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2017-064: Higher Career Cost Can Actually Explain Why More Women Than Men Go to College

Hanzhe Zhang

2017-063: Gender Stereotypes in the Classroom and Effects on Achievement

Sule Alan, Seda Ertac and Ipek Mumcu

2017-062: The Geography of Consumption

Sumit Agarwal, J. Jensen and Ferdinando Monte

2017-061: Top Earners: Cross-Country Facts

Alejandro Badel, Moira Daly, Mark Huggett and Martin Nybom

2017-060: Risky Business? The Effect of Majoring in Business on Earnings and Educational Attainment

Rodney J. Andrews, Scott Imberman and Michael Lovenheim

2017-059: Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nick Turner and Danny Yagan

2017-058: Adults Behaving Badly: The Effects of Own and Peer Parents' Incarceration on Adolescent Criminal Activities

Jason Fletcher

2017-057: Status Inequality, Moral Disengagement and Violence

Armin Falk

2017-056: Vocational Training Programs and Youth Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Nepal

Shubha Chakravarty, Mattias Lundberg, Plamen Nikolov and Juliane Zenker

2017-055: Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments

Lucia Corno, Nicole Hildebrandt and Alessandra Voena

2017-054: The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting

Orla Doyle

2017-053: Belief in Hard Work and Altruism: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Sule Alan and Seda Ertac

2017-052: Polls, the Press, and Political Participation: The Effects of Anticipated Election Closeness on Voter Turnout

Leonardo Bursztyn, Davide Cantoni, Patricia Funk and Noam Yuchtman

2017-051: You've Got Mail: A Randomised Field Experiment on Tax Evasion

Kristina M. Bott, Alexander Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden

2017-50: Job Market Signaling through Occupational Licensing

Peter Blair and Bobby Chung

2017-049: Marriage and Housework

Cristina Borra, Martin Browning and Almudena Sevilla

2017-048: Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-image

Armin Falk

2017-047: The Merit Primacy Effect

Alexander Cappelen, Karl Ove Moene, Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred and Bertil Tungodden

2017-046: Father Absence and the Educational Gender Gap

Shelly Lundberg

2017-045: The Welfare Implications of Health Insurance

Sonia Jaffe and Anup Malani

2017-044: The Impact of Obesity on Adult Mortality: Assessment of Estimates with Applications

Alberto Palloni and Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez

2017-043: Divided Landscapes of Economic Opportunity: The Canadian Geography of Intergenerational Income Mobility

Miles Corak

2017-042: Social Interactions, Mechanisms, and Equilibrium: Evidence From a Model of Study Time and Academic Achievement

Timothy Conley, Nirav Mehta, Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner

2017-041: Parental Work Hours and Childhood Obesity: Evidence Using Instrumental Variables Related to Sibling School Eligibility

Charles Courtemanche, Rusty Tchernis and Xilin Zhou

2017-040: Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family

Elizabeth Caucutt and Lance Lochner

2017-039: On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions

Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier

2017-038: Interactions between Financial Incentives and Health in the Early Retirement Decision

Pilar García-Goméz, Titus Galama, Eddy Van Doorslaer and à ngel López-Nicholás

2017-037: Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education

Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, Sinan Sarpça, Holger Sieg and Melanie Zaber

2017-036: Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition

David Jacks, Krishna Pendakur and Hitoshi Shigeoka

2017-035: Human Capital and Shocks: Evidence on Education, Health, and Nutrition

Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas

2017-034: Using Kinked Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test

Damon Jones, Alexander Gelber, Daniel W. Sacks and Jae Song

2017-033: Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents: Evidence from Sweden

Anders Björklund, Lina Aldén and Mats Hammarstedt

2017-032: Was the First Public Health Campaign Successful? The Tuberculosis Movement and Its Effect on Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Charles, Claudio Las Heras Olivares and Daniel I. Rees

2017-031: Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

Malte Sandner, Thomas Cornelissen, Tanja Jungmann and Peggy Herrmann

2017-030: Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education

Bart Golsteyn and Anders Stenberg

2017-029: Personality Traits, Intra-household Allocation and the Gender Wage Gap

Christopher Flinn, Petra Todd and Weilong Zhang

2017-028: Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents

Soo Hong Chew, Junjian Yi, Junsen Zhang and Songfa Zhong

2017-027: Zika Virus Prevalence, Correlates, and Preventive Behaviors: New Evidence from Survey Data

Climent Quintana-Domeque, José Raimundo Carvalho and Victor Hugo de Oliveira

2017-026: Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children

Anjanette M. Chan Tack and Mario Small

2017-025: A Little Good is Good Enough: Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing

Jannis Engel and Nora Szech

2017-024: Toothless reforms? The remarkable stability of female labor force participation in a top-reforming country

Norberto Pignatti, Karine Torosyan and Maka Chitanava

2017-023: Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?

Bart Golsteyn and Cécile A. J. Magnée

2017-022: College Admission and High School Integration

Fernanda Estevan, Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew Newman

2017-021: Origins of adulthood personality: The role of adverse childhood experiences

Jason Fletcher and Stefanie Schurer

2017-020: Growth Policy, Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition

Wyatt Brooks, Joseph Kaboski and Yao Li

2017-019: Facing Yourself: A Note on Self-Image

Armin Falk

2017-018: On the Value of Birth Weight

Damian Clarke, Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

2017-017: Endogenous Driving Behavior in Tests of Racial Profiling in Police Traffic Stops

Jesse Kalinowski, Stephen Ross and Matthew Ross

2017-016: Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

Shelly Lundberg, Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns

2017-015: Sorting in public school districts under the Boston Mechanism

Caterina Calsamiglia, Francisco Martínez-Mora and Antonio Miralles