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16105: A Tale of Two Bankruptcies: Geographic Differences in Bankruptcy Chapter Choice

Nathaniel Pattison and Daniel Millimet

16104: Imperfect Signals

Georg Graetz

16103: Intergenerational Scars: The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life

Michele Ubaldi and Matteo Picchio

16102: Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior – A Randomized Educational Intervention

Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller, Manuel Froitzheim and Sebastian Schneider

16101: Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente

16100: Disability and Labor Market Performance

Matthias Collischon, Karolin Hiesinger and Laura Pohlan

16099: Rich Grad, Poor Grad: Family Background and College Major Choice

Margaret Leighton and Jamin D. Speer

16098: Longer Careers: A Barrier to Hiring and Coworker Advancement?

Irene Ferrari, Jan Kabátek and Todd Morris

16097: Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Leslie Stratton

16096: Gender Equity in Labor Market Opportunities and Aggregate Technical Efficiency: A Case of Equity Promoting Efficiency

Gautam Hazarika, Maroula Khraiche and Levent Kutlu

16095: Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain: A Tale of Two Recessions

Antonia Díaz, Juan Dolado, Álvaro Jáñez and Felix Wellschmied

16094: The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change: Evidence from China

Bilge Erten, Jessica Leight and Lianming Zhu

16093: Early Childhood Conditions and Adolescent Mental Health

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Rodrigo Pinto, Huihua Xie and Lianming Zhu

16092: Does Extreme Temperature Exposure Take a Toll on Mental Health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Yanran Chen, Ruochen Sun, Xi Chen and Xuezheng Qin

16091: Access to Language Training and the Local Integration of Refugees

Mette Foged and Cynthia van der Werf

16090: Time-Use and Subjective Well-Being: Is Diversity Really the Spice of Life?

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler and Claudia Senik

16089: Non-college Occupations, Workplace Routinization, and the Gender Gap in College Enrollment

Amanda Chuan and Weilong Zhang

16088: Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program

Maximilian Kasy and Lukas Lehner

16087: Make Your Own Luck: The Wage Gains from Starting College in a Bad Economy

Alena Bičáková, Guido Matias Cortes and Jacopo Mazza

16086: Parental and Student Time Use around the Academic Year

Benjamin Cowan, Todd Jones and Jeffrey Swigert

16085: The Determinants of Refugees' Destinations: Where Do Refugees Locate within the EU?

Valentina Di Iasio and Jackline Wahba

16084: Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Anthony Lepinteur, Liyousew Borga, Andrew Clark, Claus Vögele and Conchita D'Ambrosio

16083: Employers' Demand for Personality Traits

Vera Brenčič and Andrew McGee

16082: Discrimination on the Child Care Market: A Nationwide Field Experiment

Henning Hermes, Fabian Mierisch, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold and Philipp Lergetporer

16081: The Labor Market Returns to Very Short Postsecondary Certificates

Rajeev Darolia, Chuanyi Guo and Youngran Kim

16080: Impact of Graduating with Honors on Entry Wages of Economics Majors

Salim Atay, Gunes Asik and Semih Tumen

16079: The Increasing Penalty to Occupation-Education Mismatch

Hugh Cassidy and Amanda Gaulke

16078: Shifts in Composition of Jobs: Upgrading, Downgrading or Polarization? The Case of Russia 2000-2019

Vladimir Gimpelson and Rostislav Kapeliushnikov

16077: Refugee Benefit Cuts

Christian Dustmann, Rasmus Landersø and Lars Højsgaard Andersen

16076: Correcting Racial Injustice: Forensic DNA Technology and the Exoneration of the Wrongfully Convicted

Rocco d'Este and Noam Yuchtman

16075: Permanent Instability of Preferences after COVID-19 Crisis: A Natural Experiment from Urban Burkina Faso

Delphine Boutin, Laurene Petifour and Haris Megzari

16074: School Closures and Student Achievement: Evidence from a High Stakes Exam

Marc Riudavets-Barcons and Roope Uusitalo

16073: Happiness in Old Age: The Daughter Connection

Pataporn Sukontamarn, Niaz Asadullah, Nopphawan Photphisutthiphong and Yen Thi Hai Nguyen

16072: The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps

Francesca Barigozzi, Helmuth Cremer and Emmanuel Thibault

16071: Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts

Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melissa Rubio-Ramos

16070: Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality

Guido Matias Cortes, Adrian Lerche, Uta Schönberg and Jeanne Tschopp

16069: The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education

Ahmed Elsayed and Alina Shirshikova

16068: The Impact of the Prehistoric Out of Africa Migration on Cultural Diversity

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp and Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock

16067: Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing?

Alessandro Cigno

16066: Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe

Werner Eichhorst, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Paul Marx, Mathias Dolls and Max Lay

16065: Unexpected Colonial Returns: Self-Selection and Economic Integration of Migrants over Multiple Generations

Anne Gielen and Dinand Webbink

16064: Should You Meet the Parents? The Impact of Information on Non-test Score Attributes on School Choice

Elisa Facchetti, Lorenzo Neri and Marco Ovidi

16063: The Occupational Attainment of American Jewish Men in the Mid-19th Century

Barry Chiswick and RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

16062: The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments

Christina Gathmann, Christian Kagerl, Laura Pohlan and Duncan Roth

16061: Locus of Control and the Preference for Agency

Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark, Juliana Silva Goncalves and Arne Uhlendorff

16060: Provider Responses to the Expansion of Public Subsidies in Healthcare: The Case of Oral Chemotherapy Treatment in Australia

Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Serena Yu and Philip Haywood

16059: Why Do Labor Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases?

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

16058: What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books

Anjali Adukia, Alex Eble, Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha and Teodora Szasz

16057: A Poisoned Gift? The Hireability Signals of an Income-Support Program for the Senior Unemployed

Axana Dalle, Philippe Sterkens and Stijn Baert

16056: Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes

Sebastian Link, Manuel Menkhoff, Andreas Peichl and Paul Schüle

16055: Long-Term Effects of Recession on Parenthood Gender Inequality

Jinyoung Kim and Eunhye Kwak

16054: Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter and Christopher Parsons

16053: Risk Compensation after COVID-19 Vaccination

Jisoo Hwang, Seung-sik Hwang, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Jungmin Lee and Junseok Lee

16052: Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation: Does It Matter Where You Live?

Adele Whelan, Anne Devlin and Seamus McGuinness

16051: Religious Barriers to Birth Control Access

Olivier Marie and Esmee Zwiers

16050: Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Men

Jósef Sigurdsson

16049: On the Road to Equity: Examining Income-Related Inequalities in Ownership of Safer Vehicles

Vincenzo Carrieri, Apostolos Davillas and Victor Hugo de Oliveira

16048: Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival

Stacey H. Chen, Jennjou Chen, Hongwei Chuang and Tzu-Hsin Lin

16047: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Ömer Özak

16046: Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani and Francesco Scervini

16045: What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework

Iga Magda, Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska and Marta Palczyńska

16044: In and Out of Privileged and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Sweden – On the Importance of Country of Birth

Björn Anders Gustafsson and Torun Österberg

16043: Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Wim Naudé and Fiona Tregenna

16042: Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations

Christian Grund and Alexandra Soboll

16041: Mismatch in Preferences for Working from Home – Evidence from Discrete Choice Experiments with Workers and Employers

Piotr Lewandowski, Katarzyna Lipowska and Mateusz Smoter

16040: Exposure to War and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle

Sebastian Till Braun and Jan Stuhler

16039: Pension Reforms and Couples' Labour Supply Decisions

Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick Puhani and Joanna Tyrowicz

16038: Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James Heckman and Rasmus Landersø

16037: Wage Returns to Human Capital Resulting from an Extra Year of Primary School: Evidence from Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Abdurrahman Aydemir, Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur and Murat Kırdar

16036: Slow Traffic, Fast Food: The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice

Panka Bencsik, Lester Lusher and Rebecca Taylor

16035: Seeking Shelter in Times of Crisis? Unemployment, Perceived Job Insecurity and Trade Union Membership

Adrian Chadi and Laszlo Goerke

16034: Military Spending and Innovation: Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data

Alexander Danzer, Natalia Danzer and Carsten Feuerbaum

16033: What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence from Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments

Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch and Mette Rasmussen

16032: Household Responses to Trade Shocks

Aitor Irastorza-Fadrique, Peter Levell and Matthias Parey

16031: The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked: Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector

Paul Redmond and Seamus McGuinness

16030: Thriving in the Rain: Natural Shocks, Time Allocation, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh

Sveva Vitellozzi and Gianna Claudia Giannelli

16029: Human Capital and Pensions with Endogenous Fertility and Retirement

Giam Pietro Cipriani and Tamara Fioroni

16028: Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

Thomas Dohmen and Elena Shvartsman

16027: Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Thomas Dohmen and Tomáš Jagelka

16026: Religion and Cooperation across the Globe

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Thomas Dohmen and Andreas Pondorfer

16025: Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses

Thomas Dohmen, Ingrid M.T. Rohde and Tom Stolp

16024: The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor

Mark Bils, Marianna Kudlyak and Paulo Lins

16023: The Limitations of Overtime Limits to Reduce Long Working Hours: Evidence from the 2018-2021 Working Time Reform in Korea

Stéphane Carcillo, Alexander Hijzen and Stefan Thewissen

16022: Marriage in Old Age: What Can We Learn about Policy Impacts on Same-Sex Couples?

Leora Friedberg and Elliott Isaac

16021: Non-compete Agreements in a Rigid Labour Market: The Case of Italy

Tito Boeri, Andrea Garnero and Lorenzo Giovanni Luisetto

16020: Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment

Sumon Bhaumik, Subhasish Chowdhury, Ralitza Dimova and Hanna Fromell

16019: Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction

Inga Laß, Esperanza Vera-Toscano and Mark Wooden

16018: Trends in the Female Longevity Advantage of 19th-Century Birth Cohorts: Exploring the Role of Place and Fertility

Jason Fletcher, Michael Topping and Won-tak Joo

16017: Effects of Early Childhood Climate on Cognitive Development and Home Environment

Wenjie Wu, Yang Zhe, Jun Hyung Kim and Ai Yue

16016: Public and Private School Grade Inflations Patterns in Secondary Education

Pedro Luis Silva, Stephen L. DesJardins, Ricardo Biscaia, Carla Sá and Pedro N. Teixeira

16015: Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices

Mario Bossler, Alexander Moog and Thorsten Schank

16014: Does Policy Advocacy Generate Good PR? Evidence from Labor Unions and Minimum Wages

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

16013: Workers' Perceptions of Earnings Growth and Employment Risk

Gizem Kosar and Wilbert van der Klaauw

16012: Precious Metal Prices: A Tale of Four U.S. Recessions

Pablo Agnese, Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio, Luis Gil-Alana and Fernando Perez de Gracia

16011: Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South: Evidence from PTAs

Francesco Amodio, Leonardo Baccini, Giorgio Chiovelli and Michele Di Maio

16010: Globalization, Productivity Growth, and Labor Compensation

Christian Dreger, Marius Fourné and Oliver Holtemöller

16009: From Syringes to Dishes: Improving Food Security through Vaccination

Erkmen Aslim, Wei Fu, Erdal Tekin and Shijun You

16008: A Lost Generation? Impact of COVID-19 on High School Students' Achievements

Dalit Contini, Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Caterina Muratori, Daniela Piazzalunga and Lucia Schiavon

16007: Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation

Simon Commander, Saul Estrin and Thamashi De Silva

16006: Social Norms and Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh: The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks

Luna Bellani, Kumar Biswas, Sebastian Fehrler, Paul Marx, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Syed Rashed Al-Zayed Josh