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15705: Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Orazio Attanasio, Ricardo Paes de Barros, Pedro Carneiro, David Evans, Lycia Lima, Pedro Olinto and Norbert Schady

15704: Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women: Time to Turn the Tide?

Patricia Palffy, Patrick Lehnert and Uschi Backes-Gellner

15703: The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic

Martha Bailey, Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt

15702: Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis

Miriam Koomen and Uschi Backes-Gellner

15701: The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages

Sebastian Link

15700: Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?

Marco Bertoni, Giorgio Brunello and Filippo Da Re

15699: The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock

Sandro Heiniger, Winfried Koeniger and Michael Lechner

15698: Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers

Bas van der Klaauw and Heike Vethaak

15697: Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?

Erica Chenoweth, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Nicholas Papageorge, Stephen Roll and Matthew V. Zahn

15696: VOG: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Learning Outcomes

Timothy Halliday, Lester Lusher, Rachel Inafuku and Aureo de Paula

15695: Recession and Deflation?

David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson

15694: IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations

Christian Eggenberger and Uschi Backes-Gellner

15693: Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms

Anna Maria Mayda, Gianluca Orefice and Gianluca Santoni

15692: Labor Market Effects of Bounds on Domestic Outsourcing

Bruno Jimenez and Silvio Rendon

15691: Gender Diversity, Labour in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas

Astrid Kunze and Katrin Scharfenkamp

15690: Microentrepreneurs' Gender Difference in Labor Demand

Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo and Hyoung Suk Shim

15689: Does Updating Education Curricula Accelerate Technology Adoption in the Workplace? Evidence from Dual Vocational Education and Training Curricula in Switzerland

Tobias Schultheiss and Uschi Backes-Gellner

15688: Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes

Tobias Schultheiss and Uschi Backes-Gellner

15687: Education Expansion and High-Skill Job Opportunities for Workers: Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats?

Tobias Schultheiss, Curdin Pfister, Ann-Sophie Gnehm and Uschi Backes-Gellner

15686: How Does Testing Young Children Influence Educational Attainment and Well-Being?

Colin Green, Ole Henning Nyhus and Kari Vea Salvanes

15685: The Minimum Wage and Union Membership among Minimum Wage Workers: Why Do Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases?

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

15684: Learning Inequalities during COVID-19: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys from Sub-Saharan Africa

Hai-Anh Dang, Gbemisola Oseni, Alberto Zezza and Kseniya Abanokova

15683: Reputation vs Selection Effects in Markets With Informational Asymmetries

Theodore Alysandratos, Sotiris Georganas and Matthias Sutter

15682: Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information

Christoph Drobner and Sebastian Goerg

15681: Multitasking

Anzelika Zaiceva

15680: The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty around the World

Mehmet Tosun, Ethan D. Watson and Serhat Yildiz

15679: The Geography of Occupational Choice: Empirical Evidence from the Swiss Apprenticeship Market

Andreas Kuhn

15678: Making It Home? Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of an Intensive Support Program for the Chronically Homeless on Housing, Employment and Health

Daniel Kühnle, Guy Johnson and Yi-Ping Tseng

15677: AI, Skill, and Productivity: The Case of Taxi Drivers

Kyogo Kanazawa, Daiji Kawaguchi, Hitoshi Shigeoka and Yasutora Watanabe

15676: Management and Performance in the Public Sector: Evidence from German Municipalities

Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider and Niklas Wallmeier

15675: The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn, Alan Manning and Michael Oberfichtner

15674: Gains from Trade and the Food Engel Curve

Farid Farrokhi, David Carson Jinkins and Chong Xiang

15673: Income Misperception and Populism

Thilo N. H. Albers, Felix Kersting and Fabian Kosse

15672: Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

Jorge Luis Garcia and James Heckman

15671: Regression Discontinuity Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Minimum Legal E-cigarette Purchasing Age

Jeff DeSimone, Daniel Grossman and Nicolas Ziebarth

15670: Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare

Laura Caron and Erwin R. Tiongson

15669: A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O'Connor

15668: Investment Tax Credits and the Response of Firms

Adrian Lerche

15667: The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Michael Clemens and Ethan Gatewood Lewis

15666: The Determinants of Crude Oil Prices: Evidence from ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL Approaches

Leila Ben Salem, Ridha Nouira, Khaled Jeguirim and Christophe Rault

15665: Business Cycles and Police Hires

Fernando Saltiel and Cody Tuttle

15664: Beyond Chronic Absenteeism: The Dynamics and Disparities of Class Absences in Secondary School

Jing Liu and Monica Lee

15663: Who Refers Whom? The Effects of Teacher Characteristics on Disciplinary Office Referrals

Michael S. Hayes, Jing Liu and Seth Gershenson

15662: Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Sweden

Adrian Adermon, Lisa Laun, Patrik Lind, Martin Olsson, Jan Sauermann and Anna Sjögren

15661: Weather Conditions and Daily Commuting

Ignacio Belloc, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

15660: Decent Wage Floors in Europe: Does the Minimum Wage Directive Get It Right?

Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx and Zachary Parolin

15659: Naturalization and Immigrants' Health

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

15658: How to Best Fight Poverty: The Uneven Ex-post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll and Roberto Quaranta

15657: The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality

Sherajum Monira Farin, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Michael Pesko

15656: The Long-Term Impact of In-Utero Cigarette Taxes on Adult Prenatal Smoking

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Michael Pesko and Serena Phillips

15655: Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use

Rahi Abouk, Charles Courtemanche, Dhaval M. Dave, Bo Feng, Abigail S. Friedman, J. Catherine Maclean, Michael Pesko, Joseph J. Sabia and Samuel Safford

15654: Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France

Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

15653: Gender, Loneliness and Happiness during COVID-19

Anthony Lepinteur, Andrew Clark, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Alan Piper, Carsten Schröder and Conchita D'Ambrosio

15652: Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System

Maria Zumbuehl, Stefanie Hof and Stefan Wolter

15651: Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018

Matthew Fisher-Post, Nicolas Hérault and Roger Wilkins

15650: Optimal Allocations in Growth Models with Private Information

Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel

15649: Costs and Benefits of an Individual Learning Account (ILA): A Simulation Analysis for the Netherlands

Henri Bussink and Bas ter Weel

15648: Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Sarah Gust, Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

15647: The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development

Ronald Bachmann, Gökay Demir, Colin Green and Arne Uhlendorff

15646: The Slow Demographic Transition in Regions Vulnerable to Climate Change

Thang Dao, Matthias Kalkuhl and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis

15645: Lost Mind, Lost Job? Unequal Effects of Corporate Downsizings on Employees

Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen and Edvard Johansson

15644: Long Social Distancing

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

15643: Temporal Discounting in Later Life

Ellam Kulati, Michal Myck and Giacomo Pasini

15642: Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden before the War

Fredrik W. Andersson and Eskil Wadensjö

15641: Labor Market Concentration and Competition Policy across the Atlantic

Satoshi Araki, Andrea Bassanini, Andrew Green, Luca Marcolin and Cristina Volpin

15640: Is Longer Maternal Care Always Beneficial? The Impact of a Four-Year Paid Parental Leave

Alena Bičáková and Klara Kaliskova

15639: Women's Careers and Family Formation

Sonia R. Bhalotra, Damian Clarke and Selma Walther

15638: Staff Engagement, Coworkers' Complementarity and Employee Retention: Evidence from English NHS Hospitals

Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli and Marco Mello

15637: Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Anton Heil and Andrea Smurra

15636: Health Shocks and Housing Downsizing: How Persistent Is 'Ageing in Place'?

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

15635: The Dynamics of Power in Labor Markets: Monopolistic Unions versus Monopsonistic Employers

Samuel Dodini, Kjell G Salvanes and Alexander Willén

15634: The Effect of Labor Market Shocks across the Life Cycle

Kjell G Salvanes, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén

15633: The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students: The Role of Pre-College Choices

Michela M. Tincani, Fabian Kosse and Enrico Miglino

15632: Technical Change, Task Allocation, and Labor Unions

Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger and Franziska Brall

15631: Opening the Labor Market to Qualified Immigrants in Absence of Linguistic Barriers

Nicolò Gatti, Fabrizio Mazzonna, Raphaël Parchet and Giovanni Pica

15630: The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment

Pedro Carneiro, Kjell G Salvanes, Barton Willage and Alexander Willén

15629: Social Isolation, Health Dynamics, and Mortality: Evidence across 21 European Countries

Yarine Fawaz and Pedro Mira

15628: Old-Age Unemployment and Labor Supply: An Application to Belgium

Octave De Brouwer and Ilan Tojerow

15627: Exports and Labor Demand: Evidence from Egyptian Firm-Level Data

Claudia N. Berg, Raymond Robertson and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

15626: Is International Trade Always Beneficial to Labor Markets? A Case Study from Egypt

Raymond Robertson, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

15625: Predicting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Elizaveta Pronkina and Daniel I. Rees

15624: Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital

Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Bernhard Schmidpeter

15623: Job Preferences of Aged Care Workers in Australia: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment

Kostas Mavromaras, Linda Isherwood, Stephane Mahuteau, Julie Ratcliffe, Lily Xiao, Ann Harrington and Zhang Wei

15622: "Workhorses of Opportunity": Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility

Greg Howard and Russell Weinstein

15621: The Times Have Changed: Tracking the Evolution of Gender Norms over Time

Andreas Kuhn

15620: Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?

Ben Lockwood, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew J. Oswald

15619: 'The Double Dividend of Training' – Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland

Stefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose and Stefan Wolter

15618: Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Felix Poege, Fabian Gaessler, Karin Hoisl, Dietmar Harhoff and Matthias Dorner

15617: Employer Cooperation, Productivity, and Wages: New Evidence from Inter-Firm Formal Network Agreements

Francesco Devicienti, Elena Grinza, Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni

15616: Informal Institution Meets Child Development: Clan Culture and Child Labor in China

Can Tang and Zhong Zhao

15615: Identifying the Poor – Accounting for Household Economies of Scale in Global Poverty Estimates

Dean Jolliffe and Samuel Kofi Tetteh-Baah

15614: Inflation Expectations and Corporate Borrowing Decisions: New Causal Evidence

Tiziano Ropele, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Olivier Coibion

15613: Preference for Redistribution during Structural Change with Labor Mobility Frictions

Krzysztof Makarski and Joanna Tyrowicz

15612: Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach

Giorgio Brunello, Dimitris Christelis, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya

15611: Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality

Diogo Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio and Lucas Warwar

15610: Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK

Elena Lisauskaite

15609: Analysis of Twins

Sonia R. Bhalotra and Damian Clarke

15608: German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed

Irene Bertschek, Joern Block, Alexander Kritikos and Caroline Stiel

15607: The Ossified Economy: The Case of Germany, 1870-2020

Wim Naudé and Paula Nagler

15606: A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany

Luis Martinez, Jonas Jessen and Guo Xu