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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

15324: The Short- And Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban

Caio Piza, André Souza, Patrick M. Emerson and Vivian Amorim

15323: Grads on the Go: Measuring College-Specific Labor Markets for Graduates

Johnathan G. Conzelmann, Steven W. Hemelt, Brad Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Andrew Simon and Kevin Stange

15322: Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods

Simon Gächter, Felix Kölle and Simone Quercia

15321: What Can We Learn from Student Performance Measures? Identifying Treatment in the Presence of Curves and Letter Grades

Glen R. Waddell and Jenni Putz

15320: Public Higher Education Costs and College Enrollment

Taylor Delaney and Dave Marcotte

15319: What Drives Demand for Private Tutoring in the Middle East and North Africa Region? Evidence from a Youth Survey

Ali Fakih, Nathir Haimoun and Anastasia Sleiman

15318: Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Jani-Petteri Ollikainen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen

15317: The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Michael Clemens

15316: The Interplay between Organizational Structure, Culture and Employees’ Socio-Emotional Skills within Their Social Capital

Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi, Jörn Altmann and Almas Heshmati

15315: Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness

Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi, Christopher R. Summers, Almas Heshmati and Jörn Altmann

15314: Regime and Treatment Effects in Duration Models: Decomposing Expectation and Transplant Effects on the Kidney Waitlist

Stephen Kastoryano

15313: Regional Structural Change and the Effects of Job Loss

Melanie Arntz, Boris Ivanov and Laura Pohlan

15312: The Labour Supply of Mothers

Hélène Turon

15311: Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict

Tushar Bharati, Michael Jetter and Muhammad Nauman Malik

15310: Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans

Hanna Onerva Pesola and Matti Sarvimäki

15309: Training, Productivity and Wages: Direct Evidence from a Temporary Help Agency

Xinwei Dong, Dean Hyslop and Daiji Kawaguchi

15308: Effort at Work and Worker Well-Being in the US

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina and Almudena Sevilla

15307: Perceived Returns to Job Search

Abi Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin and Christopher Rauh

15306: Locus of Control, Self-Control, and Health Outcomes

Ferdi Botha and Sarah C. Dahmann

15305: Housing Unaffordability and Adolescent Subjective Well-Being in China

Peng Nie, Qiaoge Li and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

15304: Parents' Effective Time Endowment and Divorce: Evidence from Extended School Days

María Padilla-Romo, Cecilia Peluffo and Mariana Viollaz

15303: The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Myrielle Gonschor, Piotr Lewandowski and Karol Madoń

15302: Income Tax Policy in Europe between Two Crises: From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Michal Myck and Kajetan Trzciński

15301: Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Sule Akkoyunlu, Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

15300: Real Estate Agent Earnings and Local Housing Prices

Barry Hirsch, David Macpherson and Qu, Zichong (Tom)

15299: Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums

Yu Zhu and Lei Xu

15298: Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Marco Alfano and Joseph-Simon Goerlach

15297: The Effect of Higher Education on Women's Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in Turkey

Badi Baltagi, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Haci M. Karatas

15296: How Does the Economic Uncertainty Affect Asset Prices under Normal and Financial Distress Times?

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir, Gurcan Aygun and Mark Wohar

15295: Safeguarding Consumers through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

D. Mark Anderson, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Michael McKelligott and Daniel I. Rees

15294: Hiding the Elephant: The Tragedy of COVID Policy and Its Economist Apologists

Gigi Foster and Paul Frijters

15293: Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East Germany Has Not Converged

Ruediger Bachmann, Christian Bayer, Heiko Stüber and Felix Wellschmied

15292: Do Losses Trigger Deliberative Reasoning?

Jeffrey Carpenter and David Munro

15291: Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age

Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli, Hans van Kippersluis and Stephanie von Hinke

15290: Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics

Wei Shi, Yun Qiu, Pei Yu and Xi Chen

15289: De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support

Herwig Immervoll, Rodrigo Fernandez, Raphaela Hyee, Jongmi Lee and Daniele Pacifico

15288: Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte and Karine Marazyan

15287: Financial Literacy Amongst Young People: When Does the Gender Gap Begin?

Alison Preston and Robert Wright

15286: Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Indian Census

Mehtabul Azam

15285: Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening: Why Gay Is (Mostly) OK

Philippe Sterkens, Axana Dalle, Joey Wuyts, Ines Pauwels, Hellen Durinck and Stijn Baert

15284: Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps throughout the Earnings Distribution

Van Phan, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes and Damian Whittard

15283: Minimum Wages and the Rise in Solo Self-Employment

Angelika Ganserer, Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

15282: What's across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects

Priya Ranjan, David Neumark and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez

15281: Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations

Andreas Leibing, Frauke Peter, Sevrin Waights and Katharina Spiess

15280: The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities

Vitus Püttmann and Stephan Thomsen

15279: The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education

Andrew Clark, Maria Cotofan and Richard Layard

15278: Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India

Chandan Jain, Shagun Kashyap, Rahul Lahoti and Soham Sahoo

15277: Television Market Size and Political Accountability in the US House of Representatives

Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer

15276: Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes

Marco Francesconi and Jonathan James

15275: Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking

David Gill and Victoria Prowse

15274: Reward or Punishment? The Distribution of Life-Cycle Returns to Political Office

Jens Olav Dahlgaard, Nicolai Kristensen and Frederik Kjøller Larsen

15273: Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Gang Liu, Barbara M. Fraumeni and Shunsuke Managi

15272: Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest Is Empty

Hippolyte d'Albis, Karina Doorley and Elena G. F. Stancanelli

15271: Specialists or All-Rounders: How Best to Select University Students?

Pedro Luis Silva

15270: Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India: Gender Inequality in Employment?

Nabamita Dutta and Saibal Kar

15269: Dual Circulation and Population Mobility during the Pandemic in China

Wang-Sheng Lee, Trang Tran and Lamont Bo Yu

15268: Do Individuals Adapt to All Types of Housing Transitions?

Andrew Clark and Luis Diaz-Serrano

15267: Stable Income, Stable Family

Jason Lindo, Krishna Regmi and Isaac D. Swensen

15266: The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation: Findings from the Field

Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi and Daniel Sgroi

15265: Mother Africa's Exceptionalism? Income and Fertility Redux

Mark Gradstein and Phoebe W. Ishak

15264: Who Benefits from Firm Success? Heterogenous Rent Sharing in New Zealand

Corey Allan and David Maré

15263: Automated Chat Application Surveys Using Whatsapp: Evidence from Panel Surveys and a Mode Experiment

Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov and Jens Hainmueller

15262: Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation

Cristina D. M. Miller and Ashok K. Mishra

15261: Diving in the Minds of Recruiters: What Triggers Gender Stereotypes in Hiring?

Hannah Van Borm and Stijn Baert

15260: Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

Marco Caliendo, Daniel Graeber, Alexander Kritikos and Johannes Seebauer

15259: When Criminality Begets Crime: The Role of Elected Politicians in India

Nishith Prakash, Soham Sahoo, Deepak Saraswat and Reetika Sindhi