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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

2016-024: Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership

Sule Alan, Seda Ertac, Elif Kubilay and Gyongyi Loranth

2016-023: Search, Matching and Training

Christopher Flinn, Ahu Gemici and Steven Laufer

2016-022: What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure

Lex Borghans, Bart Golsteyn, James Heckman and John Humphries

2016-021: Family Economics Writ Large

Jeremy Greenwood, Nezih Guner and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

2016-020: Grading On A Curve: When Having Good Peers Is Not Good

Caterina Calsamiglia and Annalisa Loviglio

2016-019: Measuring Effects of SNAP on Obesity at the Intensive Margin

Rusty Tchernis and Lorenzo N. Almada

2016-018: Capabilities and Skills

Chase O. Corbin and James Heckman

2016-017: The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S

Rasmus Landersø and James Heckman

2016-016: Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing

Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

2016-015: Unfair Pay and Health

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde and Johannes Siegrist

2016-014: Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking

James Heckman, John Humphries and Gregory Veramendi

2016-013: Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes

Armin Falk and Nora Szech

2016-012: Patience and the Wealth of Nations

Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2016-011: The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Fabian Kosse, Thomas Deckers, Hannah Schildberg-Horisch and Armin Falk

2016-010: Families in Macroeconomics

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

2016-009: Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann

2016-008: Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr

2016-007: Religion and Depression in Adolescence

Jane Fruehwirth, Sriya Iyer and Anwen Zhang

2016-006: Partners in Crime: Schools, Neighborhoods and the Formation of Criminal Networks

Stephen Billings, David Deming and Stephen Ross

2016-005: What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Stephen Ross

2016-004: The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2016-003: The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde

2016-002: How Does Socio-Economic Status Shape a Child's Personality?

Thomas Deckers, Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse and Hannah Hannah Schildberg-Horisch