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• No. 104. "Semiparametric Deconvolution with Unknown Error Variance." William C. Horrace and Christopher F. Parmeter. April 2008, 23pp.

• No. 103. "New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany: 1980-2004. Badi H. Baltagi, Uwe Blien, and Katja Wolf. March 2008, 16pp.

• No. 102. "Testing For Random Effects and Spatial Lag Dependence in Panel Data Models." Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu. March 2008, 15pp.

• No. 101. "Fitting Event-History Models to Uneventful Data." Douglas A. Wolf and Thomas M. Gill. December 2007. 12pp.

• No. 100. "Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects on FDI in an Interdependent World." Badi H. Baltagi, Peter Egger, and Michael Pfaffermayr. December 2007. 45pp.

• No. 99.  "Copula-Based Tests for Cross-Sectional Independence in Panel Models."  Hong Ming-Huang, Chihwa Kao, and Giovanni Urga. December 2007.  14pp.

• No. 98.  "A Monte Carlo Study for Pure and Pretest Estimators of a Panel Data Model with Spatially Autocorrelated Disturbances."  Badi H. Baltagi, Peter Egger and Michael Pfaffermayr.  September 2007.  27pp.

• No.97. "A Monte Carlo Study of Efficiency Estimates from Frontier Models." William Horrace and Seth O. Richards. August 2007. 35pp.

• No. 96. "Testing for Instability in Factor Structure of Yield Curves." Dennis Philip, Chihwa Kao, and Giovanni Urga. July 2007 50pp.

• No. 95. "Consistent Estimation with Weak Instruments in Panel Data." Chihwa Kao and Long Liu. May 2007. 7pp.

• No. 94. "Worldwide Econometrics Rankings: 1989-2005." Badi H. Baltagi.  May 2007. 75pp.

• No. 93. "Asymptotic Properties of Estimators for the Linear Panel Regression Model with Individual Effects and Serially Correlated Errors: The Case of Stationary and Non-Stationary Regressors and Residuals." Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao, Long Liu. April 2007. 75pp.

• No. 92.  "Modelling and Testing for Structural Changes in Panel Cointegration Models with Common and Idiosyncratic Stochastic Trend." Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani and Giovanni Urga. March 2007. 46pp.

• No. 91. "Forecasting with Panel Data." Badi H. Baltagi. February 2007. 37pp.

• No. 90. "Panel Cointegration with Global Stochastic Trends." Jushan Bai, Chihwa Kao, and Serena Ng. January 2007. 86pp.

• No. 89. "Random Effects and Spatial Autocorrelation with Equal Weights." Badi Baltagi. December 2006. 15pp.

• No. 88. "Panel Unit Root Tests and Spatial Dependence." Badi Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Alain Pirotte. December 2006. 37pp.

• No. 87. "Fixed Effect Estimation of Highly-Mobile Production Technologies." William C. Horrace, and Kurt E. Schnier. April 2008 [Revised from November 2006 and July 2007.] 31pp.

• No. 86. "Estimating Heterogeneous Capacity and Capacity Utilization in a Multi-Species Fishery."  Ronald G. Felthoven, William C. Horrace, and Kurt E. Schnier. November 2006. 35pp.

• No. 85. "Pinning Down the Value of Statistical Life."

  Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock, and James P. Ziliak. September 2006. 29 pp.

• No. 84. "Prediction in the Panel Data Model with Spatial Correlation: The Case of Liquor." Badi H. Baltagi and Dong Li. July 2006. 20 pp.

• No. 83. "Testing For Cointegrating Rank via Model Selection: Evidence from 165 Data Sets." Badi H. Baltagi and Zijun Wang. July 2006. 18pp.

• No. 82. "County Characteristics And Poverty Spell Length." Andrew Grodner, John A. Bishop, and Thomas Kniesner. Spring 2007. [Revised from May 2006], 33pp. 

• No. 81. "Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey." Badi H. Baltagi and Ingo Geishecker. April 2006. 38pp.

  No. 80.  "Estimating Heterogeneous Production in Fisheries." Kurt E. Schnier, Christopher M. Anderson, and William C. Horrace. March 2006. 36pp.

• No. 79. "Inter-Industry Gender Wage Gaps by Knowledge Intensity: Discrimination and Technology in Korea." William C. Horrace, Beyza P. Ural, and Jin Hwa Jung. March 2006. 34pp.

• No. 78. "Identifying Technically Efficient Fishing Vessels:A Non-Empty, Minimal Subset Approach." Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, William Horrace, and Kurt E. Schnier. March 2006. 27pp.

• No. 77.  "Asymptotics for Panel Models with Common Shocks." Chihwa Kao, Lorenzo Trapani, and Giovanni Urga. February 2006. 57pp.

• No. 76. "Simulation-Based Two-Step Estimation with Endogenous Regressors." Kamhon Kan and Chihwa Kao. December 2005. 38 pp.

• No. 75. "On the Estimation and Inference of a Panel Cointegration Model with Cross-Sectional Dependence."  Jushan Bai and Chihwa Kao. December 2005. 33pp.

• No. 74.  "Do Credit Market Barriers Exist For Minority and Woman Entrepreneurs?"  Lloyd Blanchard, Bo Zhao, and John Yinger. December 2005. 53 pp.

• No. 73. "Estimating Models of Complex FDI: Are There Third-Country Effects?" Badi Baltagi, Peter Egger, and Michael Pfaffermayr. October 2005. 35 pp.

• No. 72. Joint LM Test For Homoskedasticity In a One-Way Error Component Model." Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson, and Alain Pirotte. October 2005. 23 pp.

• No. 71. "The Unintended Consequences of Property Tax Relief: New York's STAR Program." William Duncombe, Tae Ho Eom and John Yinger. October 2005. 49 pp.

• No. 70. "A Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection." William C. Horrace, Joseph T. Marchand, and Timothy  M. Smeeding. October 2005, 47 pp.

• No. 69. "An Empirical Model of Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Issues and Tax Policy Implications." Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner. September 2005. [Revised September 2006], 41 pp.

• No. 68. "Cox-McFadden Partial and Marginal Likelihoods for the Proportional Hazard Model with Random Effects." Jan Ondrich. August 2005, 54 pp.

• No. 67.  "Why Do Real Estate Brokers Continue to Discriminate? Evidence from the 2000 Housing Discrimination Study." Bo Zhao, Jan Ondrich and John Yinger. March 2005, 46 pp.

• No. 66. "Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts." John R. Moran and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon. January 2005, 41pp.

• No. 65."Duration Data from the National Long-Term Care Survey:   Foundation for a Dynamic Multiple-Indicator Model of ADL Dependency."  James N. Laditka and Douglas A. Wolf.  December 2004, 70pp.

• No. 64.  "Do We Invest Less Time in Children? Trends in Parental Time in Selected Industrialized Countries Since the 1960s." Anne H. Gauthier, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. June 2004, 44pp.

• No. 63. "Welfare State Expenditures and the Distribution of Child Opportunities." Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy M. Smeeding. June 2004.  [Revised October 2004, 59pp.]

• No. 62. "School Finance, Equivalent Educational Expenditure, and Income Distribution: Equal Dollars or Equal Chances for Success?" Kathryn Wilson, Kristina Lambright, and Timothy M. Smeeding. August 2004, 36pp.

• No. 61. "Taxes, Deadweight Loss and Intertemporal Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Panel Data." Anil Kumar. June 2004, 60pp.

• No. 60.  "How Much More Does a Disadvantaged Student Cost?"  William D. Duncombe,  and John Yinger. July 2004, 45pp.

• No. 59. "Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care." Leonard M. Lopoo. March 2004, 38pp.

• No. 58. "Social Interaction and the Health Insurance Choices of the Elderly." Eldar Beiseitov, Jeffrey D. Kubik, John R. Moran. May 2004. [Revised June 2004, 33pp.]

• No. 57. "Agglomeration, Labor Supply, and the Urban Rat Race," Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange. September 2003, 37pp.

• No. 56. "Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration," Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange. 2003, 40pp.

• No. 55. "Does Whole-School Reform Boost Student Performance?

  The Case Of New York City," Robert Bifulco, William Duncombe, and John Yinger. September 2003, 48pp.

• No. 54. "The Effect of Income Taxation on Consumption and Labor Supply," James P. Ziliak and Thomas J. Kniesner. April 2003. [Revised November 2004, 44pp.]

• No. 53. "Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes in the U.S.? A Comparison Across Fifty States," Kristen Harknett, Irwin Garfinkel, Jay Bainbridge, Timothy Smeeding, Nancy Folbre, and Sara McLanahan. March 2003, 36pp.

• No. 52. "Data Mining Mining Data: MSHA Enforcement Efforts, Underground Coal Mine Safety, and New Health Policy Implications," Thomas J. Kniesner and John D. Leeth. March 2003. [Revised May 2003, 41pp.]

• No. 51. "Social Interaction in Labor Supply," Andrew Grodner and Thomas Kniesner. March 2003. [Revised October 2005, 38pp.]

• No. 50. "Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth:  The Proof Is in the Productivity," Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Chihwa Kao. February 2003, 33pp.

• No. 49. "On the Measurement of Job Risk in Hedonic Wage Models," Dan A. Black and Thomas J. Kniesner. January 2003. [Revised March 2003, 24pp.]

• No. 48. "Globalization, Inequality, and the Rich Countries of the G-20: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),” Timothy M. Smeeding. November 2002, 44pp.

• No. 47. "Psychotherapy in Antidepressant Patients," Regina H. Powers, Thomas J. Kniesner, and Thomas W. Croghan. October 2002. [Revised January 2003, 23pp.]

• No. 46. "Economic Position Does Not Matter: A Cost-Benefit Analysis," Thomas J. Kniesner and W. Kip Viscusi. September 2002, 29pp.

• No. 45. "Contracting With Limited Commitment:  Evidence from Employment-based Health Insurance Contracts," Keith J. Crocker and John R. Moran.  July 2002, 55pp.

• No. 44. "Estimating the Cost of an Adequate Education in New York," William Duncombe.  February 2002, 126pp.

• No. 43. "Provider Type and Depression Treatment Adequacy," Thomas Kniesner, Regina H. Powers, and Thomas W. Croghan.  October 2001.  [Revised February 2003, 30pp.]

• No. 42. "Nominal Loss Aversion, Housing Equity Constraints, and Household Mobility: Evidence from the United States," Gary Engelhardt. September 2001, 60pp.

• No. 41. "Private Philanthropy and the Economics of Public Radio," Arthur C. Brooks. September 2001, 19pp.

• No. 40. "Lethal Elections: Gubernatorial Politics and the Timing of Executions," Jeffrey D. Kubik and John R. Moran. September 2001. [Revised July 2002, 41pp.]

• No. 39. "Can Policy Changes be Treated as Natural Experiments? Evidence from State Excise Taxes," Jeffrey D. Kubik and John R. Moran. September 2001. [Revised July 2002, 57pp.] 

• No. 38."Explicit Versus Implicit Income Insurance," Thomas J. Kniesner and James P. Ziliak.  July 2001. [Revised October 2001, 34pp.]

• No. 37. "Intergenerational Labor Market and Welfare Consequences of Poor Health," Thomas J. Kniesner and Anthony T. LoSasso. March 2001.   [Revised Fall 2001, 45pp.]

• No. 36. "Asymptotic Inference in Censored Regression Models Revisited, " Chihwa Kao.  February 2001, 14pp.

• No. 35. "Some New Approaches to Formulate and Estimate Friction-Bernoulli Jump Diffusion and Friction-GARCH," Chihwa Kao.  February 2001, 22pp.

• No. 34. Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration
  Heteroskedasticity Models with Estimates of the Variances of Foreign Exchange Rates," Chihwa Kao.  February 2001, 25pp.

• No. 33. "Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs?" William Duncombe and John Yinger. January 2001, 56pp.

• No. 32. "Wavelet-Based Testing for Serial Correlation of Unknown Form in Panel Models," Yongmiao Hong and Chihwa Kao. October 2000, 62pp.

• No. 31. "Slippery When Wet: The Effects of Local Alcohol Access Laws on Highway Safety," Reagan Baughman, Michael Conlin, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and John Pepper. October 2000, 28pp.

• No. 30. "How Well Can We Track Cohabitation Using the SIPP? A Consideration of Direct and Inferred Measures," Reagan Baughman, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and Scott Houser. October 2000, 27pp.

• No. 29. "Personal Income Taxes and the Growth of Small Firms," Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider, and Harvey S. Rosen. October 2000, 36pp.

• No. 28. "Generational Conflict, Human Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mary E. Lovely, and Mehmet S. Tosun. June 2000, 34pp.

• No. 27. "Worldwide Population Aging: Endogenous Policy Formation and Capital Market Transmissions in the Presence of Symmetric Demographic Shocks," Mehmet Serkan Tosun. June 2000, 40pp.

• No. 26. "Antidepressant Treatment for Depression: Total Charges and Therapy Duration," Deborah G. Dobrez, Catherine A. Melfi, Thomas W. Croghan, Thomas J. Kniesner, and Robert L. Obenchain. September 2000.[Revised December 2000,  35pp.]

• No. 25. "Unfinished Business: Inadequate Health Coverage for Privately Insured, Seriously Ill Children," Nancy Swigonski, Eleanor D. Kinney, Deborah A. Freund, and Thomas J. Kniesner. May 2000. [Revised March 2001, 29pp.]

• No. 24. "Now You See It, Now You Don't: Why Do Real Estate Agents Withhold Available Houses from Black Customers?" Jan Ondrich, Stephen Ross, and John Yinger. May 2000, 48pp.

• No. 23. "Microdata Panel Data and Public Policy: National and Cross-National Perspectives," Richard V. Burkhauser and Timothy M. Smeeding. April 2000, 45pp.

• No. 22. "Determinants of Medical Costs Following A Diagnosis of Depression," Regina H. Powers, Thomas J. Kniesner, and Thomas W. Croghan. April 2000. [Revised March 2001, 23pp.]

• No. 21. "Tax Reform and Automatic Stabilization," Thomas J. Kniesner and James P. Ziliak. March 2000. [Revised January 2001, 50pp.]

• No. 20. "Does Chronic Illness Affect the Adequacy of Health Insurance Coverage?"  Kevin T. Stroupe, Eleanor D. Kinney, and Thomas J. Kniesner.  March 2000, 38pp.

• No. 19. "Chronic Illness and Health Insurance-Related Job Lock," Kevin T. Stroupe, Eleanor D. Kinney, and Thomas J. Kniesner. March 2000. [Revised August 2000, 32pp.]

• No. 18. "The Impact of Hospital Quality-Related Practices on Health Outcomes," Deborah A. Freund and Frank R. Lichtenberg. March 2000, 24pp.

• No. 17. "Pharmaceuticals and the Elderly: A Comparative Analysis," Deborah A. Freund, Don Willison, Grant D. Reeher, Bernie O'Brien, Jarold Cosby, and Amy Ferraro. March 2000, 34pp.

• No. 16. "Nonstationary Panels, Cointegration in Panels and Dynamic Panels: A Survey," Badi H. Baltagi and Chihwa Kao. March 2000, 47pp.

• No. 15. "Testing for Structural Change of a Time Trend Regression in Panel Data," Jamie Emerson and Chihwa Kao. March 2000, 42pp.

• No. 14. "Geography, Industrial Organization, and Agglomeration," Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange. October 1999, 37pp.

• No. 13. "The EITC: Expectation, Knowledge, Use, and Economic and Social Mobility," Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherin Ross Phillips, and Michael O'Connor. October 1999. [Revised April 2000, 48pp.]

• No. 12. "Demographics of the Gay and Lesbian Population in the United States: Evidence from Available Systematic Data Sources," Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, and Lowell Taylor. October 1999, 64pp.

• No. 11. "Cash Constraints and Business Start-Ups: Deutschmarks Versus Dollars," Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Harvey Rosen. June 1999, 30pp.

• No. 10. "Estate Taxes, Life Insurance, and Small Business," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John Phillips, and Harvey Rosen. April 1999, 34pp.

• No. 9. "The Role of Relative Cohort Size, and Relative Income in the Demographic Transition," Diane Macunovich. March 1999, 38pp.

• No. 8. "Relative Cohort Size: Source of a Unifying Theory of Global Fertility Transition," Diane Macunovich. March 1999, 43pp.

• No. 7. "The Baby Boom As It Ages: How Has It Affected Patterns of Consumption and Savings in the United States," Diane Macunovich. March 1999, 81pp.

• No. 6. "The Fortune's of One's Birth: Relative Cohort Size and the Youth Labor Market in the United States," Diane Macunovich. March 1999, 54pp.

• No. 5. "Testing the Stability of a Production Function with Urbanization as a Shift Factor: An Application of Non-Stationary Panel Data Techniques," Suzanne McCoskey and Chihwa Kao. March 1999, 26pp.

• No. 4. "International R&D Spillovers: An Application of Estimation and Inference in Panel Cointegration," Chihwa Kao, Min-Hsien Chiang, and Bangtian Chen. March 1999, 25pp.

• No. 3. "A Monte Carlo Comparison of Tests for Cointegration in Panel Data," Suzanne McCoskey and Chihwa Kao. March 1999, 45pp.

• No. 2. "On the Estimation and Inference of a Cointegrated Regression in Panel Data," Chihwa Kao and Min-Hsien Chiang. March 1999, 37pp.

• No. 1. "On the Estimation of a Linear Time Trend Regression with a One-Way Error Component Model in the Presence of Serially Correlated Errors," Chihwa Kao and Jamie Emerson. March 1999, 44pp.