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2025-002: The Menopause "Penalty": Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, Petra Persson and Barton Willage
2025-001: Gains from Alternative Assignment? Evidence from a Two-Sided Teacher Market: Mariana Laverde, Elton Mykerezi, Aaron Sojourner and Aradhya Sood
2024-025: The Equilibrium Effects of State-Mandated Minimum Staff-to-Child Ratios: MartÃn GarcÃa-VÃ¡zquez
2024-024: The Causal Impact of Gender Norms on Mothersâ€™ Employment Attitudes and Expectations: Henning Hermes, Marina KrauÃŸ, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter and Simon Wiederhold
2024-023: Early Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Gender Equality: A Randomized Controlled Trial: Henning Hermes, Marina KrauÃŸ, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter and Simon Wiederhold
2024-022: Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment: Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter and Simon Wiederhold
2024-021: Information about Inequality in Early Child Care Reduces Polarization in Policy Preferences: Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Fabian Mierisch, Guido Schwerdt and Simon Wiederhold
2024-020: The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic: Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Karen Kopecky
2024-019: Perry Preschool at 50: What Lessons Should Be Drawn and Which Criticisms Ignored?: Alison Baulos, Jorge Luis Garcia and James Heckman
2024-018: A Library in the Palm of your Hand? A Randomized Reading Intervention with Low-Income Children: Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Frauke Peter, Malte Sandner and Thomas Siedler
2024-017: Free Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills in Rural China: Zheyuan Zhang, Hui Xu, Ruilin Liu and Zhong Zhao
2024-016: Early Life Health Conditions and Racial Gaps in Education: Briana Ballis
2024-015: Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?: Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova and Arnau Valladares-Esteban
2024-014: Early Home Visiting Delivery Model and Maternal and Child Mental Health at Primary School Age: Gabriella Conti, SÃ¶ren Kliem and Malte Sandner
2024-013: Unpacking the STEM Gender Gap: Evidence From Taiwan: Ian Fillmore, Hsuan-Hua Huang, Hao-Chung Li and Hsien-Ming Lien
2024-012: "Unsettled Science on Longer-run Effects of Early Education:" A Response: Jorge Luis Garcia and James Heckman
2024-011: Public and Parental Investments and Childrenâ€™s Skill Formation: Miriam Gensowski, Rasmus LandersÃ¸, Philip Dale, Anders HÃ¸jen, Laura Justice and Dorthe Bleses
2024-010: The Parental Wage Gap and the Development of Socio-emotional Skills in Children: Paul Hufe
2024-009: Estimating Self-Selection in Medicare Advantage: Moiz Bhai and Danny Hughes
2024-008: Potential Value of Data and Free Access to Data: Amos Golan and Spiro Stefanou
2024-007: Heterogeneity and Endogenous Compliance: Implications for Scaling Class Size Interventions: Karun Adusumilli, Francesco Agostinelli and Emilio Borghesan
2024-006: Labor Market Institutions and Fertility: Nezih Guner, Ezgi Kaya and Virginia Sanchez-Marcos
2024-004: Hukou Status and Childrenâ€™s Education in China: Yue Sun, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao
2024-003: Intergenerational Persistence in the Effects of Compulsory Schooling in the US: Titus Galama, Andrei Munteanu and Kevin Thom
2024-002: Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk: Francesco Agostinelli, Domenico Ferraro, Xincheng Qiu and Giuseppe Sorrenti
2024-001: Teachers and the Evolution of Aggregate Inequality: Anson Zhou
2023-031: Dealing with Imperfect Randomization: Inference for the HighScope Perry Preschool Program: James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto and Azeem Shaikh
2023-030: Nature-Nurture Interplay: Evidence from Molecular Genetic and Pedigree Data in Korean American Adoptees: Jonathan Beauchamp, Lauren Schmitz, Matthew McGue and James Lee
2023-029: Econometric Causality: The Central Role of Thought Experiments: James Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto
2023-028: The Persistent Effect of Competition on Prosociality: Fabian Kosse, Ranjita Rajan and Michela Tincani
2023-027: Skills, Aspirations, and Occupations: Alexis Orellana and Kegon Tan
2023-026: Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects: Christian AlemÃ¡n, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig and RaÃ¼l SantaeulÃ lia-Llopis
2023-023: Mortality Regressivity and Pension Design: Youngsoo Jang, Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm
2023-022: GWAS 2.0: Correcting for Volunteer Bias in GWAS Uncovers Novel Genetic Variants and Increases Heritability Estimates: Sjoerd van Alten, Benjamin Domingue, Jessica Faul, Titus Galama and Andries Marees
2023-021: Should Representativeness be Avoided? Reweighting the UK Biobank Corrects for Pervasive Selection Bias due to Volunteering: Sjoerd van Alten, Benjamin Domingue, Jessica Faul, Titus Galama and Andries Marees
2023-020: Divorce and Property Division Laws Shape Human Capital Investment: Peter Blair and Elijah Neilson
2023-019: Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices: Aline BÃ¼tikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell Salvanes
2023-018: Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation: Pedro Carneiro, Kjell Salvanes, Barton Willage and Alexander WillÃ©n
2023-017: Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming: Philipp Ager, Marc GoÃ±i and Kjell Salvanes
2023-016: Remote Work and City Structure: Ferdinando Monte, Charly Porcher and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
2023-015: (Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health: Aline BÃ¼tikofer, Rita Ginja, Krzysztof Karbownik and Fanny Landaud
2023-014: Parents' Preferences, Parenting Styles and Children's Outcomes: Flavia Coda Moscarola, Daniela Del Boca and Giovanna Paladino
2023-013: Educational Mobility Across Three Generations in Latin American Countries: Pablo Celhay and Sebastian Gallegos
2023-012: For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior: An application to lockdown compliance in the United Kingdom: Gabriella Conti and Pamela Giustinelli
2023-011: The Effect of Parole Board Racial Composition on Prisoner Outcomes: Julia Godfrey, Kegon Tan and Mariyana Zapryanova
2023-010: How do Parole Boards Respond to Large, Societal Shocks? Evidence from the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: Brendon McConnell, Kegon Tan and Mariyana Zapryanova
2023-009: The Changing Value of Employment and Its Implications: Davide Alonzo and Giovanni Gallipoli
2023-008: Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China: Plamen Nikolov and Md Shahadath Hossain
2023-007: The Production of Financial Literacy: Giovanni Gallipoli and Sebastian Gomez-Cardona
2023-006: The Impact of the "Coding Girls" Program on High School Students' Educational Choices: Stefania Basiglio, Daniela Del Boca and Chiara Pronzato

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