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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

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 Alemán, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig and Raül Santaeulà 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 Bütikofer, Antonio Dalla-Zuanna and Kjell Salvanes

2023-018: Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation

Pedro Carneiro, Kjell Salvanes, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén

2023-017: Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming

Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi 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 Bütikofer, 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

2023-005: Non-Marital Childbearing and Marital Property Laws: An Application of the WIHO Model

Shoshana Grossbard

2023-004: Does Co-Residence with Parents-In-Law Reduce Women’s Employment in India?

Rajshri Jayaraman and Bisma Khan

2023-003: The Fertility Response to Cutting Child-Related Welfare Benefits

Malte Sandner and Frederik Wiynck

2023-002: The Effects of Sun Intensity During Pregnancy and in the First 12 Months of Life on Childhood Obesity

Christian Dustmann, Malte Sandner and Uta Schönberg

2023-001: Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall?

Peter Blair and Benjamin Posmanick

2022-045: Parental Beliefs, Perceived Health Risks, and Time Investment in Children: Evidence from COVID-19

Gabriella Conti, Michele Giannola and Alessandro Toppeta

2022-044: The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap

Dionissi Aliprantis, Daniel Carroll and Eric Young

2022-043: What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?

Dionissi Aliprantis, Kristen Tauber and Hal Martin

2022-042: Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labor Supply

Alexandros Theloudis, Jorge Velilla, Pierre-André Chiappori, J. Ignacio Gimenéz-Nadal and José Alberto Molina