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15758: Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?

Gopi Goda, Matthew R. Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, Joshua Tasoff and Jiusi Xiao

15757: Dynamic Relationships between Criminal Offending and Victimization

Christopher Erwin, Juliane Hennecke, Lisa Meehan and Gail Pacheco

15756: Does It Pay to Attend More Selective High Schools? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from China

Bin Huang, Bo Li, Ian Walker and Yu Zhu

15755: Telework during the Pandemic: Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Mason Ameri, Douglas L. Kruse, So Ri Park, Yana Rodgers and Lisa Schur

15754: The Uneven Effect of COVID School Closures: Parents in Teleworkable vs. Non-teleworkable Occupations

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

15753: Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes

Kaveh Majlesi, Silvia Prina and Paul Sullivan

15752: The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe

Maciej Albinowski and Piotr Lewandowski

15751: Do Class Closures Affect Students' Achievements? Heterogeneous Effects of Students' Socioeconomic Backgrounds

Masato Oikawa, Ryuichi Tanaka, Shun-ichiro Bessho, Akira Kawamura and Haruko Noguchi

15750: Housing Demolition and Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China

Chuhong Wang, Yonghua Wang, Xingfei Liu and Jiatong Zhong

15749: Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage

Geghetsik Afunts and Stepan Jurajda

15748: Do College Admissions Criteria Matter? Evidence from Discretionary vs. Grade-Based Admission Policies

Rais Kamis, Jessica Pan and Kelvin Seah

15747: Do Job Seekers Understand the UI Benefit System (And Does It Matter)?

Steffen Altmann, Sofie Cairo, Robert Mahlstedt and Alexander Sebald

15746: Immigrant Peers and Foreign Language Acquisition

Colin Green, Kristine Bekkeheien Haaland and Jon Marius Vaag Iversen

15745: Maternal and Infant Health Inequality: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data

Kate Kennedy-Moulton, Sarah Miller, Petra Persson, Maya Rossin-Slater, Laura Wherry and Gloria Aldana

15744: Internal Adjustment Costs of Firm-Specific Factors and the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm

V. K. Chetty and James Heckman

15743: The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, Florian Grosset-Touba and Supreet Kaur

15742: Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China

Plamen Nikolov and Md Shahadath Hossain

15741: The Labour Market Returns to Sleep

Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche and Ricardo Pagan Rodriguez

15740: Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Martin Abel, Eliana Carranza, Kimberly Geronimo and Maria Elena Ortega

15739: Aging in Style: Does How We Write Matter?

Daniel Hamermesh and Lea-Rachel Kosnik

15738: Welfare and Distributional Impact of Soaring Prices in Europe

Denisa Sologon, Cathal O'Donoghue, Jules Linden, Iryna Kyzyma and Jason Loughrey

15737: Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labor Supply

Alexandros Theloudis, Jorge Velilla, Pierre-André Chiappori, José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and José Alberto Molina

15736: The Impact of Immigration and Integration Policies On Immigrant-Native Labor Market Hierarchies

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mýtna Kureková

15735: Job Insecurity and Health: Evidence from Older European Workers

Eduard Suari-Andreu, Tim Schwartz, Max van Lent and Marike Knoef

15734: Social Restrictions and Well-Being: Disentangling the Mechanisms

Francesca Foliano, Valentina Tonei and Almudena Sevilla

15733: Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers

Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Yi Zhang

15732: The Broken Chain: Evidence against Emotionally Driven Upstream Indirect Reciprocity

Wendelin Schnedler

15731: The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

Fabio Montobbio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli

15730: Vaccine-Skeptic Physicians and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

Andreas Steinmayr and Manuel Rossi

15729: Marijuana Legalization and Mental Health

Daniel Borbely, Otto Lenhart, Jonathan Norris and Agnese Romiti

15728: High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Natalia Nollenberger

15727: Doubly Robust Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects Using Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment

Tymon Słoczyński, Selver Uysal and Jeffrey Wooldridge

15726: The Effects of a Disability Employment Quota When Compliance Is Cheaper than Defiance

Judit Krekó and Almos Telegdy

15725: Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment

Hao Lu, Claudia De Fuentes, Joniada Milla and Soheil Ahmadi

15724: Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes

Sabien Dobbelaere, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz and Sandor Sovago

15723: Keep Calm and Carry On: The Short- vs. Long-Run Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on (Academic) Performance

Lea Cassar, Mira Fischer and Vanessa Valero

15722: How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity

Gianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport and Gianluca Santoni

15721: The Puzzle of Educated Unemployment in West Africa

Esther Mirjam Girsberger and Romuald Meango

15720: Physical Isolation and Loneliness: Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia

Nancy Kong and Jack Lam

15719: The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

Alex Hollingsworth, Melissa A. Thomasson, Krzysztof Karbownik and Anthony Wray

15718: Hate in the Time of COVID-19: Racial Crimes against East Asians

Joel Carr, Jonathan James, Joanna Clifton-Sprigg and Sunčica Vujić

15717: How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

Simon Jäger and Jörg Heining

15716: Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises

Theodor Vladasel, Simon C. Parker, Randolph Sloof and Mirjam C. van Praag

15715: Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure

Claudia Senik, Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur and Carsten Schröder

15714: Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment

Christian Merkl and Timo Sauerbier

15713: The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest

Wim Naudé

15712: The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Axel Wogrolly and Christian Zimpelmann

15711: Medical Innovation and Health Disparities

Barton H. Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié, Emma C. Kalish and Nicholas Papageorge

15710: Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Lucia Foster, Scott Ohlmacher and Itay Saporta-Eksten

15709: Geographic Variation in Inpatient Care Utilization, Outcomes and Costs for Dementia Patients in China

Zhuoer Lin, Fang Ba, Heather Allore, Gordon G. Liu and Xi Chen

15708: The Identification of Time-Invariant Variables in Panel Data Model: Exploring the Role of Science in Firms’ Productivity

Sara Amoroso, Randolph Bruno and Laura Magazzini

15707: An Arab, an Asian, and a Black Guy Walk into a Job Interview: Ethnic Stigma in Hiring after Controlling for Social Class

Hannah Van Borm, Louis Lippens and Stijn Baert

15706: Short-Term Rental Bans and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Lisbon

Duarte Gonçalves, Susana Peralta and João Pereira Dos Santos

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