludger Woessmann
Stanford University - Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Harvard University - Department of Government (FAS), Stanford University and Ifo Institute for Economic Research

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38.

Silver or Lead? Why Violence and Corruption Limit Women’s Representation

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Mar 2019
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Pippa Norris
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Descriptive Norms and Gender Diversity: Reactance from Men

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-007
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Maliheh Paryavi, Iris Bohnet and Alexandra van Geen
Harvard University, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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40.

Sovereign Bonds Since Waterloo

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-009
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Josefin Meyer, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy

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Informational Inequity Aversion and Performance

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-008, Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 3339572
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Iris Bohnet and Farzad Saidi
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence and Heideggerian Technoskepticism: The Long (Worrisome?) View

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-010
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
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Mathias Risse
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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43.

Financial Crises: Past and Future

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-005
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Carmen Reinhart
Harvard University
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44.

Managerial Control and Executive Compensation

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-002
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Frederic M. Scherer
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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45.

Should the Fed Be Constrained?

Cato Journal, Forthcoming, HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-003
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Jeffrey Frankel
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Curious Case of the Missing Defaults

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-004
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Feb 2019
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Carmen Reinhart
Harvard University
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The Spillover Effects of Hospital Closures on the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2020
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Lina Song and Soroush Saghafian
Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Gender Differences in Volunteer's Dilemma: Evidence from Teamwork among Graduate Students

HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-001
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Jan 2019
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Pinar Dogan
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The (Lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-041
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Dec 2018
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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken and Sudarno Sumarto
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and SMERU Research Institute

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Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

HKS Working Paper No. RWP18-040
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Dec 2018
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Alberto F. Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara and Paolo Pinotti
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School, University of Bocconi - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) and Bocconi University - BAFFI Center on International Markets, Money, and Regulation

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