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NBER Working Papers Paper Author(s) Title 9810 Youngjae Lim Bankruptcy Policy Reform and Total Chin Hee Hahn Factor Productivity Dynamics in Korea: Evidence from Micro Data 9811 Joseph G. Altonji The Marginal Propensity to Spend Ernesto Vilanueva on Adult Children 9812 Jonathan Meer Insurance and the Utilization of Harvey S. Rosen Medical Services 9813 Lucian Arve Bebchuk Executive Compensation as an Jesse M. Fried Agency Problem 9814 Alan J. Auerbach The Case for Open-Market Purchases Maurice Obstfeld in a Liquidity Trap 9815 Douglas A. Irwin Causing Problems? The WTO Review of Causation and Injury Attribution in U.S. Section 201 Cases 9816 Paul Gompers Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Josh Lerner Corporations and the Genesis of David Schartstein New Ventures, 1986-1999 9817 Sebastian Edwards Stock Market Cycles, Financial Javier Gomez Biscarri Liberalization, and Volatility Fernando Peres de Gracia 9818 James J. Heckman The Determinants of Participation Jeffrev A. Smith in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Program 9819 Lawrence J. Christiano What Happens After a Technology Martin Eichenbaum Shock? Robert Vigfusson 9820 Sebastian Edwards Strict Dollarization and Economic I. Igal Magendzo Performance: An Empirical Investigation 9821 Anne C. Case Broken Down by Work and Sex: Flow Angus Deaton our Health Declines 9822 Angus Deaton Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World) 9823 Brian R. Copeland Trade, Growth, and the Environment M. Scott Taylor 9824 H. Naci Mocan Guns, Drugs, and juvenile Crime: Erdal Tekin Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins 9825 Michael R. Darby Grilechesian Breakthroughs: Lynne G. Zucker Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology 9826 Helen Levy What Do People Buy when they Don't Thomas DeLeire Buy Health Insurance and What Does that Say about why they are Uninsured? 9827 William H. Dow Aggregation and Kristine A. Gonzalez Insurance-Mortality Estimation Luis Rosero-Bixby 9828 Guillermo A. Calvo Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Alejandro Izquierdo Rate, and Fiscal Sustainability: Ernesto Talvi Argentina's Lessons 9829 Jean Boivin Are More Data Always Better for Serena Ng Factor Analysis? 98311 Orazio Attanasio Trade Reforms and Wage Inequality Pinelopi Attanasio in Colombia Nina Pavcnik 9831 Fed Joyce Chip Shots: Association Between Andrew Racine the State Children's Health Insurance Programs and Immunization Coverage and Delivery 9832 Robert Barsky Do Flexible Durable Goods Prices Christopher L. House Undermine Sticky Price Models? Miles Kimball 9833 Michael Kremer Why Are...