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2017-037: Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education

Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, Sinan Sarpça, Holger Sieg and Melanie Zaber

2017-036: Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition

David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur and Hitoshi Shigeoka

2017-035: Human Capital and Shocks: Evidence on Education, Health, and Nutrition

Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas

2017-034: Using Kinked Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test

Damon Jones, Alexander Gelber, Daniel W. Sacks and Jae Song

2017-033: Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents: Evidence from Sweden

Anders Björklund, Lina Aldén and Mats Hammarstedt

2017-032: Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and Its Effect on Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares and Daniel I. Rees

2017-031: Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

Malte Sandner, Thomas Cornelissen, Tanja Jungmann and Peggy Herrmann

2017-030: Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg

2017-029: Personality Traits, Intra-household Allocation and the Gender Wage Gap

Christopher Flinn, Petra Todd and Weilong Zhang

2017-028: Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents

Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang and Songfa Zhong

2017-027: Zika Virus Prevalence, Correlates, and Preventive Behaviors: New Evidence from Survey Data

Climent Quintana-Domeque, José Raimundo Carvalho and Victor Hugo de Oliveira

2017-026: Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children

Anjanette M. Chan Tack and Mario Small

2017-025: A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing

Jannis Engel and Nora Szech

2017-024: Toothless reforms? The remarkable stability of female labor force participation in a top-reforming country

Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan and Maka Chitanava

2017-023: Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?

Bart Golsteyn and Cécile A. J. Magnée

2017-022: College Admission and High School Integration

Fernanda Estevan, Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

2017-021: Origins of adulthood personality: The role of adverse childhood experiences

Jason Fletcher and Stefanie Schurer

2017-020: Growth Policy, Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition

Wyatt Brooks, Joseph Kaboski and Yao Li

2017-019: Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

2017-018: On the Value of Birth Weight

Damian Clarke, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

2017-017: Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling in Police Traffic Stops

Jesse Kalinowski, Stephen Ross and Matthew Ross

2017-016: Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Shelly Lundberg, Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns

2017-015: Sorting in public school districts under the Boston Mechanism

Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora and Antonio Miralles

2017-014: Classroom Peer Effects and Teachers: Evidence from Quasi-random Assignment in a Chinese Middle School

Leshui He and Stephen Ross

2017-013: Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence

Nicholas Papageorge, Gwyn C. Pauley, Mardge Cohen, Tracey E. Wilson, Barton Hamilton and Robert Pollak

2017-012: How Credit Constraints Impact Job Finding Rates, Sorting & Aggregate Output

Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips and Ethan Cohen-Cole

2017-011: The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings, and Entrepreneurship

Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips and Ethan Cohen-Cole

2017-010: The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12

Kate Ho, Ariel Pakes and Mark Shepard

2017-009: Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty

Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb and Mara Lederman

2017-008: Human Capital Acquisition and Occupational Choice: Implications for Economic Development

Martí Mestieri, Johanna Schauer and Robert Townsend

2017-007: The Cobb Douglas marriage matching function: Marriage matching with peer and scale effects

Ismael Mourifié and Aloysius Siow

2017-006: Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns: Theory and Evidence

Michela Tincani

2017-005: Early childcare, child cognitive outcomes and inequalities in the UK

Daniela Del Boca, Daniela Piazzalunga and Chiara Pronzato

2017-004: Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?

Anne Ardila Brenøe and Shelly Lundberg

2017-003: Cutthroat capitalism versus cuddly socialism: Are Americans more meritocratic and efficiency-seeking than Scandinavians?

Ingvild Almås, Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

2017-002: The Effect of Early Education on Social Preferences

Alexander Cappelen, John List, Anya Samek and Bertil Tungodden

2017-001: Child-Related Transfers, Household Labor Supply and Welfare

Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura

2016-037: Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva and Edoardo Teso

2016-036: Early childhood environment, breastfeeding and the formation of preferences

Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse

2016-035: Quantifying the Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

Jorge Luis Garcia, James Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf and María José Prados

2016-034: Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment

Nicola Barban, Elisabetta De Cao, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

2016-033: Measuring Social Interaction Effects when Instruments are Weak

Stephen Ross and Zhentao Shi

2016-032: The Demand for Season of Birth

Damian Clarke, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

2016-031: Optimal Taxation and R&D Policies

Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and Stefanie Stantcheva

2016-030: Can Cash Transfers Help Households Escape an Inter-Generational Poverty Trap?

M. Caridad Araujo, Mariano Bosch and Norbert Schady

2016-029: Parental Beliefs and Investment in Children: The Distortionary Impact of Schools

Josh Kinsler and Ronni Pavan

2016-028: The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice

Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias and Costas Meghir

2016-027: Partner Choice, Investment in Children, and the Marital College Premium

Pierre-André Chiappori, Bernard Salanié and Yoram Weiss

2016-026: Guilt in Voting and Public Good Games

Dominik Rothenhaüsler, Nikolaus Schweizer and Nora Szech

2016-025: On the interpretation of non-cognitive skills – what is being measured and why it matters

John Humphries and Fabian Kosse