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Courant, Paul. "Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google." First Monday 11, no. 8 (7 Aug 2006).
Courant, PN. "Sometimes Close is Good enough: The Value of Nearby Environmental Amenities." Journal of Regional Science 46, no. 5 (2006): 931. 
Noonan, Mary C., Mary E. Corcoran, and Paul N. Courant. "Pay Differences among the Highly Trained: Cohort Differences in the Sex Gap in Lawyers' Earnings." Social Forces 84, no. 2 (Dec, 2005): 853.
Courant, Paul. "The Value of Liberal Education: Liberal Learning is Worth its High Cost -- And Should be Available to All." Swarthmore College Bulletin, March 2004.
Mendez, David, Kenneth E Warner, and Paul N. Courant. "Has Smoking Cessation Ceased? Expected Trends in the Prevalence of Smoking in the United States." American Journal of Epidemiology 148, no. 3 (August 1, 1998): 249-258.
Mendez, David, Kenneth E. Warner, and Paul N. Courant. "Effects of Radon Mitigation Vs Smoking Cessation in Reducing Radon-Related Risk of Lung Cancer." American Journal of Public Health 88, no. 5 (May, 1998): 811.
Courant, Paul N. and Susanna Loeb. "Centralization of School Finance in Michigan." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 16, no. 1, Special Issue: Serrano V. Priest: 25th Anniversary (Winter, 1997): 114-136.
Warner, Kenneth E., David Mendez, and Paul N. Courant. "Toward a More Realistic Appraisal of the Lung Cancer Risk from Radon: The Effects of Residential Mobility." American Journal of Public Health 86, no. 9 (Sep, 1996): 1222.
Warner, Kenneth E., Paul N. Courant, and David Mendez. "Effects of Residential Mobility on Individual Versus Population Risk of Radon-Related Lung Cancer." Environmental Health Perspectives 103, no. 12 (Dec., 1995): 1144-1149.
Courant, Paul N., Edward M. Gramlich, and Susanna Loeb. "Michigan's Recent School Finance Reforms: A Preliminary Report." The American Economic Review 85, no. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundredth and Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association Washington, DC, January 6-8, 1995 (May, 1995): 372-377.
Courant, Paul N. "How would You Know a Good Economic Development Policy if You Tripped Over One? Hint: Don't just Count Jobs." National Tax Journal (1986-1998) 47, no. 4 (Dec, 1994): 863.
Courant, Paul N and Alan V Deardorff. "Amenities, Nontraded Goods, and the Trade of Lumpy Countries." Journal of Urban Economics, 34, no. 2 (9, 1993): 299-317.
Wood, Robert G., Mary E. Corcoran, and Paul N. Courant. "Pay Differences among the Highly Paid: The Male-Female Earnings Gap in Lawyers' Salaries." Journal of Labor Economics 11, no. 3 (Jul., 1993): 417-441.
Courant, Paul N. and Alan V. Deardorff. "International Trade with Lumpy Countries." The Journal of Political Economy 100, no. 1 (Feb., 1992): 198-210.
Deardorff, Alan V. and Paul N. Courant. "On the Likelihood of Factor Price Equalization with Nontraded Goods." International Economic Review 31, no. 3 (Aug., 1990): 589-596.
Borenstein, Severin and Paul N. Courant. "How to Carve A Medical Degree: Human Capital Assets in Divo." The American Economic Review 79, no. 5 (Dec, 1989): 992.
Courant, Paul N and Daniel L Rubinfeld. "Robbing Peter to Pay Peter: The Economics of Local Public Residency Requirements." Journal of Urban Economics, 23, no. 3 (5, 1988): 291-306.
Courant, Paul N. and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. "Tax Reform: Implications for the State-Local Public Sector." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 1, no. 1 (Summer, 1987): 87-100.
Corcoran, Mary E. and Paul N. Courant. "Sex Role Socialization and Labor Market Outcomes." The American Economic Review 75, no. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Ninety-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1985): 275-278.
Chamberlin, John R. and Paul N. Courant. "Representative Deliberations and Representative Decisions: Proportional Representation and the Borda Rule." The American Political Science Review 77, no. 3 (Sep., 1983): 718-733.
Courant, Paul N. "On the Effects of Federal Capital Taxation on Growing and Declining Areas." Journal of Urban Economics 14, no. 2 (1983/9): 242-261.
Courant, Paul N. and Richard C. Porter. "Averting Expenditure and the Cost of Pollution." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 8, no. 4 (1981/12): 321-329.
Courant, Paul N. and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. "On the Welfare Effects of Tax Limitation." Journal of Public Economics 16, no. 3 (1981/12): 289-316.
Courant, Paul N., Edward M. Gramlich, and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. "Why Voters Support Tax Limitation Amendments: The Michigan Case." National Tax Journal 33, no. 1 (Mar, 1980): 1.
Courant, Paul N., Edward M. Gramlich, and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. "Public Employee Market Power and the Level of Government Spending." The American Economic Review 69, no. 5 (Dec., 1979): 806-817.
Courant, Paul N., Edward M. Gramlich, and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. "Tax Limitation and the Demand for Public Services in Michigan." National Tax Journal 32, no. 2 (Jun, 1979): 147.
Courant, Paul N. "Racial Prejudice in a Search Model of the Urban Housing Market." Journal of Urban Economics 5, no. 3 (1978/7): 329-345.
Courant, Paul N. and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. "On the Measurement of Benefits in an Urban Context: Some General Equilibrium Issues." Journal of Urban Economics 5, no. 3 (1978/7): 346-356.
Courant, Paul N. "A General Equilibrium Model of Heterogeneous Local Property Taxes." Journal of Public Economics 8, no. 3 (1977/12): 313-327.
Courant, Paul N. and John Yinger. "On Models of Racial Prejudice and Urban Residential Structure." Journal of Urban Economics 4, no. 3 (1977/7): 272-291.
Courant, Paul N. "On the Effect of Fiscal Zoning on Land and Housing Values." Journal of Urban Economics 3, no. 1 (1976/1): 88-94.
Courant, Paul Noah. "Economic Aspects of Racial Prejudice in Urban Housing Markets." Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974.