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2018-023: Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn

2018-022: Race and the City

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Stephen Ross

2018-021: Maternal Depression, Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Pietro Biroli and Joanna Maselko

2018-020: Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance: A cross-country analysis

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini and Sarah Grace See

2018-019: On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting

Pierre Nguimkeu, Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis

2018-018: Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis

2018-017: Money vs. Time: Family Income, Maternal Labor Supply, and Child Development

Francesco Agostinelli and Giuseppe Sorrenti

2018-016: Income Volatility and the PSID: Past Research and New Results

Robert Moffitt and Sisi Zhang

2018-015: The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Aaron Sojourner and José Pacas

2018-014: Effects of expanding health screening on treatment – What should we expect? What can we learn?

Rebecca Myerson, Darius Lakdawalla, Lisandro D. Colantonio, Monika Safford and David Meltzer

2018-013: Recovering Social Networks from Panel Data: Identification, Simulations and an Application

Aureo de Paula, Imran Rasul and Pedro Souza

2018-012: Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net

Hamish Low, Costas Meghir, Luigi Pistaferri and Alessandra Voena

2018-011: Job market outcomes of IDPs: the case of Georgia

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti and Maksym Obrizan

2018-010: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies

Diego Daruich

2018-009: Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US

Timothy Halliday, Bhashkar Mazumder and Ashley Wong

2018-008: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments

Pietro Biroli, Teodora Boneva, Akash Raja and Christopher Rauh

2018-007: Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration

David Jaeger, Joakim Ruist and Jan Stuhler

2018-006: Sectoral Labor Reallocation and Return Predictability

Esther Eiling, Raymond Kan and Ali Sharifkhani

2018-005: Of Cities and Slums

Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Pedro Ferreira and Luciene Torres de Mello Pereira

2018-004: How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium

Robert Pollak

2018-003: Where Are Migrants From? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China

Yaqin Su, Petros Tesfazion and Zhong Zhao

2018-002: The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration

David Lagakos, Ahmed Mobarak and Michael Waugh

2018-001: Women's Empowerment, the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility, and Fertility Outcomes in Developing Countries

Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt

2017-091: Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China

Amalavoyal Chari, Elaine Liu, Shing-Yi Wang and Yongxiang Wang

2017-090: Wealthier, Happier and More Self-Sufficient: When Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Economic and Subjective Wellbeing at a Reduced Cost to Taxpayers

Titus Galama, Robson Morgan and Juan E. Saavedra

2017-089: New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan, Jeffrey Grogger, Ana Sofia Leon and Stephen Trejo

2017-088: Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences

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

2017-087: Physical Distance and Cooperativeness Towards Strangers

Leonie Kühl and Nora Szech

2017-086: Socioemotional Skills, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes of High-Ability Individuals

Peter Savelyev and Kegon Tan

2017-085: Parental Investments in Early Life and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Swedish Parental Leave Rules

Rita Ginja, Jenny Jans and Arizo Karimi

2017-084: Price-Linked Subsidies and Health Insurance Markups

Sonia Jaffe and Mark Shepard

2017-083: Does Parents' Access to Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

Martha Bailey, Olga Malkova and Zoë McLaren

2017-082: Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II

Douglas Almond, Janet Currie and Valentina Duque

2017-081: Gender Representation in Economics Across Topics and Time: Evidence from the NBER Summer Institute

Anusha Chari and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

2017-080: Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns

Teodora Boneva and Christopher Rauh

2017-079: The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health

Mariacristina De Nardi, Svetlana Pashchenko and Ponpoje Porapakkarm

2017-078: The White Working Class and Voter Turnout in US Presidential Elections, 2004-2016

Stephen Morgan and Jiwon Lee

2017-077: Cohort Effects in Children's Delay-of-Gratification

Stephanie Carlson, Yuichi Shoda, Ozlem Ayduk, Lawrence Aber, Catherine Schaefer, Anita Sethi, Nicole Wilson, Philip Peake and Walter Mischel

2017-076: Match Quality, Contractual Sorting and Wage Cyclicality

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

2017-075: Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income: Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Bruce Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

2017-074: Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Fertility and Maternal Employment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Malte Sandner

2017-073: Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities

Ferdinando Monte, Stephen Redding and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2017-072: The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability

James Heckman, John Humphries and Gregory Veramendi

2017-071: Outside Options (Now) More Important than Race in Explaining Tipping Points in US Neighborhoods

Peter Blair

2017-070: Firms' Choices of Wage-Setting Protocols in the Presence of Minimum Wages

Christopher Flinn, James Mabli and Joseph Mullins

2017-069: An Invitation to Market Design

Scott Kominers, Alexander Teytelboym and Vincent Crawford

2017-068: The Better is the Enemy of the Good

Christine L. Exley and Judd Kessler

2017-067: Equilibrium Provider Networks: Bargaining and Exclusion in Health Care Markets

Kate Ho and Robin Lee

2017-066: Credit Growth and the Financial Crisis: A New Narrative

Stefania Albanesi, Giacomo DeGiorgi and Jaromir Nosal

2017-065: Animal Welfare and Human Ethics: A Personality Study

Konstanze Albrecht, Florentin Krämer and Nora Szech