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16224: The Anatomy of Competitiveness

Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek

16223: The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance

Simen Markussen and Knut Røed

16222: Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach

Cha’Ngom, Narcisse, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier and Joël Machado

16221: Taking a Chance on Workers: Evidence on the Effects and Mechanisms of Subsidized Employment from an RCT

Tania Barham, Brian Cadena and Patrick Turner

16220: Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa

16219: Examining the Determinants of Managers' Hiring Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey

Tony Fang, Tingting Zhang and John Hartley

16218: Roma and Bureaucrats: A Field Experiment on Ethnic and Socioeconomic Discrimination

Štěpán Mikula and Josef Montag

16217: Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination: A Field Experiment

Vegar Bjørnshagen, Dan-Olof Rooth and Elisabeth Ugreninov

16216: Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers: Evidence from Poland

Zuzanna Kowalik, Piotr Lewandowski and Pawel Kaczmarczyk

16215: Preference-Choice Mismatch and University Dropout

Didier Fouarge and Pascal Heß

16214: Information Campaign on Arsenic Poisoning: Unintended Consequences in Marriage Market

Shyamal Chowdhury and Prachi Singh

16213: Trade Liberalization and Local Labor Markets in Morocco

Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Raymond Robertson, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Daniela Ruiz Zárate

16212: Baby Bump? Birth Month, Family Income, and Early Childhood Development

Dave Marcotte and Katherine Engel

16211: Stimulus through Insurance: The Marginal Propensity to Repay Debt

Gizem Kosar, Davide Melcangi, Laura Pilossoph and David Wiczer

16210: Roots of Inequality

Oded Galor, Marc Klemp and Daniel Crisóstomo Wainstock

16209: Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis

Viola Angelini and Joan Costa-Font

16208: Fertility, Son-Preference, and the Reversal of the Gender Gap in Literacy/Numeracy Tests

Minhee Chae, Xin Meng and Sen Xue

16207: China's 40 Years Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply: The Quantity Myth

Xin Meng

16206: Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence

Lucio Morettini and Max Tani

16205: A Behaviorally-Validated Warm Glow Questionnaire

Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Alex Lyford and Mingfang Zhang

16204: Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages

Gökay Demir

16203: Managerial Practices and Student Performance: Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Adriana Di Liberto, Ludovica Giua, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri and Giovanni Sulis

16202: Fixed Effects and Causal Inference

Daniel Millimet and Marc Bellemare

16201: COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship

Alina Sorgner

16200: Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences

Ernst Fehr and Gary Charness

16199: Innovation and the Labor Market: Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Nicoletta Corrocher, Daniele Moschella, Jacopo Staccioli and Marco Vivarelli

16198: First Generation College Students and Peer Effects

Michael Kofoed and Todd Jones

16197: Playing the System: Address Manipulation and Access to Schools

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Lykke Sterll Christensen, Mikkel Gandil and Hans Henrik Sievertsen

16196: The Employment Effects of a Wage Subsidy for the Young during an Economic Recovery

Astrid Kunze, Marta Palczyńska and Iga Magda

16195: The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education

Marina Dodlova, Michelle Escobar Carias and Michael Grimm

16194: The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in High-Income Countries

Zachary Parolin, Rafael Pintro Schmitt, Gøsta Esping-Andersen and Peter Fallesen

16193: Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India

Md Shahadath Hossain and Plamen Nikolov

16192: Who Benefits from Tuition-Free, Top-Quality Universities? Evidence from Brazil

Suzanne Duryea, Rafael Ribas, Breno Sampaio, Gustavo R. Sampaio and Giuseppe Trevisan

16191: We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Wim Naudé

16190: Unintended Consequences of Family Planning Policies on the Breastfeeding Gap between Sons and Daughters

Minhee Chae, Yong Cai, Jun Hyung Kim and William Lavely

16189: How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?

Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew Kahn and Jerry Nickelsburg

16188: Oaxaca-Blinder Meets Kitagawa: What Is the Link?

Ronald Oaxaca and Eva Sierminska

16187: Socioemotional Development during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Macro Shock

Ghazala Azmat, Katja Kaufmann and Yasemin Özdemir

16186: Labor Supply Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer

Jan Gromadzki

16185: The Career Effects of Union Membership

Samuel Dodini, Kjell G Salvanes, Alexander Willén and Li Zhu

16184: Job Creation and Job Destruction Dynamics in the U.S. Truck Transportation Industry, 1995-2019

Jason W. Miller, Jonathan Phares and Stephen Burks

16183: Driving, Dropouts, and Drive-Throughs: Mobility Restrictions and Teen Human Capital

Valerie Bostwick and Christopher Severen

16182: Spouses as Home Health Workers and Cooks: Insights for Applied Research

Shoshana Grossbard

16181: Erasmus Program and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola, Vincenzo Scoppa and Janna Smirnova

16180: Overconfident Boys: The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment

Anna Adamecz-Völgyi, John Jerrim, Jean-Baptiste Pingault and Nikki Shure

16179: When Fairness Is Not Enough: The Disproportionate Contributions of the Poor in a Collective Action Problem

Eugene Malthouse, Charlie Pilgrim, Thomas Hills and Daniel Sgroi

16178: Will Childcare Subsidies Increase the Labour Supply of Mothers in Ireland?

Karina Doorley, Dora Tuda and Luke Duggan

16177: Job Levels and Wages

Christian Bayer and Moritz Kuhn

16176: "Good Politicians": Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance

Saad Gulzar and Muhammad Khan

16175: Temperature and Joint Time Use

Sam Cosaert, Adrian Nieto Castro and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

16174: Reconciling Estimates of the Long-Term Earnings Effect of Fertility

Simon Bensnes, Ingrid Huitfeldt and Edwin Leuven

16173: Does Access to Citizenship Confer Socio-Economic Returns? Evidence from a Randomized Control Design

Jens Hainmueller, Elisa Cascardi, Michael Hotard, Rey Koslowski, Duncan Lawrence, Vasil Yasenov and David D. Laitin

16172: Does a Flexible Parental Leave System Stimulate Maternal Employment?

Lennart Ziegler and Omar Bamieh

16171: Electoral Effects of Integrating Forced Migrants: Evidence from a Southern Country

Sandra V. Rozo, Alejandra Quintana and Maria José Urbina

16170: More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana Ibáñez, Sandra V. Rozo and Salvador Traettino

16169: Unsafe Temperatures, Unsafe Jobs: The Impact of Weather Conditions on Work-Related Injuries

Mattia Filomena and Matteo Picchio

16168: Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects

Matteo Bobba, Veronica Frisancho and Marco Pariguana

16167: Impact of Early Childhood School Intervention on Enrollment and Learning Outcomes: Evaluation of a Public Program in India

Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Debayan Pakrashi, Sarani Saha and Soham Sahoo

16166: Campaign Connections

Samuel Bazzi and Claudio Labanca

16165: Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care

Martin B. Hackmann, Vincent Pohl and Nicolas Ziebarth

16164: Are Immigrants More Left Wing than Natives?

Simone Moriconi, Giovanni Peri and Riccardo Turati

16163: Sendemails: An Automated Email Package with Multiple Applications

Luca Fumarco, S. Michael Gaddis, Francesco Sarracino and I. Snoddy

16162: The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Mental Healthcare Services

Benjamin Harrell, Luca Fumarco, Patrick Button, David J. Schwegman and Kyla Denwood

16161: Stephen versus Stephanie? Does Gender Matter for Peer-to-Peer Career Advice

Grace Lordan and Warn N. Lekfuangfu

16160: Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation

Mirja Haelbig, Matthias Mertens and Steffen Müller

16159: Religion, Ideology and Fertility

Kazuhiro Kumo and Cristiano Perugini

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