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An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-to-Peer Music Sharing Networks

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Sep 2003

Atip Asvanund, Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan and Michael D. Smith

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph S. Shapiro

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8915

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 30 Mar 2015

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph S. Shapiro

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century

NBER Working Paper No. w18692

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 13 May 2013

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph S. Shapiro

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley

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Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 265; Stanford Univ. Economics Working Paper No. 03-008

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Aug 2003

Karen Clay and Gavin Wright

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Stanford University - Department of Economics

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Static and Dynamic Pricing in Online Markets

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Sep 2004

Karen Clay, Michael D. Smith and Eric Wolff

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Tariff Choice with Consumer Learning and Switching Costs

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2010

Ronald L. Goettler and Karen Clay

University of Rochester - Simon School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics and Economic Performance: Evidence from the American States

William Davidson Institute William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 615

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Jan 2004

Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Squatters, Production, and Violence

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Feb 2006

Karen Clay

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Legal Origins and the Evolution of Institutions: Evidence from American State Courts

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Jun 2007

Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Uncertain Property Rights and Agricultural Production: Evidence from Post-Gold-Rush California

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Feb 2006

Karen Clay

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Will Adaptation to Climate Change Be Slow and Costly? Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2015

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph S. Shapiro

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - College of Letters & Science - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley

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Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w26381

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Oct 2019

Karen Clay and Nicholas Z. Muller

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business

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Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w8271

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 May 2001 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2010

Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan and Eric Wolff

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Judicial Independence and Minority Interests

Conference on Empirical Studies and Judges, Harvard Law School, November 10, 2006

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Sep 2007

Daniel Berkowitz, Chris W. Bonneau and Karen Clay

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Political Science and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Retail Strategies on the Web: Price and Non-Price Competition in the Online Book Industry

Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 50, pp. 351-367, 2002

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 May 2003

Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Wolff and Danny Fernandes

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Carnegie Mellon University

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Institutional Hysterisis: Courts and Politics in the American States (Chapters 5&6 of a Book Project)

CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 26 Jun 2009

Daniel Berkowitz and Karen Clay

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 09 Mar 2019

Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University

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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12178

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 May 2019

Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University

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Further Tests of Static Oligopoly Models: Whiskey, 1882-1898

Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 51, pp. 151-166, June 2003

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 Sep 2003

Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics

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Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the Mother of All Community-Wide Health Experiments

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Mar 2018

Karen Clay, Peter Egedesø, Casper Worm Hansen and Peter S. Jensen

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Southern Denmark, University of Copenhagen - Department of EconomicsUniversity of Copenhagen and University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics

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Lead Pipes and Child Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w12603

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2007

Karen Clay, Werner Troesken and Michael R. Haines

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Colgate University - Economics Department

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Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America

NBER Working Paper No. w12111

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 May 2006 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2010

Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics

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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail: Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota

NBER Working Paper No. w23852

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Sep 2017

Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Nicholas Z. Muller and Randall Walsh

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics

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What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

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What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Mar 2019

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University

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What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12177

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 May 2019

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University

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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7987

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Mar 2014

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay and Joel Tarr

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and World Bank

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Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating

NBER Working Paper No. w19881

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2015

Alan I. Barreca, Karen Clay and Joel Tarr

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and World Bank

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Lead and Mortality

NBER Working Paper No. w16480

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Oct 2010

Karen Clay, Werner Troesken and Michael R. Haines

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics and Colgate University - Economics Department

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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9884

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Apr 2016

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University

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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

NBER Working Paper No. w22155

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 11 Apr 2016

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University

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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9399

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Oct 2015

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University

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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

NBER Working Paper No. w21635

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2015

Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University

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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility

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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility

NBER Working Paper No. w24607

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 25 May 2018

Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University

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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11541

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 30 May 2018

Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh and Edson Severnini

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University

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Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog

NBER Working Paper No. w15669

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2013

Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics

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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the United States 1936-2015

NBER Working Paper No. w24695

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 13 Jun 2018

Karen Clay and Margarita Portnykh

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and Carnegie Mellon University

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Do Schooling Laws Matter? Evidence from the Introduction of Compulsory Attendance Laws in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w18477

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 20 Oct 2012

Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall and Melvin Stephens

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Truman State University and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

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Laws, Educational Outcomes, and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from the Full Count 1940 Census

NBER Working Paper No. w22855

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Nov 2016

Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall and Melvin Stephens

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Truman State University and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

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The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South

NBER Working Paper No. w23730

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2017

Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick and Werner Troesken

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Muhlenberg College and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics

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Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w25884

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 May 2019

Karen Clay, Peter Egedesø, Casper Worm Hansen, Peter S. Jensen and Avery Calkins

Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, University of Southern Denmark, University of Copenhagen - Department of EconomicsUniversity of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics and University of Michigan

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Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality

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