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NBER Working Papers Paper Author(s) Title 10229 Eric A. Hanushek Some Simple Analytics of School Quality 10230 Serkan Arslanalp Helping the Poor to Help Peter Blair Henry Themselves: Debt Relief or Aid 10231 Mikhail Golosov Efficiency with Endogenous Larrv E. Jones Population Growth Michele Tertilt 10232 V.V. Chari On the Desirability of Fiscal Patrick J. Kehoe Constraints in a Monetary Union 10233 Mihir A. Desai Market Reactions to Export James R. Hines Jr. Subsidies 10234 Casey B. Mulligan Population and Regulation Andrei Shleifer 10235 Jeffrey R. Brown The Geography of Stock Market Zoran Ivkovich Participation: The Influence of Paul A. Smith Communities and Local Firms Scott J. Weisbenner 10236 Raymond Fisman Financial Development and Inessa Love Growth in the Short and Long Run 10237 Elizabeth Kremp Knowledge Management, Innova- Jacques Mairesse tion and Productivity: A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data 10238 Ariel Burstein Investment Prices and Exchange Joao C. Neves Rates: Some Basic Facts Sergio Rebelo 10239 Russell Cooper Is it Is or Is it Ain't my Hubert Kempf Obligation? Regional Debt in Dan Peled Monetary Unions 10240 Paul A. Gompers Incentives vs. Control: An Joy Ishii Analysis of U.S. Dual-Class Andrew Metrick Companies 10241 Alberto Alesina Bureaucrats or Politicians? Guido Tabellini 10242 Eric Bettinger How Financial Aid Affects Persistence 10243 William J. Collins The Labor Market Effects of Robert A. Margo the 1960s Riots 10244 James Levinsohn Fooling Ourselves: Evaluating Juan Carlos Hallak the Globalization and Growth Debate 10245 Philippe Bacchetta A Scapegoat Model of Exchange Eric van Wincoop Rate Fluctuations 10246 Philippe Aghion Financial Development and the Philippe Bacchetta Instability of Open Economies Abhijit Banerjee 10247 Christopher J. Ruhm How Well Do Parents With Young Children Combine Work and Family Life? 10248 Kevin Murphy Persuasion in Politics Andrei Shleifer 10249 Kyle Bagwell National Sovereignty in an Robert W. Staiger Interdependent World 10250 Carolyn L. Evans Tight Clothing: How the MFA James Harrigan Affects Asian Apparel Exports 10251 Janet Currie Air Pollution and Infant Matthew Neidell Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience? 10252 Donald R. Davis A Search for Multiple Equili- David E. Weinstein bria in Urban Industrial Structure 10253 Stephanie Schmitt- Optimal Simple and Implemen- Grohe table Monetary and Fiscal Rules Martin Uribe 10254 Lawrence J. Christiano The Response of Hours to a Martin Eichenbaum Technology Shock: Evidence Robert Vigfusson Based on Direct Measures of Technology 10255 Lawrence J...