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2016: Diversity and neighbourhood satisfaction

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

2016: The diffusion of knowledge via managers' mobility

Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Alessandro Sforza

2016: Distorted monopolistic competition

Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Südekum

2016: Larrikin youth: new evidence on crime and schooling

Tony Beatton, Michael P Kidd, Stephen Machin and Dipa Sarkar

2016: Unexpected school reform: academisation of primary schools in England

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

2016: On the comparative advantage of U.S. manufacturing: evidence from the shale gas revolution

Rabah Arezki, Thiemo Fetzer and Frank Pisch

2016: Foreign direct investment and the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union

Randolph Bruno, Nauro Campos, Saul Estrin and Meng Tian

2016: Quantitative spatial economics

Stephen Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2016: The loss of production work: evidence from quasi-experimental identification of labour demand functions

Elias Einiö

2016: Trade and the size distribution of firms: evidence from the German Empire

Marcus Biermann

2016: Aggregate recruiting intensity

Alessandro Gavazza, Simon Mongey and Giovanni L. Violante

2016: Financial system architecture and the patterns of international trade

Emmanuel Amissah, Spiros Bougheas, Fabrice Defever and Rodney Falvey

2016: Colocation and knowledge diffusion: evidence from million dollar plants

Christian Fons-Rosen, Vincenzo Scrutinio and Katalin Szemeredi

2016: Does Rosie like riveting? Male and female occupational choices

Grace Lordan and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2016: A unified approach to estimating demand and welfare

Stephen Redding and David Weinstein

2016: The economic impact of universities: evidence from across the globe

Anna Valero and John van Reenen

2016: STEM graduates and secondary school curriculum: does early exposure to science matter?

Marta De Philippis

2016: Product mix and firm productivity responses to trade competition

Thierry Mayer, Marc Melitz and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2016: The host with the most? The effects of the Olympic Games on happiness

Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Robert Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski and Nicolas Ziebarth

2016: Wage flexibility and employment fluctuations: evidence from the housing sector

Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2016: CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts: a question of governance?

Brian Bell, Simone Pedemonte and John van Reenen

2016: Powering education

Fadi Hassan and Paolo Lucchino

2016: Local and sectoral import spillovers in Sweden

Evangelia Leda Pateli

2016: Without my medal on my mind: counterfactual thinking and other determinants of athlete emotions

Paul Dolan, Chloe Foy, Georgios Kavetsos and Laura Kudrna

2016: Production networks, geography and firm performance

Andrew Bernard, Andreas Moxnes and Yukiko Saito

2016: Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service

Zack Cooper, Stephen Gibbons and Matthew Skellern

2016: Management as a technology?

Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John van Reenen

2016: Product switching and the business cycle

Andrew Bernard and Toshihiro Okubo

2016: Protectionism through exporting: subsidies with export share requirements in China

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

2016: Exporter dynamics and partial-year effects

Andrew Bernard, Renzo Massari, José-Daniel Reyes and Daria Taglioni

2016: Estimating border effects: the impact of spatial aggregation

Cletus Coughlin and Dennis Novy

2016: The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage

Alan Manning

2016: The effect of discretion on procurement performance

Decio Coviello, Andrea Guglielmo and Giancarlo Spagnolo

2016: Two-sided heterogeneity and Trade

Andrew Bernard, Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

2016: "Teaching to teach" literacy

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Martina Viarengo

2016: Where does the wind blow? Green preferences and spatial misallocation in renewable energy sector

Yatang Lin

2016: Rethinking deindustrialization

Andrew Bernard, Valerie Smeets and Frédéric Warzynski

2016: Politics in the family: nepotism and the hiring decisions of Italian firms

Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Manacorda

2016: Team adaptation

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Marc Möller

2016: Global firms

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott

2016: Liberation technology: mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa

Marco Manacorda and Andrea Tesei

2016: State capacity and public goods: institutional change, human capital and growth in early modern Germany

Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralph R. Meisenzahl

2016: How have EU's trade agreements impacted consumers?

Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2016: Management practices, workforce selection and productivity

Stefan Bender, Nicholas Bloom, David Card, John van Reenen and Stefanie Wolter

2016: Special and differential treatment for developing countries

Emanuel Ornelas

2016: The sovereign-bank diabolic loop and ESBies

Markus Brunnermeier, Luis Garicano, Philip Lane, Marco Pagano, Ricardo Reis, Tano Santos, David Thesmar, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Dimitri Vayanos

2016: Do tax incentives for research increase firm innovation? An RD design for R&D, patents and spillovers

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John van Reenen

2016: Relational knowledge transfers

Luis Garicano and Luis Rayo

2016: International competition and labor market adjustment

João Paulo Pessoa

2016: The evolution of gender gaps in industrialized countries

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

2016: One Mandarin benefits the whole clan: hometown favoritism in an authoritarian regime

Quoc-Anh Do, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and Anh N. Tran

2016: Models of affective decision-making: how do feelings predict choice?

Caroline J. Charpentier, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Jonathan P. Roiser and Tali Sharot

2016: Swimming upstream: input-output linkages and the direction of product adoption

Johannes Boehm, Swati Dhingra and John Morrow

2016: Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Felix Koenig, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2016: Stagnation traps

Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro

2016: Minimum wages and firm value

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

2016: Balanced growth despite Uzawa

Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson

2016: Unraveling firms: demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity

Emanuele Forlani, Ralf Martin, Giordano Mion and Mirabelle Muûls

2016: The effect of trade liberalization on firm-level profits: an event-study approach

Holger Breinlich

2016: Top incomes and human well-being around the world

Richard Burkhauser, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2015: Flooded Cities

Adriana Kocornik-Mina, Thomas K.J. McDermott, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

2015: Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Lorenzo Caliendo, Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2015: Testing Means-Tested Aid

Richard Murphy and Gill Wyness

2015: The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured

Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John van Reenen

2015: The youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany

Hannes Schwandt and Amelie Wuppermann

2015: International Technology Transfer and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from the High-Speed Rail Sector in China

Yatang Lin, Yu Qin and Zhuan Zie

2015: Graduate Returns, Degree Class Premia and Higher Education Expansion in the UK

Robin Naylor, Jeremy Smith and Shqiponja Telhaj

2015: Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well-Being?

Marc Fleurbaey and Hannes Schwandt

2015: Information Frictions and Adverse Selection: Policy Interventions in Health Insurance Markets

Benjamin R. Handel, Jonathan T. Kolstad and Johannes Spinnewijn

2015: The Persistence of a Banking Crisis

Kilian Huber

2015: Short and Long-Term Effects of Unemployment on Fertility

Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

2015: Multitask Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors

Marta De Philippis

2015: Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities

Ferdinando Monte, Stephen Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2015: The Unbearable Divergence of Unemployment in Europe

Tito Boeri and Juan F Jimeno

2015: Distaste for Centralization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Switzerland

Sarah Flèche

2015: The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity

Johannes Boehm

2015: Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade

Andrew Bernard and Swati Dhingra

2015: Early Maternal Employment and Non-cognitive Outcomes in Early Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from British Birth Cohort Data

Andrew Clark, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward

2015: Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

2015: Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade

Holger Breinlich, Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz

2015: How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions

Kalina Manova and Zhihong Yu

2015: The Effect of Police Response Time on Crime Detection

Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Tom Kirchmaier

2015: Relational Contracts and Supplier Turnover in the Global Economy

Fabrice Defever, Christian Fischer and Jens Suedekum

2015: Crime, Compulsory Schooling Laws and Education

Brian Bell, Rui Costa and Stephen Machin

2015: Loss Aversion on the Phone

Christos Genakos, Costas Roumanias and Tommaso Valletti

2015: The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network

Shaun Larcom, Ferdinand Rauch and Tim Willems

2015: Intrafirm Trade and Vertical Fragmentation in U.S. Multinational Corporations

Natalia Ramondo, Veronica Rappoport and Kim Ruhl

2015: Academies 2: The New Batch

Andrew Eyles, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva

2015: Diversification through Trade

Francesco Caselli, Miklós Koren, Milan Lisicky and Silvana Tenreyro

2015: Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Yonas Alem and Jonathan Colmer

2015: The Introduction of Academy Schools to England's Education

Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

2015: Media, Markets and Institutional Change: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation

Jeremiah Dittmar and Skipper Seabold

2015: Would You Choose to be Happy? Tradeoffs between Happiness and the Other Dimensions of Life in a Large Population Survey

Matthew D. Adler, Paul Dolan and Georgios Kavetsos

2015: New Media, Competition and Growth: European Cities After Gutenberg

Jeremiah Dittmar

2015: Job Loss at Home: Children's School Performance During the Great Recession in Spain

Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

2015: Does Worker Wellbeing Affect Workplace Performance?

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Lucy Stokes

2015: European Identity and Redistributive Preferences

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

2015: The Optimal Timing of UI Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

2015: Informal Care and the Great Recession

Joan Costa-Font, Martin Karlsson and Henning Oien

2015: ICT and Education: Evidence from Student Home Addresses

Benjamin Faber, Rosa Sanchis-Guarner and Felix Weinhardt

2015: Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Esther Ann Bøler, Beata Javorcik and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

2015: The Persistence of Local Joblessness

Michael Amior and Alan Manning

2015: Do More of those in Misery Suffer From Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Sarah Flèche and Richard Layard

2015: The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?

Mirko Draca, Theodore Koutmeridis and Stephen Machin

2015: Firming Up Inequality

Nicholas Bloom, Fatih Guvenen, David Price and Jae Song

2015: Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from UK Firms

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Giovanni Peri and Greg Wright

2015: Universal Pre-School Education: The Case of Public Funding with Private Provision

Joanne Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Sandra McNally and Birgitta Rabe

2015: Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

David Atkin, Benjamin Faber and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

2015: Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction & Student Performance

Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy

2015: Space-Time (In)Consistency in the National Accounts: Causes and Cures

Nicholas Oulton

2015: Large Capital Inflows, Sectoral Allocation and Economic Performance

Gianluca Benigno, Nathan Converse and Luca Fornaro

2015: Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Felix Koenig, Barbara Petrongolo and John van Reenen

2015: Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?

Mark Bryan and Alex Bryson

2015: When Pressure Sinks Performance: Evidence from Diving Competitions

Eleni Garbi, Christos Genakos and Mario Pagliero

2015: The Future of the German Industrial Relations Model

David Marsden

2015: Is Happiness a Predictor of Election Results?

George Ward

2015: Integrated Estimates of Capital Stocks and Services for the United Kingdom: 1950-2013

Nicholas Oulton and Gavin Wallis

2015: Giving a Little Help to Girls? Evidence on Grade Discrimination and its Effect on Students' Achievement

Camille Terrier

2015: 'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance

Olivier Marie and Ulf Zölitz

2015: Do You Have To Win It To Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand

Terence Cheng, Joan Costa-Font and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2015: Why are Higher Skilled Workers More Mobile Geographically? The Role of the Job Surplus

Michael Amior

2015: Asymmetric Industrial Energy Prices and International Trade

Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Misato Sato

2015: Evaluating the Impact of Sunday Trading Deregulation

Svetoslav Danchev and Christos Genakos

2015: Robots at Work

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels

2015: The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

Claudia Steinwender

2015: The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence

Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo

2015: Teachers and Performance Pay in 2014: First Results of a Survey

David Marsden

2015: Trust and Racial Income Inequality: Evidence from the U.S

Andrea Tesei

2015: Rise of the Machines: The Effects of Labor-Saving Innovations on Jobs and Wages

Andy Feng and Georg Graetz

2015: Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

Alex Bryson, Andrew Clark, Richard Freeman and Colin Green

2015: Schooling, Nation Building and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach

Esther Hauk and Javier Ortega

2015: All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and Tingting Zhang

2015: Voting Behaviour and Public Employment in Nazi Germany

Stephan Maurer

2015: Preferences for Fair Prices, Cursed Inferences, and the Nonneutrality of Money

Erik Eyster, Kristof Madarasz and Pascal Michaillat

2015: Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence From English Adoptees

Joan Costa-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Julian Le Grand

2015: Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Homicides in Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Marco Manacorda