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15037: Caste, Courts and Business

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Sarani Saha and Divya Shukla

15036: Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types

Kevin Spiritus, Etienne Lehmann, Sander Renes and Floris T. Zoutman

15035: Education, Health and Health-Related Behaviors: Evidence from Higher Education Expansion

Massimiliano Bratti, Elena Cottini and Paolo Ghinetti

15034: The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Sandra Black, Paul Devereux, Fanny Landaud and Kjell G Salvanes

15033: The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries

Antoine Bertheau, Edoardo Acabbi, Cristina Barcelo, Andreas Gulyas, Stefano Lombardi and Raffaele Saggio

15032: The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19

Gianluca Grimalda, Fabrice Murtin, David Pipke, Louis Putterman and Matthias Sutter

15031: Online Teaching, Procrastination and Students’ Achievement: Evidence from COVID-19 Induced Remote Learning

Maria De Paola, Francesca Gioia and Vincenzo Scoppa

15030: Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias

Antoine Bertheau and Rune Vejlin

15029: Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala

Rita K. Almeida and Mariana Viollaz

15028: Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S

Ivan Fernandez-Val, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella and Franco Peracchi

15027: The Expected, Perceived, and Realized Inflation of U.S. Households before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Michael Weber, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Olivier Coibion

15026: Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action

Cecilia Machado, Germán Reyes and Evan Riehl

15025: Is There a Diminishing Value of Urban Amenities as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Aico van Vuuren

15024: Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?

Matteo Balliauw, Marco Verheuge and Stijn Baert

15023: It’s Payback Time: New Insights on Cooperation in the Repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma

Maria Bigoni, Marco Casari, Andrea Salvanti, Andrzej Skrzypacz and Giancarlo Spagnolo

15022: Earmarked Paternity Leave and Well-Being

Pontus Korsgren and Max van Lent

15021: When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country

Yyannu Cruz Aguayo, Pedro Carneiro, Ruthy Intriago, Juan Ponce, Norbert Schady and Sarah Schodt

15020: Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers?

Mark Duggan, Audrey Guo and Andrew Johnston

15019: The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation

Francisca Antman and Kalena E. Cortes

15018: Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice

Tilman Drerup, Matthias Wibral and Christian Zimpelmann

15017: Worker-Firm Screening and the Business Cycle

Jake Bradley

15016: For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality

Francisca Antman

15015: Automation and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base

Enrico Santarelli, Jacopo Staccioli and Marco Vivarelli

15014: Firm Pay Dynamics

Niklas Engbom, Christian Moser and Jan Sauermann

15013: Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries

Titan Alon, Matthias Doepke, Kristina Manysheva and Michele Tertilt

15012: Fathering Daughters and Personality

Max van Lent

15011: The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Robert Mahlstedt

15010: The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Joseph G. Altonji, John Humphries and Ling Zhong

15009: Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner: Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov and Jenna Stearns

15008: Worker Representation

Alex Bryson and John Forth

15007: Impacts of State Paid Family Leave Policies for Older Workers with Spouses or Parents in Poor Health

Breno Braga, Barbara A. Butrica, Stipica Mudrazija and H.E. Peters

15006: The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran

Michael Kosfeld and Zahra Sharafi

15005: The Impact Evaluation of Vietnam's Escuela Nueva (New School) Program on Students' Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

Hai-Anh Dang, Paul Glewwe, Jongwook Lee and Khoa Vu

15004: Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa

Linguère Mously Mbaye, Assi Okara and Max Tani

15003: Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Ömer Doruk and Francesco Pastore

15002: Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis Using PLFS 2018-19 Data

Jie Chen, Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri and Francesco Pastore

15001: The Variability and Volatility of Sleep: An Archetypal Approach

Daniel Hamermesh and Gerard Pfann

15000: Performance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection

Nicole Andelic, Julia Allan, Keith Bender, Daniel Powell and Ioannis Theodossiou

14999: Employment Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Pierre Cahuc, Pauline Carry, Franck Malherbet and Pedro Martins

14998: Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls and Lisa Windsteiger

14997: Recall Bias Revisited: Measure Farm Labor Using Mixed-Mode Surveys and Multiple Imputation

Hai-Anh Dang and Calogero Carletto

14996: Getting the Measure of Inequality

Stephen Jenkins

14995: What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys

Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer and Nikolas Mittag

14994: How Do Firms Adjust to Negative Labor Supply Shocks? Evidence from Migration Outflows

Emanuele Dicarlo

14993: Parental Separation and the Formation of Economic Preferences

Sarah C. Dahmann, Nathan Kettlewell and Jack Lam

14992: Hours Constraints and Wage Differentials across Firms

Claudio Labanca and Dario Pozzoli

14991: Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition

Philipp Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann

14990: Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy Mandate

Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke, Hanna Mühlrad and Mårten Palme

14989: Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

Benjamin Arold, Ludger Woessmann and Larissa Zierow

14988: Do Economic Changes Affect the Political Preferences of Arabs in Israel?

Sami Miaari, Amit Loewenthal and Wifag Adnan

14987: Self-Control and Unhealthy Body Weight: The Role of Impulsivity and Restraint

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

14986: Does Group-Based Incentive Pay Lead To Higher Productivity? Evidence from a Complex and Interdependent Industrial Production Process

Anders Frederiksen, Daniel Baltzer Schjødt Hansen and Colleen Flaherty Manchester

14985: Adverse Selection in the Group Life Insurance Market

Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz, Jeffery Talbert and Alison Davis

14984: School Closures and Effective In-Person Learning during COVID-19: When, Where, and for Whom

André Kurmann and Etienne Lalé

14983: Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy: IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument

Michela Ponzo and Vincenzo Scoppa

14982: Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa

Oriana Bandiera, Ahmed Elsayed, Andrea Smurra and Celine Zipfel

14981: The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Zohal Hessami

14980: Neo-Humanism and COVID-19: Opportunities for a Socially and Environmentally Sustainable World

Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey O'Connor

14979: Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market

Juan Dolado, Etienne Lalé and Hélène Turon

14978: Technical Change and Superstar Effects: Evidence from the Rollout of Television

Felix Koenig

14977: Does Relative Age Affect Speed and Quality of Transition from School to Work?

Luca Fumarco, Alessandro Vandromme, Levi Halewyck, Eline Moens and Stijn Baert

14976: The Stability of Self-Control in a Population Representative Study

Deborah Cobb-Clark, Nancy Kong and Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch

14975: Estimating the Effects of Milk Inspections on Infant and Child Mortality, 1880-1910

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

14974: Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment

Gregory Casey, Stephie Fried and Matthew Gibson

14973: The Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Murat Demirci and Murat Kırdar

14972: Syrian Refugees and Human Capital Accumulation of Native Children in Turkey

Selcen Çakır, Elif Erbay and Murat Kırdar

14971: Working for Nothing: Personality and Time Allocation in the UK

Marina Della Giusta and Sarah Jewell

14970: Income and Terrorism: Insights from Subnational Data

Michael Jetter, Rafat Mahmood and David Stadelmann

14969: Collective Negative Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany

Luna Bellani, Andrea Fazio and Francesco Scervini

14968: Do Changes in Employment and Hours Worked Contribute to a Decreasing in the Mental Health of Single Mothers during a Period of Welfare Reform in the UK? A Longitudinal Analysis (2009-2019)

Julija Simpson, Clare Bambra and Heather Brown

14967: Gimme Shelter. Social Distancing and Income Support in Times of Pandemic

Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain and Tanguy Bernard

14966: The State of Hiring Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of (Almost) All Recent Correspondence Experiments

Louis Lippens, Siel Vermeiren and Stijn Baert

14965: The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty

Todd Jones and Arielle A. Sloan

14964: College Majors and Skills: Evidence from the Universe of Online Job Ads

Steven W. Hemelt, Brad Hershbein, Shawn Martin and Kevin Stange

14963: Worker Beliefs about Outside Options

Simon Jäger, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille and Benjamin Schoefer

14962: Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau and Marco Tabellini

14961: Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation

Ozan Isler and Simon Gächter

14960: Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity

Olof Aslund, Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi and Anna Thoresson

14959: Sicilian Sulphur and Mafia: Resources, Working Conditions and the Practice of Violence

Carlo Ciccarelli, Alberto Dalmazzo and Tiziano Razzolini

14958: Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile

Sonia Bhalotra, Emilia Brito, Damian Clarke, Pilar Larroulet and Francisco Pino

14957: Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge

Ryota Nakamura, Andrea Albanese, Emma Coombes and Marc Suhrcke

14956: How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?

Hartmut Egger, Elke Jahn and Stefan Kornitzky

14955: Sensitivity of Charitable Giving to Realized Income Changes: Evidence from Military Bonuses and the Combined Federal Campaign

Carl Wojtaszek and Michael Kofoed

14954: Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime

Eduardo Ferraz Castelo Branco Ferreira, Rodrigo Soares and Juan Vargas

14953: Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk

Liuchun Deng, Pravin Krishna, Mine Zeynep Senses and Jens Stegmaier

14952: Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills

Shuaizhang Feng, Jun Hyung Kim and Zhe Yang

14951: Top-Income Adjustments and Official Statistics on Income Distribution: The Case of the UK

Stephen Jenkins

14950: Men Are from Mars, and Women Too: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Overconfidence Experiments

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

14949: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Jennifer Roff

14948: Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections

Gordon Dahl, Runjing Lu and William Mullins

14947: Vaccination Policy and Trust

Artyom Jelnov and Pavel Jelnov

14946: COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Alexander Karaivanov, Dongwoo Kim, Shih En Lu and Hitoshi Shigeoka

14945: Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

Samuel Bazzi, Lisa Cameron, Simone Schaner and Firman Witoelar

14944: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam

Francesco Carbonero, Jeremy Davies, Ekkehard Ernst, Frank Fossen, Daniel Samaan and Alina Sorgner

14943: Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Francesco Manaresi, Omar Rachedi and Emircan Yurdagul

14942: Flexible Wages and the Costs of Job Displacement

Sofía Fernández Guerrico and Ilan Tojerow

14941: Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment across the United States

Jun Yeong Lee and John Winters

14940: Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers

Sofie Cairo and Robert Mahlstedt

14939: Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence

Mehrzad B. Baktash, John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn

14938: Economic Production and the Spread of Supernatural Beliefs

Daniel Araujo, Bladimir Carrillo and Breno Sampaio