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2020-150: Productivity Versus Motivation in Adolescent Human Capital Production: Evidence from a Structurally-Motivated Field Experiment

Christopher Cotton, Brent Hickman, John List, Joseph Price and Sutanuka Roy

2020-149: Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Intervention

Roland Fryer, Steven Levitt, John List and Anya Samek

2020-148: Effective Policy Communication: Targets versus Instruments

Francesco D'Acunto, Daniel Hoang, Maritta Paloviita and Michael Weber

2020-147: Powering Work From Home

Steve Cicala

2020-146: Human Capital Depreciation

Michael Dinerstein, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Constantine Yannelis

2020-145: Elections, Political Polarization, and Economic Uncertainty

Scott Baker, Aniket Baksy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis and Jonathan Rodden

2020-144: An Adversarial Approach to Structural Estimation

Tetsuya Kaji, Elena Manresa and Guillaume Pouliot

2020-143: Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Family Dynamics in Economically Vulnerable Households

Ariel Kalil, Susan Mayer and Rohen Shah

2020-142: The Political Economics of Non-democracy

Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

2020-141: Temporary Unemployment and Labor Market Dynamics During the COVID-19 Recession

Jessica Gallant, Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange and Matthew Notowidigdo

2020-140: Private Equity and COVID-19

Paul Gompers, Steven Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov

2020-139: Firm-Level Risk Exposures and Stock Returns in the Wake of COVID-19

Steven Davis, Stephen Hansen and Cristhian Seminario-Amez

2020-138: Why Does the Fed Move Markets so Much? A Model of Monetary Policy and Time-Varying Risk Aversion

Carolin Pflueger and Gianluca Rinaldi

2020-137: Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth

Ufuk Akcigit, Jeremy Pearce and Marta Prato

2020-136: Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

Ufuk Akcigit, Sina Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova

2020-135: Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

Paul Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev

2020-134: Inference for Large-Scale Linear Systems with Known Coefficients

Zheng Fang, Andres Santos, Azeem Shaikh and Alexander Torgovitsky

2020-133: COVID-19 Shifted Patent Applications Toward Technologies that Support Working from Home

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis and Yulia Zhestkova

2020-132: 60 Million Fewer Commuting Hours Per Day: How Americans Use Time Saved by Working from Home

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

2020-131: The Education Gradient in Maternal Enjoyment of Time in Childcare

Ariel Kalil, Susan Meyer, William Delgado and Lisa Gennetian

2020-130: Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications

Kirill Borusyak and Peter Hull

2020-129: The Historical Perspective on the Trump Puzzle: A Review of Barry Eichengreen’s “The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Eraâ€

Konstantin Sonin

2020-128: Fifty Shades of QE: Conflicts of Interest in Economic Research

Brian Fabo, Martina Jancokova, Elisabeth Kempf and Lubos Pastor

2020-127: Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

2020-126: Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money

Mohammad Akbarpour, Julien Combe, YingHua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimer and Olivier Tercieux

2020-125: On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making

Ivan Canay, Magne Mogstad and Jack Mountjoy

2020-124: Reservation Wages and Workers’ Valuation of Job Flexibility: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Kuan-Ming Chen, Ning Ding, John List and Magne Mogstad

2020-123: Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US

David Argente, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee

2020-122: Doubling Down on Debt: Limited Liability as a Financial Friction

Jesse Perla, Carolin Pflueger and Michal Szkup

2020-121: Uncertainty Spillovers for Markets and Policy

Lars Hansen

2020-120: Dust Bowl Migrants: Identifying an Archetype

Richard Hornbeck

2020-119: The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S

Greg Kaplan, Benjamin Moll and Giovanni Violante

2020-118: Business Incomes at the Top

Wojciech Kopczuk and Eric Zwick

2020-117: Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Craig Garthwaite, Jordan Keener, Matthew Notowidigdo and Nicole Ozminkowski

2020-116: COVID-19 Lockdown Policies at the State and Local Level

Austan Goolsbee, Nicole Luo, Roxanne Nesbitt and Chad Syverson

2020-115: What Is CEO Overconfidence? Evidence from Executive Assessments

Steven Kaplan, Morten Sorensen and Anastasia Zakolyukina

2020-114: Exit vs. Voice

Eleonora Broccardo, Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales

2020-113: The $100 Million Nudge: Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed using a Natural Field Experiment

Justin Holz, John List, Alejandro Zentner, Marvin Cardoza and Joaquin Zentner

2020-112: Dynamic Trade-offs and Labor Supply under the CARES Act

Corina Boar and Simon Mongey

2020-111: Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects

Bradley Shapiro, Günter Hitsch and Anna Tuchman

2020-110: Information versus Investment

Stephen Terry, Toni Whited and Anastasia Zakolyukina

2020-109: How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Michael Weber

2020-108: Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans

Jason Abaluck, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull and Amanda Starc

2020-107: Investors’ Beliefs and Asset Prices: A Structural Model of Cryptocurrency Demand

Matteo Benetton and Giovanni Compiani

2020-106: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Dynamic Models

Steven Berry and Giovanni Compiani

2020-105: Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty

Zhiguo He, Maggie Hu, Zhenping Wang and Vincent Yao

2020-104: Tracking Mask Mandates during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Austin Wright, Geet Chawla, Luke Chen and Anthony Farmer

2020-103: Making Decisions under Model Misspecification

Simone Cerreia†Vioglio, Lars Hansen, Fabio Maccheroni and Massimo Marinacci

2020-102: Unmasking Partisanship: Polarization Undermines Public Response to Collective Risk

Maria Milosh, Marcus Painter, Konstantin Sonin, David Van Dijcke and Austin Wright

2020-101: A Continuous-Time Model of Financial Clearing

Isaac Sonin and Konstantin Sonin