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2016-001: Revisiting the Relationship Between Unemployment and Wages

Joao Alfredo Galindo da Fonseca, Giovanni Gallipoli and Yaniv Yedid-Levi

2015-019: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Educational Investments: The Later the Better?

Teodora Boneva and Christopher Rauh

2015-018: Socioeconomic Status and Learning from Financial Information

Camelia Kuhnen and Andrei Mui

2015-017: Early Childhood Education

Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia, James Heckman and Andres Hojman

2015-016: Early intervention and child physical health: Evidence from a Dublin-based randomized controlled trial

Orla Doyle, Nick Fitzpatrick, Judy Lovett and Caroline Rawdon

2015-015: Can Early Intervention Improve Maternal Well-being? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Orla Doyle, Liam Delaney, Christine O'Farrelly, Nick Fitzpatrick and Michael Daly

2015-014: How Risky Is College Investment?

Lutz Hendricks and Oksana Leukhina

2015-013: The Return to College: Selection and Dropout Risk

Lutz Hendricks and Oksana Leukhina

2015-012: Endogenous Social Networks and Inequality in an Intergenerational Setting

Yannis Ioannides

2015-011: The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Gabriella Conti, James Heckman and Rodrigo Pinto

2015-010: Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn and Mark Wright

2015-009: Ever Failed, Try Again, Succeed Better: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Grit

Sule Alan, Teodora Boneva and Seda Ertac

2015-008: A Contribution to Health-Capital Theory

Titus Galama

2015-007: A Theory of Education and Health

Titus Galama and Hans van Kippersluis

2015-006: Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

2015-005: Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?

Elizabeth Caucutt, Lance Lochner and Youngmin Park

2015-004: Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Top Executives

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and María José Prados

2015-003: Good Things Come to Those Who (Are Taught How to) Wait: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention on Time Preference

Sule Alan and Seda Ertac

2015-002: Gender Roles and Medical Progress

Stefania Albanesi and Claudia Olivetti

2015-001: College Diversity and Investment Incentives

Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

2014-024: Human Capital Accumulation in a Federation

Daniele Coen-Pirani

2014-023: Race, Ethnicity and High Cost Mortgage Lending

Patrick Bayer, Francisco Ferreira and Stephen Ross

2014-022: Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Junjian Yi, James Heckman, Junsen Zhang and Gabriella Conti

2014-021: Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective

Alejandro Badel and Mark Huggett

2014-020: Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain

Climent Quintana-Domeque and Pedro Rodenas-Serrano

2014-019: Race-Specific Agglomeration Economies: Social Distance and the Black-White Wage Gap

Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu and Stephen Ross

2014-018: Change and Persistence in the Economic Status of Neighborhoods and Cities

Stuart Rosenthal and Stephen Ross

2014-017: The Housing and Educational Consequences of the School Choice Provisions of NCLB: Evidence from Charlotte, NC

Stephen Billings, Eric Brunner and Stephen Ross

2014-016: The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition

Jason Fletcher, Stephen Ross and Yuxiu Zhang

2014-015: The Costs of Occupational Mobility: An Aggregate Analysis

Guido Matias Cortes and Giovanni Gallipoli

2014-014: Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis

Gabriella Conti, Sylvia Fruehwirth-Schnatter, James Heckman and Rémi Piatek

2014-013: Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

2014-012: School Vouchers and the Joint Sorting of Students and Teachers

Michela Tincani

2014-011: Colonial Legacy, Linguistic Disenfranchisement and the Civil Conflict in Sri Lanka

Paul Castañeda Dower, Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber

2014-010: Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja

2014-008: Early-Life Environment and Adult Stature in Brazil during the Period 1950 to 1980

Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Climent Quintana-Domeque

2014-007: Education, Health and Wages

James Heckman, John Humphries, Gregory Veramendi and Sergio Urzua

2014-006: The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust

Patrick Bayer, Fernando Ferreira and Stephen Ross

2014-005: Do High School Peers Have Persistent Effects on College Attainment and Other Life Outcomes?

Robert Bifulco, Jason Fletcher, Sun Jung Oh and Stephen Ross

2014-004: The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

James Heckman and Stefano Mosso

2014-003: Default and Repayment among Baccalaureate Degree Earners

Lance Lochner and Alexander Monge-Naranjo

2014-002: Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

2014-001: Local Transmission of Trade Shocks

Ferdinando Monte

2013-020: The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment

Lance Lochner, Todd Stinebrickner and Utku Suleymanoglu

2013-019: Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition

James Heckman and Tim Kautz

2013-018: Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Maria Zumbuhl, Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann

2013-017: Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Shelly Lundberg

2013-016: Maternity Leave and the Responsiveness of Female Labor Supply to a Household Shock

Emma Tominey

2013-015: England's Eighteenth Century Demand for High-Quality Workmanship: Evidence from Apprenticeship, 1710-1770

Karine van der Beek

2013-014: Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London

Karine van der Beek and Moshe Justman