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2026-012: Neonatal Health and Long-Term Outcomes: Twin-Based Evidence From Linked Scandinavian Registers

Evelina Björkegren, Aline Butikofer, Gabriella Conti, Marten Palme and Kjell Salvanes

2026-011: A Competitive World

Thomas Buser, Alexander Cappelen, Uri Gneezy and Bertil Tungodden

2026-010: Property Taxes and Housing Allocation Under Financial Constraints

Joshua Coven, Sebastian Golder, Arpit Gupta and Abdoulaye Ndiaye

2026-009: Disrupting Violence, Protecting Lives: Strangulation Laws and Intimate Partner Homicides

Dercio de Assis, Arpita Ghosh, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

2026-008: Climate Change in the Classroom

Stefano Carattini, Pamela Giustinelli and Marcella Veronesi

2026-007: Sources of Inequality at Birth: The Interplay Between Genes and Parental Socioeconomic Status

Pietro Biroli, Nicolau Martin-Bassols, Andries Marees, Hans van Kippersluis, Cornelius Rietveld, Pia Arce, Kevin Thom, Stephanie von Hinke, Jeremy Vollen and Titus Galama

2026-006: Supporting Mothers Back to Work: Experimental Evidence on Employment, Fertility, and Child Outcomes

Daniela Del Boca, Luca Favero and Chiara Pronzato

2026-005: Educational Mobility Across Multiple Generations in Indonesia

Sarah Cattan, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna, Jan Stuhler and Po Yin Wong

2026-004: Lasting Effects of Retaking College Admission Exams

Veronica Frisancho, Sebastian Gallegos and Constanza González

2026-003: Insurance Through Marriage: Case of Parental Health Shocks and Social Security Claiming

Neha Bairoliya, Ray Miller and Zhixiu Yu

2026-002: Getting In and Getting Through: Ex Ante Beliefs and Counterfactual Outcomes in Centralized College Admissions

Pamela Giustinelli and Edwin Leuven

2026-001: How to Police Intimate Partner Violence Against Women? New Lessons from Women’s Police Stations in Brazil

Júlia Sbroglio Rizzotto, Shoshana Grossbard and Marco Túlio A. França

2025-013: Strengthening Improving Parenting Skills through Community-Based Interventions: Evidence from the Crescere nel Villaggio Project

Daniela Del Boca, Luca Mo Costabella and Chiara Pronzato

2025-012: Redistribution, Distortions, and the Welfare Effects of Social Security

Youngsoo Jang, Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

2025-011: Gender Equality Through Marriage

Gloria Moroni, Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G Salvanes and Emma Tominey

2025-010: End-of-Life Liquidity

Neha Bairoliya, Giovanni Gallipoli and Kathleen McKiernan

2025-008: Saving Motives over the Life-Cycle

Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

2025-007: Opioids and Post-COVID Labor-Force Participation

Francesco Chiocchio, Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Karen Kopecky

2025-006: Family-Friendly Policies and Fertility: What Firms Have to Do With It?

Olympia Bover, Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Alessandro Ruggieri and Carlos Sanz

2025-005: Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation

Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Zhixiu Yu

2025-004: Nature, nurture, and socioeconomic outcomes: New evidence from sib pairs and molecular genetic data

Gareth Markel, Jonathan Beauchamp, Rafael Ahlskog, Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, René Mõttus, Sven Oskarsson, Uku Vainik and Eivind Ystrom

2025-003: Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia

Orazio Attanasio, Gabriella Conti, Pamela Jervis, Costas Meghir and Aysu Okbay

2025-002: The Menopause "Penalty"

Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, Petra Persson and Barton Willage

2025-001: Match Effects and the Gains from Alternative Job Assignments: Evidence from a Teacher Labor Market

Mariana Laverde, Elton Mykerezi, Aaron Sojourner and Aradhya Sood

2024-025: The Equilibrium Effects of State-Mandated Minimum Staff-to-Child Ratios

Martín García-Vázquez

2024-024: The Causal Impact of Gender Norms on Mothers’ Employment Attitudes and Expectations

Henning Hermes, Marina Krauß, 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 Krauß, 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, Sören 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 Children’s Skill Formation

Miriam Gensowski, Rasmus Landersø, Philip Dale, Anders Højen, 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 Children’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