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16158: Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood

Christian Dustmann, Mikkel Mertz and Anna Okatenko

16157: How Does the Beauty of Wives Affect Post-Marriage Family Outcomes? Helen's Face in Chinese Households

Junsen Zhang, Shulan Fei and Yanbing Wen

16156: Expecting Brexit and UK Migration: Should I Go?

Valentina Di Iasio and Jackline Wahba

16155: Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Jonas Jessen and C. Katharina Spieß

16154: A Simple Model of a Central Bank Digital Currency

Bineet Mishra and Eswar Prasad

16153: Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths

Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx and Muriel Dejemeppe

16152: Like Mother, like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States

Gunnar Brandén, Martin Nybom and Kelly Vosters

16151: Free to Fail? Paternalistic Preferences in the United States

Björn Bartling, Alexander Cappelen, Henning Hermes, Marit Skivenes and Bertil Tungodden

16150: Improving Health and Safety in the Informal Sector: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Bangladesh

Asadul Islam, Wang-Sheng Lee, Margaret Triyana and Xing Xia

16149: Higher Education Opportunity and the Choice of Vocational vs. Academic High School

Chunbing Xing, Yan Sun and Chuliang Luo

16148: Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China

Mengbing Zhu, Yi Li and Chunbing Xing

16147: Helping and Antisocial Behavior in the Workplace

Michael Haylock, Patrick Kampkötter, Michael Kosfeld and Ferdinand von Siemens

16146: Who Is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms

Holger Görg, Anna Jacobs and Saskia Meuchelböck

16145: Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs

Nicolas Gendron-Carrier

16144: Minimum Global Tax: Winners and Losers in the Race for Mergers and Acquisitions

Vito Amendolagine, Randolph Bruno, Maria Cipollina and Gianluigi De Pascale

16143: For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Gabriella Conti and Pamela Giustinelli

16142: Donations and Unpaid Activities

Olaf Hübler

16141: Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments

Matthias Rodemeier and Andreas Löschel

16140: Has China's Growth Gone from Miracle to Malady?

Eswar Prasad

16139: Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Wim Naudé

16138: The Gender Reference Point Gap

Nathan Kettlewell, Jonathan Levy, Agnieszka Tymula and Xueting Wang

16137: Nudging in Complex Environments

Alexander Koch, Dan Monster and Julia Nafziger

16136: Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing: The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia

Lisa Cameron, Diana Contreras Suarez and Yi-Ping Tseng

16135: Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India

Gaurav Chiplunkar and Jeffrey Weaver

16134: Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?

Michele Battisti, Alexandra Fedorets and Lavinia Kinne

16133: The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

James Heckman, Bridget Galaty and Haihan Tian

16132: Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany

Elisabeth Artmann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Giulia Giupponi

16131: How Do Political Connections of Firms Matter during an Economic Crisis?

Yutong Chen, Gaurav Chiplunkar, Sheetal Sekhri, Anirban Sen and Aaditeshwar Seth

16130: On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Oded Stark

16129: The Child Tax Credit over Time by Family Type: Benefit Eligibility and Poverty

Margaret Brehm and Olga Malkova

16128: Robots, Occupations, and Worker Age: A Production-Unit Analysis of Employment

Liuchun Deng, Steffen Müller, Verena Plümpe and Jens Stegmaier

16127: The Worth of Cities in Germany

Katja Gehr and Michael P. Pflüger

16126: After You. Cognition and Health-Distribution Preferences

Martín Brun, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Xavier Ramos

16125: Using Genes to Explore the Relationship of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills with Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Thomas Buser, Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger and Sven Oskarsson

16124: Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance

Thorben Korfhage and Björn Fischer-Weckemann

16123: Incentivizing Team Leaders: A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Thomas Gall, Xiaocheng Hu and Michael Vlassopoulos

16122: Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee

Bart Cockx and Sam Desiere

16121: A Theory of Non-Coasean Labor Markets

Andrés Blanco, Andres Drenik, Christian Moser and Emilio Zaratiegui

16120: British Voting Intentions and the Far Reach of 11 September Terrorist Attacks in New York

Elena G. F. Stancanelli

16119: Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain

Catarina Goulão, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos and Dan-Olof Rooth

16118: The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Stefan Bauernschuster, Michael Grimm and Cathy M. Hajo

16117: Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages

Eric Hanushek, Babs Jacobs, Guido Schwerdt, Rolf Van der Velden, Stan Vermeulen and Simon Wiederhold

16116: 'Earned, Not Given'? The Effect of Lowering the Full Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions

Mathias Dolls and Carla Krolage

16115: Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net

Achyuta Adhvaryu, N. Meltem Daysal, Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Teresa Molina and Herdis Steingrimsdottir

16114: Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Andrew Burlinson, Apostolos Davillas and Monica Giulietti

16113: Unpacking Neighborhood Effects: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil

Carlos Alberto Belchior, Gustavo Gonzaga and Gabriel Ulyssea

16112: Estimating the Laffer Tax Rate on Capital Income: Cross-Base Responses Matter!

Marie-Noëlle Lefebvre, Etienne Lehmann and Michaël Sicsic

16111: School Quality beyond Test Scores: The Role of Schools in Shaping Educational Outcomes

Annalisa Loviglio

16110: Temperature and Fertility: Evidence from Spanish Register Data

Risto Conte Keivabu, Marco Cozzani and Joshua Wilde

16109: Swallow This: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability

Sara Abrahamsson, Aline Bütikofer and Krzysztof Karbownik

16108: The Long-Term Causal Effects of Winning an ERC Grant

Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Elena Claudia Meroni and Stefano Verzillo

16107: Minimum Wage and Tolerance for High Incomes

Andrea Fazio and Tommaso G. Reggiani

16106: Inflation Expectations and Misallocation of Resources: Evidence from Italy

Tiziano Ropele, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Olivier Coibion

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 Brencic 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