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- Evidence of regulatory capture of patent examiners http://papers.nber.org/papers/W24638 59 comments
- Credit Growth and the Financial Crisis: A New Narrative [pdf] http://papers.nber.org/tmp/80614-w23740.pdf 32 comments
- Is Sniping a Problem for Online Auction Markets? [pdf] http://papers.nber.org/tmp/97510-w20942.pdf 12 comments
- Germany’s first-time introduction of the nation-wide minimum wage [...] pushed up wages without lowering employment [and] lead to reallocation of workers from smaller, lower paying firms to larger, higher paying firms. http://papers.nber.org/conf_papers/f127666.pdf 42 comments science
- Study: Bankruptcy rates of NFL players are not affected by total earnings or career length. http://papers.nber.org/tmp/19203-w21085.pdf 22 comments nfl
- Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment: "Home working led to a 13% performance increase, of which about 9% was from working more minutes per shift" http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18871 5 comments science
- Physical Activity and Health: "declines in high levels of recreational exercise and other physical activity can potentially account for between 12-30% of the increase in obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease" http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18858 7 comments science