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15424: The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data

George Bulman and Robert Fairlie

15423: China's Skill-Biased Imports

Hongbin Li, Lei Li and Hong Ma

15422: What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?

Paola Giuliano, Bryony Reich and Alessandro Riboni

15421: Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence

Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Cecilie Marie Løchte Jørgensen, Ida Lykke Kristiansen and Miriam Gensowski

15420: Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination

Caroline Chuard, Hannes Schwandt, Alex Becker and Masahiko Haraguchi

15419: Technological Progress, Occupational Structure and Gender Gaps in the German Labour Market

Ronald Bachmann and Myrielle Gonschor

15418: Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Victor Ronda, Esben Agerbo, Preben Bo Mortensen and Michael Rosholm

15417: The Over-Education Wage Penalty among PhD Holders: A European Perspective

Francois Rycx, Giulia Santosuosso and Guillaume Vermeylen

15416: The Effect of Diesel Tax Rates on the Daily Commuting of US Workers: An Effective Instrument to Promote Sustainable Mobility?

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

15415: The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Labour Supply and Other Uses of Time

Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti, Maurizio Conti and Elena G. F. Stancanelli

15414: Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages

Glen R. Waddell and Robert McDonough

15413: M-Health Apps and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Sexual Minorities

Nick Drydakis

15412: Performance Pay and Work Hours: US Survey Evidence

Benjamin Artz and John Heywood

15411: Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Raymond Robertson, Deeksha Kokas, Diego Cardozo Medeiros and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo

15410: Rise of the Indian Middle Class and Its Impact on the Labor Market

Andres Eggimann and Michael Jan Kendzia

15409: Labour Market Effects of Digital Matching Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sam Jones and Kunal Sen

15408: Sweden's COVID-19 Recession: How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck against Firms and Workers

Anders Akerman, Karolina Ekholm, Torsten Persson and Oskar Skans

15407: Are Shorter Cumulative Temporary Contracts Worse Stepping Stones? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Jan Kabátek, Ying Liang and Kun Zheng

15406: Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis

Ivette Contreras-Gonzalez, Gbemisola Oseni, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Janneke Pieters and Michael Weber

15405: How Parenting Courses Affect Families’ Time-Use? Evidence from an RCT Experiment in Italy

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Pronzato and Lucia Schiavon

15404: The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market

Stephen R. G. Jones, Fabian Lange, W. Craig Riddell and Casey Warman

15403: Sick and Depressed? The Causal Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis on Depression

Alessio Gaggero, Joan Gil, Dolores Jiménez-Rubio and Eugenio Zucchelli

15402: Does State-Mandated Financial Education Reduce High School Graduation Rates?

Carly Urban

15401: Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation

Antonia Asenjo, Verónica Escudero and Hannah Liepmann

15400: Brain Refrain and Human Capital Formation in Spain

Jose Blanco-Álvarez, Christopher Parsons, Sam Tang and Yong Wang

15399: COVID-19 Private Pension Withdrawals and Unemployment Tenures

Tristram Sainsbury, Robert Breunig and Timothy Watson

15398: Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark

Onur Altindag, Jane Greve and Erdal Tekin

15397: Job Satisfaction, Structure of Working Environment and Firm Size

Aysıt Tansel

15396: The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups

Cécile Aubert, Hai-Anh Dang and Manh-Hung Nguyen

15395: Women's Political Representation and Intimate Partner Violence

S Anukriti, Bilge Erten and Priya Mukherjee

15394: Has Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation of Education in Rural India Fallen over Time? A Comparison of 1995 and 2017

Sandip Datta and Geeta Kingdon

15393: Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe

Oscar Barrera, Isabelle Bensidoun and Anthony Edo

15392: How Do Insurers Price Medical Malpractice Insurance?

Bernard Black, Jeffrey Traczynski and Victoria Udalova

15391: The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications

Michael Weber, D’Acunto, Francesco, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Olivier Coibion

15390: Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes

Joshua D. Merfeld, David Newhouse, Michael Weber and Partha Lahiri

15389: Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

Carsten Andersen, Mikkel Aagaard Houmark, Helena Nielsen and Michael Svarer

15388: Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes

Katja Kaufmann, Yasemin Özdemir and Han Ye

15387: Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID

Sandip Datta and Geeta Kingdon

15386: How Does Job Coaching Help Disability Insurance Recipients Work While on Claim?

Sébastien Fontenay and Ilan Tojerow

15385: The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Brent Meyer and Emil Mihaylov

15384: The Labor Market Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Mrittika Shamsuddin, Pablo Acosta, Rovane Battaglin Schwengber, Jedediah Fix and Nikolas Pirani

15383: On the Optimal Size of a Joint Savings Association

Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski, Marcin Jakubek and Grzegorz Kosiorowski

15382: Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use and Learning Loss during COVID-19

M Asadullah and Anindita Bhattacharjee

15381: Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India

S Anukriti, Catalina Herrera-Almanza and Mahesh Karra

15380: A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data

Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira and Andrew Jones

15379: A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults

Anders Stenberg

15378: Sitting Next to a Dropout: Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers

Daniel Goller, Andrea Diem and Stefan Wolter

15377: Take-up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits

Judit Krekó, Daniel Prinz and Andrea Weber

15376: Spatial Interactions

Jun Sung Kim, Eleonora Patacchini, Pierre Picard and Yves Zenou

15375: Price Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences

Robert Rutledge, Vinayak Alladi and Stephen Cheung

15374: Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment

Olivier Bargain, Jordan Loper and Roberta Ziparo

15373: Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke

Mark Borgschulte, David Molitor and Eric Zou

15372: Partisanship and Survey Refusal

Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho and Darren Lubotsky

15371: Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds

Vikesh Amin, Jere Behrman, Jason Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Hans-Peter Kohler

15370: How Representative Are Social Partners in Europe? The Role of Dissimilarity

Marta Martínez Matute and Pedro Martins

15369: Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers

Joan Costa-Font, D’Amico, Francesco and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

15368: A Shot at Economic Prosperity: Long-Term Effects of India's Childhood Immunization Program on Earnings and Consumption Expenditure

Amit Summan, Arindam Nandi and David E. Bloom

15367: Study More Tomorrow

Todd Pugatch, Elizabeth Schroeder and Nicholas Wilson

15366: Off to a Bad Start: Youth Nonemployment and Labor Market Outcomes Later in Life

Mattia Filomena, Isabella Giorgetti and Matteo Picchio

15365: Female Political Representation and Violence against Women: Evidence from Brazil

Magdalena Delaporte and Francisco Pino

15364: College Openings and Local Economic Development

Francesco Berlingieri, Christina Gathmann and Matthias Quinckhardt

15363: Can Wage Transparency Alleviate Gender Sorting in the Labor Market?

Omar Bamieh and Lennart Ziegler

15362: Does Information Affect Homophily?

Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman

15361: Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?

Andreas Peichl and Martin Popp

15360: Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?

Yannis Georgellis, Andrew Clark, Emmanuel Apergis and Catherine Robinson

15359: The Welfare Effects of Law Enforcement in the Illegal Money Lending Market

Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Nicola Pavanini and Christoph Walsh

15358: Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Donna Feir, Kelly Foley and Maggie E. C. Jones

15357: Earnings Discrimination in the Workplace

John Forth and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

15356: Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany

Julia Bredtmann

15355: Population Adjustment to Asymmetric Labour Market Shocks in India: A Comparison to Europe and the United States at Two Different Regional Levels

Franziska Braschke and Patrick Puhani

15354: Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation

Todd Pugatch and Paul N. Thompson

15353: Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Andrea Albanese, Adrian Nieto Castro and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

15352: Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

15351: Take-up of Social Benefits

Wonsik Ko and Robert Moffitt

15350: High School and Exam Scores: Does Their Predictive Validity for Academic Performance Vary with Programme Selectivity?

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

15349: Disclosing the 'Big C': What Does Cancer Survivorship Signal to Employers?

Philippe Sterkens, Adelina Sharipova and Stijn Baert

15348: Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State

James Kai-sing Kung, Ömer Özak, Louis Putterman and Shuang Shi

15347: The Perceived Social Rejection of Sexual Minorities: Substance Use and Unprotected Sexual Intercourse

Nick Drydakis

15346: Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States

Barış Yörük

15345: Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lei Xu and Yu Zhu

15344: Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling: Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Antonio Ranieri

15343: Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?

Konstantinos Pouliakas and Patricia Wruuck

15342: Organisational Gender Pay Gaps in the UK: What Happened Post-transparency?

Melanie K. Jones and Ezgi Kaya

15341: Who Benefits from Meritocracy?

Diana Moreira and Santiago Perez

15340: Minimum Wages in Developing Countries

Tony Fang and Viet Hoang Ha

15339: Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

15338: The Evolution of Inequality in Education Trajectories and Graduation Outcomes in the US

Christian Belzil, Jorgen Hansen and Xingfei Liu

15337: 'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium

Michael Johannes Böhm, Daniel Metzger and Per Strömberg

15336: The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence

Ian Schmutte and Meghan Skira

15335: The Crime Effect of Refugees

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, Semih Tumen and Belgi Turan

15334: Diaspora Economics

Tony Fang and Alex Wells

15333: Evolution of Union Wages and Determinants

Tony Fang and John Hartley

15332: Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples

Sonia Oreffice and Dario Sansone

15331: Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act

Elliott Isaac and Haibin Jiang

15330: School Choice and Higher Education Attainment

Diana Alessandrini and Joniada Milla

15329: Work Effort in the UK: Trends and Explanations

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal and Almudena Sevilla

15328: The Effects of Alcohol Excise Tax Increases by Drinking Level and by Income Level

Henry Saffer, Markus Gehrsitz and Michael Grossman

15327: Leaving the Labor Market Early in Sweden – Learning from International Experience

Mats Bengtsson, Stefanie König, Simon Schönbeck and Eskil Wadensjö

15326: Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang and Trong-Anh Trinh

15325: Days of Work over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-Day Week

Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle