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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

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

2017-049: 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