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2018-073: Early Stimulation and Nutrition: The Impacts of a Scalable Intervention

Orazio Attanasio, Helen Baker-Henningham, Raquel Bernal, Costas Meghir, Diana Pineda and Marta Rubio-Codina

2018-072: The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses

Janice Compton and Robert Pollak

2018-071: Inequality in socioemotional skills: a cross-cohort comparison

Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti and Giacomo Mason

2018-070: Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five

James Heckman and Sidharth Moktan

2018-069: Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Alexander Bick, Bettina Brüggemann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz

2018-068: Labor Market Search With Imperfect Information and Learning

John J. Conlon, Laura Pilossoph, Matthew Wiswall and Basit Zafar

2018-067: Inheritance Taxation and Wealth Effects on the Labor Supply of Heirs

Fabian Kindermann, Lukas Mayr and Dominik Sachs

2018-066: Can reputation discipline the gig economy? Experimental evidence from an online labor market

Alan Benson, Aaron Sojourner and Akhmed Umyarov

2018-065: Cross-Fertilizing Gains or Crowding Out? Schooling Intensity and Noncognitive Skills

Sarah C. Dahmann and Silke Anger

2018-064: Social Norms and Fertility

Sunha Myong, JungJae Park and Junjian Yi

2018-063: Employer Credit Checks: Poverty Traps versus Matching Efficiency

P. Dean Corbae and Andy Glover

2018-062: Job Tasks and the Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates

Todd Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner and Paul Sullivan

2018-061: Does Happiness Pay Revisited – New Evidence from the U.S.A

Carol Graham and Diana Liu

2018-060: The Consequences of Academic Match between Students and Colleges

Eleanor Dillon and Jeffrey Smith

2018-059: Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias

Gopi Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner and Joshua Tasoff

2018-058: Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers

Randall Akee, Liqiu Zhao and Zhong Zhao

2018-057: The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?

Michał Burzyński, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport

2018-056: Willingness to take risk: The role of risk conception and optimism

Thomas Dohmen, Simone Quercia and Jana Willrodt

2018-055: The Long-run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén

2018-054: Parental Support, Savings and Student Loan Repayment

Lance Lochner, Todd Stinebrickner and Utku Suleymanoglu

2018-053: Marriage Strategy Among the European Nobility

Stefania Marcassa, Jerome Pouyet and Thomas Trégouët

2018-052: Evidence and Actions on Mortgage Market Disparities: Research, Fair Lending Enforcement and Consumer Protection

Marsha J. Courchane and Stephen Ross

2018-051: The Effects of Universal Public Childcare Provision on Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse

Malte Sandner and Stephan Thomsen

2018-050: The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach

Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja and Renata Narita

2018-049: Narratives, Imperatives and Moral Reasoning

Roland Bènabou, Armin Falk and Jean Tirole

2018-048: Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign

Aline Bütikofer and Kjell G Salvanes

2018-047: Infant Health Care and Long-Term Outcomes

Aline Bütikofer, Katrine V. Løken and Kjell G Salvanes

2018-046: Marriage, Divorce and Wage Uncertainty along the Life-cycle

Edoardo Ciscato

2018-045: Estimating the Intergenerational Elasticity of Expected Income with Short-Run Income Measures: A Generalized Error-in-Variables Model

Pablo Mitnik

2018-044: Intergenerational Income Elasticities, Instrumental Variable Estimation, and Bracketing Strategies

Pablo Mitnik

2018-043: The Intergenerational Elasticity of What? The Case for Redefining the Workhorse Measure of Economic Mobility

Pablo Mitnik and David Grusky

2018-042: Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Leonardo Bursztyn, Alessandra L. González and David Yanagizawa-Drott

2018-041: The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence From a College Expansion Reform

Pedro Carneiro, Kai Liu and Kjell G Salvanes

2018-040: Are estimates of intergenerational mobility biased by non-response? Evidence from the Netherlands

Bart Golsteyn and Stefa Hirsch

2018-039: Maternal education, parental investment and non-cognitive characteristics in rural China

Jessica Leight and Elaine Liu

2018-038: Does Hope Lead to Better Futures? Evidence from a Survey of the Life Choices of Young Adults in Peru

Carol Graham and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo

2018-037: Redistribution through Markets

Piotr Dworczak, Scott Kominers and Mohammad Akbarpour

2018-036: Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock

Jason Fletcher

2018-035: Survey item-response behavior as an imperfect proxy for unobserved ability: Theory and application

Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and Stefanie Schurer

2018-034: Exploring the role of fathers in non-cognitive skill development over the lifecourse

Rosemary Elkins and Stefanie Schurer

2018-033: Understanding the mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect lifetime economic outcomes

Stefanie Schurer and Kristian Trajkovski

2018-032: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children

Orazio Attanasio, Teodora Boneva and Christopher Rauh

2018-031: Fairness in Winner-Take-All Markets

Björn Bartling, Alexander Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden

2018-030: Investing in People: The Case for Human Capital Tax Credits

Rui Costa, Nikhil Datta, Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally

2018-029: Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

2018-028: The Transformation of Manufacturing and the Decline in U.S. Employment

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Mariel Schwartz

2018-027: Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Charles Bellemare, Marion Goussé, Guy Lacroix and Steeve Marchand

2018-026: Longer, More Optimistic, Lives: Historic Optimism and Life Expectancy in the United States

Kelsey O'Connor and Carol Graham

2018-025: The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

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

2018-024: Emigration, remittances and the subjective well-being of those staying behind

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova and Carol Graham