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15205: The Value of Leisure Synchronization

Simon Georges-Kot, Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

15204: Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms

Nick Drydakis

15203: Does Cutting Child Benefits Reduce Fertility in Larger Families? Evidence from the UK’s Two-Child Limit

Mary Reader, Jonathan Portes and Ruth Patrick

15202: Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health

Dante Donati, Ruben Durante, Francesco Sobbrio and Dijana Zejcirovic

15201: China's Labor Market Demand in the Shadow of COVID-19: Evidence from an Online Job Board

Xiangquan Zeng, Shuai Chu and Xuan Chen

15200: Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide

Orkun Saka, Barry Eichengreen and Cevat Giray Aksoy

15199: Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts

Lars Brausewetter, Stephan Thomsen and Johannes Trunzer

15198: The "Robot Economy" and Optimal Tax-Transfer Reforms

Ugo Colombino and Nizamul Islam

15197: Industries, Mega Firms, and Increasing Inequality

John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt and James R. Spletzer

15196: The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data

George Bulman and Robert Fairlie

15195: In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges

Naci Mocan and Eric Osborne-Christenson

15194: Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?

Cloé Garnache, Øystein Hernaes and Anders Gravir Imenes

15193: The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias, State Identity, and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility

Riley Wilson

15192: Who Increases Emergency Department Use? New Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Augustine Denteh and Helge Liebert

15191: Work Permit Regulations and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Pamela Qendrai

15190: Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees: A Factorial Survey Experiment

Eline Moens, Elsy Verhofstadt, Luc Van Ootegem and Stijn Baert

15189: Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua and Roberto Nisticò

15188: On Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs

Jorge Luis Garcia and James Heckman

15187: The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education

Julián Costas-Fernández and Greta Morando

15186: How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer

Robert Dur, Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez and Cornel Nesseler

15185: The Long-Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement

Antonio Ciccone and Jan Sebastian Nimczik

15184: Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Mingyu Chen, Jessica Howell and Jonathan Smith

15183: Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers

Alberto Salamone and Grace Lordan

15182: People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction

Grace Lordan and Eliza-Jane Stringer

15181: The Impact of Mental Health Support for the Chronically Ill on Hospital Utilisation: Evidence from the UK

Jonathan Gruber, Grace Lordan, Stephen Pilling, Carol Propper and Rob Saunders

15180: Automation and the Changing Nature of Work

Cecily Josten and Grace Lordan

15179: Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alejandra Abufhele, David Bravo, Florencia Lopez Boo and Pamela Soto-Ramirez

15178: Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health

Mike Brewer, Thang Dang and Emma Tominey

15177: Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC

Daiji Kawaguchi and Takahiro Toriyabe

15176: Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition

Simona Comi, Mara Grasseni and Federica Origo

15175: The Determinants of Population Self-Control

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel Kamhofer and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

15174: Misallocation and Inequality

Nezih Guner and Alessandro Ruggieri

15173: Why Do Temporary Workers Have Higher Disability Insurance Risks Than Permanent Workers?

Pierre Koning, Paul Muller and Roger Prudon

15172: Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion

Federico Cingano, Filippo Palomba, Paolo Pinotti and Enrico Rettore

15171: Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data

Francesco Sarracino, Talita Greyling, Kelsey O'Connor, Chiara Peroni and Stephanie Rossouw

15170: Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory

Espen S. Dahl and Øystein Hernaes

15169: Gendered Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Transitioning from University to Labor Market: Evidence from Turkey

Merve Demirel-Derebasoglu and Cagla Okten

15168: Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China

Lanlin Ding, Peng Nie and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

15167: COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market – A Register Perspective

Fredrik W. Andersson and Eskil Wadensjö

15166: The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy: A Double-Edged Sword

Raphael Franck, Oded Galor, Omer Moav and Ömer Özak

15165: Trade-Induced Adoption of New Work

Gueyon Kim

15164: Workers' Moral Hazard and Insurer Effort in Disability Insurance

Pierre Koning and Max van Lent

15163: Poor Workers in Rich Democracies: On the Nature of In-Work Poverty and Its Relationship to Labour Market Policies

Rod Hick and Ive Marx

15162: The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States

Barry Chiswick and RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

15161: The Global Inequality Boomerang

Ravi Kanbur, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Andy Sumner

15160: Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Hale Utar

15159: Clustered Local Average Treatment Effects: Fields of Study and Academic Student Progress

Didier Nibbering, Matthijs Oosterveen and Pedro Luis Silva

15158: Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?

Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Strain

15157: Tracking When Ranking Matters

Fanny Landaud and Eric Maurin

15156: State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty

Scott Baker, Steven Davis and Jeffrey A. Levy

15155: Maternal Displacements during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns

Stefano Cellini, Livia Menezes and Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

15154: Sources of Wage Growth

Jerome Adda and Christian Dustmann

15153: Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Maarten van Ham, David Manley and Tiit Tammaru

15152: A Tale of Parallel Processes of Gender (In-)Equality: How Big Is the Glass Ceilings for MENA Women?

Ömer Doruk and Francesco Pastore

15151: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Jeffrey Smith

15150: The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

15149: Multidimensional Equality of Opportunity in the United States

Paul Hufe, Martyna Kobus, Andreas Peichl and Paul Schüle

15148: Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?

Govert Bijwaard and Jackline Wahba

15147: Employee Health and Firm Performance

Daniel A. Rettl, Alexander Schandlbauer and Mircea Trandafir

15146: The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries

Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber and Adam Isen

15145: The Gender Gap in Top Jobs – The Role of Overconfidence

Anna Adamecz-Völgyi and Nikki Shure

15144: Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age

Mireille Kozhaya and Fernanda Martínez Flores

15143: The Magnitude and Predictors of Overeducation and Overskilling in Latin America: Evidence from PIAAC

Juan Castro, Lorena Ortega, Gustavo Yamada and David Mata

15142: Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market

Štěpán Mikula and Tommaso Reggiani

15141: The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries

Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Daniel Santín

15140: Are Retirees More Satisfied? Anticipation and Adaptation Effects: A Causal Panel Analysis of German Statutory Insured and Civil Service Pensioners

Joachim Merz

15139: Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students

Aspasia Bizopoulou, Rigissa Megalokonomou and Stefania Simion

15138: Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages

Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish

15137: No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries

Thomas Dudek, Anne Brenøe, Jan Feld and Julia Rohrer

15136: The Unemployed with Jobs and without Jobs

Robert E. Hall and Marianna Kudlyak

15135: The Inexorable Recoveries of Unemployment

Robert E. Hall and Marianna Kudlyak

15134: Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State

Michele Di Maio, Francesco Fasani, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza and Vasco Molini

15133: Male and Female Voices in Economics

Hans Sievertsen and Sarah Smith

15132: The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills

Jin Zhou, James Heckman, Bei Liu and Mai Lu

15131: Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach

Matthew Lindquist, Jan Sauermann and Yves Zenou

15130: Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust

Matěj Bělín, Tomáš Jelínek and Stepan Jurajda

15129: Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries

Serena Canaan, Anne Sophie Lassen, Philip Rosenbaum and Herdis Steingrimsdottir

15128: Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

15127: Demographic Changes, Labor Supplies, Labor Complementarities, Calendar Annual Wages of Age Groups, and Cohort Life Wage Incomes

Bjarne S. Jensen, Peder Pedersen and Ross Guest

15126: Staff Engagement, Job Complementarity and Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS Hospital Workforce

Giuseppe Moscelli, Melisa Sayli and Marco Mello

15125: Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity

Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Yohanes Riyanto

15124: Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India

Santosh Kumar, Kaushalendra Kumar, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Arindam Nandi

15123: Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India

Holger Görg and Alina Mulyukova

15122: Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania

Marie-Claire Robitaille and Joniada Milla

15121: Registering Returning Citizens to Vote

Jennifer Doleac, Laurel Eckhouse, Eric Foster-Moore, Allison Harris, Hannah Walker and Ariel White

15120: Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production

Farzana Afridi, Sisir Debnath, Taryn Dinkelman and Komal Sareen

15119: Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research

Sascha Becker

15118: Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?

Sabrina Pabilonia and Victoria Vernon

15117: Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence

Thomas Kniesner and W Viscusi

15116: Economic Outcomes for Transgender People and Other Gender Minorities in the United States: First Estimates from a Nationally Representative Sample

Christopher S. Carpenter, Maxine J. Lee and Laura Nettuno

15115: Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Moritz Drechsel-Grau, Andreas Peichl, Johannes Schmieden, Kai Schmid, Hannes Walz and Stefanie Wolter

15114: The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws

Tatiana Abboud, Andriana Bellou and Joshua Lewis

15113: Can Public Policy Increase Paternity Acknowledgment? Evidence from Earnings-Related Parental Leave

Anna Raute, Andrea Weber and Galina Zudenkova

15112: Uncovered Workers in Plants Covered by Collective Bargaining: Who Are They and How Do They Fare?

Boris Hirsch, Philipp Lentge and Claus Schnabel

15111: Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes

Ho Fai Chan, Zhiming Cheng, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo Paloyo, Max Tani, Damon Proulx, David Savage and Benno Torgler

15110: The Financial Situation of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dennis H. Meier, Stephan Thomsen and Johannes Trunzer

15109: Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Maria Humlum, Marius Opstrup Morthorst and Peter Rønø Thingholm

15108: Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe

Loredana Cultrera, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx and Guillaume Vermeylen

15107: From Epidemic to Pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on High School Program Choices in Sweden

Aino-Maija Aalto, Dagmar Müller and J. Lucas Tilley

15106: Beauty, Underage Drinking, and Adolescent Risky Behaviours

Colin Green, Luke B. Wilson and Anwen Zhang