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2021-028: Price Discrimination and Public Policy in the U.S. College Market: Ian Fillmore
2021-027: Does Peer Motivation Impact Educational Investments? Evidence From DACA: Briana Ballis
2021-026: Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood: Atticus Bolyard and Peter Savelyev
2021-025: Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice: Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman
2021-024: One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China: Jun Han and Zhong Zhao
2021-023: Identification and Estimation of Non-stationary Hidden Markov Models: Martin Garcia-Vazquez
2021-022: Algorithm is Experiment: Machine Learning, Market Design, and Policy Eligibility Rules: Yusuke Narita and Kohei Yata
2021-021: Malleability of Preferences for Honesty: Johannes Abeler, Armin Falk and Fabian Kosse
2021-020: Choice Architecture and Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Intentions and Test Demand: Marta Serra-Garcia and Nora Szech
2021-019: You are What Your Parents Expect: Height and Local Reference Points: Fan Wang, Esteban Puentes, Jere Behrman and Flavio Cunha
2021-018: Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Skill Formation Predict Investments in Children One Year Later: Flavio Cunha, Irma Elo and Jennifer Culhane
2021-017: Collateralized Marriage: Jeanne Lafortune and Corinne Low
2021-015: First-in-Their-Family Students at University: Can Non-Cognitive Skills Compensate for Social Origin?: Rebecca Edwards, Rachael Gibson, Colm Harmon and Stefanie Schurer
2021-014: Misdemeanor Prosecution: Amanda Agan, Jennifer Doleac and Anna Harvey
2021-013: From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions: Titan Alon, Sena Coskun, Matthias Doepke, David Koll and Michele Tertilt
2021-012: Enhancing Human Capital in Children: A Case Study on Scaling: Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitable and Matteo Bobba
2021-011: A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem: David de la Croix and Matthias Doepke
2021-010: Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children's Non-cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China: Xiang Ao, Xuan Chen and Zhong Zhao
2021-009: Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies: Itai Sher
2021-008: The Making and Unmaking of Opportunity: Educational Mobility in 20th Century-Denmark: Kristian Karlson and Rasmus LandersÃ¸
2021-007: The Effects of Negative Equity on Children's Educational Outcomes: Vicki Been, Ingrid Ellen, David Figlio, Ashlyn Aiko Nelson, Stephen L. Ross, Amy Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel
2021-006: Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility: James Heckman and Rasmus LandersÃ¸
2021-005: Natural Disasters and Early Human Development: Hurricane Catarina and Infant Health in Brazil: Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Ines Lee and Climent Quintana-Domeque
2021-004: Do High Aspirations Lead to Better Outcomes? Evidence from a Longitudinal Survey of Adolescents in Peru: Carol Graham and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo
2021-003: Severity of Illness and the Duration of Intensive Care: Anand Acharya, Lynda Khalaf, Marcel Voia, Myra Yazbeck and David Wensley
2021-002: Initial Industry and Long-Term Earnings Growth: Stephen L. Ross and Patralekha Ukil
2021-001: Mimetic Dominance and the Economics of Exclusion: Private Goods in Public Context: Alex Imas and KristÃ³f MadarÃ¡sz
20205-009: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Partially Identified Problems: Amos Golan and Jeffrey Perloff
2020-085: A Theory of Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of School Quality: Yusuke Narita
2020-084: When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times: Francesco Agostinelli, Matthias Doepke, Giuseppe Sorrenti and Fabrizio Zilibotti
2020-083: Welfare, Workfare and Labor Supply: A Unified Evaluation: Francesco Agostinelli, Emilio Borghesan and Giuseppe Sorrenti
2020-082: Firm Heterogeneity in Skill Returns: Michael J. BÃ¶hm, Khalil Esmkhani and Giovanni Gallipoli
2020-081: How Parents' Skills Affect Their Time Use with Children: Evidence from an RCT Experiment in Italy: Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Pronzato and Lucia Schiavon
2020-080: Analyzing Matching Patterns in Marriage: Theory and Application to Italian Data: Pierre-AndrÃ© Chiappori, Edoardo Ciscato and Carla Guerriero
2020-079: Documenting Loss Aversion Using Evidence of Round Number Bias: Stephen L. Ross and Tingyu Zhou
2020-078: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Policies Against a Pandemic: Christian AlemÃ¡n, Christopher Busch, Alexander Ludwig and RaÃ¼l SantaeulÃ lia-Llopis
2020-077: The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?: Jacob Bastian
2020-076: Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments: Elizabeth Caucutt, Lance Lochner, Joseph Mullins and Youngmin Park
2020-075: Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill: Lance Lochner and Youngmin Park
2020-074: School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health: Aline BÃ¼tikofer, Rita Ginja, Fanny Landaud and Katrine LÃ¸ken
2020-073: Offshoring and Segregation by Skill: Theory and Evidence: Gueyon Kim and Dohyeon Lee
2020-072: On Absolute Socioeconomic Health Inequality Comparisons: Mohamad Khaled, Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck
2020-071: Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior: Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States: Plamen Nikolov, Andreas Pape, Ozlem Tonguc and Charlotte Williams
2020-070: The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education: Laura Ehrmantraut, Pia Pinger and Renske Stans
2020-069: Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers: Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu and Stephen L. Ross
2020-068: The Education Gradient in Maternal Enjoyment of Time in Childcare: Ariel Kalil, Susan Mayer, William Delgado and Lisa A. Gennetian
2020-067: Coping with COVID-19: Implications of Differences in Resilience across Racial Groups for Mental Health and Well-being: Carol Graham, Barton H. Hamilton, Yung Chun, Stephen Roll, Will Ross, Karen E. Joynt-Maddox and Michal Grinstein-Weiss
2020-066: The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills: Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence: Orazio Attanasio, Aureo de Paula and Alessandro Toppeta
2020-065: The Black-White Recognition Gap in Award Nominations: Nayoung Rim, Roman Rivera, Andrea Kiss and Bocar Ba

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